think vladamir putin looks at joe biden and sees somebody as weak and indecisive because it is biden who killed the u.s. energy keystone pipeline, but he s allowed the russian nord stream 2 pipeline. carley: security talks moving to vienna today, the differences with russia will not be easy to bridge. 11 after the hour and inflation soaring to a 40-year high and could actually get worse. this does resemble soviet union during the decaying phase. i think people will be pretty fed up with it. todd: brian here with the facts as white house tries to convince america that more spending is the answer. it s my woke-up-like-this migraine medicine.