And taxpayers buckling up as President Biden is teeing up more spending. Why Pete Buttigieg says it will keep the economy humming. Hes here. So is Donald Trumps former secretary of state, mike pompeo. Remember him . He could be in the running, maybe, for a new title. A bigger title. Were on it, all of it. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Glad to have you with us. Lets go to Grady Trimble at the white house on these fast moving developments and the president s plans to take advantage of what was a widely received and wellreceived state of the Union Address. To you, my friend. It was, neil. At a time when Many Americans are not happy with the president s handling of the economy. He used last nights address to change those perceptions touting billions of dollars of Students Loan Debt Cancellation and unveiling plans for more social programs. We enacted tax credits of 800 per person per year, reduce Healthcare Costs for millions of families. Restore that child tax credit. No child shoul
Diplomatic lifting to be done here it is unlikely to be done in a day in a single meeting. president macron has had three phone calls quite recently with president putin. one of them was quite lengthy, for a couple of hours. it does seem that there is some traction in their conversation. president macron has spoken over the past few days with president biden twice, the second time yesterday. he s spoken with the polish president, boris johnson, the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau. nato secretary-general stolenberg. he promises to keep his nato allies informed and up to date. that s been the thrust of the conversations about the importance of unity. but what he s trying to achieve here today with president putin will be to try to get him to de-escalate the tensions around ukraine. now, the satellite evidence seems to point to the fact that president putin isn t inclined
Up to? well, certainly thanks, martha. secretary general stolenberg is right. there s a lot of capability there. the russians have put this in place to give the kremlin options. what i believe we ll see is a large-term continued squeezing of ukraine. all of these land and naval forces are like a boa constrictor designed to choke the economy of ukraine and cause it to collapse so russia can achieve their aim without an attack and without being sanctioned. martha: so we have a map of the other cities. there were reports on social media that there was material moving to the belgarade area closer to russia. you think we could see incursions in those areas, some of them are more sympathetic to
That will be the center of attention over the next week. defense secretaries have been pleat this week. we know a president at a leader meeting next week. what s next on the table? obviously we re talking about getting more military aid there, more nato nations figuring out how to do that, but i assume this is also about contingency plans. reporter: it is about contingency plans, long-term contingency plans, with the nato defense ministers today focused on creating what they described as a new normal for nato in the long term, giving the rising russian threat. if you re one of those anxious nato allies in russia s backyard, poland, romania, the battics, you re probably breathing a sigh of relief today, secretary-general stolenberg announced they are
Are not prohibited under the chemical weapons convention, but if they are used in military combat with certain toxic agents involved, then they can be interpreted as being a chemical weapon, even though not listed as such under the convention. so if the russians are using phosphorus munitions, and there are limited circumstances under which you can legally use them. rose, i spoke with stolenberg about a biological or chemical or nuclear attack. i would like to play some of that and get your response. we are providing support to ukraine also to protect