Been speaking out about this. that was interesting. it seems he s at a point where he perhaps can t avoid addressing that. i don t know whether it signals further mobilization, but i think as a whole, the speech, his appearance today, this sort of show of force doesn t signal he s backing away. no, he doesn t seem like he s backing away or doubling down in any sort of way. one thing really that he didn t address, perhaps obvious reasons, were sanctions. you and i have spoken at great length about the sanctions that have been applied from the west on russia. have they started from what you ve seen, claire, have they started to have an impact on russian economy? reporter: so, in some ways yes, in some ways not as much as you would expect. the russian central bankers put out a forecast that basically agrees with world institutions, the imf and world bank the economy is set to shrink 10% this year. it could have been worse than that 23 we get an energy embargo
Investment firms don t invest in oil and gas or else there is going to be re tri biewtion from treasury. she said it janet yellen in by the way she is mia. if they were great sanctions she would be talking to them. she sent to munich and world institutions it s time for them to step up and say that s not the way america works. ainsley: midterms around the corn father gas prices and inflation goes up it s impacting republicans and independence. i don t think he wool do well in november if we continue to see these increases. people can t afford it 18 minutes after the top of the hour. vice president harris stumbled into another awkward moment on the world stage. watch. a friend in need is a friend indeed. [laughter] ainsley: she didn t want to answer the question. the say the cringe worthy laughter is more dangerous than it is funny.
i think the broad definition of our interests, including investing in allies and not doing every transaction as one we have to maximize our benefit. taking world institutions and have them just focus on the united states. what we did in terms of the post-world war ii institutions has been a fantastic thing. that included having a common view with our western allies. if you follow that line of thinking, the idea of helping africa. working on an hiv vaccine to stop the aids crisis. you just wouldn t do it.yet i feel, even in that narrow framework of okay, i only care about how u.s. citizens do. even in that framework, these institutions and alliances, these investments in innovation are overwhelmingly smart things to do. chris: since the year 2000, 1
i think the broad definition of our interests, including investing in allies and not doing every transaction as one we have to maximize our benefit. taking world institutions and have them just focus on the united states. what we did in terms of the post-world war ii institutions has been a fantastic thing. that included having a common view with our western allies. if you follow that line of thinking, the idea of helping africa. working on an hiv vaccine to stop the aids crisis. you just wouldn t do it.yet i feel, even in that narrow framework of okay, i only care about how u.s. citizens do. even in that framework, these institutions and alliances, these investments in innovation are overwhelmingly smart things to do. chris: since the year 2000, 1 billion people have lifted
From paris. dominic strauss-kahn, dsk as he s called there, could have major and political and economic implications. absolutely on both fronts. he was a key player in terms of the politics here in france he was the leading contender for president. he topped all the candidates including incumbent president nicolas sarkozy. his disappearance into a jail cell in new york is now really throwing the presidential race open for grabs and meanses there there are a whole new parameters and political classes doing chattering. this is the socialist party newspaper. his party, d.s.k., out. you can translate that even if you don t know french. basically he s out of the race as far as the political mavens here are concerned. then on a financial side, the international monetary fund, he was the director of one of the key world institutions, a man who goes around the world