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Later but for my attitude and perspectives, it is never the wrong time to do the right thing. we should make those points -- >> laura: $70 billion in weaponry, to ukraine, now there is a real concern, logical that we can't track the weapons. and that some of these weapons are ending up on the dark web and will be sold throughout the world and used against american interests. how concerned are you about this given the lack of accountability thus far? >> i'm incredibly concerned. it's one of the reasons in the last $40 billion package i voted no on that package and it is not because of a lack of...

Disaster. we're six weeks away from the afghanistan pull-out. all joe biden. he didn't listen to the generals and left $85 billion of our intelligence and equipment turned it over to the taliban. then you will have people who are job holders facing homelessness not just gas and grocery and inflation on everyday consume sooum abls. they won't be able to afford payments, rent and mortgage. that's the next big problem in the economy. they won't care if you say there are available jobs. people in households saying i have two or three jobs in my household. it is not enough anymore. how did that hap...

Economic war against russia is not working nearly as well as people thought it would. vladimir putin cares less about what these sanctions due to the russian people than he does about what they do to the russian state. and thanks to rising energy prices, bloomberg projects that the russian government will make considerably more revenue from oil and gas that it did before but the war, around $285 billion and 88 two compared to 236 billion in 2021. meanwhile europe is facing its worst energy crisis in 50 years. the basic problem with the economic war against russia as i have argued before, is th...

Washington and allies must redouble efforts and help ukraine break the russian blockade around odesa. people focused on the collapse of the russian economy which will probably shrink by 11% this year, but ukraine's economy is likely to contract by a staggering 45% in 2022, unless the country can export its grain out of its black sea ports, it could face economic calamities for years to come. most likely, this middle phase of the war will last for a while. neither russia or ukraine has the capacity to win decisively or surrender easily. in the short-term, this favors russia. it has taken contro...

It's a sharp reversal for the stock market which had seen record highs during the pandemic and now has some economists fearing a looming recession. ( ringing bell ) the closing bell saved the markets from tumbling further. the s&p 500 led the decline today, falling to its lowest point this year, with investors coming to terms with consumer prices rising at their fastest pace in 40 years. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger -- >> so when the investment community kind of took stock of things over the weekend, i think there was this fear that, in fact, higher prices and riding interest rat...