Government here says they already have 21 more such cases ready to go. finally, russian president vladimir putin got a call from finland s president today informing him of the country s intention to join nato. the president told putin how finland s security environment had changed since russia s invasion of ukraine. and, neil, allegedly not related to this nato move russia today pulled the plug on electricity it supplies to finland. luckily for the finns, russia only provides about 10% of its juice. still it s not mice to to mess around with the folks in moscow. back to you. neil: to your fine point, that doesn t look like coincidence. thank you very much. be safe, greg. greg palkot following all those developments in kyiv, ukraine. in the meantime here, we re focusing on this planned protest outside the supreme court, up to 20,000 could be marching later afternoon.
Could you see the possibility that he votes against this and this doesn t happen? well, yes, i know erdogan well. i first met him with joe biden in december of 2002 when biden and i were in the middle east and he had just been elected, his party just been elected and swept up 90% of the parliament. i ve known him a long time and dealt with him and he s a bit volatile and erratic, in the end because much of this is about, you know, the pkk, kurdish group up in the northeastern part of syria, they ve been at war with the turks for many, many years and erdogan has maintained that the countries of finland and sweden have been spots where they welcomed these pkk members and they ve helped them.
Credibility here? if this started with him thinking that it was transitory. now, he wasn t alone in that regard. i think the chairman of the federal reserve felt the same. but even jerome powell, the fedhead, has said he botched that. this president says nothing of the sort. i think, you know, you saw what was it, like, a couple of months ago there was a shift when you know, you need to acknowledge that people are hurting. it s a difficult problem, there s no easy answer. the president has limited ability to do, you know, what he can do to fix it. but i would say one thing that is happening that we don t talk a lot about is when republicans and democrats get together to actually try to do something. on thursday is and behind the scenes the white house very much has a happening in this, republicans and democrats from the house and the senate all got together in what we call a conference committee to talk about what they re talking what they re naming the bipartisan innovation act, but to get at some of these to try to crease some of thesish these issues. particularly right now when
Things are pretty toxic and hyper-politicized. but the congress is actually for once coming together and trying to figure things out. people are in it. republicans are dedicated, the democrats are dedicated to try to get something done. at the end of the day, you have to acknowledge on the political side of things that people are hurting and, you know, the people in charge generally pay the price at the ballot box in the midterms. neil: and they re angry, they re very, very angry. they re taking it out on the president and democrats. that could change, but right now, steve moore, the only solution i ve heard bandied about certainly out of the white house is more spending and more stimulus, indeed, going after the rich and big companies. even shutting down available oil leases and permits. whatever your political views on that, i don t think this past week was the week to announce that. be that as it may, i m just wondering if we re just sort of floundering here and that s going to be it, it s just going to be the fed dealing with this and god help us if they botch
Time being to remove it would be bad? you know what? no, we haven t had a chance to go over there. matter of fact, i at times suggest that to the mayor, to the city manager, judge, anybody who would want to make it over here, and maybe it s time for us to go over there, and ask them to see what s happening down there. neil: got it. but he has not come down to the border. the president the vice-president did once and went on to say she was going to the root of the problem i believe by going to guatemala, that s it. does that bother you? exactly, you can t take care of what s inside of your house if you don t care of your house first. we have to take care of this before we can take care of anybody else. neil: the fact that they re not coming down, there is no indication that there s planning a visit. what does that tell you with or
The deficits that now he, joe biden, says he s getting under control. what do you say? well, first of all, i ve got to tell you, neil, you did a great report there on what s happening with inflation. and when you talk about the essentials, i think that s the word the reporter used, those are the prices that are going up the most. i ve got to tell you, people get so angry when i say we have 8% inflation, they say it s not 8, i m paying 10, 12, 15, 20% more for the essentials that i have to buy, the gasoline at the pump, the groceries and other things that are necessary just to keep your family going. and so people are quite angry about this, and i think the big event of this week, neil, was that speech that joe biden gave about inflation where he didn t really have any solutions, he just pointed the finger at others whether it was covid or whether it was trump or whether it was, you know, putin. and the problem is all his solution was, was trillions of
The gop base. and i think that he is going to be reflecting on that as well as he decides, hey, do i want to run for president for a third time. neil: do you think he does? i think the, i think the former president enjoys playing golf. i think he enjoys being sort of the, you know, the power behind the throne and having all of these prospective 2024 candidates come kiss the ring, but i m not certain whether or not he s made up his mind as to whether or not he wants to run again because the wig risk big risk is perhaps he would actually lose, and i m not certain if he could face losing to, you know, president biden for a second time. neil: all right. you know, as president he could still continue golfing. [laughter] phil, it s always great to see you, my friend. thank you very much. phil wakeman on all of that. out of the blue it was just a tweet from elon musk, but it shocked the technology world. actually, it shocked the market world. while i m at it, maybe the world
Price gouging bill. the realities you read through it. to be honest it s a price control bill. as you read through that, they talk about giving the president the authority to determine what is unconscionably excessive in t leaves the white house with the ability to tell us how much we can and cannot play for a commodity. that s problematic because price controls as you know, leads inevitably to shortages and the commodity you re trying to control and leads to high translation. and what we say look, you have a better way of doing this, the question you should ask yourself every action is this. if you re trying to address the energy crisis if will this increase to the american customer, if not, don t act on it. it will continue to restrict our ability to develop domestic
Flip-flop. he does not do the things that he promises. reporter: and the former governor is trying to even the score with an attack ad of his own tying budd to president biden who, of course, is wildly unpopular right now among conservatives. by now you know ted budd is weak on putin. to is joe biden. biden is backed by george soros and so is ted bud. reporter: meantime, indumb bent freshman representative madison cawthorn is fighting for re-election in north carolina s is 11th district, his biggest challenge coming from chuck edwards who has the back of gop elders in the state including senator thom tillis. this, of course, follows a series of social media blunders and two gun-related issues at airports that has soured cawthorn s relationships here in
What could the white house be doing, the markets n my opinion, are not really looking at the white house to solve this right now. everything that president biden laid out was long range, longer-term investment, longer-term productivity. there isn t a quick fix other than the fed. that would be the nearest institution able to do something to move quickly. and i do think the fed is trying to move, jay powell s trying to move as quickly as he can. the problem is inflation s gone so far north now that we re going to see a couple of painful rate increases. it s very hard to be optimistic right now. neil: kristin, i don t want to lay this all on the doorstep of the president. i know it s something we always do, but presidents will try to take credit when things are good, shift the blame when they re bad. but i do the find a little bit alarming and even some of your fellow democrats find disarming that the president hasn t taken any responsibility for this. do you think that s hurting him? do you think that s hurting his