thing for you, we're coming for you. yes. either. i mean, it's really important here to, to note that president is not a wartime president because america is not at war. and there needs to be very careful messaging here that, that biden is trying to balance. because he's communicating to an american public, he's communicating to an if national public, his allies, and he's communicating to russia. and we've seen that vladimir putin is very unpredictable right now, that he can see threats as he likes to see them. and there is a, there is a risk of the economic and the financial penalties that the united states with its allies are taking right now against russia. be seen as an act of war as a threat, which means russia could then escalate. and that is something that, that the bite administration is trying to very much manage by talking tough, by showing unity, but by not going so far as to make it look like an act of war against russia. a war by other means war by as stuff and pointed out, not using troops, not using actual nato forces. so it's, it's very delicate balance,

trying to unify and keep allies together. a sure the american public that there's not going to be terrible blow back for them economically in terms of gas prices, food prices, these kinds of things. and also taking a measure tone to russia that things don't escalate and spiral even more out of control. then they already are, and that's what we're seeing now. this kind of messaging, i mean biden was really firing on all cylinders to night. he often gets criticized that he's a bit up can be bit slower sometime bit seemed sometimes be a bit confused, but he was definitely on point to night, notches with ukraine. but with, as you mentioned at the top here, a litany of mostly domestic issues, but huge issues with the united states is facing right now. to it's, it's superpower status, as it's status as a, as up as a, as a functioning nation. it's coming back to you shortly. step one will for you william. they was the big trash is ation that firing on on all cylinders opening

that you mentioned. and as the commander in chief, talking about ukraine and talking about putting in the transition from the chest thumping on ukraine to the, to the effect of they sanctions on the u. s. connie, me at such a delicate mom and how did that play for you? that transition into the economy and selling that message that everything's going to be okay. which is exactly what you might have said. he came in in his whispering of assuring voice. we will be okay. everything will be okay. almost in his fatherly car, grandfatherly kind of position, and there was reassurance as for every one reassurance for every one, especially american consumers, it is already a tough spot with inflation at all time highs with gas prices going up with food prices going up. as i said earlier, russia and ukraine are huge producers of grain of corn, of, of sunflower oil, which is used for cooking all around the world. these are major, major commodities that can have a huge impact matches on the american economy and not just on americans humors,

but everywhere. and again, we're speaking biden is of course, primarily speaking, to a domestic audience to voters. and there is a mid term election this fall in november and, and he's trying to reassure them that the united states with dallas is taking the appropriate measures against russia. but it will also use its power not only against russia, but to protect american consumers, talking about releasing a excess petroleum in, in reserves, not just the united states, but elsewhere. talking about lowering energy costs. i'm talking about handling food costs, these kinds of things to try to insulate americans from the shock because americans, polls are showing support, standing up to pollutants support standing up to russia. that doesn't necessarily translate into support for biden's policies to support for biden, who we have to say is at an almost historic low in terms of favorability is the only person lower than him. and just by a hair is donald trump in lower your costs, not your wages. i stiffened back to you. joe barton had to walk the line. the

william was just pointing out for us. d biden. pass his test on the biggest of stages. dizzy i think william ledger this already a very sufficiently so i just want to make some port in this regard. you know, a big topic for him was of course domestic. he had to make this speech about to me as domestic issues and not just about ukraine. and yes, there was a transition there had to be. you had to prep americans for the pain, which will come, it will come. it's a so called sticker shock pain, right? in the sticker shock, we'll hit americans. that's why he a will release america along 30000000 barrels of oil, 60000000 with, with other partners and so on. but the most important part of his speech when we talked about domestic issues and that was necessary for him. because as william pointed out, there is a midterm election coming around. and guess what? even 2024 in the presidential election is not too far on the corner. if you are in

this realm, if you're working in this fear. so his policy in politics initiatives is 6500000 jobs are created. his response to pen to the pandemic, his further response and initiatives going forward from here towards pandemic to build better build back america better. that's what he's saying, right? um, with the infrastructure plan and so on. all of this was critical, critical for americans to hear that they do not deal with the president, who as you pointed out, has very, very low approval ratings. right now. second worse than history, as we said here. um, i bought that this place to repress president still cares about what effect to americans here ukraine, the conflict their international policies. foreign policy is all very important. americans care about this, but of course they care the most about one affects them right away and he had to deliver their i think he actually did,

there was an opportunity for him to reach maximum, brought attention in the u. s. public and i guess he got it intended, etcetera. listen to the president and swing back to where the president started addressing the ukraine invasion. and president biden had a message for letting me put put his letters attack on ukraine, was premeditated and totally unprovoked. he rejected, repeated repeated efforts at diplomacy. he thought the western nato wouldn't respond. he thought i could divide us at home in this chamber in this nation. he thought he could divide us in europe as well, but put was wrong. we are ready, we are united, and that's what we did. we stayed united, we prepare extensively and carefully. we spent months building coalitions, whether freely love the nations in europe, and the americans tit for america to the asian and african continents. to confront

putin, like many of you, i spent countless hours unifying your european allies. we shared with the world in advance. what we knew put was planning, and precisely how we would try to falsify and justify his aggression to buy there during his state of the union address, his 1st addressing vladimir putin on the invasion. a few crown stiffened back to you. what did you make of the energy of joe bought a lot as made of this with a man of advanced geez, how did he carry himself? i think surprisingly, well, that was an energetic jo. bye. this was a job bad, joe biden on fire, basically, compared to what we normally or oftentimes see of him when he seems to be a little bit sluggish. a slower, not in his thought process may be, but how he delivers right. full of thoughts and

a little bit withdrawn almost some time. so now of course he had one or the other times where he miss spoke here and but he corrected himself and i think he carried himself very, very well. i think what it was, this whole state of the union, remember, was the 1st one for him really actually be yet congress on capitol hill and doing this because last war, last wellness. he had to be, you know, cancelled kind of virtually. and he didn't scenery this, this setting invigorates him, of course. and he took the opportunity to really portray that into transfer this also into the, into the, into the a capital. because i think this was fairly loud and lot with a lot of applause. and even republicans rising when he reached out across the l. this was also something i found very interesting that he made an effort to, to reach across the island and, and mention that he signed 80 bipartisan bills that he appreciates when he can work with when democrats can work with republicans and vice

versa. so i think this is all these factors are all invigorating human and i think you can see that or you could see and hear that tonight with him, with me here in the, in the studio, i guess your, your chance to respond to the energy of joe as well, and what did you make of j? broaden the average joe, talking about the rough built cutting cost, any number of things, manufacturing, fama, healthcare, a lot of cutting while keeping wages high. the promises piled up there in the 2nd half, was he able to tiptoe through that? they did their it was a whirlwind of, of just a list tickle really? i couldn't, i was running out of space on paper to scribble down every he was going through. because midterms are this year and he's challenging republicans to pat how pass legislation at to get to his desk. it's given politics. the republicans are not going to want to give joe biden any wins over the next several months. so i think despite the optimism in the energy that we saw to night, that's going to come i can't predict the future, but it's likely to come to

a grinding halt in congress because it's not republicans interest who are trying to take back the house and the senate to give him any wins and, and, and actually come on board even if there's things that they could agree on. all things being equal, all things are not equal. and let's also be, be mindful the fact that it's actually his own democrats who have been halting his agenda because the democrats are much feisty. are party than republicans, is much harder to unify them. it's been his own democrats in the senate, jo mansion and care since ema, who have been blocking his own agenda. forget about the republicans. there's a lot of bite and could be getting done if he had all democrats on board, but he just doesn't have that. this we heard a lot about america, i'm gonna, we might have it we, you might defied it as america 1st. this is a lot of donald trump talk and not just donald trump talk. every american president talks about buying american and doing more. and american rebuilding american putting america 1st. donald trump used very inflammatory rhetoric that joe biden

doesn't uses a different style. but it's still very much the same. a content about putting america 1st, putting american jobs 1st, american manufacturers 1st. it's a bit naive because of course we do live in a globalized society, global i decided the, i say it's very proud to say that they built right. we made this global rules based order where people can trade freely, read each other and buy from each other and compete with each other as, as a bit of a contradiction to say, we're going to bring it all back home. and it's also been impossible because of course, resources come from everywhere. parts come from everywhere, may be finished products to be built more in america. but again to on, to on, on micro chips alone, the majority of them are made in taiwan. and all these things that bind was promising will take years to build in the best case scenario. let's run the headlines for tomorrow. now just quickly, 20 seconds. what, what, what, what is the price gonna say about buttons performance? his fist at the in, um, i think is a bit too early in the morning or for me to put a pithy headline together. but it'll be something about biting,

kind of coming out of the box swinging against russia, against putin. but also for a very much for his agenda and, and, and trying to re package the agenda that stalled in congress in different ways because it, trying to pick things apart what he was trying to push through altogether. once this build back, better plan, trying to pick it apart and get something through that he can have something to show. come the midterm elections and a stephan pointed out for 2024th and stiffened. same opportunity for you. what the piper said. mar. i've been on that to like rosa this saturday for say, but i think a bottom line will be that any, every, every news headline will carry something of a bit of an energized biden doing check in the right boxes, being presidential here and a promising a lot but giving also a vision and tries to, and that is a bite and theme. this is uncle joe, as they say, unifying he wants to unify, he wants to remind americans that america,

we are americans want peoples, they is decides divide and we're all americans. and we have to stand together and together they are, americans are strong. that is presidential. that is vision, that is leadership and he portrays that the best he can with this speech at the state of the union address. brilliant, where boys he went, the distance difference even think washington d. c. thanks for your input in the united states will include croft, he with me in the studio loc was. thank you both for covering jo biden's 1st state of the union address. if you'd just tuned in here is a recap of our top story. this out. you as president joe biden, in his 1st state of the union speech, said the united states had turned a corner on the pandemic in atlanta. what he wanted to accomplish in the coming months, including tackling rising inflation in the country on processing new crime by the side, putin's war was premeditated an unprovoked. and he announced that the u. s. will

ban russian a profit from it's a spice in retaliation for the invasion. all right, and that is all the news for now. more headlines coming up at the top of the next hour and a website. is there any more using identity w to stay with an economy at all? russia aggression has been met with swift and crippling sanctions internationally. the western powers are counting on economic pressure to force russia to end its war . the question is, will it work? the fate of europe depends on the, on the business spatial next, on d, w. stories that people will world over information.

they provide the opinions, they want to express. d, w on facebook and twitter, up to date and in touch. follow us with with a total economic and financial war. that's how the french finance minister puts western allies have had russia where they st. also we can all make sanctions over its invasion on your right to take a look at what effect they've been having. and what their limits also coming up, oil and gas prices have been galloping industry heavy weights like b, p and shell are divesting of multi $1000000000.00 projects in russia. what will this conflict mean for europe's energy security will get an ex.