steve: we are talking with annie lansky. let me go back to you reporting front page of the newspaper and online, "the origin of the deadliest pandemic and recent memory carries enormous implications for public health and beyond. if investigators point to china, one of the most powerful and sensitive countries in the world, it could act night a global diplomatic -- ignite a global diplomatic firestorm. a definitive finding could remain elusive and spite -- despite the president's directive. wednesday's move implies he is growing more concerned. despite renewed interest, no significant new information emerged in recent weeks. they urge the president to ensure intelligence officials provide clear evidence in their upcoming report, which they are typically reluctant to do." so, fill in some of the pieces in that expert from your story this month -- excerpt from your story this morning. annie: yeah, i think one of the keys to remember here, there isn't any new development that is fueling this flurry and this renewed attention on

make it operational unfortunately the previous president did not allow that to happen presidents lansky did and he does not interfere in the operations of the court when you can see to tional court of ukraine another body of our judicial system to try to destroy an anti-corruption reform it was the president who stepped in immediately and then if he was followed by the government and the parliament who restored parts of critical legislation that was declared and void now and void by by the constitutional court things are happening and you know every country is is a difficult combination of there is factors but this country is moving in the right direction and those who are calling on us to move faster they cordially invited to come and join us and help us well those who are you are called yearly inviting with those who were there last week if you look at the state department's human rights report the latest one what's clear is that what's damaging western confidence in you is this continual drumbeat of human rights abuses that are reported in your country as pointed out in the latest hu

make it operational unfortunately the previous president did not allow that to happen presidents lansky did and he does not interfere in the operations of the court when they can see to tional court of ukraine another body of our judicial system to try to destroy an anti-corruption reform it was the president who stepped in immediately and then if he was followed by the government and the parliament who restored parts of critical legislation that was declared and void now and void by by the constitution of course things are happening and you know every country is is a difficult combination of various factors but this country is moving in the right direction and those who are calling on us to move faster they cordially invited to come and join us and help us well those who are you are called yearly inviting with those who were there last week if you look at the state department human rights report the latest one what's clear is that what's damaging western confidence in you is this continual drumbeat of human rights abuses that are reported in your country as pointed out in the latest hu

secretary of state anthony blinken has arrived in ukraine for talks with president fuller's a lansky he is expected to reassure kiev of u.s. support after russia amassed more than 100000 troops along the crane's eastern frontier the country's anti corruption efforts will also be on the agenda. hong kong democracy activist joshua wong has been sentenced to another 10 months in jail for participating in an authorised protest wang is one of the most prominent faces of the pro-democracy movement he is already serving time in prison for his role in the other protests he was handed this latest sentence for attending a vigil commemorating the 1989 tiananmen square massacre in beijing 3 other activists were also sentenced to between 4 and 6 months behind bars. let's bring in correspondent phebe cancun has the view now from hong kong we've just heard this is already the 3rd time that josh has been jailed since 2019 tell us a bit more about this additional sentence now. last year the new kind of life is shown in hong kong was banned by the hong kong police before the fair 1st time in case but

make it operational unfortunately the previous president did not allow that to happen presidents lansky did and he does not interfere in the operations of the court when you can see to tional court of ukraine another body of our judicial system to try to destroy an anti-corruption reform it was the president who stepped in immediately and then if he was followed by the government and the parliament who restored parts of critical legislation that was declared and boy it null and void by by the constitutional court things are happening and you know every country is is a difficult combination of there is factors but this country is moving in the right direction and those who are calling on us to move faster they cordially invited to come and join us and help us well those who are you are called yearly invitingly those who were there last week if you look at the state department's human rights report the latest one was clear that it was damaging western confidence in us this continual drumbeat of human rights abuses that are reported in your country as pointed out in the latest human rights

in fact meyer lansky had a piece of this arrowhead casino years earlier would have been dutch schultz and people like that who ran these casinos and jack wilpers told his kids later in his life that at the end of the night. he had to get a ride home. he didn't have a car and gangsters were nice enough to give a ride home because they had to go through town and drop off that night take for the casino to various hours that be and jack said they were always armed to the teeth but always to give him a ride home. jack went to school at the catholic high school in saratoga, which was just down the street from where he lived then called saint peter's academy, and he graduated in the class of 1937 and anyone off the college even sees a good student smart kid, and he went off to college at saint michael's college, which is part of the university of toronto in canada. and he graduated in 1942 a year later than planned. he broke in some rules and was told to stay home for a year. um, and he was in the middle of his senior year when the japanese found pearl harbor on december 7th 1941 now america

spending expected to rise half a one percent in april joining me now, through the cycle president jon lansky, given the amount of spending the biden administration wants to continue to pump into this economy, and not just stimulus it is really setting up four new gigantic entitlements as part of this plan does the economy need one more dime in fiscal spending from the federal government? >> the economy does not need a single cent of additional fiscal stimulus we're doing very well, we have -- signs it might be over heating prices taking off across the board. by no maintenance do we need additional fiscal stimulus there is more than enough money in system right now to propel growth at brisk clip going forward, we have near record highs personal savings rates highest personal is savings rate since second world war a lot of this money is going to bes spent over the next 12 months. dagen: james freeman jump in. james: i am ifs you look furthering in year even beyond that my sense is that you don't see the inflation raging you kind of more or less agree with consensus that this is temporary and t