. >> all right, aishah, terry estrada, the widow of 911 victim and leads push against the kingdom. terry will join us on that, arthel. arthel: record inflation is hampering economies across europe as well as the u.s. and big part of that has to do with western sanctions on russia. the penalties are not having same effect around russia, russia's currency rubel has rebounded. we will bring former intelligence officer at hoover institution. john, thanks for joining me. look, you have the u.s. and europe reeling from inflation while russia withstands heavy sanctions. is russia's economy not suffering, what gives? >> no, russia's economy is suffering and will continue to suffer over a period of time. yes, the rubel has held strong but due to capital controls and inflation by russia central bank. the russian rubel is not a tradeable currency right now. you are seeing unemployment rise in russia, russia isn't able to import a lot of goods it needs for manufacturing sector and one of the points structurally going forward enormous brain drain russia's best and brightest diaspora to united st