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joining us now is stephen miller and eldridge kolby former secretary of defense and author of strategyf denial >> let's start with you council on relation types like richard hoss saying something about china is inching us perhaps to a danger zone saying xi may decide he invested too much in putin to see him loose lose and also a long warm depletes u 16789 ron desantisness and xi may say there's no upside with restraint given the new ties and sanctions. thoughts on that. >> sure. first and foremost i think it is true we have become distracted in europe as you and i and others predicted a year ago and the president's trip to kiev shows his priorities. some say he's trying to prioritize china but the president tweeted out part of his heart was in kiev and i don't think we've seen anything like that in the united states, east palestine but we haven't seen it vis-a-vis china which is ten times the economic size as russia. at the same time blinken threatened over the provision of lethal aid, we know the chinese are already providing some type of military support, but more fundamentally they'

many indicators the job market is still very strong >> thank you kolby smith with "the financial times. since the december meeting, is the trajectory for the fed funds rate and the most recent sep still the best guide post for the policy path forward or does ongoing now mean more than two rate rises now >> you're right. at the december meeting we all wrote down our best estimates of what we thought the ultimate level would be, and that's obviously back in december, and the median was between 5 and 5.25%. at the march meeting, we're going to update those assessments. we did not update them today we did, however, continue to say we believe ongoing rate hikes will be appropriate to attain it to bring it back down to 2%. we think we've covered a lot of ground and financials have tightened. i would say we still think there's work to do there we haven't made a decision on exactly where that will be i think we're going to be looking carefully at the incoming data between now and the march meeting and then the may meeting. i don't feel a lot of certainty about where that will be it could certa