a lot of option at tivoli trading. i think there is a way to use options to your advantage. it almost feels like a stock explosion and i would use options instead of owning the stock at this point. use an upside call to continue but also offset some of the cost. looking to trade out to september. i actually collected some premium on this portfolio. when you look at rivian, i think they have turned the corner. you see growth in their vehicle production and it is a very nice luxury car. i think a $20 level seems like where the stock hangs in for -- >> let me say this. this is important. i never have conflict of interest. the price i did -- the high was 2563. it moved down and i will stick with this. it is feeling impetuous and euphoric. you also said it was something quite horrible, a mean stock. we heard it is the best selling electric truck. a lot has happened quickly and a lot of on-field gaps. >> mike, do you own a rivian? >> i do not. brian, you have a tesla and we have one of those. you are not buying the stock of the product that you buy. i find that interesting. i will

can do to benefit those families is to get inflation sustainably under control and restore price tivoli. that's the most important thing we can do now and we are determined to do that. the people most hurt by inflation right away on a low fixed income. when you talk about travel, transportation costs, heating costs, clothing, food, things like that. if you are just making it through each month on your paycheck and prices go up your in trouble right away. even middle-class people have some resources to absorb inflation. people on the low income spectrum have a hard time doing that. we need to get this done. the record is clear that if we take too long or don't succeed it will be greater, that is how i would explain. >> you had said last month that this meeting this week was going to be a live one. in the market of 99% probability that the rate would stay, the decision was unanimous. the statement was unchanged from last month. may i ask to what extent was the meeting a live one? is there any doubt over the past few days what the decision was going to be? >> was there doubt? i would say t

secondly if you know instinct tivoli you have to respect someone even when they don't agree with you,progress. and thirdly when people try to get you to take the bait and weigh in and become somebody who wants to engage in a culture war have the fortitude and discipline to say i'm not going to go there. it's all over the place. people are increasingly concerned about it, and they say, well, what can you do about it? i said it's not what i can do about it. it's what you can do about it. how you take responsibility, how you have the discipline. this is a very bad slope that we're on right now. chris, we just got to hope that people are going to realize those kinds of things that i think i suggested plus more and get our act together in this country. division, i mean, we're like a bird with one wing. it doesn't work. >> this is worthy of a longer conversation and i hope we're able to do it at another time. we have to go now to the roosevelt room at the white house where the president, you see him with tech leaders or at least an earlier shot we saw him with tech leaders are talking about

general tivoli is correct, they are strategic forces have largely been untested here and are still formidable >> the significant redistribution of our forces out of europe would still be a challenge, because of their existing capacities? >> i think from a deterrence standpoint, russia fears strength. even though they are ground forces are degraded right now, they will quickly build those backup. >> and director haines, as i said in my statement, the intelligence community has done some remarkable work with respect to russia and ukraine, by exposing the activities that russian people were complicating -- contemplating, not only embarrassing them, but frustrating their abilities to do it. are we ready to use that same approach to other adversaries, such as china, in terms of strategically using intelligence to disrupt their operations? >> thank, you sir. i think we can talk about this in close session a bit more, but as a general matter, we have learned some techniques and mechanisms that will not be forgotten coming out of the conflict with ukraine, that i think we can deploy in other scenario

okay, david, if the gop is as you have argued to me a post ideology party, not even perform tivoli aboutvatism or small government, just a shadow of trump now, then they aren't booing lindsey graham over policy or votes he has taken. they're booing him over loyalty, which given just how loyal he has been to trump tells you what exactly? >> yeah, alicia, a painful moment for lindsey graham. i'll tell you this about lindsey graham. i was with lindsey in saudi arabia and in a meeting with the king, lindsey graham says to the king of saudi arabia, don't worry about donald trump. presidents come and go, but senators stay forever. and that little vignette told me a lot about lindsey graham, someone who likely plans to expire in the u.s. senate rather than retire from it. so he has compromised and sacrificed his own dignity and his own political consistency to try to follow the path to power, to stay in the u.s. senate. and it is emblematic of the rest of the party. they know that donald trump has this iron grip on the party. it is post ideological. it is grievance. call it populism if you want