foreign policy and joins me now. all right, kt, do you think the u.s. and/or nato ships should escort ukrainian grain tankers to helplleviate the food shortage? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, any country with a navy, frankly, should help escort those grain tankers as well as other kinds of food stuff commodities carriers out of the ukrainian ports. this is not just about ukraine. this is about the world, and ukraine doesn't just export wheat, for example. it exports sunflower oil. sunflower oil is a major ingredient in fast food and vegetable oil. we are looking within a few months at a major food shortage, probably not as much in the united states because we're very abundant with our farmlands and our agricultural industry but around the world. it's going to hit the middle east. it's going to hit africa. there will be starvation, mass exodus, there will be refugees leaving these regions so yeah, i think we should escort them and other countries with a navy should escort them and...

now this. we are in an inflationary spiral i've never seen anything like it i lived through the inflation of the late 1970s but it was nothing like this. it is the speed of the price increases that gets to me. that's why i call it a spiral, and that's what gets people so nervous. when is it going to end? there is a deeply-pessimistic mood in the country today, and the inflation spiral is at the heart of it. people are scared, people are angry. in a non-partisan poll quoted in the wall street journal, 38% said they're getting worse off. remember reagan's question to carter? are you better off than you were four years ago? if over one-third are worse off after just 18 months of biden, the democrats are not looking good. inflation is eating away at the american dream. half of the voters polled said they do not have a good chance of improving their standard of living. to say that moral is low is an understatement. so where's this going? the pace of inflation is not slowing. gas up 4.05 a...