starting off this hour "the new york times" opinion columnist brett stevens. i appreciate you joining us. i really enjoyed your article. just in general how do you perceive president biden's next year in office based on what you've heard from him just in the past 36 hours? do you think he gets what's gone wrong in the first year? >> well, my hope is that the press conference, anderson, was a piece of bravado so as not to appear weak but he gets the message if he doesn't change his administration not just tonally or in terms of communication but in terms of substance, the democratic party is going to be in great trouble. it's going to be very difficult to see him winning a re-election or anyone in the democratic party winning a re-election. and so i think there has to be some real sobriety on his part about the failures of his first year in office because they're quite serious. >> you know, often we hear from white houses where people say when they run into trouble it's a communication issue. we need to tell our story better, we need to get out there and promot

there's a new "new york times" op-ed, conservative columnist brett stevens, you should read it. he writes biden's performance thus far is sometimes compared with jimmy carter's, maybe the better source of comparison is bill clinton who ran as a centrist, tilted left in his first year, saw his signature legislation blow up in congress, suffered military humiliation in somalia, and then figured out how to recapture the center and save his presidency. roll that back for me mr. teleprompter. i want to read that again. okay? this is from brett stevens, listen, biden's performance thus far is sometimes compared with jimmy carter's, maybe the better source of comparison is bill clinton who ran as a centrist, tilted left in his first year, saw his signature legislation blow up in congress, suffered military humiliation in somalia -- afghanistan -- and then figured out how to recapture the center and save his presidency. what did they say, history doesn't often repeat itself, but it sometimes roohymes, right? is joe biden more like jimmy carter or is he more like bill clinton? this is no

before we go, yesterday on my peacock show, i responded to "new york times" opinion column by brett stevensnues while russia's foreign minister claims they tonight want war. troops increased to 130,000. diplomatic efforts to de-escalate are ongoing. one answer to what we do is from conservative "new york times" opinion columnist. he argues that america needs to stand up for freedom and democracy around the world. believe it or not. with regards to russia, calls for permanent deployment in large numbers of u.s. forces to front line nato states, arms shipments to kyiv, measured now in pounds rather than tons needs to be full scale air lift. though he hedges and says nato need not fight for ukraine. left with question, have we learned nothing from last years in american foreign policy? only ones benefitted from $14 trillion spent in afghanistan and iraq seem to be the private contractors. and iraq, it's not encouraging, hard to point to any u.s. military intervention where our involvement hasn't made things worse. and support for antidemocratic countries like egypt and support for the war in y

this is brett stevens from the "new york times."nt's inability to meet basic needs. the president needs to communicate he's a step ahead of these problems. so far he's been a perpetual step behind. important to note, stevens says two years. laura, the point being, especially when it comes to things like testing, when it comes to these masks, the administration did get ahead on vaccines but they seem a bit reactionary on some of these other big tests. >> right, and last summer is when president biden said the country was about to be free of the pandemic, and since then, it appears as though they have been playing catch-up to a lot of these incidents. there's been frustrations from democrats wanting to see from the white house more pressure to either get boosters approved at the end of last year or to really just be ahead of everything in terms of tests, in terms of masks, and also explaining it to the public. we saw biden has repeatedly, in the past few months, tried to explain what his administration is doing and what they expect an

starting off this hour "the new york times" opinion columnist brett stevens.ticle. just in general how do you perceive president biden's next year in office based on what you've heard from him just in the past 36 hours? do you think he gets what's gone wrong in the first year?

one answer came this week from brett stevens.h regards to russia, he called for the, quote, permanent deployment in large numbers of u.s. forces to frontline nato states, armed shipments to kyiv, which so far are being measured in pounds, not on thes, need to become a full scale air lift. he hedges by saying nato troops need not and should not fight for ukraine. still i was left with this question. have we learned nothing from the last 20 years of american foreign policy after decades of disaster in afghanistan and iraq, the only one who is have benefitted from the $14 trillion we spent there seem to be the private contractors. not to mention our efforts in iraq have not been much more encouraging. in fact it's hard to point to any u.s. military intervention in the last 20 years where our involvement hasn't made things worse. meanwhile, america's support for anti-democratic countries like egypt and saudi arabia, including the war in yemen, hardly makes the case that u.s. foreign policy has done much to advance freedom around the

this is from brett stevens. listen. biden's performance, thus far, is sometimes compared with jimmy carter's. maybe the better source of comparison is bill clinton, who ran as a centrist, tilted left in his first year, saw his signature legislation blow up in congress, suffered military humiliation in somalia -- afghanistan -- and then figured out how to recapture the center and save his presidency. what did they say, history doesn't often repeat itself but it sometimes rhymes, right? so that's the question. is joe biden more like jimmy carter? or is he more like bill clinton? this is not about transformation or bipartisan dreams. it's about how this white house is going to respond to reality. the reality that republicans aren't going to work with you, just like they did not want to work with you for president barack obama. they have proved that over and over. it is not the same senate as when zwroebd was in the senate. it's not the same senate as when joe biden was vice president and it is not the same senate as it was

president and ceo, mark tepper, jp morgan private bank global investment specialist, steven rese and first market strategist, brettets. you've got futures at least for the dow and the s&p pointing higher. tech heavy nasdaq, not looking good again after all the pressure we saw on the nasdaq last night, all of this on the heels of the fed minutes. so these officials are looking to raise interest rates. it looks like it might be march. it's inflation, the labor market. what do you expect and what does this mean for investors? >> yeah, i guess i'm surprised that everyone's so surprised. i mean, we know inflation is here. it's been getting worse. we had a strong market last year, s&p up 27% and a strong close the year so people were reminded that inflation is here, the fed is going to raise interest rates this year and you need to prepare for that and so to see the nasdaq down again is not a surprise to us. we still think markets will end higher this year driven by earnings growth but to a much lower degree than we saw in the recent past and so we're advising clients to take advantage of these pullbacks and really repo

. >> thank you, steven and brett, for your presentation. we will open this up for public comment for item 12-a. jennica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone who like to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 12-a. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> thank you, jennica. do we have anyone on the phone? >> clerk: president brandon, at this time, there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner gilman? >> sorry. [indiscernible] well, first of all, i want to thank staff for this comprehensive report. waterfront

brett kavanaugh was a former clerk to justice kennedy, and replaced him. judge krueger is an associate justice of the california supreme court. former clerk to judge stevens. so i expect she would have no problem getting through the judiciary committee. a wild card would be sherrilyn ifill, and there's been lots of discussion about the fact that there hasn't been a civil rights lawyer on the court since ginsberg and marshall. >> and the 115 justices that have been seated on the supreme court, only six of them have not been white men. it would be a significant and historic moment for president biden to make this move. >> indeed. and i've been thinking since this announcement about what justice ginsberg said when she was asked, how many justices ought to be women out of the nine on the supreme court, and her answer was always, nine. >> it's accurate, you know? can you talk a little bit more, if you can, about the transition process that you've had a chance to see somewhat firsthand yourself, when a justice retires and another comes in? >> indeed. there have only been 115 of them. even though it seems that there's been a lot of turnover on the supreme court