morning rbi on how much food prices are surging chef david burke is here talking about higher prices and what it means for his restaurants. it is thursday, april 14th this is "worldwide exchange. >>> good morning, good afternoon or good evening. welcome from wherever in the world you are watching i'm brian sullivan thank you for joining us on this busy friday -- i know it's not friday we're off tomorrow from a business day, why not a check on the markets and your money. stock futures are flat to mixed. not seeing any trend we have dow up a little bit. s&p down a bit stocks snapping the three-day losing streak on wednesday nasdaq had a big day up 2% despite the gains, all three indexes are lower on this holiday shortened week down a couple for the month. remember, tomorrow is a market holiday. we and, hopefully you, are off for easter and passover. it could be a volatile day today. according to goldman sachs $1 trillion of options set to expire today >>> and quarterly reports on tap this morning including citigroup and goldman sachs and morgan stanley and wells fargo. also, check on b

burke and david tufori that worked for president obama and a state department official.vid, let's start with you. your reaction to that poll that more than half of those asked said they don't think the president is tough enough in this environment. >> well, that poll means that about half either think he has been just about right or he should be doing less, so he's basically in the middle there. what i caution people about this war is to not take a snapshot on one day as how things are going and judge everything based on that. the war is fluid and constantly changing. president biden and his administration will ultimately be judged several months from now when people look back and say did we do enough to help the ukrainians resist this invasion? right now it's about half and half. it's likely to shift. what president biden wants is for the american people to believe that he did everything he could do short of sending in american troops to help the ukrainians. when i left ukraine three weeks ago, what officials said is they were worried about russians that understood that