if all his comments from us treasury ship secretary, janet jaelyn, he said tariffs would be combined with a phased embargo on russian oil. the proposals are set to go before g 7. finance leaders this week or more on that. let's tend to have financial correspondent state side on wall street for as is teddy australia. teddy is janet jaelyn in the united states, actually gonna be able to persuade g 7 members states to stop importing russian oil . well, rob, it actually may not be a question of persuasion. europe wants to rid itself of russian oil. the question is, how is it going to do that? european nations are many european nations are greatly dependent on that russian oil. so when the us treasury secretary janet ellen comes in and proposes tariffs, well many don't find that very helpful. we even see grumblings among some diplomats that it's just complicating and incredibly complicated process. and this seems like it's exposing some economic fault lines in what was supposed to be a united front against russia in its invasion of ukraine. it's clearly a lot easier for the us to stop imp

at least that's the idea. janet jaelyn, the treasury secretary, has a lot of experience because she was on the federal reserve previously, certainly says that the united states is moving in the right direction, outperforming other countries. and these are the kind of tools that the federal reserve uses in order to achieve what she calls a soft landing. so the so called the experts are optimistic, but that's not how the ordinary american is feeling right now. and kimberly, we heard earlier from president biden, who made a statement on, on the state of the u. s. economy. ah, what do you make of the timing of that? was he trying to get out in front of, of, of this 100 percent because you've got to remember that all politics is local a, in the united states, especially when it comes to the economy. all of the people that are feeling the pinch are going to be voting in the not too distant future, that is the early fall when the congressional mid term election. and this is going to be an issue that is going to be pivotal for a lot of ordinary americans. and that's the big fear right now. and