my name is lisa escal, member's, ukraine, parliament. and i want to reflect on what i just heard about ukraine. a membership in or in the, you know, when i hear that the president announced, he said it should be 2023 and then the reflection from and the conclusion from the e. u. i want to tell you that it's not the president's zalinski position. only he speaks the majority of the voice of ukrainian people and ukrainian people don't understand that there are procedures. they don't understand that there are chapters in the rules. you know, today it's 2023. but 9 years ago it was 2014 and i together with thousands of ukraine's we were standing at your on my done. and now we sometimes when dont remember that in my life i'm 32. i already had serrita revolutions for the european values. and i am seeing this to day because i'm very happy when the radix of course, he says that there it, when there is a urgency for defense, we can, on the e. u membership also for ukraine, because ukraine young people know that we are a part of europe and they wil

kablooey escalating deadly conflict using remembering lisa rhetoric just to make a buck is the definition taiwan or any inch of planet earth, there's a little boy named tommy, and his single mother, tammy, who needs the united states to send them 10 to 20 f-16 fighting falcons, even if it means kablooey earning enough to buy a downright sick, nasty bmw. like i barely tap the accelerator and in four seconds, i'm going a hundred. that engine is roaring like a beast from planet awesome. and if you think that's wrong, then you hate little tommy and his little mama and the brave democracy-loving people of whatever countries i said earlier. >> oh, so beautiful. >> steve, please apologize to kablooey. >> me, apologize? >> yeah. yeah, you. >> me, apologize. there's going to be no apology coming from my side. >> that's bull, steve, and you know it. >> some guy just challenged me to exchange full force haymakers on the fire escape so let's pause it there. >>> when we return, austin sparks previews what's in store for the state of the union coverage on sparks. stick around. >> announcer: follow "too

lisa: it is actually escalating and people are preparing for something really dramatic.lot of businesses in europe are preparing for recovery, the rebuilding of ukraine. if you talk about this behind closed doors, they are all preparing for some sort of rebuild and what potentially that could mean in terms of the economy. jonathan: do you see gas prices? lisa: plummeting. jonathan: down hard and your appeared futures up by about .6%. yields have been higher. we have backed away from those levels. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ hi, i'm jason and i've lost 202 pounds on golo. so the first time i ever seen a golo advertisement, i said, "yeah, whatever. there's no way this works like this." and threw it to the side. a couple weeks later, i seen it again after getting not so pleasant news from my physician. i was 424 pounds, and my doctor was recommending weight loss surgery. to avoid the surgery, i had to make a change. so i decided to go with golo and it's changed my life. when i first started golo and taking release, my cravings, they went away. and i was so surprised

lisa americano the americans have no reason to escalate the conflict with china now, so they just slow you think there were no spies. listen, well, by and large. this is not a fantasy, the chinese immediately reacted that american suspicious balloons also fly in the territory, and no one shoots them down. and now biden is telling us that he is not sure what the balls were, that they may not be chinese. he trying to tell us all tsyts a. in fact, you're just lying. yes, it reduces tension , but not a single proof that these were civilian balloons. not yet, the american taxpayers immediately remembered the biden economy; but these are all pennies compared to the cost of weapons for ukraine , according to open data from the congress, the united states has already spent 48 billion, the european union 30 billion britain seven and canada 4 billion. and the expediency of these costs to the politicians of the collective west it becomes more and more difficult to justify eugene decides to continue into it. they shoot quickly, accurately, delay is expensive, unlike ukrainian american journalists,

lisa: we have moved away from the possible escalation debate and it has moved into the backseat of people'so die. can you talk about why the escalation no longer is present in the conversation? >> when we were sending bullets and germany was sending helmets, there was talk of escalation. now zelenskyy is after fighter jets and there is talk of escalation but russia hasn't necessarily made good at least to the scale of the bluff and luster with making good on those threats. it really is hard to see what the line is and we hope that it stays, we hope that it ends but realistically speaking it is kind of the boy who cries will fit this point. jonathan: it's been a thought for a long time that trade prevents conflict. it hasn't worked in europe. maybe sanction could work as well. any evidence that sanctions are working anywhere? >> i think about a year ago sitting here or there, somewhere in this area talking about this. sanctions and isolation were never going to keep russia out of ukraine. that being said, russia is very rapidly working towards economic obsolescence. they are working towards

lisa: it is horrific. there is no sense of it end ing --ending. a formal general says the u.s. is escalatinghis thanks to the web ring -- to the weaponry they are sending over because they are calling president putin's bluff. jonathan: what happened to the conversation about only sending defensive equipment? lisa: it went away and it is quite interesting, the question of escalation, is it more of -- on the forefront because they are saying, fighter jets is an escalating -- escalation but think -- other things not so much. jonathan: the work continues and that the winter that many europeans feared. tom: you're looking at a gallon of gas in be your -- in the united states but starting in february, a year ago and the war , a huge spike up. it spiked to 420 and when hired to $5.02 and we came right down to where we were at the beginning of the war. regina is a cornell grad and in the 70's, where you thought about driving across town because it was a shock what i gallon of gas is and i am fascinated if we go back to four dollars a gallon or five dollars a gallon, do we get the same behavior? lisa

lisa: what is the contours between a cold war at this point and that is something i somberly hashed out throughout the weekend. what does escalation found a bottom, where is it? when you bring up europe, where is germany on this? it becomes a real issue because you have to have some sort of alliance at a time when you have the inflation protection act and the german economy is highly dependent on china both buying goods as well as supply parts. tom: after december and the huge surge we saw in equity markets, in january and now we are to this massive ambiguity and it is foreign affairs international relations. i think the uncertainty is, it's not just about tomorrow's inflation report the retail sales report on wednesday, we go into a massive mystery, frankly into april. i think it's a jumble out there what is all this talk doing to china to be -- gdp? jonathan: i'm not sure it upsets the reopening. one thing i have seen tons of pushback. over the weekend, just hopes of china reopening. people really lining up. lisa: domestic consumption not necessarily out. ♪ this is ge vernova, helping generate and move the energy that our world

lisa: there was a lot of analysis of the weekend about xi jinping trying to tow the line, not caving to the u.s. and not escalatedof the tensions, this is basically a statement that gives you the sense of what is going on. jonathan: we are told by the government, it was a surveillance balloon that traverse across the united states. tom: it is three city buses of metal underneath the balloon and maybe this is substance for the next bond movie. no doubt cast in the next bond movie, annmarie hordern, our bloomberg washington correspondent. want to talk about one of the political things, there was the belief capable of doing this in relatively shallow water and they are going to look to see if cisco or motorola, i don't mean to pick on those companies but they are going to look for u.s. parts on there. how does that play in the white marble of capitol hill? annmarie: if there was any u.s. technology that was used in this spy balloon, the company under a serious microscope, over the biden administration --the trump administration was looking at ways they could hit that on china, in terms of getting their hands on sens

lisa: in the fog of war with russia and ukraine how much focus in washington on what is going on with iran and israel, which seems to be escalatinga huge focus for individuals following foreign policy, especially since he had secretary blinken in israel. he was in the palestinian territories meeting with mr. abud. this is on the heels of this morning you had israeli warplanes in gaza in the army going after ammunition plants and military depots for hamas. we are off the heels of one month of probably one of the deadliest months we have seen between palestinians and israelis in years. secretary blinken left officials behind to try to make sure they can restore peace. this will be a major topic today in washington. the president will be having lunch and a big discussion with king abdullah of jordan. he was at the hill thinking lawmakers for the aid they have been sending the jordan. for him, paramount is stability in the middle east. lisa: there is humanitarian questions around what this could lead to in terms of devastation. there's a question around crude with iran. this questions about opening it up to the international market.

lisa nandy. mr. nandy, good morning to you. welcome on board. before we before we talk to you about the five bold missions, just reaction there to the escalation inticular police officer is not as thankfully an unusual but quite a worrying situation. there . a worrying situation. there. it's a very worrying situa and obviously my heart goes out to the family of the police officer and to him as well. it's a situation that is becoming more and more serious on the island of ireland, and it makes it even more important that the government gets on the front foot, faces down its own backbenchers and acts in the national interest . this national interest. this stagnation this failure to resolve the issues around the northern ireland protocol is having profound and far reaching consequences and we need the prime minister to stand up and down his own backbenchers to work with the labour party in the national interest and try and get this situation resolved . some people would be scratching their heads about that though, saying, you know, it that given it is interesting that given what the what you're saying and the importance deal and the importance of th