it's time for my quarterly joke about how my wife loves wendy's bacon nader. what are you guys doing? you are ruining my marriage. get that picture down. it's going to be out of remix -- thank you. i will never get in trouble for pointing out that she has impeccable taste. owing out to long island this weekend, there's a really good one. wendy's should be doing okay, but let's see if they are having any staffing issues, like some of the other restaurant players when they report wednesday morning. the cpi, the consumer price index. we know some of these in elation quotes -- used-car prices are already down big. but i fear that it could be like today's employment number -- way too hot for our own good. if we do get a weaker cpi figure in the market corelle, you want to buy the dutch bros. yes, my favorite coffee house now that starbucks has kind of lost its way. we also want to know about this thing, will they let ford sell 10% stake ? please. it was $150 billion, better than nothing if for should sell. but obviously they would've been better selling off if they

and we still very much started on joining nader as soon as possible because it is probably the only option to ensure that for you. great. and in fact point i, your thank you so much for joining us. ukrainian, the m. p. andre, of such a small developments and the a war. now the us senate has overwhelmingly approved nearly $40000000000.00. a new aid for ukraine emergency package includes military, economic and humanitarian assistance. decision came as the us authorized the shipment to ukraine of another $100000000.00 worth of weapons and equipment. from pentagon stocks, russian missiles of his grain warehouse in easton, ukraine official save the storage facility. south east of separation is now completely unusable. russia has repeatedly targeted ukraine's grain warehouses and other civilian infrastructure move likely to exacerbate food shortages at home and abroad. and chancellor, olaf shalt says ukraine's allies will not accept a peace dictated by russian president vladimir putin dressing. general lawmakers ahead of a european meeting with ukraine, and later this month, mister schultz pledg

biden ralph nader was famous for his first book on the dangers of the automobile. and joan claybrook, you know, was the woman who pushed through seatbelts and airbags and you know, so carter -- and she wasn't the only naderite who was appointed, there were literally dozens of them. and his whole point was he wanted to, as president, he wanted to use his office in the interests of to protect consumers. and you know, this cut both ways. so you talk about airline deregulation, this helped consumers. it allowed middle-class americans to travel. but it also disrupted big business and the airline industry opening up the big carriers to competitions so the business roundtable was initially opposed to it. it also alienated labor unions because it made it difficult for the airline -- the unions that represented airline workers to keep their monopoly on power and such. so, it was a populist, pro consumer administration that undercut some of the core constituency of the liberal democratic base, trade unions. so this is the paradox, another paradox of the carter presidency. >>

one of them was ralph nader. and they played baseball together, ralph nader was assigned in his black suit to play the role of empire. [laughter] anyway, they had, they broke bread together and nature became enamored of carter because he was apparently completely open to taking his advice on who to appoint to various positions in the government. you know, he, for instance, got joan claybrook and put her as director of the auto safety board. and ralph nader was famous for his first book on the dangers of the automobile. and joan claybrook, you know, was the woman who pushed through seatbelts and airbags and you know, so carter -- and she wasn't the only naderite who was appointed, there were literally dozens of them. and his whole point was that he wanted to, as president, he wanted to use his office in the interest of to protect consumers. and you know, this cut both ways. so you talk about airline deregulation, this helped consumers. it allowed middle-class americans to travel. but it also disrupted big business

well, not too long ago, president trump, whom you served were saying nader was obsolete. and as you wrote, you sorta saw him wanting to withdraw from nato. we heard president macaroni saying native would become brain dead. and this was in there very near our, near history of what happened. can it be flipped on a switch that fast? because what i sort of see around the world is a lot of doubt and america's willingness to remain there for our allies, dark days that it may be going right now, but not sustainable. well, i think american credibility is on the line here with respect to ukraine, and i think there's a history there. certainly part of it. a good part of it is due to prompts, evidence desire to get out of nato at some point. but the history goes before that the u. s. did not respond to russia's august 2000 invade invasion of georgia. effectively. the united states did not respond effectively to the 1st invasion of ukraine and 2014. the whole world saw the debacle of the american withdraw from afghanistan in the summer of 20. 21. so doubts about america staying power

the major take here in washington is that other one won't really dare to stop nader, finland, and sweden from joining nato. but that he really wants to make most of this very moment. and just a quick last question for me is, what does it change to have 2 new countries in nato as regards the war and ukraine? well, 1st of all, both are really a powerful military forces, or they have been working closely with the nato and american troops anyhow. and it's, it's as, as a strong signal of the war in ukraine flooding me, put in is not able to weaken nato. it's quite the opposite. he made nato even stronger. okay, in his pool in washington, thanks so much for that. and president john barton on another issue is facing mounting political pressure over a shortage of baby formula. the supply chain disruption began when the largest formula manufacturing plant in the united states had to close due to safety concerns. now the president has invoked the defense production act to revives domestic supplies. and to allay the fears of worried parents. while americans got used to certain products missing from

they meet every nader requirement and then some having to new nato members in the high north well hands, the security of our alliance deepen. our security cooperation across the board on a smith is director of research and analysis of the european center of excellence for countering hybrid threats. i asked her whether she thought or took his opposition to sweden and finland that night. her membership i would be overcome. i believe so, it might delay a little bit and the whole process and it is kind of an understandable one of those things that belongs to this process that already nato members are always testing, perhaps the new comers, but i believe that this will be overcome how what will turkey receive in order to remove its objection? well, that's a, perhaps a little bit early to say i because both the, the finish precedent. i'm from the swedish side, uneven from the us side. they said that we take the matter very kind of practically calmly. we look up the list to we start discussing it and go kind of on factual at bases. i'll forward to it. so i think that this is the process needs

the relationship with russia had been badly mismanaged, trying to bring georgia new craner to nader, was truly overreaching recklessly ignoring what the russians considered their own vital national interests. not everyone was happy with this pro western sentiment, especially in the southeastern part of ukraine, which has always felt closer to russia. some of its residents are ethnically, russian, or have relatives in russia, most ukrainians speak russian and is the predominant language in some regions. attempts to balance only added fuel to the fire. ukraine's neo nazis took advantage of the situation and began to literally wipe out the russian speaking population. they formed fashion battalion, some of which even became part of the country's armed forces. crimea was the 1st ukrainian region. so express discontent and voted to return to russia. later the people have done boss also stood up to protect their land. the ukrainian government was unable to cope with the situation and for the next 8 years continually shelled the saudi some parts of the country while simultaneously seeking c

busy reservation and a couple of days ago, there was a nato countries on nader representatives. one of them are based in germany where they discussed the supply. oh wow. by the regular russian army, and as a russian, as a person who was born in leningrad, i can tell you that, i mean, he, even with cool strategic approach. and, you know, they have here and to reality tickets extremely, extremely difficult for the russian. you, you know, to see germany being a centre of militarization against the russia. again, how irrational factors you know, you said that it's difficult to predict the future, but we also have a very, very difficult history in the lives of many people in the psychology of many people is still alive. i completely agree. and i think this is what makes the security challenges so back saying, so to see it in simplistic terms as russia launched an unprovoked attack and gives you credit, i think is overly simplistic. not to say what russia did is justify or completely justified. but these are complex issues, crowded in some objective factors like economics, like nation

that this park there was a bunch of trenches sitting, the eighteenth and twentieth twenties of the nadern, e, chaikov tried to take the twenty-eighth. they weren't allowed by the germans here. he is able to do this by assault groups suffer losses from the actions of hitler juding, teenagers hit faust with cartridges on our tank. what to do? no no there, wait, come on, there, let's see, we need to try to disarm them somehow. they then approached the front line, as the cartridges fired, when it flew there, everything explodes in the same place. it’s not weak, it’s here, but they were forced to open fire. what to do to wait? while our, or something, soldiers are killed, the foreman drags two literally snotty boys by the ears like that, you cry, they say something like that, and uh, well officers, what can you do with them there comrade officer there you know, you know your business, yes, and these bastards, like ta-ta-ta, they ran straight out into the streets and shot our cars with the foreman and the foreman who came from moscow died from tanks, of which we already had few left. a dozen t

and that is august 14th of 1862 marks the nader of lincoln's reputation when it comes to african american relations, i think yeah. invited some of the most prestigious minds in the african-american community in the district of columbia to the white house. and there he lectured them about race. he told them that they were the cause of the war. and then he encouraged them to go away. to go move to liberia or what's now panama? can you help us unpack this very bad horrible day in the reputation of abraham lincoln. was there anything contextually about the time the place who he met? that would mitigate this really sort of ugly scene. yeah, so this is one of these moments i i think in the book i call it like something like one of the most regrettable moments of the lincoln presidency as a lincoln scholar. there are two things that if i could go back in time and say hey don't do that. it would be what he said at the charleston debate with stephen douglas in 1858 about social equality. and then this moment in august of 1862, and so the context is that in the summer of 1862 lincoln has decided to

busy of nato countries or nader representatives of one of a military bases american military base in germany, where they discussed the supply of weapons to ukraine to fight their regular russian army. and as a russian, as a person who was born in leningrad, i can tell you that, i mean, even with cool, strategic approach. and, you know, they have here as to reality, gets extremely, extremely difficult for the russian. you, you know, to see germany being a center of military is ation against the russia. again, how concerned are you about those irrational factors? you know, you said that it's difficult to predict the future, but we also have a very, very difficult history in the lives of many people in the psychology of many people is still alive. i completely agree. and i think this is what makes these security challenges. so vexing, so to see it in simplistic terms as russia launched an unprovoked attack and gives you ukraine i think is overly simplistic not to say what russia did is justify, are completely justified. but these are complex issues that are partly grounded in some objec

busy reservation and a couple of days ago, there was a major meeting of nato countries or nader representatives, one of a military basis, american military base in germany, where they discussed the supply of weapons to ukraine to fight their regular russian army. and as a russian, as a person who was born in leningrad, i can tell you that, i mean, even with cool, strategic approach. and, you know, they have here as to reality tickets. extremely, extremely difficult for the russians. you, you know, to see germany being a center of military is ation against the russia. again, how concerned are you about those irrational factors? you know, you said that it's difficult to predict the future, but we also have a very, very difficult history in the lives of many people in the psychology of many people is still alive. i completely agree. and i think this is what makes these security challenges. so that thing, so to see it in simplistic terms as russia launched an unprovoked attack and gives you ukraine i think is overly simplistic not to say what russia did is justify, are completely justified. but the

but fast tracking, this still means many months before nader's article 5 guarantees would cover the 2 countries are are they on their own until membership comes through? that's right, brent. the membership process will take some time, even if nato issues an invitation to finland institute in sweden quite quickly after they formally announced that they're going to join, which of course hasn't taken place yet. we're expecting that in the next few days. but then nato will offer an invitation, but then every one of the 30 allies has to approve that through. sometimes the process is include going through their parliaments and heading into summer that could take some time. it could be even up to a year before finland in sweden or formerly members. and that's the only time that the article 5 mutual security guarantees will apply. but being very mindful of this and of course, hearing those threats of retaliation from moscow. several allies have reached out to finland and sweden and said, we have your back. don't worry if, if russia does try to attack you in some way during this waiting period

and, and also make sure that germany and nader doesn't get part of the war. and what that, what about is diplomatic spat with, with the ukraine just because president landscape criticized your president's previous close relationship with moscow and said he shouldn't visit shops, decided he wouldn't go either. shouldn't the government have been able to rise above petty squabbles in the middle of a major war in europe? well, it's very difficult to criticize the ukranian president or the ambassador to germany in a situation where they defend their country. yet on the other side has been the 1st time since world war 2 that our head of state has been and been name, persona non contact another country. and by the way, germany is the country that supported the crane economics in humanitarian financial more than any other country in europe for a long time. and so does this and together with the other. so that is not something you can just ignore. and if the president cannot come to chance, they couldn't just go to okay. f as if there was nothing. now this was resolve

therefore, nader must be expanded. i'm not sure how we reconcile these 2 positions, but clearly this contradiction is at the heart of so many emotional pills currently subverting reasonable thinking and contributing to extending and perhaps expanding this conflict further. joseph mahoney, professor of politics and international relations. thank you so much for joining us here on our t. thank you kind of reportedly held an emergency meeting in order to figure out ways to protect its trillion dollars for an assets from possible us lead sanctions in order not to suffer the same fate as russia over the war ukraine. the meeting was apparently held with officials from foreign and local banks as beijing is reportedly worried that russia style penalties could be introduced against it. in the event of a regional military conflict or other crisis. trying to currently has an estimated 3 trillion us dollars in its foreign reserves. just to put it in context, the west for more than $300000000.00 of rushes for an assets after the co

with nader member countries add on add on president out on the turkish president who is facing an election next summer, basically kind of ford, any economical backlash as his country is already as struggling. so many experts here in the u. s. believe that out on doesn't really want to prove prevents sweden and finland from joining nato that had he just wants to use the moment to raise his case. and how can the american president help sweden and finland here? well, so the plan today is to reassure that both countries have the full support of the u . s. and the rest of the nato alliance. and it's also nick, important to keep in mind that earlier this month, a washington signal that they are willing to approve the sale of a fighter jets to turkey. that was previously blocked by congress. but as the turks support ukrainians in the war against russia are actually fighting the invasion of russia into ukraine, i should say at that has made congress and the white house more comfortable ending this embargo. so this is a major policy shift and could help facilitate an end to 2 turkeys of jackson's t

and we still where might started on joining nader as soon as possible because it is probably the only option to ensure that for you. great. and in fact, for europe, thank you so much for joining us. ukrainian. m. p. andrea, such i did of the investigation has revealed how collaboration between scientists in europe and china might be having unintended consequences. together with partners from 6 other countries. d, w has been working on the china science investigation. for months. the team has been proving how european researchers have cooperated with china's national university of defense technology. now they reveal some startling findings. they compute hulu to through about the tools. this is a promotional video for one of china's top universities. to me is my who sure will enter the journey of strengthening the military and below that some head of building a world class landing the videos for the national university of defense technology will n u d. t, a place that's deeply integrated with the chinese military. it's all part of what's called military civil fusion. as practice by chin

my opinion, in the united states foreign policy interested in your ability in general, singleness nader was being used as a one country foreign policy tool to keep us, which would be the deal. i'm you know, it's a time when the world is ree shepalees, necessarily uni polar. well, the order is becoming a thing of the past. yet the collective west is waging an aggressive war to defend its position spectrum. it is using all means including in our organization zone of responsibility, photo from threatening the use of nature, weapons along our western borders. room to waging a full fledged hybrid walk around his daughter primarily against russia. and bella rose to receive the elusive palmer stubbornly. you breathed me with her scratching with. it's difficult to say how it's all going to hand. but one thing is obvious. it put us all these steps, including those aimed at expansion of nato, will lead to an increase of tension in europe. europe. well, let's see what we should make of this. this meeting of this group has been referred to as the president putin's pocket, nato d. w. so russia analy

first is nader, succeeding and walking. the fine line between defending ukraine and direct confrontation with russia and later in the show, what's going on in president landscape mind these days? let's get to the bottom line. ah, one of the major effects of the war in ukraine is that it has revive nato. just a couple of years ago, the alliance of western countries was being bashed on a daily basis by former us president donald trump, who constantly said that america pays too much to defend europe. but now the u. s. government has poured billions into ukraine and president joe biden has asked for another $33000000000.00. the flow of weapons from the west to ukraine is the biggest supply since world war 2. but all of this also comes at the expense of europe stability, which was the point of creating nato in the 1st place. moscow is now demanding that nato stop supplying weapons, the ukraine, and stop trying to recruit more eastern european countries to the pro western alliance. so what should we expect in the coming months, e

that's what it is, but not so long ago, the naderation separated from its comrades-in-arms and createdmi detachment, which was included in the 128 brigade of the national guards of ukraine, discord in the country of georgian mercenaries occurred after the conflict, and for the money of the commander of the detachment, malashvili, as it turned out, made good money on his countrymen for each militant. ukraine paid 250,000 hryvnias per month, translated into rubles, which is half a million, but a little more than half of this impressive amount reached the mercenaries. in addition, saakashvili's former bodyguard, who calls himself a professional fighter. as it turned out, he switched to remote work a long time ago instead of reconnaissance-version operations, for which he actually received money was engaged in fact only in the recruitment of new volunteers. also , the mercenaries get to the front line, and the paths to ukraine became known thanks to the careless statements of the fighters of the belarusian volunteer battalion named kalinouski who asked for humanitarian aid, indicating that

the consul general of ukraine was there talking about what it mean that the nader traveled to ukraine or shared it. >> some people say this kind of thing, we hope for that. it is not just symbolic. it brings it to ukraine. >> the student say the goal of today's event was to highlight efforts to support ukrainians, connect organizations, and create a dialogue that was all put on by the ukraine association. >>> tonight cases of covid in the bay area are on the rise. new variants are popping up posing new challenges to vaccines. how the four new subvariants have popped up. one of them now makes it more than a third of current cases. research suggests they are getting sick again. >> if we don't get ahead of this, we'll have a lot of waning immunity as the virus continues to evolve and we may see a rise in infections, hospitalizationses and deaths. moderna says they are working on it. ? cases on the rise. our positivity rate is at 3.9%. that's up in the last week. for the most part, the hospitalizations have been staying relatively low, though the number of patients is starting to creep ba

into a commercial enterprise for what is basically not transparent part of the thing with your ralph nader blog thing. was that you were talking about transparency towards the end of the interview as something that's missing from some of these. evolutionary type things within the community such as this recent art street fair that become what appears to be a commercial enterprise and could you speak to that issue? so that i assume you mean the coconut grove art? yes, okay. okay, let's turn it off. give it her. so that was well, so it's a i'm now i'm stuck on my lavalier thing. i don't have no idea where my glasses are. anyone see your glasses. okay. oh my gosh. so i can't comment on the specifics of the art fair, but let me i but let me let me let me answer. the question that i would have liked you to answer which i asked which i think it was. i you know, i do a lot of interviews and i've been am i okay? okay, and there's something important to understand it seems stupid almost is that one of the you know, one of the first thing i have to say is things cost money. and is really only one pla