robert rosener of morgan stanley joins us right now. tom: robert rosener, senior u.s. economist. you see a research piece that is carefully considered. i did that last week as the team did a terrific essay on our fiscal debt. congratulations on the essay. really simple. you have confidence we can generate a growth rate to pay off this fiscal morass? robert: thanks for having me. it is that important point because we saw debt to gdp ratios rise. that was driven by the fiscal deficits we saw in 2020 and 2021. coming out of this year our projections for public debt relative to gdp are set to come down. they are not set to come down all of the way, but it doesn't it -- it does evidence how much a nominal rate of gdp can do to help those projections. tom: the doom crew will use that as a tool to say it can adjust fed policy. will fiscal dynamics change fed policy? robert: fiscal matters for the fed as much as much as it impacts the real economy. not being driven by the state of fiscal policy but the state of the economy. it is the economy real activity and inflation that are in charge

robert and sues be rosen palm. the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again from washington modetor yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening and welcome to "washington week." president biden was busy this week with two major issues, the supreme court and the possible invasion by russia of ukraine. now, on thursday, the first -- for the first issue, justice steven breyer announced the end -- that he would have retired at the end of the supreme court term. with breyer leaving the ideological balance of the court will not change. but this does give president biden a chance to make history and energize the democratic base. as a candidate president biden pledged to nominate a black woman to the bench. the promise came with the strong urging of a key political ally of the president, south carolina democrat jim clyburn. >> one of the real yurnd current throughout the black -- undercurrent throughout the black community was no black woman had e

we're very fortunate today to have with us to chair this next panel doctor steve rosen was for 25 years the director of the robert h lori comprehensive cancer center in northwestern and now is serving as the head of the cancer center at the beckman research institute. he has a distinguished career as a medical oncologist and particularly addressing himself now too much of the academic process that's being made having published over 400 articles himself and is currently the editor-in-chief of the setextbook series cancer treatment and research though we're fortunate to have him lead this conversation as it relates to the progress tthat occurred in the clinical care of patients and he will introduce this distinguished panel. steve, thank you for being willing to do this. >> good morning everyone and welcome. we have threerenowned panelists and world experts in the field . thought leaders each in a distinct area. i'm going to introduce them briefly and then ask the panel a series of questions and we will open it to the audience and hopefully have a thoughtful period of communication about all the issues we're dealin