least the news will report it that way. Ukraine seems to be a stalemate so we just stopped thinking about it. His disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan happened so early in the term that we're already forgetting about it. Employment looks pretty good. Employment looks pretty good. And he's starting to do some Trump-like things like build a little bit of the wall and maybe promoting the Abraham Accords that he had been a little negative on.

So if you take the fact that he's first of all triangulating, in other words he's quite consciously it seems accepting some points of view that are a little bit Republican that I just mentioned. So I would say that it's all of those things. I would say that basically he's just sort of getting everything trending in the right direction, probably by luck, probably by luck. But I feel it too. I was saying it the other day. In my opinion our country's moving in the right direction. We're decoupling from China. That seems real. I think nuclear is now getting the attention it deserves. I think that we're starting to look at all of our energy sources a little bit closer to not crippling one to benefit the other. That looks good. We have more people being covered by health care if you don't mind the expense of that. That looks good. I don't know. I see a lot of things moving in the right direction. And I feel like that's probably the reason that his poll numbers are improving is that I feel like other people feel too.

Now you might say but what about Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan? I feel like that's popular, right? It might in fact increase our risk with China but I feel like it's popular in the United States. Is it not? Is it not popular? So stop watching CNN. I watch both. I watch the left and the right. If you're not watching the left and the right.

All right, so we're all getting used to being screwed. No, no I'm not saying it at all. You know the inflation's a real problem and I don't have a solution for that nor does anybody else. Stop watching MSNBC. You know everybody who's telling me to stop looking at the news on the other side, does that feel like good advice? It's literally the basis of the show as I'm looking at the news on both sides and trying to tell you when being on a team is less smart than looking at the issue. Like it's exactly what I'm trying to do is look at both sides. No I'm not going to stop doing that. If I didn't look, who would?

So you think it's pollster corruption? I disagree because there are too many polls that are looking. Watch this. If you see Rasmussen and also a lot of polls that are clearly left-leaning start to agree that the gap is narrowing, I wouldn't worry about pollster corruption in that situation. But if you saw Rasmussen saying there was a nine point gap when the sketchier pollsters started saying there was no gap, well I'd worry about that. But I think you're going to see all of them moving a few points apart but moving toward the same answer I think.

Yeah, let's talk about Brittney Griner. So we've got this WNBA American basketball player who had some weed and in Russia that's a pretty bad defense. She got nine years for some weed and she wasn't selling it. She was using it for her own purposes. Now obviously, I say obviously I can't confirm it, but to me it's obvious that Putin is using this as a negotiating thing. And if it looks like that's what's happening, given that we've offered some, I think we've offered an arms dealer or something in return, I feel like we should just grab some Russian that they care about and just trade them back. I mean if it's literally going to be a hostage situation, well let's just take a hostage. You know they did. Yeah, if Russia takes a hostage we can take a hostage. I mean we would need some reason for why we're doing it. Lavrov would be top of my list. I know you can't arrest a diplomat or can you?

Scott, do you like golf? I hope that's a joke. But how hard do you think we should go on Russia to release Brittney Griner? Now she knew what was illegal. She probably didn't know it was a nine-year thing. I wouldn't have done that. I mean I wouldn't have imagined it would really happen. It's hard to imagine it. Like your head has a hard time holding that as a possibility. But it was real. How hard should we go?

So some are saying no, that's her own problem. Right? No. While I would agree with you that she made her own bed and when people create their own problems they have to answer for it, however that's not really the context here. The context here is that Putin just took an American hostage. That's not good. If Putin takes an American hostage we have to respond in kind. I don't know what that looks like but we're going to need to take somebody hostage that we don't already have to trade them back. So I'd say take a hostage. They did.

All right, so jobs looks good. Employment is up. Added half a million jobs. We thought it would be half as many as that. Unemployment still looks not bad. Who thinks it's a good idea to take drugs into a foreign country? Well I'm not going to excuse Brittney Griner's mistake. I'll just point out that she is a young person and she is American and she didn't get arrested because of her drugs, right? I mean maybe that was the reason she got arrested I guess. But I don't think the nine year thing is political and I think we have to treat it that way. I think it's just an act of war. I realize it's compatible with their laws but it's obvious in this context. It's obvious it's just an act of war.

What would Trump do in this situation? Because I feel like Biden is just being kind of quiet about it. Maybe quiet diplomacy. What would he do? You think Trump would do nothing? I don't know. I think Trump likes saving celebrities. I think for Trump saving a black woman would be too irresistible. I think Trump would throw everything at it. Am I wrong? Do I not know Trump or something? You don't think Trump would throw everything at this because it would look so good? Yeah it would be counter to his narrative. It would be pro-American. It would be right on message. In fact if you want her to be released I think Trump's your best shot. Yeah I think all it takes is making it a priority. I'm not sure there's much more nuance to it than that. I think if Trump just said hold on, stop everything. If you don't give her back we're going to send you Ukraine you'd never want them to have or something like that. Something like that.

All right, he's already working on it. You think maybe he is. Maybe Trump is already working on it but I don't think China wants Trump to succeed so they're not going to do it when he's out of of