europe has virtually no meaningful military force to introduce in this part of the world and europe largely sees asia and particularly china through the eyes of economic and commercial ties. i think we're going to run into real problems trying to line the europeans up it work with us. losing my voice here fareed, sorry. >> no worries. anne-marie, what about richard point, particularly in light of merkel leaving after 16 years in germany. the europeans don't have the capacity to pro correct any kind of military force without american help. and they don't seem that interested in having a kind of larger world role. they're largely internally eu focused. is it a fool's errand to try to get europe to play a larger strategic role? >> no, as i just said, the french after the united states have the largest naval experience in the south pacific. if we were going to make a deal with australia and britain, yes, i understand that we had better technology, but we should have included the french in thinking about the south pacific as a strategic arena and the british, particularly now that they're not in

natural gas prices in europe have risen a staggering amount, nearly 500%. in asia, bloomberg reports that power companies are buying liquefied natural gas at record prices to try to lock in supply. in europe a mass producer of fertilizer was already forced to temporarily shut down two uk plants due to high energy costs, and there are fears other industries will follow. the u.s. energy information administration has put out a report warning americans that they are likely to pay significantly more to stay warm this winter, especially if temperatures drop substantially. why is this happening? the simplest explanation is the demand for energy is currently exceeding supply, which makes prices rise. the reasons for this miss match are many, including extreme and unpredictable weather, as well as bad government decisions about storage, reserves or transmission lines. but there is one common cause -- much of the world has stopped investing in fossil fuels for good reasons. which has led to less supply of them. but we do not have sufficient green energy today to rep

natural gas prices in europe are wild. earlier this month trading at the equivalent of $230 per barrel in oil terms. that is up more than 130% since the beginning of september. and more than eight times higher than the same point last year. according to data from independent commodity intelligence services. those natural gas shortages have also prompted europe to return to coal production. >> a lot of countries across europe are quietly switching on coal stations again that have been moth balled in the last few years because rather than run something dirty and run out of electricity. >> reporter: also increasing demand economic activity has bounced back from the pandemic shutdown last year, and before the pandemic the world was consuming an average of 101 billion barrels of oil every day. during the pandemic slowdown it plummeted to 84.9 million at one point. now this year it is predicted to average more than 97 million barrels a day. that will continue to climb which has forced a surge in pricing with no end in sight. >>

do you worry that europe will not have somebody like that at the helm? >> well, here's a leader who never identified herself with her office, and she will leave the chancellory and return to her rent-controlled apartment, which she never left for the past few decades, and never lost her talent to be normal. she will assume the life of a normal citizen and make herself scarce in berlin. >> she did her own grocery shopping all through the time she was chancellor. >> always. yes, she loves to cook. she's not a great cook but she loves to cook. and she will, i think, leave both germany and europe in a very strong place. >> kati marton, pleasure to have you on. >> thank you, fareed. wonderful to be with you. >>> next on "gps" the taliban is back to a lot of its old ways. afghanistan faces economic collapse and a series of terror attacks have shocked citizens there. i will talk to the afghan activist mahbouba seraj, who we had on before, about the sorry state of that war-torn nation when we come back. >> tech: when you get a chip in your windshield... trust sa

we'd actually have kind of a natural gas marshall plan for europe. we in america would build a set of l&g export terminals to export our national gas. we're the saudi arabia of natural gas. we're more than saudi arabia of natural gas, we have 100 years of supply. but if you can't liquify it, you can't export it. and then we partner with europeans and build terminals over there and then you have a long-term plan to counterbalance the influence of russia. >> so play out some of the other political consequences of this energy crunch and energy crisis. clearly russia gets empowered. what else happens? >> another thing i think people aren't paying attention to, and you've had this on the show before, which is iran is getting closer and closer to developing enough fissile material now to build one nuclear bomb. if you listen to americans, security officials and israeli security officials, they've been telling us we're not going to let that happen. we're not going to let iran get that close. they're getting that close. if they're considering some kind of ki

and head for europe? what happens when the himalayan glaciers melt giving less water to pakistan and india. what happens when migrants surge north after droughts or hurricanes? we know the naval base in norfolk has to be moved now as a result of rising seas, but of course, the gap between the warnings and action in congress is stark. >> the hoemt security and defense department both released separate reports outlining the threat posed by the climate crisis. yet as you know, there doesn't seem to be a matching urgency from elected officials to do anything, with some exceptions of course. >> of course. you know, biden's build back better plan is the most ambitious sort of climate package in there. it will cost about $350 billion a year. the most effective analysts say would be incentivizing power companies to get off of coal and gas and get to clean sources of energy. solar and wind. the joe manchins of the world say that's too expensive. it's interesting that this week, they gave the pentagon $10 billion m

. >>> he's been dubbed europe's last dictator. cnn sat down with the president of belarus. how did he respond on the questions about widespread rights abuses under his watch? that's next. gold. your strategic advantage. this isn't just a walk up the stairs. when you have an irregular heartbeat, it's more. it's dignity. the freedom to go where you want, knowing your doctor can watch over your heart. ♪ ♪ (music) ♪ staying on top of your game takes a plan. that's why at aetna, we take a total connected approach to your health and wellness. with medicare advantage plans designed to surround you with the care you need every day. aetna medicare advantage plans >>> in our world lead, alexander lukashenko has been called europe's last dictator. he runs belarus, one of the eastern european republics that started going its own way after the soviet union broke up. for belarus, lukashenko's way has been the only way. he's supposedly freely elect bud the election was so corrupted it provoked huge protests in the capital minsk. protests that lukashenko's forces brutally put down. n

. >>> president biden about to leave for europe. apparently empty handed with no deal among democrats to pass his agenda. we'll talk to one member of congress who met with the president. the northeast hit by a bomb cyclone. hundreds of thousands of americans left without power and the damage is not over yet. >>> and no more fumbling with your phone or boarding pass or i.d. the new tech allowing passengers to just breeze through airport security in seconds, but might this be yet another example of handing over all your private information to the government? >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. the politics lead. in a matter of hours, president biden is scheduled to leave for europe. best case scenario for the president he'll leave after securing the biggest legislative deal of his presidency and an agreement among all democrats on the social safety necessary package that would give biden legislative victories on universal pre-k, expanded medicare coverage, and more, not to mention the bipartisan infrastructure bill. that's the

he himself predicted in 1990 as the cold war ended, nato would collapse and europe would become a cockpit of warring states as it had been before the cold war. he believed many european states, chiefly germany, would likely acquire nuclear weapons. none of these predictions have come to pass. in fact, the european union has grown tighter and stronger in the decades after the cold war, and they remain nonnuclear. i raise this to make the point, mishhimer looked at only one of the great forces that motivates states in the international system, power politics. but there are other like economic interdependence. the world today thoroughly enmeshed with a complex global economic system where war would hurt the aggressor nearly as much as the victim. there have been almost no land grabs since 1945, the most notable exception being russia's annexation of crimea in 2014. this amounts to an almost unprecedented disrespect for borders. in addition, nuclear deterrence has raised the stakes, making countries far more cautious about launching a great power war. the task of american foreign policy is to

reticent today on the hill, but if he couldn't convince them to do it today, before he jetted off to europe, it's hard to see when that exactly is going to happen. >> so, phil, you had the president going in front of the cameras to announce this framework. there's still the wording of the deal which can go south in a whole bunch of different way, couldn't it? >> yeah, it's a really great point. drafting of legislation always take the over in terms of timeline to use a sports betting terminology. just because it takes a long time, and the words actually matter. i'm not being kind of flip when i say that. each line, each phrase, each section is extraordinarily important and has wide-ranging implications and repercussions. i think in terms of what the president did this morning, it was calculated risk. i think there was an understanding they didn't have the votes and full agreement on the framework from the parties involved, but they felt like they needed to make a push. the other thing they felt like they needed to do is rest back control of what has been very clearly the story of the last se

and europe may be going in somewhat different directions. could be a tri-color world in which more will happen regionally instead of globally. >> how many of us, be honest, how many of us were surprised that some of these ports weren't operating 24 hours a day anyway? >> right. >> i assure you the gulf in china are not working shorter hours and they're related to this. how many of us are surprised this is a three-month agreement? this is not like we're going to fundamentally change the way this megaport that is essential to the u.s. economy. and those are the sort of things i can hear some viewers saying, well, it's this, that and the other the reasons. but these are the reasons buttigieg is talking about. these are the reasons that need to change. the systemic post-pandemic crisis that we're now discovering its shortfalls. >> americans are seeing inflation just about anywhere. gas, used cars, bacon, beef, eggs, tvs, kids' shoes. prices are not going to go down any time soon. how long is it going to take for inflation to be resolved? >> so a

president biden is in europe for the g20 and the united nations conference on climate change. let's get a republican perspective. congressman michael mccall, the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee. he represents a district in the austin area of texas? >> austin to houston. >> just broadly, what's the most important issue you want president biden to talk about at the g20 summit? >> for me personally, national security. i think china with their launch of the hypersonic missile that we detected. it's been released now in august. it's a huge, serious threat not only to the united states and our homeland but to the world. these missiles can go undetected. our missile defense systems cannot stop them. and i was disappointed to hear that china is not going to participate in person but rather virtually. and i think the role that china is playing right now is a now global military, economic superpower. needs to be addressed. >> what would you want the g20 to do with china? they will be participating virtually. not sure what they're trying to convey with that. maybe t

it was the president who told members of congress that he wanted this done before he took off for europe. specifically before he reached the glascow summit. white house officials followed suit and agreed with that. >> it's easy to lose track. they will try at some point sooner rather than later to get together on what they can agree on and there in this kind of routine. the progressives want to make sure that they don't get double crossed by the senate. they want to make sure that manchin and sinema will be with them. it's easy if senator manchin and senator sinema said we support the larger frame work as well as the infrastructure bill. i think you'd have a lot of these progressives on board. there's such a lack of trust, which is kind of astonishing actu actually between the house members and those more moderate democrats in the senate that it's hard to predict how and when this is going to happen. if the president couldn't effectively knock heads today and some people said he was a little too reticent today on the hill, but he couldn't convince them to do it today before he jetted off

. >>> in our world lead, surging anti-semitism in europe. a popular musician told to hide the star of david necklace he was wearing, or be denied entry into at german hotel. just the latest example in what groups call a rise in hate. as frederik pleitgen reports, conspiracy theorists like qanon are helping to fuel these incidents of hate. >> this musician close to tears, in a video he posted on instagram right after he said staff at this hotel in eastern germany told him, they wouldn't allow him to check in, unless he concealed a necklace bearing the star of david. >> he told me to put away my david star. i was really shocked, and looked over to the other person, he just repeated the same sentence. he is a big star in germany, with thousands of fans, but he tells me the moment he was singled out, denied service for being jewish, he never felt more alone. did anyone come to your aid? you would think someone would jump in and support you. >> right. no support, no one speaking up. no one. >> reporter: gil's video has gone viral, and the westin

. >> well, in europe, political parties actually came to facebook researchers and said we -- in order to get things to go viral on facebook now after the -- the algorithm changed in 2018, we have to take more angry positions. more -- positions that we don't even necessarily agree with if we're going to get any traction on your site. and so, they very clearly tied these algorithms to -- to -- to policy differences in the political system in europe. >> you know, we've had facebook folks on before. and we've had mark zuckerberg on during the -- during covid but we also had an attorney from facebook on when they hadn't taken down, i think, a nancy pelosi video that was -- or some videos that were very misleading. it made -- it made some political figures look like they were drunk or something. um, one of their arguments essentially is -- i mean, the dilemma it seems to me that they have is because they are so huge and seen in so many countries, and have so many customers and want those customers to remain and want to remain in all these countries. for them to start getting into the busine

we've seen natural gas prices spike even more in europe, in asia. factories have had to shut down because they can't pay the gas bill. the good news is that analysts i talked to don't think we'll run out of gas here. that's because the united states is the largest gas producer on the planet. but even if we don't run out it doesn't mean americans won't be facing sticker shock. seven-year highs for gasoline prices. home heating costs on the rise. all of this is adding to the cost of living for everyday americans, jake. >> can the biden administration do anything to prevent this? >> you know, there are no easy fixes here. no magic wand. unfortunately, no strategic reserve of natural gas. there's no opec to call to beg to produce more. in many ways the united states is the saudi arabia of the natural gas world. if you ask the energy industry, they would say, well, the white house could cut environmental regulation and maybe that would help. and it could but maybe for next winter. it's not going to happen because president biden ran on an aggressive clim

d-614 that swept across asia and europe and the united states. killed hundreds of thousands of people. replaced by the alpha variant. then replaced by the delta variant which is particularly contagious. the delta variant''s contagious approaches the chicken pox. i can't imagine one much more transmissible than the delta variant. >> you're on the fda vaccine's advisory committee. i want to ask about this mixing and matching booster doses issue. somebody gets a -- two pfizers and then a moderna for their booster or whatever. if you had to vote on mixing and matching booster doses today, would you vote yes? >> again, it all depends on the data. you want robust data so people can feel comfortable if you get a johnson & johnson vaccine and boost with an mrna-containing vaccine that you have clearly evidence of a higher neutralizing antibody titer, et cetera. those studies are currently being done. i hope we can get them in hand soon because i think the public really needs direction on how to proceed here. >> the fda should rule on the moderna and john

so that's what we wanted to send him off to europe with because as kaitlan said, the prpt thing is the build back better framework -- build back better act has over half a trillion dollars investment in climate. it finally makes us a country that has universal child care and pre-k. big investments in housing. really transformative investments in almost every arena, and that's what we wanted to make sure we sent the president off with. now we also believe, jake, that we do need to make sure that we see the bill text, that everybody kind of has an opportunity to make sure the framework is translated well and that's what we were waiting for. because we insisted on that, the legislative text was released finally yesterday. we are combing through a 1600-page bill right now. and i really believe that within a few days, we will be able to pass both these bills through the house. and that will be an enormous accomplishment of the president, of all of us across the democratic caucus and certainly of progressives who are bold enough to say we're not going to leave anybody behind. >> but it's not

what that takes and millions of women across the country are wondering how the president can go to europe, and explain that we are going to be one of six countries that don't have paid family leave because one guy says he doesn't want it? i don't know how you explain that. um, so, look, we haven't drawn red lines but i just think that we need to be really thinking about what we are saying about the united states' leadership with this bill. and the best course of action is to keep the -- keep negotiating. we are close but we're not there yet. so, let's finish the negotiations, and then let's vote both the bif and the build back better act out of the house with a commitment from the senate that they are going to do it. >> but you said you are not drawing a red line on the no family leave? >> i mean, we are trying not to draw any red lines just because it's not a good thing to do in negotiations, right? calls from everybody saying how can this be out? >> where do you and your caucus stand on the so-called billionaire's tax and corporate minimum tax? >> well, we were very much in favor of the

. >> a study published in "nature" shows that covid was spreading across europe and the u.s. by january 2020, before a lot of people were even aware this was a real threat outside of china. does that surprise you? >> no. i think when we were first seeing those cases you could assume it was the tip of the iceberg. probably at least 50% of the transmissions are from asymptomatic people. so you knew you were looking at the tip of the iceberg. it doesn't surprise me. >> so we need to, as a world, and as a country, prepare for the next pandemic. it seems likely that there will be another one at some point. what can we learn from this to make sure that the next time a highly transmissible virus is spreading around the world it doesn't go undetected for so long? >> well, you're certainly right. we've had three pandemic potential viruses over the last 20 years. this one was obviously worse. but hopefully we'll learn from this. there certainly has been already much in the way of di co deconstructing all the mistakes in this country. roughly 4% of the world's population and 20% of the

everywhere from shin jang to kazakhstan and europe and the u.s. china consistently denies any abuses whatsoever and state media goes so far as to victim shame the people describing the traumatic sexual assault, calling them paid actors. >> excellent reporting. thank you so, so much. very disturbing indeed. >>> up next, the debt ceiling and congressional chaos as the clock ticks toward a financial catastrophe for the united states. r vending machines. and now, putting you in control of your financing. at carvana, get personalized terms, browse for cars that fit your budget, then customize your down payment and monthly payment. and these aren't made-up numbers. it's what you'll really pay, right down to the penny. whether you're shopping or just looking. it only takes a few seconds, and it won't affect your credit score. finally! a totally different way to finance your ride. only from carvana. the new way to buy a car. some things are good to know. like where to find the cheapest gas in town, and which supermarket gives you the most bang for your bu

. >> and i haven't been to europe. i mean, i don't understand the point that you're making. >> reporter: there have also been reports about dysfunction and infighting in harris' office. she's recently brought on two more communications aides to help manage all of this. and back on this most recent dust up, many of the groups we spoke to today who were concerned about her response to that student, they say they are satisfied by the white house's outreach today. >> sunlen, thank you. >>> breaking news for you now. the meeting between president biden and house democrats on capitol hill has ended. and moments ago, we heard directly from president biden. take a listen. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. thousands of different questions and they're all legit. i'm telling you, we're going to get this done. >> when? when? >> it doesn't matter when. doesn't matter whether it's in six minutes, six days or six weeks. we're going to get it done. >> why has it been so challenge -- >> very interesting. ryan nobles is live on capitol hill right ou

you won't find a party like the republican party or mainstream party anywhere in europe. that we were in entirely new territory. this -- you got to go back to the 1930s to find a mainstream party that is behaving in this way. >> dan, it's so interesting. you know, we have now gotten a -- a very -- a more definitive account from congress about, you know, what happened in the white house. some of the things that were going on in the white house, and particularly that meeting in which president trump is, you know, talking to the acting-attorney general and trying to essentially pressure him repeatedly. and, you know, contemplating getting rid of him repeatedly over the course of the hours. he had to be talked out of it over the course of some-three hours. i mean, that just -- it's just extraordinary. it's sort of worse than many people even realized. >> yeah, because you know, there is always a grassroots movement in any society that doesn't accept democracy. we can think of the ku klux klan throughout american history and other moments in other countries. so again, i am rep

it's being gamed by malign forces around the world against us and we have seen it happen in europe and elsewhere. we just can't be passive in the face of this. i respect the fact that there are private concern but private concerns are general -- you know, are often regulated when they cross into the public interest. and i think we have to look at that here. >> all right. david, thank you so much. i appreciate your insight. always do. >> good to be with you. >>> and next, trump backing this woman for arizona governor who says she would not have certified that state's election results. is trump setting the stage for another run? >>> plus, ambush. activists upset with the war over biden's agenda chase senator kyrsten sinema into a bathroom. how did it come to something so low? >> build back better, back the bill. build back better, back the bill! >>> and millions of confidential documents are exposing the hidden millions of the world's richest, and those around them including putin's alleged mistress. who is reportedly worth more than $100 million. # battery is even more powerful. the str

so, anderson, a lot of this is up in the air before the president does leave for europe on thursday with meetings with world leaders in that big climate summit. >> yeah. kaitlan collins, appreciate it. thanks. the lack of a deal is having a negative impact on the president's poll numbers, senior data reporter, we call him number cruncher earlier, harry enten joins us now. i know. >> whatever, man. >> no, i -- i was oas shocked a anyone. harry, what did you learn about the latest poll numbers and how they may be impacting the race in virginia? >> nationally, president biden's approval ratings have been dropping and virginia is no different. look at this, right? look at that. in august, he was barely positive at plus one. september, minus one. now, in october, minus four points. my goodness gracious we are seeing a clear drop there. and you know, what's so important is how is this impacting the race in virginia? what do we see, terry mcauliffe, the democrats leading that race over republican glenn youngkin. look at that. mcauliffe's lease lead five points. september 25th, three points. now

. >> we are seeing data from europe, from the united kingdom that fully-vaccinated people are being hospitalized and fully-vaccinated people are dying from covid. and here, we have a very high-profile example that is going to require more truth, more truth from our government, from our health leaders, as well. as we talk about this story on a day when state after state and institution after institution are pushing mandates for vaccination. >> now, doctor, he had been scheduled, my understanding is, to get his third shot, right, the booster shot last week but he was too ill to actually receive it. by that point. but -- but does his death raise new concerns about the vaccine or not? >> not at all. you know, colin powell was so brave about standing up to ignorance and to lies. and this is a situation where we must do the same. we know that the vaccines are extremely effective. >> yep. >> and we know that it's that booster shots are necessary for those that are older and those who have compromised immune systems. and that's why he was about all of that advice. it's just heartbreaking that it did not

., europe, leaders are able to funnel and siphon money away and hide it in these jurisdictions through the use of anonymous companies. ♪ >> reporter: of course, it's not just politicians implicated in the pandora papers. top business figures, even music icons like shakira who denies any wrongdoing have also had private financial dealings exposed in the data release. shedding light on the secret assets of the superrich. pam, the impact of this broad report which has taken a couple of years to compile is likely to be significant. at least eight countries have announced investigations into what it reveals. it also puts the spotlight yet again on the issue of tax avoidance, money laundering and that very secretive financial web that is used by the world's rich and powerful to shield their wealth. pamela? >> this practice is ongoing, clearly, even after the panama papers. matthew chance in moscow, thank you so much. >>> will it be another covid christmas? dr. fauci is weighing in. and that's next. stay with us. live bookkeeper, i'll categorize expenses, reconcile accounts, and close your

president making clear to members of the house and senate that he wanted an agreement before he arrived in europe for this foreign trip. he'll be here in about an hour, maybe more. he will not have that agreement in hand or the infrastructure proposal. when you talk to white house officials they acknowledge they are closer than they've ever been. no question about it. closer than they've ever been for a very expansive package despite the elements dropped out. however, it's not over the finish line. there's more work to do. one thing a couple officials have pointed out, progressives made clear the votes were not going to be there, they did endorse the overall framework. they see that as a positive. the president didn't hedge when it came to the stakes here saying he believes his presidency will be determined by this next week. the first day hasn't gone as well as white house officials hoped. >> phil, thank you. let's go to manu on capitol hill. manu, where do things stand? >> reporter: it's unclear when a vote ultimately will happen. ultimately there will be a vote in the house. now that they have

today, the organization for economic cooperation and development in europe ranks america 35 out of 37 major countries when it comes to investing in early childhood education. and talk about an equalizer. the greatest equalizer in the world, the great universities have done studies the last 15 years. you give a kid no matter what their backgrond from a broken home, a home where mom or dad didn't go to school or whatever, and you put nem school, grade you increase -- school, not day care. you increase by 56% the chance they'll complete 12 years of school and build confidence. what's education all about? it's about building confidence in a child. it's about giving the tools to do something. we can't be competitive in the 21st century economy if we continue to slide the way we have. that's why i resolved that we have to once again build america from the bottom up and the middle out. again, not the top down. i'm a capitalist. i think if you can be a millionaire or billionaire, fine. just do your fair share. just do your fair share. trickle-down economics has always failed. it hasn't built