Uh so joining us now is former US ambassador to Russia and NBC News international affairs uh analyst Michael McFall. Hi Ambassador. Hi.Good to see you. Great to have you in studio. Yeah, you are the man of the day, the weekend, um the hour amidst what is ongoing in Alaska right now, this unprecedented moment in which we're seeing Russian President Vladimir Putin on US soil.Yes. Which is amazing in and of itself. And I wonder if as you're viewing this meeting, if you're thinking what I'm thinking, which is h ...

Well, I I think one of the reasons we haven't seen a dramatic spike in price increases yet has been in part because many of these tariffs have been suspended. Although many of them have gone on, 10% have gone on and a number of sectoral tariffs have gone on and some of the emergency tariffs have gone related to fentanyl and other things. So, there plenty of tariffs that have gone on, but the but the massive increases on the reciprocal side haven't been levied yet.So that's been part of it. Part of it has be ...

[Applause] I would like to tell you about a phone call that totally changed the way that I view conflict. It was with my 12-year-old grandson, Colon, and it happened about at the beginning of 2023. Within the first few minutes of that phone call, I realized that everything that I had learned about conflict, about about negotiating wasn't just for work.It was for family, for community, for everyday life. You see, a year earlier, I had sold that tech company that I had founded and I was CEO of for 14 years. I ...