Vice President Kamala Harris was flummoxed by a question about the economic burden being borne by the public as she visits Eastern European partners grappling with the brunt of the humanitarian crisis created by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

Harris paused, looked around, and then spoke for about three minutes regarding the threat Putin posed to several countries, such as Romania, given their proximity to the conflict, when she was asked how long the United States should be prepared to deal with “historic inflation” and “unprecedented gas prices.”