and the drop the gas task, democrats realize they're coming into an election year. they should announce we're opening up the keystone pipeline, and drilling on federal lands and we need to be energy independent not just driving up prices around the world and fueling vladimir putin's war machine. neil: do you think, senator, whether gasoline and oil prices were high or not, that vladimir putin wouldn't have done this? in other words, they didn't rock it, that the currency uses to do what he does, but he was doing all this have and building and getting provocative in his actions long before any of that was going on. >> well, certainly we started the oil inflation early, early on in this last administration. if you look at what happened between putin and president biden along the way the very first negotiation was the new start treaty. the previous administration