next year saying a lot depends on opec and saudi arabia. republicans would point out that a lot that happened in the previous administration to free the u.s. from foreign oil and that we're back in the place we were before that. >> you are right. and what biden isn't telling you that his progressives are happy with high energy costs to the extent that it pushes people towards renewables, towards green new deal type policies and so forth. they have no problem with fossil fuel energy prices going up. but the american people do. the voters do, and, again, joe biden was not elected to transition us off fossil fuel even if that's what the progressives want. >> bret: which is a big contention in that last debate. i got run. up next, the friday lightning round. virginia's governor's race. the china menace, winners and losers if we can fit it all in. ♪ ♪