we're going to watch joe biden struggle with his morality enemy the teleprompter tonight. what zelenskyy is doing is speaking courage in a very desperate situation. there were two chechen hit teams in kyiv looking for him. they have taken out both of them. but the man's life is on the line. is he demonstrating courage which is never not inspiring. >> bret: there are some democrats, juan, who is saying that it's time to change the russian oil equation. one of them, not surprisingly is senator joe manchin, take a listen. >> putin has weaponized energy. and hes is doing it very effectively. nord stream 2 now has been canceled. if it's been canceled it gives us another opportunity to basically to reemerge with our european allies and help them basically have more in energy independence from russia. that means basically we versing some of the decisions that have been made with no leasing, not drilling and basic cutting back. we need energy independence more now than ever before. >> bret: manchin may be hopeful,