conflicts an end to this war in ukraine caused by putin not expand it to other countries and not make it so that the burden of what putin has done is born by the american middle class crushing them with some of these unwise energy decisions that have come out of the biden administration. >> bret: let's talk about energy, katie and #putin price hike. they keep on saying that and referring to the 9,000 leases and yet keep on getting pushback from the oil companies and folks who deal in this industry. >> yeah. the white house has been trying to pin the blame for a lack of supply and increased cost of gas on the oil companies saying that they have 9,000 they call them leases and permits. leases are very different than permits. you can have a lease and then you have to apply for a permits and take days and has to go through a very long bureaucratic process to make sure it checks a number of about different boxes both at the federal and local level. but the white house now has the