so, the president trying to deliver a message to pivot american's understanding of the message coming up today. >> and as we've been reporting, has failed to get any coop ragsz from opec, saudis, america's allies against russia. they're keeping russia in their opec plus group and not agreeing to pump more oil. >> reporter: we're told some of america's allies will be announcing a relief of some reserves. the u.s. has a much greater reserve. but as evidenced by the president's announcement of the ban on imports of russian oil and gas earlier this month, it was the u.s. effectively announcing pretty much alone this policy, right? because as you know a lot of our europe -- america's european allies, france and germany, they rely so heavily on that oil production and germany in particular, that they are unable to take those steps.