reliance of russian oil than the united states does. this all along was a tougher sell. it looks like the biden administration and the u.s. will go on this alone, that they will indeed have the ban in coming days. >> mike, extraordinary how quickly democrats have moved on this issue. it was a republican issue, and it sounds like president biden yesterday -- gas prices went to $4.17, a new record, the previous one setback in 2008. >> i don't think anybody -- well, i'm not surprised that in the fact that in recent new pollings on people's attitude toward increased gas price hikes, people are saying, you know, okay i will go along with it because of what is happening in the ukraine, because they recognize from everything they've seen on their tv screens that it is an atrocity, a daily atrocity and americans are finally -- may be coming back to being who we really are. we understand the world. we understand dangers. we understand threats. hopefully that's the case. >> and we've seen polling show