i met with him while i was his counterpart at the department of energy as the secretary of energy. and he has now become a prime minister, and he literally said yesterday, i believe, if sanctions were put into place, that they would cut the gas into the european union. exactly what we told the members of the european union that they would do if they finished that nordstrom to pipeline. president trump stood up, had the gumption and the vision to say, we are not going to do that, we are going to sanction these folks if it goes forward, and it gave europe a real taste of independence from russian pressure, and now they are back in the sights of putin, and he is squeezing the trigger. sean: let me ask you, governor, mr. secretary, let me
alaska drilling, other domestic drilling, and put all sorts of regulations and a hold on any new production. so she wasn t being honest with you, peter. well, that s the complaint, but the white house keeps telling us there are 9,000 unused oil leases on public lands. go ask oil and gas producers why they are not tapping into them. and when our colleagues have reached out to these oil and gas executives, that is exactly what they say. the reason they are not going into the ground right now is because the regulations are too burdensome, and those are regulations that joe biden put into place during his first week in office. but this white house is very sensitive to the fact that prices are going up, and they do say that they are going to try to protect consumers from higher gas prices, but there is a new study out tonight that says it is going to cost the average family this year $2,000 more in
you see on your television. so how do we break the russian people away from putin? if you look at the russian economy as a boat, let s sink the boat. the sanctions we have imposed thus far have created holes in the boat, but there is a pump. it s called the oil and gas industry. it pumps out the water and the boat stays afloat. if you cross the oil and gas sector, no pump left, the boat sinks. let s sink the russian economic boat by imposing sanctions on oil and gas now. let s end the mystery of the ukrainian people, of the russian people. there is no easy way out of this. speed 19 needs to go, we need to crush the ruble, i daily it in a dollar short. sean: i ll tell you, joe manchin agrees with you. 51 senators that would vote to stop importing oil, and that needs to be passed in the house as soon as possible. senator, good to have you.
At a meeting with US President Joe Biden, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said that he believed the two countries' nuclear energy programme "will be able to get off the ground soon".
At a meeting with US President Joe Biden, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said that he believed the two countries' nuclear energy programme "will be able to get off the ground soon".