venezuela oil? who in their right mind is thinking like this? this is outrageous but becoming an insult. why outsource this, for god sakes, to iran or to venezuela? we re out bargaining with madmen. it is in the u.s. worst interest to be sitting down with venezuela, to be sitting down with iran when the fact of the matter is the answer is right here right in front of us. harris: fox team coverage trey yingst live on the ground in kyiv. in focus mike gallagher republican congressman, armed service committee member, iraq war veteran. we begin, though, with white house correspondent peter doocy on the north lawn. the pressure is on the president now. peter. and if you are looking for good news about gas prices, don t look here.
hold for 12 hours. well, a few things. first we have to maintain this increase and expedited stream of lethal assistance. there are still missile systems, body armor, sniper rifles the ukrainians need. without that hard power on the ground the ukrainians don t have a good negotiating position. we re doing a ban on russian oil. as we do the global economic war against putin which i support, we cannot maintain the war on domestic american oil and gas production. that is the fatal flaw in our approach right now. the president has gone around the world begging venezuela and iran to produce. you know where he isn t going? here. we ve had sanctions on our own domestic producers for the pass years and need to lift the sanctions on american oil and gas and how you undermine putin over the long term by unleashing the power of
the president actually thinks only putin is to blame for the spike in gas prices. the numbers tell a very different story on the big wall now. since the day biden took office americans have been paying $1.83 more for a gallon of regular unleaded gas. democrats don t seem concerned about how much pain americans actually feel. let s watch together. what s the reaction of your colleagues to things like diplomatic outreach to countries like venezuela and saudi arabia in terms of increasing the global oil supply? that issue hasn t come up. increasing the global oil supply at the moment to the extent that there are implications, particularly for europe, which is more heavely reliant on russian oil than we are in the united states of america, you know, is an important discussion. harris: it s like watching somebody throw a sponge at the wall and missing the wall. there is such a disconnect.
some of the policies that are being pursued right now by this administration are putting us on a road to more dependence, not independence from an energy perspective going forward. harris: two powerful things you said there. you have been topping off the resources so we wouldn t have to spend money on the estimated 670,000 barrels a day of crude from russia and it started last week. even before the president spoke there were things in motion, the market tairking care of itself is how i like to put it. the other thing you said that hit me there was how much domestic supply there is that we can tap into. why doesn t the white house acknowledge that first of all and why don t they use it so we don t have to beg from venezuela, iran and saudi arabia? the one thing that the president got right is one of the reasons why we have a strong domestic oil and gas industry is because we developed the resources mainly on private lands in this country. and that production is surging right now. in
the water cut off. no food, electricity, heat, nowhere to be found. they are suffering. i m harris faulkner and are you in the faulkner focus . president biden says he is bringing more pain to putin with his ban on russian oil and other energy imports. ukrainian president zelenskyy thanking the president in a tweet and imploring others to follow suit. now the white house is facing even more pressure to unleash domestic production here in america to offset the deficit. you know he can do it. you know we can do it. he won t do it. it is political. the administration is turning to countries, not friends, venezuela, iran, saudi arabia to fill the void. and there are plenty of biden critics. he doesn t want american oil, he doesn t want canadian oil, but he is talking about