word. this is not something that s going to be good for us or the environment. but the question is do you really believe that the oil price at the pump will go downing if we suddenly start selling our oil across the world and don t keep it here at home and produce our own? there s no question that this is for the oil companies to make more money. your response to the rhetoric from senators mccain and also lindsay graham, the kinds of things they are saying, the president s a coward, across the board going against every move and not even giving the skangatiskang ati sanctions a chance to operate. i remember president bush saying we re going to go in there and drag them out from where they re hiding. the president is showing statesmanship and he s showing reserve and thoughtfulness. he s what we really needed in a
hogwash. we would be going in the wrong direction when it comes to climate change. these sanctions just, what? five days old are already got billionaires in russia shaking in their boots wondering where this is all going to end. the good news is we have a president who s playing it close to the vest, not showing all of his cards and you can see puti sweat early on. that s a good place to be. because no one on the globe has ever questioned our military and how strong we actually are. because if putin wanted a showdown with the united states, he would be shooting already. get your cell phones out, tonight s question. do you think the united states should lift its crude oil export ban? text a for yes, text b for no. for more, let me bring in congressman jim mcder molt of washington, congressman, good to
reaction, in the timing, and also sanctions, all of these things, but the republicans keep going back to reagan. don t they have anybody in their party right now that they can point to for any kind of leadership whatsoever? the answer to that is no. the thing they have in common, they would take us back to a cold war mentality in a second. i mean if you listen to the volatile nature of the discussion about putin right now, this isn t a guy that you just push around like you do some third world country, this is something that obama has to be very wise in the way that he hand handles, what he s doing should make us feel safe. one of the talking points when obama rather than gaeragainst romney, what will obama do about syria? and we call felt secure that we elected a president that will use some diplomacy rather than this cold war mentality and he
you know, kind of get down to the basics of it all. you got to look past that, don t we, senator? lindsay graham is exploiting an international tragedy, no question about it, to make the president look bad. arming ukraine would only escalate the situation resulting in more bloodshed, who knows where it would go from there? can t we be a little bit slow about this and give the sanctions a chance? as far as sanctions go, they are working, russian billionaires are in the hook now, they are in horror as sanctions continue to mount. russian billionaires feel that the isolation will affect direc affect their pocket book and the national community. it s flat out shameful. so let s start with the chairman of the house homeland security committee, mike mccall, he thinks we should lift the united
the president. th just another big jab. this time of course we can t leaf this guy out, south carolina senator lindsay graham is crying over the fact that president obama didn t call, we re into name calling now, didn t call vladimir putin a thug? he didn t call putin the thug that he is. he didn t call for arming the ukraine, so they can defend themselves against rebel separatists supported by russia. all of the enemies of our nation are being well supplied. how about sanctions that would hit putin as an individual, their energy sector, their banking sector. the kbrueuropeans are never goio lead on this issue. it is indispensable that america will lead. there s a battle of