in places like ukraine. you know, you said justuk a secondra ago this administration is sleepwalking toward a crisis in china. partso of the reason for that it they re so busy building nation building, trying to create a client state in ukraine that they re not focused on ourf biggest foreign policy threat, u which is china and theni communist party in china. and they re trying to use the military as a giant social experimentl , use it, as you sa, to carry on their work vacation agenda all that needs to stop. we need to get focused againfo on the national security of o this country and also our economic security and this administrationc has endangered l them both. i want to play something from biden s national climate adviser. the challenge is now that we re moving from denial to actually just tryingro to to disengage the publicc, we have to get tighter. we a have to get better at communicating and frankly, the tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over a
ukraine. you said a minute ago this administration is sleep walking toward a crisis in china. part of the reason is they re so busy facial building trying to create a client state in ukraine they re not focused on our biggest foreign policy threat which is china and the communist party in china. and they re trying to use the military as a giant social experiment, use it, as you say, to carry on their wokification agenda. all that has to stop we need to focus on the national security of this country and our economic security and this administration has endangered both. laura: i want to play something from biden s national climate advisor. the challenges now that we re moving from denial to actually just trying to disengage p public, we have to get tighter. we have to get better at communicating. and, frankly, the tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation.
tammy bruce. jessica tarlov is also here. let s start with going to saudi arabia, tammy. it is as though we re a client state. who knew that we would be a client state of saudi arabia? i m sure the september 11th families don t appreciate the fact we re going there to beg for oil to affect american domestic energy policy. it is an extraordinary development but people should know why the american president is going to that degree. any debate in 2020 he was asked by donald trump if he was going to shut down the oil industry and he said yes, he was. it s a polluter that he will transition us. just about a month ago he said the same thing. so this is not new. it is not an accident. it is not a mistake. it is a transition. and this is affecting everyone s lives clearly in every single way including inflation and for him to be resorting to this saudi arabia
you could force your client state ukraine to come toe the table. both countries, russia and ukraine bot want to do that. the only reason this war continues is because the white house is forcing c it to continue. and then by the way, you could stop shutting down energy pipelines, you could stop canceling oil drilling. but of course biden doesn t plan to do that . it would help america too much. instead, he s pleading venezuela for oil and then pleading with the saudis. wasn t it just the other day that the united states was energy independent? yes, but now we re begging dictatorships to sell us oil, but it won t be enough. industry officials are predicting shortages very soon. quote, i wouldn t be surprised to see diesel being rationed on the east coast this summer, said john catsimatidis, ceo ofmp united refining company. quote, right now inventories are lowan and we may seewh a shortage in the coming months. what would that look like? it would be ugly and again, it has worked to russi
for many here, it was a case of out of sight, out of mind. this was a conflict playing out on tv screens. but that s changing, and, for many russians now, hostilities are starting to feel much closer to home. back in moscow, president putin accused the west of prolonging hostilities in ukraine. translation: to our surprise, senior diplomats in europe - and the us are ordering their client state ukraine to do everything possible to achieve victory on the battlefield. this is impossible, so now they plan to destroy russia from within. vladimir putin claims he sent his troops into ukraine to bring russians security, but there s little sign of that. steve rosenberg, bbc news, bryansk. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: