i am going to take robust action and make sure that the pain overthink shuns is targeted at the russian economy, and not ours. i want to limit the pain the american people are feeling at the gas pump. this is critical to me. it did not take long for some republicans on capitol hill to criticize the sanctions, complaining they are not strong enough or should have come sooner. and then there was this analysis from biden s predecessor today. donald trump, who you may remember tried to hold up ukraine in an effort to get the country to dig up dirt on biden. with this take during a right wing radio interview today. here is just a portion of it. i went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and they said this is genius. putin declares a big portion of the ukraine, of ukraine. putin declares it as independent. oh, that s wonderful. here s a guy
inadequate. we also know congress struggled to come out with any even before the invasion of ukraine. one of the chances they will be able to come together on a response that not only penalizes russia, offers assistance to the ukrainian government? what are you hearing on the ground? lawmakers are at home this week. as you noted, despite some of the criticism that biden has received today, they ultimately failed to pass any sort of sanctions package. that being said, lawmakers like lindsey graham, and senators bob menendez, james risch, have vowed to cast something in a bipartisan fashion. but i think that with this case crisis is serving to do is assure the divisions that still exist. in the democratic party, but more so in the gop between the america first republicans, and some more of the quote unquote globalist republicans that trump was able to sort of demonize throughout his four years. so you see people like graham who are hawkish, who
condoleezza rise rice promised things. they said this is not a good idea and will infuriate putin and george w. bush kept pushing so we got the worst of both worlds, the u.s. irritated russia, provoked it but then left these republics hanging without any of the protection that they promised them. so it s it s quite an awful ironic crisis. it definitely is and michael, the irony, you have a school of thought on the right that says well, if president, you know, if the president was still named trump and not biden, this wouldn t be happening but i m old enough to remember published repors what trump would have done would be take us out of nato. here is from a book called i alone can fix it . trump had privately indicated he would seek to withdraw from nato should he win reelection saying
lindsey graham, and senators bob menendez, james risch, have vowed to cast something in a bipartisan fashion. but i think that with this case crisis is serving to do is assure the divisions that still exist. in the democratic party, but more so in the gop between the america first republicans, and some more of the quote unquote globalist republicans that trump was able to sort of demonize throughout his four years. so you see people like graham who are hawkish, who wanted sanctions from the biden administration yesterday. being more of the outliers and the party right now, compared to those who have even praised president vladimir putin in the spirit of tearing down joe biden, and in order to i think hype up and traumatize the democrats reactions to russia. that being said, there has been
deploying more troops to protect nato allies in eastern europe. as well as fighter jets, and apache attack helicopters too estonia, law, and lithuania. the heightened tensions between russia and ukraine are being felt all across the global economy. on wall street, they closed while the price of oil is now nearing $100 per barrel up from about $56 a year ago. today, biden tried to reassure a public already dealing with escalating energy prices. i am going to take robust action and make sure that the pain overthink shuns is targeted at the russian economy, and not ours. i want to limit the pain the american people are feeling at the gas pump. this is critical to me. it did not take long for some republicans on capitol hill to criticize the sanctions, complaining they are not strong enough or should have come sooner. and then there was this analysis from biden s predecessor today. donald trump, who you may