house comms director kate bedingfield says this is the price tag putin price hike in action. if companies want to address it the white house has a familiar suggestion. 9,000 unused oil leases that oil companies could certainly tap into. the leader of the american petroleum institute says that s a red herring. it takes a very long time to develop those leases. and to get them permitted. president biden admits russia s invasion means rising gas prices. i m going to do everything i can to minimize putin s price hike here at home. just not clear if everything includes keystone xl. well, why don t you tell me what that would help address. i m asking you if it is an option you guys say all options are on the table. is restarting keystone construction one of them? if we are trying to bring about more supply, that does not address any problem. she never said no keystone. she just said no plans for that remember, they had long said
afield including the united states. so it is only prudent for us to be prepared for an eventuality in which the russians, once again, reach for this tactic. the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency is working to confirm these attacks emanated from russia. the intelligence community believes they did. yesterday on capitol hill policymakers says russia has designed cyberspace beyond the united states. very, very focused on some type of cyber activity that s designed for, perhaps, ukraine that spreads more broadly into other countries. lawmakers said putin s hackers have a history of being sloppy. russians have a history of using malware to go after a target and having that malware escape into the wild and cause global damage. the fbi director says russian attacks on u.s. critical infrastructure haven t always gone accord to go ahead their plans. even if the russians think they have carefully calibrated some form of militias cyber
undermine russia and, again, further justify what i think is unprovoked aggression by russia towards ukraine. bret: i get that juan. you don t think that putin lumps in flowing in 17,000 stingers and javelin missiles? you don t think that s equal to mig 29s going in? where is the distinction in putin s mind the line is wait a second this is going to escalate it? well, he said, bret, that he considers, you know, a no-fly zone just such a provocation. he has never said that about the other steps that you just articulated. bret: all right. so when you think about that, you understand why the migs are a step higher. that really does raise the bar. mollie there is that consider about getting something drawn in bigger and world war iii issues and that comes up time and time again. it s real.
the ukrainian air force currently has several squadrons of fully missioned capable aircraft. we adding aircraft is not likely to significantly change the effectiveness of the ukrainian air force relative to russian capabilities. the weapons that are having the biggest effect in stopping russian forces are the 17,000 javelin anti-tank missiles, stingers and shoulder fired man portable air defense missiles the u.s. has sent to ukraine in recent weeks. russia still has powerful air defense systems on the border with belarus and in russia that blanket much of ukraine s airspace which makes flying warplanes over ukraine difficult the pentagon says. those anti-aircraft systems would have to be taken out by ukraine s air force before it could even fly those migs to any effect. and that, u.s. intelligence assess he is, could be viewed by putin as an attack by nato if those polish migs are used which could draw nato into direct
conflicts an end to this war in ukraine caused by putin not expand it to other countries and not make it so that the burden of what putin has done is born by the american middle class crushing them with some of these unwise energy decisions that have come out of the biden administration. bret: let s talk about energy, katie and #putin price hike. they keep on saying that and referring to the 9,000 leases and yet keep on getting pushback from the oil companies and folks who deal in this industry. yeah. the white house has been trying to pin the blame for a lack of supply and increased cost of gas on the oil companies saying that they have 9,000 they call them leases and permits. leases are very different than permits. you can have a lease and then you have to apply for a permits and take days and has to go through a very long bureaucratic process to make sure it checks a number of about different boxes both at the federal and local level. but the white house now has the