the biden administration knew early on those border patrol agents didn t whip any migrants. they deserve better. we thought we saw everything in the game and now a new friend wants to join our party. i know this is an intense playoff game but it but i can t help but laugh. steve: good morning. you are not disappearing yet. east providence, rhode island, your sunrise today is going to be in about an hour. about 6:56 right now. 61 degrees now and a daytime high of 67. just like new york city, it s going to be a rainy day throughout the day on this thursday, october 13th, 2022. come on in. ainsley: good morning, everyone! steve: it s day four of fox & friends weekday dish in. ainsley: this week flew by. brian: is it just me? don t feel compelled to agree. there s a blizzard of great and intriguing stories this week, little in the midterms. what is your favorite? brian: probably the first one we have today. i can t believe it. a lot of times what i
fox & friends weekday dish in. ainsley: this week flew by. brian: is it just me? don t feel compelled to agree. there s a blizzard of great and intriguing stories this week, little in the midterms. what is your favorite? brian: probably the first one we have today. i can t believe it. a lot of times what i think is a top story is not what anyone else thinks, but this is extremely intriguing. ainsley: we were reporting last week and opec plus cut the amount of oil production, 2 million barrels per day, that the white house was begging them, please don t do this. but there s a wall street journal article that gets more into the details that says yes, they did beg saudi arabia not to do this. and if they do it, to wait a month. what happens in a month? midterms. steve: it s all political. we ve told you this. if saudi arabia were to cut production by 2 million barrels a day, that s going to jack up the cost of your oil. as joe biden heads out on the
you have no success. steve: well, ultimately saudi arabia was relying on their analysts that thought the price of oil was going to go down, and they didn t want to go down because they want as much money as possible. so they said, and that s why the white house said let s wait a month to see what happens. they said, too late, we will go ahead and cut production. a couple nights ago, on the new cnn, which is a lot like the old cnn, joe biden was talking about the consequences now for saudi arabia which, as we have detailed for the last 7 minutes, would not help out the democrats in the midterms. watch. yes, and by the way, let s get straight on why i went. i didn t go about oil, it went about making sure that we weren t going to walk away from the middle east and what was going on. by the way, today i just got off the telephone with the president of i got off with the prime minister of israel and the president of lebanon.
cut by opec at its russia-let allies, u.s. officials called their counterparts in saudi arabia and other big goals producers with an urgent plea to allay the decision for another month. according to those familiar with the talks, saudi officials said to dismiss the request which they viewed as a political gambit by the biden administration to avoid bad news ahead of the u.s. midterm elections. the one thing donald trump has taught the political class is leverage. if you want leverage, produce oil. frack. they were leaning on us to try and destroy the frackers in america. if we got our production up as jamie dimon recommended the minute this war started in february, we could go over and say we d put our production up. he says america is the swing oil producer. we should not be looking at opec. we are bigger than saudi arabia if we want to be, and we can control the price. but you call them a pariah nation and you stop producing oil, and then you call them with a phone call to delay? you
i worked out a deal. it wasn t about oil. but we should, and i am, in the process when this house of senate gets back, they will be some consequences for what they ve done with russia. ainsley: according to the wall street journal interview, or article, if u.s. officials were warning saudi arabia, it s going to look like you are siding with russia and it s going to weaken our already waning support in washington for saudi arabia. and it quotes john kirby. he said the president believes the u.s. should review the relationship with saudi arabia after cutting production. saudi arabia said they were viewing this as a political gambit by the administration to avoid bad news before the midterms. what are the consequences now? steve: that s a good question. when you look at what the president said, he said there will be consequent as when the house and senate come back. what happens is democrats are pushing to scale back the u.s.-saudi relationship and the