over. i m going to stand up to him. is he a bully. that s just tough talk. that s all that was. the minute joe got into office, he dropped sanctions on russia s pipeline to germany. and he killed our pipeline from canada. i have been opposed to nord stream 2 from the beginning. but it only has it s almost completed. by the time i took office. go ahead and pull sanctions now, i think counter productive in terms of our european relations. they know how strongly i feel. and, um, i hope we can, um, work on how they handle it from this point on. jesse: biden also signaled to russia that a minor incursion into ukraine may not really be that big of a deal. remember? russia will be held accountable. if it invades and it depends on what it does. it s one thing if it s a minor incursion and we end up having
global economy shuttered. and oil is close to 100 bucks a barrel. gas prices up nearly a dollar a gallon since last year and thist you, was today. and it is just the beginning. defending freedom will have cost for us as well and here at home. we need to be honest about that. we re closely monitoring energy supplies for any destruction. this will blunt gas prices. i want to limit the page to the american people are feeling at the gas pump. jesse: biden says he has a plan. i hope it s better than his plan to crush the virus. right now, looks like putin gets ukraine and we get higher gas prices. we at jesse watters primetime wanted to know what the american people thought about this jump at the pump, so, today, we hit the streets.
thousand to 5,000 american troops to eastern european countries with the potential to increase that number 10 fold if things deteriorated officials said. those 5,000 troops from the 82nd airborne division have already been deployed to poland where they are bracing for the worst. and prepping to process thousands of refugees who, i m sure, biden will fly right here into america. but if biden increases their presence 10 fold, that means we may have as many as 50,000 troops in eastern europe on high alert. so if putin continues his dream of patching the old soviet empire back together, are we prepared to risk our sons to fight a ground war in eastern europe? over a nation like estonia? that s a very legitimate question and it s not an easy one. nothing against the wonderful people of astonia, i mean, that country has the same population
foreign policy, and i think that s why republicans in america have about a 7% confidence level in joe biden. he has completely cratered with independence in this country. democrats don t even like him much. and the fact is he could turn this around on a dime it s actually pretty simple. because we know from reports that i saw the years that i was in congress america is a number one country in the world, bar none. we have more energy resources than anyone else. god bless america more than any other country. and president trump legalized american energy uction r. production only two years ago paying $2 a gallon for gas across the united states. now look what it is. it s as high as it been under
serious move on business and serious moves on minerals and mining. pretty much what vladimir putin is watch something a weak response from the united states we can do what we want to do. all this as oil prices move higher and our adversaries are empowered. i m not just talking about russia but also iran. it looks like we are imminently getting back into an iran deal but they have been making billions in the black market as prices of oil skyrocket. russia as well. by the way, the united states is also reliant on russian oil. we have doubled our imports from russia in the last year. no question why president biden is begging opec and others to pump more oil, particularly the saudis as you just said spot on in your opening monologue. jesse: maria, are you saying that these big, big time