democrats in the polls and trying to show something about it. he won t do what really makes a difference. take his foot off the oil and gas industry. what kept me up last night, can we even tap into the spr in the quantity, capacity and speed we re talking about? a million barrels a day? so i reached out to pipeline workers and those in the industry. we ve never tapped that amount. is it possible? the answer i m being given is no. i put phone calls into the company that is employed by the d.o.e. to actually run the strategic petroleum reserve. i will ask them the specific question but i m told we don t have the ability to that quickly tap that amount from the spr. if we were to ramp up enough pipeline usage to do so it would take months. bill: that s another angle on the story. in response to the wall street journal piece it is not going to happen. too much money on the left in
because we don t have that much hard evidence. bill: i m not sure what that was. can you interpret that, general? well, i will tell you this whole idea of not trusting advisors and moving out of positions, that s not just a putin thing. that s the typical way of doing business in very dictatorial, tough-guy regimes because they spend as much time preventing coups as they do conducting a military operation. so they are just as concerned about making sure no one person below them has enough intelligence and power and authority to threaten them but that is opposed to what needs to be done when you are conducting a military operation, which is to synchronize intelligence and war-fighting capability to go against the enemy. i wouldn t be surprised if that s the case with putin.
it has been the case with every regime like this i ve dealt with in the world. bill: why say it if you say i don t put much stock in it? sandra: admiral kirby said they re having a hard time reaching their russian counterparts even to engage in discussion. what does that tell you? that they aren t taking the calls from the white house. it gives you insight into a couple of things. one, even within the russian chain of command there is probably not clear within their own environment who is in charge in various aspects. my previous statement, they the end not to over empower any specific individual. the second thing is having dealt with the russians in previous positions i ve had, they always want to speak to you from a position of power. so it s clear they are not doing well militarily. they really don t have much leverage so they probably don t
the other piece, bill. that potential cross-border strike is we can t overstate the significance of that. it presents a policy choice again for the white house. they have made this distinction between offensive and defensive weapons out of fear of escalation. if zelenskyy is in a position to start using the weapons that we re giving going cross border into russia to effect the fight there, does the white house then start pumping the brakes? they let fear of putin and fear of escalation drive our policy. let s let zelenskyy win. there was a moment that struck me yesterday when we had a chance to catch up with admiral kirby at the pentagon. i asked him and said what are the current efforts on the part of president biden to engage with vladimir putin? and specifically reach out to the kremlin. here was the exchange. we have tried on numerous occasions in recent days and weeks to reach out to our counterparts, the chairman of the joint chief equivalent in the russian military and bee
in my community or more? del rio is dropping off 500 to 1,000 a day on those communities. we re overwhelmed. law enforcement is overwhelmed. , ngos can t keep up and we don t have the transportation hub in this part of texas to move these people out. they don t want to stay here, they want to come somewhere to a town near you all. sandra: ending title 42 is why we re talking about it now. as we work our way through spring and warmer months seasonally this is when we would normally see the flow over the border amp up. with all this combined, it makes the situation worse. why do you think the administration will allow this to happen? you know, that s something we ask every day. i just don t think they care. at some point this administration needs to stand up and say, you know, our citizens rights are being infringed upon when they trample over our property.