made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing putin s war. that was president joe biden earlier today, making it clear that today s oil ban will deliver a harsh blow to vladimir putin and the russian economy. house speaker nancy pelosi taking the president s words a step further today, announcing that the house would vote today on a bill to ban russian oil imports in conjunction with the president s executive action. house leaders expect that bill to be passed with bipartisan support. let s bring into our conversation congresswoman barbara lee of california. she serves as the chair of the house appropriations subcommittee on state and foreign operations. she s also the former chair of the congressional black caucus. congresswoman, first, your reaction to the president s announcement. obviously, house moving to take its own action. sure, that was the right decision to make. when you see what putin is doing in terms of this war that he started, these crimes against
legislation on the oil ban. opposed to removing russia s most favored nation trading status until. he was against those signed into law package today until congress moved. congress will have to take the lead and push the biden administration to do more for president zelenskyy. bret: marc, quickly, as a former speech writer, you look at zelenskyy to brit s point about how he has addressed these world bodies, parliament the house of commons, canadian parliament. congress today using personalized in each instance efforts to draw these folks in. he talked about 9/11 and pearl harbor, he used the words of martin luther king, dr. martin luther king, he said i have a dream. i have a need. when is he making a pitch for weapons. he talked about churchill and shakespeare with the house of commons. what about this from a speech-writing perspective? he is brilliant. i mean, he is the modern day churchill in both in terms of his courage and his tenacity and also in his eloquence.
less than two weeks ago, deployed to the baltics by president biden after russia began to invade ukraine, and today, andrea, we got a look at the 20 apache attack helicopters that the u.s. has moved from germany to latvia to shore up nato s defenses. those helicopters capable of deploying hell fire missiles that could take out tanks like the one russia is using in ukraine. andrea. thank you so much, josh lederman, and speaker pelosi sent a dear colleagues letter last night to all of our democratic colleagues saying the house is exploring strong legislation to ban energy products into the u.s. writing that it will further isolate russia from the global economy, so joining us is congressman reuben gallego, a member of the armed services committee and a former iraq war veteran. first, you support the oil ban because some of our rern
the cia, and melinda herring is the deputy director of atlantic council s eurasia center. we know how grateful ukraine is for the financial aid, for the oil ban, but they re begging for planes. it looked like there might have been a deal in place yesterday, until there wasn t. what happened and is it completely off the table now? i don t think it s completely off the table, chris. here s what happened. poland made that announcement, and it really caught the administration off guard. they didn t tell the biden administration they were going to make that announcement before they actually announced it. part of it was to pressure the president to agree to this deal, and look, pentagon spokesperson john kirby said in a statement quote, it is simply not clear to us that there is a substantiative rationale for it. we will continue to consult with poland and our other nato allies about this issue and the difficult logistical challenges it presents but we do not believe poland s proposal a
but i know, as the person who s been working with president zelenskyy over two years, he s the kind of person that never gives up and this is what he shows in this type of challenge as military invasion, brutal senegal invasion from russia to ukraine now days. but i wanted to add a very important point right now. this oil ban from western countries, including the u.s. oil ban is like a big present for international women day, which is very popular. however, looking at the dynamics of the war in ukraine and american military has a tendency, we can say there can be global confidence in american super powers these days. because it does not matter if and when ukraine defends ourself. we see hesitancy in american leadership, global leadership. because what we see right now is