certainly, we heard a few days ago he was going to look into it and they backtracked on it and the pressure from congress the bipartisan pressur from congress, i want to thank the congressman row, for doing this bill with me yesterday tha we filed to ban russian oil and gas imports, that pressure from congress, the oppression from the allies abroad, the pressure on the white house to make that decision today to go forth and ban those imports which is the equivalent of about 600,000 barrels of russian oil and gas, every one of the student with ukrainian blood red . there s been some confusion about a different decision the u.s. may make and that has to deal with those polish fighter jets that they make their way i transit through a u.s. base because of your background on many levels, you may be better to expand this to us, the bennett so it explain exactly why he vetoed those fighter jet for ukraine two days ago the secretary of state gave a green
american families at the gas pump. the effort to pin current best gas prices on putin s war is getting heavy criticism. senator kim scott for example tweeted what is biden talking about the rising gas prices reached historic highs way before the war in ukraine, just last thanksgiving gas prices were 60 percent higher than the were the year before, that was three months before the invasion . in right outside of the studio in los angeles tonight a regula gallon of gas is going for $6.10 , it nationwide gallon of gas is averaging $4.17. i never see before, never se before this is the first time i my life this is a regular price brickey get a normally come her and it s about $4.30. now it s like a dollar up, i might not be able to eat lunch for the rest of the week, but i ve got to fill them up, right? it is hard, when you need gas , unique gas.
development and gas development has been taken off-line. i ve talked to three or four executives of oil companies about this issue of why aren t you drilling now that the biden administration is allowing more permits they re saying because they don t trust them. you can t have a red light greenlight policy with respect to oil and gas development it cost hundreds of millions of dollars and many cases to develop these well so they can provide the gas and oil we need these people aren t going to invest that kind of money if next month, biden says you know what s, you can t drill in thes places. so i think we are facing a situation now where we are losing $100 billion a day, $100 million a day because of the reduced output ends donald trump left office. a few hundred million here, few hundred million there. let s take a look at the