spent stealing secrets and recruiting spies. what do you reckon with what s happening right now in terms of vladimir putin s power and what s happening around him. you have these reports from the pentagon and media that he is increasingly isolated. that he s being lied to by his own commanders and adviser who is fear his reaction if he knows the truth about what s happening in ukraine. what do you make of that? is there more cy opts than actual information? it s great to be on with you and good to see you. vladimir putin is separated because he wants to be disconnected from these individuals. he s still getting reports and information and being briefed by had his senior folks throughout his national apparatus, but he s collecting information on his own. sometimes we forget that vladimir putin understands english. he s probably reading stuff in the western brass. is he being misinformed? ooum sure they are saying tomorrow we re going to do
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there isn t enough supply. and the bottom line is if we want lower gas prices, we need to have more oil supply right now. between ramping up production in the short-term and driving down demand in the long-term, we can free ourselves from our dependence on imported oil from across the world. look, i know gas prices are painful. i get it. my plan is going to help ease that pain today. i m going to continue to use every tool at my disposal to prkt you from putin s price hike. so the president was pretty candid that he wasn t quite sure if americans would feel much relief or when that might happen. this is certainly an ongoing pressure point for him. so first of all, this reliance on oil is certainly very different than what he pledged to try to move off that. he s been pushing that agenda. what more can he do?
whether it ends soon or later. what i m hearing from sources in both washington and moscow is that this is going to go on for a long time. one source said months, if not years. but again, nobody knows. what i m worried about is what we re seeing out of moscow is a kind of retrenchment, and even those people in the elites who were really upset by the invasion, who were stunned by the sanctions, who were really unhappy with how things are going are now rallying around putin. the population seems to be rallying around putin in a closed dictatorship. and the country is kind of coming together and wanting vladimir putin to pursue this to the end. some of my sources in moscow are saying we hope the negotiations don t work. we hope they fail. we don t want a negotiated solution. we want to achieve our aims. we want to taip take kyiv.
tells nbc news, the united states has assessed some russian government senior officials likely disagreed with putin s decision to invade ukraine. despite promises to reduce attacks around kyiv, russia is already striking again near the capital, destroying this warehouse. ukraine s president zelenskyy, who spoke with president biden, says he needs more american help to defend his country, including fighter jets and tanks. u.s. aid is essential for us, he said. while president putin is making new economic threats. saying unfriendly countries, which include europe and the united states, must pay for russian natural gas in rubles in russian banks or risk being cut off. nbc s richard engel reporting from ukraine. let s bring in columnist ask associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius and former nato supreme allied commander, retired four star navy admiral james stavridis.