popped up on the screen. the deployed strategic 15,881,588 reserve nondeployed you ve got 2889 military stockpile, 4477 pritikin and total as you just said captain wells almost 6000 and total inventory. so, then there is this meeting he is offering putin is offering a meeting between ukrainian and russian delegation which is to take place at the bella russian border to mortgages or jennifer griffin report that president zelensky, who by the way is not going to say he may not have high hopes for this meeting. he does not want to be blamed for not pursuing all diplomatic options again he won t go. is this another putin employee? how can anyone trust anything putin says? if putin does not withdraw his troops as a mutual beneficial deal even possible?
price the gas price increases on putting and also us a noted leaned into warning companies against price gouging. ron, i wanted to talk to you as i heard the announcement come in and we re getting reporting from the cnbc saying that the uk is going to phase out the production of russian oil and product by the end of 2022 as well adding to that. right. let s talk about how they are going to bridge this gap. you ve got 11 million barrels per day of crude oil exports out of russia, 40% of their gdp to some extent. this is going to be a major hurt to the russian economy whose ruble is below a penny, equivalent to a dollar. that being said, how does the united states bridge the gap? the president said we ll release the 60 million barrels of oil. we know that won t go very far, right. right. what conversations does the president need to be having with the saudis, with china as well and can he put more pressure on
indiscriminate bombings. if putin were to conduct a chemical weapons attack, that would ratchet things up even further. the white house said they do believe he is laying the ground work to potentially do that by spreading the false theories that the united states is developing biological weapons in ukraine, which officials have said across the board is not true. but they do fear that will happen. and i think the big question, certainly one posed to the white house multiple times today, is whether or not that changes president biden s calculus that he won t send in u.s. forces to ukraine. he said that is a red line for him. he is not sending the u.s. forces in, no intention of putting the boots on the ground. i think there is a really question of whether or not that changes his calculus. and jen psaki told me today, right now his story is still that u.s. forces won t go into ukraine to fight russian forces. that maintains it. it is still a happy athletic cal if putin will use chemical
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