howie, for oil companies and there is some demagoguery about oil companies and what they do and the leases they have and whether they are using them or not. but the president is saying if you have the leases you have got to use them or you get fined. >> look, oil companies are a big fat target for the democratic base and the president wasn't going to let that one pass without taking -- democrats are getting clobbered on inflation people aren't buying the putin gas hike although the war obviously is contributing to rising prices. biden was under fiercest fiercee to do something. what struck me today, bret, joe biden playing the scranton card saying when he was growing up if prices were rising at the pump, they would have to have a kitchen table discussion about it one mo point, there hasn't been a rally around the president for his leadership of the western alliance on ukraine according to polls. and then again most americans are more concerned about their pocketbooks than this brutal but