holes checked so that you can go in and develop it. if american energy producers could be producing energy, they would be producing it. and plus, this administration has created an environment where investors are scared to invest many fossil fuels because they know there s an all-out aact on immaterial. this is not only hurting investment on public lands, but also on private lands are where you don t have near arely the regulatory loopholes. investor s are back off because they can t make a long-term investment knowing this administration has open wily declared war on u.s. domestic energy. eric: well, also vladimir putin experts are saying that the russians had a strategy over in europe, get this, they supported climate activists and others to get off of nuclear, to edge fracking, and that was to end fracking, and and that was part of putin s strategy in order to sell europe more gas and oil. let me read you what the
pause is due to external factors. on friday sergey lavrov said he would not support the deal without a guarantee that u.s. sanctions would not impact moscow s relations with iran. we would like all of the parties including russia, which has indicated it s got some concerns, to bring this to a close. you know, we are very concerned about what iran is doing, but imagine these iranians with a nuclear weapon. we need to get that off the table so we can address their that line behavior in the midding east. middle east. reporter: republicans fear that the biden administration loosening sanctions will only allow iran to build up its program. eric? eric: we will have the latest on kyiv and putin s push straight ahead.
every day that president zelenskyy is able to lead his country effectively inside kyiv and and so forth is a day on the plus side for the ukrainian people. and, again, it s it s against putin. putin is off his timeline. he s off his game. his military s bogged down, so i think we just need to have that play out. and i can t everyone ice emphasize any more, our ability to supply them with the arms we possibly can, providing intelligence and other capabilities as well as to pursue diplomatic efforts to, again, get this thing under control. arthel: i have more questions but i have to go. i do appreciate your answering my questions and taking the time to really kind of set the record straight here and keep cool heads as we do support that global leader, as you said, president zelenskyy. retired air force lieutenant general richard newton, thank you very much, or sir. thank you, arthel. arthel: eric? eric: thank you, general and arkansas hell. meanwhile, that
terms of, again, his remarkable leadership are. he s become a global leader, arthel. and whereas the narrative with putin is he s a tie ant, so we just tyrant. we just need to continue to do this. again, i m at the point now where, again, with all the emotions and especially the atrocities we re seeing, we ve got to maintain cooler heads prevail here. but again, nato and u.s. ought to be in a position should we be attacked or should there be strikes, yes, but we re not at that point at this minute. arthel: you re right, emotions are high as we all watch this. these are horrible scenes that we re witnessing, you know, in realtime, and that s why i ask you. these are the questions americans keep doing, have we run out of time? you can give me that in 20 seconds. i know there s sanctions and china trying to stuff putin s pockets to help him, you know, ward off the effects, but have we run out of time, sir? i mean, ukraine arthel, we have not run out of time. in fact, i would state t
eric: that s former israeli ambassador to the united nations warning vladimir putin is using russian oil and gas against the west. that after russia was hit with heavy sanctions for putin s war in ukraine. the biden administration has been many talks with saudi arabia and venezuela to boost oil exports from those countries. meantime, europe is now rushing to end its rehines on russian oil and gas. critics say it was putin who long supported activists in europe and banned fracking and nuclear power are there so that he could sell europe more of his oil and gas. pre republican congressman bruce westerman is a member of the natural resources committee on hill. congressman, welcome. putin has used oil as a weapon. how did europe and us to a much, much lesser extent, how did europe end up having to rely on vladimir putin in order to keep its lights on and the folks