president biden is set to lay out his plan to once again bring down sky high cost of gasoline at the pump. once again, by tapping into the nation s emergency oil reserves, even as it brings the needle even closer to e. i m john roberts in washington, happy wednesday, sandra. sandra: and that s a visual for you, starting to look like that, right? the president will announce that release of 15 million more barrels of oil, rounds out the 180 million draw down the president committed to earlier this year. john: the releases have brought the supply to the lowest level since ronald reagan was president. likely bring down gas prices for a brief period of time, but critics say biden is using the emergency stockpile to play politics. midterm elections now just 20 days away. former vice president mike pence will join us to discuss what all of this means for the elections. sandra: looking forward to that. begin with fox team coverage. marc thiessen ready to sounds out, and one way
Laptop being russian disinformation. we now know, according to the new york times, it s been verified. so, according to her standards, she would be able to say, you can t talk about that because it s disinformation. yeah, steve, that s exactly right. it s the point i m making is they claim oh it s just about russia and china disinformation. as i said, two years ago. she was celebrating the way china handled the virus. she was condemning disinformation claims i was making that the virus probably came from the lab. as you said she claimed that hunter biden s laptop which any sensible person at the time knew was his laptop is disinformation. what is she going to say out republicans and on the rise before vladimir putin invaded ukraine that we are engaged in disinformation because we are not calling it putin price hike. this is why we don t have ministries of truth in the government. these are should play out in congress and on the campaign trail. steve: speaking of congress
Been cognizant of the danger, but not expressing it to the public. now, the government has become much more active, and is actively trying to counter the russian disinformation claims, putting out information that they ve gone into, i don t miss a hyper drive, but a state of denial of affairs i think is over. richard, what about the plot here, on the part of the russians? but russian separatists are saying they re under attack by ukraine, we have not seen any evidence of that. there s very true you have walked the trenches where these supposed attacks are occurring. i mean, what is your assessment? how valuable is that line of strategy, and for how long? it is an incredibly thin charade that they are putting up right now. it is not believable, i don t think anyone, certainly in this country, and i don t anyone who s been watching this
Ukraine in a matter of days. have you seen reaction to that on the ground where you are? it have been very late here, so we haven t had any public reaction from the government specifically, or seen any evidence of a change here on the street. but all this has been as the most explicit statement of what the u.s. has been saying for the last several days, is that it s coming, it s coming. and that message is starting to finally sink into the government. the government here, before had been cognizant of the danger, but not expressing it to the public. now, the government has become much more active, and is actively trying to counter the russian disinformation claims, putting out information that they ve gone into, i don t miss a hyper drive, but a state of denial of affairs i think is over. richard, what about the plot here, on the part of the russians? but russian separatists are