white house and peter doocy in saudi arabia. peter, we ll start things off with you. and here in saudi arabia, the leaders of telling president biden they can help expand their oil production capacity, but only a little bit. so, if president biden came here thinking he was going to get saudi arabia to increase their oil production capacity so much that it might lower gas prices back at home, he s leaving emptyhanded. in this era, announced increase of the level maximum sustainable capacity more than 13 million barrels, beyond that the kingdom will not have any further production capacity. so, what this means, they can expand to 13 million barrels a day max, but they re already at 12 million barrels a day capacity. at most they could add the same number barrels a day the president is selling from the strategic reserve and that s not really lowering prices a ton. so, it s unclear at this point if the president was overselling what he said he squeezed out of the saudis.
white house and peter doocy in saudi arabia. peter, we ll start things off with you. and here in saudi arabia, the leaders of telling president biden they can help expand their oil production capacity, but only a little bit. so, if president biden came here thinking he was going to get saudi arabia to increase their oil production capacity so much that it might lower gas prices back at home, he s leaving emptyhanded. in this era, announced increase of the level maximum sustainable capacity more than 13 million barrels, beyond that the kingdom will not have any further production capacity. so, what this means, they can expand to 13 million barrels a day max, but they re already at 12 million barrels a day capacity. at most they could add the same number barrels a day the president is selling from the strategic reserve and that s
urgency to get this done and we re getting cards on the table from senator manchin and senator sinema and you have to do that. jacqui: and i ll see you in glasgow and the president is going on that trip and we ll cover it. and you touched on something i wanted to ask, also does this stall reflect poorly on the president, showing up as it hands right now, emptyhanded on these things. this is a truncated period of time to get this done for the first couple of days of november? it s harder for the united states to go into the world stage a few weeks from now and try to lead other countries to new commitments to this higher ambition goal so we can confront the climate crisis. it lot harder if we haven t got our own house in order. i think it underscored the urgency of this moment and i
of that, they have the ability to refer that to local authorities here in the washington, d.c., and district of columbia. it could even lead to criminal charges. we ll see if that happens. that s a few steps down the road and joyce can probably lay that out better than i could but it could lead to a significant fine or one year in jail for steve bannon. now to this point, that seems to have not really deterred him. people close to him suggest he doesn t mind the idea of being viewed as a maga martyr, if you will. even if he were to be punished, there s no way to guarantee that he would testify and congress would still be left emptyhanded. there are other former white house officials, trump officials, mark meadows, kash patel, dan scavino among them who should face subpoenas and deadlines and potential trouble if they refuse to comply. and of course looming over all this is the idea, as a final point, whether former president trump himself will be subpoenaed
understand is because the political ramifications for not getting this done according to the republican strategists i talked to are huge. there are fears over president trump s tweets, the chaotic leadership style. what do they fear most? that they ll head into the midterm elections a year from now, and with control of all levers of government have nothing big to show for it. so the gambit was we have to try and do something about health care, and we have to try and fulfill the promise no matter what people think of it today. if we show up emptyhanded in 2018, our base is going to say, what s the point? i got better things to do on election day. unless they gave middle-class tax cuts. that would be something to show for it. should they have done tax reform first? no, i don t think so. i think tax reform will be difficult. the idea that tax reform would