So we re like we re working like the devil to help them transition, because as long as russia s able to make money selling oil, they re going to continue to be able to do the bad things they re doing. it s complicated. i m not suggesting the american people can t understand it. they understand it, but they re working eight, ten hours a day just to put food on the table. and so i think what s happened is we have in a sense, i never expected let me say this carefully. i never expected the ultra maga republicans who seem to control the republican party now to have been able to control the republican party. i never anticipated that happening. reporter: mr. president, a year ago the administration was saying that inflation was
Dependent. so we re like we re working like the devil to help them transition because as long as russia is able to make money selling oil, they re going to continue to be able to do the bad things they re doing. so there s a lot. it s really complicated. i m not suggesting that american people can t understand it. they understand it. but they have you know, they re working eight 10 hours a day to put food on the table. and so, i think what s happened is we have, in a sense, i never expected say this carefully. i never expected the ultra maga republicans who seem to control the republican party now to have enabled to control the republican party. i never anticipated that happening. mr. president, a year ago, the administration was saying
Help them transition. as long as russia is able to make money selling oil, they are going to continue to do the bad things they are doing. there s a lot. it s really complicated. i m not suggesting the american people can t understand it. they understand it. but they have they are working eight, ten hours a day to put food on the table. i think what s happened is we have, in a sense i never expected let me say this carefully. i never expected the ultra maga republicans who seemed to control the republican party now, to have been able to control the republican party. i never anticipated that happening. mr. president, a year ago the administration was saying that inflation was transitory. that s not the case now.
This is not working as expected? that russia is still making a lot of money selling oil around the world? well, russia is still making money selling oil and also selling gas into europe. it is sell that oil at a discount. to say some degree they re making less every barrel. you can ask is this working? in some ways it is also working better than it should. we never officially blocked the sale of crude oil to other did you know tries. forcing to go discount to still other country, china, india, south america, places where folks are hoping they won t be shamed for buying it. bret: i want to play this soundbite from president biden. this is again the unused permits and leases statement. take a listen. right now, oil and gas industry is sitting on nearly 9,000 unused but approved permits and i m calling for use it or lose it policy. congress should make companies pay fees on wells on federal
Couldn t walk it s absurd. he s been found coherent enough to know that he knew what he was doing. he s made up a lot of reasons of why, none of them cover it. heather: yeah, he certainly has. he s expected to appear for sentencing today, he could face life in prison, what do you think will happen? i think he will probably get life in prison and he earned it and he can stop wining about it then although from what we saw with chelsea manning i don t think that turned out. i don t think president trump will cut him loose, though. heather: let s talk about largest oil field from isis, also in raqqah, explain the importance of what s going on there? the oil field is important because they made a lot of money selling oil, that s a lot of part how they financed the operations, islamic states, caliphate, now that they have been cut down in raqqah, they are gone from that city that s