Practically it s not going to happen. john: i think the expectation would be not to expect much, but we ll keep watching and hoping. great to see you, thank you. thank you, take care. sandra: as promised, awaiting a briefing at the pentagon. it has started with the spokesperson john kirby taking questions. already sent in 100 switch blade uavs already in our stocks, we sent them in from those stocks. i don t know where they are in the shipment process but arrived over earlier this week. so they ll be getting into ukraine quickly if they are not already there. that s the 100 that president biden announced a couple weeks ago. we are in discussions with the ukrainians about future usages of switch blade drones and of course we ll keep that we ll
Great to see you. sandra: congress hearing from those oil executives on capitol hill today on the high cost of gas and members of congress accusing them of price gouging. so, is that what it is or is it just bad white house policies that are driving these prices higher? a former economist from the trump administration will be joining us live on set with his reaction, and he s got a thing or two to say about this. you don t agree that crude oil prices are high because there is less supply? crude oil prices are high because there are concerns about potential disruptions to future supply. ok. i don t have time, i m sorry.
Incredibly volatile energy markets, chad? you are referring to diana degette, she kind of went down the line ticking off questions she wanted yes or no answers, and cutting them off. you know, a lot of times what members are trying to do is curate a narrative, so trying to make the energy executives look bad. democrats have a problem at the polls this fall because they are afraid that voters are going to blame them for high gas prices and this is their weapon against that. sandra. sandra: thank you very much. it was fascinating, too, the chair woman of the committee started out by showing a picture of oil and gas prices that dates back not months, but weeks. when we have been seeing energy price spikes for quite some time, more than a year of them. so there was very selective information given and questions asked. we are going do ask joe lavornya, and also dan
Since putin, you know, has started waging this war. and the policies have a chilling effect. and during the trump administration we produced 13 million barrels a day. now with the better economy, higher oil price and more demand, producing 11.6 million barrels a day. the industry wants to go. the policy has a chilling effect and it s showing. sandra: you do better the healthier the u.s. consumer is. it would behoove you to have the prices come down. we can make money at 60, 70, $75 oil. $100 oil is weighing on oil, i don t want to see the recession like any other business, and the administration needs focus and being a tail wind not a head wind. sandra: 30 seconds left. explain, not putting oil into the cars, we are putting refined gasoline. it s a process, and the members of the congress in the room this
Fighting excellently. there are virtually no russian troops left in northern ukraine, john. this is where the capital is located, most people in the administration thought russia would be able to seize the capital in a matter of days, now they have evacuated from the capital and from northern ukraine. they are concentrating in the east. we need to encourage ukraine to get on the offensive so we can win the war so the conflict does not drag on for months, much less for years. sandra: latest for the hunter biden investigation and implication, president biden wrote a college letter of recommendation for the son of a chinese executive who did business with hunter biden. here is some of that email that has been obtained, senator. jonathan hunter asked me to send you a copy of the recommendation letter he asked his father to write on behalf of christopher for brown university.