We will take a listen to when Kamala Harris speaks to this room of elected officials. This has been an unprecedented disaster for our state. What you are seeing, thanks to you, the Biden Harris Administration, state and local officials, volunteers, private organizations, this has been a massive unprecedented response. We are deeply grateful for the federal resources that we have. Fema has been on the ground with us since the very beginning of this. We look forward to briefing and giving you details about the significant progress that is happening and all that we have to do. Unfortunate, we have 68 people who have lost their lives. People are still working hard in Search And Rescue to save people and to surge resources into western North Carolina. Thank you for being here. A thank you, governor. I thank you all, everyone here. I have talked with many of you with and hours and days of helene hitting this beautiful state. I thank you all for the work you been doing around the clock. Admin
russian oil and finance their war in the ukraine or do you not buy it and then see a pretty sharp increase in oil prices? i mean it could go up to $200 a barrel. if that happens, then there is very significant risk of recession. we could be seeing energy, electricity and food shortages before the end of the year. that is very bad situation. that s why policymakers like biden are reluctant to do that. it s like we may see biden impose restrictions on u.s. oil exports. but then that would strengthen the hand of putin use oil and gas to basically bribe countries to let him have his way. so the underlying problem when you said we haven t had enough supply. we should have been producing much more oil and gas over the last five years. i and others over the last week have been pointing out the fact that it was the secretary general of nato himself who pointed out that russia was financing anti-gas fracking activist groups in europe which
play ball, a worthy adversary. a worthy adversary. what do you make of that? reporter: i think this is president biden s way of setting himself up for this meeting and how he s going into it. they are days away. he maintained his stance putin is a killer. he turn back to note he was responding to a question in an interview he did with abc news. he says he doesn t think that calculus that he believes putin is killer plays a factor of them going into a meeting. he doesn t feel like the playing field is level. i think these are maneuvers you have seen putin use. he s trying to outsmart them or