tank. overall, 41%. you look as at on the situation with russia. even lower, 36%. the promise he made guys throughout was our goal is to deter. and if your goal is to deter and then a war breaks out, you failed in your objective that you are telling the american people. and oh by the way if you cancel the xl keystone pipeline that you now unapprove and energy flow there gas prices go up point the finger in one direction. ainsley: listener to what jesse watters said. joe is running out of friends and options. he was telling us he was putin s worst enemy. the minute joe got into office he dropped sanctions on russia s pipeline to germany and killed our pipeline from canada. this does feel like a war has begun. it didn t take long for americans to feel it in their bank accounts. people don t care about russia and ukraine the way the europeans do. we care about our money, our borders and our severity.
pete: senator joni ernst thank you for joining us on fox & friends. thank you. pete: one of the more demoralizing pieces joe biden step up your game under a realize he is not capable of stepping up his game and they re caught in the orthodoxy of their foreign policy view and they are not going to change their views like energy at the border so wedded to the left. it s a demoralizing feeling as an american when you want to see strength and leadership. ainsley: you know the solution. it all goes down to energy independence. he is not going to do anything about it the gas prices are going to go up. heating bills going to go up. food they are not willing to do anything about it. steve: and when the cyber hackers from russia hacked into the colonial pipeline one year ago u. the brought the energy in the eastern seaboard to a grinding halt. and last year not as many businesses have hardened their deferences against cyber warfare
siege on most of the country but not enough troops to hold that land. the complication becomes not whether you can take it or whether you can hold it which is a lesson those of you was in the iraq and afghan war understand quite well. one thing to defeat and topple a regime another thing to control it especially because these regions here, many of which are largely russian-speaking have a bit more of a historical connection to russia. and, therefore, might be more apt to be welcoming might not be the right word but open to the idea of a russian occupation. the further you move west, the more likely you have younger generations of ukrainians who want to be oriented towards europe and want nothing to do with being russian speaking people they don t speak russian either. it becomes a lot more imlicketd. let s put a bow tie on this real quick why it matters to us. we heard from jesse watters in the next clip about that. energy. from as far as back from rondell arresting in the 1980s he war
poland, they being would have increasing amount of leverage on germany and the west. right now germany gets 60% of its energy, 60% of its oil and gas from russia. through nord stream 1 which is currently and still operational. nord stream 2 would limit future exports but they still have nord stream 1. the other pipeline that go from russia to europe all go all of them either go through ukraine, which is down here, multiple of them or if they go through belarus controlled by russia. dictator controlled by russia, they go through poland, which means russia is dependent at some level on nato or western countries for their energy supply which could be stopped. if these nord stream 2 is allowed to happen, you already have nord stream 1. you see why if he decides to cut off the gas, he could turn off the lights. joe biden could say we are going to reopen the keystone pipeline. we will be energy independent. we vehelp you. we will send oil and gas so you don t have to depend on russia.
merkel when she was the german chancellor, what was the reason for her getting rid of all of of these nuclear facilities she could have created so much clean energy with those. pete: great question. steve, you might have thoughts. nuclear energy is cleaner. steve: right now france is moving toward more nuclear exant. they re also importing u.s. liquid natural gas. pete: most of their fracture turning into larr income. some of it is the residue that nuclear sun safe and had those accidents. steve: 3-mile island 50 years ago. pete: it s an answer and mystifying. there is a lot of interest involved. a lot of international business interest. the oligarchs when they get hit. oil and gas is going to go up big time. steve: thank you very much. excellent job. we hear about all of these places and we don t know how they all fit together and when you see them on a map it starts to make sense puzzle pieces. pete: still a long ways away