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March 8, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Congress' Response to Ukraine - March 8th, Hour 2
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Today I'm announcing the United States is targeting the main artery of Russia's economy.
We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy.
And there are 9,000 unused approved drilling permits.
So I would suggest you ask the oil companies why they're not using those if there's a desire to drill more.
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let's go back to Joe Biden's announcement of ban on all Russian oil and gas imports into the U.S., which should have been done from day one, as we've been saying.
Only public pressure brought him to this point, but here's what he said.
Today I'm announcing the United States is targeting the main artery of Russia's economy.
We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy.
That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at U.S. ports, and the American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin's war machine.
This is a move that has strong bipartisan support, the Congress and I believe in the country.
Americans have rallied support have rallied to support the Ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing Putin's war.
This made we made this decision in close consultation with our allies and our partners around the world, particularly in Europe, because a united response to Putin's aggression has been my overriding focus to keep all NATO and all of the EU and our allies totally united.
Okay, thanks, Joey.
Now instead, what he's gonna negotiate with Iran when really the person that he's negotiating with is Russia, and then he's gonna unleash what?
Sanctioned money in the in terms of tens of billions of dollars.
Uh sanctions that will not have any place, any time inspections.
Uh oh, great.
That's not gonna exist in that deal.
It will still allow eventually for Iran to get a nuclear weapon, which is a dumb deal.
Then we're gonna have more monies dropped on a tarmac and and the mules will be happy again.
And part of the deal is oh, we get to import oil from Iran.
The people that say death to America, death to Israel, the same people threatening to wipe us off the map.
Great great idea, Joe.
And then talks with the Venezuelan thug murdering dictator.
Oh, let's make him rich again.
Let's make Iran rich again, let's make Russia rich again.
Let's beg the Saudis uh that to produce more oil, and let's ignore all the energy resources we have in this country.
You can't make this up.
Uh Joey went into how Russia's war on Ukraine is causing gas prices to go up.
Uh, with all due respect, Joe, that started right away when you put your radical anti-ener American energy plans into place.
It was up a buck fifty a gallon uh before we even got to this point.
Listen.
The decision today is not without cost here at home.
Putin's war is already hurting American families at the gas pump.
Since Putin began his military buildup on Ukrainian borders, just since then, the price of the gas of the pump in America went up 75 cents.
And with this action, it's gonna go up further.
I'm gonna do everything I can to minimize Putin's price hike here at home.
In coordination with our partners, we've already announced that we're releasing sixty million barrels of oil from our joint oil reserves.
Half of that, 30 billion million, Excuse me, is coming from the United States.
And we're taking steps to ensure the reliable supply of global energy.
Okay.
And lastly, then Joe goes on to say, it's simply not true that I am holding back domestic energy production.
There are 9,000 permits to drill now.
Now, the American Petroleum Institute responded to that, saying, yeah, uh, we're at a two decade high for percentage of leases in production, with nearly two out of three leases producing natural gas and oil.
Leases are issued prior to exploration.
Not every acreage of leased land has the resources to tap into, despite substantial investments by developers, and with production still below pre-pandemic limo levels.
Uh an imbalance between supply and demand is being exacerbated by the Russian invasion into Ukraine.
It's time for the administration to support domestic production and send a message that America is open for energy investment.
Now, it's the same Biden, as you listen to this.
Remember, he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.
He stopped and put a pause on new oil and gas leases on federal lands.
Uh he added new and updated, really restrictive environment environmental rules and new rules on emissions.
He joins the Paris Climate Agreement once again, and he took away all the Anwar uh oil off the table that Donald Trump had opened up.
So he's lying when he says this.
Listen.
It's simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production.
That's simply not true.
Even amid the pandemic, companies in the United States pump more oil during my first year in office than they did during my predecessor's first year.
We're approaching a record levels of oil and gas production in the United States, and we're on track to set a record of oil production next year.
In the United States, ninety percent of onshore oil production takes place on land that isn't owned by the federal government.
And of the remaining ten percent that occurs on federal land, the oil and gas industry has millions of acres leased.
They have nine thousand permits to drill now.
They could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year.
They have nine thousand to drill on shore that are already approved.
So let me be clear.
Let me be clear.
They are not using them for production now.
That's their decision.
These are the facts.
Hey, Joe, we should be honest.
Let's be honest about the facts.
Not every one of those acres that you talk about and leases that you talk about uh have proven to have any reserves at all.
So that does not negate all the restrictions and regulations you put on the industry.
Anyway, joining us uh now we have the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Indiana Congressman Jim Banks.
I'm glad to hear, Congressman, that you're gonna be back on the ballot.
Uh congratulations, something that I I don't think you should have uh had to fight for.
Yeah, thank you, Sean.
We we cleared that out of the way.
Uh once again, these are the the tactics from the left.
They they want to kick our name off the ballot, they want to take away our voice on social media, they want to take our take away our right to vote for whoever we want to vote for, but uh we we gotta fight back.
I don't I don't back down from a fight.
In this case, we uh we won this fight.
Well, we uh enthusiastically support your reelection.
I don't think you're gonna have much of a problem.
Congressman uh uh August uh uh Pfluger is back with us.
Colonel in the uh U.S. uh Air Force Reserves flew F-22s, advised NATO.
Um let's start with the energy side of it, and I'll start with you, uh Congressman Pfluger, because you're from Texas, and we you know uh we're gonna have Rick Perry at the bottom of the hour.
My understanding is that a lot of the leases that they keep referring to are not areas where they've even identified that energy actually exists.
Is that true?
Well, Sean, thanks for having me.
And you're absolutely right.
This is the disinformation campaign that the Biden administration tries to wage, and unfortunately, Americans and the rest of the world are seeing through it.
There are six LNG export facilities that need to be approved right now.
It could increase the capacity for our own domestic exports out of the country of LNG by 20 percent if the Biden administration would approve them today.
So they they're talking about these 9,000 uh permits.
Well, you know, just like you said, that doesn't mean that that we're actually uh gonna get the resources there.
Uh and oh, by the way, it's much more Complicated than just one permit.
You need several permits in a lot of cases uh for the pipelines.
You know, talking about the Mountain Valley Pipeline or some of these others that can get the product where it needs to go, strengthen our own energy security, become dominant again.
And to hear Biden saying that U.S. oil companies are to blame for this crisis is just absolutely ridiculous.
It is his policies starting on January 20th, 2021, that are to blame.
Well, I mean, that's the whole point.
We he did it inherit energy independence, did he not?
Uh, Congressman Banks, did he not inherit um an America that was a net exporter of energy?
Yeah, for the first time in and uh in in a long time.
Donald Trump made us energy independent, and on day one, Joe Biden made us reliant on foreign countries for our oil and gas once again.
That's what's so insane about all of this.
Instead of turning to American energy, this this president, even though he finally did the right the right thing by banning Russian oil imports.
At the same time, he's turning to two other bad guys.
So he's so he's so he's he's gonna shut off one bad guy in Russia, but he's gonna turn to two other bad guys in Venezuela and Iran and uh and and buy more oil and enrich those regime regimes instead of turning to American energy producers, American jobs, American oil and gas.
It's it's absolutely insane.
Today, it's why today I introduced a new bill, no oil for from terrorist act to stop this president from doing what he wants to do, which is buy oil from Iran.
One of the greatest adversaries that we face in the world today.
He's rushing to the city.
It's the number one Congressman, it's the number one state sponsor of terrorism.
This is not complicated.
Why we're even sitting at a table with them, why we're willing to open up sanctioned money in terms of tens of billions of dollars, why we would ever agree to a uh a nuclear deal that would not allow for er any place, any time inspections by Americans, uh, and why we'd want their oil in the first place to make them rich again is insanity to me.
Yeah, it it is insanity.
That's why my bill, the no oil from terrorist act would stop Joe Biden from negotiating for oil with Iran.
I can't believe that it takes a bill to stop him to do it, but that's why we introduced it today.
You think you can get any democratic support, any crossover voting or no?
Well, I I don't know.
I mean, at this point, Sean, you can see Democrats all over Capitol Health fleeing from Joe Biden.
I mean, they they at this point they're they're admitting he's they they know he's a disaster.
They knew they've known that for a long time.
Now finally they're they're speaking out against him too.
I mean, they're they're the reason that he banned Russian oil uh imports today.
It took Democrats to push him to do that.
So we're we're gonna ask Democrats, uh, we're gonna at least force their hand, ask them to say no, to come and join us and and sign on to our bill.
It's a common sense bill.
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Welcome back.
More with Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana, Congressman August Pfluger of Texas, as we continue.
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And as we continue with Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana and Congressman August Pfluger of Texas, I don't see one move that he's making, Congressman of uh Fluger, that is going to impact the price of a gallon of gasoline at the pump.
I don't see how it's going to reduce the cost of energy in this country.
And meanwhile, I just scratched my wooden conservative head here, and I'm thinking, wouldn't it be better, smarter, wiser if we were the masters of our own destiny and we produced our own energy?
That would be coal, uh natural gas and and oil.
Well, Sean, you're absolutely right.
And last time we talked about Midland over Moscow.
That's what he needs to do.
It's not just a slogan.
He he needs to stop the regulatory assault on our own energy development.
He needs to end the federal freeze on all new oil and gas projects.
He needs a fast track pending L and G export permits.
I mean, these are just a couple of the steps that need to be taken.
But what he's doing right now is blaming American producers, which is completely false, and then putting money back into the hands of terrorists.
Uh just like Chairman Banks just said, what uh a very very good point for all Americans to understand that we're taking money maybe away from Putin for a second and putting it into either Venezuelan or Iranian hands to sponsor terrorism.
Just uh it's atrocious uh to to hear the blame game here when we have the capacity to do it ourselves and to focus right here on U.S. domestic production that helps our own energy security and quite frankly, that of our allies and partners.
You know, Jim Banks, I've been asking this question regularly, and I've not gotten a sufficient answer from anybody.
If the argument is uh about climate change and climate change alarmism and new Green Deal ism, uh tell me what difference it makes to Mother Earth if you drill for oil in Russia or you drill for it in Iran or you drill for it in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East, or you drill for it in Venezuela, or you drill for it in America, wouldn't it pretty much have the same impact on the environment?
If anything, America does it more cleanly than anyone else.
Yeah, I I scratched my head about this as well.
The Democrat, you asked the Democrats this question, they can't answer it.
How is it environmentally more friendly to drill in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela than it is in the United States of America?
There's no good answer to that because the only answer to this is this is about the Democrats' radical Green New Deal agenda and transforming America into a socialist country, and it's these efforts by by Joe Biden and this administration that are getting us getting them pat uh further down this path toward their radical agenda.
We've got to stop them, and the American people they're they're they're they can feel it, they see it, they know more than ever that Democrats have no association anymore at all, Sean, with working class blue-collar Americans who are who are paying more for gas than they've ever paid before in American history because of this this president and these Democrats.
And that's why there's there's gonna there's there's gonna be there's gotta be a red wave election in November to throw these bums out and replace them with people who want to put America, members of Congress who will come here and fight to put America first instead of putting America last in all of these decisions that Joe Biden has made.
Are you confident, Congressman Pfluger, that we're gonna provide the Ukrainians enough uh javelins and stinger missiles that they can be successful in their fight against Russia?
Well, Sean, it's a great question.
You you alluded to my service as an F-22 pilot, and you know, we've we've been pushing the administration to do this for months.
Uh and they've they've slow rolled it.
They've uh President Biden said something interesting the other day.
He said, We've known for weeks that Ukraine could get invaded, and and excuse me, Mr. President, the rest of the world has known that for months.
And we've been demanding that you take action.
And you know, uh they need all the lethal aid that that they can get.
Zelensky is not asking for troops on the ground, U.S. troops on the ground.
Uh he is a leader, uh, he's a courageous person.
I've met with him five weeks ago, and he said they were gonna fight, but they need help.
Uh and they they need to uh to receive that aid, and I'd I'd go a step further.
They they also need those airplanes, those MiGs and Suquois Uh from some of the uh NATO countries who were former Soviet Union countries to help them set up their own no-fly zone so that they can protect their own sovereign borders and their own sovereign airspace.
Unbelievable.
We appreciate both of you and your analysis.
Thank you both.
When we come back, former uh governor of Texas, Rick Perry, former energy secretary Rick Perry, uh he knows a thing or two about energy.
Uh we'll get his take on what's going on.
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So with all that is happening and even predictions as high as $200 a barrel of oil, which is unfathomable.
Russia even saying $300 a barrel, it's it's unbelievable.
You would think Joe Biden today would have come out and said, I have consulted with all of our energy producers in America, and I have authorized them to expedite exploration extraction of as much energy and natural gas as possible to return to energy independence and to also produce as much energy as possible for our NATO allies, Western European allies, but no.
Um, you know, Russia's war on Ukraine should motivate us to accelerate a transition of clean energy, he said.
It's simply not true that my administration's policies are holding back domestic energy production, he said.
Um we know that's a lie because he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.
He put a full pause on new oil and gas uh leases on federal lands, uh new and updated environment environmental restrictions and rules on emissions that are killing uh energy producing industries, rejoining the Paris climate agreement, ending all Alaska and Anmoir drilling, close that off.
Uh, and you know, we just get the same talking points.
You know, it's uh it's pretty unbelievable.
Anyway, here's Joe uh and his his belief that our the answer to this crisis is green energy.
Three consecutive American presidents have enjoyed stints of explosive economic growth due to a boom in oil and natural gas production.
As president, would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy?
The answer is yes.
We're gonna make it easier for American consumers to switch to electric vehicles as well.
We're gonna have an opportunity, I believe, in the next round here to use the my uh green economy, my my green deal, or uh to be able to generate both economic growth and consistent with the kind of infusion of monies we need into the system to keep it going.
But the reason I don't know, I'm not opposed to the Green New Deal.
What I did was what I thought beyond, at least in more detail what the Green New Deal is calling for.
I've argued against any more oil drilling or gas drilling on federal lands.
But I don't think we'd get it done in terms of getting the votes to get it done to say all fracking that's going on now ends unless you can show there's some physical security uh need or worried about explosions, et cetera, which is a legitimate thing to worry about.
But I would not allow any more.
Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
Just to clarify, would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking in a Biden administration?
No, it would be we would we would work it out.
We would make sure it's eliminated and no more subsidies for either one of those, either any fossil fuel.
And meanwhile, he's still to this day has been importing oil from Russia, talks with Venezuela, Iran, OPEC, OPEC, which has rejected his call to increase production numerous times.
So we're gonna go to the world's biggest big dictators and thugs and beg for them to uh produce more energy.
U.S. gas prices now officially have hit an all-time high.
Has Biden banning Russian oil imports finally?
Yeah, at gas stations all across the country, these pictures of Joe are showing up.
I did that, meaning the high price of oil.
Russia warns oil could hit $300 a barrel.
The Bank of America is now forecasting oil to go to $200 a barrel.
And it is literally crushing this country economically on top of the 40-year high of inflation that we already have.
We're pleased to have back former Texas Governor Rick Perry.
He was also former energy secretary.
He knows a thing or two about energy.
Sir, welcome back to the program.
It's good to be with you, Sean.
Thanks.
Wish it wasn't under these conditions, but we are facing some of the most inept leadership in this country, I think, in our history.
We can get into that in a little bit, but it is really a sad thing that's happening, not just for America, but for the world.
Can you explain to me why the president steadfastly refuses to talk to states like,
like your state of Texas, Oklahoma, Alaska, uh Pennsylvania for natural gas, Ohio for natural gas, all these other uh gas producing states that we have w explain this reluctance and resistance and preference to go to the world's dictators for energy rather than produce it domestically well I I can't give you an intellectual reason for it,
but I can give you I think a philosophical reason it's his philosophy that he is so balked into with the left, with the AOCs of the world, the Green New Deal, that he is so far down this trail that to stand up and say, you know what, we were wrong, he just doesn't have it in him.
He's not uh he's not courageous enough, he doesn't feel comfortable enough in his own skin to be able to stand up and say, you know what, I was wrong.
Uh I was I was wrong and it's costing Americans, it's costing the world.
It has created a war in Europe and don't get confused that this war in Europe is inextricably tied to America's energy policy had we kept the policies in place that President Trump uh promoted uh during our twenty seventeen through uh twenty twenty years we would not see the Ukraine debacle that we're facing uh today.
I don't believe that Putin would have done what he did.
He's seen a weakness now, both in how we left Afghanistan, the weakness in turning over the finishing of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, of how Iran – and he's got China backing him up on all this.
When you put all those pieces of the puzzle together, which would never have happened under President Trump, and it's staggering to me to see this president making bad decision after bad decision, then standing up in front of the American people and either having the gumption or being – The audacity, maybe?
To tell us what – things like going from defunding the police to we need to stand with the blue in the state of the state.
I'm sitting there going, where is the media that's supposed to be – be the orbiters of truth in this country where are the the this you know the people on CNN, MSNBC, the mainstream uh media who aren't just calling complete BS on this guy.
I it just wears me out John I I'm stunned that we uh that we're seeing the loss not only of America's uh reputation around the world but the other thing that we're seeing that's really worrisome to me is that we're seeing the loss of journalism in America today.
Well I I called I called it out in no out in 2007 I said journalism is dead.
I had no idea how right I'd be so to break this down to its simplest terms, we now have a United States president that is so beholden to these these radical climate cultists as I call them or these new Green Deal radical democratic socialists that he would rather deal with the world's tyrant starting with the thug Vladimir Putin, because he's been resistant to putting sanctions in place as it relates to energy, the one that would actually work.
He'd rather deal with the likes of the mullahs in Iran that chant death to America and death to Israel.
He'd rather deal with this murdering thug in Venezuela and rather deal with OPEC nations, a lot of whom really don't like us very much, and compromise our national security on the one hand, and then hurt the American public on the other hand,
just to satisfy this radical ideology, and then lecture us how we need electric cars, and that's where the real solution lies, and he's not going to bring produce any more oil or open any more exploration here in this country.
That seems uh like a pretty real sick, twisted way of thinking to me.
Sean, last night uh as we talked about this, I think I used the phrase a reckless disregard for reality.
Um when we think about that, this is an administration that is disassociated with reality.
Uh when you have Pete Buddig standing up and saying uh the way to deal with uh the high gas prices is everyone would just go down and buy an electric car.
Um, the but you know the average price of that's over fifty grand, a lot of people can't afford it.
Absolutely.
And and and the other side of it is that would not affect the price of gasoline.
Uh if it did, it would be a minor thing.
It's like this uh throwing um you know caution to the wind and using our strategic petroleum reserve to drive down uh gasoline prices.
It may have uh a week's impact to to soften the uh the prices, but it's not gonna have a long-term effect.
The only way to have a long-term effect on the price of gasoline is through supply and demand.
It's to tell the American uh oil and gas producer, listen, we're not going to come in uh behind you uh with regulations, with taxes, with other things that uh hit your bottom line.
Uh I uh I saw Psaki saying we've got 9,000 permits out there, go talk to the oil and gas guys about why they're not using them.
Well, I can answer that for you.
You don't have to go ask them, uh Jen.
The answer is they don't trust you.
They don't trust your administration.
They know that what Biden has said about disliking the oil and gas industry, trying to stop it, trying to strangle it.
He believes that.
And until this administration's gone, I will suggest to you the oil and gas industry is not going to go jeopardize their future uh by going out and and and putting the money into uh drilling for oil when they know for a fact that this administration will come in behind them uh to backstab them uh to try to destroy the industry, all in the name of this praying at the altar of the climate.
Well, I mean, that's that's what they've given they've actually come out and said exactly that on numerous occasions, and and more importantly, they need to find new areas to explore where they'll have the the volume that is necessary to bring us to energy independence again.
Quick break more with uh former Texas governor, former energy secretary Rick Perry is with us.
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