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Perspective from Kyiv - March 10th, Hour 3
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In just a minute, we're going to be joined by a volunteer journalist inside of a bunker with 15 other people and get an on-the-ground Keeve perspective.
He's in Kyiv, which is under heavy fire and has been now for days.
It's gotten worse the last couple of days.
First, I want to go back to, if you missed it earlier today, you know, here we have Kamala Harris, the great representative that she is of our great country, asked about the Ukrainian refugee crisis.
And what did she do?
She giggles.
Thank you, Madam Vice President.
I wanted to ask you about some reporting that my colleague here in Poland noticed.
He recently spoke with the mayor of the largest border town, who told him that the refugee system is essentially not set up for this, that it will collapse.
It's an improvised system that can work for maybe two weeks, but not indefinitely.
And I'm wondering what the United States is going to do more specifically to set up a permanent infrastructure.
And relatedly, is the United States willing to make a specific allocation for Ukrainian refugees?
And for President Judah, I wanted to know if you think and if you asked the United States to specifically accept more refugees.
Okay.
A friend in need is a friend in need.
Okay, so this time.
What was so funny about it?
Maybe I'm just not in on the joke.
Now, just to compare that, let's go to, I think he's been doing a terrific job for Fox News, and that's Trey Yangst.
He's been in Kyiv the entire time.
He's been through every air siren.
He's been through every bombing.
And he takes a little bit more seriously than Kamala Harris.
Yeah, guys, this joint press conference came across like a bilateral check-in.
It was detached from the reality on the ground.
As the pair spoke, there were Ariad sirens sounding in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
We heard this diplomatic and political speak from Vice President Harris.
The Ukrainian people don't need that.
They need anti-tank missiles.
They need anti-aircraft batteries.
I mean, we heard just all of this talk that you hear out of Washington about cooperation and friendship and to be nimble and swift in the response and understanding and appreciating.
There are people dying as we speak on the ground in Ukraine across this country, thousands of people.
And the capital is being targeted from the ground and the air.
The Ukrainians right now are calling for a no-fly zone because women and children are being bombed by Russian forces.
And while we heard the vice president there talk about this hospital in Mariupol, where three people, according to officials, were killed overnight in a Russian strike, she didn't talk about the consequences for that.
Ouch.
I mean, pretty powerful.
Then President Zelensky, you know, is asking the West, and Poland stepped up.
Poland said, we'll give you our MiGs.
And Blinken seemed all enthusiastic about it.
Then all of a sudden, Joe got nervous.
Never mind.
Maybe not a good idea.
The Pentagon came out and said, no, we don't support this.
Listen to Zelensky.
Listen, we have a war.
We do not have time for all these signals.
This is not ping-pong.
This is about human lives.
We ask once again, solve it faster.
Do not shift the responsibility.
Send us cleanse.
Anyway, joining us now is Mark Savchuk.
He's leading a volunteer journalism effort in Ukraine.
He is the coordinator of the Ukrainian Volunteer Journalists Initiative.
And he's now in Kyiv.
He's living in a bomb shelter with 15 people.
He's giving us a real-time on-the-ground perspective.
Mark, first of all, thank you for being with us.
You actually in the bomb shelter right now?
Yes, I am.
Well, thank you for being with us.
Tell me a little bit about what the situation is like on the ground there for you.
Okay, sure.
Well, first of all, it's not 15 people.
It's more like 10.
So not as bad as it sounds.
But you can't.
Before you answer that question, how many square feet are you living in there?
Are you living in like a 10 by 12 area, or is there some space for everybody?
I'm sorry.
I'm not going to be able to answer you in square feet because we use meters.
I'm sorry.
I got it.
I can't convert either.
So we're both in the same boat.
But go ahead.
Yeah.
Well, look, it's cramped, yeah, but it's livable.
So I wouldn't say that we're like in some kind of drastic situation or something like that.
Obviously, it's cramped.
Obviously, it's not in the middle of the market.
Let me ask you this.
How are you getting bare necessities?
How are you getting food and water and maybe medicine if needed?
Yeah, easy.
So currently in Kiev, let's get back to the question of how is the city doing right now.
All the basic functions are there.
So we have basic banking services.
We have basic public transport.
We have basic grocery stores that are open.
Yes, of course, everything is quite limited, but it's there.
So if you want to go out and buy like milk and bread and stuff like that, you can do that.
Obviously, there will be some products on the shelves that are going to be empty.
So there will be none of, say, white bread, for example.
But you will definitely not starve.
You know, products are there.
Even public transport, even that is working, even though it's limited as well.
There are big queues on the gas stations because, again, they are very limited.
But again, the petrol is there.
If you need to get your car built, you will be able to do that.
And the grocery stores, they work also as a cash machine.
So that also works.
So you say, how do we get supplies?
Well, we just go to the shops and get them and buy them.
But that's for now.
I hope you're doing a little bit of stocking up on some bare necessities.
Yes, yes, yes.
We do a lot of stocking up on what we're doing.
But now, all the coverage that I have seen, especially in the last three days, shows that Putin seems to have surrounded Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, your country, and that he's now surrounded.
And sirens are going off frequently, a lot of bombings.
And how often are you hearing those sirens go off?
And how close have these bombs exploded in terms of your location?
Yeah, well, that's not true.
He has not surrounded.
He hasn't managed to do that.
Even in the outskirts of Kyiv, if you look at the map, I beg to differ with you.
On the outskirts of Kyiv, if you look at the map, Russian troops have created a perimeter on the outskirts outside of Kyiv.
They haven't made it to Kyiv, but within anywhere between 8 and 16 miles out of Kyiv.
Yes, that's true.
That's small cities that are around Kiev.
They are fighting there.
But I'm going to tell you, look, if I want to get out of Kiev right now, I can do this easily.
We have literally lots of cars, loads of cargo cars coming into Kiev and resupplying us.
Obviously, if the city would have been surrounded, that wouldn't be possible, right?
I mean, come on, if the city is surrounded, you can't get supplies in.
What I'm saying is he's moved closer in the last three days.
He was 25 miles away from Kyiv.
Now he's anywhere between 8 and 16 miles away.
So it seems like they're closing in.
And I also, because our own reporters have been there on air while bombs have been exploding inside the capital city.
I don't know when that was because I'm here for the last week and they have been heavy fighting at Irpin and Bucha and Gostomen.
Those are three cities in the northwest of Kiev.
Correct.
They have been fighting there for the last week or so.
They haven't been, Russians haven't been able to move forward since then.
And I'm talking for the last five or six days or so.
So if you want to come out of Kiev and travel south, you can do this.
So they haven't blocked this.
They have blocked the northwestern and western routes, and they have blocked the eastern route.
But if you talk about southeastern route and southwestern routes, it's completely open and trucks go there every single day.
Now, to the credit of the Ukrainian people fighting back, and if you want to call it an insurgency, whatever you want to call it, they have been very effective at stopping the movement of Putin's troops.
But certainly, I don't think there's any doubt in my mind that he has his sight set on taking out the capital at some future point.
I just think it's been more difficult than he planned.
And the damage that he's done is very real.
Now, of the people that are staying, there are estimates now that close to 2 million people have left the country.
You're saying there's still time for people to get out.
Are there still women and children in the capital city of Kyiv right now, or have they most of them left?
Well, most of them left, yes, but there are still some women and children in the city.
Yes, for sure.
So I would say that there are still people who should leave if they don't want to fight.
And I'm actually very much for that because once the fighting will start, you know, we don't really want civilians running around the city.
That would be a mistake.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back and we'll talk more with Mark Savchuk.
He is helping lead the volunteer journalism effort in Ukraine.
He's in a bunker right now as we're talking.
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All right, we continue with Mark Sabchuk is with us.
He's helping lead a volunteer journalism effort in Ukraine.
Right now, he's in a bomb shelter with 10 other people talking to us from Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine.
So tell me more about the people that are staying and what the plans are.
And is this insurgency, is it organized enough?
And have you received from Western European countries and the U.S. enough javelins, enough Stinger missiles?
In other words, is the resistance, the insurgency, the men that are fighting for their country, do they have the weaponry that would be most effective to stop Putin's troops?
That's an excellent question.
Let me answer that point.
So if we're talking about the organization, obviously it's lacking and it's flagging from the Russian army.
And that's actually extremely good for us because they're very slow.
They're immobile.
They make lots of mistakes.
And some of the analysts even said that their performance has been appalling, that I'm quoting here.
And we have been able to cause them very significant damage using the javelin missiles, using the panzerfiles from Germany and LAPS from the United Kingdom.
We have been incredibly successful at causing them lots of damage of the armor.
And we are really grateful for the support you guys have been giving us.
You've asked, is this enough?
And that's a great question here.
We have so many volunteers that we can't enlist them into the army.
There's literally not enough weaponry from our Ministry of Defense to supply every single volunteer that wants to fight.
So that's an answer for you right here.
The help from the West has been very efficient and very good, but we still need more in order to effectively crush his insurgents and crush his invasion.
I've seen many Russian tanks just destroyed.
I've seen images of 12 of them taken out at once.
Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly why I'm saying the Kiev is not surrounded.
Look, there is a line of armor coming in from the east.
And just this morning, we have destroyed something like 10 tanks.
It was like a small part of their line of attack.
And we have completely immobilized it and caused it to retreat.
So they are trying to encircle the city, but they keep failing because their performance is not very good.
Okay, I don't think you're fully understanding what I'm saying because I go through this map every night on my television show.
And it's far more visual than what you're saying and what I'm saying.
We're really not saying we're not saying anything differently.
When I say he's created a perimeter surrounding Kyiv, I'm not saying he's on the border of Kyiv and the city.
I'm saying outside, many miles away, that he has set up a perimeter around the city, clearly looking for the opportunity to take the capital city.
You don't need to be a general in the army to figure this out.
But so far, the insurgency has been so successful that they've pushed him back and they're preventing him from moving forward.
Whether that can continue, I don't know.
I mean, that's going to be the big question for Ukraine.
I didn't like that your president Zelensky, I admire the fact that unlike other leaders of other countries in moments like this, he would have gotten on a plane with millions of dollars in cash and gold and currency and taken off and gone to safety.
He stayed and not only is he fighting, he even gave out his location, which I thought was a little nutty on his part, but he's being very brave.
And it seems like the people, the men that have stayed behind and people that have come in from the outside to fight, have been extraordinarily brave and effective with the weapons that if the West keeps providing, I think you guys have a great shot at stopping this.
Exactly.
You're spawn.
All we need is just more of help and more of financial assistance.
You're absolutely right.
The weapons that the West is providing are efficient.
So this insurgency will be stopped if the West will continue to support Ukraine both financially and with military aid.
That has already been providing so far.
Well, that's certainly very informative.
And I just want you to know there are a lot of people hoping and praying that you win and that he leaves your country.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's very important.
And thank you very much for stressing the point that I think is also incredibly correct, is that the people who are fighting for the right flood when they're fighting for their own country, when they're fighting for freedom against oppression, they should be helped.
I completely agree with you on that.
And then while the women and children have an opportunity, no child should be in a war zone.
And I would urge them all to leave.
No young child should die in this war, if at all.
No more young children.
Enough have already died.
Absolutely.
I completely agree with you on that.
And yes, Poland has been nothing but supportive.
We have so much love for Poland.
Thank you very much for them.
All right.
Hang in there.
We'll check back in with you.
Mark Savchuk with us.
He's in a bunker.
He's in the capital city of Kyiv with about 10 other people.
And we'll get regular updates from him as this continues.
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Hi, 25 to the top of the hour.
By the way, we just got this in exchange between Peter Doocy and Jen Saki.
Jenny, are you just going to keep blaming Russia and Putin and the war from now until the midterms?
We just heard you say again that you think inflation is going to be temporary.
We've heard you say that it was going to be temporary since last spring.
So how long do you guys think temporary is?
Well, again, Peter, I think what we do is we rely on the assessments of the Federal Reserve and of outside economic analysts who give an assessment of how long it will last.
The expectations and their assessment at this point continues to be that it will moderate by the end of the year.
There's also no question that when a foreign dictator invades a foreign country and when that foreign dictator is the head of a country that is the third largest supplier of oil in the world, that that is going to have an impact.
And it is.
And so to that point, inflation goes up today.
The president's statement blames the Putin price hike.
Are you guys just going to start blaming Putin for everything until midterms?
Well, we've seen the price of gas go up at least 75 cents since President Putin lined up troops on the border of Ukraine.
And last month, the statement didn't mention the Putin price hike.
It mentioned inflation because of the pandemic.
Why is that?
Well, Peter, last year, last two years, there was a global pandemic.
Everyone who's global economists have all agreed that that has been the biggest contributor to date of inflation because of the impact on the supply chain.
Obviously, global events impact the economy, the global economy, as well as global inflation.
And the price hikes as a result that have escalated over the course of time of President Putin's further invasion, of the impact on the global oil markets are, of course, having an impact.
You know, it's amazing because we had, what, four months, 40-year high of inflation.
The new numbers come out today.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is a 40-year high.
If you look at the inflation in January of 2021 when Joey took over, it was 1.4%.
You know, now we have a 40-year high, and that means everything you buy at every store you go to is costing more.
The inflation rate over the previous three months is as high as it was in January of 1982.
And that was the fallout from the disastrous Jimmy Carter economy.
And Reagan turned it all around, took time, but he turned it all around.
And Reagan then created the longest period of peacetime economic growth in the history of the country.
But the inflation rate is 7.9% year over year.
That's through the end of February, but it's 8.4% in the last three months, December, January, February.
And the bulk of the increase in energy prices came before anything happened in Ukraine.
And if you look at the monthly numbers for last year, after stalling at about 5.3% for most of last spring and summer, the inflation rate really started to explode in October of 2021.
But it went up dramatically from what it was that Joe Biden inherited, which was, again, 1.4%.
If you're looking at that rate increase, now it's 7.9%.
So that means that's a 40-year high.
Everything you buy in every store you go to is costing more.
Every American was feeling the cost of Joe Biden's energy policies long before Russia invaded Ukraine.
This is one big lie.
JP Morgan, they threw out a truth bomb this morning, as somebody tweeted out.
The Biden administration is open to easing sanctions on Venezuela in exchange to ramp up oil exports.
Perhaps we can ease some sanctions on Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, all at Alaska, while we're in the mood to ease sanctions in return for increased production.
I mean, it is, if you look at shelter, it's the single biggest component of the consumer price index, 33% of it, still widely understated.
And you can see, you know, everything is costing more.
Can't even get a new car.
If you're getting into used cars, 30, 40% higher than we would otherwise pay.
Let's get to the phones.
Ken is in Pennsylvania, the great state of Pennsylvania.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well, Sean.
Thank you very much.
Are you following the center primary out there?
I'm friends with Dr. Oz, known him for many years.
He's an American first, Make America Great Again, Reagan conservative.
And, you know, when I said that about Trump, people, you know, ripped me to shreds.
I think I was proven right.
I will be proven right if Oz wins that primary.
It'll be interesting to see.
What's going on?
Hey, I was always wondering, how did we all of a sudden become a net exporter of oil to a net importer?
And I was watching Brian Kilmeet's show yesterday, and former Attorney General Bill Barr was on.
And he said that the oil companies are having trouble getting financing because the insurers will not insure the loans.
Am I missing something?
That's something I haven't thought of.
I can understand it, though, because if you take all of the different restrictions that Joe Biden has put in place as it relates to the energy sector, and I've gone over them in great specificity and detail, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, that would have been done by now.
The Alberta premiere was very clear.
We would have 900,000 barrels of Canadian oil being shipped to America every day if they didn't cancel the pipeline.
So they're lying about that.
If they didn't pause new oil and gas leases on federal lands, we would be able to extract and do more exploration, and you'd find the areas that had the most potential, and that's where they'd start drilling, and it would be the most effective.
Then they have the environmental regulations and the mission regulations that they popped on everything, then stopping all drilling and exploration in Anmore.
Now, my point to your question is very simple, and that is, you're asking me whether or not the insurance companies won't insure it.
Problem is, as the Petroleum Institute points out, just because it's an open leased, it's a portion of open lease land, the 9,000 leases, as they call them, doesn't mean that there's oil or gas there.
It means that they have the right to look.
The leases are granted before any exploration has ever done.
So a lot of times you think there might be, there's indications there might be energy below the ground, but you don't find out until after you get the lease.
And for a lot of these companies, they just cannot afford the risk of drilling if they don't know for sure that it's there.
Now, as it relates to insurance companies, I think probably what would factor in, assuming that's true, and I have no reason to believe it's not, insurance companies are thinking, well, they're already at a two-decade high in terms of actual usage of leases granted.
There's probably not, there's probably too great a risk that there's not a lot of energy in the remaining leases that are out there.
So if they would pick up these restrictions and knock them out or change course and rescind them, then I think the insurance companies would be more inclined to bet on the oil and energy companies to do their job.
But I think those restrictions make it too big a risk for even the insurance companies.
Okay, well, let's take them out of the equation right now because they weren't even in development yet.
And the Keystone pipeline was not in service.
So my thinking was, what would they do?
Did our government tell the oil companies to shut the pumps down, which created a situation where we became a net importer of oil now?
What about what was I just explained to you all the restrictions that they put in place?
They paused new oil and gas leases.
They updated environmental restrictions, emissions restrictions.
They ended Admir drilling and paused new leases.
All of that combined is you're putting a stranglehold on the entire industry that doesn't need to be there, especially now.
And if the choice is begging a murdering thug dictator Maduro or going into business with the uranium mullahs or begging OPEC, I choose Texas.
I choose West Virginia.
I choose Pennsylvania.
I choose Ohio.
I choose Alaska.
I'd even choose New York State, but they're too stupid in this state to ever think of fracking here.
So I hope that answers your question.
Bill is in West Texas.
Bill, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hello, Sean.
Thank you for having me.
Thank you for calling, sir.
I would like to address some of the questions that the gentleman before me just put on the table.
Yes, sir.
So we can turn around this oil problem.
I live in West Texas.
I'm in one of the world's largest oil fields, the Permian Basin.
I have a service company, and we work for all the major oil and gas companies.
They can ramp up their supply, but we have major issues.
Major issues is lack of labor.
Over the last two years, once we had 1,500 rigs running two years ago, we're down to 625.
We could be back to 1,000 rigs, but we have nobody to go out there and run the rigs.
We have good paying jobs.
Everybody in the north, northeast, if you need a job, come west to West Texas because we can help solve this problem.
$200 oil or $150 or $120 oil does no one any good.
We can get it back into the $60 range, but we've got to be able to have our supply chain shortages relieved, and we need the government to take the tufts that they have on us to release the chains a little bit and let us go out and do what we do best.
Be Americans and go out there and fix this problem for you guys.
We can do it.
I know we can.
I will tell you, I urge people to really hear what you're saying.
You're telling people that maybe they're in a dead-end job, young, you know, healthy guys that want a new career.
You're saying that if you go down to Texas and you go to these oil companies, whether you have experience or not, you're very likely to get a job at a pretty high-paying rate.
Am I right about that?
Exactly.
That is correct.
And if you're willing to work hard and learn, you can have a career that will last the rest of your life.
And I know guys in the energy sector that were making $150,000, $200,000, $250,000 a year.
Is that correct?
Absolutely.
That is correct.
Not bad money for a hard day's work, right?
It's a young man's game.
They put in the hours, but they get rewarded for it.
And they get all their benefits.
But the main thing is energy, domestic energy, is our security.
We don't need the foreign oil.
We can take care of this problem ourselves.
Give us a chance, government.
Just let us go and let's get this thing under control.
Well, instead of begging mullahs in Iran and begging dictators like Maduro and begging OPEC, I think I'd rather just ask our friends in Texas like you and our friends in all these other states I mentioned, because I don't think we have to beg.
I think you guys will be grateful to get the work and pumping as much as you can pump and getting as much oil and gas as you can.
So thank you for what you do every day.
I don't know why we don't have a president that can't figure this out.
It's not that complicated.
Dave is in Wyoming.
What's up, Dave?
How are you?
Sean, thank you for taking my call.
I'm a big fan of your show, and I listen to you all the time when I'm traveling.
So I really appreciate you taking my call.
Well, thank you.
I'm glad you called.
So I have a question, and hopefully, maybe you can give me some perspective on it.
You know, historically, in World War II, the Allies all got together, and specifically the petroleum production and the raw materials, steel, that sort of thing, production of the U.S. is one of the contributing factors that help the Allies win that over time.
When we talk about ramping production up right now for the economy, I'm totally in favor of that, and I'm certainly not an anti-oil or anti-drilling person or anything like that.
But has there been any realistic conversation that you're aware of as to the actual reserve needs that we would have if we got into a protracted land war?
I haven't been able to find anything on the internet, anybody discussing it.
Well, I think your assumption is that the land war would be on the continental United States.
I don't think that's where it would be.
I don't think it would be.
All right, let's say it's a war in Europe then.
To answer your question, is at some point, you're going to hit a tipping point where inflation is going to continue to grow.
Prices, the American people are going to get angry very quickly because this is a preventable problem and one that's easily solved.
But you have to move now to solve it.
And the answer to your question is, is we have enough natural resources that if we needed to warp speed energy, gas, and coal production, we would be able to do it.
And so on the reserve side, I think we need to have as I need to keep our reserves filled up to capacity.
That's what I would do.
I think tapping into them is a mistake, especially when you have the vast resources we have available to us.
I'd finish that Keystone XL pipeline as fast as I could, and I'd take those 900,000 barrels a day from Canada.
But they're not going to do it because they're beholden to this radicalism, this new Green Deal radicalism.
I hope that answers your question.
I've just got to roll because I'm looking at the clock, but it's a good question.
It's smart, and we do have a smart audience.
I'll tell you that.
Keeps me on my toes.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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