production, a move to potentially drive up costs and decrease production further. complicating the situation are supply chain and labor challenges. the sand used for hydraulic fracking is in short supply and impacts how quickly oil is produced and oil companies will be more financially disciplined than in past cycles. production is ramping up, it s the slow process. i think supply will happen maybe not at the rate to bring down prices as quickly as american drivers would want. now add on the lag between drilling and production, and on top of the regulatory environment many analysts are saying we could see the high prices last until the end of the year and maybe even next summer. dana: thank you. trace: recent poll shows majority blame president biden for ballooning inflation and not russia s invasion that the president has been using as his
driving inflation, whether or not you go back to president biden even during the campaign in 2020 when asked would he put americans out of work in order to kill the fossil fuel industry in america and he said yes, he wanted to do that. and so what you ve seen is this administration continue to look to punish oil and gas industry and no surprise you have less investment. no surprise you are driving gas prices continually higher with these policies and sadly, when you see secretary buttigieg lecture the american people that all they need to do is buy electric vehicles when he is driven around as taxpayer expense with a driver and car the reality is those electric vehicles, 80% of the batteries are made in communist china. 95% of rare materials in electric vehicles are harvested in communist china. they are not helping national security with these policies, either. trace: i wonder if people are concerned about what is driving inflation or the fact
what are we trying to do with sanctions? we re sending very confusing messages. at the same time we re dealing with a dangerous confrontation with a nuclear armed adversary. it is time for the president to exert leadership over his team and message discipline in order to put ukraine in a strong position to force putin to remove himself from the donbas and allow ukraine to exist as a free country going forward. dana: one last question about all of this but with a slightly different focus. lavrov, the foreign minister for russia says their relations with china are stronger than ever. is there anything that you can tell us that you have heard about that front? anything we re picking up in terms of back channel communications between the two countries? well, i think the relationship between russia and china does remain strong though they have encountered a
articulating a policy change. expressing moral outrage. trace: president biden defending his statement that putin cannot remain in power but does his tone hurt the chances of a potential peace deal? and secretary of state blinken looks to reassure mideast allies as the white house faces backlash over a potential return to the iran nuclear deal.
words he ad libed in poland. president biden: i m not walking anything back. i was expressing the moral outrage i felt for the actions of this man and what putin is dealing, just brutality. dana: reaction has been from the left to right has been pretty remarkable especially with some people saying of course he was right. you had a white house staffers on background in the washington post saying the president screwed up here. and then it makes me wonder, michael. we worked for president bush, did they not ask him? if he didn t mean to say it then clarify on the plane on the way home. if he did mean to say it maybe he also needed to do more. what do you think of all this? they are making a bigger hash of this the longer we re in it. president biden isn t a senator anymore. what he says makes international news. so he just can t speak from the hip. dana, when you were white house press secretary if you said