yell ton find out if vladimir putin has been supporting the green effort to green ouring economy, specifically to stop fracking so he can have more control over the marketplace and over the american public and the west in the process. guess where the prime minister of england is going today? he is going to visit saudi arabia in person and the united arab emirates asking them, begging them to produce more oil. you would think it he would call us up and say produce more oil. you have more than saudi arabia. but he knows that would be fruitless. steve: joe biden said gas has gone up $1 since putin invaded. that s probably true. but what joe biden doesn t say is gas ran up $1 on my watch before the invasion. and while he can go ahead and blame covid ass well, keep in mind, he ran on i m joe biden and i m going to fix the covid pandemic. okay. we are coming out of pandemic. di fix it?
despite irina is traveling back to her native country to help. she joins us live from lviv. doctor good afternoon to you over there. good afternoon. steve: so you have a unique perspective. you were working in immediately to. your mother is ukrainian. your father is russian. so i m sure from your family you ve had different ideas of what is happening there. yes. we were at the time the war started, me and my husband and my children were in immediately new zealand: scholarship and ban the russia invaded, i took a sabbatical, i couldn t work for the first nine days and then i was basically pulling out 22 to
ukraine. rachel: you can feel very bad to what is happening to the people of ukraine and you also say this was a preventable war in the end. by the way in the two weeks leading up to the war when we kept saying they are going to come in. they are going to come in. why are the peace talks happening now after this country has been disseminated and millions of people. brian: there were tons of talks. they weren t sincere in any of those their talks. talks with macron and zelenskyy. how many talks did biden have with? rachel: my point is i think our diplomats have been their diplomacy has been anemic in this situation that s my view. brian: putin s fault, period. steve: what is happening in the vacuum we saw a lot of that red area, the town of kherson which they have run over. and so what they are doing is now they are trying to establish these areas as break away republics. rachel: unfortunate. steve: around the edges a bunch of break away republics
24-hour shifts on the phone trying to coordinate the efforts of humanitarian aid across europe and countries. then i realized that i couldn t really i wouldn t really be able to forgive myself if i were not on the ground continuing the work helping my people. so we as a family literally within an hour bought our tickets and flew back. i left my children and my husband in the netherlands since he is dutch. and he is devastated about me being here. poland and cross the border to ukraine. steve: right. you feel you have got to too it here s the problem, doctor, with the humanitarian aid you are trying to get to the people you need it, that invariably is what is being targeted by the russians. not only have they targeted hospitals and they have killed people in hospitals but the
into specific consequences. i think what we have conveyed and what was conveyed by our national security adviser in this meeting is that should they provide military or other assistance, of course, violates sanctions or supports the war effort, that there will be significant consequences. but in terms of what those specifics look like, we would coordinate with our partners and al thrice make that determination. jake sullivan certainly communicated there would be consequences. yes, as we have also said publicly a number of times. steve: there would be consequences if china does help russia. it s interesting china says the stories russia asked for help that true. that is disinformation from the united states. rachel: yeah. well senator marco rubio says that a number of countries, it s not just china, it s not just russia but many countries that we should be worried about are seeing this complacency, are feeling the weakness of this administration and they are going to make a mo