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Existential crisis going on in the administration where you have some folks that say, oh, we can just go back to the old way and some folks like u.s. trade representative katheryn thai that say, no, we need new rules. we have to come up with new ways to get access and also protect u.s. jobs and labor. >> i want to talk about whats happening in the europe, iran and russia. a lot of people ask me, why does this matter for americans. you call this and say ukraine is potentially a european vietnam. ...

>> there still nordstrom one there still liquefied natural gas shipments and by the way energy prices are much higher in europe right now than they traditionally are. it does have an impact on individuals pocketbooks and upon their economy. weve already seen a kind of hint of that leverage. it could obviously increase should the russians decide to further exploit you. >> strongly encouraging me and what we heard us talk about this a moment ago encouraging americans in ukraine to leave as soon as...

Of changing that reality. my guest today is yuriy vitrenko, ceo of ukraines biggest energy company, naftogaz. as kyiv and moscow face—off, where does the economic leverage lie? yuriy vitrenko, welcome to hardtalk. hello. what is it like trying to run one of ukraines biggest, most important businesses in this current climate of crisis? under current circumstances, of course, its a very hot seat because i have to do a lot

Drilled for oil and gas here in states like ohio, where i am, pennsylvania, west virginia, texas, colorado, the list goes on and on. we could be energy dependent and exporter of natural gas to europe and compete with putin. and instead of european countries relying on them, they could rely on the united states. this is a crisis that is created by weakness out of the biden white house. >> todd: historians will study biden and put this on the level as nevelle cham berlains appeasement of hitler. i...

After, you know, his meeting with the german chancellor earlier in the week saying, you know, the moment germany gets cheaper energy supplies or five times lower than the global rate from its gas supplies from russia, but if theres going to be a change in the future it essentially wouldnt be his fault if germans looked in their pocketbooks and found they had less supplies because the gas costs had gone up. there is no doubt president putin sees energy supplies as a means of leverage over differe...

They have converted a lot of their dollars to robles. setting up all these trade agreements with china. to ensure that someone is there to buy the oil and gas if europe turned away from them. they are doing certain things to shield themselves. but it isnt possible for any country, even north korea the most isolated country, to completely shield oneself from sanctions. russia, unlike a country like north korea, is very heavily integrated into the international financial system. that works to thei...

>> thanks. i have a question about the sanctions and its largely symantec, so i will leave that until later. on nord stream 2, you guys have been saying for months, indeed for over a year since the waivers were first granted that this gave you additional leverage and would serve as a deterrent. clearly it didnt -- they didnt provide you with any leverage at all that we can tell because of what you just said in your opening statement about the invasion beginning. so how do you explain to people w...

Ought to be the dismantling of our protections against climate change. it ought to prompt is a wholesale effort to wean europe off of russian oil and gas so that russia can no longer use that as leverage against europe. >> the u.s. just became a net producer of energy a few years ago. even if the u.s. did crank up energy production, it could only sustain europe for a short time. expect efforts to put energy provisions into a big omnibus spending bill to fund the government before the march 11th ...

Sanctions we can impose on russia. but its singing from the same hymnal that the german if chancellor has sung from as well. too many of these european nations have made themselves beholden to russian gas and, therefore, russia has leverage over them. if we wanted to truly punish russia for invading ukraine, and maybe as important if we want to send the signal to china about what would happen were they to invade taiwan in the months and years ahead, its obvious which sanctions we should impose. ...

Further in the incursion. seeing similar gains in the asian pacific region. u.s. futures, expect it to have a turn around as well. green arrows right across the board after global stocks stumbled, remember, on tuesday. then a quick look at oil. currently steady reaching nearly $100 a barrel although experts did predict this and heres what gasoline prices look like currently around the u.s. as youre waking up this morning. the national average sitting at $3.53. that is nearly $1 more compared to ...