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Dollars worth of goods through these locks across the country every single year. when they're not working, it creates choke points. barges break up, goods don't get to where they need to go. bob casey has been on my back about this for so long. as we get this montgomery lock project done, i think we should call it the casey lock. bobby, i didn't know anyone in scranton who knew what a lock was, you know what i mean? but all kidding aside, it's going to happen. it's going to happen. i've also announced after consulting with my friend, cecil roberts, president of the united mine workers, a plan ...

To pass through. we move about a half a trillion dollars worth of goods through the locks like these across the country every single year. when we're not -- when they're not working, it creates choke points. barges break up. goods don't get to where they need to go. bob casey has been on my back about this for so long. as we get this montgomery lock down, i think we should call it the casey lock. [ applause ] i didn't know anybody in scanton knew what a lock wa. all kidding aside, it's going to happen. it's foing to hap-- going to happen. i also announced plan to cap oil and gas wells and oil ...

Arresting people in the blockade? >> i'm not going to weigh in on how they proceed. i'm going to tell you, though, they have to get it done. using whatever tool it takes to safely and swiftly is what we are calling on them to do. >> this might become even more your problem, though. truckers are expected to pop up around the u.s. how do you plan to handle that? >> well, michigan has already responded. we have done a number of things to try to alleviate some of the choke points, whether it is rerouting certain parts of the traffic, supplementing with additional people working at the border. but ...

Out today in the city of vonkiv just northeast of kyiv. and ukrainian defense forces take this thing out. it's one of the reasons why you are seeing despite the fact that ukraine has pretty small numbers in comparison to the russian forces they are taking out some of these armored columns. you just heard from trey about this long armored column that the russians have. it's past the gostomel air base here and goes about 40 will miles. office of the president from downtown. can you imagine this column is continuing. but they are going in to small choke points to get into the center of kyiv. and ...

To protect americans from russian retaliation? particularly i think when people hear they may be vulnerable to cyber attacks they start to get nervous when they log in on their computer every morning. >> i think there are several steps. the u.s. government has been warning the critical infrastructure sectors for many weeks now to be on the lookout for new phases of attacks. certainly, the financial sector needs to be on the lookout for denial of service attacks and other types of attacks. we know that the russians not only directly but indirectly through proxies use ransomware attacks and othe...