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American imports, it has an impact on the market that has an impact on consumers, that has an impact on political attitudes, but as i indicated earlier, they have less and less choice in the matter because of the political pressure. one of the things you have to wonder is as this war goes on, does that erode the constraints on deployment of american military power and nato military power? has it yet? that's a line that they have held so far, but you've got to wonder how much that pressure creates a desire for change. >> and it will be important and interesting to hear what the president's mess...

National average reached an all-time high of $4.17 according to aaa. vanessa yurkevich with another perspective on this, live with more on the new jersey turnpike. vanessa, what are you hearing there about what we've been discussing here so far? the real impact of this new ban, the real impact of high gas prices already. >> reporter: americans woke up this morning, kate, to record high gas prices. we saw a 10 cent jump overnight up to $4.17 a gallon, right behind me, 10 cents more, $4.27 a gallon. a ten cent jump is a lot for a month and we saw this just in 24 hours and we saw a 55 cent jump i...

Wrong, polling has shown americans seem open to paying more at the pump, at least saying that maybe before it's happened, in order to do something to ukraine, to do something to stop vladimir putin, but gas prices and inflation in general are, have already been an issue for this administration, even before the war in ukraine. >> reporter: that's right. it's one thing to give that answer to a pollster saying, should you be willing to sacrifice to help ukraine, that sounds like the right answer. it's entirely another thing to consider the effect on public and political attitudes when those price...

And i'm going to hold on that until we get more information. thank you. appreciate it. >> all right. you're listening to president biden there making that big announcement. banning russian oil imports into the united states. back with me now, cnn white house correspondent john harwood and catherine ranpal. they target the main artery of russia, with this announcement, what did you hear? >> reporter: i heard a president trying to shield himself from the blowback for this step in multiple ways. he called it putin's price hike. he warned oil companies not to gouge. condition americans to think so...

Lot any administration can do quickly. >> that's the issue here, as john pointed out, the options are lose, lose, lose. we look weak with regard to putin or we make a deal with a different devil, venezuela, saudi, iran, for example, or american consumers absorb a lot more pain. and there's no free lunch here. i think you hear a lot of republicans arguing there's a free lunch. we can ramp up the supply, but that's a fantasy, at least in the very near term. there's a long lag between the time that an oil producer gets out, for example, leases a new rig and we get additional supply online. so no ...