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Boebert Compares Biden to "Prince John" as GOP Blames Biden for Gas Prices: A Closer Look - YouTube
Channel: Late Night with Seth Meyers
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-Republicans immediately started
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attacking President Biden
for high gas prices
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after he announced a ban
on Russian energy imports,
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while Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky
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bravely defied
an increasingly isolated
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and desperate Vladimir Putin.
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For more on this,
it's time for "A Closer Look."
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鈾櫔
[ Cheering and applause ]
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Authoritarian regimes depend
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on stifling the flow
of information
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and creating alternate realities
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and that can even apply
to the autocrats themselves.
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In fact, dictators often occupy
their own alternate realities,
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which seems to be what's
happening with Vladimir Putin.
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He's the only person
in the world who seems
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to think this is a good idea,
this horrific war,
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and he's increasingly isolated
from outside voices,
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both figuratively and literally.
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He makes even his
highest-ranking officials sit
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at the other end of a giant room
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[ Laughter ]
in televised meetings and,
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even when they sit
at the same table,
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he chooses the longest table
[ Laughter ]
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he can possibly find.
I mean, what's that about?
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It looks like he's playing
shuffleboard in a college bar.
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[ Laughter ]
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Next, he's going
to make them meet
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in the pods
from "Love Is Blind."
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[ Laughter and applause ]
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[ Russian accent ]
Vlad, why are you upset?
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Both Jessica and Lisa said
you are their number one.
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[ As Putin ]
Yes, but I cannot tell
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if they said that
because they like me
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or because they are required
to say it by law.
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[ Laughter ]
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The point is
Putin is clearly isolated,
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even from his top officials.
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In fact, Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky
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is defying Putin
by doing the exact opposite.
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He posted a video of himself
in his office,
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revealing his location
earlier this week,
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despite the fact
that Putin is after him.
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-Just moments ago, Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky
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posted this video on Facebook.
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It's the first time he's been
seen in his official office
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since Russia
invaded his country,
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Zelensky saying,
at the top of the video,
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"I'm staying in Kyiv,
in my office.
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I'm not hiding
and I'm not afraid of anyone."
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-Damn, that is incredibly brave.
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I don't even let
our cue card guy, Wally,
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you know where I am
until the show starts.
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[ Laughter ]
He's always trying to get me
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to invest in his new line
of Wallmark greeting cards.
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[ Laughter ]
-Seth, we have cards
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for every occasion --
birthdays, holidays.
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-No one wants to invest
in this idea!
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-Why?
-The cards are too big!
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-We provide the envelope.
-We will have this
conversation later!
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[ Laughter ]
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-Sounds like someone just went
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from a no to a maybe.
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[ Laughter ]
-Wally!
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[ Laughter ]
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Anyway, Putin, very clearly,
is living in a bubble
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and he wants everyone else
to join him in that bubble.
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His regime has been cracking
down on independent media,
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rounding up protesters
by the thousands,
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and passed a law
making it illegal
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to call Russia's invasion
of Ukraine a war.
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-Tonight, inside Russia,
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the president signing a new law
passed by parliament,
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making it illegal to distribute
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so-called false information
about the military operation.
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Calling the operation
in Ukraine
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an invasion or a war
could be illegal.
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Breaking the law could result
in up to 15 years in prison.
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-That's right, they're not even
allowed to call it
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a war or invasion anymore.
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In fact, the list
of Kremlin-approved
phrases includes...
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...and, of course...
[ Laughter ]
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So Putin is isolated, unhinged,
and disconnected from reality,
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if he thinks it's going
to end well.
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The Russian economy
is being squeezed
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by intense
international sanctions
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and the global condemnation has
been swift and all-encompassing.
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Russia's essentially
been cut off
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from the global
financial system.
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Russian oligarchs are having
their yachts and villas seized,
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major American companies
are suspending
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their business in Russia
and, on top of all that,
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President Biden
announced yesterday
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that the U.S. would ban
all Russian energy imports,
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which might make this a good
time to pause and acknowledge
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how insane it is
that we continue to buy oil
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from brutal regimes,
like Russia and Saudi Arabia,
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as Democratic
Senator Chris Murphy
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pointed out yesterday.
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-Let's just admit the insanity
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of a U.S. economy
that continues to run
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on oil that is provided to us
by dictators.
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The reality is, if we're not
getting this oil from Russia,
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we're likely going
to be importing more
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from another brutal dictator --
in Saudi Arabia, for instance.
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Or we may have to go
to Venezuela for oil.
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We should ultimately learn
our lesson here
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and become energy-independent
and choose to invest
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in clean domestic energy,
so we never have to choose
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between one dictator
versus another.
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-Yeah, I mean,
wouldn't it be nice
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if we could generate
our own clean energy
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through renewable sources,
like wind and solar,
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instead of begging murderous
crazy people not to gouge us?
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Then, at least,
we'd never have to watch
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another U.S. president
hold a weird, glowing orb
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and do a sword dance
with Saudi royals,
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[ Laughter ]
like he's auditioning
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for a non-flipping role
in Cirque du Soleil.
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[ Laughter ]
I will give them credit
for one thing --
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they found a way to make Trump
look even dumber
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than he normally looks,
just bobbing his head,
[ Laughter ]
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wagging around a limp sword
like a wet pool noodle.
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[ Laughter ]
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They should just keep giving him
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increasingly stupid tasks
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and telling him he had to do it
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to please
the Saudi royal family.
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"Alright, Mr. President,
and now,
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we shall commence
the dance of the butterfly."
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[ As Trump ]
Alright, but why am I...
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[ Laughter ]
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...why am I the only one
in wings, guys?
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[ Laughter and applause ]
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Living in a world where
we derive our energy
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from clean, renewable sources
would be so much better,
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for so many obvious reasons,
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including the fact
that it would take power away
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from repressive,
oil-based dictatorships.
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Right now,
they have far too much power
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over both global
and domestic politics
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because,
as you've probably noticed,
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gas prices hit a record high
this week.
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The numbers are so shocking,
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I drove by a station that had...
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...on the sign.
[ Laughter ]
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Both Republicans and Democrats
had called on Biden
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to ban Russian energy --
both parties --
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and yet, you probably won't be
shocked to learn
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that Republicans also attacked
him for high gas prices,
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like Tennessee
Senator Marsha Blackburn,
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who tweeted...
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That's true.
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And, famously,
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that was the only
thing happening in 2020.
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[ Laughter and applause ]
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The low gas year,
as we called it.
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[ Laughter ]
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I'm just spitballing here,
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but maybe low gas prices
had something to do
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with the fact that
we were all trapped in our homes
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and no one was going anywhere.
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Price goes down
when demand goes down.
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That's why you can get
a DVD player for like $11 now
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or a Wallmark card for free.
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[ Laughter ]
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Not now!
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[ Laughter ]
It's easy to lower gas prices
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when no one is using gas
to commute or travel
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or fly on airplanes.
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That's like presiding
over a zombie apocalypse
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and bragging that...
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[ Laughter ]
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But, yeah,
now that you mention it,
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I do remember
when I was fleeing the city
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to avoid a highly contagious
respiratory virus
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that decimated the U.S. economy
and trapped everyone
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in their homes
without toilet paper,
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not knowing if their jobs
would ever come back
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or their families would survive,
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looking up at the gas prices
and thinking,
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"Wow, $2.17 a gallon."
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[ Laughter ]
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"Thank you, President Trump."
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[ Laughter and applause ]
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Just to clear a few things up,
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Biden has actually
outpaced Trump
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in issuing drilling permits,
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despite promising to end
new drilling on federal land.
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Also, it's worth noting that oil
companies profits soared
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to $174 billion in 2021.
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Chevron, alone, raked in
over $15 billion
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in annual profits
and, in February,
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BP reported its highest profit
in eight years.
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Maybe they could use some
of that money
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to lower gas prices,
instead of stock buybacks
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or shooting glossy
commercials full
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of healthy-looking sea turtles,
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or, at the very least,
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they could pay
for some better programing
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on those damn gas station
TV screens.
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[ Laughter ]
I mean, what kind of low-rent
TV show agrees
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to be shown
on the outside of a gas pump?
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Good evening, I'm Seth Meyers.
This is "Late Night."
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[ Laughter ]
We hope you're
doing well tonight
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and, now, we are going
to get to the news.
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Damn it!
I forgot we made that deal.
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[ Laughter ]
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Even worse, when we made it,
they said,
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"We can pay you in gas
or Slim Jims,"
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and I yelled, "Slim Jims!"
[ Laughter ]
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I mean, I was thinking,
if anything was due
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to have a price hike,
you know...
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[ Laughter ]
At some point, they're going
to run out of Jims.
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[ Laughter ]
So the GOP complaints
about gas prices
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are obviously cynical,
hollow politics
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and, by far,
the dumbest example came
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from Colorado Congresswoman
Lauren Boebert
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on Fox News last night,
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when she tried to slam
the Biden administration,
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but seemed to lose her
train of thought.
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-Here's Biden's energy policy --
anyone but America.
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OPEC, Venezuela, you name it.
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If it's not American energy,
Joe doesn't want it.
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Jesse, under President Trump,
America became net --
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a net energy exporter
for the first time in decades
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and became the world's
number one producer in oil.
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President Trump unleashed
our energy potential.
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So I say we should be relying
on our guys to do the work,
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not OPEC.
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And I don't know who's running
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the federal government,
these days,
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Joe Biden
or Prince John from, uh,
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Prince John.
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[ Laughter ]
-Yeah.
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You know, Prince John,
from Prince John.
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[ Laughter ]
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In all seriousness --
and I want to be charitable here
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because she's a member
of Congress
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and an elected official,
so, even if we disagree,
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I want to engage with her
in good faith --
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here's my sincere
and honest question --
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What the [bleep]
are you talking about?
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[ Laughter and applause ]
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That was like when you're
watching a movie with your mom
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and she says, "Hey, it's
that guy from 'Goodfellas,'"
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and you say, "Yeah,
we're watching 'Goodfellas.'"
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[ Laughter ]
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I mean, just to try
and figure out
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what she might be talking about,
I Googled "Prince John"
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and this was
on the first page of results.
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-This crown gives me a feeling
[ Laughter and applause ]
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of power!
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Power!
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Forgive me a cruel chuckle.
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[ Chuckle ]
Power.
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-In fairness, he is
a political figure, I guess,
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[ Laughter ]
Prince John.
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You know, from Prince John.
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[ Laughter ]
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I'm sure,
in an alternate timeline,
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Lauren Boebert isn't
in Congress.
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She's just writing hate mail
to Disney,
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to complain about how rarely
they open the vault.
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[ As Boebert ]
Thanks to Joe Biden,
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Cruella can only afford
seventy-eight dalmatians.
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[ Laughter ]
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This person should not be
an elected official.
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From now on,
instead of calling her
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Congresswoman Lauren Boebert,
I'm just going to call her
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Lauren Boebert
from Lauren Boebert.
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[ Laughter ]
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As we're seeing play out
in real time now,
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autocracies and dictatorships
depend on stifling the truth,
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which is why Putin is
so desperate
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to crack down
an independent media
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and stay isolated,
even from his closest officials.
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We should be investing in clean,
renewable energy sources,
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so we don't have to buy oil
from dictators anymore.
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You know, from Saudi Arabia
or from Vladimir Putin, or...
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-From, uh, Prince John.
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[ Laughter ]
-This has been "A Closer Look."
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