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Biden should鈥檝e imposed sanctions months ago: Sen. Hagerty - YouTube
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let's go to senator bill hagerty the
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tennessee republican sits on the senate
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farm relations committee senator very
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good to have you thanks for joining us
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it's good to be with you
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here from cpac today
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okay got it senator let me ask you uh
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we were speaking up to to a woman and
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she represents so many ukrainians she's
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holed up in a shelter with her three
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young children her husband is is
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fighting on the front so to speak
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and she she wants immediate aid but she
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wants military help she wants soldiers
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she wants nato to realize the threat
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that's going on that would appear very
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unlikely but you would know more than i
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what do you think
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well i certainly appreciate her
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sentiment uh i think the ukrainians feel
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very much left alone a lot of tough talk
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but not a lot of action we had the
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opportunity neil to impose sanctions on
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russia early on we should have done this
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months ago weeks ago that would have had
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an impact of deterrence
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now what we're talking about are
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sanctions that may have some impact in
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terms of penal penalization but it's not
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going to have any deterrent in fact
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obviously and if we step back and say
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what caused this what precipitated this
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well it's the very myopic green energy
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policies that the bidet administration
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started back in january of 2021 when we
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declared war on the oil and gas industry
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here that elevated energy prices around
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the world you know vladimir putin and
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russia one of the largest producers of
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energy ever that windfall has come to
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putin that windfall has basically fueled
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the war machine that putin is now
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deploying on ukraine i can understand
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why she feels vulnerable and left behind
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all right well there are a lot of
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republicans maybe you were saying this
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at the time to implement the sanctions
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immediately when he was just building
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forces it's a moot point now senator but
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i am curious then uh if the president
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does you know
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twist enough european arms to to take
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russia out of swift and all of this
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there are many people who feel this kind
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of these kind of actions that even the
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actions we're considering against the
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russians on energy is going to lead to
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higher prices
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still and i i am i'm wondering uh
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whether
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the senate whether you in particular are
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open to options to deal with that or
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whether uh
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there should be a push to drop the
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federal gasoline tax or states to drop
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the gasoline tax their own gasoline tax
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to open up uh
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you know the strategic petroleum reserve
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are you open to all of the above
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what what that indicates to menia when
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they talk about opening the strategic
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petroleum reserve or dropping the gas
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tax is that the democrats are finally
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realizing they're coming into an
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election year what they should do is go
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back to the energy independence that we
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established in the prior administration
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they should be announcing today that
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we're reopening the keystone xl pipeline
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that we're going to be drilling on
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federal lands we need to become energy
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independent again that puts us in a
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position to come to the aid of our
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allies not just driving up prices around
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the world and fueling vladimir putin's
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war machine
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do you really think though senator that
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whether gasoline and
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oil prices were high or not that
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vladimir putin
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wouldn't have done this in other words
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they didn't rock it i understand what
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you're saying that it's the currency
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uses to do what he does
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but he was doing all of this and
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building and getting very provocative in
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his actions
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long before any of that was going on
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well certainly we started the the oil
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inflation uh early early on in this past
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administration but if you look at what
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happened between putin and president
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biden along the way the very first
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negotiate negotiation that they
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encountered was the new start treaty the
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previous administration held back on
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that start treaty because we were trying
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to encompass more of russia's vast
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nuclear arsenal to get more for it biden
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came and gave him a five-year extension
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for nothing the next thing you had
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russian hackers hit the colonial
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pipeline there were zero consequences
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for that neil zero consequences instead
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president biden comes with a list of 16
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industries that putin should not attack
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again what sort of what sort of resolve
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does that demonstrate in the nordstream
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ii pipeline these were congressionally
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mandated sanctions that biden waved
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putin's been dealt with don't these go
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back senator i i i understand where
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you're coming from sir but if you think
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about it you can go back
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you know
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ever since the fall of the berlin wall
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and administrations that sort of guessed
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at vladimir putin and the russians in
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general wrong
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you know what from from i remember
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george w bush saying he looked into his
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eyes and was very hopeful that you know
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there's a chance for us to find common
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ground
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putin took advantage of him he took
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advantage of barack obama
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and back and forth over presidents of
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either party is it safe to say
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that
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we as a country
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underestimated him and are ruining the
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day
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yes neil i think you're exactly right i
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think this approach that you just
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described has been quite naive and i
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don't know why people didn't wake up in
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2014 when putin stepped in and took
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crimea again he's looking for weakness
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your previous guest talked about him you
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know a lot liking them to a shark that's
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looking for blood in the water what he's
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looking for is weakness and i say after
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the fall of afghanistan he saw a
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weakness on display like never before so
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you've got putin stepping in and again
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striking at a point of weakness and
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you've got his friends like president xi
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uh standing in a position that
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essentially is encouraging it
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all right senator thank you i know
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you're at cpac right now keep us posted
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how things are going there reaction from
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those attending that conservative
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conference
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