Biden Blocks Russian Oil and How Weak Leadership Led to Invasion, with Ric Grenell, Michael Shellenberger, and John Daniel Davidson | Ep. 275

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by author and journalist Michael Shellenberger, former ambassador to Germany and acting DNI Ric Grenell, and John Daniel Davidson, senior editor for The Federalist, to talk about President Biden's decision to block oil imports from Russia, the cost of green activism, the real cost of renewables and coal, how nuclear power can help Europe and the U.S. in this current Russia crisis, what will happen to America's economy because of the conflict, the symbolic gestures of "helping" Ukraine, Poland stepping up to help Ukraine, the truth about Germany's role in Russia's rise, where the U.S. fits in the invasion, the Democrats' opposition to Trump's policies they are now supporting, the difference between Trump and Biden's foreign policy, the background to who Ukrainian President Zelensky is and what Ukraine's role in the world, one way Russia's Ukraine invasion could actually end, what a "no fly zone" really means, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:15.0	So much news to get to today as the implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine grow.
0:20.5	And just a bit, we are going to be joined by Rick Grinnell, who's got a lot of thoughts
0:24.2	on how tough diplomacy might have helped avoid some of this.
0:28.7	But first, after facing pressure from Republicans and more importantly from Democrats, his own
0:35.9	party, President Joe Biden just announced a short time ago that the United States will ban
0:41.6	Russian oil imports.
0:43.4	Now, the U.S. only gets about 7% of its oil from Russia, but it's a move the president
0:49.0	was nonetheless reluctant to do because we've got gas prices hitting an all-time record
0:53.6	high right now. And there's some reporting out of Fox News right now and the New York
0:58.8	Times as well, sort of dovetails on it, suggesting weirdly, this was a weird race between Joe
1:04.2	Biden and his democratic colleagues over in the Congress to see who could ban the Russian
1:09.4	oil imports first.
1:10.4	They were going to make them look bad.
1:12.1	So we ran out to the mic to say, I'm banning, I'm the one who did it.
1:17.3	So what does it mean?
1:18.5	Anything?
1:19.5	There's no better person to ask than Michael Schellenberger. For years, he's been the best
1:24.2	selling author of the book Apocalypse Never.
1:27.0	He has been warning the United States and Europe that these delusional green energy policies
1:33.2	we've been pushing were leaving us and our European friends to reliant on countries like
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