Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.

Welcome back in play Travis, Buck Sexton show from KTRH down in Houston.

We are having a fantastic time looking forward to seeing a lot of you at our event.

Texas barbecue beer and boband tonight in the Houston area.

Buck, one of the big discussion points around Ukraine has been that we are effectively

fueling both sides of the conflict. We're giving hundreds of millions of dollars in support and

material to Ukraine while we are simultaneously buying 600,000 barrels of oil from Russia every day,

giving them tens of millions of dollars every single day as the price of oil continues to go up.

And so there has been a discussion surrounding why in the world would we continue to give any money

at all to Russia while we're engaged in the sanctions that we're trying to economically provide

a great deal of hardship. A lot of a lot of money, by the way, as well.

Yeah, tens of millions of dollars every day. And so Joe Manchin addressed this. And by the way,

Joe Manchin has been one of the most reasonable people in the Democratic Party maybe by far the

most reasonable person. You notice at the state of the union, he actually set with the Republicans,

which I thought was somewhat intriguing. We'll see what he decides to do in 2024 in a couple of

years, whether he runs for the Senate again, whether he potentially becomes an independent, whether

he starts to caucus with Republicans, who knows. But he says, we talked about this the other day,

sometimes you have to have difficult discussions. And the question is, okay, if you're not going to

take Russian oil, how much more are you willing to pay for gas in order to support Ukraine? He says

he gladly pay more, but is he talking about paying enough more? Let's listen to cut 15 here.

You need a horsepower to run a country. You need a horsepower to be the superpower of the

world and be able to have your allies depend on you. And we haven't been there for that. We've

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