Right now, right now, the roads lead back to allowing those permit applications to move forward. Have you heard the president announce those permit applications and move forward? That'd be a powerful signal. Right then and there. We have to recognize what gives Vladimir Putin strength. It's his oil and gas reserves, Europe's dependence on it. We need to break that dependence. We got to break that monopoly. You know what, even if Keystone was up and running, it's still a drop in the bucket in terms of. (05:15–05:21)
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Asserts that Vladimir Putin's strength comes from oil and gas reserves and Europe's dependence on them.
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