joining me now to break down monica
crowley former u.s department
of the treasury assistant secretary for
public affairs monica good evening to
you and always great to see you
you know we see a decision made by the
administration here let's be
uh less friendly to energy here at home
but let's go ahead and
do this for the russians essentially
putting a feather in their cap
and strengthening what they're doing
abroad it just it doesn't make sense to
so many people
and to the point of edward's report so
many people more than 10 000 people
in this country lost their jobs from the
cancellation of keystone
where are those green jobs that we're
supposed to come
yes well don't hold your breath jackie
you know he's always so nice to be on
with you don't hold your breath for
those green jobs not quite yet anyway
look this decision
is full-fledged america last and i
suppose according to president biden
it's russian pipelines good america
pipelines
bad now they decided to go ahead with
this pipeline even though early on they
expressed
opposition to it and what this tells me
is they always intended to go forward
with it and they're saying it was a fate
accompli
however this is an outrageous surrender
to russia
and an abandonment of our key allies
including ukraine
and our good friends in poland and
elsewhere in central
and eastern europe because what this
does is give vladimir putin
everything he he wants it gives him more
efficient energy outflows
out of russia into central and eastern
europe
but it also gives him key extortionary
leverage
over ukraine poland and so many of our
allies that
are free countries that we should
actually be supporting and not throwing
under the bus
and that's exactly what we're doing with
this decision to go ahead
it's empowering russia it's empowering
vladimir putin
and if president trump had made this
decision impeachment proceedings would
have already begun
well he would have never made the
decision right because to your point he
put american energy
first and that was one of the first
things that he did when he came into
office he was energy friendly he wanted
to make sure we were a top
producer of petroleum products he wanted
to make sure that we were not relying
on other parts of the world you've got
this administration basically reversing
all of that
yes that's exactly right and look for
decades
you had politicians and presidents on
both sides of the
aisle jackie talking about the need to
get the united states to energy
independence away from middle east oil
away from countries like
russia and and venezuela and others that
are energy rich
but don't like us very much and are
particularly hostile
to the values america stands for so
politicians have been talking about this
for a long time and in four
short years president trump actually
accomplished it
now president biden has thrown it into
reverse and he's made us
energy dependent again again on regimes
and and places of the world that don't
like us
and you know in the end who is end up
going to do uh pay for this
is hard-working americans who are
already seeing their gas prices go
through the roof
they are and they're feeling it that
pain at the pump is real
um i covered energy for a long time
monica i i would always say it wasn't
just about the economy the domestic
economy but that it was about
national security what kind of message
does this send
to our other foes across the world we
talk every night on this program about
iran we talk about
china um when you're sort of giving
vladimir putin this kind of leeway
it shows that this administration is
interested in placating
our foes and and in some sense
empowering them
this decision on nordstream 2
economically
empowers vladimir putin the russian
economy is is very weak
and essentially the only real commodity
that they have
is energy it's oil and natural gas and
this administration has turned around
and given vladimir putin
a real weapon to use against our allies
in a real economic step
up so if you're other adversaries of the
united states around the world if you're
north korea if you're venezuela if
you're
the cuban government and and others you
take a look at this and you think
that this administration can be played
and that they can weaponize
all kinds of things against this
administration which is so desperate to
be liked
instead of instead of inculcating
respect and frankly fear
with our adversaries this administration
is interested
in developing good positive
relationships with them
so if you're are america's enemies you
think that you can work this
administration and get exactly what you
want
and that means greater american weakness
and and
all kinds of uh bad consequences for the
american consumer
particularly in the sense of higher
prices but also
in in terms of greater jeopardy in terms
of national security and i think that's
what some leaders across the globe
thought
when they saw the results after the
election we're going to be able to walk
all over this administration
monica crowley great to see you thank
you