ANYWAY, THAT IS MY RIFF THIS
EVENING.
SO WITH GREAT PLEASURE JOINING
ME NOW IS HOUSE REPUBLICAN WHIP
MY FRIEND STEVE SCALISE.
MR. SCALISE, AS ALWAYS SIR,
WELCOME BACK.
AND YOU KNOW, I’M JUST TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT, THE BOSS IS GOING TO
MEET WITH THE WINDMILL MAKERS
BUT HE WON’T MEET WITH THE
FOSSIL FUEL CEOs WHO COULD
ACTUALLY SOLVE THIS PROBLEM?
YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS TO ME.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS FOR YOU,
STEVE SCALISE, YOU HAVE TO
EXPLAIN THIS TO ME ON INDUSTRY
AND PRODUCTION GROUNDS.
YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT TO ME ON
POLITICAL GROUNDS.
I DON’T GET EITHER.
>> LARRY, FIRST IT IS GREAT TO
BE WITH YOU.
I WISH YOU WERE STILL IN THE
WHITE HOUSE BECAUSE WHEN YOU
WERE IN THE WHITE HOUSE WITH
PRESIDENT TRUMP WE WERE ENERGY
INDEPENDENT.
WE KNEW WHAT IT TOOK ACTUALLY
NOT ONLY GET OUR COUNTRY
INDEPENDENT FROM FOREIGN OIL BUT
TO LOWER GAS PRICES, CREATE A
MANUFACTURING BASE WHERE WE
CREATE MILLIONS OF GOOD JOBS,
REBUILD THE MIDDLE CLASS.
ALL OF THAT WAS HAPPENING.
JOE BIDEN CAMPAIGNED, GO BACK TO
WHEN HE WAS A CANDIDATE, HE SAID
HE WOULD STOP TRIALING IN
AMERICA.
HE WOULD GO AFTER THE FOSSIL
FUEL INDUSTRY.
MANY TOP EXPERTS WANTED TO
BANKRUPT OF OIL AND GAS
INDUSTRY, DAY ONE, DAY TOOK OATH
OF OFFICE, SET OUT A ACHIEVE
JUST THAT, KILL AMERICAN ENERGY.
IT HAD A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON
THE MIDDLE CLASS.
THE ANSWER IS REAL CLEAR.
YOU OPEN AMERICAN ENERGY.
STOP BEGGING FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
HE WAS BEGGING PUTIN TO PRODUCE
MORE OIL.
HE WILL GET ON AIR FORCE ONE, AS
HE IS TILTING AT WINDMILLS HERE,
HE IS FLYING AIR FORCE ONE TO
SAUDI ARABIA, TO GO BEG THEM TO
PRODUCE MORE OIL.
HE DOESN’T HAVE SOLAR PANELS ON
AIR FORCE ONE.
IT IS JET FUEL.
THE PRICE IS SO HIGH, IT WILL
KEEP GETTING HIGHER, THEY’RE
CARTELS, THEY’RE MONOPOLIES.
THEY DON’T WANT PRICE TO BE
LOWER.
IF WE OPEN UP AMERICAN ENERGY,
WHEN WE HAD LEASE SALES AND HE
PERMITTED PIPELINES AND
PERMITTED SEISMIC DATA ABILITY,
IF HE PERMITTED LNG EXPORTS WE
WOULD SEE THE PRICE LOWER HERE
AND WE WOULD BE ABLE TO HELP OUR
FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD.
OUR FRIENDS IN EUROPE WOULDN’T
BE DEPENDENT ON RUSSIAN GAS, OUR
FRIEND IN ASIA.
THIS HAS GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES BUT
IT IS CRUSHING MIDDLE CLASS
FAMILIES WHAT JOE BIDEN HAS DONE
BECAUSE HE HAS GOT PEOPLE
RUNNING HIS AGENCIES PART OF
THIS CULT RELIGION WHERE THEY
HATE AMERICAN ENERGY, FOSSIL
FUEL BASED ENERGY.
THEY’RE GETTING IT FROM OTHER
COUNTRIES.
THEY’RE NOT GETTING IT FROM
AMERICA.
IT IS HURTING FAMILIES.
LARRY: STEVE SCALISE, I WAS
TALKING TO ONE OF THE
PARTICIPANTS, SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS
YOU QUITE WELL BY THE WAY
BECAUSE YOUR NAME CAME UP, I
SAID YOU WERE COMING ON THE SHOW
TONIGHT, HE DIDN’T KNOW, THE
BIDEN, THE PRESIDENT WAS GOING
TO MEET WITH THE WIN TURBINE
FOLKS.
HE DIDN’T KNOW THAT.
HE THOUGHT MAYBE HE WAS OUT OF
TOWN, MUST BE A REASON WHY BIDEN
WOULDN’T MEET WITH TOP CEOs OF
AMERICA’S BIGGEST OIL COMPANIES,
WHEN HE HEARD ABOUT IT, WELL
NOW, DOESN’T THAT JUST SAY IT
ALL.
I THINK DOESN’T THAT JUST SAY IT
ALL, THAT IS THE MESSAGE, BIDEN
HAS BEEN VERY CONSISTENT ABOUT
THIS, HE DOESN’T CARE FOR THEM.
HE DOESN’T LIKE THEM.
AND HE IS NOT GOING TO HELP
THEM.
AND YET HE WILL GO OUT AND IN
THESE PRESS CONFERENCES, FOR
EXAMPLE, JENNIFER GRANHOLM WHO
BY THE WAY WAS NOT INSULTING
OKAY?
IT WAS A CONSTRUCTIVE MEETING
ALTHOUGH NOTHING HAPPENED, SHE
IS SAYING THEY PUT OUT THIS
PRESS RELEASE, STEVE SCALISE,
THE SECRETARY MADE CLEAR THE
ADMINISTRATION BELIEVE IT IS
IMPERATIVE THAT COMPANIES BRING
SUPPLY ONLINE TO GET MORE GAS
TOOT PUMP AT LOWER PRICES.
SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME,
SIR.
HOW DO YOU DO THAT IF YOU CAN’T
GET PERMITS TO DRILL, BUILD
REFINERIES, PIPELINES, CHANGE
THE JONES ACT?
HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
I MEAN IT’S A GREAT IDEA BUT HOW
DOES THE WIND DO THAT?
>> YOU AND I KNOW, IT IS NOT
THAT COMPLICATED, SHE COULD PICK
UP THE PHONE, MORE IMPORTANTLY
JOE BIDEN COULD PICK UP THE
PHONE CALL HIS SECRETARY
INTERIOR, ISSUE A LEASE SALE.
HE CANCELED THE LEASE SALE BY
THE WAY, LARRY.
JOE BIDEN DID THAT.
THAT IS VIOLATION OF LAW.
THERE IS LAWSUITS GOING ON RIGHT
NOW WHERE THE COURTS SAID HE
NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE
LEASE SALE.
HE WOULDN’T DO IT.
HE COULD APPROVE PERMITS.
THERE ARE AT LEAST FOUR LNG
EXPORT FACILITY PERMITS ON HIS
DESK HE WON’T APPROVE.
THESE HAVE BEEN ON THE DESK OVER
A YEAR, PRIVATELY-FUNDED,
MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR PROJECTS
THAT WOULD CREATE GREAT AMERICAN
JOBS, HIGH PAYING JOBS PRODUCING
ENERGY IN AMERICA, SENDING IT TO
OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AND THE GLOBE TO LOWER ENERGY
COSTS AND HE WON’T APPROVE ANY
OF THOSE.
SO HE IS THE ONE STOPPING IT.
HE BLAMES EVERYBODY.
BLAMING OIL COMPANIES.
BLAMES PUTIN.
BLAMED THE PANDEMIC.
BLAMED LOCAL GAS STATIONS.
HE IS BLAMING EVERYBODY BUT
HIMSELF BUT THE PUBLIC KNOWS
BETTER.
THE PUBLIC ALREADY FIGURED THIS
OUT.
THEY KNOW IT’S JOE BIDEN DOING.
THIS WHY HIS POLL NUMBERS ARE SO
LOW.
HE IS BEHOLD BEHOLDEN TO RADICAL
FAR LEFT WHO HATES AMERICAN
FOSSIL FUELS.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM HE CAN’T
STAND UP TO THEM, TELL THEM
KNOW.
HE DEMONIZES EVERYBODY ELSE AND
CRUSHES MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES
WITH HIGH GAS PRICES, HIGH HOME
ELECTRICITY PRICES WE HAVEN’T
EVEN TALKED ABOUT THIS.
THIS IS HAVING RIPPLE EFFECT ON
ABILITY TO MANUFACTURE, ABILITY
TO HEAT YOUR HOME IN THE SUMMER
AND TOE COOL YOUR HOME IN THE
SUMMER AND HEAT YOUR HOME IN THE
WINTER.
THAT IS JACKING UP PRICES TOO ON
THOSE FAMILIES.
LARRY: I’M NOT SMART ENOUGH, I
AM NOT SMART ENOUGH TO
UNDERSTAND POLITICS, I THOUGHT
JOE BIDEN KNOWS ABOUT POLITICS.
THIS ELECTION IN THE FALL ABOUT
INFLATION, GAS PRICES, GROCERY
PRICES, THERE ARE OTHER ISSUES,
PARENTAL CONTROL IN THE SCHOOLS
AND THESE CRT CANCEL CULTURE
FIGHTS, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
I THINK THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE IS
INFLATION.
THAT IS TO SAY GASOLINE AT THE
PUMP WHICH IS DAMAGING
EVERYBODY.
STEVE SCALISE, NUMBER ONE ISSUE
OF INFLATION, NUMBER TWO ISSUE
OF RECESSION.
DO YOU THINK, BIDEN DOESN’T GET
THIS?
HE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THIS.
SO HE IS GOING TO STAY RIGIDLY
IN THE GREENIE CAMP?
>> YEAH.
YOU KNOW SOME OF HIS OWN CABINET
AND OTHER EXECUTIVES ARE HAVING
A DISAGREEMENT WITH HIM.
YOU SAW JEROME POWELL
RECOGNIZING THAT THIS IS DRIVING
INFLATION.
INFLATION WILL BE THE NUMBER ONE
ISSUE IN THE ELECTION IN
NOVEMBER.
HIGH GAS PRICES ARE A BIG PART
OF THAT, AS YOU’RE GOING TO THE
BROSRY STORE, YOU’RE PAYING
MORE.
THAT IS HURTING FAMILIES.
WHEN YOU FILL UP THE VEHICLE,
LOOK 90% OF CARS ON THE ROAD ARE
FUELED BY GASOLINE.
SO THIS IDEA THAT YOU KNOW
EVERYBODY CAN GET ELECTRIC CAR
WE’RE GOING TO SEE INCREASE IN
ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
BY THE WAY, LARRY, WHERE DO YOU
GET THE ENERGY FOR THAT ELECTRIC
CAR.
YOU DON’T PLUG IT INTO A TREE.
YOU PLUG IT INTO AN OUTLET
GENERATING FOSSIL FUEL POWER AND
THEY’RE TAKING THAT AWAY, SO THE
PRICE KEEPS GOING UP.
PEOPLE KNOW THAT JOE BIDEN’S
POLICIES ARE DRIVING IT.
THEY’RE ANGRY.
THEY’RE ANGRY ABOUT THE BORDER
TOO.
THEY’RE ANGRY ABOUT PARENTAL
INVOLVEMENT IN KIDS EDUCATION.
ALL THOSE THINGS WORK AGAINST
JOE BIDEN.
HE KEEPS GOING DOWN THAT ROAD.
TAKING AWAY GUNS,
TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTION ON
DEMAND THAT IS THE BIDEN’S
ADMINISTRATION FOCUSED ON THEIR
ENERGY.
THEY SHOULD FOCUS ON AMERICAN
ENERGY.
THEY’RE NOT, THEY’RE SHUTTING IT
DOWN.
LARRY: STEVE SCALISE, LAST ONE,
APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AS ALWAYS,
LOOK, THESE HIGH PRICES,
100-DOLLAR PLUS OIL, OF COURSE
5-DOLLAR GASOLINE, 100-DOLLAR
WORLD OIL PRICE, WE ARE STILL
FINANCING THE RUSSIAN WAR
MACHINE IN UKRAINE.
REPORTS ARE COMING IN THAT
RUSSIAN OIL PRODUCTION IS NOW
BACK TO THE PRE-WAR HIGH WHICH
WAS ABOUT 10 MILLION BARRELS A
DAY.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE SANCTIONS
IMPOSED, KNOCKED THEIR SALES
DOWN, FOR A FEW MONTHS BUT
BECAUSE INDIA AND CHINA ARE BACK
HELPING RUSSIA AND BUYING UP THE
OIL, THEY’RE PRETTY CLOSE TO
WHERE THEY WERE PRE-WAR.
SO THE LACK OF SUPPLIES HERE
WHICH GOES BACK TO THE
REGULATORY PROBLEM WITH THE
PERMITTING AND SO FOR THE, WE
ARE STILL FINANCING PUTIN’S WAR
AGAINST UKRAINE.
THAT IS WHERE THIS IS LEADING
TO.
AND I DON’T KNOW IF BIDEN HAS
ANYTHING ABOUT THAT.
THAT IS THE PRACTICAL REALITY.
I GIVE YOU THE LAST WORD, SIR.
>> LARRY, UNFORTUNATELY WHAT
YOU’RE POINTING OUT IS CORRECT.
WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS
FOR A FEW MONTHS NOW.
JOE BIDEN’S POLICIES ARE HELPING
FUND VLADMIR PUTIN’S WAR AGAINST
UKRAINE, BEFORE THE INVASION
PUTIN WAS MAKING ABOUT
$700 MILLION A DAY SELLING HIS
OIL TO AMERICA IN EUROPE.
WE SAID LOOK, STOP, CUT OFF THE
SUPPLY.
THE ABILITY FOR US TO CUT THAT
OFF, NOT JUST BY SANCTIONS.
THAT IS BY INCREASING PRODUCTION
IN AMERICA.
BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY THING
THAT WILL LOWER THE PRICE.
THERE IS STILL AGAIN MONOPOLIES,
OPEC, THEY LIMIT PRODUCTION
GLOBALLY.
PUTIN WILL BENEFIT AS LONG AS
BIDEN SHUTS OFF SPIGOTS IN
AMERICA.
OPEN UP PRODUCTION, TAKE THE
MONEY OUT OF PUTIN’S POCKET.
TAKE LEVERAGE FROM CARTELS
AROUND THE WORLD.
BIDEN WON’T DO IT.
GET ON AN AIRPLANE, BEG
DICTATORS.
HE BEGGED PUTIN, IRAN,
VENEZUELA, NOW SAUDI TO PRODUCE
MORE.
KEEPS SAYING NO TO AMERICAN
ENERGY.
THAT IS WHAT HAS GOT AMERICANS
IRATE THE MOST.
ANSWER IS BELOW OUR FEET.
UNLIKE THE ’70s THERE IS NOT
TECHNOLOGY TO DECREASE
PRODUCTION IN AMERICA.
AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY FIGURED THIS
OUT.
IT IS JOE BIDEN WHO SHUT IT DOWN
LARRY: WE MAKE THE CLEANEST
FUELS IN THE WORLD.
>> LOWEST CARBON FUELS IN THE
WORLD.
SHOULD MAKE MORE IN AMERICA, NOT
LESS.