Alan Armstrong

More Republicans are speaking eg- out, out against the diesel deal reached between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Six Republican senators, Alan Armstrong, Susan Collins, John Cornyn.

Boy, he would've been so helpful in Texas.

Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, and Thom Tillis joined six of their Democratic colleagues yesterday in a letter urging Trump to walk back the agreement.

The other thing I wanna get you on, though, is the way that more Republicans are speaking out against the diesel deal reached between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Six Republican senators, Alan Armstrong, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, and Tom Tillis, joined six of their Democratic colleagues yesterday in a letter urging Trump to walk back this agreement.

The letter reads in part, quote, "This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our allies.

It should be rescinded." The lawmakers go on to write that, quote, "The deal only provides Putin with more fuel to finance his war machine and enables Russia to continue its brutal attacks on Ukrainian civilians." It concludes with another call for Trump to cancel the deal, reading, quote, "Maintain our legacy and the duty America holds as leader of the free world." And so you've got that pushback-

Um, you know, one, one of the things I, I like to tell people is, you know, we do wanna beat China, but we don't need to be China.

We also, uh, we had Alan Armstrong come on and, and talk about this, uh, you know, maybe six, seven weeks ago.

And, uh, you know, you're just so struck, David, y-you worked in industry.

When, um, when, when policy is informed by people who have worked in industry, it just seems like it tends to go better.

But, you know, there are folks that probably would benefit from the current system t-uh, too, of, uh, of, of more constraint, of, of higher prices and less market entry, so.

Hmm.

Yeah, it's interesting that, uh, Alan Armstrong's, uh, name was, uh, mentioned just a little while ago, and I remember, I don't know, it was 18, 24 months ago, he was at a conference, and it kinda shocked people when he was talking about the whole permitting process and said, "Look, the time it's taken us to get these permits, and we haven't gotten them yet, and the amount of money we've spent on these permits is, was more than the pipe itself." And that was just like, okay, this system is really screwed up.

Okay.

Someone I guess.

Sorry.

Sorry, Michael, but someone who's not the usual suspect on that is the senator from Oklahoma, Alan Armstrong, who took over Mark Wayne Mullen's spot.

And he was the CEO of one of the largest oil and gas companies in the U.S., which I think is pretty telling for him to sign on to this.

Yeah.

This was a big part of their of the Ukrainian strategy, these drone attacks on Russian refineries, which was really doing a lot of damage.

So those have halted so that Russia can then sell the US this diesel.

And in the process, Trump was asked, you know, how does this affect the deal between Ukraine and Russia? And he went on to say that he thinks Ukraine needs a new president, someone who is willing to make a deal.

The senators are, no doubt, of course, Blumenthal, who, uh, he and, he and, uh, Lindsey were, you know, best buddies.

Tom Tillis, Jeanne Shaheen, Susan Collins, Dick Durbin, Alan Armstrong, all the standards.

Sheldon Whitehouse, Lisa Murkowski, no doubt.

Jack Reed, Chris Coons, Mitch McConnell.