Mar 08, 2022
Morning Joe’s Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire and Mike Barnicle discuss the banning of Russian oil imports to the United States as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. “I’m not surprised at the fact that in recent polling – new polling – on people’s attitude toward increased gas price hikes…because they recognize from everything they’ve seen on their TV screens that it’s an atrocity, a daily atrocity. Americans are finally, maybe, coming back to being who we really are: We understand the world. We understand danger. We understand threats—hopefully that’s the case,” says Barnicle about new polling that suggests Americans are willing to pay higher gas prices to defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin.
