Rep. Malliotakis Sees Diesel Prices in Trump’s Russia Shift
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[0:00] Congresswoman, welcome back to Bloomberg.
[0:02] You also represent a district that has one of the highest concentrations of
[0:06] Ukrainian Americans in the country, I believe some 14,000 people.
[0:10] What are you hearing from those constituents about the breakdown we have
[0:14] seen between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky?
[0:17] Yeah, I do represent a large Ukrainian population also, uh, people who fled
[0:22] Russia as well. And so, you know, I think there's a lot
[0:25] of confusion. A lot of people don't know what to think
[0:27] right now. I think many think that if there's going
[0:30] to be some type of sanctions relief that, uh, that should come with some
[0:35] type of cease fire or some type of agreement that they would be, uh,
[0:39] stopping to attack Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
[0:43] Sadly, that is not what has happened over the last few days.
[0:46] In fact, we've seen more energy infrastructure and even a hospital,
[0:50] clinic and a school attacked over the last few days.
[0:53] And so I think there's a lot of confusion as to why this sharp turn that
[0:57] we're seeing, uh, from the president, I understand he's very much focused on
[1:01] diesel trying to bring down those prices.
[1:03] The last time I was with you, we actually talked about the potential of
[1:06] the U.S. doing an export ban, and we talked about
[1:09] the boomerang boomerang effect that could have on global supply.
[1:13] So I think trying to get Putin to end its export ban is really a maj