reason is ukraine, and that's what we're hearing from a very powerful power politician, senator bob mendez. he's the chairman of the foreign relations committee. he is just the latest to weigh in. in his statement writing the united states must immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with saudi arabia, including any arm, sales, and security cooperation. beyond what is necessary to defend us personnel and interests that he added, that he will not greenlight any cooperation until it mean in saudi arabia reassess is their position in with respect to ukraine. so what they're saying is by raising gas prices, not only hurt americans, but it helps fund rushes war in ukraine. now the fact that he is the one thing that brings it up to a whole new level of significance because of his powerful position. we have seen several members of congress start to introduce bills ranging from cutting off saudi arabia, from all military sales to other said in time to withdraw us troops and defense of what weapon systems for not only saudi arabia, but the united arab emirates. and that legislation is mov

bob mendez, he said that there should be actually a total freeze in the u.s. saudi relations and dick durban said it's putin and saudi arabia against the quite. th -- united states. there is one question, does president biden regret his recent saudi arabia trip and the interaction that he of course had with mbs, remember he got so much heat for this at the time. white house press secretary saying no, he does not regret the trip. simply because they believe that other good things came out of this trip, wolf. >> m.j. lee, thank you. seniored a vie tore to the chief of staff. thank you for joining us. president zelenskyy is calling for an air shield for ukraine amid this wave of brutal russian strikes. how long will it be until these modern air defense systems are in place in ukraine to help save ukraine yiian lives? >> we were looking for this yesterday. of course, it's never too late to provide these systems for ukraine. it's not the system for active war. it's a system to close the sky and to cokeep ukrainians in saf to leave normal life in kyiv and in other c