Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel’s America Reports to discuss President Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland. Whip Scalise urged President Biden to take a firm stance against Russia’s attempts to attack America's energy infrastructure through cyber attacks. In addition, Whip Scalise called out President Biden for canceling the Keystone XL pipeline but allowing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Germany and Russia days after Russian criminals hacked the Colonial Pipeline.  

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  On President Biden’s failure to confront Russia and other adversaries:    “Unfortunately, we’ve seen a lot of weakness from President Biden as it relates to Russia. I mean, you look, [on] day one, President Biden kills the Keystone pipeline, kills thousands of American jobs, undermines our relationship with Canada, and then he [turned] around just a few weeks ago and [gave] financial incentives to Russia so that Russia can build a pipeline to Germany. So, he helps Russia create Russian jobs and Russian energy dominance with Germany, and he undermines America’s energy dominance that we had under President Trump.    “Is [Biden] going to stand up to President Putin on the hacking that's been done from Russians? The disinformation — remember President Biden was Vice President when Russia tried to interfere with our 2016 election — I didn't see President Biden stand up to him then. I hope he stands up to him now. But it's a long time coming, and so far, he hasn't proven that he's willing to stand up to Russia. In fact, he’s been helping Russia every step of the way. It's time that we get tough against all of our adversaries, not just Russia. China, Iran, look [at] what they are doing with Hamas and Israel. It's time for this President to stand up to the bad actors around the world.”   On what President Biden needs to say to Putin:    “Well, I'd like to hear him confront President Putin on what Russia has done to interfere with [the] many aspects of American life. You know, you saw the hacking of the pipelines. There’s a lot of other ransomware attacks that we see. The disinformation that Russia is very actively engaged in. Putin himself was engaged in more disinformation today. It was really bizarre when earlier today, President Biden was asked if he trusted Putin, and he said yes. How can you trust a former KGB agent, especially one who has shown a history —just in the last few months — of trying to undermine America? And again, what they've done with cyber attacks, attacking our allies, undermining our energy security, and Biden helping [Putin] do that. It's time for President Biden to stand up to the bad actors like Putin.”   On Biden and Putin’s meeting in Switzerland:    “It's always good to have [a] dialogue between the United States and people around the world whether they are [our] allies or our enemies or people that we’re trying to address problems with. And there are a lot of problems that I hope President Biden has brought up to Putin. And I hope he frankly puts redlines out there to where Putin knows there are places that he's got to go to resolve issues. And if he doesn't, there's going to be consequences. What are those consequences? Why did President Biden give him that gift on the Nordstrom pipeline without at least addressing some of these other problems before he deals with something that hurts American energy security?    On Putin’s deflection on responsibility for cyber attacks:    “That's classic Putin disinformation. And again, what is President Biden going to do to stand up to that? We know a lot of it is coming from Russia. And it’s continued to come from Russia, the disinformation that comes from Russia. It’s time for this President to stand up to people like Putin.”