Ilhan Omar on Ending War, Global Refugees, Russia Sanctions & Why More Saudi Oil Is Not the Answer

As the U.S. considers a ban on importing Russian oil as part of sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine, senior advisers to President Biden are reportedly planning to visit Saudi Arabia to secure more oil to make up the shortfall. We speak to Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar about Saudi Arabia's devastating war in Yemen, which has caused the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. "If our issue is that we don't want to buy oil from a powerful country that is conducting a devastating war on its weaker neighbor, I just don't see Saudi Arabia hardly being a principled solution," says Omar. She also discusses the need to institute policies so all refugees of war can be treated with the same level of hospitality as Ukrainians, the need to ban members of Congress from trading stocks and more.

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