#shorts On 10/26/2022, Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich asked National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby, “Do you feel that the administration has sufficient insight into what foreign governments are going to do, given the reporting that the U.S. thought that there was a deal to boost production through the end of the year, that the decision from the Saudis and OPEC+ came as a surprise and caused a bit of a meltdown in the West Wing? And your answer just now saying that, you know, don’t have insight into what they might be doing, is that at all a failure of our diplomacy or foreign policy?

MR. KIRBY: No. I mean, there’s a lot there. First of all, we didn’t have a meltdown. Secondly, while we don’t — we can’t predict perfectly what OPEC+ is going to decide to do, the — we’re not part of that cartel. It’s not like we don’t have ongoing discussions with the Saudis and with other members of OPEC; we do. And we try to get the best information we can …

Longer version of this clip is here: https://youtu.be/CaTES38gRjs
West Wing meltdown? No insight, diplomacy failure with fossil fuel companies?