boom, it was the bakken semi-bust and now the bakken coming back the reason we have come back here isfigure out if they'll build a sustainable model. it was crazy for a long time, $100 oil, everybody making $30 an hour, then everything shut down production kept going. a lot of people left we want to find out if they can build a sustainable model for the future it will be a cool day today. great lineup here. a couple of oil ceos harold hamm of continental we also have the governor of north dakota, and the interior secretary of the united states, ryan zinke yesterday we were out on a continental resources drilling rig, a town of 750 people, out in the middle of the state getting an idea to what the price point is, how they'll make money, if they can make money, where the growth will come from. we did that tour we also got to ask a few questions. these guests will also be on tv today. but yesterday on the drilling rig i asked the interior secretary, secretary zinke about infrastructure generally and whether or not we'll get something done in the united state states >> we're behind in thi

we have both options excess capacity currently that we are enjoying out of the bakken >> most of thevity that we have today is on the kodiak acreage. we saw a great opportunity three years ago. the timing was difficult with commodity price. but reaping the benefits of having the kodiak acreage. >> if you keep going with these trends, you are going to have a lot of cash and what is the plan. >> we want to grow as a company and want to do that at a sustainable business we want to increase our activity we paid down debt 50% over the last two years. >> that is amazing never in as much trouble as the stock indicated. from your point of view, but you had a good handle on it. >> we had $5.6 billion of debt at one time, we are at 2.9 >> oil out five years, the curve is different it is in the 50s because of the problems that we are having in the mideast, do you think all of this political activity can spike oil and go higher >> absolutely. i think it is a great possibility. it is going to be volatile going forward. >> and theoretically, iran could what, embargo, or do an embargo again. what c

how sweet is a good twelve hours flight from bakken located on the edge of the caribbean sea it's a world renowned vacation paradise but this is also a big part of cancun. mexico has a huge metal scene but yet. still something special back. problem is that all the scene is like in the center of the country and we are you can't so we are in the south i think of the first. bands that. come through here. may never expected that very first visit to europe should be this successful. jack you are when was the twenty seventeen metal battle they took away five thousand euros in prize money and a bunch of equipment welcome back to have amplification for the young. textile feathered crown that from mathematics my daughters have brought along seems to have been a lucky charm they can also decorate themselves with a twenty seventeen metal bottle titled lizzie dr jack us. and now to our quiz i'm sure you know the set up we play a cover version of a german hit from the past and you have to tell us who did the original this time we have eighteen year old aaron ball and from scotland with ninety nine a r

vegas golden knights in game two of the best of seven series on wednesday a power play call in the bakken period from alex ovechkin gave the capital of the defies the believe that they have to go hence the braden holtby to play for preventing a vegas comeback hey my thirty seventh place including this one with just two minutes remaining to run vegas of a tying goal three today was the final score it's just vegas a second defeat i'm in the postseason the theory of no moves to washington for game three on top of it. to me it was a hockey gods even it up from last game i mean you know what we had. kind of tied it up we didn't i thought braden was real good but i think we're played the right way the hockey gods always sort of even at our you know i always talk about that so . as a great savior you know i was the one fifty nine left. you could see the emotion on our bench i was once once in a that's a lie and you were going to win a game i thought we had lots of chances tonight i mean we lost this week to hockey game talk has a wide open net with two minutes up it a chance to tie it up i mean

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stopped after ten thousand wells we still need to extract the millions of barrels lying beneath the bakken. this situation brings happiness to the ones for him for serious companies but it is devastating to the oil workers who are no longer needed they are thrown out into the streets without pity they must decide whether to go back home or stay liston looking for new jobs. in february twenty fifteen want one of my coworkers i worked with he calmly and he said managers laid everybody off . these and i told everybody to go to a room get only stuff in get out and there's a two o'clock in the morning. in february and the women. men can say emptied out enclosed one day to the next. these dilapidated barracks will probably pollute the landscape for eight years to come. construction sites for abandoned by the dozen and left to rest and to keep. housing construction began and the peak of the list is now nearly complete. occupied in part by survivors of the good the neighborhood seems sadly empty. even with the downturn in the economy. boil prices. i can still raise more money than i can back home.

do you feel like bakken assets and resources are a little bit ignored?a lot of new fields, and let's just say permian has been around a long time but the horizontal drilling down there is a new aspect for them like a lot of new fields, you've got all this infrastructure problems that go with that we had that up here, as you'll recall certainly before we got adequate pipelines and systems in but now that we have it, our cost structure is much lower and they still have head winds in that area >> well, pipelines we talked last week how the pipeline is creating that there. the pipeline opened up a couple years ago. there are so fewer trucks on the road but how has it changed the cost game getting most of the oil out on pipeline versus truck and rail >> you know, we saw a differential change of $3.50 that was huge. easier getting that to market. i think you mentioned earlier, you know, that change. from 73% rail to 73% pipe today. >> flipped >> it flipped. certainly that's been a huge change >> a little bit better mood than last time we were here mr. hamm, we

stopped after ten thousand the wells we still need to extract the millions of barrels lying beneath the bakken. this situation brings happiness to the ones for him for serious companies but it is devastating to the oil workers who are no longer.

we are kicking off the show with president trump fighting bakken what he calls potentially the biggest political scandal ever. he slammed the fbi's investigation of the russian investigation. >> this issue supercedes party. this supercedes republicans and democrats. what i want from rod, from the fbi, from everybody, we want transparency. i think in their own way they are obstructionists. but on this issue i think it supercedes. i think they want transparency, too. charles: joining me now to discuss, tammy bruce, "washington times" column tonight, ned ryun. and robert byron former obama campaign field director. ned, a couple years ago president trump was nuts, crazy to even suggest there was spying on him. these days everybody is curious, not only did it happen, but how far does it go back and why. >> the american people deserve answers. if the doj and fbi, and i would add the cia. if the intelligence community was used and abused and politicized against the donald trump campaign, the american people deserve to know. the previous administration did in fact weaponize the intelligence st

amy: i want to bring astrid bakken of the conversation.rid dominguez could talk about the new aclu report about an income need immigrant children detained by border agents during the obama administration, the easier you uncovering documents detetailing verbal, physical, excellent be some of her children, the denial of clean drinking water, so you to provide this is very medical care, unsanitary and freezing conditions. can you talk about what further you found and what you're demanding? >> this report was published last week. thee are documents that agency provided a go from 200009 22014. the agencycy prorovided over 300 pages of internal documents of complaints that have been placed against cbp from children abuses. appalling. are there are stories from kids claiming the agents s not only beat them, but also psychologically mistreated them, calling them dogs, threatening , they were going to let them die. kidsds were refused basic necessities like water, food. a girl was sexually assaulted as an agent opened up her legs and touched her so

that's right on the edge of the bakken. you know what's going on with fracking and the energy administration. i worked with the previous administration to secure support. my question does, amtrak remain supportive of adding a stop at culbertson once the infrastructure is in place? >> we do, sir. >> madam chairman, you can go see your constituents in maine. >> seriously, if you have an additional question would you like to ask, go right ahead. >> given the chance, i'll finish with a statement anyway. administrator batory, in your testimony you mentioned christie grants and huge increases in funding. christie is the most obvious source of funding for culbertson to assist in building the new station necessary for the added stop. just a thought there. i know ranking member reed touched on the notice but i would also like to urge you to get this money out soon so places like culbertson might be able to get moving forward. >> thank you, senator, for that statement. and i will assure you that i will follow up to find out where we

brian sullivan is out in bismarck, north dakota, at an oil and gas conference in the bakken region.d president neel kashkari. brian? >> yeah, kelly and mike. thanks very much i heard your great discussion about the fed and fed minutes. i thought we're at an oil conference but the minneapolis fed guy is here, let's bring him over that's not exactly how it worked, but thank you for being here you heard our discussion mike and kelly were talking about it would we read this as a dovish move by the fed? >> i think it's an honest move we're all looking at the data. >> honestly dovish >> it's honestly saying we want to assess how the economy's going to evolve. i've been pleasantly surprised saying where's the inflation inflation has now moved up basically to our target. that's a good thing. we're still only seeing a little bit of wage growth i think the minutes reflected the honest discussion we're all having as we're trying to assess where is the economy going >> do you worry some of your fellow fed governors said you're moving too quickly on rates. >> i think the minutes touch on this i'