hmmm is bakken operator.president's ear. people wonder if they should get some sort of a bailout. we have 30 seconds, your thoughts on federal assistance for this industry? >> i think if trump has a life preserver it is time to throw it but the oil industry survives forever on survival of the fittest. i think that will happen this time. sharper, more efficient producers will figure out a way to make through this. those with weaker balance sheets and weaker management teams won't survive. unfortunate we're caught in the middle of this pandemic. the u.s. oil and gas industry has to figure out how to succeed with this set of facts right now. charles: it is a industry known for the grit, risk-taking everything else. why it became number one in the world. i'm sure it will get back there. dan, thank you for your time. always appreciate it. folks, school closs sure, graduations, summer camps all in question, some already pushed off to next year. this pandemic is taking a toll on parents but children too. we have a s

join me in welcoming tim bakken. [applause] >> duane, they won't be able to hear him without the microphone. [inaudible] discussion. >> thank you. good evening, everyone. thank you to c-span for being here and for tara kennedy for arranging this event. what i'd like to do to start is try to ill state some of the reasons -- illustrate some of the ropes why america has had difficulty winning wars and then try to draw a line which i think we can do with some precision from what has occurred in the military within the out to what has occurred in the various wars in which the united states has fought since 1945. to do that, i'll look at four wars and ask you to consider a couple of things ward regard to the wars. some people would not call them wars because there is a sense it's very difficult to concede that america has lost wars or at very minimum has failed to win wars. a couple considerations about all four of those wars are, number one, that in them, the united states engaged in battles that could sometimes involve t

the bakken, you can't make money in the bakken. you can't make money in the eagle ford you can't make money anywhere, certainly in colorado. i think this is something we have to keep an eye on when we start seeing the layoffs, some of the layoffs will bounce back some of them are not coming back at all >> a lot of headlines around oil today, jim i'm sure you've seen sources on bloomberg, supply for the saudis at capacity now. tankers with no destination. the president called it a tax cut last night, but as b of a pointed out, gasoline consumption down 37 year-on-year we're not getting that consumer pop as we've talked about repeatedly >> it's ethereal it would be terrific if people were driving no one is going anywhere i think the flip side is better. the fact that no one is going anywhere means maybe we can get out of this faster it is true that what matters in terms of what was the best employment area, it was the permian, more importantly you want energy self-sufficiency you do not want to get us back into where the russians and

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by the time doug met his awful date in december of 2013, the wild black gold rush around the bakken airfields but investors looking for a big payday wouldn't have known that yet. and with great wads of eager cash, they chased a stake in what they hoped were still bills in the ground. apparently, doug carlile was one of them. according to family, he got turned onto oil by a friend who knew a guy. >> he told us about north dakota. hey, it's booming there. you should go check things out and see what's happening. >> first, doug partnered in a trucking company that served north dakota's many oil rigs. a company called blackstone, started by the guy his friend introduced him to. then opportunity knocked. one of those opportunities of a lifetime, ordained from above, according to doug. >> the whole thing kind of fell into his lap. and i think he felt like that was his calling from god to move forward in that lease. >> an oil lease that is. a lease that would give doug and any partners he could bring in, the exclusive right to drill for oil on 640 acres of land on the mha indian reservation. the catc