though what can you do about judge leonard starks decision to basically put a vital citgo state refinery company in the hands of a company called 10 or capita new york hedge fund all the judicial process that has being going on about citgo is illegal that company belongs to buy their vessel to petroleum if they're going to swell up here in venezuela so that is that belongs to deter the millions of venezuelans it does not belong to one way though it does not belong to the to the stake holders it belongs to venezuela so what they did was they didn't recognize the ownership of bear the vesa and they are trying to sell its it's really strange because it's like they confiscated you know the most neo liberal government in the world come for skate which is a communist term our refineries our company and now they're trying to sell it. to get a good prize for them so it's really a theft they have stolen our property that is venezuelan and at some point i insist at some point all what they have done is going to be reversed and we're going to have our assets back well the united kingdom and the eur

five of them from texas, have been imprisoned in venezuela related to charges their work about for citgo. birthdays.issed they missed weddings, they missed funerals. in prison in inhumane conditions. they are subject to abuse. their families continue to live for their health and well-being. were eek, two of the men rereleased to house arrest. but a lot more needs to be done. what is the status of your efforts to make sure that the brought home? mr. abrams: we're in touch with the families. touch with anyone who is trying to help, and that ould include governor richardson who was down there a couple weeks ago. e have made and we continue to make a -- i guess i call it a diplomatic efforts with the governments of, say, mexico, of spain, of argentina, with the vatican. we keep asking ourselves, who can we go back to? who has influence in caracas? what can we do to increase the the inducements on the regime? oving two to house arrest, again, is a positive step. we hope the next step is the other four go to house arrest as a step toward getting home. 2017.een -- since it's going on 2 1/2 year

total and citgo and more bp, shell, and chevron removed workers from off shore rigs.he about 15% to 20% off shore production is currently off line actually not that bad b 300,000 barrels we are day on 10.8 million barrels thats why oil is not moving much right now. >> yeah. energy stocks tell will you are up nicely. to your point on oil, brian, i wonder if if, you know, what's different about this time is that the pandemic is still raging we're seeing rising prices in europe and asia. i wonder how you think about the demand picture which is starting to pick up a bit does it make this sort of supply issue that we could see in the gulf less serious or less of an impact on the price of oil >> i have to think of a clean word about demand. it is terrible jet fuel demand down still 40%, 50%. here's the other thing too h with the storms now, you have millions of people on a new lockdown, not covid-19 related, storm lockdowns. that has a subsequent hit on demand as well renewal of cases nobody i talk to thinks that we're goingto see oil much above 40, 145 for the rest of te y