>> you have edward markey, steven lynch. >> ifill: especially edward markey is quite senior, the house seat in order to get this. >> it's a special election. they wouldn't have to give up their house seat unless deval patrick appointed them to the seat in the meantime which they're unlikely to want that. because it would mean they have to give up their house seat even though it would give them a head start. >> ifill: in hawaii last week, daniel ioneu died. and in a letter written to the governor who gets -- decide who takes his seat he actually stated his preference. >> he did. there are a lot of interesting elements with this. one thing that actually very same three what happened when teddy kennedy passed away in massachusetts, in fall 2009 or summer, sent letter to deval patrick he wanted them to change the law in massachusetts somebody would be able to fill that seat during critical time when they were debating health care reform. then somebody would run with special election. well in hawaii basically what he said was, i really want someone to fill my seat i hope that is congress wa

there are our eo detractors including congressman edward markey on the house natural resources committee natural gas will increase prices for regular americans, may be as much as at 30%. do you agree? >> well, there has been of fair amount of discussion about whether or not exports could actually push up that price to the individual consumer. but i think in fairness what we need to understand is we're talking about an increase in times, not dollars which is important to put into context. think about coal. we have been exporting coal from thii country for decades. that has not increased the price of coal to consumers. so while there is fairness to the concern that we may see a slight increase, i think you need to put it into perspective. if there is incentive for producers to produce more here, not only do we see the economic benefits from the job, but as there is more produced here, that's going to work to reduce the overall cost to the consumer gerri: of tell you what my concern with this is, and look. at the end of the day every president since eisenhower, i think, as talked about the