tax now that some state gas taxes have been raised. if you if you have both gas taxes, i'm interested what you have to say about that? mr. thomas: yes, ma'am. texas has not raised their gas tax since 1992. so it's much the same case. but when you watch gas prices every day swing, ten, 15 cents a gallon, i'm not sure how much a penny, penny and a half, two pennies would be noticed. certainly there have been conversations in austin about gas tax and vehicle miles traveled. there are a lot of suggestions being made. we recognize as a state that something needs to be done, but much like what's happening across the country, the -- a lot

the gas market will become pivotal. fundamentally, what you have to look at is being a low cost , from what the united states is competitive for, the facility which we are good at building, and the shipping. you have to look at everything and in that kind of circumstance, the business model follows. the banks will come an investment will come. alix: how do you undercut should undercut on price? you want to provide fixed contracts, you mentioned that for japan for a five-year contract. how do you undercut? how do you do that? charif: the first place we can improve on cheniere, we think we driftwood at about $600 per ton, a little more expensive and a little bit better. months of work, i read right in the middle between the two projects. that is consistent with where we should be. it was started only two years ago, lessons learned, we have been able to optimize a little bit, right where where we would have expected to be. the place to improve dramatically, because with hindsight, we can look at what we did five years ago

i don't see any reason that they gave him gas.utin would say, "don't do that." >> bill: do you think putin would okay a gas attack, mr. harmer? >> i think it's a dispute that the russians weren't aware that syria was resuming its chemical weapons capacity. i don't think the russians suggested this for there's a big difference between assad being dependent on russian help, which he is, and assad functioning as a mercenary for the russians, which is a stretch. >> bill: the warships that putin is moving into the mediterranean sea, is that just for show? >> yes, that's part of the counteraction package. they send their ships in closet proximity edge, it's is an easy way to show that they are viable, they can still stand up to us without risking escalation. it happens in the pacific, atlantic, mediterranean, it's not a big deal. it's just a show of force. >> bill: do you agree with that? >> yeah. this ship has been coming in the mediterranean a lot. >> bill: check out colonel hunt's new book "without mercy" about nukes in the hands of

what's fueling a spike in gas prices when "eyewitness news" returns at noon. >> ♪ >> gas prices on the up. >> chris martinez tells us why prices are expected to go up significantly. >> reporter: like millions of americans, melanie ackles is feeling the pinch the pump. >> i notice a big increase. >> reporter: the national average for gas is up about 30 cents compared to this same time last year. >> most of the country all the four states starting to see gas prices really jump led by the midwest where double digit increases have taken hold in the last two weeks. >> reporter: in patrick from gas buddy.com says prices will go even higher as we head to memorial day and the start of the busy summer driving season. >> we may be looking at another 20 to 40 cents from where we and stand today. >> reporter: gas prices always go up when warm weather approaches but this year the rise is fueled by the fact that more people are driving and oil prices are moving higher. and how much drivers pay depends on where they live. the average price for a gallon in charlton south carolina is around $2.06. at t

there was a big increase in the federal gas tax at that time. there had been a small tax, but it big increase to fund the construction of the interstate highway system, which took decades to complete. role jumped-- state enormously to design and construct that system. timeis happened since that , gas taxes at the time of eisenhower were pretty much like user fees. ford, about the same mileage as a four-door oldsmobile or a chevy. if you jewel a mile on the interstate you use about the same amount of fuel. everyone has heard of a double whammy. the gas taxes are facing a quadruple whammy. cars are not using gasoline in some cases. more people are driving tesla. the engines that do use gasoline are much more fuel-efficient. hybrids and gas engines are just more efficient. there are completely alternative fuels. also the gas taxes are not indexed to inflation. people are also driving less. vehicle miles traveled are declining. there are a lot of reasons why the revenue into the federal highway trust fund is declining. and that is defect oh without

did russia know about a sarin gas attack and did russia cover up a sarin gas attack? these are basic crucial things. why can't the trump administration get its story straight? we begin with barbara starr at the pentagon this evening. >> reporter: a lot of ambiguity on the question of russian involvement. we've talked to top-level officials about it. they say they're not ready to make that final connecting of the dots. there was no more ambiguity when james mattis made clear he didn't want to get into the question of whether the administration would take the next step in syria and that is to attack assad's barrel bomb activities. he would not get into that but he was not 578 big yus about the rest of it. did pentagon top brass, not ready to say russia was complicit in bashar al assad's attack. >> they're responsible for the planning of the attack and the attack itself. >> reporter: telling moscow the trump will use force and is not ruling out further military action against assad. but hoping that the russians temper their own actions. >> i'm confident the russians will

>> i think when you come to sarin gas, there was no -- he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is dog. i understand. thank you. i appreciate that. there was not, in the -- he brought them into the holocaust center. i understand that. but i'm saying the way assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down into the middle of towns. >> needless to say, they were called concentration camps, death camps, not holocaust centers. in any case, another explanation then followed, then an apology during a conversation with cnn's wolf blitzer which we'll bring you shortly. first, cnn's sarah murphy. president trump is saying the obama administration should have used air strikes against syria. he was saying just the opposite before he became president. >> that's right. he had a very different feeling a few years ago when he was a private citizen. he was taking to twitter to say the u.s. shouldn't intervene in syria, that there was nothing that fight could get for the u.s. it wasn't our fight. it wouldn't further american interests. obviously it's one thing to s

without a doubt what assad did was horrible and he did gas his own people. but there should be a strategy, and repercussions, and something we're not just able to execute but execute with allies. and at the same time we should be able to use this opportunity to also put pressure on people like russia. syria is essentially a client state of russia, russia at least knowingly or was complicit in this type of nerve gas on the syrians, and the fact that we're only going to crater a couple of airport fields and think that will send a message, when russia seems to be doubling down, is incredibly naive. >> and i heard senator lindsey graham use the argument in reverse, saying it's a good thing that nobody in the administration will be able to predict how this administration will react. >> i mean, that just goes against what we understand hundreds of years of foreign policy. it does not help the fact we have hundreds of men and women in harm's way in iraq and syria, they're within striking distance of iraq and hezbollah, and many other actors that would gladly strike

we have a massive refining industry, tons of gas, tons of coal. pretty influential in a lot of energy market dynamics right now, and not least of which are leadership on energy innovation and clean energy technologies is also pretty profound. we carry a lot of weight in that global arena. a lot of people ask these days if the united states is changing its course on energy, how much is it going to matter to other countries around the world. from a market dynamics perspective it always met with the assistant income always matters because we really are the affluent and a lot of energy sectors. that also instead interaction of policy and regulation and the multilateral framework. but i would also say that it's also being absorbed by a lot of things that this new administration wants to change that are not necessarily energy-related, but do changes that geopolitical framework. you just can't say we're changing the way that we are dealing with energy to a change a lot of trade and foreign policy, tax policy things that affect energy. so i think a lot of

by removing the war on gas and coal. the war on coal was-- >> the stats on coal are frightening particularly if you live in a coal mining area. bruce, the exaggerations on the climate warm being alarmists, doesn't it hurt their case to make exaggerations like this? >> i don't think so. some of the people who came out and criticized what the president did were the pope, the vatican, and exxon-mobile, that doesn't really-- >> exxon-mobile? >> a threat to the entire planet, do you buy that? >> listen, i tell you what i buy. i think that donald has given false hopes when he was surrounded by the coal miners, maybe some temporary abatement in jobs that reduce, but there's 75,000 coal jobs in this country and 650,000 renewable energy jobs. i mean, there are caterpillar here in illinois where i am. they have a mammoth truck hauler that coal miners operate-- that will not-- will be driverless, technology is taking their jobs, not climate change. david: that's true and mike, there's been a big shift from coal to natural gas over

saying >> -- to all of a sudden use poison gas? i think it's zero chance that he would've done this, you know, deliberately. >> bill: former congressman believing that assad was set up by someone. now the morality of the attack is certainly acceptable when you have war crimes being openly committed. a noble nation will confront that. unfortunately, noble nations are in short supply these days, and the usa is an exception to that. also, america's national security is in play because poison gas can be used by terrorists. assad has a very close relationship with iran and hezbollah. one chemical weapons are acceptable, the world will become a more dangerous place. talking that assad's air force should have been destroyed along time ago ago, and nato should of established safe zones inside syria to protect the incident to make innocent. under president obama, none of that was possible because of his strategy of retreat. the new president on the ascending a message to the worl world, the united states will not tolerate war crimes from sy

many, hear what gas it was, that crosses any hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines.earlier. let's speak to alexander vershbow, who was deputy secretary general of nato between 2012 and 2016 and is also a former us ambassador to russia. hejoins us from our washington newsroom. thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news. you were at nato when syria signed the chemical weapons convention in 2013. how convinced i use that president assad has broken that agreement? -- how convinced are you that? nudges yesterday but some earlier attacks using chlorine gas suggest that assad is increasingly ignoring his obligations under those agreements, right back 2012, 2013. he seems to have maintained at least some chemical weapons in his arsenal despite supposedly eliminating 100%, or handing them over to the russians. this is a very serious situation and, of course, the effects on the victims are quite ghastly. how might he have hidden such weapons, given that the international community was clearly watching? the russians were supposed to provide the main guarantees that he would

tler used, hi gas.e had a president obama who said i will draw a line in the sand against these regimes. guess what? nothing ended up happening. we have a president now who is finally doing something who sit back andously do nothing when he sees these types of things happening. why did we have a president do nothing previously? we have a president do something and everybody is getting hung up misspeaking. host: you talked about syria. what about north korea? we have an armada heading to the korean peninsula. are you concerned about actions from them? what should the u.s. be doing there? host: that is another -- caller: that is another problem in the world. i see why the anxiety is so high. we have a president trying to make relations with china and stabilizing that. china will be on board with us and help us in regards to this. once again, you have action, not worry. everybody gets hung up on words and not action. host: mike in west palm beach, for florida. here's a story from "the washington post." spi

it is a naturally occurring gas necessary for life on earth. not model predictions, the data -- bob talks about everything going up, but the rate of warming is so much lower than what the models have predicted that i think it calls into question the entire project. we have seen, over the last 20 years, a very slow rate of warming. it is about one-third to one-hal f of what was predicted by even the lowest models. there is confusion between environmental protection and limiting pollution. globalis the whole warming regime. i agree with the caller. the global warming agenda is really about empowering and enriching the industrial complex. there major companies and wealthy people who are benefiting, making billions of dollars and hope to make hundreds of billions of dollars off the backs of taxpayers and consumers around the world. host: mr. deans? guest: nowhere else in the world with this conversation even be taking place, and it is right here on capitol hill. they are not arguing about climate change anymore in beijing, london, los angeles. ever

this is a gas tax package that would raise the taxes 12 cents a gallon.hat we already pay. and it would create a vehicle license fee of about $50 on average although that's going to vary depending on the value of the car and also a $100 fee on fuel-efficient vehicles and electric vehicles. now, this is all supposed to yield about $5 billion a year to fix roads and remember two things. this is -- there is no sunset in this bill. this is a forever tax as it were. and also, it is going to increase over time based on inflation. so it will continue to go up. and that is something that these senators are taking very seriously. i talked to senator scott weiner and he told me that he and some coworkers made sure that there was money in there for transit for places like the bay area where we need money not just for roads but really for public transportation. >> in the original version of the bill, in my view, there was not enough funding for public

. >> in the present and ceo of a company that manufactures natural gas compressors. if you use natural gas to cook or you use electricity, in all likelihood it has been through one of our compressors. we are based in ohio. and our equipment is found virtually everywhere in the world that there is oil and gas. and the thing that we are particularly happy about is that when you talk about infrastructure development, that doesn't just mean roads and bridges. it also means the entire network of pipelines, 2.6 million miles of pipelines that move natural gas and oil around the nation. and there are about 80 fairly large projects currently pending that will be using our compressors and that will help to make the united states domestically secure for energy, and we are really happy to see that supported because we feel that this is extremely important that the united states have that kind of security. thanks. mr. timmons: and thank you. we are happy to take questions. one last point i would like to make. we reminded the president about our study, which he had seen, that sho

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the state legislature approved a state gas tax that will raise the tax to 47.3 cents per gallon the >> i'm all for it happy to pay for the energy i use that encourages me to ride my bike more and use carbon emissions that are low and be a better citizen protect the state gas tax will be used to improve the roads. >> it's unsafe on two wheels versus 4 to the objects on the road so i have noticed that my on ramps have been bumpier with bigger holes and i've seen more road where that's making the car aware. but for some drivers who have no choice but a long commute ahead of them they said they will have to sacrifice something else besides striving to afford the new fuel cost expect it has been 23 years of the state of california raise the gas tax the drivers will also save a new vehicle fee perspective berkeley we martinez. struct let's get the right at the door to where you're headed for a look at how things are going we go to alley in traffic. >> traffic conditions look good this morning. typically at the start don't have any big problems unless there is a major crash and is nothing li

>> i think when you come to sarin gas, there was no -- he was not using the gas on his own people thee way that assad is doing -- i mean there is clearly, i understand your point, thank you, i appreciate that. there was not in the -- he brought them into the holocaust centers, i understand that. but i was saying in the way that assad used them, where he went into town, dropped them down into the middle of towns, so the use of it, i appreciate the clarification there, that was not the intent. >> his remarks obviously came as jewish people around the world are celebrating passover. walk us through how we got here. >> reporter: it started off with sean spicer trying to say that president al assad of syria was worse than adolf hitler that hitler never used chemical weapons at all. he tried to back up that statement. and then he went on wolf blitzer and launched a multiple apology. >> why did you even make that reference to hitler on gas attacks, 6 million jews were killed, many of them with poison gas. >> i was trying to make a point about the heinous acts of assad last week using chemica

the pentagon says there is no court the syrian regime is behind the deadly gas attack on civilians, and the u.s. strike was meant to deter further chemical attacks. u.s. officials can't say if russia was complicit in the gas attack, but they do accuse russia of trying to cover up what happened. >>> showdown with putin. secretary of state rex tillerson arrives in moscow slamming russia's role in syria as russian president vladimir putin doubles down, defending his support for the syrian regime and criticizing the u.s. amid a war of words, will the two men meet? >>> offensive comparison. white house press secretary sean spicer says even hitler didn't use chemical weapons and is forced to make a heytvelty -- a hasty clarification saying that the nazis used a poisonous gas at their death camps. >>> and north korea says the deployment of a uss aircraft carrier as an act aggression and if provoked it's ready for any mode of war, including nuclear war. in a cnn exclusive, we'll take you inside north korea. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. the pentagon says i

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when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. there is clearly -- i understand your point, thank you. thank you. i appreciate that. there was not -- in the -- he brought it into the holocaust center. i understand that. what i'm saying in the way that assad used them where he went into town and dropped them down to innocent in the middle of town, brought to -- so the use of it, i appreciate the clarification. that was not the intent. >> now somewhat predictably today the comment drew a lot of outrage as people are quick to point out that hitler gassed millions of jews, brought them to their death in gas chambers. sean spicer moving to clarify that again after the white house briefing. this time in a written statement saying in no way was i trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the holocaust. i was trying to draw the contrast of airplanes on population centers, any attack on innocent people is re reprehensible and inexcusable. thank you. >> sarah murray reporting from the white house. escalating tensiones from russia, and syri

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europe is seeking to reduce that dependence on russian gas. >> we value gas supplies in the region as a vital source that can make a contribution to diversify sources, roots, and supplies. >> the pipeline is expected to be completed by 2025. with gas prices fluctuating it remains to be seen if this will be financially viable long-term. they will meet for updates every six months to ensure the project is meeting targets. >> time for a look at the markets. european shares closed across the board banking shares taking a hit but the big loser, imagination technologies. after apple60 1% announced it would stop using the cubbies graphics check. the dow and the s&p 500 both taking losses as goldman sachs leading the dow now. auto so numbers coming out in the u.s. mostly disappointing. one big winner is tesla. shares are up 6%. seconds one of -- is no largest u.s. carmaker. south africa's credit rating has been downgraded by new york financial firm s&p global. s&p cut their rating to junk after a cabinet reshuffle. ran fell onrican that downgrade. british petroleum is selling his pipeline sys

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just in the past 15 minutes the state assembly approved a 12 isn't per gallon gas hike on gas.t passed the senate early this evening. this is a big rinne for governor brown who has been pushing for a tax to fund major road repairs. many were against it saying taxes are not the answer hard working californians are looking for. >> up next, trouble for the giants. we will show you what they didn't do tonight. and key game for the sharks right before the playoffs. stay with us. >>> and happening now, the u.s. senate gearing up to resume the debate on supreme court nominee neil gorsuch tomorrow morning. republican senators already deployed the so-called nuclear option meaning they only need a simple majority to confirm gorsuch. we have posted that story to our website. back in a moment. on september 9, 2010, pg&e learned a tragic lesson we can never forget. this gas pipeline ruptured in san bruno. the explosion and fire killed eight people. pg&e was convicted of six felony charges including five violations of the u.s. pipeline safety act and obstructing an ntsb investigation. pg&e w

the buy in power of that gas tax has been reduced and lost by 55%.re also getting many more miles per hours so we're paying a lot less today than we did 23 years ago. the average increase for vehicles for 87% of vehicles on the road $50 a year. >> that sounds good until you're the one paying it. >> i agree when it comes down to your pocket. >> that's the only statistic most people understand. for years the state legislature did not spend money on rods and also they're not changing any of their spending patterns to accommodate this. we're just layering this on. your response to that. >> this is pay as you go. the more you drive, the more you pay and the more you should be because you're wearing those roads out and the average cost right now is about 700 years per year per driver. >> why didn't the state legislature spend the money before? >> well where were we going to get the money? >> i don't know general funds money. >> are we going to expect those who drive and take mass transit. you drive more you pay more. >> i'll flip those and say that those w

but there was certainly gas used in the gas chambers. was he parroting something he heard trump say a couple hours before? somebody before him had said something about battlefield use of chemical weapons, and i think he was saying without any context -- >> well, i think what he was trying to say was militarily, they did not deploy chemical weapons on the battlefield. but of course the nazis murdered with gas 6 million jews. >> so is this a killer for him in a world of gaffes? trump has said much worse stuff about barack obama being an illegal immigrant for seven or eight years, mexicans be rapists, muslims being killers. >> i think the admissiomission word jews from the holocaust remembrance statement, it might not be a bad idea for some members of the white house to maybe go and get after after-hours tour at the holocaust museum because they are a linguistics disaster talking about this, talking about the subject. and it's important because each generation, particularly as the generation that fought that war, that survived those camps p

california lawmakers just passed the gas tax bill.aria medina is live in campbell with more on how much it will impact you. >> reporter: kenny, if you think you pay a lot for gas, you're about to pay a lot more. 12 cents more per gallon. and that is not all. your car registration is also going to go up between $25 and $175 per year per car depending on the value of your car. and electric car registrations will go up by $100 a year. now, this new bill, this new gas tax bill, sb1 is set to raise $5 billion per year for infrastructure. there's not been a gas tax in 23 years. >> we are not crocodiles. we know our constituents all over california both republicans and democrats alike do not like this proposal. they do not want their gas taxes to be increased. >> reporter: as you heard republicans were against the gas tax saying our money has been misspent for years but the governor pushed for the bill and now it heads to his desk for his signature. maria medina, kpix 5. >> senate democrats needed one vote from a republican to get a two-thir

buried inside the gas tax measure, a major boost to mass transit.d evening, i am virt aund cuvur aund cu-- vur aund cuvur aund cu. -- >>> kpix 5's phil matier is live in dublin with the plans. >> reporter: the train that passed us could carry more if plans keep picking up steam. here is the story. critical vote was needed to pass the recent gas tax hike, a promise was made for the train that runs from stockton to mur sed. bay area and central valley lawmakers are quietly moving to push bart to extend its system to the liver-- its system to the livermore train. >> the goal is to meet with the ace train east of livermore. >> reporter: with the hook up you would create the biggest mass transit network in the state. >> seeing major congestion on all our interstates. >> reporter: another reason to make it easier to get to central valley, housing. >> good paying jobs in the bay area, affordable housing. >> reporter: look at medium prices in san francisco, san jose, concord, and then look at mur sed. still, there is a hefty cost, about $1 billion. >> we ha

we know that isis used mustard gas once. but we have not heard the use of sarin gas. it was an aerial attack, it was bombs. brent: so they had to have fighter jets. francis said assad is testing the new u.s. president with this attack to see if trump has his own redline. guest: stop talking about red lines. we had president obama talking about red lines. they were clearly not respected. what president trump is not much different from what president obama does. he is decrying terrorism in the form of isis -- brent: he is talking about putting troops in syria. guest: to fight isis. he doesn't care about the fight against president assad. if you want to get rid of terrorism inside syria you have to realize that terrorism has been created and nurtured by the state terrorism of the assad regime. by the way, the new administration in washington has no clear vision at all about this. no one is competent. brent: as always, thank you for coming in. we appreciate your viable insights. -- valuable insights. authorities have identified the main suspect in monday's metro bombing i

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using the gas on his own people same way that assad is doing. i mean, there was clearly eye understand-- thank you. i appreciate that. there was not-- he brought them into-- um-- to the holocaust center. >> reporter: by "holocaust centers" he apparently meant concentration camps. the executive director of the anne frank center accused spicer of holocaust denial and calling on president trump to fire him at once. in a statement, spicer insisted "in no way was i trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the holocaust. i was trying to draw a distinction of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers." defense secretary james mattis underscored that point at the pentagon. >> even in world war ii, chemical weapons were not used to battlefields. even in the korean war they were not used to battlefields. since world war i, there's been an international convention on this. >> reporter: this evening, spicer fell on his sword and apologized, saying his comment was inappropriate and insensitive. a swift mea culpa, scott for

and as i mentioned, many of them contain clearine gas for added measure -- chlorine gas for added measurehen you are dealing with the middle east, the most important thing you can do is be predictable, is to have a doctrine that people understand, both your enemies and your allies. if you are being irration and acting irration you are going to have irration outcomes of that is very, very dangerous for us to be operating in this world. without a doubt what assad did is horrible, he did gas his own people and there should be repercussions but it should be laid out, it should be a strategy and should be something we are not just executing but executing with allies. at the same time we should be able to use the tune to also put per on people like russia. syria is client state of russia. russia was knowing or at least complicit in this type of nerve gas attack on the syrians. the fact that we are only going to crater a couple of airport fields and think that that's going to send a message when russia seems to be doubling down i i think is naive foreign policy. >> of all things, leaving the run

overall gas prices can go up or down.he tax on gas in california is heading and just one direction. up. >> the gas tax will rise $0.12 per gallon coming up november 1. that means california drivers will be paying on average $10 per month more.>> i hope it does fix the roads there broken down. >> the gas tax increase comes on top of the $38 hike in the vehicle license fee and a newly instituted registration fee that could cost up to 25 -- $175 per year. that will be money that will fix deteriorating roads especially potholes. the porro business bay area council lobbied hard for the bill. >> this will give us a chance to take care of billions of dollars of backlog repairs that our roads and highways need and invest in our public transit systems. >> the increase will bring the total gas tax to 68.5 cents per gallon. that would make it the second highest gas tax behind pennsylvania. it will likely make california number one and overall gas prices ahead of hawaii. >> truckers are unhappy. the tax on diesel will rise $.20 a gal

gas was used in killed 1400. the syrian government was the only actor known to possess sarin gas. >> that is ridiculous and unfounded. there is no proof. it is not logical. it is subjective. we have never used chemical weapons. the attack, an agreement between washington and pushed the syrian government to join the chemical weapons protocol. >> syria has produced chemical weapons for decades and in large quantities. in securedored facilities to prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorists or other groups. weapons by thehe regime or islamic state has continued and an investigation held the government responsible for chemical attacks that 2015 andin 2014 and concluded that islam and state had used mustard gas. in the end, russia was allied with the assad government. april, 58 people were killed in northern syria in a nerve gas attack. >> to the french presidential race now. debate heated televised that happened last night. on accused, macr marine le pen of telling lies. nationalism means war and i do not

and enbridge also is involved in the storage of natural gas, with nearly 4,000 miles of gas pipelinesenbridge moves 20% of all the gas consumed in the united states. on top of that, the company also has a small sideline with a growing portfolio of wind, power, and solar power generation assets. the pipeline space should be the biggest benefit -- enormous discretion when it comes to enforcing regulations, yes, executive decisions, and trump's using that authority to effectively deregulate all sorts of industries, especially energy and banking, at the same time, unlike his predecessor, trump has made it clear that he's in favor of building lots of new pipelines and given all the oil and gas that we have found in the country in recent years, companies like enbridge are poised to lay a lot of new pipe. plus politics aside with oil only $36 a barrel, the availability of pipeline space, we're short pipeline space in this country. meanwhile enbridge can probably build for years before saturating the market. think of it a way as exploding the oil production without worrying so much about wher

i think when you come to sarin gas, there was no— he was not using the gas on his own people the samei mean, there was clearly... i understand your point, thank you. thank you, i appreciate that. there was not... in the, in the, he brought them into, um... to the holocaust center, i understand that. what i‘m saying, in the way that assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down to innocent... into the middle of towns, it was broad. so the use of it, i appreciate the clarification. that was not the intent. he‘s since made a public apology on us tv: ashley parker is white house correspondent for the washington post, she was at the briefing. it's it‘s interesting because he made that first comment about hitler and then immediately kind of went crazy on social media and that‘s why you saw the correspondent in front of me ask the question to give him a chance to clean it up. what was sort of so jarring to all of us in the briefing room was instead of cleaning up and clarifying this misstatement, he made it worse. i think we were all watching in a state of both confusion and di

. >> but other people in wyoming, those places that are very locally dependent on coal and natural gasthey are devastated. those towns are completely devastated. that should not be taken lightly by politicians. i also don't think that trying to protect a technology that is fading is a way to fix that. >> wyoming has other potential energy sources. >> we have the best onshore wind in the continental united states. there is a great opportunity for wind development. >> wyoming is also a tremendous source for solar, which has gotten unbelievably inexpensive. >> i also think there is a great opportunity as we figure out storage solutions for increased use of nuclear power. >> not only wyoming, but our nation and the world at large would greatly benefit from transitioning from sustainable, renewable energy sources. >> we will have to find other things such as renewable energy. maybe this will help put some of our workers back to work. >> there are several challenges associated with renewables. >> it is tricky with wind, you have to get the energy source out of wyoming. therefore you need tra

are we going to have to worry now about shale gas? tracy: if it is not crude oil, it is gas. seen animal spirits really picking up, especially around the permian basin. that is one of the most lucrative oil places. it is also a really lucrative gas play. we had blackstone an ounce it will buy a company called eagle midstream ventures for about 2 billion in cash. does isle stream operate a bunch of gas pipelines, sort of harvesting the gas that is produced alongside shale oil. the gas story, i have to say, you worry about u.s. shale oil being relatively resilient, you should check out what has been happening with gas. we have had gas production in the permian basin rise to a record every month this year. pretty amazing stuff, shery. shery: tracy alloway joining us from abu dhabi. let's stay with oil in the region. managing director of front tear markets -- frontier market that bank of america. let's discuss some of the points that tracy brought up. especially when it comes to oil. if you take a look at the bloomberg, and basically what we are seeing is a u.s. oil rig in the wh

>> i think when you come to sarin gas, there was no -- he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. i mean there clearly. i understand -- >> i'm just giving you -- >> thank you. i appreciate that. there was not -- in the -- he brought him into the holocaust center, i understand that. but i'm saying the way assad used them where he went into town, dropped them down onto innocent -- into the middle of towns, so the use of it, i appreciate the clarification. that was not the intent. >> the reaction, immediate -- israel intelligence minister calling the comments grave and outrageous. adding, "we must demand that he apologize or resign." it's the second time in as many days spicer has had to walk back his own words. on monday he seemed to shift the administration's so-called "red line" on syria, saying it's not just the use of chemical weapons that would prompt the united states to take military action. >> if you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb into innocent people, i think you can -- you will -- you will see a response from this president. >> human rig

is it your contention, mr mekdad, that the syrian government has not used sarin gas or chlorine gas ate conduct of this war? in my capacity, as the chairman of the syrian national committee, on the implementation of our responsibility towards the opc, the organisation on chemical weapons, we have shipped all the materials on british, on french, on finnish, on american ships, and we send them to be burned this is what we have done. we have no whatsoever any chemical weapons, and the syrian army has not and will never use them against our syrian people. if we have to say what are the gains of the syrian government between using traditional weapons, or using these chemicals, the traditional weapons would kill more terrorists than what was reported. so the syrian army has no interest, no gains as, i mean, for the use of these gases or chemicals. why has the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons in itsjoint investigative mechanism with the united nations found that the syrian government was responsible for chlorine attacks on various occasions, in april 2014 and march 2015? i