. >>> american petroleum institute president jack gerard delivered statements. afterwards he answered questions from reporters. this runs about an hour and 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us at our annual state of american energy event at the reagan center. you just heard jack gerard talk about the opportunities from the american model for jobs, reducing our emissions, and strengthening our energy security, our national security. so let me now present jack gerard to take your questions, and let me just remind you if you could please identify yourself and your news organizations. we have about 80 folks from around the country in the top news organizations here in person and about 80 who are calling in from around the country. so with that, let me introduce jack gerard, api's president and ceo. >> thank you, eric. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining us today. my apologies for my voice. i'm not sure how much longer it is going to last, but we appreciate you being here today. let me just say as we begin let me open it up to qu

so, with that, let me introduce jack gerard, api's president and ceo. >> thank you, eric. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining us today. my apologies for my voice. i'm not sure how much longer it's going to last, but we appreciate you being here today. let me just say as we begin, and then let me open it up to questions, anything you'd like to talk about, is that we believe, as we've talked about earlier in our vote for energy rollout that we'll be doing through this election cycle once again. we want to talk about facts. we want to talk about the future. we want to talk about the opportunities we have here in this country we like to refer to it as the u.s. model where, in fact, we create jobs, we become energy secure as a nation, while at the same time reducing carbon emissions. so, it's pretty significant what's taken place in this country, unpredictable, you know, just 10, 12 years ago. so, with that, let me open it up and take your questions. eric, i'll let you identify. >> hi, penny star, cns news. thank you for taking our questions. >> you bet. >> i wanted to

with that let me introduce jack gerard, apis president and ceo. [applause] >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and happy new year to each of you. as you can tell why foist this little scratchy today so i hope we get through this well at i have a number of children, eight, two of those little 10 year old adopted twins who come home from school everyday and heaven only knows what they brought home, but i haven't. spotlight to blame my 10 year olds of what could happen today, for better or for worse. welcome and thank you for joining us issue for 2016 state of american energy report. it's a time of year for us all to come together to talk about the role of energy and from our vantage point specifically oil and natural gas. with a roomful of vips like we have here today i don't want to take time to introduce all of you, knowing that in washington everybody is a vip. bubut here i do have to have tables of our partners that which is like to make mention of before i start with my prepared remarks that i would ask you to stand quickly and acknowledge

. >>> american petroleum institute president jack gerard delivered statements. afterwards he answered questions from reporters. this runs about an hour and 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us at our annual state of american energy event at the reagan center. you just heard jack gerard talk about the opportunities from the american model for jobs, reducing our emissions, and strengthening our energy security, our national security. so let me now present jack gerard to take your questions, and let me just remind you if you could please identify yourself and your news organizations. we have about 80 folks from around the country in the top news organizations here in person and about 80 who are calling in from around the country. so with that, let me introduce jack gerard, api's president and ceo. >> thank you, eric. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining us today. my apologies for my voice. i'm not sure how much longer it is going to last, but we appreciate you being here today. let me just say as we begin let me open it up to qu

. >>> up next, american petroleum institute president jack gerard delivered statements. this is 45 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us at our annual state of american energy event at the reagan center. you just heard jack gerard talk about the opportunities from the american model for jobs, reducing our emissions, and strengthening our energy security, our national security. so let me now present jack gerard to take your questions, and let me just remind you if you could please identify yourself and your news organizations. we have about 80 folks from around the country and the top news organizations here in person and about 80 who are calling in from around the country. so with that, let me introduce jack gerard, api's president and ceo. >> thank you, eric. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining us today. my apologies for my voice. i'm not sure how much longer it is going to last, but we appreciate you being here today. let me just say as we begin let me open it up to questions. we believe as we talked about earlier in our vote for energ

with that, let me introduce jack gerard, api's president and ceo. [ applause ] >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. happy new year to each of you. as you can tell my voice is little scratchy today, so i hope we get through this well. i think a number of you know i have a number of children, 8. t heaven knows what they brought home, but i have it. i would like to blame my 10 year olds on what's going to happen today for better or worse. as lewis mentioned, it's a time of year for us all to come together to talk about the role of energy and from our vantage point specifically oil and natural gas. with a room full of vips, i don't want to take time to introduce all of you, knowing that in washington everybody is a vip. but here i do have two head tables of our partners that i would like to make mention of. i'd ask you to stand very quickly and acknowledge the crowd. first is tom gibson who is the president and ceo of the american iron and steel institute. next to tom -- hold your applause. next to tom is james bowen the president of bricklayers and allied craftsman. next to james is sha

[inaudible conversations] >> as jack gerard wraps up his news conference, you will be able to see it again along with his address on the state of energy that was delivered earlier to the american petroleum institute. it's on our web site, go to c-span.org. got this from politico for you a short time ago. president obama today formally unveiled a new executive action on gun violence that represents a modest attempt to tighten loopholes in gun laws but will still likely face quick legal challenges and could be vulnerable to reversal by a republican white house. quote: every single year more than 30,000 americans have their lives cut short by guns, 30,000. suicides, domestic violence, gang shootouts, accidents, hundreds of thousands of americans have lost brothers and sisters or buried their own children, the president said. flanked by victims and family members affected by gun violence. you can read more about this at politico.com today. here's a portion of what the president had to say earlier today. >> all of us should be able to work together to find a balance that declares the rest

. >>> american patretroleum instie cea jack gerard will address the state of american energy. you will see that on c-span2 at 12:30 eastern. right here, live at 5:00 eastern as the house rules committee meets to considering rules passed by the senate that would de-fund planned parenthood. the president threatened to veto that legislation. house rules meeting at 5:00 p.m. eastern. see it live here on c-span3. >>> we need to know how many people are reading us. we need to know how they're coming to us. for example, if they are not coming directly to our website and they're coming to us through facebook or through google or twitter or snapchat or any of these other venues, we should know that. >> sunday night on q & a, "washington post" executive poster marty baron talks about the changes at "the post." >> i think the movie is faithful to the broad outline of how the investigation unfolded. i think it's important to keep in mind that it's a movie. it's not a documentary. had you to compress within two hours a seven-month plus investigation. you had to introduce a lot of character

later on c-span2, the head of the american petroleum is did you jack gerard speaks about u.s. energy policy and oil and natural gas industry priorities. that is live at 1230 eastern. we need to know how many people are reading us. we need to know how they are coming to us for example if they are not coming directly to our website and coming through facebook or go -- or google or twitter or any of these other venues, we should know that. >> sunday night on q&a, washington post executive editor marty talks about the changes at the post since he took over in 2013. he also discusses the depiction of his work as editor and chief for the boston globe in the movie -- spotlight. >> i think it is important to keep in mind that it is a movie and not about reality. you have to compress in two hours a seven-month investigation. you had to introduce the important themes that emerged over the course of the investigation. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a. > the a conversation on the gop congressional agenda and white house priorities are 2016. from washington journal, this is 55 minute