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Say, theres a lot of ifs and buts and candy and nuts in that statement. transcanada may not want to construct that pipeline on what some bureaucrat in nebraska might decide to do. there are a lot of ins and outs in this. but the issue is not good for the president, because it cores his constituencies cleanly in two, environmentalist on one side and organized labor on the other who wanted that pipeline to be constructed. >> i love when you can bring up john boehner holiday lines, ifs buts and can...

tie. doesnt change the delegate count. mitt romney saying in his statement this, the results from the iowa caucus revealed a virtual tie. i would like to thank the iowa republican party for their careful attention to the caucus process. people might want to talk about that a little bit and recognize rick santorum for his strong performance in the state. great start to defeating president obama in iowa and else where in the general election. he leaves out a big thing which is, really, i...

Decisions. remember what he did on greenhouse gasses he went to the epa and said, undo it, big business says this is hindering job creation and he angered the environmentalist with that decision. he has angered them on several decisions, now, having to do with environmentallal policy, pushed by the republicans. this time, the republicans gave him cover to say, im not sure about what to do but the environment, nebraska governor is a republican and he objected because of the impact on the aquifer ...

Energy companies are saying that most of it is water but the concern is over the chemicals and whether it contaminates the ground water. the governor called on the oil and gas industry to sit down with environmentalist groups and state regulators to grow on how much the public would be told. every entity had to compromise but the oil and gas industry said it will reveal the chemical that it is putting into the ground if it can keep the ratios how much chemical to how were water. now, we had a cr...

And whether it contaminates the ground water. the governor called on the oil and gas industry to sit down with environmentalist groups and state regulators to grow on how much the public would be told. every entity had to compromise but the oil and gas industry said it will reveal the chemical that it is putting into the ground if it can keep the ratios how much chemical to how were water. now, we had a crew when this announcement was made with the governor here and it is actually unique, to see...

Hes ultimately going to have to go along with this pipeline. this pipeline will are by 509,000 barrels of oil a day into the united states. >> alisyn: what about the environmentalists? >> would we rather by it from hugo chavez or from canada? >> alisyn: right. >> and if he vetoes it and gas prices go crazy in july and august of twelve. it will be right at his doorstep. the other problem, of course, is that the labor unions want him to sign it. but its because of that that he delayed the decision...

For here -- us here in the united states, and when were talking about national security, were talking about keeping the domestic supply of oil at a reasonable incoming rate so that we do not have either price fluctuation or -- >> you have the obama administration increasing domestic production of oil. you have us less reliant on foreign oil than weve been in a generation and yet we dont see republicans meeting the president halfway on this. he gets absolutely no credit for what he has already do...

Numbers and facts that dont exist. >> theres something to be said for a lack of a nonpartisan assessmentç of what the impactf this is going to be. i want to bring you all in here -- >> why? >> some people have been noticeably silent. there is news in terms of iranian sanctions. they have threatened to close the strait of hormuz which is where one-fifth of the worlds oil goes through. this has repercussions on gas prices around the world. if were talking about this politically, the republicans ...

>> what is that, 13 feet a gallon versus 9 feet a gallon? is that really-- okay. >> youre asking the wrong guy here (laughter) >> thats the environmentalist with five kids, neil. >> and gasperino, my view is from the back seat. and when we come back, this will make taxpayers, government workers retiring early thanks to count ls days in sick payment. and forbes gang has a plan to stop that and first, they own our debts and now trying to steal the information that we own. the new china syndrome so...

>> oh, very simple, al. when you talk about the pipeline, youre talking 160,000 jobs, 20,000 direct jobs being put in place with the stroke of a pen by the president, and hes put politics into the mix to play to his environmentalist base to reject it when its all been environmentally reviewed for three years and ready to go. >> that doesnt sound non-partisan. wouldnt a millionaires tax, wouldnt that have paid for it and wouldnt the fact that you guys wouldnt even threat go up for a vote, an up-a...