the protest against the project. and hannah is joining me from l.a. to discuss this issue. daryl, welcome. thank you. look, i know you ve been arrested several times protesting this pipeline. tell me why you were so passionately opposed to this project. well, the keystone xl pipeline, export pipeline, is really a conduit for further expansion of the dirtiest, largest industrial mine on the planet. and right now it s about the size of the city of chicago, and they plan to expand it to the size of the state of florida. this pipeline is intended to get its product to the gulf of mexico for export. this is not fuel for the united states. we re already processing that fuel in oklahoma, but they want to by pass oklahoma to get it down to the gulf because they aren t able to get it to the coast in canada since the indigenous communities have stopped it from going through their lands. so this is not the only oil
expand. right now the size of the city of chicago and plan to expand them to the size of the state of florida. that cannot happen if they don t have access to the global market which is what they want to put this pipeline? they want it as an export pipeline. they say 20,000 new jobs could be created. decreased dependency on opec. written in the new york times by joe nocera. so how do you convince skeptics? well, first of all, we re already processing some of that tar sands oil in the midwest and oklahoma. the reason they want to get this product to the coast is because they cannot get it to the coast in canada.
that s fantasy, by the way, is all long islanders who have contributed to the great cultural contributions of our nation. we re celebrating long island this morning, everybody. our panelists this morning, washington correspondent for the new yorker, nice to have you. where about? what town? john fugal is with us, asked the question of the day on this show yesterday. we ll talk about that straight ahead. i m representing stony brook as well. that s right by me and will cain. thank gadness i m here. helping it out. let s get to our starting point this morning. the standoff we ve been watching for days is now over. cnn affiliate in france says the terror suspect is now dead. police stormed the apartment after 30 hours. that included a shootout and several explosions. the suspect is named mohammed merah, wanted in the killing rampage that left three jewish children, a rabbi and three french paratroopers dead. fran townsend joins us live by phone. fran, there was so ma
tie. doesn t 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, is he 34 points behind rick santorum and does it matter? let s get to shannon travis in des moines this morning and also bring in our panelists. let s start at the far end this morning. roland martin, finally, has joined us here. ron brownstein back with us, again. shannon, update us here on what happened and what the implications could be. this is a bombshell. let s say that. this was already, soledad, the closest vote in iowa caucus history and mitt romney, we thought he claimed iowa and the