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>> reporter: for decades, democrats say oil execs have denied or downplayed a climate change link, despite their own internal research showing the fossil fuel connection. but today every oil company executive acknowledged the industry does indeed contribute to climate change >> climate change is real and the use of fossil fuels contributes to it. >> this is a defining challenge for our generation, absolutely. >> reporter: but the executives deny engaging in disinformation to fight climate change...

Have paved the way, because ultimately what are democrats worried about? theyre worried about can they defend a vote at the ballot box next year or in the case of some of these, two or three years down the road. the collaboration was a popular democrat coming into my district to sell these plans was going to be on my side and maybe i can put my reservations aside for that. now theyre talking about a president with a much weaker approval rating. thats why you also hear the rhetoric now, and theyr...

Placed sanctions against. really put a crimp in that deal. rex tillerson was invited to st. petersburg russia and with other oil execs from the u.s. by this summer, we had as this country a very serious beef with them invading ukraine seizing parts of other country. because of the sanctions our government put on them, the state department reached out to all the executives that got invited to that expo in russia and the state department asked them to please not go, that it would be against the in...

Sanctioned russia. he was one of the people that we placed sanctions against. really put a crimp in that deal. rex tillerson was invited to st. petersburg russia and with other oil execs from the u.s. by this summer, we had as this country a very serious beef with them invading ukraine seizing parts of other country. because of the sanctions our government put on them, the state department reached out to all the executives that got invited to that expo in russia and the state department asked th...

Invaded ukraine and annexed part of ukraine and the u.s. sanctioned russia. he was one of the people that we placed sanctions against. really put a crimp in that deal. rex tillerson was invited to st. petersburg russia and with other oil execs from the u.s. by this summer, we had as this country a very serious beef with them invading ukraine seizing parts of other country. because of the sanctions our government put on them, the state department reached out to all the executives that got invited...

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Ceos of the major oil companies and you blame them. this time, the oil execs were ready to fight back with this thing called facts. here are some of the them. >> i dont think the american people want shared sacrifice. i think they want shared prosperity. >> our oil field workers -- >> i met with -- >> unable to work today because we cant receive drilling permits or there are leases that are not being made available. >> make the united states more attractive place for investment. do not harm amer...

Miles off. and they cant recommend cutting medicare benefits for grandma and grandpa -- >> but lets get specific to these tax breaks and whether or not they should continue. first of all, what we heard yesterday from the oil execs was, this is something that you give to so many different industries, why would you take it away from the oil industry? >> well, look it. god manufactured this oil. and natural gas. they dont need a manufacturing tax credit here. what theyre trying to do is just protec...

This is nothing more than politics. to be fair, this is very much politically debated. democrats know oil companies are perhaps public enemy number one right now. this is a political no-brainer for them to push as they have in the past. and they also, interesting, just to sort of underscore that, the four democrats who are the sponsors of this bill in the senate, theyre up for re-election. probably going to be a tough re-election battle. theyre champing at the bit more broadly and running ads to...

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