For wanting to end fracking. Trump says that the country needs to open up more fracking to avoid dependence on middle eastern oil. He would absolutely approve, he said, the keystone pipeline, and he would get the government out of the way of the Energy Industry. Oh, republican senator rob portman is on the Senate Energy committee. Hes joining me exclusively on whether Trumps Energy plan is viable. Donald trump has issued a lot of controversial comments, and hes also gone back and forth on some of the issues. The 2016 race, what does rob portman think about that and whether trump at the top ticket would help or hurt portmans Senate Reelection campaign. Senator Bernie Sanders going closer and closer to Hillary Clinton in california. Closest now, a dead heat in a brandnew poll as the vermont senator considers debating donald trump if he cant convince Hillary Clinton to work the hollywood stage. Former north dakota democratic senator byron and former Vermont Republican jim douglass. Well talk energy and emails and the possibility of a trump sanders debate. Oil retreats from 50 a barrel after the market waits for what janet yellen will say tomorrow. And the Dow Jones Industrial cant get above the average here. And the house just took a wrecking ball. No wrecking ball in terms of housing. Less than an hour to the closing bell. Lets start the countdown. Liz so, folks, you can see on this bottom screen here and right on your screen, the nasdaq and the s p clawing their way barrel into positive territory at this hour but the dow holding its breath after two days of gains. Energy aims appear at the moment to not yet be ready to make any kind of move on what donald trump and his campaign are promoting as this big Energy Policy speech. That is imminent. The speech is imminent in just moments. Hes expected to take the stage in bismarck, north dakota. But as you see chevron and exxonmobil along with marathon oil, for example. Can you put those up . You can see theyre not really moving to the upside just yet. Again, we will take the speech in just minutes. As soon as donald trump goes to the podium. We want to hear what he says about energy and what is his hard and fast plan. Weve got a spotting of kind of a rare creature these days on wall street. Its an ipo. The big ipo of 2016. We havent seen many initial Public Offerings here but heres u. S. Foods making its debut on the New York Stock Exchange today. The Ticker Symbol usfd. Doing pretty well right now. An illinoisbased frozen food company. If you bought in on this one, youre up about 7. 5 . And we should look at gains in costco stock. Coming in bulk. Costco moving higher by three and threequarters percent after beating estimates but, look, the big box reported no quarterly growth in sales for the first time in more than six years. Not actually very good. So why is the stock moving higher . Well, short sellers have been caught flatfooted. Scrambling to cover their bets. Some analysts saying a pretty good deal right now and trading at a good valuation. Sears is skyrocketing. Bad news is good news. Reporting a yawning loss of 4. 40 per share but to leverage some of its popular brands lake ke kenmore and of course die hard brands. Shares moving 5 . Lets get to politics. As we mentioned donald trump is just minutes away from his big Energy Policy speech in bismarck, north dakota. The speech is of course an effort certainly to win over oil and gas executives once and for all. You could argue they are not there yet because he has backed ethanol, which they dont like. Sort of a forward sinking fuel. And also wind power. Heres the thing, though. Weve got individuals backing him. Texas oil boone pickins, both have said theyve got their support and will put it behind the billionaire. One who encouraged trump to roll out his Energy Agenda in north dakota. North dakota of course the second Largest Oil Producer in the United States. Right there in north dakota. Lets bring in former democratic senator from north dakota byron dorgan who just this monday endorsed Hillary Clinton. Joined by former republican governor from vermont jim douglass who has been a supporter of course in the past of governor john cake. I want to start with you, senator dorgan. And as we look at what happened in north dakota do you think donald trump will be able to win over the Energy Industry and were talking about the fossil fuel industry. Well, i think hell do well in bismarck. North dakota treats everyone with respect. So im glad he made the stop in bismarck. Look, we have had energy abundance. We went from scarcity to abundance in a very short period of time and thats a good thing. Also donald trump carries a lot of badge in other areas because in north dakota ive run in 12 statewide elections, and we treat advisories with respect. He uses terms like loser, liar, lowlife, and so on. Its the wrong way to campaign in my judgment. In addition to that, i may just say i have trouble getting past the notion of his proposals. Lets give south Korea Nuclear weapons. Lets ban all muslims. Lets increase the deficit by about 10 trillion with tax cuts that he wouldnt pay for. There are lots of issues. Lets repeal wall street. Lots of issues that we need to talk about between now and election day. Liz well, perhaps and as we await this energy speech, governor douglass, i think senator dorgan makes a point that theres a lot of fizzle with donald trump. People still looking for stakes, certainly with the Energy Policy. He has said that domestic coal consumption, he wants to get the coal minors back to work. But people are using less coal for a couple of reasons. Among them analogous is so unbelievably cheap. It burns cleaner than coal. So there seems to be a of. So what will you be looking for in this Energy Policy roll out that donald trump is supposed to put here . Balance first and foremost. I think the American People are looking for an Energy Policy thats comprehensive. That includes all sources. Youre certainly right, liz. Natural gas is coming on strong now. Expanding its use in vermont and thats the case in other places as well. So i think hes doing what he has to do, which is to reach out to organizations, interests, groups that hell need to put together in order to assemble a winning coalition. Liz well, heres what he said just minutes ago about Hillary Clinton and her coal plan, which is to of course as she has said put coal out of business. Lets listen. The federal government, the regulations that they have, they put the coal minors out of business, the coal mines are shut. What theyve done to the coal what Hillary Clinton, shes worse than obama. She wants to she actuallily openly said i want to put the coal minors out of business, i want to put the coal minors out of business, essentially what shes saying is she wants to put the steel million out of business. Were not going to have any businesses left. Liz also said he would undue president obamas Climate Change policies. Youve been a senator. Youve watched how the sausage is made. How difficult is it to undo what are has put in place . Not easy. And clean air is an asset. Not a liability. And you made a point a moment ago thats so important as to the governor. The fact is its not barack obama or Hillary Clinton that causes a problem for coal. It is natural gas. The pricing of natural gas has had a profound impact of moving fuel sources from coal to natural gas. Liz to be fair because were fair and balanced. Sure. Liz this administration has made it very difficult with heavy, heavy regulation on the coal industry. But i just wanted to make that point. Go ahead. But my point is this conversion started well before the plan that was proposed by the epa and the administration. The fact is the market system is whats making the judgments here moving from coal to natural gas. And it is the case that our country wants to have cleaner air. Were going to have a carbon reduced future. Theres no question about that. Carbon restraint is going to be part of our future and part of the future of the planet as well. There are some deniers. But deniers, doesnt work. Liz well, governor douglass, as a republican, look, there are people who are not there yet on Climate Change. I think part of the issue with donald trump that some people are a little concerned about and im talking about specifically the Energy Industry. All you have to do is look at how much theyve donated. Theres an interesting donation cue up here, and it appears that the oil and gas interests have donated just under 13,000 so far to Donald Trumps campaign. This is according to the nonpartisan senator for responsible politics. But look what theyve given Hillary Clinton. 332,000, 81,000 plus for senator sanders. This looks like severe push back that the oil and gas interests are not ready to jump on the trump train. What can he say that might change that . Well, certainly doing the right thing by reaching out. But remember, liz, he hasnt raised much money from anybody. Hes been self funding the campaign substantially. So i think it will come. You indicated at the top of the piece that a couple of Major Oil Executives or , yeah. Liz so i think it will come. In the end, there will be some warming toward mr. Trump. Hes got a ways to go. Hes got a ways to go even among those who are solidly republican. Hes got to tone down his rhetoric and not say inflammatory things about republican governors, for example. But this is the beginning of a process, and i think now hes got the numbers according to the ap, the inevitability will be accepted by more people. Liz you havent yet. But will you endorse him . Well, i dont know. I tell folks here in vermont that our electoral votes are not going to go to the republican anyway. So it doesnt matter a whole lot. But ive always supported republican nominees and well see how he does over the next five months. Liz were thrilled to have both you. Thank you so much, and as we await the speech, we want to thank you both very much. Coming up in about 19 minutes, ohio senator up for reelection. Will he be calling in donald trump in the big guns to help him at rallies and issues such as that . Look, were going to ask rob portman about that and much more, including the convention that will be held in cleveland. Thats later on countdown. And then we have this breaking news. Were looking at Energy Companies making a major rebound in the grand scheme of things as oil touches 50 a barrel. Year to date. And remember oil was down for the count in late january. But year to date, youve got names like exxonmobil, chevron, total, marathon oil moving considerably higher year to date. But donald trump as laying out his Energy Policy, there is this. A crushing defeat of the energy and water appropriations bill. House speaker paul ryans plan to push it through went down in flames. Could it be a cyber that a major budget battle was brewing on capitol hill or perhaps even something worse . Fox news producer was watching this happen and, chad, this bill got smoked by both sides. Yeah. This was pretty dramatic here. And whats funny is that the issue has nothing directly to do with energy or water. I want to go back to last week. There was a piece of legislation to fund the veterans programs for this year and amendment did i democratic congressman sean maloney of new york that would ban lgbt in contracting. And that is what we call sometimes a poison pill that you put an amendment into legislation and then people vote against the overall bill. Well, they not that narrowly got that amendment out of the bill in the va. And then passed it, but those came home to roost on the energy and water bill. And they defeated this overall bill. The final vote was 305112. The problem was last night that the maloney amendment passed. It became part of that bill and that became a poison pill to the legislation. And this is where House Speaker paul ryan said. Earlier i stood up here and said some bills might fail because were not going to tightly control the process and predetermine the outcome around everything around here. Well, thats what happened here today. Ryan criticized democrats for voting for the maloney amendment on the lgbt issues but then not supporting the overall piece of legislation. Democratic california congressman lucille said,i couls bill overall. In fact, there were only a handful of democrats voted for the bill because there were endangered species in this. She didnt think there was enough money in the bill to found the drought relief efforts in california so they all voted no. Now, there was a problem with Appropriations Bills last year in the house of representatives. As it pertained to the Confederate Flag. You might have to say what does the Confederate Flag have to do with the federal government . Well, last year wanted to ban the Confederate Flag on government facilities and had to vote every bill off the floor. Liz it seems like paul ryan is facing almost exactly what john boehner and thats real problems on both sides. By that ironic, isnt it . The same day donald trump is putting through his Energy Policy plan. Paul ryan does not have the chance at least to or at least he looks like there was a wall thrown up on the energy and water bill. Thank you very much, chad. Who was living and breathing this as it speaks. Come back to us again. We appreciate it, chad. So as we watch and await, donald trump in bismarck, north dakota to unveil his Energy Policy plan. The closing bell 45 minutes away. Energy shares are kind of neither here nor there or lower. Heres the dow heat map, and you can see that exxonmobil is certainly on the bottom five here. Not doing well at all and chevron not there either. But we do have some green on the screen. Among them, boeing, intel, mcdonalds, were going to talk more on mcdonalds coming up. Up next, new data shows that jobs markets are improving as the market awaits this woman. Fed chair janet yellen what she will say tomorrow at harvard about the state of our economy. Were bringing our traders in the fed, the markets, your money, and more. Stay tuned. And the fight for 15. The 15 minimum wage taking straight to the steps of mcdonalds headquarters. Jeff flock is live there at the senator of the action. And there is action. Were going to take you live to illinois. Show you mcdonalds stock. Its widely held. 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Lets talk about energy. Okay . Im delighted to be in north dakota. A state where really youre at the forefront of a new energy revolution. Oil and gas Natural Production is up significantly in the last decade our oil imports have literally frankly cut in half. Thats something no one little would be happening for a very, very long time. But all of this occurred in spite of a massive new bureaucratic and political barriers. President obama has done everything he can to get in the way of American Energy for whatever reason. Hes made life much more difficult for north dakota as costly regulation. And i mean serious regulation makes it harder and harder to turn a profit. If crooked Hillary Clinton is in charge, believe me youll see it. She will shut down Energy Production across this country and, by the way, also unrelated abolish the second amendment. And were not going to have that. That i can tell you. [cheers and applause] and i appreciate last week i got the endorsement of the nra. And these are great people, and i appreciate that endorsement very much. [cheers and applause] millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of wealth will be destroyed as a result. Thats why this choice and this is a very important choice. November going to be so, so crucial. And heres what it comes down to. Wealth, serious wealth for people, for workers, for everybody. Versus poverty. North dakota shows how Energy Exploration creates shared prosperity. Better schools, more funding for infrastructure, which we really need throughout our country. Higher wages, lower unemployment, things weve been missing for a long time. Its a choice between sharing and this great Energy Wealth. Or sharing and the poverty promised by Hillary Clinton. [applause] you dont have to take my word for it. Just li