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report. let's listen. >> i think it's curious that some folks in congress were the first to belittle new sourcers of energy are the ones fighting the hard toast maintain give aways for the oil companies. >> as though any of that is going to bring down gas prices. national average once again climbed a penny. but natural gas slides it a ten-year low and crowd oil also plunges today. so tonight we ask, is the left's attack on traders and investors a complete tactic of diversion. and why hasn't president obama said anything about obamacare? well ask senator mifrp mcconnell bho who joins ...

The aviation and trucking industry because of excessive speculation. what that means for individual consumers, if you drive a civic, it's over $7 every time you fill up. that's a wall street premium and goes directly to wall street. explorer is over 10 bucks and f-150 is 14. we have got to stop that and got a rule in place to do it but, again, we are taken to court by wall street interests trying to stop us. that's not good. >> bart chilton of cftc and very able at explaining this stuff and i've talked to you before and thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> our politics don't...

I'm chris hayes here with katrina vanden hufal and mike daisey and ktori hall and rebecca traister and joining us is bart chairman of the cftc. bart, what are the rules if you explain in layman's terms what the stakes are for us watching this process off not watching this unfold? >> there are 300 rules are supposed to be put in place under dodd-frank. >> we have a whole hour so start going down them. i'll give awe couple you a coup

Job, which i think we have done, and i'm not saying that we ignore people that say there's some potential litigation risk, we need to do that cost benefit analysis. but we need to keep our eye on the ball, put these rules and regulations in place to help consumers and help markets and help our economy. >> bart, katrina has a question for you. >> commissioner chiltoc, some oil analysts in talking to them they will tell you at least half of the spike in oil prices is due to speculation. the cftc is overseeing that involved with that matter. could you speak a little bit about the issue of specula...

change everything or did it as we will ask today? a deep tease there. what we have seen the last week since rush limbaugh called a georgetown law student sandra fluke a slut. 50 sponsors have stopped supporting limbaugh despite limbaugh's apology. here is statement from one of the bigger companies. at aol, one of our core values is that we act with integrity. limbaugh continues to downplay the whole thing. not surprisingly. even the loss of advertisers. >> 28 sponsors out of 18,000. that's like losing a couple of french fries in the container when it's delivered to you at the drive-t...