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>> which is not a legal designation, right? this is a political analysis. >> it's my analysis, yes, but this is very, very commonplace. and you know, west virginia is a state that has been ravaged for a hundred years, mountaintop removal, throughout the state. employeei i blowing the tops off of mountains in the south, to an explosion of fracking wells in the north part of the state. >> let me come to that. the idea that west virginia, on the one hand, we were just talking about soldiers as representative as this kind of american narrative of the hearty american who goes out and does things th...

Into that story. secondly, you can always tell when brian has not slept a lot because he actually has more energy. if we do a study on energy -- >>brian: if i would be powered, it would be by natural gas and that could be the future of our country. >> there's a segue. first of all, let's deal with the pipeline. 53 senators including 9 democrats write a letter to the president saying we want that keystone pipeline. please approve it, mr. president. second item, chesapeake energy, huge natural gas producer, opens up a well, one of these fracking wells. opens it up totally to the e.p.a. come on i...

That's the big nat gas field that's under eastern ohio, southeastern ohio, as well as western pennsylvania. >> how is this going to like change the states? i've got visions in my head of what colorado and texas and oklahoma look like 30 years ago where you just drive along and you see wells pop up. is that what now things are going to look like when driving on the ohio and pennsylvania turnpikes? >> reporter: well, you don't see the wells. it's different wells than the ones we're used to seeing where you see the rig going up and down as you drive through rural texas or oklahoma. you don't see ...

Voted into authorizing selling the mineral rights so that there could be oil and natural gas drilling on public property here in the city of youngstown. that's why we're in front of this abandoned house. they want to take the money they'd get from selling those mineral rights and royalties for whatever oil and natural gas is under youngstown property in order to pay for tearing down abandoned houses. that's just one example. you go throughout this state and what you see are a number of fracking wells. right now there's just under 100 here in the state of ohio but that's exploding in terms of h...