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The president wanted it rerouted through nebraska, we've met that requirement, as senator baucus said it's been almost five years. i spoke with the president yesterday, he said he may take the balance of this year to make a decision. we've put by partisan legislation forward, we have a lot of support for it and it's to get the project going. jon: there is similar bipartisan legislation coming out of the house as we understand it. i read when the president met with some republican members of the house on wednesday he expressed concerns that this bill, the pipeline, woul as mans proponents have ...

I hope the president approves it quickly. jon: the president some observers have said is afraid of angering his most liberal supporters who like his green energy platforms and so forth. he doesn't want too of offend them by signing into law a pipeline that will burn petroleum. how do you answer that. >> the fourth environmental review came out by his own state department and said there are no significant environmental impacts with the project. there will be less greenhouse emissions if the project is built than if it's not built. furthermore in a recent poll over 70% of americans said we want ...

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the senate to give congress the power to approve the project. it will link oil sands with refineries and ports in texas. the $5.3 billion pipe loin has become a major controverts see. environmentalists opposing the project since day one, proponents say it would create thousands of jobs. two senators behind the bill are max baucas. and republican john hovin a member of the senate committee on energy and natural resources. welcome to both of you. this is not just canadian oil we are talking about. both of you represent states that have the bacan oil forma...

Middle class. finance chairman max baucas supports making the tax cuts permanent and from the house side they want to give families a break. there is a chance those earning less than $250,000 a year will be spared which is exactly what president obama has pledged. but for those earning more than $250,000, rates are almost certain to rise. >> at the end of your story you hit on a very interesting point. if that family there ends up paying $350 more a month in taxes, that's possibly money that they would have spent somewhere else that might have helped the economy out. but as you said, at the en...