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Your comparison there is notable, i think. imagine, you know, it s like setting off a cyber bomb at a pipe loin. y pipeline or setting a cyber bomb outside the meat packing plant like jbs. the fbi s new strategy here and again a comparison with terrorism is to go after the finance behind this, the business of ransom ware. how do you do this? it is taking place in the dark web. you have block chain and cyber currencies. is it doable? i think it s a fantastic strategy. i m real excited. these are our businesses. so what a lot of people don t real yuz i realize these are not single actors. lots of different actors are working together and forming business relationships. the ransomware names you hear ....
Combined. yeah. exxon is doing just fine these days, thank you very much. who is not doing fine are the people who live above exxon s pegasus oil pipeline which ruptured in mayflower arkansas a week ago today. that cleanup is still going on tonight. residents are still evacuated from their homes. one of the rather incredible things we learned about this when it happened is many of the residents who live right over this pipe loin did not even know the pipeline was there until it burst. supposed to be a 20-inch pipeline run from illinois to texas. knowing nothing of the pipeline. i had no idea. and i m the fourth or fifth house from it. now they know. it s a bad way to find out it s there, right? we also know about previous safety violations as it relates to that specific exxon pipeline. in 2010 the federal government fined exxon for failing to inspect a different portion of that same pipeline as frequently as is required by law. sounds bad, right? not only did they not do it ....
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 formation and oil from money than that a and north carolina would flow through this thing as well, correct? that s right. it s canadian oil but it s -pls north dakota, montana oil that ....
Nobody is making steel. snob buildingers are. nobody is doing anything in heavy industry. young african-americans grow up in all-white neighborhood hads with no jobs. what are we going to do about it? we are doing something about it. the president started us down that road. look at the state of illinois, high-speed rail coming to the state, creating thousands of jobs. clean-coal technology grants coming into our state, the largest clean coal technology in our history to build a pipe loin to reduce pollution, $250 million to bring high-speed internet across the state of illinois. president obama knows this is the way to build america and he couldn t get a republican, including congressman mark kirk, to even stand behind him and cast a vote to move us forward with good-paying american jobs. i couldn t agree with you more, chris, let s build the infrastructure for the 21st century so that we can make america number one again. well, i don t mind the virtual world but i like the real wo ....