our white house correspondent asked the press secretary about keystone. here is her answer. forecast for financial pain, particularly at the gas pump. yeah. for americans. the president said today the notion that this is going to last for a long time is highly unlikely. would he try to ensure that by lifting some of the restrictions that he has put in place on the energy industry or re-thinking some projects like the keystone pipeline. well, first of all, the keystone pipeline is not flowing. so i m not sure how that would solve anything. there is also plenty of oil leases that are not being tapped into by oil companies so you should talk to them about that. would the president ever consider ordering u.s. companies to stop importing russian oil? i don t have any prediction of that at this point. steve: so her answer is the keystone is not flowing. he pulled the plug on it. make it flow. make this thing flow. what s wrong with that?
he said hold on. pet peter, i understand that. and he said that he will have a hearing and he s waiting for the documents. so let s wait and let that process evolve. a couple questions, first about keystone. what changed? it seemed like it took forever in covering the obama sfrooikts this thing to finally get over the finish line fp never did and relatively quickly less than 65 days in, it s finally made its way over the finish line. what changed especially with respect to the state department s view of the keystone xl pipeline and is it your opinion that it would be good to hear from the president win lose or draw after what we learn today vis-a-vis health care reform? simply put on keystone, it was a priority. the president came in, he signed an executive order on it. he had talked about it during the campaign. and he made it a priority. he made it a priority for his team here at the white house to get it done. not only the jobs, but in-koornin
that, and he also said he s going to have a hearing and he s going to call the people back and waiting for the documents. so let s wait and let that process evolve. reporter: thank you, sean. couple questions, first about keystone. what changed? it seemed like it took forever in covering the obama administration for this thing to get over the finish line. it never did and relatively quickly, less than 65 days in it s finally made its way over the finish line. what changed especially with respect to the state department s view of the ski tone xl pipeline and is it your opinion it would be good to hear from the president win, lose or draw, after what we learned today, vis-a-vis health care reform? so simply put on keystone it was a priority. the president came in, he signed an executive order on it. he had talked about it during the campaign, and he made it a priority. he made it a priority for his team here at the white house, to get it done. not only the jobs, but incorporating u.s
people. second one you2 was president obama speaking to a green bay wisconsin television station about keystone. put it up on the television, please. somehow the tape disappeared. we don t believe that the president says i m happy to look at how increase pipeline production for oil. keystone is for9 9 oil to send that down to the gulf bypasses the united states. it s estimated to create 250 jobs. why did you pick that as a falsehood. the president said the oil would bypass the united states. actually, the canadian oil was going to go to refineries on the gulf coast. obama s own state department determined at would have been exported stayed here in the united states. one-eighth carrying crude from north dakota and montana. to say it bypassed the
people. second one you2 was president obama speaking to a green bay wisconsin television station about keystone. put it up on the television, please. somehow the disappeared. we don t believe that the president says i m happy to look at how increase pipeline production for oil. keystone is for9 9 oil to send that down to the gulf bypasses the united states. it s estimated to create 250 jobs. why did you pick that as a falsehood. the president said the oil would bypass the united states. actually, the canadian oil was going to go to refineries on the gulf coast. obama s own state department determined at would have been exported stayed here in the united states. one-eighth carrying crude from north dakota and montana. to say it bypassed the united states wasn t true in