editorial report . i m paul gigot. hunter biden was indicted in los angeles thursday on nine new federal charges with the justice department accusing the first son of willfully failing the file and pay his taxes on time. hunter s9 latest legal woes come as republicans get set to move forward with vote to formal oohize their impeachment inwiry into his father, president joe biden, next week, with speaker mike johnson calling the move a necessary step. wall street journal column is dan dan henninger if editorial board members kyle peterson ask kate bachelder odell. abby if lowell, hunter s attorney, says the charges are wrong, hunter s innocent, and they would never have been brought if his name weren t biden. well, you ve got to put up a defense of some sort, don t you? and that s abby lowell s defense for hunter biden who evaded taxes for four years. isn t it kind of an irony that the biden administration is asking for a lot more money for the internal revenue service to
since taking the helm in 2006, he shifted the exxon stance admitting the climate change is real. in 2007, he said the risk of greenhouse gasses could be significant. in 2009, he endorsed a carbon tax on businesses over the proposed cap and trade policy. exxon mobile supported the paris agreement recently. speaking at a conference last month, tillerson said it helps world governments work together to solve the issue. tillerson s history could put him at odds with donald trump who ripped into the paris agreement on the campaign trail and said nobody really knows if climate change is real. there is strong reaction to the tillerson nomination and it is all from moscow. let s get the latest from cnn s matthew chance live in moscow. reporter: george, the potential nomination of rex tillerson as secretary of state, has been greeted enthusiastically here before
businesses in 2009 over cap and trade policy. exxon mobile supported the paris agreement. speaking at the conference last month, tillerson said it helps world governments work together to solve the issue. his history could put him at odds with donald trump who ripped into the paris agreement on the campaign trail. said over the weekend nobody knows if climate change is real. the kremlin is lastly rej t rejecting the cia assessment that the russians hacked into the u.s. election. state media is reporting that vladimir putin s press secretary called the claims of russian interference allegations unsupported by any evidence. let s go to moscow and matthew chance. matthew, the russian government is expressing interest into the investigation into the outcome of the matter. all the while saying if there is evidence, prove it.
years ago would make energy more expensive and he was right. what do you mean? well the one clip that you didn t show, bill, you showed the clip of him saying that high gas prices hurt the middle class but previously in some of the debates when he was debating hillary clinton in the democratic primary he made a statement that he said, my energy policies will necessarily mean higher energy prices, and in fact that s been the case. his energy policies have led to higher energy prices, that is one of the few promises on the economy barack obama has made. by the way he had also proposed, he didn t get it through congress, he proposed a big energy tax called the cap and trade policy. if that had gone through energy prices would even be higher than they are today. bill: i think your point about 1908 is very interesting. it goes to how you feel about how you re doing and how much money is pouring out of your pocket. i would aurg don t have to go to california to find high gas prices. this d
placing it fairly on the shoulders of president obama. let s watch. one promise he s kept. when he campaigned, he said he wanted to raise the price of gasoli gasoline. he said that under him, energy costs would skyrocket. well, romney seems to be referring to comments the president made way back in 2008 when he was still a candidate. he actually told the editorial board of the san francisco chronicle that his cap and trade policy would cause electricity rates to, quote, skyrocket, electricity rates. the president did say that. but unlike what romney has implied here, the president was not talking, as he claimed, about gas prices. it s just one of the many myth myths the campaign has been focusing on. if he could just drill more, somehow the gas prices would decrease. romney suggested that last week.