running for president again. he s made it clear even if he s indicted, he s not dropping out. so, you ll stay in the race? oh, absolutely. i wouldn t even think about leaving. reporter: trump has been invited to tell his side of the story to the grand jury, but his attorney told us, david, he is not going to accept. david? aaron katersky live in new york. thank you, aaron. now, to president biden s move to approve a drilling project in alaska, drawing criticism tonight. approving a controversial plan to allow a new $8 billion oil drilling project. here s matt gutman tonight. reporter: tonight, the biden administration under fire after approving a controversial oil drilling project in alaska. the willow project will include three drill sites with nearly 200 wells in alaska s national petroleum reserve.th23 the largest undisturbed plot of public land in the united states. two other drill sites were proposed for the $8 billion project, but were denied. project developer conoco
insurance fund. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. job losses are coming for those president believes that took advantage of regulation. it will be fired. if the bank is taken up by the fda see pick promising a crackdown on banks, giving away fine on big oil, approving the e project, 180,000 barrels worth per day, hoping to soften the pole, the department is substantially reducing the size of the project by denying two of the five drill sites proposed by conocophillips, which is seeking to develop oil and gas leases it acquired beginning in the late 1990s, but this move is one progressives were the president undertake. we have to save the planet, we have young people who put biden into office, this is their number one issue. if they stay home in 2024, we lose the election in 2024 pick and the president s decision appears in direct conflict with this long-standing promise. i guarantee you we are going
importantly, these projects are important to the north slope of alaska. indigenous people, the way this works, the national petroleum rreserve. and the revenues are split between federal government had a large portion goes directly to the local communities of the north slope. so when these types of projects do not get approved, it really hurts the local people the most. speak to what has to happen now that we know we have heard frome biden administration and bureau of land management looking to more or less kill this, what will have to happen to get this to go through? will that be loops and hoops to go through or is it cut and dry and simple and they have to sign off on it? so the bureau of land management as we said, they have actually approved a new supplemental eis that allows for three drill sites. that would work.
we have to leave the chaos behind, and with the start talking about the future. todd: nikki haley will join fox & friends this morning and she will use the word generational more than once. bracing for a major blow from the biden administration has the bureau of land management to reduce the number of drill sites at a major oil project in alaska. ashley: that project to produce 180,000 barrels of oil a day and create 2500 jobs but now all of that is in doubt. the vice president and ceo of alaska oil and gas association joins us now. biden made it clear in the state of the union address just a little over a week ago that america is clearly not ready for this green energy that they are proposing and that we have to drill ten more years. how and where are they talking about drilling and they keep shutting everything down? and now potentially to stop this project and what happens when this project gets shut down or
now, this project originally started by drill sites. it has been belittled down to three. there is speculation the department of interior will reduce that even further. what is referred to a final record of decision, which could be issued as early as the 6th of march. so now, we are waiting on secretary haaland and her team. are they going to approve a plan that would work, the only bureau of land management has put forward or reduce the number of drill sites even further and make this project question marks me when the devil is in the details. but there is a much bigger picture and it is the future of american energy. here is what the president explained him that point yesterday. this is going to have a major impact on the environment and what we are doing specifically reducing carbon in the air as we began to move these 500,000 charging stations around the