armendariz was called to the panel to explain his comments. committee chair fred upton put out a statement that he is disappointed and president obama s epa established a record of abuse in its policies and enforcement practices. upton says the hearing will go on without armendariz. martha: steve, could this decision not to testify have anything to do with with release of new gop videos?. reporter: that is what some analysts believe that the video s slamming the obama administration of oil and gas companies made the climate too radioactive for armendariz to appear. here is one of those videos. to quote one of my colleagues at epa, epa is a mean, green, job creation machine. reporter: that is claim by republican that is the president is pushing the epa to become too green. other epa officials and president talk on video about the oil and gas industry. no immediate comment from the epa. martha: thank you very much. steve centanni. bill: there are new calls for answers after classif