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Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
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Demand. Ryan, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. It was long in coming. Everyone asking, what are you going to buy . Tell us how you came up with this deal. It is great to be with you again today. We have been talking about the need for consolidation in business for quite some time. We need to put a Value Proposition together that offers investors a different way to think. We have done this with a transformative acquisition with concho resources. This brings in a bunch of lowcost supply resources government 23 billion barrels into the company. It is about a super strong Balance Sheet to manage the volatility we have seen in this business. It is about how you allocate capital for value, not for growth. It is distributions we were going to give back to the shareholder. It is about having a sustainable business. The deal takes an Energy Transition that we know is coming for our planet. Alix can you give us insight into how competitive it was . If you look at the Shell Companies that