we re the world s number one producer of oil and natural gas but it s the eastern gulf that is most likely to see development. bill: it is getting push back. the federal waters extend from three miles to 200 miles offshore. the feds haven t sold a new lease in the atlantic and pacific for 33 years which means areas have not been mapped with today s technology. there could be oil, there could be no oil. right now we don t know. opponents say it would be foolish to even begin looking. we already have efforts on the ground to oppose it here in the state of california. they have already at the city level been resolutions put forth to reject offshore leasing. bottom line is you won t see any drilling for years, maybe a little exploration and mapping. if gasoline hits $5 again you know the economics and politics change. bill: so right about that.
funds. neil: seattle is suing or this and saying the trump administration can t cut off funds. you re saying with new block grants. they can threaten. they can t take money back that has been committed for this year, which goes to september 30th. the flip side is, the litigation from seattle is frivolous because they haven t been harmed yet. the feds haven t taken away a nickel from you. you can t sue because you think somebody hurts you. you saw after they hurt you. neil: where is this going? we have the sanctuary cities, states and regions and then in new york, chicago and what the states and the cities have never turned down federal grants because the conditions were too burdensome. so president trump and the executive branch and the republican majority in congress will have to endure this frustration until the next fiscal year when they dangle that cash in front of these cities and they take the cash
proec approach. final week, talking about governing and consensus, instead back to, you know, the wicky leaks. the fbi completes it s going through e-mails, determines that in an ideal world for hillary clinton all of them are duplicates of e-mail already looked and an somehow conveys that. even then, what s going to happen? is jim comey coming out saying, sorry, i made everything crazy? that s not going to happen. in a best case scenario i think even if the e-mails are what the clinton campaign thinks and hopes they are, nothing that the feds haven t already seen, a lot of the damage is already done and baked in and just a matter of, will they have any finality to completely put it behind them or not. and for issupporters saying, expanding the. he, helping folks down the ballot, snaps them back to the
medical marijuana be legalized in ohio. i think that s important. i hope that it doesn t pass. i can just see crime raised. i m not that opposed to the legalization of marijuana or at least the reduction of penalties for the use of marijuana, but i am opposed to the state and its constitution awarding monopolies to certain pre-determined individuals for growth of that product. so you hear it there. the debate not only over pot, but how this proposal in ohio could work. now, what s the takeaway here on the laws, if this actually passes? number one, does legal in this situation, does legal mean anyone can grow marijuana? no, as you just heard that one voter complaining about the monopoly in ohio, as steve was explaining, look, it s going to be a little bit of a monopoly of a system of a few folks selling it. another question we want to hit, how is it legal in states when it s still against federal law? the feds haven t changed it,
shepard: big dance started last month. squaring off in the ncaa tournament final. michigan, louisville final. story and program. side stories. perhaps none more captivating of kevin ware and his gruesomely broken leg. is he expected to be on the sidelines tonight. who knows maybe he will show up for louisville s women s basketball squad when they, too, play for the national championship tomorrow against uconn. before we go, our team s top five things of the day, number 5, mortars remembering the legendary movie critic roger ebert in chicago. he died of cancer last thursday. number four, senate confirming mary jo white the head of the securities and exchange commission the agency that oversees wall street. united airlines scheduling a flight on dream liner next month even though the feds haven t yet cleared the planes for flight. funeral for british prime minister margaret thatcher died today at 87.