tonight, doug mccell wei looks at whether that is realistic. in an op-ed in today s wall street journal, john boehner wrote, quote, the ability to turn the tables and put the russian leader in check rights beneath our feet in the form of vast supplies of natural energy. hydraulic fracking has made available huge kwaunlts of gas, but only six applications for u.s. exports of liquefied natural gas have been approved in the last four years while 24 are pending. this is incredible. putin today is using this as a weapon. there s an announcement from russia they re going to cut off the gas supply to ukraine. you know what that would mean. there s been long a request for germany and western europe in order to have access so that they re not dependent solely on the russians. putin has already used this leverage. in january of 2009, he cut off all gas to ukraine because of
the opec cartel. never thought we d see the day we d surpass saudi arabia and other nations. could this only help the u.s. economy lowering prices and so forth? i remember sitting in those lines with my father when i was a kid, but the answer i believe is yes. this notion of hydraulic fracking, a combination of water and sand injected at a high pressure level to find oil and gas right here in the united states i think the nothing but create jobs, which is a very important topic as we both know. i think that it s ultimately lowers oil and gas prices so it s less and we are less dependent on the middle east for the oil and gas that we need as a country. but environmentalists vigorously
drinks and jokes. senator ted cruz. will feature which senator? correct. toss-up question, this rising new york star in national politics announced this week he and his wife are getting a divorce is there eliot spitzer. that s correct. 100 point question. invitations are sent out for a white house party. for michelle obama. correct. brings us to the end of the 100 point round. the score congressman jeffreys 200. craig melvin 200. david freedlander 400 a. fast paced first round. we ll see if we can keep that play going. 100 seconds, they are harder. we begin with this, demonstrating against his embrace of hydraulic fracking. protesters dressed as elves stormed the lawn of this illinois governor on monday.
evidence in mull care s office showed that he had access to her voice mail. so stories about the relationship that angelina jolie may or may not have had with brad pitt are linked into this. they re suggesting that the paper got this information from hacking the body double s voice mail. so we re getting a bigger picture of what the prosecution is actually claiming in this trial. really is an extraordinary case. a lot of different links. max, good to see you following things for us. the united states set to become the world s top energy producer by 2015. that s the word today from a report from the international energy agency. what s fuelinging this u.s. boom is huge investment in producing natural gas and oil from shale. one thing that s made that possible is new and controversial to many people technologies like hydraulic fracking. right now, the biggest global crude oil producers are saudi arabia, russia, huge in that
environmentalists are very concerned about the potential environmental damage done by hydraulic fracking, but we re well on our way to energy independence in this country. that s the really good news here. we are not nearly as dependent on the middle east as we have been over the past, you know, two generations largely because of all the natural gas and oil that we re finding in north america. it s a very good story. charles, by the way, i know you re delighted about all the alternative energy that we re working on in this country, too, solar power, wind power, all incremental. but in 2050 it will really kick in, i can t wait. you make an argument, all on, get into anything and everything, but the more we do to rely less on them abroad i think is a good thing. we re already on the way. it is we are a superpower when it comes to energy right now. the u.s. is exceptional. we re producing more oil now than we import.