spokesman. it says, quote: i am extremely thankful and relieved to learn that the irish national who was held hostage has made contact with his family and is safe. i spoke with his family yesterday, and i know how relieved they will be that he is well after his ordeal. this is the news we all wanted to hear, at the same time my thoughts are with the other oil field workers who are caught up in this terrible situation. and among them, jenna, we now know there are some americans. jenna: because we know there s some americans, you know, what is the role of the u.s. military here? what are they doing, potentially, to help? reporter: well, what we can say right now is that no u.s. troops have been deployed to help. there are none who have been asked to go into algeria and assist the algerians. in fact, we ve learned that the algerians have rejected offers of help up until now. we can confirm that a u.s. drone has been repositioned over the bp facility. those drones are flown out of the ai
ceo s of the major oil companies and you blame them. this time, the oil execs were ready to fight back with this thing called facts. here are some of the them. i don t think the american people want shared sacrifice. i think they want shared prosperity. our oil field workers i met with unable to work today because we can t receive drilling permits or there are leases that are not being made available. make the united states more attractive place for investment. do not harm american competitiveness overseas because that brings enormous benefits and wealth back to this country. and keep the playing field level within industries. so that everyone competes. we we love to compete. i mean, that s that is what we thrive on is competition. i don t think that the senate democrats who called that particular hearing were ready for the blowback that they got from the ceo s. they were there on capitol hill to defend the, what, $2 billion a year they received in tax subsidies, ex