announce their participation. one of them former vice president mike pence submitted his government forms today. correspondent mark meredith is on the story tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening, like you said, it s getting bigger by the day. the three men jumping into the race this week are all former prominent trump supporters. clear candidates feel more comfortable taking on the frontrunner. the question remains will republicans want an alternative next year. hello, iowa. former vice president mike pence is challenging donald trump for the demonstration. today pence filed his paperwork with the fec and will formally roll out his campaign in iowa on wednesday. republican primary voters are going to look at the field, think very deeply about who can best carry our message and carry majorities to victory. pence will face considerable competition including from south carolina senator tim scott who tonight is generating considerable buzz after appearing on
times, president biden has on both profits and about leases. take a listen. have you noticed big oil just reported its profits, record profits. last year they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis. they have 9,000 permits to drill now. they could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year. so, from the industry s perspective, can you respond to those two statements that really do make their way into a lot of speeches? we are in a commodity business. commodity market set prices. during covid the industry lost a lot of money. as we have come out of covid, we have been on the other side of that, so it s a big industry, the numbers can be large but they can go in both directions and they can go there quickly. the 9,000 permit point we really haven t heard that much lately. we don t have any understanding of where that comes from. we are not. bret: zero. we are not sitting on permits