and being the saudis now starting up this, you know, tournament of their own, and this sports washing that they re doing, trying to buy respect on the world stage, trying to improve their image, just be truthful, you know, just work with the truth instead of hiding behind lies. that s how you gain respect. you can t buy it. you have to earn it. terry, wonderful to have you this morning. thank you so much for speaking with us. thank you for having me. and new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is wednesday, june 15th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. and new this morning, president biden taking on big oil, demanding immediate action from seven major oil companies to boost supplies. in a letter to the companies, he slams their high profit margins, and insists they are not acceptable when americans are paying record prices at the pump. the president blames the oil companies for blunting the impact of
antagonizing and causing disruption. and how would they do that? well, police say they had plenty of things to do that. they had a smoke bomb, a lot of the guys had things like long poles, yes, they had flags on top of them, but they could certainly use those poles to create violence. they also had metal shields with them, and they had protective gear, much like the gear, police said, they use in riot situations, which is partly why these 31 men, all dressed in similar clothing, with these piled into a u-haul, someone spotted them. when you read some of the things they said, it appears to be a military operation, where they had times and places and dates and gps and everything sort of plotted out as to what they were going to do, where they were going to meet, where they were going to go. it really was disturbing when you think about this small town that is trying to show love to everyone in the town, and to
and we re showing these cops pictures here. look at the picture we re showing. what do you think was going on in that picture? you think they re out trying to do a drug bust? no they re worried about having to do tear gas, guys throwing things at them probably having weapons. we saw what played out there. this is a little unfair. this isn t how they patrol the streets. this is what happens when there s a riot going on. exactly. this was for riot situations. you don t see them on patrol with an apc no matter how bad it gets. i agree. that would be a problem. i would hear you on that. the police need to be protected. police in baltimore were not without helmets. right. because probably some politicians said i don t want to hurt anybody s feelings meanwhile cops are getting rocks thrown at them lead pipes i don t disagree. i tell you, i actually think, all right, that the left does not give a darn about police officers lives at all the way we talk. now we just went off
offduty police officer in 1989. working to stop the execution. also have breaking news on the other big story. the release of two american hikers in iran. josh fattal and shane bauer were escorted to their family. we ll begin with the extraordinary troy davis take. i want to go straight to david mattingly outside the prison in jackson, georgia. there seems to be increased activity in the last hour. apparently family members arriving, a lot of state police arriving. what is your feeling about what may be going on? well, there s a tremendous show of force here. it continues to grow as the minutes go by. i want to let you take a look at this. this is a rare sight in georgia to see this many officers in this much riot gear standing guard. they are standing at the gates of the facility where the execution is supposed to take place. they have been staring intently across a four-lane highway. i m going to show you this now. across the highway to give you a lay of the land. there a