The eclipts is a big business story. Dozens of companies with offers. And if ever a die to buy solar stocks, buy. All of the angles covered for you coming up. Plus, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin making a tax for tax reform tim pawlenty head of the Financial Services roundtable. What he wants to see in that plan coming up. And to our reporters covering the Solar Eclipse. Contessa brewer is in columbia, South Carolina and jane wells joins us as well but first to contessa. Reporter people are reacting now by leaving i can still see the sun partially occluded here. Its still a crescent as the moon moves out of its path and people are like, okay, been there, done that its hot outside, feels like its 15, 98 degrees with the humidity so theres been a lot of people taking a move on, but ill tell you what people paid a premium to be here i talked to people who have driven down from new york and people who drove over from macon, j. , ageorgia and all of were paying a higher price for hotels,
cities. american hands will bend the steel and pour the concrete that brings this energy into our homes. and that exports this incredible new-found energy all around the world. american grit will ensure that what we dream and what we build will truly be second to none. we will be number 1 again all the way. going to make america great again. thank you, god bless you and god bless america. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. shepard: the president talking energy today. as you can see, the department of energy in washington. he attacked the fake news and cnn as fake news. and said some things about energy. certainly did not reply to the
countries take away our sovereignty and tell us what to do and how to do it. it s not going to happen. [applause] with these incredible resources, my administration will seek not only the american energy and dependence that we ve been looking for for so long, but american energy dominance. we re going to be an exporter. [applause] we will be dominant. we will export american energy all over the world, all around the globe. these energy exports will create countless jobs for our people and provide true energy security to our friends, partners and allies all across the globe. this full potential only can be realized when government promoted energy development, this guy here and he will do it better than anybody, instead of obstructing it like the
democrats. they obstruct it. but we get through it. we cannot have obstruction. we have to get out and do our job better and faster than anybody in the world, certainly when it comes to one of our great assets, energy. this vast energy wealth does not belong to the government. it belongs to the people of the united states. [applause] yet the past eight years, there s been barriers to american energy development. since my first day in office, i ve been moved at record pace to cancel the limitations. job-killing regulations are being removed and vital infrastructure projects are
i watched that in texas. the thing i loved about him, he was always saying how great texas was. if you don t say it you have to say it, right? you re doing it right now with energy. along with secretary of the interior, ryan zenke and scott pruitt. we ve been through a battle not with each other but with the world. but the world is saying i think they re right. they ll find out. we have no doubt. but all three of them strongly believe in putting america first, which is what i believe in and why i got elected. it s called make america great again. that s what we re doing. we re here today to usher in a new american energy policy. one that unlocks millions and millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in wealth. over 40 years, america was vulnerable to foreign regimes as