facing tough questions over the railway company s safety practices in the wake of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, and now he has explaining to do before congress. shaw has apologized more than once for derailment, and he has said that the company is making changes, and they will do right by the people of east palestine. and let s get to the testimony from washington. and sunlen, what have you heard so far? some frustration from the residents of east palestine, but we did hear from the ceo of norfolk southern, and the company and the person who has specifically had so much criticism in the aftermath of this train derailment, and we have heard from mr. shaw. he said that he is deeply sorry of what happened, and he promised to see this through, to get it right for the residents there, and he said point-blank, it is clear that the safety mechanisms that we had in place were not enough. this is more of what he had to say. i am determined to make this right. norfo
lost to former trump administration official john gibbs. gibbs has been known to peddle 2020 election lies. in the arizona, house speaker rusty bowers who delivered emotional testimony to the january 6th committee, he is projected to lose his bid for a senate seat. the winner of that race claims, the devil himself meddled in the 2020 election. the devil. and in one of the largest rebukes to the supreme court decision on abortion ban in that state. nick valencia is in topeka, kansas, following the story this morning. nick, the voter turnout here really highlighted the importance of this issue that seems to have driven voters to the polls. and they voted no. that s right. good morning, jim. voter turnout turned out to be a huge factor here in kansas. a state where there is nearly twice as many registered republicans as democrats. but a huge swath of unaffiliated voters. that s what kansans in the state trying to protect abortion access were counting on. they worked tireless
Oil market will tighten further, and there are concerns, as you know, about russian retaliation. perhaps even going so far as to shutting down its supply. should consumers brace themselves for the possibility of prices going back up in the fall? well, i think you ve raised an excellent point. part of what we re doing to reduce these prices is on the backdrop of a war in europe where the invader, russia, is one of the largest oil producers in the world, an important supplier of refined product, gasoline and diesel. and they re under sanctions. so what we have proposed and are working with our g7 allies and for countries around the world is to say, look, we can keep the russian products and keep the russian supply on the market, but let s cap, let s limit how much revenue they get from that. that would allow for the markets to continue to operate in a stable manner, but ensure that putin has less dollars to execute his war. of course problem is putin s not going to like that, right,
Populations on becoming members of nato a year ago, you would have been lucky to get 25%. but sweden and finland who are very capable militaries and tend to do things together. they have seen the reality of who putin is and they want to join with other like minded democracies to protect themselves. putin has made some, you know, tough statements about them joining nato. but it s going to end up being a huge value to nato, demonstrating the importance of nato, adding capacity to nato. i think it is ult mimately goin to be a strong deterrent. another thing on your plate here, bipartisan legislation provide more security assistance to taiwan. it also would classify taiwan as a major nonnato ally. does that commit to the u.s. to military action if china were to invade? jim, you re going to see a really robust discussion about this in the foreign relations committee. i m a member later today. i think many of the policies in that bill are smart.