increases, it eat very same group of senators that for a long time for many years have opposed the government of america s oil and that will gas by americans for americans. we re living in the world we live in right now. and even if you started drilling everywhere in america right now, it wouldn t bring down the cost of a gallon of gas right at this moment. so is there anything the oil industry can do right now on help american consumers better afford to buy gas? let s compare the two approaches. yesterday s approach by some of those who drug the chair men of these companies up to capitol hill, their solution is to raise taxes. how do you bring the cost of energy down raising taxes is beyond anybody s imagination. the solution to this is an energy policy, a policy that brings adequate supply to the marketplace. today 85% of the offshore in the
petroleum institute. i d like to know from you how the ceos view this. is there a sense of relief that this is over? well, i think it s unfortunate, there s a lot of political theater going on right now in washington and you saw that yesterday in the senate finance committee hearing. i think the important thing, it s a little bit disappointing to some of these leaders who employ 9.2 million americans. they would hope that there would be a more civil dialogue that really focuses on the issues in a thoughtful, fair, and balanced way. the oil industry today contributes $87 million a day to the federal government in the form of taxation. so if you want to talk about tax policy, let s talk about tax policy. let s get rid of the political theater and let s address the serious issues of our day. from the oil industry s
separately and put pressure on them. as it currently stands, they say they re not getting anything fantastically new out of this, but the talks are ongoing. so are pakistani investigators in the room along with u.s. investigators, and do u.s. intelligence officers want to be alone in that interrogation as well? reporter: i m not a professional interrogator, but we understand they re all in the room together which of course would be putting a degree on the americans strain to press these women who are hostile witnesses. their husband has just been killed by u.s. special forces. you can expect a fairly unpleasant atmosphere. it does appear the americans are not getting the kind of information and the speed they would necessarily like, carol. nick paton walsh from pakistan, thank you so much. new york s mayor says two men arrested in an alleged plot to attack manhattan s synagogues were lone wolves. police commissioner ray kelly says today the suspects wanted to attack jews.
perspective, what does being publicly shamed like that do to your relationship with the public and with lawmakers? well, i think the unfortunate political theater that occurred yesterday is inconsistent with where the american people are. one of your own poll s just a week ago pointed out that 69% of the american public says we should drill and produce more of american oil and natural gas. we believe that s where the public wants us to go to help bring down the cost of energy and to help provide for our energy security. do you have to admit that americans are pretty angry at the oil industry, they re paying very high prices for a gallon of gas. they look at your profits and they say to themselves why are we giving big oil tax breaks or why isn t the oil have i woindu working harder to bring down gas prices. is there anything the industry can do? that s a great question because if you look at those that are proposing the tax
so as you say, i can t get into the details in this forum, but we are looking at what measures can be taken to pump up the security. sfwh and u. . and u.s. intelligence offices finally interviewed the bin laden wives. they were interviewed together and were hopefully hostile toward t openly hostile toward the americans. cnn is covering this but let s begin with nick in islamabad. nick, what you can tell us about the interrogation of these wives? reporter: well, the pakistanis are confirming what u.s. officials said last night, that the interrogation is happening. we re not hearing much more from the pakistanis, saying this is and ongoing process. so a series of meetings happening over a period of time. u.s. officials do not seem to be getting what it is they hoped.