been a journalistic enemy but quickly humanized the situation. i think he was a man so comfortable in his own skin due to his father, prescott bush, being a senator, due to the fact that he was married to barbara, the life of his life, due to the fact that when he moved to texas he made a million dollars and became a millionaire on his own by the age of 40 working oil and gas in the permian basin in texas. he had a lot of self-confidence, and that meant you didn t have to belittle people. you tried to build people up. overall he had great empathy and an open heart. we can see that presidents sometimes aren t always that warm hearted, and bush really felt the human condition and anxiety, agony with every day people and tried to help them, and the disabilities act, clean air act being great monuments to his kind of breaking ranks. that should have been democratic
$1.79. todays the up to $3.58 and rising with some predicting five buck a gallon by summertime. republicans are pumping high ok tan fume offense their own. under my administration we have a near record number of oil rigs operating right now. more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world woman dines. anyone that tells you we with just drill our way out of this problem does not know what they re talking about or is not telling you the truth. john is a democrat from kentucky who serves on the ways and means committee. i want to discuss the weather in your area. a tornado on the ground just outside of louisville as i understand it. that s right. 25, 30 miles north of here. i just watched video of it before coming on with you. there s a report that it s decimated a high school in henriville, indiana. it s still on the ground.
that s a fact. under my administrations, we have a near-record number of oil rigs operating right now. more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world combined. think about that. that s a fact. we ve opened up millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, where appropriate and where it is done safely, and we ve approved more than 400 drilling permits since we put in place new safety standards, to make sure that we don t have the same kind of spill that we had down in the gulf a couple of years ago. and we ve approved dozens of new pipelines to move oil around, including from canada. just this week, we announced that we ll do whatever we can to help speed the construction of a pipeline in oklahoma that will relieve a bottleneck for oil that needs to get to the gulf. and that s going to help create
american energy. yes, oil and gas, but also wind and solar and nuclear and biofuel and more. [applause] we need to keep developing the technology that allows us to use less gas and oil in our cars and trucks. and our plants and factories. that the only real solution to this challenge. now, it starts with the need for safe, responsible oil production here in america. we are not going to transition out of oil anytime soon. that s why under my administration america is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. that s why we have a record number of oil rigs operating right now. more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world combined. over the last three years my administration has approved dozens of new pipelines
miguel marquez is joining us. what more can you tell us? reporter: it sounds like an accident. they were training late at night. it may have been a live fire exercise. it sounds like there was fairly intense training. these are two that provide close air support for marines on the ground. they were training for afghanistan, as you said. and they trained very, very hard at night and it s possible that it was just an accident. the marines are saying that they collided in the air. obviously something went very wrong during that training, whether it was darkness, dust or dirt that blocked their view. it s not very clear yet. but the marines are investigating it. and among those items they are looking into it, those are new images that you were showing as we were talking, miguel, that is believed to be that cash site. they are looking into whether there could have been any mechanical problems? it s possible. look, the one huey helicopter is typically can hold up to ten indiv