the subcommittee on oversight and investigations will now come to order. today, the committee is hearing holding a hearing today s hearing will examine the oil industry role in the recent increase in gasoline prices in the united states. due to the covid-19 public health emergency, members can participate in today s hearing either in person or remotely via online video conferencing. in accordance with the updated guidance issued by the attending physician, members, staff, and members of the press present in the hearing room are not required to wear a mask. for members participating remotely, your microphones will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. members participating remotely will need to unmute your microphone every time you wish to speak. but note once you unmute, anything that is said in webex will be heard over the loudspeakers and subject to be heard by the live stream and c-span. because members may be participating from di
Have lost their homes to the wildfires tearing across the northern part of this state. The death toll which continues to rise stands at 31 this morning. Making this the deadliest week of wildfires in california history. Authorities are working to track down about 400 people who remain missing and according to cal fire, at least 191,000 acres have burn sod far. An area almost the size of new york city. Wow. Thousands of firefighters have been working nonstop to try to contain the flames. Some have even lost their own homes while battling the wildfires. Thats my 4 runner. Theres a lot of people that have been affected by this fire. Thousands of people. I know my situation is no more important than anybody elses situation. Theres a lot of people that lives have been turned upside down. And one couple explained how they survived the wildfire burning through their neighborhood by spending six hours in a neighborhoods pool. The couples submerged themselves in the blackened, debrisfilled wate
Lawyers. Friends of mine from the middle east that say we used to go to syria. The place to go. Look what happened. Its so sad. But id like to see syria come back. We have a long way to help like with respect to the iran deal. Youll see what i mean by that over time. A lot of things will happen. [question inaudible] well, i dont know, i want to have peace in the world. Thats what i want. More so than the Nobel Peace Prize or any other prize. Id like to see peace. Ideally in the middle east, but in the entire world. We have a chance of doing it. North korea will be very important. Its a tremendous part of the world. It has tremendous potential. It has tremendous potential for its leader and its people. Well see how it works out. Right now were dealing with them. As i said, were dealing as though nothing happened. Theyre dealing with us, were dealing with them. Theyre working out times and meeting places and everything. In the meantime, if i read your various media, i find that maybe its
Will be grounded. Safety of the American People and all people is a concern. Shepard more than 50 countries had already banned the 737 max from flying after the second deadly craft of one of those jets in five months. That left america alone on this matter until now. The acting federal aviation administrator has said now that a review of the aircraft shows no basis for grounding it. So what has changed . The president says a team has been reviewing evidence from the crash site and found something new. Were expecting an faa statement very soon. This comes after a new report piloting flying boeing 737 max 8 jets say the nose dipped suddenly forcing them to override the automatic pilot system. Its not happened once but at least twice in recent months. In other words, the auto pilot suddenly put the plane in a nose dive and the pilot had to turn off the auto pilot, gain control and pull the nose back up. Sounds familiar. In one of those cases, the dif triggered the cockpit warning to say d
He just asked about the deal. We will talk to john about it in just minutes. First, the white house announcing President Trump has awarded a massive government contract for the g7 summit to his own hotel. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said the meeting of World Leaders will happen at the president s doral resort near miami. Because its the best place for the summit. When reporters asked if the move presented a conflict of interest, mulvaney said the president will not profit from it. I was skeptical. I was. And i was aware of the political sort of criticism that we come under for doing it there. Its why i was so surprised when the advance team called back and said its the perfect physical location to do it. I get the criticisms, so does he. He will be criticized regardless of what he chose to do. Theres no issue on him profiting from this in any way, shape, or form. Trace President Trump floated the idea of using his doral resort in florida for the summit. Government watchdogs cri