them. childish effort to get people to vote for you. people might not have loved donald trump s tweet but i loved his policies. i would rather have his tweets and his policies than joe biden and the destruction he has destroyed the american people. harris: and now you have title 42 being wiped away. democrats are pointing the finger at oil executives now happened during combative hearing on gas prices yesterday. to the big oil companies and why they re ripping off the american people. we do not control the market price of crude oil or natural gas and we have no tolerance for price gouging. there was another democrat saying they want to have big oil hearings like they had big tobacco hearings. i think most of us would agree that this just doesn t feel fair. it feels like gouging. we do not set the sale price
prices are putting everything out of reach. they re struggling to afford the gas just to go to work. democrats accuse oil companies of profiteering off of the war in ukraine by boosting gas prices. they weren t having it. shell does not control the prices that consumer pays. it would be illegal for shell to do so. all shell-branded stations are owned by independent operators that set their prices in the marketplace. republicans accuse democrats of capitalizing on high energy prices to push their green agenda. gary palmer said democrats were working from a playbook cured three decades ago. one of them called you a liar and compared your industry to tobacco companies. they wanted big oil hearings like tobacco hears. that s what we re doing today. republicans are using the hearing for political purposes,
house gases are the primary drivers of such changes. yet for decades many oil companies like exxon knew the use of fossil fuels could ruin the planet and endanger humanity but chose to put its muscle behind efforts to manufacture doubt about the reality of global warming its own scientists once con firld. now the house is investigating. the house environmental committee sent letters requesting information on their role in spreading disinformation setting a hearing date. congressman ro khanna joins me now. tell me what the idea behind this hearing is? chris, you framed it exactly correctly. we want to have big oil hearings like waxman had the big tobacco hearings. in fact, people advising waxman are actually helping us craft the investigation. there are three main objectives.
yesterday, but the focus shifted because of a comment from one congressman at the hearing. explain that. that s right. a republican congressman, joe barton, the top republican on this committee and this was completely unforeseen. this was sort of the drama that popped out of the day. we from the get-go in the morning were wondering what is tony hayward going to say, the culmination of all of these high-profile oil hearings. but instead this is what ended up catching a lot of attention. but i m ashamed of what happened in the white house yesterday. i think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what i would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion shakedown. i m only speaking for myself. i m not speaking for anybody else, but i apologize.
as i told my colleagues yesterday and said again this morning, bp should bear the full financial responsibility for the accident on their lease in the gulf of mexico. that statement from congressman barton coming in under pressure from the republican leadership. let s bring in our congressional correspondent brianna keilar who is working the story for us. it seems like that this whole incident of what barton was saying and what he later said, seems to overshadow the actual testimony of tony hayward. it did, wolf t.stole the show. this was unforeseen, and it s gotten so much attention here, because going into this hearing this morning it was all about what is tony hayward going to say? this is the culmination of weeks now of these high-profile oil hearings, but to be sure, this was still a very interesting hearing and it certainly was interesting to see what the lawmakers were saying, because while you had this political battle playing out behind the scenes, democrats and republicans