what the state of nebraska said is that the people who live there have a right to have input into the process about what happens on their lands. and what are those expressed concerns? what s your understanding? well, there s several. this pipeline will run across some important environmental habitat. if there are spills there could be tremendous impacts not on wildlife but the people who live on these lands. frankly, some people don t want a pipeline crossing their field. so john, simple as that, don t nebraskans, landowners have the right to say i don t see the benefits outweigh the risks? they do certainly have the individual right to protest what could be happening, but we need to change the paradigm for a moment. this is not the good guys versus the bad guys, meaning the oil industry versus the environmentalists. you can take it either way. this is about future national energy security and economic resilience. the world is going to be oil short within the next three to four
you saw there, jay carney, insisted that republicans were to blame for killing this project, and that s not all. listen to what he said. the president didn t turn down the keystone pipeline. there was a process in place long, with long precedent run out of the state department because of the issue of a pipeline crossing an international boundary. megyn: so it wasn t the president. but now there are reports that the president himself is personally lobbying senate democrats now to reject a new amendment that calls for the construction of this pipeline irrespective of what the president says. we expect that vote to happen later today. joining me now to discuss it, leslie marshall, she s a syndicated radio talk show host, and lars larsen, also a syndicated radio host with compass media networks. so jay carney was trying to say the president only said no to the pipeline when he said no because he was being forced to give a decision prematurely. he didn t want to issue a decision until mor