Staff member. Speaker kevin mccarthy. And the time to george santos. And pleaded not guilty, and the indictment says he asked for more than a dozen contributors to fund santoss campaign. He also got a 15 commission from it. Prosecutors allege hero a letter to santos back in 2022 saying quote, thinking my identity to big donor. You also wrote, highrisk reward. In everything i do. Something he said that in turn out to be true. Thank you so much for joining us tonight, cnn prime time with wolf blitzer starts right now. Excellent show, caitlin, thank you very much. To our viewers, good evening. Im wolf blitzer here in washington. We want to welcome you to cnn prime time. Theres Breaking News were following right now. A texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voice mail to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former president donald trump. Over his attempts to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The suspect, allegedly called the chambers a fede
taking away the earnings and substance for ukraine s farmers. it s an attack on europe, because ukraine has to get that grain out through europe. there are issues trying to great get that grain through poland and hungary. it s an attack on sanctions, because russia says, it s the sanctions that we put on that are keeping them from exporting their grain. and they re not going to let that ship channel open until we relieve sanctions. and they think that by hurting the global south, we buy keeping food away from east africa and south asia, some, how these nations are gonna blame at the united states. and our sanctions on russia for this. so, all of these are in play. if you look at that explosion, wolf, that s also a signal to romania. that s an effort to horizontally escalate the
largest production fields for our region are stopped. they re not moving any product because the product can t be refined. there s a whole series of events that has to happen to get the wheels of the refining industry back in motion again. it s not something that happens overnight. once we get power back and the ship channel open, we ll slowly start to see the wheels moving forward. it may be that corpus christi is going to be the largest refining center open given what is happening in houston. so we have to get us back up and operational quickly. sean, you have a big job, getting the refiners back online and supplying around the country. we appreciate your effort and time today. thank you. thank you, harris. harris: president trump will travel to texas tomorrow to see devastation for himself. how effective has his administration s response been
for the dallas fort worth airport. these are very important refineries, strategic for the nation. the challenge that we have right now is while they are ready to get back operational, some of the suppliers still don t have power to get the feed stocks that they need to get back up and operational. so right now our big challenge is getting power back to the suppliers and also getting the corpus christi ship channel open to get the refiners back open and get commerce moving and get people back to work. harris: you hear people pontificating about whether oil prices will go up because of this. are we in a zone that you can say that or have we passed it? is there a tipping point? well, i can t speculate on oil. clearly we re seeing gasoline prices spike. that could be the case with aviation fuels as well. the pipelines from the eagleford formations, which are the
to a virtual stand still. situation is unstable right now. the lines are sagging. and we cannot allow any vessels to pass underneath with the unstable situation and the chance of the lines falling in the water. reporter: it s a fender-bender that s caused white the traffic jam. nearly three dozen ships can t get in or out of the houston port right now. about 100 port terminals and four oil refineries are affected by the shutdown. and every day officials say the port of houston does about $320 million worth of business. this crash could leave $1 billion dent in the local economy. the electricity has been turned off, but officials are focused now on getting the power lines removed, and the leaning tower off the water with a crane called big john. once a big john hooks up and takes the load on the tower, then center point energy can get up there, disconnect the lines, reel them in i and we can pick the tower up and get the ship channel open. we had 12 people on boirt.