WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.320 Joining us now is the great senator from the state of Oklahoma, who's been terrific and 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:08.600 was excellent in the committee hearing for Pete Hegseth, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. 00:00:09.060 --> 00:00:10.140 Senator, welcome to the program. 00:00:10.600 --> 00:00:12.260 Feels like a new day in America, doesn't it? 00:00:14.100 --> 00:00:17.640 I've been on going to these liberal medias because we kind of have to get our message 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:18.380 out there right now. 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:23.700 I was on CNN and they asked me what the day felt like and I said, man, sunrise was beautiful. 00:00:23.900 --> 00:00:27.520 The air in my lungs tasted better and my protein shake was awesome. 00:00:27.820 --> 00:00:33.020 It just seems like there's a tremendous amount of hope and optimism and excitement for this 00:00:33.020 --> 00:00:37.800 golden age we're going in and I tell you, it sure feels a lot better than it did four 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:38.260 years ago. 00:00:39.590 --> 00:00:45.370 No kidding. And so, Senator, it looks as if the executive orders across the board are 00:00:45.370 --> 00:00:49.650 bold and dramatic. Let's go to one that is not getting as much attention, but a national 00:00:49.650 --> 00:00:55.130 emergency around energy. And that is something that I know impacts your state of Oklahoma. 00:00:55.730 --> 00:01:01.170 What will that mean for approvals, environmental impact statements, exploration of oil and 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:04.150 natural gas? What will that mean for the great folks in the state of Oklahoma? 00:01:04.740 --> 00:01:09.880 Well, it's not just Oklahoma, it's North Dakota, it's Texas, it's Pennsylvania. 00:01:10.660 --> 00:01:13.360 It's all of our energy states, including California. 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:15.640 People forget California is actually an energy state. 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:20.480 When we declared a national emergency, what it does is it puts that permit reform that 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.500 we've been trying to pass in Congress for a long time. 00:01:22.580 --> 00:01:28.100 It puts it in hyperspeed, where we don't have to add the permit reforms, where we just simply 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:31.020 can bypass a lot of the stuff that is happening with pipelines. 00:01:34.660 --> 00:01:37.700 about energy, but it's one of the biggest choke points 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:39.480 that the Biden administration put in place. 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:41.840 One thing they did when they immediately went in 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.900 is they declassified a lot of the pipelines 00:01:45.460 --> 00:01:48.340 and instead of allowing them to run at 100% capacity, 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:50.340 they put them at 20% on new ones. 00:01:50.660 --> 00:01:52.580 They dropped some to 50% capacity 00:01:52.580 --> 00:01:54.120 so they changed the permitting process. 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:58.340 It brings that back to full capacity 00:01:58.340 --> 00:02:00.660 and it allows us to move the product faster. 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.380 As you know, Charlie, that brings down the cost 00:02:03.530 --> 00:02:08.670 energy when you're able to get the product to the system faster without competing on 00:02:08.670 --> 00:02:09.290 the same level. 00:02:09.670 --> 00:02:16.410 At the same time, it starts opening up public lands and where the Biden administration basically 00:02:17.150 --> 00:02:21.610 eliminated the ability to get permits on public land. 00:02:22.070 --> 00:02:27.210 It opens up Alaska again, which Alaska is a huge economic engine that the Biden administration 00:02:27.210 --> 00:02:28.650 just collapsed and killed. 00:02:32.750 --> 00:02:37.170 was leading and keep in mind the executive order to make it a national security issue 00:02:37.170 --> 00:02:43.050 was a way to go around the executive order that the outgoing Biden administration put 00:02:43.050 --> 00:02:44.470 in place that basically took 00:02:44.890 --> 00:02:50.090 all of our waters up to international and said there was a moratorium on offshore drilling 00:02:50.090 --> 00:02:55.650 and the president by very smart and I'm sure he was had great people routing that was advising 00:02:55.650 --> 00:03:00.370 him on this too by declaring it a national emergency it takes it off the table and we 00:03:00.370 --> 00:03:05.570 can drill again until we get to energy independence and when we become the exporter 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:12.840 it puts us as a much stronger position. And what people don't realize too is we're still importing 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:18.800 petroleum products from Russia. So we're still funding the war in Ukraine that we're funding 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:23.920 Ukraine to fight against, and then we're funding Russia. So this takes that actually off the plate 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:30.740 too. It's a major victory and win, and the president 00:03:31.150 --> 00:03:38.730 wants to become not just the energy superpower of the planet which we are in pace but also for artificial intelligence which if we want 00:03:38.730 --> 00:03:43.810 to have artificial intelligence dominance we need to be energy independent and dominant correct senator 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:51.640 Yeah, we do and we needed to use it more strategically too. A lot of people think Saudi Arabia is being the oil capital of the world 00:03:51.640 --> 00:03:54.080 The United States is an oil capital of the world 00:03:54.080 --> 00:04:00.180 We have more reserves from oil natural gas and and in rare earth minerals underneath our feet 00:04:00.180 --> 00:04:03.460 But because the environmental movement it has put us at a huge disadvantage 00:04:03.460 --> 00:04:10.420 But one thing that we don't talk about Charlie is what is what Saudi Arabia UAE? 00:04:10.620 --> 00:04:15.380 cutter these other countries do by setting up a sovereign wealth fund for their country by 00:04:15.380 --> 00:04:20.060 the reserves that they have. Let's think if we read look at the way that we do public land 00:04:20.060 --> 00:04:25.060 permitting. Instead of just simply giving the permitting to the oil and gas companies, 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:29.440 and we have a one-time fee where they get the permit, we sell it, and then they go on, 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:34.060 what if we actually entered a partnership like you do with private land, like I do on my own 00:04:37.630 --> 00:04:41.770 of the minerals that are pulled off the land. What if we did that with the United States 00:04:41.770 --> 00:04:47.810 and on the public lands and then we started applying that 100% to our national debt and 00:04:47.810 --> 00:04:53.050 we start using the natural resources we have to pay off our national debt because you know 00:04:53.050 --> 00:04:56.950 Congress is never going to be trusted with actually being able to do our budget because 00:04:56.950 --> 00:05:01.250 we're going to be playing these games. We're going to have a 10-year budget or balanced budget, 00:05:01.270 --> 00:05:05.210 which we've been doing 10-year balance budgets forever and we still haven't balanced it. But 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:11.320 the resources we have and said that those funds had to be applied to national debt, 00:05:11.460 --> 00:05:15.040 we could actually see in our lifetime, Charlie, you and I could with the country could be 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:15.380 out of debt.