Ryan Zinke: ‘Clearly it’s in Our Best Interest To Move Forward on Energy’

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SCARBOROUGH: "Let’s ask about this executive order. The President is talking about an executive order today on — signing one on energy independence. Tell us about that and what the plan is."
ZINKE: "Clearly it’s in our best interest to move forward on energy, and we're all of the above. But producing energy domestically and reasonable regulation is far better than watching it being produced overseas with no regulation. I've probably been at 63 countries in my lifetime and I can see and I can tell you the catastrophe in some of the places in Africa, in the Middle East, of how energy is exported. If we do have energy here produced, I’ll tell you, it makes us a lot stronger overseas and it's a strategic play as well. Look at Russia. Russia is in the news every day. So how do you combat Russia? Economically. We export liquid natural gas to Eastern Europe, replace a lot of what they’re providing with Eastern Europe. Iran, the same thing. If we want to put pressure on Iran economically, we do that by supplanting their exports in crude. And we have to do that by our energy independence as well as infrastructure."