Spencer Cox: “There is still real hope to getting a deal that will get us…”

“I know that Secretary Burgum and his team with the administration have been very involved in those conversations and helping to bring the sides together as acting as kind of a facilitator and a negotiator. And that There is still real hope to getting a deal that will get us over the next five years and then a longer term deal for 20 years. Well, it's not the end of the world. Again, that, that was an arbitrary deadline. That was not, not arbitrary. I mean, it is important. We, we kind of backed into those deadlines.” (23:08–23:18)

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