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It's the first time a former first lady and president are speaking to a congressional committee under subpoena.
Meanwhile, Birgit Brenda, the president and chief executive of the World Economic Forum, said today that he would step down after a review into his past connections with Epstein.
The organization is behind the annual meeting of executives and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland.
It began the review earlier this month.
Brenda has previously denied wrongdoing.
Coming up, why big oil wants President Trump to stop his battle with the wind industry.
We're exclusively reporting that pollution from U.S.
power plants rose last year.
It's a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend.
An environmental group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, conducted the analysis of data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The increase in emissions comes partly from power plants burning more coal for electricity.
The Trump administration has pushed to use coal and rolled back Biden-era climate regulations.
The EPA says focusing on a single year of emissions data obscures a longer-term decline.
And while President Trump has promoted coal, he's been battling the wind industry.
He says offshore wind farms like the one off the coast of Martha's Vineyard are ugly, expensive, and destructive for wildlife.
And he's blocked efforts to build new ones.
Trump's actions have plunged the wind industry into turmoil, but now it's gaining a surprising ally, big oil.
Benoit Morin covers the oil and gas industry for the journal and is here to tell us more.
Benoit, why is the oil industry asking President Trump to stop this battle against offshore wind?
Why is this so important to the oil and gas industry?