issue related to russia's unwillingness to recognize that ukraine can chart its own path. we can't in the end make president putin see more clearly you know, ultimately that's something president putin has to do on his own. but what we can do is make sure we've increased the costs for actions i think are not only destructive to ukraine but ultimately will be destructive to russia as well. >> moments ago, president obama announced the latest round of economic sanctions against russia in response to its egs escalating military involvement in ukraine. >> the cost on russia will continue to grow. today is a reminder that the united states means what it says. today and building on the measures we announced two weeks ago, the united states is imposing new sanctions in key

sectors of the russian economy, energy, arms and finance. >> these new u.s. sanctions come just hours after the eu agreed on its own round of new economic sanctions. those sanctions which are aimed at entire sectors of the russian economy are the harshest yet to come from europe. they target russia's oil and finance and arm sectors by restricting the ability of russian state-owned banks to raise capital from europe by placing an embargo and eu sanctions are expected to take effect as soon as this friday. this comes one day after the obama administration that russia violated a 1987 arms treaty by testing a prohibited cruise missile. the treaty is a landmark cold war pact signed by ragen and gorbachev. u.s. officials say russia first

began testing the cruise missiles as early as 2008. joining me now is deputy spokes person for the state department, marie harf, thanks for joining us on a very busy day. >> thank you. >> at this point, does the state department hold out any hope that the situation in ukraine can be resolved diplomatically? >> absolutely, alex. we have always said there's a diplomatic path forward if the russians are willing to take it. we've also always said that we will continue to impose increasing costs on russia if they don't deescalate. that's exactly what you saw us do today. we've imposed additional sanctions on huge sectors of the russian economy and energy and finance and arms. these firms want desperately to have access to the u.s. and eu financial sectors and that will increasingly be cut off. we'll keep imposing costs and sanctions have more of an impact the longer they are in place and

president putin has a choice to make. will he take the diplomatic path forward? >> sanctions have not moved putin thus far. my question is, if these do not change his calculus on ukraine, what then? >> you've seen us over months now continue to ramp up the pressure. we've done so in a way that has left the diplomatic path open. we're completely willing to take additional steps. we'll continue working with europeans and impose additional costs if we feel that's appropriate. i want to be clear here, there is a diplomatic path forward and there are things russia can do to come back from the brink. president putin hasn't done that yet but this is a choice he has to make about the future of his country and its relationship with the rest of the world. >> what is the timetable for action from russia? what would the state department like to see putin do? and what is the time frame for it? >> we think there are steps that president putin in russia can do as soon as possible.

a few of those i would layout, allowing access and pushing separatists back to allow full and unfettered access to the crash site. there are innocent civilians there is ab who ent. that is one thing, to stop sending heavy weapons to the separatists and shooting artillery into ukraine from russia, a whole number of steps they could take immediately. we've called on them to do so. if they don't, there will be further consequences like you saw today. >> what do you say to americans looking at this raft of american sanctions in tandem with european sanctions and claim by the united states that russia has been in violation of the inf treaty and president got a question that i think is on pt minds of many americans, is this the beginning of a new cold war. what do you say to those facts? >> i would echo what he said. this is a very different situation here. we don't want it to be this way.

this is not the outcome we would have hoped for here. but it really is up to russia to make decisions about what comes next and what kind of relationship it wants with the united states, with the europeans and rest of the world. in ukraine, we've said it's not a zero sum game like in the cold war. it's different. russia may try to make it seem that way with propaganda and press. there's room for both of us there. the best way russia could have influence in ukraine is not by supporting armed separatists but having an economic relationship. there's space for both of us and we will continue to make that message loud and clear. >> will secretary of kerry speak with foreign minister lavrov and will the president make a call. >> secretary kerry has spoken with lavrov a couple of times in the last week, we made it clear

both publicly and privately to the russians, there will be additional costs and the ball is in their court. they need to make the right decisions here. if they don't, their firms and economy will feel the heat. that's exactly what you saw us do today. >> marie, to speak about a u.s. relationship with allies working in concert with europe, if i can shift gears to gaza, the secretary of state kerry has come under scathing criticism from members of the israeli press and members of prime minister netanyahu's administration in terms of his actions and attempts to broker and cease-fire. how much has that blowback jeopardized truce negotiations? >> i think it's been quite frankly disappointing for us to see the criticism that the secretary personally has been getting that president obama today has personally been getting, given the fact that everything we are trying to do

and brokering a cease-fire is to protect citizens of israel working very closely with the israelis and we've announced for funding for the system just this week. i think it has been disappointing but the secretary is squarely focused on working with our partners and working very closely with israel to see if we can get an immediate short-term cease fire in place so we can negotiate a longer term cease-fire to get humanitarian access into gaza. >> is the u.s. -- administration secretary kerry surprised by the criticism? >> again, alex, the wordy would use is disappointed. the secretary has been in this business a long time and knows emotions run very high. again, everything he's done, so many hours that he has spent on the groundworking with israelis, to do things to really help with their security, i think it was

disappointing. but again, what he's focused on is what happens now working with the parties and how we can get a cease-fire in place here. that's exactly what he's focused on and continue working on. >> marie harf, thanks so much for your time. >> joining me now from donetsk is kei simmons, i know there's a slight delay. can you give us the latest in terms of what's happening on the ground where you are? >> reporter: there's absolutely no sign of any interest in a diplomatic solution that the state department is look talking about. while we have been here tonight, thunderous explosions across the city and those are missiles fired we believe by the ukrainian military at the outskirts of donetsk, what the president called russian backed separatists positions in the city. meanwhile the u.s. is saying

ballistic missiles were filed at other separatists positions and that fighting, you have to say, mostly instigated by the ukrainian military at this particular point is preventing investigators from getting to the crash site. that said that the russians stand accused of fermenting in crisis in itself. and the accusation is that whoever fired a missile is accused at mh 17 were pro-russian separatists. when you look at things on ground, these two sides are in a bitter dispute. when you talk to people here in eastern ukraine, they are pro-russian. in terms of here what they are asking president putin to do is to back away and allow ukrainian military to push back on separatists and remove them and that would be incredibly unpopular here in this part of ukraine and russia. ukraine is a sovereign country and ought to have the right to

control its own destiny and not deal with separatists in its own country. it is very, very difficult here. and it is difficult right now to see how politically president putin can back away from this situation. >> nbc's kei simmons, thanks you as always. joining me is senior written for politico, glenn thrush. the president has been talking about domestic issues and it is clear in this particular moment that foreign policy is going to be a huge part of the end of his administration. >> and it always is. that is always the way these administrations end. alex, i thought the most interesting thing the president said was something he didn't say. if you go back to the tape you showed earlier, he started to answer a question it seemed to me with too much cando, something to the effect of i don't think we can convince mr.

put putin, the feeling seems to be and that tends to reflect what i've heard over the past week, these things -- these sanctions are going to muster the european community on our side but the sense is vladimir putin is heading down a road and there's not a lot we can do stop him. >> putin's approval rating has soared to the highest it's been in years. whether it has any measurable outcome in russia on putin, most folks would be skeptical. your point though, glenn, about the president sort of begrudgingly accepting the reality of both what's happening in russia and to some degree in gaza has created a weird sort of chess game between this administration and its critics in congress and also on the world stage. i guess i thought another notable part of the president's remarks a few moments ago was

the sentence in which he said the u.s. means what it says and this was as much for his critics around the world and here in the u.s. who have said this president makes red lines and let's people walk all over them. it seemed to be a rejoinder of that. >> russia, israel, where benjamin netanyahu's rating is 82%, and in certain republican districts in the united states, right, obama's current predicament is that anything that he says now is being interpreted in a negative way. this is a really spiral for him. he's got to figure out some way to have affirmative impact on some of these things or he's really going to diminish his political capital, even faster than it's been drifting away over the past six months. >> glenn, i wonder what you think the calculus is inside the

administration, multiple rounds on putin, do we keep announcing new sanctions? what is the end game here? >> well, the sanctions are actually having an impact and one presumes they will have an impact over time and nudge putin in the appropriate direction. these numbers that the president brought up, zero growth, $100 billion in economic impact, these are not joke numbers, eventually they are going to have an impact. the question i have diplom diplomatical diplomatically, do we have a pathway to give putin a way out? this seems to be a matter of pride for this guy and the brilliance of diplomacy is to defeat your opponent while appearing to give him a victory. i would be curious to know what strategies the white house and state department having forgive putin a trap down here. >> the fact the u.s. accused russia of violating inf treaty, this further rachets up the confrontation between the u.s. and russia. i brought this up with marie

harf, the president was asked is this the beginning of a new cold war and not supposed to take questions at this statement and answered the question and said he did not think it was. certainly this is the worse relations have been in decades between america and russia. >> yeah, they are awful. i think what was really interesting and somebody close to obama former staffer said this to me, the abm treaty snacks of a north korean tactic, like the adversaries are working out of the same playbook. >> glenn, thanks for your time. >> take care. >> after the break, as the death toll mounts in gaza, so are the diplomatic tensions, we'll get the latest live from that region next on "now." (vo) there's good more... honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon just gave me. ooh, you got a buddy. i'm like a statue. i just signed up and, boom, all these points. ...and there's not-so-good more.

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as israel escalated the military campaign in the gaza strip, hamas says israel must first sign on. hamas will not implement a unilateral cease-fire. the statement comes as the death toll is escalating. secretary of state john kerry said hopes for a truce depend entirely on the parties at war. kerry is locked in a battle of his own, responding to scathing criticism, one who alleged the secretary quote, ruined everything in trying to implement a cease-fire over the weekend. kerry today defended himself and attempted to refocus the dialogue. >> this is not about me. this is about israel and israel's right to defend itself and our strong support for israel's right to defend itself. but about whether or not there is a way forward that could avoid the loss of soldiers for

israel and the loss of civilians everywhere. >> joining us via phone from gaza or not -- live from gaza is ayman mohyeldin. we know it is dicey over there. please stay safe if you need to go, let us know. we're hearing reports of dramatically escalating tensions and military inkurgss over there. can you give us the latest on the ground? >> reporter: sure, in fact a short while ago hamas' military wing released footage of what was being described as a brazen attack, first time we've seen any type of attack in this similar fashion. it showed militants, palestinian fighters crossing through a tunnel into israel and then carrying out an attack on an israeli watch tower. we don't know the specific timing of this incident but there are conflicting reports that palestinian factions, particularly hamas and its military wing, cite the attack

having taken place yesterday. there's no reaction for -- from the israeli side on the footage but does highlight the growing capabilities of hamas and one of the issues they have been pointing to, which is the threat coming out of these tunnels into israel for its citizens and for its soldiers. nonetheless, the video itself is being received across gaza and seen across gaza as a victory in the ongoing struggle. in fact the leader of the military wing just before that video was released said there would be no cease-fire unless the siege was lifted on gaza. why that's so important, that was one of the issues raised by the palestinian factions who spoke out of the west bank saying that in fact an agreement had been reached and they were going to egypt to propose a 24-hour cease-fire as long as israelis accepted it. what seems to have happened. inside the gaza strip, there are

divisions and those members of hamas'leadership say this there will be no cease-fire until there's a complete lifting of the siege. that seems to be one of major divisions even before the proposal gets to the israeli table for consideration. tonight seems to be a little bit quieter than last night, a very intense night of shelling and intense day of shelling that led to the killing of 120 palestinians, according to palestinian medical sources but there are indications that tonight as well may be a very violent night in gaza. >> ayman, in the meantime israel stepped up its bombardment of gaza and hit the only power station here, what does that mean in terms of humanitarian situation? >> reporter: well, the people in gaza get their electricity from three different sources, power lines from israel, power plant here in gaza and power supply from egypt, which is only to a very limited part of the southern strip. the major source of electricity comes from the power plant, not only because it feeds into the

civilian population but also because it supports a lot of subinfrastructure including water sanitation facilities, et cetera. as a result of the attack on fuel tanks at a destroyed fuel supply, that power plant is out of business, out of commission. as a result of that, you can hear the generators behind me, 1.8 million palestinians won't have access to electricity consistently and a lot of power lines coming into gaza from israel have been damaged as a result of fighting and haven't been repaired. health officials are warning without electricity, gaza is being pushed to the brink even more of a humanitarian crisis. >> let me ask one more question on the diplomatic front. we spoke with the state department earlier in the show and they said they were disappointed at the israeli criticism of secretary kerry and his role in peace negotiations, is there any change in that attitude towards the american role in brokering a cease-fire? does secretary kerry -- can he

regain ground he may have lost diplomatically with the israelis? >> well, right now the efforts are now being led by egypt. and the criticism in the israeli press -- and obviously that's what the united states state department expressed its disappoint about, was it felt john kerry's efforts reflected a palestinian position or that of hamas' position because it was being negotiated by qatar and turkey, two influential countries in the region. there was a lot of criticism directed at the u.s. for that. now it seems although the u.s. is still playing a role, it is trying to default back to the egyptian initiative rejected by hamas early in the conflict. right now again, the efforts are being held in cairo but egypt for its own domestic political considerations has not been mediating with hamas directly and that has been a major stumbling block for trying to reach a cease-fire. they have had strained relationships for a while for

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going into this weekend house democrats raised $2.1 million off impeachment rumors, their best four-day hull of the 2014 cycle. on the other side of the aisle, the democratic money maker has proven to be a massive headache for john boehner. at the press conference on jobs and the va, the speaker began with a question about something he really doesn't want to talk about. >> we have no plans to impeach the president. we have no future plans. listen, it's all a scam, started by democrats at the white house. >> really? it's all a scam started by democrats at the white house? sure. if by democrats at the white house boehner actually means republicans in the capital building. witness the issaman in the year 2010. >> this is an impeachment offense according to dick morris, they said it is in fact a crime and could be

impeachable. >> we want all tools available to use, including that impeachment. >> to me, this -- may be starting to u the i word before too long. >> i word meaning impeachment? >> yeah. >> is there isn't a weekend that has gone by that says michele, what in the world are you waiting for in congress? why aren't you impeaching the president? >> even if you slept through the last four years of american politics, you could have seen the whole impeachment thing coming from several miles away. what does this have to do with john boehner? ordinarily nothing but boehner in his political wisdom set himself up to shoulder the criticism when he announced he was going to sue the president, yes, suing the president. at this hour, at this moment, the house rules committee is voting on the lawsuit after which it will head to a full vote on the house floor tomorrow. it will be one of the last actions taken by the gop before

its five-week summer recess. but will it be enough to slate the thirst of the far right? probably not because it has a habit of not going away when they refuse to rule it out or dismiss it for any reason other than vote counts. >> we're not going to impeach the president because we don't have 67 votes in the united states senate in order to do so. but i do think that a lawsuit filing about the president's abuse of his power, which he has clearly done, some 55 times or whatever it is on the obamacare alone, then i don't see -- i think that's probably a good idea. >> for the record not having votes in the senate has not stopped house republicans from making over 50 attempts to repeal obamacare, and for that matter, the issue of party survival did not stop house republicans from shutting down the government. but, hey, maybe this time is different. joining me now is washington

bureau chief for buzz feed, john stanton and senior editor at the new republic, brian boitler. a headline reads surrender, boehner rules out impeachment. i wonder, who is supposed to surrender? democrats or republicans? boehner has said this is a democratic scam but certainly there's a lot of republican gusto for the i-word as some call it. >> there is. he certainly doesn't want to do it. i don't think they are going to for him having an tuz impeachment trial on the floor is a spectacle like the government shutdown and that won't work out well. >> you could have said that before the shutdown and it happened anyway. >> that is true. that said, he doesn't necessarily want to tamp down the talk anymore than democrats do. for his base, his deeper into the weeds conspiracy type base, this is good stuff. he wants them to hear this and

be all jazzed up and we're going to go get the president and this is the kind of thing -- especially this point in a second-term president, when this starts to happen. you see with bush, democrats did the same thing and nancy pelosi made it clear she was not going to support it, never going to do it. but she let them talk about on the floor and press releases, good for your base. >> but ryan, i feel this is a lot like saying, waving a fire extinguisher around while you put another log on the inferno. he may have re -- john boehner has been plowed down by his own caucus before, and i wonder, can the man stop them this time? >> i think that you're right, boehner has been less shermanesque about whether he'll impeach obama than pelosi was about george w. bush, i agree, boehner does not have the inclination to do this. since the shutdown he's been

better about not being driven into kul desacks by the hard line members but the president will be the president more than two years and more presidenting to do, right? if some of that presidenting involves effectively legalizing more unauthorized immigrants, that's going to increase the clamor own john boehner does his the control like nancy pelosi did in 2007 and 2008. the question is what happens between now and the election and what happens after the election depending on what president obama does with his powers in the years ahead. >> you know, democrats wanted to impeach bush because he led the country to war and lied about the reasons. the republicans presumably want to get the president -- they think his executive power has been in the delay of employer mandate they hate anyway. to not pars the motives for impeachment, to discuss what brian just touched upon, the

president sort of -- his handy guess in the administration has been forced on the issue of immigration, has no partners. he will likely announce some type of executive action on deferred actions or on refugee status for the kids coming across the border from honduras. josh gerstein points out a -- a dangerous brew in washington, which is this. congress will be out of session for all of august and many lawmakers conservative will be spending time with constituents back home in the solidly conservative bases with the crisis simmering. these are not prime conditions for moderation. indeed, they are not. >> no, i think the people you have to be most concerned about are the less conservative republicans that have been keeping their heads down the last couple of years. when they go home and go to town halls and have people screaming about the kids at the border and especially if the president comes out with anything that doesn't limit the ability of kids to get into the country,

that is going to really stoke that flame. that's where you could in theory start to see those guys say maybe we should at least go through motions because november is coming, i don't want conservatives to get mad at me. or even worse in two years when i'm a guy who said no to impeachment to come back and they take it out on me. >> that's the catch 22 for a moderate republican, it's like, i'll say maybe yes to impeachment and no on immigration. immigration is a thing that could save a moderate republican's job. >> they are looking two months ahead, few months ahead, first to at the time election and primary then to 2016, the calculations are scrambled, but this speaks to why democrats have more credibility in this impeachment government shutdown procedural extremist game is that in the 1990s the republicans didn't want to shut down the government and didn't want to impeach the president and did both things then comes

obama's presidency and supposed to have learned the lessons from mistakes and shut down the government once already and two and a half years to go on i am peeveme impeach fr peachment. nancy pelosi is sort of playing a game but knows they are more libel to trip up than democrats are. >> they have proven the impeachment cookie is ir resistant, but to raise $2.1 million in four days. >> it's remarkable the ability of the democrats to capitalize on this and keep pushing more republicans into saying more things. it's been amazing to watch, frankly. >> cookies for everybody and they can't say no. we have to leave it there. thank you both for your time. >> thank you, alex. >> coming up, another day, another ridiculous claim about climate change. the congressman who thinks epa regulations are a form of terrorism, just ahead. you want to save money on car insurance?

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that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation. hopefully the declassification can be done in as little as 30 days. that may be wishful thinking but i hope not. >> wishful thinking indeed. that was dianne feinstein almost four months ago after the intelligence committee voted to release parts of the 6,000 page report on the cia's detention and interrogation program. four months later none of her committee's report has been made public. according to u.s. officials who have seen the report it provides the most detailed look into the cia's secret program and concludes that the agency misled the government and public about aspects of the torture program for years. cia concealed details about the severity of its methods and overstate the significance of plots and prisoners and took credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees surrendered before being subject to harsh technique.

the very people intimately involved with the program are getting access to the report before it becomes public. last friday some of the key architects and defenders of the program were invited to read the report. according to a report done by mark ma zetty, the man with the most at stake, george tenat has been quietly engineering a counter attack. given the report's conclusions, is it any wonder he is working so hard to push back? the real question is why the white house is allowing a man who said this to have a say. >> we don't torture people. let me say that again to you. we don't torture people. i know this program has saved lives. i know we've disrupted plots. >> joining me now is author of "dirty wars", jeremy scayhill and mark mazetti, mark, let me

start with you. how much of a role, if you could explain to the public, does george tenet have in the oversight of the release of this report? >> he doesn't have a whole lot of say in how it's released but certainly is engineering a group of people to rebut the findings or try to rebut the findings when it is released. what is going on now in the process of declassification, it's hard to know. it's at the white house and white house is going to give it back to the committee. i don't get the sense tenet has a big say about the timing but there's going to be a full throated attempt at rebuttal when the report comes out, whenever that is. i think it's going to be a few weeks away from being released but there's going to be a pretty vigorous back and forth once that happens. >> jeremy, it is breath taking to some that folks formerly in the cia would have their hands on any part of this report given the fact it is so broadly critical of the cia.

>> if we lived in a just world and just society, this would be t tana mount to giving war criminals the evidence against them before you actually bring the charges so they can prepare their defense. we're talking about people, one of the people in the piece identified as being part of the process to go through and read this unredacted version of the report, his nickname in the bush administration was the flies on the eyeballs guy because of his claims that when we're done with the taliban and al qaeda, they are going to have flies crawling across their eyeballs and gave orders to cut bin laden's head off and bring it back in a card board box on ice. they were committing unconscionable amounts of torture and the guy who created the whole system, not only is he not in jail but on a book tour.

you can tell a lot about our society about who's in jail and who's in book tour. >> yes, you can. tenet has a relationship to john brennan in turn has a close relationship to the president. mcdonough is also involved. tell us about the jigsaw puzzle. >> dennis mcdonough, it sounds like he is reallymy crow managing this process. this is a report from one body of government from the united states senate that's going to be examining this whole program. what's essentially happening is that the white house at the highest levels is going through and editing what the american people can and can't read in this report about one of the definitive moral questions and legal questions of our time, the extent to which we were involved with systemic torture with lying to lawmakers and misleading not only the congress but the american people on wide range of issues that resulted in our country going to war and being involved with systemic acts of torture. >> i don't understand -- given -- i think there are a lot

of analyses here. but the question came in and torture was one of the first thing he addressed in his first days in office. he is the constitutional law professor. this as dave cole writes, torture is not a public relations problem. it is a grave human rights abuse and war crime. given the gravity of the assertions in this report, why is the white house giving any sort of quourter to cia officials implicated in this? >> it became clear in the obama presidency that he made a political decision and survival decision in terms of his respect at the cia, he was not going to prosecute individuals involved with the torture program. what happened since then, he's dob a lot of running of defense for the cia. it would be interesting to see senator obama debate president obama on core issues. when you look at the national security policy of the obama administration and counterterrorism policy, what you're looking at is a very

hawkish defender of some of the most egregious practices of the cia, not that the he's cheerleading torture but protecting people who built the infrastructure. co--signed by refusing to have any effective accountability from one other branch of government. the senate is not allowed to investigate this thoroughly. >> mark, in terms of the role of the senate, dianne feinstein, we played the sound from four months ago where she said maybe it is wishful thinking, it's been four months. what is it she doing behind the scenes? one cannot imagine she's particularly happy with the fact that the cia, who she has been at odds with is involved to this degree on the report? >> she did go along with this deal to allow a few former officials to see the document, but it was -- she wanted it under her terms and wanted them to see it at the intelligence committee but lost that battle.

now they can see it in an intelligence, one of the intelligence agencies. the backdrop here is the relations between the committee and agency are terrible. the fight that she had earlier this year with cia director john brennan over what she thought was the agency spy on her staff doing the report, there were charges and counter charges, relations are as bad between the agency and intelligence committee as they've been in a really long time. >> let me just to put a finer point on that, mark. dianne feinstein seemed to welcome the news there wasn't going to be further investigation in terms of spying on congress and let that go when that was announced. >> right, she is not spoken about that. the matter has sort of been dropped and eric holder has indicated he is not going to investigate these charges or doesn't think there's anything criminal involved. but it certainly poisoned the well on the relations between

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delaying action on climate policy could cost the u.s. billions of dollars each year. the very debate around climate change already appears to be costing some republicans precious brain power. a new report released today by the white house sounds a very dramatic note delaying efforts to reign in global warming could cost $150 billion a year. and while you think that figure would make any fiscal conservative wince, some republicans appear to be too busy crafting their own kring inducing climate arguments,

including comparing epa regulations to terrorism. mike kelly said monday that the agency new power plant rules are environmental jihad, quote, you talk about terrorism, you can do it in a lot of different ways but you terrorize the people who supply everything this country needs to be great and keep them on the sidelines, my goodness, what have we become? indeed, what have we become? for that matter when state utility officials ask for public prayer to block environmental regulations. alabama utility president twinkle andress kavanaugh, her real name, asked them to unite in prayer against the new epa plan. we will not stand for what they are doing to our way of life in alabama. i hope all citizens of alabama will be in prayer that the right thing will be done. indeed we all hope the right thing will be done. particularly to try and prevent potentially deadly and extremely costly climate catastrophes in

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