. >> he's whacko. that's it for eyewitness news at 10. see you at 11 on cbs 5, good night.

let me ask you, as you did this book, what were you thinking of these biters, these whackos out theref she actually existed the way we're watching her. actually had american mother having an american kid. you knew it all as texturized reality. the absolute wall to wall truth of it and you're listening to these jokersers. what was your reaction to all that? >> it was a little baffling, chris. i started working on this during the campaign. the issue kind of came up then, but it receded. i wasn't a preoccupation of mine. i spent two and a half years, talked to close to 200 people. not a single person ever mentioned any knowledge or any spent any time in kenya around the time of the birth of her son. i felt pretty comfortable about that. when it resurfaced, a la donald trump, i would say, i was stunned. i thought it was pretty much a settled issue. when it continued i went back and reconferred all the evidence and came to the conclusion that you and everyone else that it was a classic conspiracy theory. and all evidence to the cob trar that you would think would convince people otherwise

but what it would do is it would allow the environmental whackos who are trying to stop energy production in this country by having this endless plethora that would stop the permitting and the production. it would require that all lawsuits be filed within 60 days and that the course would have to have a determination on that solution to that case within 180 days. and that if the district court ruling was appealed, that it would go to the supreme court and the supreme court would have a ruling within another 180 days. it would also allow some relief from the frivolous lawsuits by allowing those who prevailed to get the prevailing party would be able to seek legal fees and other expenses under the act. this is the kind of bill that we need to pass. and i have been asking members of congress to co-sponsor this because we need to pass this legislation. we hear from our colleagues, well, let's stop the subsidies to the big oil companies. i would like to stop subsidies to everything, including, including ethanol, which has not made sense. i love my grits and corn bread and makes no sense to dri