jason rylander what you see here with those potential changes? >> the administration is taking a wrecking ball to a number of provisions from the act in the way they are listed to the way that could buckle under critical habitat for the species. and the federal government assesses the impact of its decision on endangered species. so there's a lot of provisions that concern us. one of them under the t new regulation for the species are not received automatic protection d of act and the exception is now the role because threatened species used to get the full protection of the act automatically unless hes ministration offered a special tailored rule that deviated from that in some way. now that will be different and create the burden on threatened species. we are also going to see a problem with considering economic impact in the listing process. congress made it clear that listing a species in a scientific decision whether endangered or threatened has nothing to do with how much it cost to save it or if we want to save it, is a biological status.

tip from jason rylander on that.aller'sappreciate the comment and we know a lot of people are having difficulty, particularly on our farmlands, making in's meat. what we're talking about really is protection of imperiled species, once you are probably not likely to see around your farm because a lot of their habitat has already been destroyed or because they have declined for other reasons. so most wildlife management is up to the state and one important piece of this is that states step up and do a better job protecting wildlife and managing wildlife before we get to the point where they need to be put on the endangered species list. unfortunately, they can only spend about 5% of the amount of money on endangered species, as the federal government does, in a state like west virginia does not even have its own eight endangered species at, so there's a lot more that can be done to try to make sure that we have abundant wildlife and that works for people as well. here is a quotation from the legal director of the natur

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any defenders of wildlife senior staff attorney jason rylander discussed changes to the endangered speciesct. then bloomberg's mario parker talks about the impact the trade work and tariffs are having on farmers across the u.s.. watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern on saturday morning. be sure to join us for sunday's washington journal. as we talk about the 50th anniversary of woodstock. announcer: next, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine talks about the political agenda of the country's president and the ongoing conflict with russia.

morning, pacific legal foundation's senior attorney jonathan wood and defenders of wildlife's jason rylander discussed changes to the endangered species act. later, bloomberg news reporter mario parker looks at the