coal companies want to survive in 50 to 100 years. they're trying to be at the table. i think privately held companies, it's a different story. murray energy is the u.s.' largest privately held coal company and its ceo bob murray is a close outside advisor of president trump. he is an avid denier of climate change. he thinks that if all the coal plants retired that are slated to in the u.s., there will be massive blackouts and that's not accurate, but he's coming from a perspective of wanting to protect his company and from appalachia, which is a conservative part of the u.s. i think you're seeing a lot of support from companies, but even putting aside climate change and tougher environmental regulations, natural gas which we've seen a boon in the u.s. over the last decade, that's actually what's killing most coal jobs and coal power plants. so just this last week the trump administration issued a report on helping retraining workers. i did a controlled search for how much coal was part of their plan and there wasn't that much. they only mentioned it a couple of times a

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. >> i did work for a coal company and i'm not at all ashamed of the work that i did for the coal companyuments and photos obtained by cnn, wheeler arranged a meeting between his boss bob murray, ceo of one of the country's largest coal mining companies and energy secretary rick perry and presented the secretary with an action planned quote, reliable and low cost electricity. a plan that included rewriting coal ash regulations. that same plan was also sent to the epa. the organization wheeler now runs. >> the epa is in a rush to do things that will benefit these coal ash utilities. purely because of the influence of their trade associations and their lobbiesists. >> reporter: this week, the first set of proposed rule changes were finalized. among the changes? ground water no longer needs to be monitored if the plant can prove that it is not polluting the aquifer. our request to speak with administrator wheeler was declined. in a statement provided by the epa, he said, quote, our actions mark a significant departure from one size fits all policies from the pasts and save tens of millions o

. >> i did work for a coal company and i'm not at all ashamed of the work i did for the coal company.cuments and photos obtained by cnn, wheeler arranged a meeting between his boss, bob murray, ceo of one of the largest coal mining companies, and energy secretary rick perry. they presented the secretary with an action plan for, quote, reliable and low-cost electricity. a plan that included rewriting coal ash regulations. that same plan was sent to the epa. the organization wheeler now runs. >> the epa is in a rush to do things that will benefit these coal ash utilities. purely because of the influence of their trade associations and their lobbyists. >> reporter: and this week, the first set of proposed rules changes were finalized. among the changes, ground water no longer needs to be monitored if the plant can prove that it is not polluting the aquafer. our request to speak with the administrator was declined. he said, quote, our actions mark a significant departure from the one size fits all policies in the past and saved tens of millions of dollars in regulatory costs. duke energy

i did work for a coal company and i am not ashamed of the work i did. i just will talk a little bit about that because i think it is important. in the press, it has been used by some people as a derogatory manner but i am actually proud of the work i did. i want to say in particular the last four or five years working for the company, the number one issue that they asked me to work on was the miners protection act. the miners protection act was to shore up the pension and healthcare benefits for that united mine workers retirees. before i left, -- private practice, i was able to pass legislation for the healthcare benefits but we never finished the pension benefits. i really wish we had done that before i left private practice. that legislation was introduced by senator -- of west virginia. that really was important to me. my grandfather was a coal miner during the depression. my grandmother raised her children in the coal camps in west virginia. in fact, i still have some of the company script that she used to buy food in the company store. so the work

and then the ceo of a major coal company. you head the epa, being the ceo of a major coal company, you would want to know if the head of the epa met with someone like that. and monday, scott pruitt was having lunch and was confronted by someone, let's play a little bit of that audio. >> i just wanted to urge you to resign because you are doing harm. this is my son. he loves animals -- >> so he did not resign obviously. but the truth of the matter is this latest secret calendar is just the latest. i won't read all these, but the truth of the matter is this is a massive number of things. and these are not little things. over and over again using his office to help himself and other people. it is a repeated pattern. again, this just keeps going. back to you. >> it is a long list. thanks. >>> oprah revealing why she will not consider a 2020 presidential run. details are next. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. i bet i'm the first blade maker you've ever met. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making ou

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i think gabe should really just stop moonlighting for the coal companies. >> gabe, are you long coal, short tesla? >> i do have some -- >> it's 50% of the fund. you just disclosed it in a public filing. >> ross, how many car companies do you know power with coal? i thought so >> how about coal is the biggest contributor to climate change of any -- >> guys, we're getting off topic. i mind say, ross, it seems like you won coal because maybe it takes coal to run the tesla, but -- >> it does not -- >> we're not going to get into the electric grid. i'm not agreeing or disagreeing. >> gabe has an agenda. i get his agenda, but we're here trying to make the world a better place that's all i'm saying. >> let's talk about the balance sheet. ross, does it bother you at all that tesla is asking people for $2,500 to confirm their orders and customize their car? do you think that worrisome in anyway >> the way it works is you put a $2,500 deposit and when they deliver the car you have to pay for the full amount of the car the fact they've opened up all reservations to all reservation holders and ye

but his successor, as you pointed out, a coal lobbyist, very controversial company coal energy. the policies may well get worse. if that's possible. for those of us who like to breathe that's going to be a problem. >> those issues that paul described, with scott pruitt the ethics violations as opposed to policies. do they have political backing? is that a driving issue for vote? are voters aware? does this upset me? maybe this is going too far? i do care about clean water and air? >> certainly emanates the left, animates the right in a very different way. they hear increased and bad for the economy. that's why scott pruitt has been successful, some of the tipping points being laura ingram, conservative essentially saying he's the swamp and drain it. this has been issue on the left. habt necessarily been invigorating midterm election or campaign issue. maybe it will be chblt we'll see. but so many other things that the left is focused on in terms of this administration. but maybe with this new appointment, that it will change. >> we are going to take a moment from the panel becau

the coal and timber companies that started extracting and taking everybody's labor rights. >> man: ia quick day trip down here and get a good sound bite. >> trump: who is a miner in this group? who is -- stand up. you're all standing up anyway. >> anthony: the drug companies? >> elaine: nine million pills in kermit, west virginia over two years. one pharmacy, nine million pills. >> anthony: in a town with 372 people. >> the other side of this is that democrats, they don't take a lot of time to understand the problems here. >> man: i just want to know, how you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs, and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend? >> nick: i don't think people understand just how genuine and wonderful the people are in these mountains. people who have just worked all their lives and who sacrifice so much for their families. ♪ >> anthony: you cannot talk about west virginia without talking about coal. and coal is a complex issue here. tied into the cell tissue and family pride of the people who have worked in the mines for gene

left celebrated the resignation of scott pruitt, their focus is on wheeler and his lobbying for coal companieshusetts democratic sen. ed markey tweeting about time with pruitt out and andrew wheeler at the home the epa administrator will no longer be big oil's right-hand man, it will be king cole's best lobbyist. pruitt resigned over unrelenting attacks against him and his family. also heading for the hot seat, devon nunez referring 15 people for possible public testimony on the russia investigation, most have ties to the 2016 anti-trump dossier and opposition research firm fusion gps. special counsel robert mueller reportedly tapped more prosecutors for his probe into russian interference in the presidential election. this despite having no evidence so far in his 13 month investigation. the probe costing $16.7 million in its first 10 months alone. over $16 million over ten months. donald trump could be on the guest list when mexico's new leader takes office, she is expected to invite donald trump and justin trudeau to his inauguration in december. and also announced a shift in mexico's stands

. >> environmentists criticized him because he questioned climate change and supported coal companies. the deputy administrator will become the acting epa administrator. he is a former coal industry lobbyist. he is also a former chief of staff to james inhoffe who is a climate change skeptic. is he expected to carry out the same agenda but more likely to stay under the radar. >>> officials in thailand say 1 boys and their soccer coach still trapped in the flooded cave and now one of the rescuers has died. air former thai navy seal died in an overnight mission to deliver oxygen to the trapped boys. he ran out of air while under water. authorities overseeing the rescue say the weather is getting worse and oxygen levels in the cave are running low. the children and their coach have been trapped for almost two weeks. >>> >> elon is musk is sending a team to try to help, including pumping water or providing battery packs. his tunneling start up company the boring company may help in another way with its massive drills or experience. those methods may be to dangerous in this particular case

in april 2017, pruitt has a briefing and attends a dinner at trump international hotel with a coal companycutive. it's not on the public calendar. september 2017, the official schedule shows pruitt met with former senator turned energy industry lobbyist trent lott but left off it included the ceo of a shipping company and discussion of ships and their fuel source. in october 2017, a staff briefing appeared on pruitt's official calendar. e-mails show the actual meeting was with private attorneys representing a water district over a super fund site. >> we had at one point three different schedules. one of them was one that no one else saw besides three or four of us. >> reporter: two government experts tell cnn, altering, sanitizing official government records to protect the boss could lead to legal trouble. >> if somebody changed, deleted, scrubbed a federal record with the intent of deceiving the public or anybody, it could be a violation of federal law. >> reporter: the most controversial deletion of all came after pruitt's $120,000 taxpayer funded trip to rome in june 2017. that trip inc

he let coal companis dump debris in waterer.g regulation. some people may think chimet change is an issue for our grand kids but our planet is in peril right now. if you want proof a dangerous record setting heat wave, temperatures got to all-time highs. 117 degrees in some places. that's venus. it it it killed a postal worker, knocked out power for thousands in los angeles in quebec, canada 70 people were killed this week in a heat wave. in northern siberia some areas are seeing temperatures 40 degrees aabove normal. 40 degrees. so we got to do more. on july 21st we got high school students stepping up with a global youth climate march called zero hour. sw let's all get involved. tell the tell the pall it titians that you will vote. push them to take some kind of action and vote with you're dollars. choose green energy. shop from a local farmer's market and let's bring a different kind of heat to the ballot box in november. i'm van jones, this is "the van jones show" peace and love for one another. see you next time. [ applause

he also of course worked as a mouthpiece for a lot of the coal companies to keep them in business.urse is going to watch this very, very carefully. they don't want to see a stepback in all of the progress that they have made over the last couple of years. >> neil: when you think about it, there is so much over what the epa has purview that, we talk about the energy and energy related industry. but really much of manufacturing america, these companies that like the fact that he was easing up, the approach of the trump administration was to ease up on a lot of the rules and regulations in place that they said and complained often were disproportionally thrown at them. >> it was. and youed had an administration that gave advantages to foreign manufacturers who didn't have the same type of stringent rules to take jobs from the united states. a lot of companies took their businesses elsewhere only because the epa was ridiculously hard. in the bottom line is, listen, these companies aren't in business to pollute the environment, that's not the goal. but at the same time some of the regul

internal e-mails show that in april 2017, pruitt attends a dinner at trump international hotel with coal companyot listed on the public epa calendar. september 2017, the official schedule shows pruitt met with former senator turned energy industry lobbyist trent lott. but left off that the meeting included the ceo of a shipping company and discussion of ships and their fuel source. in october 2017, a staff briefing appeared on pruitt's official calendar. e-mails show the actual meeting was with private attorneys representing a water district over a super fund site. >> we had at one point three different schedules. one of them was one that no one else saw besides three or four of us. >> reporter: two government 1k3er7 experts tell cnn altering, sanitizing official government records to protect the boss could lead to legal trouble. >> if somebody deleted, changed, scrubbed a federal record with the intent of deceiving anybody, it could be a violation of federal law. >> reporter: the most controversial deletion of all came after pruitt's $120,000 taxpayer funded trip to rome in june 2017. that trip

show in april, 2017, pruitt has a briefing and attends a dinner at trump international hotel with coal companypratt. it's not listed on the public epa calendar september, 2017, the official schedule shows pruitt met with former senator turned energy industry lobbyist trent lott but left off the meeting including the ceo of a shipping company and the discussion of ships and their fuel source. in october, 2017, a staff briefing appeared on pruitt's official calendar. e-mails show the meeting was with private attorneys representing a water district over a superfund site. >> we had three different schedules, one of them was one that no one else saw besides three or four of us. >> reporter: two government experts tell cnn altering, sanitizing official government records to protect the boss could lead to legal trouble. >> if somebody changed, deleted, scrubbed a ral record with tfed the intent to deceive it could be a violation of federal law. >> reporter: the most controversial deletion of all came after pruitt's $120,000 taxpayer-funded trip to rome in june, 2017. that trip included extensive inte

shows in april 2017, pruitt has a briefing and attends a dinner at trump international hotel with coal companykraft. it's not listed on the epa calendar. september 2017, it shows pruitt met with former senator-turned energy industry lobbyist, present ltrent lott, but left off it a president of a shipping company and the shipping of the fuel source. a staff briefing appeared on the calendar. e-mails show the actual meeting was with private attorneys representing a water district over a superfund site. >> we had at one point three different schedules. one of them was one that no one else saw besides three of four of us. >> reporter: two government experts tell cnn, altering, sanitizing official government reports to protect the boss, could lead to league trouble. >> if somebody changed, deleted, scrubbed a federal record with the intent of deceiving the public or anybody, it could be a violation of federal law. >> reporter: the most controversial deletion of all, came after pruitt's $120,000 tata taxpayer funded trip to rome in 2017. that trip included extensive interaction with catholic cardina

his last job representing a coal company in the u.s. now he's at the head of the agency regulating his former clients. if the environmental agency thipgs getting rid of paul manafort at the epa, they said he should think again. >> president trump came in trying to put a wrecking ball to them, but. >> andrew wheeler, who up until today was the world number 2. it is a prime example of ma. he started his career in the epa in the early '90s and then went to capitol hill and lobbied for the types of companies that often fight epa pollution laws. now he's back in government in a position to regulate the very businesses that up until last year paid him. >> the fundamental conflict of interest that's at stake here is that andrew wheeler could use his position at the epa to benefit a former client. >> one of wheeler's former clients, energy fuels incorporated, is trying to get contracts from the epa right now, lobbying, according to its website, to lobby the lines. >> we're lobbying very heavily with the facility, be boewe don know. a meeting is

his client roster included one of the nation's largest coal companies.he used to work for a senator in oklahoma, a former chairman of the senate environment committee. he is someone who has denied some of the mainstream science regarding climate change, even threw a snowball on the senate floor to make the point. in fact, he would push into the deregulatory agenda that scott pruitt won the president's praise for. >> that's what they are looking at. as we pointed out, the investigations continue, correct, for scott pruitt? >> that's true. the house oversight committee looking into allegations. more than a dozen different reviews into scott pruitt's conduct while serving as epa administrator. two groups -- the government accountability oversight groups are looking into those. they are trying to decide whether the investigations will continue. we are learning about how many will. there's a lot of scrutiny on his tenure there. >> one more quickly on wheeler. is there a sense of how long he could be in this job? >> it's not clear whether the president will no

taking over, the fact that he's been a lobbyist for murray energy, not just nicole company, but a coal company that polluted the same creek in 2000, 2005 and again in 2008 when a coal slurry broke through, the fact that murray energy who he represented paid millions of dollars in fines, the fact that he represented this firm that tried to silence its 3,500 employees and intimidate them into not confidentially complaining about safety violations to the federal government, you know, he is a coal lobbyist for one of the -- he has been a coal lobbyist in the past for one of the worst offending companies. you know, we're going to have to remain vigilant with a spotlight on because unfortunately the policies of the trump administration aren't changing. >> so what do you do? i guess that's the final question. you're in a situation, as i just laid out, where he can be put in temporarily for a couple of hundred days. even if then he does get nominated and potentially wouldn't get through, there could be another 210 days where he could be in there. so is this just a situation where your hands are comple

show in april 2017, pruitt has a briefing and attends a dinner at trump international hotel with coal companyhe public epa calendar. september 2017. the official schedule shows pruitt met with former senator turned energy lobbyist trent lo . but left off that the meeting included the ceo of a shipping company and the discussion of ships and their fuel source. in october 2017, a staff briefing appeared on pruitt's official calendar. e-mails show the actual meeting was with private attorneys representing a water district over a superfund site. >> we had at one point three different schedules. one of them was one that no one else saw besides three or four of us. >> reporter: two government experts tell cnn altering, sanitizing official government records to protect the boss could lead to legal trouble. >> if somebody changed, deleted, scrubbed a federal record with the intent of deceiving the public or intent of deceiving anybody, it could very well be a violation of federal law. >> reporter: the most controversial deletion of all, came after pruitt's $120,000 taxpayer-funded trip to rome in jun

he is being replaced by an actual lobbyist for murry energy, the coal company that worked hand in glove with scott pruitt and donald trump. with bill shine coming in, you not only have a man who facilitated all the sexual harassment that went on at fox news, but who is a very polished guy and who will know how to make things look smoother and will get out of the way, people like pruitt, and put in place much more clever, much more slithering creatures in the swamp donald trump is building up. >> that, of course, raises the question how do you get smoother than scott pruitt given his use of lotion, eugene? >> that's true. and he probably exfoliated, too, as well. but, look, scott pruitt became a joke. what do you have to do to get fired in this town? it was scandal after scandal after scandal after scandal. and in a way that's the story, that he survived for so long with so much of this baggage, so much that was just clearly not just improper but beyond the pale. i think david is right. i think trump is actually trading up in terms of professionalism, in terms of ability to get stuff don

employee as well as a top aide for senator james enhoff of oklahoma and a former lobbyist for coal companies and other firms, andso, there's no question he's equally committed to the policy agenda that scott pruitt and presipunt trump have ued, and he's quite skilled in terms of being a policy expert, so there's no question that e.p.a. will continuicon the same p trajectory and how it plays out over time is something th we'll be covering. >> woodruff: juliet eilperinel doing exnt reporting for so many months now. juliet, da thank you, judy. >> woodruff: in ths other news, the trump administration says it is working to reunite families separated at the border, ahead of a court-ordered deadline. the department of health and human services says it now has fewer than 3,000 children in its custody, including 100 under the age of five. meanwhile, president trump repeated his calls to send people who cross the border back without a trial. we will take a closer look at the president's immigration policies, right after the news summ in california, a district judge rejected president trump's request t

it's a coal company.itt as attorney general in oklahoma and prior to that has been very, very chummy with the energy industry. oklahoma, like texas, is a big energy-producing state. it's just kind of weird, because the epa really has as its main mission the idea that energy companies and other big industry in america, if you don't provide regulations for them, they will pollute. that's just the way things go. if you don't have rules, people put their garbage in the water and in the air. it's just strange to have a regulatory agency so focused on the deregulation of the very people it's supposed to be regulating. >> well, let me just state at the outset, ali, first of all, thank you for having me. i don't think there's anything innately wrong with andy wheeler serving as the deputy and now the acting administrator having worked in a regulated industry. the fact of the matter is that virtually every industry in this country is regulated to some extent by the regulations and the laws that epa administers. so

under this bill, a coal company could weigh in on clean air rule before doctors, scientists and other public health experts. this is a gross distortion of how this process should work. and it would put the interests of polluters and other corporate offenders ahead of the american people. and i simply say we're better than that. this bill also must be viewed in the context of the broader assault on regulations under way by president trump and his allies in congress. using the congressional review act, republicans in congress have repealed 16 health, safety, environmental, and consumer protection rules. they repealed a rule that prevented individuals with severe mental illness from gaining access to guns. give me a break. they repealed the stream protection rule which required monitoring of streams and groundwater for toxic contaminants dumps by coal mining companies. yeah, they did that too. ey repealed the fair pay act and work -- safe workplaces rule which requires that erican taxpayers only be spent on companies -- tax dollars only be spent on companies that comply with the workplac

then went to it capitol hill, then a lobbyist for big energy companis. coal, gas and nuclearer. for had it type of companies that usually fight epa. now he's -- >> the fundamental conflict ofinatest that andy wheeler could you use his puasition to benefit a former client. >> reporter: one of is trying to get contracts from the epa right now, lobbying to become in the it epa directed clean up of an abandoned uranium mine. here's the firm's ceo. >> we're lobbying to use the facility. because we vethe licenses and take that material and produce nuclearer fuel. >> reporter: the former lobbying firm is helping with the pitch. a meeting with the epa is outlined in this email. they told cnn in a statement "our understanding is mrmr. wheel will not be involved in any decision on this energy decision." "under my ethics agreement with there agency," he says "i will have no involvement with efi for two years." despite his ties, he was already confirmed. and many conservatives including wheeler's former boss had suggested they would support him getting the job full time. but tonight environ

he is former firm's clients include merry energy which calls itself the largest coal mining company in america. wheeler was also a staff member for republican senator jill inhoff of oklahoma. let's talk more about this now with political columnist kate andrews. a pleasure to have you on the show to -- >> nice to see you, george. >> yeah, good to have you with his seismic news, really. scott pruitt resigning. he never mentions the seismic scandals only citing the pressures on him and his family for reasons for leaving. what do you make of the person who will replace him? >> donald trump said he would drain the swamp, that catchphrase that caught a lot of attraction during the 2016 election. and of course what we've seen in scott pruitt is that the swamp can come in all shapes and sizes can actually be in the republican party as well. and when you have essentially a bureaucratic spending taxpayer money on first class sfloigts and soundproof phone booths in their room and living for cheap with lobbyist in rooms, i mean it's hugely questionable to say the very least, which is why you have

company to put its money where it's mouth is on climate change. we have secured commitments from largest insurers to stop under writing coal and tar sands operations but none of those companies who made those commitments are u.s.-based. we are hoping to change that. for decades we have been warned about climate change but despite the warnings and it's costing the industry hundreds of billions of dollars u.s. insurance companies continue to prop up the fossil fuel industry in two basic ways. as investors u.s. insurance companies hold a trillion dollars in fossil fuel stock but also serve a critical role in providing insurance to every part of the fossil fuel supply chain. simply put without insurance none of these projects go forward. cities like san francisco are playing a critical role in fighting climate change, especially now that trump has pulled u.s. out of the paris agreement. by calling on the city to cease doing business with insurance companies that continue to invest in coal and tar sands the board of supervisors would be sending a powerful message it's well pastime for the u.s. insurance industry to do the right thing, to step up and pl

went to k-street and followed that golden path that leads to lobbying job, lobbied for big coal, energy companies and lobbied the energy industry, epa and department of interior. the very people now he is going to regulate as we pointed out in some of our reporting, were paying him a year or so ago. that should be an interesting dynamic. andrew wheeler did have to pledge he wouldn't be involved in any decisions involving his former clients. we have that to deal with. >> likely very little change in policy. we know people around the president think he responds to praise, gratuitous praise but pruitt's resignation letter is a whole new level. i believe you are serving as president today because of god's providence. that takes it to a new level. >> it does take it to a new level and certain level of divinity and faith and destiny. it's very hard not to read that letter and come away from the belief scott pruitt thought she was serving a man opposed to a country and man opposed to an administration. we are a nation of laws, not men, as written repeatedly. it is striking to hear him pledge this to the

coal ignites an open—air. the smoke causes headaches for the locals and for authorities to need a solution. the companypour millions of tons of mud over the slopes and sealed surface. is where the mud will come from. 20 kilometres away, the same company is building the foundation for a company is building the foundation fora giant company is building the foundation for a giant copper extraction plant. 28 million tons of copper there will be milled here each year. 99.5% of what they did out will become waste. mixed with water, these leftovers will be transported to the coal pit and some bread over the smouldering slopes. —— spread over the smouldering slopes. residence of chelyabinsk are angry about the plan. we want to breathe. it is a coal mine, not a dump, plan. we want to breathe. it is a coal mine, nota dump, said plan. we want to breathe. it is a coal mine, not a dump, said the posters. this place has become a symbol of major poison by industry. the new russian industrialists say their plans are safe but many locals do not believe them. this means that the conflict threatens to projects, both the

year to improve safety standards after several fatal incidents of coal mines and chemical plants the multinational pharmaceutical company johnson and johnson has been hit with a four point seven billion dollars damages pain in jail over its talcum powder a court in the united states is up held a claim by twenty two women that the powder gave them cancer the company plans to fight the verdict used as a story. outside of st louis missouri courthouse gail ingham said the legal victory against johnson and johnson was a just one but is tempered by her thirty year battle with ovarian cancer i hope no woman has to go through this in with a changes your life and your family and it should not happen to anybody ingham is among twenty two women six of whom have already died who claimed they developed cancer after using johnson and johnson baby powder for decades their lawyers claim the company knew the product contained a specialist as far back as the one nine hundred seventy s. but failed to warn consumers about the risk of using it tell them powder has been a staple in american homes for more than a century when mind the mineral

starace, how difficult was it for enel to go from a coal polluter to one of the most renewable energy utilities-friendly companiesn the world? francesco: first of all, we were not a total polluter, we already had a sensible amount of renewable energy in the legacy of large hydro plants that most utilities have in europe. but now we have a lot more. so it was -- let's say it was, in retrospective, things always seem easier than they actually were. so it was a little bit of a mind-changing exercise on a large-scale, let's put it this way. it took a while, but there was a point where everything turned around. there was a couple of years where things really changed. francine: what years? francesco: they were like, i would say, 2012, 2014. and after that, it was a little faster. francine: if you look at the shift, right, from fossil fuel to renewables for the industry as a whole, how disruptive will it be for you, but also for your competitors? francesco: it is really disruptive. it is a big shift. there is a huge change coming. and it will take, i would say, 15 to 20 years to really get at the end of this shift, so a

coal camps in west virginia. in fact win still have some of the company script that she used to buy food in the company store. so the work that i did on behalf of the company, to try to help the retirees of the united mine workers is the reason why the united mine workers endorsed by confirmation when i was nominated last year. i don't think that story has been out there. and i think as employees of the agency, you need to know that about me. over the years, when i work, particularly on the hill, over in the private sector, i would often give speeches like this, although a much smaller audience. and i would often be asked, what was it like as a republican working at the environmental protection agency? what were the career employees like at the epa. and i would say that the epa employees were some of the most dedicated of all the employees in all the federal government. and i say that because many of you developed a passion for the environment at an early age and pursued a career at epa for that very reason. just like me, you came to epa to help the environment. it is a privilege to work alongside you and lea

when i left england in the 1970s, railroads, car companies, airlines, steel companies coal productionot of road haulage, trucking owned by the government and run into the ground that was socialism. i left it because the economy was just tanking. i come to america. frequenfreemarket giant economy. all over the place and away we go. ainsley: never regretted it. >> not one moment. steve: ever since the president left helsinki a week ago today, there has been so much negative publicity about the how it all worked out and yet. >> and yet, exactly. this is a poll from the "wall street journal" ntsb. i mean, okay, i mean, it's a good solid poll. taken during and right after the putin summit when there was firestorm of criticism for the president. yet, his approval rating goes up. steve: why? >> it's because of the economy, isn't it? that's the most important issue to most voters, and he has got the solid support of the republican party, 88% behind him. he is unified the party, behind prosperity. the democrats are in love with socialism and up goes the president's approval rating despite puti

companies are in the same boat. putting a pretty brave face on it so far. asian earnings may disappoint estimates. japan is a canary in the coale on that front. 66 companies that have reported have missed estimates and so july has ra been a brutal month for japanese equities. see, those losses may ofe pushed nearly a quarter the top members into oversold territory. that is the most since the selloff we saw in february. we have to wonder if this is not compelling enough for buyers to dip their toes back in, but with the earnings potentially disappointing, they could be pockets of opportunity in the region. morgan stanley seeing strong profits for indian banks, goldman sachs betting on hong kong lenders. singapore and new zealand maybe beacons of hope. kathleen: a complicated picture but obviously some rays of hope. line --es fell to their their lowest in three weeks. at the same time, saudi arabia lowered august pricing in the u.s. just a day after president trump called on opec to bring prices down. our energy editor joins us from san francisco. what was opec's response and how much crude can we expect saudi to pump to lower t

to watchinly want today, figures out from several companies, including the coal to aluminum miner, ands to watch also, given the tariff threats in that space. , down are seeing alumina nearly 4%. the backdrop is being offset by , a likes off of nationals gain of about 2/10 of 1% this morning, ramy. ramy: ok, sophie, thank you. rallied, that, of course, on date two of the testimony on capitol hill. let's bring in our strategist who joins us from singapore. so mr. powell said he is slightly more worried about slowing inflation. to what degree does this mean the fed may slow the pace of its rate hikes? hi, good morning. slight warning about a bit more worry on inflation, i think mr. powell is giving himself flexibility, giving himself room to slow down the pace of the rate hikes if things the economy slowed down a bit, and the day before, he said they were going to continue with gradual hikes for now, so, again, he is adding caveats, and the bond market is also signaling slowing inflation expectations. do we have the chart of the five-year yields? i was looking at this chart, suggesting w

books.ave on as a conservative i'm a little start saying let's regulating these big companies as we know when a coal --n government khraou it can limit others >> we can stop facebook from competitors.the they buy anyone that creates a product like instagram that potentially compete they have the resources to absorb. speaks to the competition issue. do some of these larger competitive it a market for this given their size. i think we are seeing some look at antitrust issues relating are to let them continue on buying sprees. you see amazon getting into the business and all of these oddball combinations you wouldn't have thought of years ago ago. is that a good thing? >> is washington even aware what playing on or are they atch-up per pertinent -- perpetually. carlale of years ago when fee bjorn into ran for president of it she was at lucent at&t logy the spinoff of an c.e.o. of h.p. which was a silicon valley and ended up at the end of her term dinosaur when you look at apple and newer technology companies. i said you have been in silicon valley. hat concerns you or what worries you about what silico

authorities want to see documents related to business of clean coal in nigeria the democratic republic of congo and venezuela and you know any company that ever got subpoenaed that way should know that the americans are dead serious about stuff like that if core fails to provide the evidence it can be find and of course is glencore fails to prove that's all of its business. was clean in the past since the year two thousand and seven there's a potential for very high fives very high high amounts of money that this company might have to pay a financial correspondent coming out of who's in first in frankfurt thank you. oh asian markets have been taking a tumble in response to trade tension shares on the hong kong stock exchange down two and a half percent this is the u.s. and china the world's two largest economies prepared to slap each other with tariffs on billions of dollars come friday and for the most part it looks like its consumers wallets which are set to take a hit. a large number of u.s. imported products including nuts cheese meat and whiskey are said to be affected by the tariffs with just days to go before the next round o

company. and the basketball seats from a coal executive. the fancy snacks and the secret calendar. and the private jet. and the police sirens. at a certain point, this starts to feel a lot like scott pruitt corruption scandal mad libs. scott pruitt spends blank on blank after talking with blank lobbyist. but then, there was that thing with the chicken. >> my wife is an entrepreneur herself. i love, she loves, we love -- chick-fil-a is a franchise of faith and it's one of the best in the country, and so, that's something we were very excited about. so -- and we need more of them in tulsa, more of them across the country. so, it's an exciting time. >> it's an exciting time. the reason scott pruitt was asked about chick-fil-a is not because the reporter wanted his thoughts on fast food, "the washington post" just reported that pruitt asked his aide at the epa to contact the fast food chain, chick-fil-a, and see if they would let his wife run one of their fried chicken franchises. when that didn't pan out, he asked his staff to contact republican donors to see if they would hire his wi

coal, go buy it. >> they slammed the company for treating his dghter so unfairly. other retailers scaling back or phasing out her products, some citing poor sales. some insist her privately held business was thriving. why didn't trump sell the buofness? becaushe problems the name created. >> an independent third party would be able to go aroundhe obe today licensing and leveraging the name of the 45th t of the united states of america completely unfettered. >> the 18 employees getting severance but losing work. police tru miss trump thanking them in person. she was frustrated with restrictions she pced on new business deals to avoid appearance of conflict of interest. ba her at the white house aides say ivanka trump is focused on developing the american workforce.yo back t >> peter, thank you very much. >> look who isck mr. roker we missed you. did you have aat g time. >> >>> good morning, i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. it is cloudy and super humid again this morning. luckily this rain has eased off fo a brief period in time, but more locally heavy rain

coal to generate electricity. as a resul of that, they're positioned to benefit from this. >> you're going for the pipeline company, not the oil producer, very quicklywhy? >> real quickly, that's an infrastructure company. it's building out infrastructure in the permian basin, it's one of the lowest cost producing basins in the world. itenerates a lot of medication for your investors, plains is a great place to isoest. >> thankuch. >> as you know, mexican voters over the weekend elected a man who promised profound change as their next president. the victory of leftist manuel opez could pave the way f nafta negotiations. the trump administrations appears to be in sync. the new mexico president says, as we'vert re, he's considered to be more receptive to raising labor standards in that country. the very low wage has enticed u.s. companies to move production south of the border. >>> it is time to take a look some of today's upgrades and downgrades, we start with dow component, which was down graded to neutral from buy. the analyst sites a lack of clarity on its strategy, negative investort. sentim the price target is