epa regional director wishes upon his enemies. he's an smu professor, on leave, appointed by president obama, a couple of years ago. urns out, 540,000 dollars in federal grants he has received before he joined the epa. is this classic academic liberal cloistered away in his university, the kind of person who should have power over district 6 as the epa -- >> because he totally understands what's going on. come on now! this is crazy. the notion that they are coming down on the oil companies is so misguided. that's the icing on the cake here of how idiotic this whole thing is. the epa has put businesses out of business because of the rules and regulations. the economic system has been hurt by the epa, but nobody wants to admit that. the fact that they are using the crucifixion word drives me insane as a roman catholic. >> as an episcopalian, i am offended by. >> it we would have soup kitchens on every corner, if not for the energy sector. why does the left want to attack energy? >> under obam awe have had the highest oil production in the past 8 years -- >> no! >> is that because of obama? >> of course! >> or in spite

epa regional director wishes upon his enemies. he's an smu professor, on leave, appointed by president obama, a couple of years ago. 000 dollars in federal grants he has received before he joined the epa. is this classic academic liberal cloistered away in his university, the kind of person who should have power over district 6 as the epa -- >> because he totally understands what's going on. come on now! this is crazy. the notion that they are coming down on the oil companies is so misguided. that's the icing on the cake here of how idiotic this whole thing is. the epa has put businesses out of business because of the rules and regulations. the economic system has been hurt by the epa, but nobody wants to admit that. the fact that they are using the crucifixion word drives me insane as a roman catholic. >> as an episcopalian, i am offended by. >> it we would have soup kitchens on every corner, if not for the energy sector. why does the left want to attack energy? >> under obam awe have had the highest oil production in the past 8 years -- >> no! >> is that because of obama? >> of course! >> or in spite -- >> no, it'

administration again and the supreme court ruled unanimously for them and against the obama epa just like they should. this administration's attack on freedom extends even to rights explicitly guaranteed by the constitution. the right to bear arms is so plainly stated, so unambiguous, that liberals have a hard time challenging it directly. instead they've been employing every imaginable ruse and ploy to restrict it. and to defeat it. i applaud true conservationists like rob keck who worked to preserve herds for hunting. i applaud for the international efforts. i applaud congressman issa and senator grassley for exposing the fast and furious scandal. and of course i applaud the nra leadership for being among the first and most vocal in calling upon attorney general holder to resign or get fired. we need a president who will enforce current laws, that create new ones that only serve to burden lawful gun owners. president obama has not. i will. we need a president who will stand up for the rights of hunters and sportsmen and those who seek to protect their homes and families. presi

this is the guy that president obama appointed to oversee the epa in the most oil rich part of the countryke a choice like that? it tells you a lot. >> bret: is there an up-side at all for obama administration? are they getting closer to environmentalists in this? it seems like bad day in politics of this issue. >> only if you are a roman centurian. the example he gives he says you go to a town and pick the first five guys. not the first antique roman agitators. guys off the street. this is what the e.p.a. says. find anyone you want, forget enforcement, show them who boss. this is lawless. it reflects how obama and his administrative agencies are overriding the law for the entire term. remember what obama said to dmitry medvedev his russian pal. he said after i'm elected i are more room to maneuver. i'll be more flexible. imagine how flexible he is going to be honoring global warming and killing carbon-based energy in his second term. >> bret: this energy issue is already being used by republicans in ads, there are outside groups, super-pacs with energy ads. expect to be be in some of thos

the supreme court ruled unanimously for the sacketts and against the obama epa. this administration's attack on freedom extends even to rights explicitly guaranteed by our constitution. the right to bear arms is so plainly stated, so unambiguous, that liberals have a hard time challenging it directly. instead, they've been employing every imaginable ploy to restrict it. i applaud true conservationists like rob keck who work to preserve lands, herds and flocks for hunting. i applaud ambassador bolton for opposing international efforts to erode our rights. i applaud congressman issa and senator grassley for their work in exposing the "fast and furious" scandal. and i applaud nra leadership for being among the first and most vocal in calling upon attorney general holder to resign. we need a president who will enforce current laws, not create new ones that only serve to burden lawful gun owners. president obama has not. i will. we need a president who will stand up for the rights of hunters, sportsmen, and those seeking to protect their homes and their families. pres

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the answer, since taking office, president obama has had epa operating at a surged budget. since 2009, epa has received $12 billion more in funding than the 2008 baseline levels would have allowed. in fact, when it took office, the administration and the democratic-controlled congress gave epa a 100% increase in its budget in one year counting the stimulus. the money came, as i said, as a policy decision from the administration. unfortunately, this rapid increase has led to problems in waste. epa spent over $1 million, for example, on a large square, 27,000-square-foot green roof at the top of the world wildlife fund headquarters in d.c. in 2010, epa received a 38% budget increase over 2008 levels, and every year since they've been funded well above that baseline. what are the priorities? i'm concerned about how the money is being allocated. epa's budget says their number one priority is climate change. they are asking for at least $32 million in increased funding for climate change protection. in fact, epa plans to spend $140 million more on their regulations and managemen

the perfect analogy for what obama is doing on fossil fuels. epa has regulation -- >> hey you got your swipe in. >> i will also give you a fact. the epa pass a regulation that will shut down the entire coal industry in n a couple of decades. >> the extreme non- environmentalists will not rest until there are 1 oil rigs at arlington cemetery. >> the real fear is a war in the middle east, which would drive oil prices through the roof. >> look a at how they are dealing with this. romney using a loophole for non- disclosure is an issue and the fact we don't have a coal industry in a few years is not an issue. i've not seen any verage >> it is at trojan h horse disguised as a deficit redituction plan. it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision of our country, a thinly veiled social. -- social darwinism. >> we have aresidedent w is good giving big speeches. the problem is he isnot good at leadership. >> that is congressman paul ryan. "the wall street journal" says that " "if there is a l laugher curve for political invective the white house team

. >> another election year controversy for the obama administration. epa official the president appointed using the word crucify when it comes to dealing with oil companies that break the law we'll play the comments and let you decide. jenna: some wondering about the strategy given plaintiff biden's colorful history so to say with speaking in public. we have a fair and balanced debate up ahead. jon: that's a big deal. plus a big battle over plan b emergency contraception. how young is too young for girls to be allowed to use it. 11, 15, 17? the case is heading to federal court. it is all "happening now." jenna: we have a lot of great stories for you today and we're so glad you're joining us. we're going to start off with this one of the the government's environmental watchdog at the center after brand new controversy. thanks for joining us. i'm jenna lee. >> i'm jon scott. comments from an administrator in the environmental protection agency how to keep energy companies in line. those are raising eyebrows this morning. he outlined his philosophy enforcing

we'll see you tomorrow. >> another election year controversy for the obama administration. epapresident appointed using the word crucifen

we'll see you tomorrow. >> another election year controversy for the obama administration. epapresident appointed using the word crucify when it comes to dealing with oil companies that break the law we'll play the

that is the perfect analogy for what obama is doing with fossil fuels. epa issued a regulation -- >> ok, charles, you got your swipe in. >> i will now get in a fact. the epa issued a regulation that will make it impossible for the construction of a coal plant, shutting down the entire industry within a decade. >> the extreme non- environmentalists will not rest until there are oil rigs at the lincoln memorial in arlington cemetery. >> if israel bonds aroun -- bombs iran -- this is the real fear of the administration, that it war in the middle east will drive prices up. >> look at how the press is dealing with this. romney using loopholes for non- disclosure is an issue, and the fact that we will have a coal industry is not an issue. i have not seen any coverage of that. >> the president is in full campaign mode with an attack on the ryan budget. >> it is the trojan horse. disguised as a deficit reduction plans the, it is an attempt to impose a radical vision of our country of a thinly veiled social darwinism. >> we have a president who's good at giving big s

president obama later said, epa though the legislation wouldn't do enough to cut the deficit, it would help the economy grow. what is clear, cnn shows the bill enjoyed 72% among americans, 53% support among republicans. where it did not have enough support is in the senate. republicans, as anticipated, blocked it. just moments after the vote, the white house put out this statement from president obama. "tonight senate republicans voted to block the buffett rule, choodsi choosing once again to protect tax breaks for the wealthy against the middle class." i spoke with arkansas senator art pryor earlier today. i've heard you call the buffett rule a political ploy, which is essentially agreeing with republicans on that, who said the white house was pushing it knowing full well the republicans would kill it. supporters say what's wrong with one party putting something up for a vote and getting congress on record? >> that happens up here all the time? i just decided i don't want to play that game anymore. i think people in arkansas are sick and tired of the partisan games up here. it didn't

there is no way to justify keystone, the perfect example an analogy for what obama is doing on a fossil fuels. epa issued a regulation -- >> ok, charles. >> i am going to give you a fact. the epa issued a regulation that would make it impossible for the construction of pickle plant in the future -- a coal plant in the future. >> my understanding is that there is more drilling, but the extreme non-environmentalists won't be happy until there are oil rigs at arlington cemetery. >> the war in the middle east would drive oil prices through the roof. >> the romney not squeezing through a loophole is a big issue, and the fact we won't have the coal industry and which several states of the union depend is not an issue at a. not seen any coverage of that whatsoever. >> the president is in full campaign mode. >> it is it reay an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country, thinly veiled social darwinism. >> we have another day with the president was really good at keeping big speeches. the problem is that he is not good at leadership. >> that is congressman paul ryan, chairman of the house budget com

epa. >> president obama, the democrats, they think they may have a winning issue here.ot necessarily in selling their own ideas about environmental protection but rather selling the republicans wholesale abandonment of this issue. as republicans for environmental protection strips the word republican out of their name, are democrats on track to strip away centerous voters who used to care about the issue? are they about to strip that from the party that clearly no longer cares about that issue? joining us now is chris hayes host of "up with chris hayes" here on msnbc. mr. hayes, thank you for your time. >> always a pleasure, rachel. >> in our current politics, why does being pro environmental protection equal weakness? >> well, that's -- there's a long complicated answer that i will try to give a short version of which is, i think what we've seen with the environmental policy on the right is this sort of perfect alignment between the economic interests and the culture of our politics. it's sort of right out of what's wrong with the book. there are huge incumbent corpora

. >> president obama and secretary chu and epa administrator and secretary of the interior and ken salazartes. listen and learn, implement these ideas and you may save the middle-class hundreds of billions of dollars. you may bring prosperity back to america, ignore it, however, at your own political peril. >> transformation of america that we were promised to increase the price of energy in america now they bogus claims about america not having the resources available to us. >> eric: i've been listening. are they in the white house right now watching and listening taking notes, maybe? >> why are they not listening? we have experts here in this room. we have every day moms and dads and business owners with common sense ideas on how to provide solutions to the energy challenges in america. >> eric: we have experts here. >> you know what he would say, president obama stop destroying the war on united states. >> anything that we have said that is wrong so far? >> as a matter of fact, we see a policy to tax the industry more. you don't need a study. we do have a study. congressional research s

. >> president obama and secretary chu and epa administrator and secretary of the interior and ken salazar and listen to the next few minutes. listen and learn, implement these ideas and you may save the middle-class hundreds of billions of dollars. you may bring prosperity back to america, ignore it, however, at your own political peril. >> transformation of america that we were promised to increase the price of energy in america now they bogus claims about america not having the resources available to us. >> eric: i've been listening. are they in the white house right now watching and listening taking notes, maybe? >> why are they not listening? we have experts here in this room. we have every day moms and dads and business owners with common sense ideas on how to provide solutions to the energy challenges in america. >> eric: we have experts here. >> you know what he would say, president obama stop destroying the war on united states. >> anything that we have said that is wrong so far? >> as a matter of fact, we see a policy to tax the industry more. you don't need a study. we do have a

say no to the obama administration's extreme epa rule.n cross kroed roads responsible for the content of this advertising. >> the epa is extreme. newt gingrich, getting surgery, running on gas prices. this question of energy policy, gas prices and expensive new cars we want to put gas, all connected and undoubtedly will be in the election cycle. >> we have no energy policy. what energy policy? i mean -- we never have. that's just the way it's been since the end of world war ii. we have a bunch of ad hoc measures that people come and go. this leaves people in the auto industry wondering, do we get behind wind, hydrogen? we should either have a policy or leave it to the mark. >> this is some of the most powerful kormss on earth. oil and gas companies invest heavily in companies like american crossroads and others that fight for their interests. let's be honest, huge oil and gas conglomerates attempting to fund to get their apparatus in power to not be regulated. >> i have to disagree on one point. no policy in the obama administration, boug

not long after president obama said algae, the epa invest not guilty spinach.velop a solar panel using spinach to produce electricity. okay. steve? >> steve: allall right. thanks very much. we're outside. i'm here with the guys from philly pretzel factory. take a look at a line that amosed outside our world headquarters because today is national pretzel day. you stop by any location for philly pretzel, you get a free one. now, this is interesting. you are going to be on an upcoming episode of "undercover boss." >> tomorrow night. >> steve: what do you is, you go in as an employee and you discover that what is the fran friesee doing? >> in one scene, he's making his own product that he's going rogue on me. make his own product. >> steve: his mom's recipe? >> he went and made his own sandwiches. he thought that was a product that he needed to have. as a franchise, we're about systems and certain menu items. >> steve: you hit the roof. but apparently one of the recipes worked out okay because it's on your menu now? >> now it's on our menu, yeah. we had to make sur

epa. >> eric: hold on there, jay-vo. president obama been crucifying oil companies for three years. >> do we tant to keep give -- do we want to keep giving taxpayer give-away to big oiler invest in clean energy? >> we have been subsidizing oil companies for 100 years now. >> oil companies are making record profits. that's good. but we don't need to subsidize them. >> his energy policy is kill them with regulations or kill them with taxes but just kill the oil companies. >> bob: first, you take one guy's statement as the e.p.a. and they're probably people like him. but overall the e.p.a. does not. what obama said and i hope he repeats it over and over. the idea of tax breaks for oil companies is the ridiculous concept i have heard in got. they make more money than anybody else, except for appl apple. we give them tax breaks for what? >> eric: stay on the e.p.a. you said the epa does not -- what do you mean does not? >> bob: they don't crucify the oil companies. >> dana: is not just some guy at the e.p.a. region 6 administrator. political

comments not only are inaccurate as a representation of or characterization that the epa has operated under president obama but they are provebly inaccura inaccurate. >>> he is saying he is sorry. i apologize to those i have offended and regret my poor choice of words. i have always been commit the to fair and vigorous enforcement of those laws. that isn't good enough for republican senator of oklahoma. to me it is intimidation that they are doing right now to stop people in the oil and gas industry. >> they reduke buicked him saying it is at record levels. by the way the white house gave no indication of whether or not he will lose his job for that. >>> we have not heard the last of this one did we? >> peter doocy, thank you. he is not buying the epa chief's apology. >> he says the official meant exactly what he said. >> he said it was a poor choice of words. it was a perfect choice of words. he said exactly what he thinks. he said exactly what others say in the epa. he is saying well we really beli believe in all of the above. as we heard jay carney. epa's regulation would make it impossible for any amer

fru >> not long after president obama said allergy was the key to future energy, the epa is taking a page out of popeye's book investing in spinach. the epa handing over 90,000 dollars to students at vander built university developing a solar panel to produce electricity. they have nagging doubts about the project. >> forget about finder's keepers police arresting this woman after she picked up $2,300 in cash that she found on the floor of a convenience store. here's the real problem with this. cops say the surveillance video shows the customer drop the money therefore she had responsibility to return it to the owner. we want to know what you would do if you saw this money on the ground, would you pocket the money or return it? our viewers would return it. you would do the right thing, wouldn't you? send your comments over to us. you can tweet them at fox friends first or e-mail the old fashioned way. >> we turn now to the race to the white house president obama and mitt romney it in a dead heat. if the election were held today the president and romney would grab 46 percent of the vo