scott pruett told an audience in kentucky he plans to repeal an obama-area rule that limits carbon emissions from power plants that burn coal. china on the other hand is doing the opposite, ben tracy reports, coal is on the way out. solar power is coming in. >> reporter: on a farm in northern china they're planting a new crop. nearly 200,000 solar panels in the heart of coal country. in the south, china just flipped the switch on the world's largest floating solar installation. built on top of a lake, created by an abandoned coal line. projects like these help china double its solar capacity last year. it is now twice as big as the u.s. capacity. nearly half of all new solar installations in the world are happening here in china. they're doing it quickly. green peace says they're installing equivalent of a soccer field full of solar panels every hour of every day. >> we have 28 solar power plants in operation in china. and, three more are under construction. >> maggie chao is executive president of panda green energy it installed enough solar panels to power 40 million homes. >> why are you

twelve new agents for scott pruett, each with their own vehicle, and added security inside the buildinghere he works. so why? why is this necessary? >> 12 added are on top of some already on top of his detail. we did speak with the inspector general's office. they tell us that he has received more threats than any other epa administrator. all that being said, there are members on capitol hill who are saying this may not be the best use of tax payer dollars and they have asked the inspector general to investigate whether this beefed up level of security is actually necessary. >> renee marsh, please keep us posted with what you learn on this. thanks so much for your reporting. >>> lawmakers say they want answers on how and why four u.s. soldiers died in niger. the president is still playing politics. they are going back and forth over gold star families. there's a new turn in this. we have it next. ers, it's time to wake up to keurig. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. so rich. i love it. that's why you shoul

was a legislation aimed at cushing green regulations and today the federal administration agency scott pruett said we're committed to write -- righting the wrongs by cleaning the regulatory slate. any replacement rule will be done carefully and with humility by listening to those affected by the rules. >> they're arguing the obama e.p.a. over estimated the potential climate change and health benefits from this rule while kind of downplaying the potential costs for customers, electric customers and utilities and they're arguing the e.p.a. under obama overstepped its authority, that this rule was way too broad and it flouted decade of practice of regulating emissions at individual power plants because the obama approach basically required broad changes to the electricity sector. the attorney general of new york and other state leaders indicated they're going to challenge this plan and one of the ways they'll do that is by focusing on how the trump administration is justifying this change if they have adequately justified basically 180-degree pivot and policy. >> deutsche bank chief president jo

and scott pruett's environmental protection agency put this out as their update today "there are reports of residents obtaining or trying to obtain drinking water from wells at hazardous waste superfund sights in puerto rico. the epa advises against tampering with sealed and locked wells or drinking from these as it may be dangerous to people's health. imagine your family is landlocked, you are penned in, no way out, three weeks without assistance, three weeks without electricity, three weeks without water. you can't live without water. so you're choosing between death because of lack of water or drinking from a creek or trying to drink from the sealed locked well from the epa super fund site. which would you pick? and now we've got confirmation from the top public official on the island that water-borne illness is starting to spike the death toll there. of course it is because that's what happens when people in a -- when people end up having to drink from creeks and streams for weeks. before the governor's confirmation today, we had heard reports of death that were suspected to be from

scott pruett, epa, says he's going to outsource more to the industry that's polluting. he has marino, the guy hoe chooses, it was so revealing, he's asked yesterday about marino, he says, the first thing, what is the first thing? he knows the issues well. he was an early supporter of mine. it was a tip-off of what this is about. >> there are a few things we have to discuss. one, this president is so incompetent and has absolutely no idea what's going. that's one. two -- >> if you said to him, what are the top-line recommendations of your opioid commission, do you think he could answer? >> he would not. obama went across the country for a fuel year answering questions about anything and everything in the health care bill. donald trump can't do more than five minutes of superlatives. everything's great, kids don't do drugs. that's beyond nancy reagan -- >> literally, he basically said that at the commission meeting. >> kids, don't start, don't do it. we have to remind the american public, one, we have the power as american citizens to get rid of these members of congress

steve mnuchin, scott pruett, ryan zinke and david shulkin all under fire for their swank can i travelt just the guilded trump cabinet doing the spending but the trump kids annual aspen, the fancy vacation cost some $300,000. joining us down, the opinion writer for the "washington post" and msnbc contributor and politics reporter for the daily beast. so, you know, jonathan, this is an administration that's come in saying they were going to go after waste, fraud, abuse, we can't afford food stamps. can't afford health care. they live high on the hog. did tom price pay the price for living too well on the public dime or your view, was it living too high in the public dime plus health care didn't pass? >> it's that, but also, the other thing you left out, getting bad headlines that reflected poorly on the president. we have a president who cares only about what his headlines are and so a couple of days ago, joy, i tweeted out, let's be clear here. president trump is not upset by what secretary price did. he's upset by the negative press caused by what secretary price did, and so with all

if you take scott pruett who is the jerk at epa that's the technical term i would leak to speak technically. [laughter] he has been on the take of the oil and gas industry all his career. so complete irresponsibility. so what do we do this is really, this is why the u.s. in the industry were not because the american people don't know some don't. but about 70% of americans and every survey say invest in renewables. you know, people know that the climate is being wrecked. you have to absolutely be under control of somebody's big money not to have watched in the last two weeks the -- the life and death issue we're facing so this is really what we're up against. that's your question. what to do about it. i think there are many things and i think mom would answer that everybody has to, everybody sense of this has to be brought to bear. now one idea which i would love to get going maybe we need a social business to do it, and figure out exactly how to do it, we have two brothers many this country that people know about about. koch brothers. they fund lots of nice things this this city by the way.