energy secretary rick perry and scott pruitt also spoke. [applause] [applause] prayer -- thank you for hosting us here today. this is an important day. an important opportunity. our nation's energy security is of paramount importance and the president with his signature on that executive order is going to set in motion government reform designed to promoting -- designed to continue promoting clean air and water or the american. america's leadership, the president's leadership on how we achieve energy independence while improving our environment in this country and abroad is determined more by the actions of this president than at any time. debt we are taking a great in breaking the restraints that have become burdens. this executive order is a rejection of the believe that through for energy is additional federal regulations. mr. president, you understand the path forward is through american ingenuity and entrepreneurship. as important as the action you are about to take is, it is the reaction from the private sector, from these individuals

scott pruitt and others. trump andt, president the president of italy. they held a joint news conference. first, we will take a look at their briefer marks in the oval office. president trump a great welcome to the prime minister of italy. we are going to have a long discussion. >> thank you. i am really pleased to be here. visit ining for his sicily next month. president trump i look forward to that. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. president trump: thank you, very much. prime minister, welcome. great honor. thank you. it is wonderful to have you in our wonderful people's house known as the white house. so many great italian friends are with us today. and we

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s chief strategist and epa administer scott pruitt one him to follow through on his pledge>> paris is something we need to look at closely. it's something we need to exit in my opinion. >> a bad deal says pruitt because it clearly favors china and india at the expense of the us. critics say is likely a run nuclear deal all over again. it's a latest obama era policy to draw fire from the president who just last month signed the energy independence executive order to begin a full review of mr. obama's clean plow or -- clean power plant. >> we're going to cancel the paris agreement. >> it's acknowledging that yes his team is studying the deal. white house officials tell us

the president has called global warming a hoax and the head of the epa scott pruitt has questioned global warming and the effect of carbon emissions on the environment. >> i think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is very challenging and there's tremendous disagreement about the degrees of impact. >> reporter: already the administration has rolled back some environmental protections including rules on coal. the trump administration says it has to make the cuts to boost military spending. so the protest here kicks off at noon. so it includes 60 organizations and again they will eventually go to the federal building. reporting live in san francisco, i'm jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> time now 6:02 let's get it done with jaclyn dunn. >> good one, kenny. right now we are tracking some slowdowns for drivers headed along i-80. this is in the westbound direction. if you are making your way through vallejo. it's due to a motorcycle accident. chp has just issued a "sig alert." two left lanes currently blocked. and that's definitely slowing things down below 15 miles per hour

we have a tremendous person that we put in charge of e.p.a., scott pruitt. who is an environmental person he wants clean air, clean water but he doesn't think it takes you 26 years to get a permit to build a building and to have jobs. at which time those companies are usually gone, out of business, etc. so we're speeding up the process. we're going to try to take that

scott pruitt. it's good to have you here. i can't imagine you are so popular among some of the rank-and-file right now. you're talking about an organizational shift and one in the mindset. i really like the way you put it. when you look at the last eight years. washington has become so central and so consequential in the lives of farmers and ranchers. literally the first stop for permanent authority for the ability to actually build an economy is washington dc. this reorganization is terribly important. natural gas and coal. the approach is we develop the natural resources about to source but to source the sensitivity. before the environment first business later. and now you trying to put the two and focused. they have to choose. choose between jobs in the end of the environment. and as it's a choice. we've always been able to develop our economy and take care of her natural resources. we've have a 65% reduction in those air pollutants that matter across the country the same time growing our economy. i think it represented a

. >> switching gears, i want to ask you about the fact that scott pruitt visited chicago and indianaoday to shed a light on the lead issue in that community. some noticed that president trump's budget would require cuts for the epa justice division which could help solve this problem. what's your thoughts on him visiting this housing project? >> scott pruitt as attorney general of oklahoma sued the epa 19 times on clear air, soot, smor smog, all the way down the line and when he was up i asked him if he would recuse and he said no which makes him the plaintiff, the judge and the jury in all of those cases, and now the trump administration is proposing a 31% cut in the epa budget. well, that goes to the ability of the federal government to help a poor community deal with a superfund site, with toxic chemicals in their soil or in their water or in their air, and it's not just poor communities, it's every community in our country, and what scott pruitt intends on doing, what donald trump intends on doing is turning the epa into every polluters' ally and this visit by scott pruitt is not

join and we know from oklahoma is scott pruitt, mr.ew administrator for the environmental protection agency. mr. pruitt, welcome to "fox news sunday." >> scott: good morning, chris, how are you? >> chris: good. when the obama epa announced its clean power plan, it said that the reduction in carbon pollution would have the following health benefits. i want to put them up on the screen. by 2030, it said there would be 90,000 fewer asthma attacks a year. 300,000 fewer missed work and school days, and 3600 fewer premature deaths a year. without the clean power plan, how are you going to prevent those terrible things? >> scott: chris, i think what's important this past week is to recognize that the president is keeping his promise to the american people to rollback regulatorying the last couple of years. ast to a u.s.the steps have beee supreme courtsaid that the powes been used has been an overreach. the president is keeping his promise to deal with that overreach. it doesn't mean that clean air and clean water is not going to be the focus

will show you portions of confirmation hearings featuring education secretary betsy devos and scott pruitt of the epa and others tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. week, historian david mccullough on his book. a selection of his speeches going back to 1989. >> the 20th century senator that is been written about the most is joe mccarthy. of thes no biography senator who had the backbone to stand up to him first, margaret chase smith. >> do you remember how you went about preparing for that speech question mark >> i worked as hard as i ever worked on anything i delivered from a podium. >> historian david mccullough on his book," american spirit." that's sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> trump administration policies were the topic of the committee are economic development conference in washington this week. this portion of the event includes the discussion of assessing the first 100 days of the trump presidency. it's about 45 minutes. >> and we can ask everybody to take their seats, next panel focused on the first 100 days of the new administration in congress and this

director scott pruitt and others. we'll have that for you at 8:00 p.m. here on c-span. >> this week on "q&a," historian david mccola on "the american spirit: who we are and what we stand for" a selection of his speeches. >> the 20th century senator that's been written about the most is joe mccarthy. there is dozens of books about mccarthy yet there is no one that -- about one that stood up to him the most. >> do you know how you went about preparing for that speech? >> hards i ever worked on anything i ever delivered from a podium. >> historian david mccullough on his book "the american spirit," a selection of his speeches going back to 1989, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> with the first 100 days of the trump administration approaching, c-span takes a look at the president's cabinet, which includes the senior most appointed officials in the executive branch. we begin our program

scott pruitt was not convinced by the science. blackstone. >> we can just go ahead and mud the amount i need in there. >> almond grower paul wenger, turns to chlorpyrifos when nothing else will kill the pests that threaten his crop. >> chlorpyrifos, for years was a mainstay for us. >> now, he says, it's a product of last resort. >> it's more when we absolutely need it, but it's very critical to our integrated pest management program. >> chlorpyrifos is used on more than fifty crops from strawberries to corn in tens of thousands of farms. across the u.s. farmers say the sprayed food is safe to eat. but studies from columbia and u.c. berkeley showed that exposure through the air led to "long term potentially irreversible changes. in children" and "is related to lower intelligence scores." in 2015 the obama era epa endorsed a complete ban that followed one for just household use in 2000. margaret reeves is with pesticide action network. >> we've been arguing for the last 17 years that we need to ban its use everywhere, and epa agreed

continue with the personal profiles of president trump am including betsy devos, ben carson and scott pruitt. >> states need to enter into agreement about water issues. >> friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, maria shriver and positions testify before the senate committee on aging about research on curing alzheimer's. >> i believe getting more women into clinical trials could possibly lead to the cure for all of us. >> next week at 8:00 p.m. on c-span. >> this weekend on the presidency. discuss the relationship between alexander hamilton and george washington at the new york historical society. here is a preview. >> i want to read you a quote from hamilton. people have often taken two quotes i think out of context. one is at one point he says "washington was a great shield for me," and immediately if you are a jeffersonian, you say, see, he used washington. at one point in hamilton's relationship with washington, washington says to him, i want you to come see me immediately. hamilton says yes. marquisinto the lafayette and stops to chat for a while for this young and charming fellow. washington is c

climate change and that problem is not going away. >> sreenivasan: and speak of climate change, scott pruitt claims he is not interested in participating in the paris accords, but he's not exactly the person that can make that decision. it's not a unilateral one. that takes quite a bit of time. >> yes, it's really interesting the debate that is happening within the white house over what to do on the paris accords. first because for president trump, that was a signature campaign promise. his exact words were he would cancel the paris climate change accord. that's technically not possible to do. you can't rip up a multilateral accord that's been legally ratified and signed by over 190 countries. but the u.s. could withdraw, could legally withdraw, and that would be a huge blow to the accord. what's happening right now, though, a lot of president trump's sort of core base supporters and advisers have urged him to go ahead and act on that, to announce he's going to withdraw. he's got another set of advisers who are saying, "look, the diplomatic fallout globally fr from-- from withdrawing the uni

our new epa administrator scott pruitt likes to quote yogi berra once said famously the future is not what it used to be area --the future aint what it used to be, and the president's executive order he is signing right now is going to make sure the future is not going to be what it used to be. that order bans the progress we protecting america's help from dangerous pollutants and safeguarding our environment for future generations. thanks to this executive order our future is looking darker, dirtier and less prosperous. we are highlighting why the clean power plant which president trump is walking away from today is seven-story and storic. is so hi the green power plant is the most significant step the u.s. has taken to address climate stage. -- changed. forstablishes new standards power plants which is at the largest source of greenhouse glasses -- gases. outreach tof an states, tribes, utility holders and the american public. the environmental administration spent over three years developing the law including reviewing and responding to more than 4.3 million comments that the epa r

scott pruitt said it would be greenlit. under the previous president, dow chemical had been losing the fight over that pesticide. but the new president and the daily phone calls and the here's what we're working on and we need another meeting and can you get us more input on this, dow chemical feels it's winning. and there's nothing illegal or inherently wrong with the ceo relishing his new access with the white house and benefiting from the policies but it's a nice tidy demonstration of how things are getting done now. they're not shy about it. here again is that photo op one more time. the ceo of dow chemical on the left side there. what the president is doing in this photo op is signing an order to broadly upend the way public health and safety get protected by the government. he was signing the executive order for agencies to start wholesale deleting health and safety regulations. watch what the president does when he finishes signing the thing. >> should i give this pen to andrew? dow chemical. i think maybe, right? >>

we will show portions of hearings for the t devos, epa administrator scott pruitt and others. vice president mike pence is on a 10 day tour of asia. he announced president trump will attend three summits. two in the philippines and one in vietnam.

joining me now from oklahoma is scott pruitt, mr.ministrator for the environmental protection agency. mr. pruitt, welcome to "fox news sunday." >> good morning, chris. how are you? chris: good. when the obama epa announced its clean power plan, it said that the reduction in carbon pollution would have the following health benefits, i want to put them up on the screen. by 2030 it said there would be 90,000 fewer asthma attacks a year, 300,000 fewer missed work and school days and 3600 fewer premature deaths a year. without the clean power plan, how are you going to prevent those terrible things? >> well, chris, i think what's important this past week is to recognize that the president's keeping his promise to the american people to roll back regulatory overreach that's been occurring the last several years. and as you know, the clean power plan is subject to a u.s. supreme court stay. and the steps that have been taken by the epa historically have equally been challenged several times with respect to co2 regulation, and each of those

leadingnk scott pruitt the epa as a disaster for our nation and the planet. stay in the climate change agreement. we worked hard to get there finally. and locally, i think it is critically important that people begin to organize at the local level and enforce laws at the local level. in our case, we have one of new york's largest freshwater lakes, cayuga lake, and right now we have the largest private organization the country, cargo, and we are very worried about the future of the lake. enforcing at to the state level now that the epa may or less be out of action. nermeen: tell us about cargo. what did they do and how have they been involved in the harms of climate change? >> they are in 70 countries. they said unless you give us $640,000 in tax credits, we will pull our 80 jobs and leave and go somewhere else. they do not recognize the authority of new york state to enforce underground mining regulations, which is extraordinary in the state and age. for thank you so much joining us. i just want to get an ok that you can hear our mics loud and clear. we are o

profiles of president trump's cabinet, including betsy devos, tom price in the ben carson, and scott pruittto join together and enter into an agreement to address the epa to serve -- serve the role it is supposed to serve. that should be celebrated. friday at 8:00 eastern, maria shriver and position -- agingians testified on about research efforts to cure alzheimer's disease. >> studying women and getting more women into clinical trials could possibly lead to the cure for all of us. >> this week at 8:00 on c-span. >> c-span takes a look back at the white house easter egg williams hosted by the last four presidents. it is to take place on capitol hill until congress, worried about damage to the capitol grounds, passed a law banning the practice. two years later, president weatherford behaves opened the grounds to children on easter. [indiscernible]

continue with personal profiles of president trump's cabinet including tom price, ben carson, and scott pruitt. this is something that should be celebrated. >> friday, maria shriver testifies on aging. to curesearch alzheimer's disease. >> studying women and getting more women into clinical trials could lead to the cure for all of us. next week at 8:00 on c-span. >> we are at the rotunda at the university of virginia. we take you to the special collections library to learn more about the thomas jefferson papers. >> jefferson is the founder of uva. he worked many years to develop the system of education in virginia. uva was his last great project. he did it after he left the white house. he designed the buildings and the curriculum. chair of therst board of visitors. he was intimately involved as you will see in a lot of details about building the buildings. called an academic village. if you look at his plans for the university, at the time a lot of universities consisted of one very big building for classes were held and there were dormitory rooms. jefferson's idea was to make a village out o

environmental prosecution task force with other agencies and environmental groups and so forth scott pruitt came in he shut all of that down and opened up a new appellate unit designed to basically sue on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, so this was a big step up for the fossil fuel industry that used to have to go to front groups to follow the brief and now had attorney general who would loan them his bandage and go into court on their behalf. so if you wanted to obscure hand of industry and add a have legiy to argument what better thing could you do than to get attorney general and come and do this for you so with all of that going on i think the prospect for assistant environmental enforcement happening in this epa under its any administrator are really, really small and i think people around the country have to look very, very carefully if you like clean air and water watch what's going on up there. because i think he'll be up to no good. >> one of the things you don't focus a great deal on in the book is how do you get out of the situation you think we're in and path way forward and

you vote against scott pruitt. what is your concern about having him running the epa? >> guest: well, he has never given any indication that he hasn'hasthe slightest concern fe environment whatsoever. his predecessor was guiding to an incident in oklahoma. was rhode island's attorney general and assertive with the drew andrew had an appointment to protection unit that he ran in his office. not only that he set up a statewide environmental prosecution task force with other agencies and affirmative groups and so forth. when scott pruitt came in he shut all that down and opened up a new appellate unit designed to basically sue on behalf of the fossil fuel industry pics of this was a big step up for the falls of the industry. the utep to go to these front groups that would filed amicus briefs. now they had an attorney general who would loan them his badge and it would go into court on their behalf. so if you wanted to obscure the hands of industry and add a a veneer of legitimacy to the argument, what better thing could you do to get an actual attorney general to come and

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continued personal profiles of the cabinet, including betsy devos, tom price, ben carson, and scott pruitt>> the states should join together and inter-into an agreement to address water quality issues and involve the epa to serve the role it is supposed to serve. announcer: friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, maria shriver testifies before the senate committee on aging about research efforts to cure alzheimer's disease. >> i believe studying women in getting more women into clinical trials could possibly lead to the cure for all of us. announcer: this week at 8:00 p.m. on c-span. we want to welcome david wasserman, cook political report. good sunday morning. guest: thanks for having me back. host: this is a headline from "the washington post." don't hit the panic button

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scott pruitt has previously expressed doubt about climate change. >> the weather is perfect outdoorsnd a little on the warm side we usually see. what's shaping up to be a mild evening. how long will this warm spell last and how long will it get? >> we're starting off the weekend. very nice. crystal clear, plenty of stars out there. no worries. 70s and ingredients -- 80s the name of the game. nice and mild and warm on sunny skies. 70 in concord, 61 in oakland, 65 that number in san jose. later on tonight, the numbers still on the mild side. that would lead the way for a launching pad for another warm day tomorrow. 23rs we will let you know how hot we will get. >> new details involving a shooting by three chp officers that left a man dead. they interrupted the suspect while he was trying to carjack someone. north of highway 92, all northbound lanes re-opened after 1:00 this morning. a witness shared this cell phone video moments before the shooting and they have recovered his gun at the scene. >> jph officers likely did not know what they had come across at that time. however, that was

scott pruitt was not convinced by the science.e's john blackstone. >> we can just go ahead and put the amount i need in there. >> reporter: this almond grower turns to this when nothing else will kill what threatens his crop. clor pyro foss was a mainstay for us. now he says it's a product of last resort. >> it's more just when we absolutely need it, but it's critical to our pest management program. >> reporter: chlorpyrifos is is used from strawberries to corn. farmers say the sprayed food is safe to eat. but exposure through the air led to long-term, potentially irreversible changes in children and is related to lower intelligence scores. in 2015, the obama era epa endorsed a ban. the pesticide had already been banned for household use in 2000. margaret reeves is with the pesticide action network. >> we've been arguing for the last 17 years that we need to ban its use everywhere, and epa agreed with us, until a couple days ago. >> reporter: new epa director scott pruitt said in a statement by reversing the previous administratio

is a go i am pleased with scott pruitt, think is a good choice but ing. tabl't have anything to do with picking him. >> what you bring to the table? >> the environmental protection agency was created by president richard nixon to be our national guard in of environment and health. they've wanted a career to try to prevent it from doing its job.s going that's what he's doing from the inside. and today he was going out tos visit one of the dirtiest power plants in the country. it puts out between two and three times as much sulfur dioxide as the national average for coal plants. these are dangerous pollutants. they cause heart attacks, bronchitis, stroke, acid rain the fact that there is showcase one of the putting big profits first and the rest of us at risk. we need to turn it around. sarah new hampshire,. >> caller: i appreciate your guest topic and i grew what they say about their needs my bottom line question is this if they take resources to be committed and you have to have agreement from the top. sometimes it comes from middle range and sometimes it

tonight, scott pruitt, betsy devos, and others and that begins at 8 p.m. eastern a, davideek on q and mccullough on his book the american spirit, who we are and what we stand for. a selection of his speeches going back to 1989. >> the 20th century senator who has been written about the moat -- most is david mccullough. do you remember how you went about preparing for the speech? >> hardest i've ever worked on anything i have ever delivered from a podium. >> david mccullough on his book, the american spirit. a selection of his speeches going back to 1989. that is on sunday p.m. eastern at c-span q and a. prescription drug addiction in the united states. this discussion includes a doctor, else

political context and that includes the election of donald trump as president, the deployment of scott pruitto run the epa. it's a political event that claims not to be partisan. let's see how they walk that line. >> tomorrow's rally begins at 10:00 a.m. the ground will open at 8:00 and the march is scheduled for 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. >>> chopper 4 over the scene of a shooting tonight in lorton, virginia, along a strip mall. several restaurants in that strip, an i-hop, domino's, it's all nearby. one person shot into a crowd and people scattered. so far, we only know of one person who was shot. that person is expected to survive. >>> figure out who murdered aior retirement community in fair max county. thursday morning, residents found this man dead inside his apartment at the little river glen senior center in fairfax. the victim's apartment borders the busy turnpike. >> that doesn't make me feel good because we're locked in. we have a gate. it's closed at 8:00. but my apartment is on the woods and you walk right up from the roa road. >> the medical examiner determined that he died from up

senators today sent the head of the epa, scott pruitt, a letter demanding that he explain what theset, that he clarify what this process is that has not been publicly announced but is the subject of these internal memos? the senators say the memos would overturn well established epa procedures and undermine epa's mission to protect the health of the american people and the environment. quote, administrator prosecute inexplicably ignores the input from two vital sources, scientists and the american people and then tells scott pruitt his plans will make unscientific decisions more common in the future. signed sincerely senators brian schatz, ed markey and sheldon whitehouse. the epa will not answer our questions about what these memos mean and what this new process is that they're not talking about publicly, but they are directing their employees about internally to the point where somebody who had access to those memos decided to feed them out to news the outside world to try to get an explanation of what's going on. epa won't answer our questions about those memos at all. we only bel

s chief strategist and epa administer scott pruitt one him to follow through on his pledge>> paris is something we need to look at closely. it's something we need to exit in my opinion. >> a bad deal says pruitt because it clearly favors china and india at the expense of the us. critics say is likely a run nuclear deal all over again. it's a latest obama era policy to draw fire from the president who just last month signed the energy independence executive order to begin a full review of mr. obama's clean plow or -- clean power plant. >> we're going to cancel the paris agreement. >> it's acknowledging that yes his team is studying the deal. white house officials tell us the president will make a decision sometime before the g7 which is coming up near the end of may. at the white house, fox news. >>> water officials in santa clara working on a plan to add a new dam and reservoir. the $800 million reservoir would expand the pacheco reservoir up with the pacheco pass. the expander reservoir would hold 130,000 acre-feet which is 50% more than anderson reservoir can hold. the dam would lik

scott pruitt says that states can handle their own environmental policies. >>> within the first week of having been on the job i met with 20 plus governors and the governors across the country are committed to pro jobs and pro environment and they have to serve those people in those states as well. >> pruitt is a former governor of oklahoma and have had a long record of approving it. >>> california recovering from devastating storm damage. pushed many rivers and creeks. the rain continued into february. and today the federal emergency management agency says that federal funds will be available to 42 counties that in cur damage from february 1st to the 3rd. >>> friday was caesar chavez day marking what would have been his 90th birthday. he died in 1993. marchers gathered in san jose. many were veterans of the movement. they say the struggle for themselves and others is ongoing. >> this is a continuation of honoring caesar's legacy and to resist the trump legislation that are very much anti immigrant. >> last year farmworkers won a battle to be covered by the same overtime rules as oth

also joining us are secretary betsy devos, secretary wilbur ross, scott pruitt and my budget director mitch maulvaney. such an easy job. the easiest job of anybody in the world. at the top of our agenda is the creation of high paying jobs for american workers. we've made a lot of progress. you've seen the numbers. we've created over 600,000 jobs already in a short period of time, and it is really going to start catching on now. some of the things that we've done are bigly and they are catching on. already, we've created more than almost 600,000 jobs. yesterday, toyota just announced that it will invest more than $1.3 billion -- it's probably going to be $1.9 billion -- into its georgetown, kentucky, plant. an investment that would not have been made if we didn't win the election. we have a lot of work to do. the last two decades, our nation has lost 1/3 of its manufacturing jobs, and our business tax is one of the highest in the world. it actually is a drof dropped countries, the highest single tax in the world. for too long, we've punished production in america and rewarded companies

continue with personal profiles of president trump's tom et, including devos, price, ben carson and scott pruitt. and ates join together enter an agreement to address water quality issue and involve it's to serve the role supposed to serve, should be commended and celebrated. eastern, mariah shriverand physicians discuss alzheimers disease. >> studying women could lead to us. cure for all of >> this week 8 p.m. on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. host: in our last 30 minutes morning, we're asking hould churches be allowed to endorse candidate? should johnson amendment, as it repealed?, be that amendment bars institutions from getting involved in political campaigns. morning, ers this republicans, 202-748-8001. 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. craft a n struggle to weeping text package a process history of the johnson amendment, it is named after johnson who introduced in the senate in 1954. >> good morning. >> go ahead, nancy. caller: i do not think churches they endorse candidates, are tax exempt, i believe strongly they should be totally from any involvement with state activ

. >> we've had scott pruitt appointed as head of the epa.get according to trump's budget will cut epa31%. which is a massive cut for any agency. the executive ordered selling epa and other federal agencies to eliminate all their climate change. >>> his carbon spree are popular along the wealthy and environment tally conscious which is why irwin

. >> we have had scott pruitt appointed as head of the epa. the epa budget, according to trump's budget, he is going to cut epa by 31%, which is a massive cut for any agency. and he issued an executive order telling epa and other federal agencies to eliminate all their climate change programs. >> reporter: musk says he is committed to stopping climate change and his carbon-free tesla cars are popular among the wealthy and environmentally conscious. that's why he says he has to dump trump. first he said it was billboards. >> it started with billboards in fremont, hawthorne, and palo alto. >> reporter: a twitter account, a change.org petition, and today? >> a running newspaper ad, full page ad in "the new york times," "washington post," "san francisco chronicle," and san jose "mercury news." >> reporter: that's not all. >> next week we are going on the air with tv adthat will run in "meet the press," "morning joe" and full frontal. in two weeks a new set of billboards in six cities across the country. >> reporter: tesla issued a statement today

epa administrators scott pruitt has previously expressed doubt about the reasons for climate change. >>> a warm weekend around the area right now. this is south from the transamerica pyramid, and the numbers are pretty much warm, like 70s and 80s. i don't know who that is in the background. but it's just me now. high pressure is out in the eastern pacific. it's going to be sunny and warm through tomorrow. temperatures even now as we look towards the golden gate bridge is 82 degrees at concord, oakland 71, and livermore 78 degrees. tomorrow a repeat performance as we start out the day. temperatures will regain near 80 degrees in the south bay. we will have a complete forecast for you in a few minutes. >>> all right. new details on a deadly officer- involved shooting that shut down a stretch of highway 101 in san mateo for hours. chopper 5 showing us the scene last night. this is near the 92 interchange. northbound lanes were closed for more than eight hours causing a major backup. they reopened around 2 a.m.. >> that's some sound from chp dispatch. here is what we've learned. when off

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energy secretary rick perry and scott pruitt also spoke. [applause]

. >> epa administrator scott pruitt was nominated in early december and confirmed 52-46. mr. pruitt filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the epa over air pollution regulations and other issues. prior to becoming state attorney general, administrator pruitt served in the oklahoma state senate. this portion of his january confirmation hearing includes questions from dan sullivan and bernie sanders. your openingte statement, your written statements. i want to emphasize we all want clean air, clean water. alaska has some of the cleanest air, cleanest water, most pristine environment in the world. your emphasis on being able to grow as an economy and develop resources responsibly while protecting the environment is important, and i respect that. i believe the epa needs a course correction. there is a lot of anger, even fear come of this agency throughout many parts of the country. i believe you are the right person to provide that course correction, and do something ofortant, regain the trust the american people that i believe has been lost in a lot of places in america becaus

and the federal government, well, president trump made scott pruitt the new heads of the epa. unit that investigated water contamination, basically pruitt running the epa is like pablo escobar running the dea. so residents like bill brisker aren't really crossing their fingers. >> how are they doing in flint? do you know? >> i think that the people are going to be forgot enlike a lot of other things, you know, in this i c. and it's not just us, it's tons antons of other cities t is a mess. >> yeah, it say nationwide mess. there are places like ranger all over the country where safe drinking waterlogs are being violated. >> until somebody actually steps in and helps the situation, millions of americans in small towns across this country won't be able to drink their matter. bathe in their water but most importantly, bleech [bleep] in their water. plaws plawses. >> trevor: hasan minhaj, everybody, we'll be right back. they said it was impossible to have great-tboom.g light beer. award-winning heineken light, brewed with cascade hops. they also said it was impossible to hypnotize