right now there has only been one confirmation, and it is that of scott pruitt. with the repeal of the clean power plan sitting before the e.p.a., i ask that the leader prioritize mr. wherum confirmation so we can get the office of air and ra radiation -- and radiation. again, we have five e.p.a. nominees that have been voted out of committee and we're now into november and only have one e.p.a. appointee confirmed. we need to do better than that. and i think with these two, i think this is going to happen. let me just repeat, though, some of the things that are going on in the environmental protection agency. scott pruittnd in his -- pruitt in his meeting yesterday called to the american people -- we knew it all the time, but people on the outside didn't know it. we found out that on the scientific advisory board of the obama administration, that he actually -- they -- they in that board had six of the seven on the board were direct recipients of grants from the e.p.a. and they were making policy decisions for the pea. now -- e.p.a. how bad is that. we added it u

when administrator scott pruitt came to kentucky last month, he announced the official withdrawal of that rule. unlike the previous leadership of the e.p.a., administrator pruitt actually cared enough to come to my home state and hear directly from the men and women impacted by the agency's regulations. he is someone who will work with us to protect our environment and save kentucky families from harmful regulations. mr. wehrum will work with administrator pruitt to help continue this trend at the e.p.a. i look forward to the senate advancing his nomination. now on another matter, members of the senate are continuing to work hard to deliver much-needed tax reform for families and small businesses. yesterday senators, members of the administration, and tax reform advocates met here in the capitol to discuss a mutual vision for relief. they shared the goals of simplicity, fairness, and economic growth. these are the same goals that i have. they are the same goals the house wrote into its legislation. they are the same goals the president asked us to consider. and, most importantly, the

signature plan to cut carbon emissions to bans on toxic chemicals we've never seen anything like what scott pruitt if the one under downtown in this episode of fault lines we travel downstream to communities with cautionary tales about what this rollback could cost and by the way regulations not only in this industry but in every industry. we're doing them by the thousands every industry. in two thousand and eight donna listen people how did up the emory river near kingston tennessee to the side of the biggest industrial spill in u.s. history. it was coal ash the waste looked over when power plants burnt coal to generate electricity i couldn't believe that a beautiful river like this that was clear and open and flowing was just so the giant ash. six years later it happened again donna found herself here on the dan river in north carolina as more than thirty five thousand metric tons of coal ash spilled from a broken pipe beneath the pond where it was stuart. he got out. of our. perfect the pond was owned by duke energy north carolina's main electric power provider. as staff for the waterkeeper all

i do want to, however, i cannot let this go without saying you said scott pruitt cosmic statement, itmething fundamental change in us government that rationality, data, science, matters less tha n rationality, data, science, matters less than it is noted the generations? i'm not going to talk about generations but i can talk about generations but i can talk about the last decade and the answer is yes. it is a fact that we are seeing far less fact driven, a nalytically seeing far less fact driven, analytically driven analysis of policy and i might say that what i found personally in the last administration was full, look, it isn't as though the obama white house and congress had a wonderful political relationship. let's face it, it was quite difficult. even within that when the department of energy went forward with policy recommendations clearly based on data analysis, we found a very receptive congress and they in fact, enacted legislation to put in place many of those recommendations. i think the administration is missing and it by not basing their policy on that and statements of t

so the clean energy revolution will continue regardless of what he and scott pruitt one. us how, change affects hawaii. >> hawaii feel so prescient about climate. our oceans are warming as a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. you u can see it. there e was a summemer during wh the whole south shore, you could see the bleached coral almost across a all of the surfing spo. so it has gone from an issue that only environment list caret about honest everybody in the state of the lakers about because it is really affecting our quality of life. as a result, we're taking action. we have the first t clean energy statute that requires 100% of all of our energy to be produced from clean them a renewable resources by the year 2045. we started with similar to the and1 with voluntary targets not ambitious enough targets, haswhat to what the u.n. done. we ratcheted up our ambition over a period of time and made it mandatory and exceeded those targets. now we have almost scored drupal clean energy production in hawaii. last year we finally signed a lot of say 10

administrator scott pruitt has reduced advanced biofuel blending targets for 2018, and now with mr. wehrum's nomination, i have even less confidence in this administration upholding congress' intent on the r.f.s. he also has a history of willful ignorance of science. when asked whether he believes that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the main driver of climate change, mr. wehrum stated that he believes that it is an open question. an answer that runs contrary to the conclusion of 97% of climate scientists and runs counter to the national climate assessment that was released by this administration just last week. emissions from fossil fuel fired power plants are one of the main contributors to climate change. we know this. at the office of air and radiation, mr. wehrum would oversee the repeal of standards that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector, the clean power plan. he would also be in charge of crafting a weaker replacement, if any. and let me be clear. a weak standard is an affront to the public health and safety of future generations. mr. pr

. >> epa administrator scott pruitt will be teaching a course in global warming called quote, the science of scriptures. so-called, he's got the whole world in his hands, and he has very warm hands. attorney general jeff sessions will be teaching a class. he just doesn't remember which one. mr.trump asked i read his letter and i will do my best to convey his words the way he would have. greatings iowa. what a great state, iowa. i won iowa. i won the state by 50 points. would have been 100 points, but crooked hillary, and the dmc busted voters from out of state from cities like cedar rapids, and des moines, but that's okay. >> still got it. baldwin did get serious when even harder than they did in 2016. >>> trending tonight on social media. this guy ask an escaped inmate. he had a pretty distinguished face. that's his mug shot. that's 27-year-old corey hughes. that's a skeleton like facial tatoo. he walked away from his work crew in stockton yesterday. he was supposed to be released in february. but now, when they catch him, things may not work out so well. >> where does a guy like that hi

companies coal companies to protect those resources without of federal mandate to do so i don't think scott pruitt or president trump has ever directed anyone to do that they know they they have a mandate under our law to protect the environment what we have seen though is these excesses to pay back their political friends from the democrats have been done away with they've rolled back rules that it took like ten years to get in place they had economic studies they had scientific studies admire mills studies and then they rolled them back you know your lawyers that's where you're wrong they weren't protecting anyone these rules that mr trump and mr perk have overturned relative the coal industry. had no protection on the environment at all why not wait a second he wrote the diary two rules that we've talked about the flu limitation guidelines for the coal combustion residuals these were prompted in part by what happened in tennessee and that then river in north carolina no they weren't these were rules written to favor certain segments of this inside which were pumping money into the democrat part

chief scott pruitt dismantling the terms of our metal productions where are the regulators been all these years before the donald and scott got a hold of like you know go to be even more were of the allowing the food industry to get away with this to begin with you got to ask that question now this wasn't something that just happened over now you know it's lobbyists it's kickbacks and it's also that the e.p.a. in just the departments of making sure people are doing this is actually going out and making people accountable they don't have the money to do it it hasn't been funded in a way that allows them that's the thing is the odd thing i love small government but we actually need more people out there doing their jobs and we need more people more lawyers like my turpin tonio from you know out there fighting against these corporate being humans to keep them from polluting our lands exactly. so just what separates human rights from the animals are opposable thumbs our fashion sense or are we really separate well if there is indeed separation between man and animal two teams of neuroscience

i mean, i'mjust mindful that the current head of the epa, a donald trump appointee scott pruitt, says is do you feel now, as a renowned nuclear physicist, scientist, a man who left science to go into politics in the federal government, do you feel like an endangered species? i mean, in trump era, it seems a man like you would have no chance of becoming a key player in washington politics. there's no question i think this administration — to date, at least — has not met the standards, in my view, for putting in those who are knowledgeable on the science as a basis for policy. i do want to, however, i can't let this go without saying you said scott pruitt‘s statement — it's simply incorrect, and infact... well, it's not so much that i want you to the dispute whether it is correct or incorrect, what i want to address as a final point is has something fundamental changed in us governance that rationality, data, science matters less than it's matters for generations? i'm not going to talk about generations but i can certainly talk about the last decade, and the answer is yes. i mean, i thi

chief scott pruitt dismantling a tons of other metal productions where are the regulators been all these years before the battle and scott got a hold of like you know go to be even more aware of the allowing the food industry to get away with this to begin with you got to ask that question now this wasn't something that just happened overnight now you know it's lobbyists it's kickbacks and it's also that the e.p.a. in just the departments of making sure people are doing this is actually going out and making people accountable they don't have the money to do it it hasn't been funded in a way that allows them but the thing is the odds they. i love small government but we actually need more people out there doing their jobs and we need more people more lawyers like mike hope and tony you know out there fighting against these corporate being humans to keep them from polluting our lives exactly. so just what separates human from the animals our opposable thumbs our fashion sense or are we really separate well if there is indeed separation between man and animal two teams of neuroscience is pu

a director of the environmental protection agency yet at the center to come from asian hearing scott pruitt indicated he too was a climate change skeptic let me say to you science tells us that the climate is changing and then human activity in some manner impacts that change the ability to measure with precision the degree and extent of that impact and what to do about it are subject to continued debate and dialogue pruett has led the way in promoting fossil fuel production and rolling back several of barmah era rules aimed at curbing carbon output and limiting greenhouse gas emissions action the report says contribute to global warming the director of the e.p.a. did not stop there he ordered the removal of climate science pages that for two decades had featured on the agency's website. well the reason some had feared the national climate assessment would be blocked by an administration it contradicts but instead it appears that rather than prevent publication of the report president trump and his fellow climate change doubters have simply decided to ignore it mike hanna al jazeera washing

and to ask the epa administrator scott pruitt to weigh in on this .side and shows you how you can get your hands on your school's water safety cap. the report, it cap for trouble, coming up tonight at 11:00. autria: all this week we are getting you ready for thanksgiving, which by the way is next thursday in case it's sneaking up on you. we are giving you a $100 safeway gift card. $100 to do whatever you like. caller number seven, you are the winner. good luck, gobble gobble. new overnight, a show of force were a u.s. fleet gathered to send a message and this weekend's cold weather is sticking around. the rain that's right, is ending under the chill. gaithersburg, quantico, i'm back in just a couple of minutes t veronica: the rain, all but gone, the clouds are still here in it is the cloud cover that has kept temperatures up compared to yesterday. temperatures higher by five to 10 degrees across the area. dulles, rightund now we are at 42 degrees, up to 43 by 9 clear out. and fridayorning morning the temperatures drop into the lower 30's again. two mo

betsy devos, scott pruitt.n the flip side, his two major signature legislative efforts are basically failures. thanks reform and obamacare repeal are not happening. we are pretending they are sort of happening but they are not happening. there will be something but it won't be tax reform. it will be tax middling on the margins with some of the stuff. when you look at him a year out depend on what you want to see. kennedy: that goes to the point of my monologue. people who hate him have plenty to hate. they look at the things he says and does and they say he's the most of incompetent and irresponsible person who has deflowered the office and brought down our stature in the world. but those who support him say wall street is up, unemployment is down. >> he's still not hillary clinton. every day you wake up and he's not hillary. and that matters. >> for the individuals who voted for president trump you can go back to the things he promised he would deliver on and he has delivered on a lot of those issues. in terms

scott pruitt has denied a century's worth of established science and basic facts saying that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. he now leads the number-one federal agency charged with working on climate change. then there's jim bridenstine, who hopes to lead nasa. he, too, is still on the fence about climate change. meanwhile, 13 federal agencies, including the e.p.a. and nasa, just publish add dire report that says greenhouse gases released by human activity are to blame for rising temperatures and severe weather throughout the world. and this is why mr. wehrum should not go any further. it is really very civility our own government scientists say that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. and fuds don't want to take their word for it look at the rise of severe weather here in the united states alone. a record number of category-4 hurricanes killed dozens of people and destroyed or damaged entire communities in the southern united states and puerto rico. wildfires killed dozens of people and burned more than 8.4 million acres in the northwest. drou

and scott pruitt, who as head of the epa has rolled back a lot of the environmental regulations put innt obama. vonnie: i'm glad you are here. we got a statement from senator john mccain's office that he is a yes on tax reform. "after careful thought and consideration, i am for the tax reform bill. this legislation, though far from perfect, would boost the economy and provide tax relief for middle-class families." is this regular order that he promised? megan: this bill has not been conducted in regular order. what is in the bill is difficult for washington's savviest lobbyists to look at. we should be emphasizing the process and there are things in the buildup -- in the bill that the fabric. how religious groups act in this country. i'm not surprised by the john mccain statement. what is interesting to me is where the democrats will try to mobilize and it is difficult to get traction against this bill even though it has easy attacks in terms of shifts benefits to the wealthiest in society and some of the pass-through entities as gotten better as we have gone on. it is not over yet. th

>> this is a hit for epa's scott pruitt who this week said that scientists who get grants from epa can't boards that advise the agency on scientific decisions. this is being treated as a war on independent science, but for years the agency has been stacking these panels with people who rely on the agency for funding and rubber stamp whatever epa has to do. so this is great for good government and other agencies like the food and drug administration should do the same thing. paul: bill, briefly, good week on judges. >> very good week. we had four appellate court judges confirmed, that's more than president obama had his entire first year, so they're churning them through. paul: all right, thank you. that's it for this week's show. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. ♪ ♪ >> a wild west pioneer... >> there's a saying, "the cowards didn't come." so you had to be brave. >> he truly was the john wayne of the 19th century. >> he leaves behind a trunk of relics... and a classic, woven into the fabric of america itself. >> there was a pair of o

administrator scott pruitt has a little problem. you see the supreme court has ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the clean air act. therefore, under the clean air act, the environmental protection agency which pruitt leads is legally obligated to regulate greenhouse gases. they must do this as a matter of law. moreover, the e.p.a. has determined that greenhouse gas emissions endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations. and scott pruitt has said that he won't contest that endangerment finding. he is stuck with it. why? because he knows it's a contest he'd lose by a landslide. the climate denial nonsense he espouses has never passed peer review. it's not real science. and it would get buried in any forum where facts and truth matter. that's also likely why the house released the climate science and special report, part of the national climate assessment that we mandated by law without significant alteration. scientists had prudently disclosed what they sent in to the white house so that ever

there was some concern about this there was a concern that there would be -- how do i say this, a scott pruitt people would be appointed to the agency that did not agree with the mission or the mandate of the agency i think that fear is passed. from what i can tell, this is a considered process where they seem to be picking people with needed expertise the fed is winding down the balance sheet. marvin goodfriend knows a lot about the balance sheet. there's an acknowledgment there that the fed chair is not an economist in jay powell, so the vice chairman will be somebody, i'm told who will be very strong in monetary policy, the name mohamed el-erian has come up other names have come up they're thinking about this. and there's some confidence in markets now about how the process is being handled and the names coming up. >> steve, thank you very much. >>> shifting back to markets, let's check in on futures, which are pointing higher after that big nasdaq and tech-related selloff yesterday. the nasdaq down 1.3% tech sector within the s&p was down 3%. this morning green across the screen the dow ni

they would be pointing out the threats scott pruitt got at epa, that they are so bad he has to take on more security. the left loves toes to decon serve -- to haves to depict conservative i was and republicans but blind spot when violence is on their side. trish: cite many types of violence on the left, for whatever reason that doesn't get reported on, if something happens and happens to be on the right. >> remember, even president trump, during the campaign, he, one guy tried to shoot him, tried to to a gun from an officer to shoot the president. another guy charged the stage. the next thing we know cnn is doing interview with the guy like he is a legitimate sane person instead of somebody treich to attack the president of the united states or the a guy running for president of the united states. >> you're asking be a little more equitable, a little more fair. i should point out this guy's lawyer said had nothing to do with politics some we'll see. who knows, as i said, maybe he didn't like the way rand paul was mowing the lawn. i suspect there is a little bit more there. we'll i'm su

>> this is a hit for epa's scott pruitt who this week said that scientists who get grants from epa can't on scientific decisions. this is being treated as a war on independent science, but for years the agency has been stacking these panels with people who rely on the agency for funding and rubber stamp whatever epa has to do. so this is great for good government and other agencies like the food and drug administration should do the same thing. paul: bill, briefly, good week on judges. >> very good week. we had four appellate court judges confirmed, that's more than president obama had his entire first year, so they're churning them through. paul: all right, thank you. that's it for this week's show. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. ♪ ♪ >>> tonight on "war stories." he was a texas school teach chore became a washington power house. >> johnson is a mixture of huge achievements and tragic failures. >> envisioning what he called the great society. but war in vietnam turned his dream into a never-ending nightmare. >> i think he taped ov

i asked epa what scott pruitt thinks of the final government report showing man made climate change is real. they declined to comment. >>> if you somehow time traveled frr another era in american political life to witness this week in the trump administration, you would be a fool not to think that the events that unfolded since monday were enough to end donald trump's presidency. indictments of his former campaign chair paul manafort for conspiracy against the united states. campaign staffer and associate rick gates. news that george papadopoulos already pleaded guilty in special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. but we who are in this timeline, who follow donald trump for a living, know better than to write a political obituary for the man because there have been really countless times where donald trump looked completely done, unfit, ineffective, when the lying was too reckless to ignore, when headlines announced it was trump's worst week. and still has donald trump begins his 11th month in office, it seems announcing that it was trump's worst week. still, as donald trum

for instance, we have epa director scott pruitt, remember. he actively fought against the epa. we have secretary of energy rick perry who at one point didn't necessarily know the specific responsibilities, i guess, of the energy agency. but he wanted to eliminate it at that point. what do you make of the pattern we see of the president putting people in charge of agencies that they're not passionate about? >> well, it's a very consistent and effective tactic. we saw this under ronald reagan. we saw this under george w. bush. when there are regulations and government bodies that a conservative president like president trump opposes, and you can't simply dismantle them, you put people in charge who will either not run them effectively or not run them at all or make sure that the mission is not accomplished. this has been very important to the trump administration. and while we're focused on the tweets, i think the administration has been moving to staff many of these agencies with opponents of the agencies. it can be devastating to the policy. >> makes you wonder where the agenci

scott pruitt is their man. amy: the head of the epa. >> yes.y're dismantling years of terminal regulation in the course of a few months. it is a slaughter money environment. of course, the reason that is so dangerous is, with climate change in particular, this is the one time limited problem the world has ever faced. we are not going to have a chance to repair the damage because by the time the trump administration is over, we're going -- owing to be much further along. melting ice caps, acidifying oceans, breeding storms. that is what is happening now. we're losing, above all, time. desperately needed time. amy: talk about what happened in india in new delhi this week. schoolsd 4000 , ourse the air is so bad machines, our instruments that insure small particulates the atmosphere go up to 999 parts per million. the machine stopped working a few days ago because the levels were way above that. 999 parts per million is 30 times the safe level. they say the equivalent of just breathing the air in jelly at the moment is smoking 50 cigarettes a day.

scott pruitt sued the epa 14 times prior to taking the job. then there's former health and human services secretary tom price, former orthopedic surgeon. he introduced obamacare repeal legislation that was the basis for house speaker paul ryan's proposal in june. he stepped down in a scandal back in september after using roughly a million dollars in taxpayer money to fly in private jets. and then let's not forget secretary of energy rick perry. you'll remember that during the 2012 republican primary he couldn't recall the name of the agency that he now leads, but wanted to eliminate it. >> the third agency of government i would do away with, the education -- the -- commerce -- and let's see -- i can't. the third one, i can't, sorry. oops. >> now, in one of the most conservative states in the nation, a democrat has a chance to flip a senate seat, but can doug jones convince skeptical conservative voters to cross that aisle? that conversation is ahead. >>> also, new details on the devastating egypt mosque attack. we're learning this morning offi

scott pruitt says many were potentially biased because they received federal grants. environmentalists worry that pruitt is now going to select advisers with ties to the fossil fuel and chemistry. >> all fires are now fully contained and fire victims can focus on recovery. a family in santa rosa says they believe in miracles this morning. they lost their home but managed to regain their past. abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman explains how this happened. >> reporter: 3635 mocha drive in coffey park. it looks like hell roared through here, doesn't it? the owners think it's a blessing. >> i believe god is saying the ashes will not win. >> reporter: suzy, like so many other fire victims, went looking for an apartment to rent. they did so with joy in their hearts thanks in part to a neighbor whose house did not burn, though the flames came very close. >> so this picture was literally standing here looking there. >> reporter: ashes fell from the sky like snow, she said, covering her lawn. among them this photograph after couple holding their newborn baby. she picked up the

. >> reporter: scott pruitt's first trip at head of the epa was to a coal mine.esident trump as he started undoing the clean power plan. >> you know what it says, right? you're going back to work. >> reporter: this is a very different kind of environmental protecti protection. the president making good on his promise to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules that kept coal waste out of waterways and required stronger flood standards for infrastructure. he's tried to downsize the agency. >> we are going to get rid of it in almost every form. we're going to have little tidbits left. >> reporter: proposing slashing the budget by almost one-third but congress said no. free market advocate and climate change skeptic led trump's epa transition team. >> on energy and the environment, i think president trump is further ahead in fulfilling his campaign promises than in any other area. >> this is a recipe for killing more people, making more people sick and leaving the tremendous damage that climate change is beginning to cause to just multip multip

amy goodman: i don't know w if there's any relationship between scott pruitt, who's the former oklahomageneral and now the head of the environmental protection agency. mayor carmen yulin cruz: i don't know, either. but what i do know is that two and three is five, and there's $500 million in here, one of which is utterly null and void. and it's, you know, very difficult to understand that in the united states contractct law would allow one of the parties to be taken for a ride, because this is -- this prepa contract is so odious and so not good for the puerto rican people. amy goodman: you're holding the whitefish contract. mayor carmen yulin cruz: yes, yes. and not only that, look, it was signed october 17th. this, i had the page this morning. october 17th. this is a $300 million contract. i hope to god that it has a lot more than these little tiny pages that we have here, because it's -- it's unnerving. it truly is unnerving, you know, that people can just swindle, swindle an entire population when they are at its most vulnerable. that was san juan mayor, carmen yulin cruz. i intervie

a lot of people are saying that it's a lot like scott pruitt, a frequent epa credit, lawsuits, legalattles, that kind of thing, and helping appointed to. they seat as a pattern by the president to put someone in there who wants to destroy an agency. that he doesn't like her or his administration thinks it is in of a taxpayer. >> may be that that is his point of view but if their point of view is that someone who calls t unconstitutional acts for what they are, someone who says that this to concentrate this much power and the hands of a few individuals, who are not themselves elected lawmakers, who are going to be given broad policymaking power, that is a problem, that is remarkable in and of itself. >> shannon: we will stand by to say what this judge decides. my guess is whatever the decision is, it will be appealed. >> i think that's a fair bet for a duty to go to pilot litigator and i'm sure everyone is gearing up for that. >> shannon: thanks, senator. top house democrat nancy pelosi is coming into damage control after sexual harassment allegations against michigan democrat john co

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well-received along with don mcgahn, the white house council, justice gorsuch, all the legal stars, scott pruittthis administration. i don't think it's got any legal weight at all. >> how about you we are howard? do you think it's conceivable he doesn't remember so many details? >> i don't know, but i don't recall is a safe answer because he's the only one that knows if he recalls or not. if jeff sessions gets hung it's going to be back somebody else has corroborated that, in fact, he did do all of these things. so then his -- technically i do not recall is not a lie. he didn't lie. he said i don't recall. nobody's going to be able to prove if he did or not, but if he did meet with the russians and do these things, there are other charges he can go down on. i don't think he's out of clear. i think he may temporarily be out of the clear on whether he recalled or not. let's not forget that this is the defense that john you aehrln and homelanderman made during watergate and they went to prison. we'll see where this goes. i'm not a lawyer, but i do not recall, i don't think you can hang somebody for

is a director of the environmental protection agency yet the senate to come from asian hearing scott pruitt indicated he too was a climate change skeptic let me say to you science tells us that the climate is changing and then human activity in some manner impacts that change the ability to measure with precision the degree and extent of that impact and what to do about it are subject to continued debate and dialogue. pruett has led the way in promoting fossil fuel production and rolling back several obama era rules aimed at curbing carbon output and limiting greenhouse gas emissions action the report says contribute to global warming the director of the e.p.a. did not stop there he ordered the removal of climate science pages that for two decades had featured on the agency's website for these reasons some had feared the national climate assessment would be blocked by an administration it contradicts but instead it appears that rather than prevent publication of the report president trump and his fellow climate change doubters have simply decided to ignore it good bye canada al-jazeera wash

it's why we have, you know, an epa, we have scott pruitt, who's reversing everything that obama did,at coal is becoming the official fuel of the united states of america. the agriculture reversing everything. it is what trump wants to do. and so it -- he -- he's standing there and it just flies into his mind. and when those cameras are rolling, lroll rolli rolling, he can't stop himself. >> howard, i'm wondering if he's not being political here. could it be in his interests -- i watch politicians these days. they have to act like they have no friends on the other side of the aisle, because their friendship is for their contributors. they give their friendship to their contributors. so they have to like the friends they get money from and they have to hate the enemies of their contributors. so it's important for him to be seen as somebody that has nothing but contempt and hatred for obama, for his own political well-being. and i think it's sick, but i think it is going on in politics today. >> i think you're absolutely right. and at the risk of sounding like i'm buttering up the host

administrator scott pruitt has led the charge in cutting red tape. the e.p.a. has taken important steps to roll back the clean power plan and other punishing e.p.a. regulations. i mean, it's interesting. annual cost of high-impact rules by the agency, 2008 to 2016, 13 rules of the e.p.a., in the red right here, billions and billions and billions, over $60 billion. administrator pruitt needs his full leadership team in place at the agency to complete the task. so today this senate is going to vote on cloture so he we can consider the nomination of william william. he -- he has been elected. he has more than three decades of experience in environmental policy. he worked as an environmental engineer, public servant the e.p.a. and environmental lawyer. his time at the e.p.a. includes two years of service as the acting administrator of the office of air and radiation, the same office he has now been nominated to lead. e.p.a.'s office of air and radiation is important in terms of the division within the agency. it develops national programs, policies to limit air pol