scott wallace wrote a piece in "the new york times" recently echoing what his grandfather wrote more n 70 years ago, warning about fascism in america. his wallace global fund just honored the standing rock sioux tribe with the inaugural henry wallace award and a million-dollar investment in solar and wind renewable energy projects led by the tribe in north dakota. back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we continue to look at how the standing rock sioux tribe is embracing renewable energy, we turn to scott wallace and ellen dorsey of the wallace global fund. the fund recently honored the standing rock sioux tribe with the inaugural henry wallace award and a million-dollar investment in renewable energy projects, solar and wind, led by the tribe. the award is named after scott wallace's grandfather, henry wallace, who served as vice president under franklin delano roosevelt from 1941 to 1945. scott wallace recently wrote an op-ed piece in "the new york times" recalling his grandfather's piece back ov

saw this highlighted very well in an interesting exchange on fox news between chris wallace and epa administrator scott pruitt. administrator pruitt talked about repealing a bunch of greenhouse gas emission rules. chris wallace said what are you going to do about the 90,000 cases of asthma that those rules are preventing? now that was a very interesting question to ask. if you're going to repeal the rules, there's a cost to society. so my bet is that agencies are going to come around and say those rules were not so beneficial, but they were really costly. the opposite of what agencies really do. one again needs a truth teller in office that's going to rigorously review those analyses and quantifications. even within our very good system there are incentives for agencies to buy us costs and benefits in the direction that's going to achieve the policy they want to achieve. so an independent review office is important. i think that the office we have in place does a pretty good job. i think the ability of courts to review the record is yet another backstop. how much farther one would want to go in imposin

s vice president henry wallace called american fascism a layout that argument with marc anthony and scott greer and it's from. democrats democrats have a lot working in their favor right now for starters the president is wildly unpopular and congressional democrats aren't exactly in good graces with the american people either based on those two facts alone democrats have a real chance to win back the senate maybe even the house and twenty eighteen so why does it feel like democrats are squandering their big opportunity joining me now is larry cohen or chair of our evolution board chair of the democracy initiative larry welcome back pleasure great having you with us so the story that prompted my latest what the hell are they doing is this. bloomberg story that the d triple c. is trying to recruit blue dogs and it's like. you know i get it that there are blue dog democrats in the democratic party and i'm not and in and perhaps in some places in the country that's the entirely right and appropriate thing i do. we could that could be argued and it's debatable but i really don't think that ame