whose shied is scott pruitt -- whose side is scott pruitt on? the children in his state, one out of ten who has asthma, or devon energy? and we want to put him in charge of the e.p.a., without even having a thorough understanding of what his relationship was with these companies. well, my colleague doing his own ex-us a stiff research about -- ex-oughtive research about the campaign funding he had received and more support from companies like this, it creates an implication. well, let's get to the bottom of what's happening. let's see the e-mails before we vote. what do these say to these corporations? i asked him. he allowed polluting companies to write e-mails to the e.p.a. on his letterhead. did he let any of the children with asthma or their parents write letters that he then just put on his letterhead? people who were suffering from the poor air quality. later the director of government relations at devon energy e-mailed mr. pruitt's office. this we do know, to sproas gratitude -- to express gratitude to the attorney general forge for sendi

scott pruitt is a friend. and i understand that some folks have attacked him that have only met him in a hearing or read about him on some blog site. but i prayed with scott. i've seen scott struggle with hard decisions that affect our state's future. i've seen scott listen to people from all sides of an issue. and i've seen him take difficult stands. i think he'll be an excellent e.p.a. administrator. and i think he'll make some wise choices to not only protect what's happening now, but to be able to help protect us for the future. you see, scott's a husband and a dad as well. and he cares also about the future of our country. and i think he's going to go after it and to be able to be an excellent administrator in the days ahead. mr. president, i ask that i have a second moment to speak and be separated out. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lankford: mr. president, quick moment just to be able to reflect. i have a staff member named brian burkey. he's running off. he's been quite a, quite a leade

somebody was using it to attack scott pruitt. but this picture had nothing to do with scott pruitt. this was the e.p.a. led by gina mccarthy. my response to the spill was that the e.p.a. should be held accountable to the same level in which e.p.a. holds private businesses accountable. i think that's a pretty good standard. but if the e.p.a. is going to -- they make sure that somebody lives up to a standard, that the e.p.a. live up to the same standard. that basic standard for the e.p.a. to me, because the agency called the spill, it simply must apply the same requirements to itself that it does to a private company. so it was with great disappointment but very little surprise that when the e.p.a. decided to not subject itself to those same standards they walked away from the promises that they made. sure the e.p.a. had standards under barack obama. they were double standards. the obama administration's e.p.a.'s refusal to not receive and process the personal injury or economic loss claims arising out of this spill at the gold king mine in southwest colorado is appalling. and i simpl

scott pruitt: i do know that. grants $4 billion per year. $84,000 to the university of michigan to study -- you will love this -- and effectiveness -- the effectiveness of using churches to promote environmental causes. $1.5 million went to the university of colorado to study pollution caused by residential cooking in africa. that is an important use of your tax dollars. and last but not least, a unitarian church received an soironmental justice grant, your baseball guy, right? myave had to use some of baseball's that these -- studies for this forum. oklahomaust a guy from , ricky metal. you're probably a huge fan of him. he was third on the home run your favorite baseball player, all-time hit record holder. all of comes to cutting the regulation, are you going to be more like the guy with lots of hits and undo it a bit of a time, or are you going to go for those home runs? scott pruitt: it is good to do both? hits him out of the park and move them down the field. i think it is both. there are some regulations tha

scott pruitt, the attorney general of that state. his office and the top lawyer at the corrections department they decided with this execution date bearing down on them, they were going to figure it out. never mind the protocol, in every mind the rules. lawyers from scott pruitt's office and the corrections office got online and said they just started browsing around. they started basically randomly looking around online to see if they could figure out how long it takes for various drugs to kill people. these are not medical professionalings of any kind who have any expertise. i want to read you litally. wikileaks or whatever. i did my own research, i looked online, you know, what passed the key, wikileaks, wikileaks or whatever it is. that's where they say they found the information. they looked around online. the attorney general of the state is not supposed to be involved in a process like that. picking the actual drugs, that is not the attorney general's purview. nobody in the attorney general's office is expected to have any exp

good thing you rushed the vote on scott pruitt. if scott pruitt does end up taking fall because of this growing scandal around him, he will be falling for a much greater height because of the way republicans rushed him into the cabinet. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. "first look" is up next. >>> shannon, shannon, shannon glenn, this is not a tv program. shannon, you don't just get to yell out. we are going to have you sit down like big boys and girls. >> glenn, glenn, who here hates glenn? that shows that everybody raised their hands because everybody hates glenn. >> it was a slow of unity at cpac. steve bannon and reince priebus denied reports of

i'll tell whales i talked to scott pruitt about. that's the importance of clining our superfund sites. this is a critical responsibility to the e.p.a. we need to unleash american innovation, american cooperation -- not cut off affordable energy sources at et cetera heels -- at its heels. scott and i as we concluded our meeting talked about the berkly pit in butte. he has committed to getting that environmental disaster cleaned up. he assured me he will address these issues head-on. it's the largest superfund site in the united states, right there in butte, montana. we had snow geese that came across our state migrating. they landed in the toxic waters in the berkeley pit and thousands of snow geese died just by landing in the water. scott is committed to getting that fixed. it's been on the list for over 20 years. it's time to fix it and scott is committed, saying let's get this done. that's why he's going to be a great administrator to protect the environment in montana oppose. so that's the good news. we're going to move scott pru

scott pruitt. the chair of the committee john barrasso suspended committee rose to move the nomination to the senate floor. this is 10 minutes. >> the committee is called to order. we are reconvening our business meeting to consider nomination of attorney general scott pruitt to be epa administrator. yesterday the minority members of the committee chose to boycott this business meeting. it is disappointing that they chose that course of action. we will not allow it to obstruct. as i stated yesterday this committee has conducted an extremely thorough and fair process of reviewing attorney general's pruitt's nomination. that includes hearing of length, number of kwegs and timely responses. it is unprecedented to delay for incoming president to this extent. we had an election last november. the people spoke and now it is time to set up a functioning government. that includes a functioning epa. to do that this committee has to do its work. so at this time i ask for a motion to suspend rules 2 a, 4 and

good thing you rushed the vote on scott pruitt. if scott pruitt does end up taking fall because of this growing scandal around him, he will be falling for a much greater height because of the way republicans rushed him into the cabinet. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> rachel, i have worked on tv dramas where we have tried to write cliff hangers at the end of a particular season or episode, but the cliff hanger you just left us is better than anything we could come up with in tv drama. >> and when the republicans decided they were just going to put a brick on the gas pedal and jump out of the car, they could see the cliff and they did this an

we are reconvening our business meeting to consider nomination of attorney general scott pruitt to be epa administrator. yesterday the minority members of the committee chose to boycott this business meeting. it is disappointing that they chose that course of action. we will not allow it to obstruct. as i stated yesterday this committee has conducted an extremely thorough and fair process of reviewing attorney general's pruitt's nomination. that includes hearing of length, number of kwegs and timely responses. it is unprecedented to delay for incoming president to this extent. we had an election last november. the people spoke and now it is time to set up a functioning government. that includes a functioning epa. to do that this committee has to do its work. so at this time i ask for a motion to suspend rules 2 a, 4 and 8 of the rules of the environment and public works committee for the duration of this business meeting. >> i so move. >> is there a second? >> all those in favor. all opposed nay. and the opinion of the chair the ayes have it and rules 2 a, 4 and 8 of rules of committe

scott pruitt questions the science of climate change. scott pruitt has accused the e.p.a. of overestimating air pollution from drilling of natural gas wells in oklahoma. scott pruitt has argued against president obama's clean power plan which the e.p.a. is supposed to implement. scott pruitt has sued to block the e.p.a. from restricting mercury, a toxin that causes brain damage in children in the united states. the only thing that scott pruitt is certain of is that he wants to represent the interests of the fossil fuel fossil fue -- i. today we are drawing the line out here on the senate floor because it's critical that the american people understand the moral implications for the water americans drink, for the air which they breathe, for the mercury that could go into the blood systems of children in our country, for the amount of smog that is allowed to be sent into the air, the amount of haze which is created across our country, and why the nomination of scott pruitt leads inevitably towards more pollution, more unhealthy air, more unhealthy water going into the systems

that's the scott pruitt who would become administrator of the e.p.a., and it's the same scott pruitt who as attorney general of oklahoma fought the tremendous progress made by the obama administration at every turn, taking legal action against the e.p.a. no fewer than 14 times. while he was in office, he worked hand in hand with oklahoma's largest energy companies to roll back regulation that are vital to the health and well-being of the american people. not just the people of oklahoma, as bad as that would be. but of all americans, all of our planet. and when he worked hand in hand with the oklahoma energy industry, those common bonds of purpose and work would be well illuminated by these e-mails that today would be disclosed and maybe some of those conflicts of interest will be revealed and dramatized by those e-mails. that is why we must wait to have this confirmation vote. he sued to try and block efforts to reduce nationwide emissions of methane, of greenhouse gas roughly 30 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. he sued about the clean power plan. he took th

senators are speaking this morning on the nomination of scott pruitt to be e.p.a. administrator. >> good morning. at this moment we're in the middle of a 30-hour debate on the nomination of scott pruitt to be the next administrator of the environmental protection agency. those 30 hours would expire at 1:00 p.m. today because the debate began yesterday morning at 7:00 a.m. but the truth is we don't have all the information we need in order to make an informed vote on this nomination. and we don't have the information because the attorney general of oklahoma controls access to emails and other communications that are relevant to the decision the senate is going to make under its responsibility under the constitution. senator merkley: for two years now, the attorney general of oklahoma, scott pruitt, has stonewalled attempts to make public the records of over 3,000 email communications with members of the fossil fuel industry. two years ago, the center for media and democracy requested those emails through the oklahoma open records act, and the person who decides whet

i too support scott pruitt. let me say, i think objective observers who watched his testimony would have to agree that it was an impressive display of knowledge and patience. attorney general pruitt demonstrated that he is intelligent, articulate, thoughtful, patient, and knowledgeable. and i think, because of that, he will eventually be confirmed. we are going to get through this. the people on the other side of the dais are friends of mine. i'm disappointed in them today. frankly, i was disappointed in their conduct during the hearing. taking a complicated issue and asking the witness to answer yes or no, yes or no, when we all know that those issues didn't call for a yes or no answer. putting up a poster of campaign contributors to the republican attorney general's association to somehow suggest that that in -- impeached the ability of attorney general pruitt to be administrator of the environmental protection agency. it was silly. it was beneath them. again, we will get past this. but it was a disappointment

scott pruitt has sued the e.p.a. to overturn standards to curb mercury and other toxic air pollutants, standards that would prevent 11,000 premature deaths and up to 130,000 asthma attacks per year. he sued to void standards to reduce soot and smog pollution, projecting to prevent 34,000 premature deaths and almost 400,000 asthma attacks every year. he sued unsuccessfully to overturn the e.p.a.'s scientific endangerment determination that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping air pollutants are harmful. and he even sued to block limits on water pollution into the chesapeake bay, which has no connection to oklahoma. scott pruitt has been a crusad crusader. he has been a crusader on behalf of the energy industry against environmental protection. and he would probably tell you that there is a choice to be made between protecting our environment and protecting our economy. that's ridiculous. that's patently ridiculous. if we don't protect our planet, if we don't protect the quality of our air and the quality of our wate

scott pruitt, the attorney general of that state. his office and the top lawyer at the corrections department they decided with this execution date bearing down on them, they were going to figure it out. never mind the protocol, in every mind the rules. lawyers from scott pruitt's office and the corrections office got online and said they just started browsing around. they started basically randomly looking around online to see if they could figure out how long it takes for various drugs to kill people. these are not medical professialings of any kind who have any expertise. i want to read you literally. wikileaks or whatever. i did my own research, i looked online, you know, what passed the key, wikileaks, wikileaks or whatever it is. that's where they say they found the information. they looked around online. the attorney general of the state is not supposed to be involved in a process like that. picking the actual drugs, that is not the attorney general's purview. nobody in the attorney general's office is expected to have any exp

good thing you rushed the vote on scott pruitt. if scott pruitt does end up taking fall because of this growing scandal around him, he will be falling for a much greater height because of the way republicans rushed eed him the cabinet. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> rachel, i have worked on tv dramas where we have tried to write cliff hangers at the end of a particular season or episode, but the cliff hanger you just

but i am deeply concerned that scott pruitt is a radical break

i too support scott pruitt. let me say, i think objective observers who watched his testimony would have to agree that it was unimpressive -- it was on impressive display of knowledge and patience. attorney general pruitt demonstrated that he was intelligent, and -- articulated, thoughtful, patient, and knowledgeable. because of that he will eventually be confirmed. we are going to get through this. the people on the other side of the aisle are friends of mine. i'm disappointed in them today. frankly, i was disappointed in hearingnduct during the . they were taking a complicated witness tosking the answer yes or no what we all know that those issues do not call for a yes or no answer your putting up a poster of campaign contributors to the republican attorney general's association that inow suggest that peach the ability of attorney to bel pruitt administrator of the epa. it was silly. it was beneath them. again, we will get past this. it was a disappointment to me. this action today by the democratic members of

scott pruitt, the attorney general of that state. his office and the top lawyer at the corrections department they decided with this execution date bearing down on them, they were going to figure it out. never mind the protocol, in every mind the rules. lawyers from scott pruitt's office and the corrections office got online and said they just started browsing around. they started basically randomly looking around online to see if they could figure out how long it takes for various drugs to kill people. these are not medical professionalings of any kind who have any expertise. i want to read you literal ly. wikileaks or whatever. i did my own research, i looked online, you know, what passed the key, wikileaks, wikileaks or whatever it is. that's where they say they found the information. they looked around online. the attorney general of the state is not supposed to be involved in a process like that. picking the actual drugs, that is not the attorney general's purview. nobody in the attorney general's office is expected to have any

of course, scott pruitt supports that industry. it's oklahoma's major industry, and it helps the entire nation. so i think, if you look back at what president trump said in the campaign, he said, i want to get rid of the regulatory rampage that is killing investment and jobs in our resource and manufacturing industries, and i want to make america the world's energy superpower. so i think scott pruitt will have a vital role in shrinking that regulatory rampage. >rampage. >> sreenivasan: does his thinking change when it's just not oklahoma and a specific industry he's protecting as state's attorney general, but a country which has many different sources of energy and a much larger constituency? >> yes, but the trump campaign wasn't just about oklahoma and the oil and gas industry. it was about rebuilding our resourcing manufacturing industries across the heartland of america, and that is going to require putting e.p.a. regulations back in their place so they're concerned with air and water pollution and not destroying jobs. >> sreeni

that's what scott pruitt believes. i would quote from a recent op-ed in "the wall street journal" which william mcgurn wrote in support of mr. pruitt but also generally in support of other nominations. but with regard to pruitt, mr. mcgurn says this, and i quote, the fierce opposition to mr. pruitt speaks to the progressive fear that he might help restore not only science to its rightful place but also federalism. and i think that's what scott pruitt is going to be about when he is confirmed tomorrow and finally gets down to working for us, the taxpayers, as administrator of the e.p.a. this is about the one-month mark in this administration, and we are slowly getting past this unprecedented slow-walk effort by our colleagues. i certainly hope with the 1,100 other appointments that have to be submitted and have to be spoken to by this senate, that we can hasten up the process so we can pass legislation and be about the business that our constituents sent us here to do. approving attorney general scott pruitt would allow

scott pruitt has said about himself. he describes himself as a leading advocate against the e.p.a.'s agenda on the role of the e.p.a., he says, i believe that the e.p.a. has a role to play in our republican forum of government. air and water quality issues can cross state lines and can sometimes require federal intervention. at the same time the e.p.a. was never intended to be our nation's front line environmental regulator. now that is kind of a well put together statement. but i want you to understand how radical of a statement that is because the e.p.a. was designed to be the nation's front line environmental regulator. the basic premise is that there are certain things that can be done at the local level that ought to be done at the local level. when we can figure our governments, we decided we want police forces and firehouses and other municipal services, sewer and water, right? and trash pickup. certain things get done locally. some things get done at the county level. some things get done at the state level. and

[applause] scott pruitt: we know what those are. we know that the previous administration, they took the clean water act and made puddles and dry creek bed the subject of the jurisdiction of washington dc. that is going to change. the future is not what it used to be. [applause] i think there will be some big steps taken to address some of those regulations, and some singles and doubles as well. >> you walked in that day with a lot of people wondering if they would have jobs. the number one thing people want to ask you is how much we cannot -- can be cut from the epa budget? people are suggesting we take it down to 90%. -- down by 90%. scott pruitt: i think in the near term, the most important thing we can focus upon at the epa is getting it all right. making sure the regulations that are posted and adopted by the agency are consistent with the rule of law and congressional mandates, and rollback those who are inconsistent from the previous administration. that is the work in the near term. long-term, asking the questions on how tha

chairman, too, support scott pruitt. let me say that objective observers who watched his testimony would have to agree that it was an impressive display of knowledge and patience. attorney general pruitt demonstrated he is intelligent, ar arctic ticulate, thoughtful, patient and knowledgeable, and because of that, he is eventually going to be k confirmed. you know, we will get through this, and the people on the other side of the dias are friends of mine. i'm disappointed in them today. frankly, i was disappointed in their conduct during the hearing. taking complicated issue and asking the witness to answer yes or no, and when we all know that those issues did not call for a yes or no answer. putting up a poster of campaign contributors to the republican attorney general's association and somehow suggesting that impeached the ability of attorney general pruitt to be administrator or the of the environmental protection agency. it was silly. it is beneathle them. and again, we willt get past this. but it with because a dis

there is a lot that we don't know about scott pruitt. we know that thousands of e-mails between this man and the industry that he is supposed to be regulating as e.p.a. administrator have been suppressed by him for years. we know that just yesterday, a court found that suppression of his e-mails unreasonable, an abject failure of his duties under the law to disclose. those ought to be alarm bells for the side of the aisle that is forcing, jamming this nomination through. he told us that he couldn't get these e-mails releaseed for more than two years, and the court ordered him to release the first chunk tuesday, just days from now. the second big chunk, ten days from now. so clearly, there has been some mischief here, when on the one hand this office pretends that it can't get the e-mails out for more than two years and a court looks at the situation and says no, you make them available tuesday. that's not a sign of good things. the second is that this is a guy who as part of his political money operation, a political money operation that

we will have more on scott pruitt's emails after headlines. we will speak with lisa graves, which successfully sued for the mess release. the supreme court overturned the death sentence of a texas prisoner wednesday after ruling his own defense team presented a jury with racist comments. duane buck was convicted of murdering his former girlfriend in 1996. at his trial, a state psychologist called by the defense testified that , african-american criminals are more likely to pose a future danger to the public. writing for the majority in a 6-2 decision, chief justice john roberts ruled -- "the testimony appealed to a powerful racial stereotypethat of black men as 'violence prone.'" in anaheim, california, video has emerged of an off-duty police officer grabbing a 13-year-old boy by his hoodie and restraining him before drawing a pistol and firing a single shot. no one was injured in tuesday's incident, which was captured on a cell phone video that went viral on social media. the video shows a man in plain clothes holding a boy against his will,

and so, yeah, scott pruitt is taking over as head of the epa, but that also means that scott pruitt will start his new job with the epa as his first big scandal already waiting for him when he walks in the door. oh, boy. >> scott pruitt for epa? oh, boy. ♪ some things are simply impossible to ignore. the strikingly designed lexus nx turbo and hybrid. the suv that dares to go beyond utility. experience amazing. or keeping a hotel's guests cuttinconnected.i to 35,000 fans... businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. otezla may increase the risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal th

will be gutted under a scott pruitt-led e.p.a. you know, someone who fought to defend this great narks i have seen firsthand the price we pay for our dangerous dependence on oil imported from adversaries. i would rather run my car on american-grown corn and soybeans than on oil from the middle east. during operation iraqi freedom, 50% of all casualties occurred between convoy operations. and 80% of all convoy operations were conducted to transport diesel fuel. i think it's high time we invest more energy and more money and more support into developing biofuels like ethanol. in addition to risking lives, we are wasting resources. we spend annually approximately $67.5 billion protecting global oil supplies. at home, americans are using more gas than ever before, yet opec has made it clear that they are controlling the price that we pay at the at the pump. for example, in november of 2016, opec decided to cut its oil production to increase prices and that caused a 10% increase in price that very day. by december 12, prices had reache

scott pruitt is still subject to that court order. he still really does have to hand other hundreds of those e-mails between his office and oil and gas companies. has to hand over hundreds of them by tuesday. has to hand over thousands more over the next ten days. for whatever reason he has been illegally withholding those thousands of e-mails that document his relationship and his communications with the oil and gas industry which, of course, he'll now be dealing with directly as our new epa administrator so, yeah, scott pruitt is taking over as head of the epa but that means scott pruitt will start his brand new job at the epa with his first big scandal already waiting for him when he walks in the door. ooh, boy. >> so pruitt for epa? oh, boy. what on earth are they fighting here? whatever it is... it's hunting. the great wall. rated pg-13. hey, ready foyeah. big meeting? >>uh, hello!? a meeting? it's a big one. too bad. we are double booked: diarrhea and abdominal pain. why don't you start without me? oh. yeah. if you're living wit

scott pruitt is still subject to that court order. he still really does have to hand other hundreds of those e-mails between his office and oil and gas companies. has to hand over hundreds of them by tuesday. has to hand over thousands more over the next ten days. for whatever reason he has been illegally withholding those thousands of e-mails that document his relationship and his communications with the oil and gas industry which, of course, he'll now be dealing with directly as our new epa administrator so, yeah, scott pruitt is taking over as head of the epa but that means scott pruitt will start his brand new job at the epa with his first big scandal already waiting for him when he walks in the door. ooh, boy. >> so pruitt for epa? oh, boy. what on earth are they fighting here? whatever it is... it's hunting. the great wall. rated pg-13. that has everything to do with the people in here. their training is developed by the same company who designed, engineered, and built the cars. they've got the parts, tools, and know-how to help

we are waiting to hear from scott pruitt, the new leader at the environmental protection agency. >> and in atlanta, georgia the cross roads of the south, the democrats, are they cross roads themselves. this is the dnc winter meeting where they are now trying to pick their new chairman. they have just finished voting for the first ballot on deciding who will lead them into battle against trump, the white house and the republican majority in congress. certainly they try and regain some seats in congress come 2018. we have heard a lot of fiery speeches for more than a half dozen folks hoping to become the next democratic national committee chair. jonathan who wrote things down so well at the beginning of the show, there we bring back in professor to explain what's going on inside the dnc meeting, how are you doing, sir? >> hey, there, this is round wasn't of the voting as we speak they are counting the ballots, paper ballots, i will have a little more on that later and also breaking news, indiana mayor announced during campaign speech that he's actually withdrawing his name of names, the f

his name is scott pruitt. scott pruitt has been beat up a lot by the special interests lobbyists and the environmental lobby. they put out all kinds of stuff about him. i would encourage them to actually meet scott pruitt and hear from him. scott pruitt has been passionate about the environment. scott pruitt actually likes breathing clean air. that may be shocking to people. but he likes clean air. in fact, he likes clean water as well. i don't know if you knew that or not. but scott pruitt has been a very good attorney general for us that has also been very focused on doing this one thing. what does the law say? let's do that. some of the pushback scott pruitt has had is not that he is opposed to the law, it's that he is not willing to push beyond the law, to be more creative with the clean water act, to be more creative with the clean air act. that's not the job of the executive branch is to be creative with an old law. it's to implement the law and to do it well. i fully expect scott pruitt to hold every pe

well, just yesterday, as you heard an oklahoma judge ruled that scott pruitt, president trump's nominee to lead the e.p.a., must turn over approximately 3,000 emails relating to his communications with the fossil fuel industry. you'd expect my colleagues to be up in arms, my republican colleagues. ter all, in 2013, gina mccarthy waited 122 days to be confirmed for e.p.a. because they felt she wasn't honoring a commitment to transparency. remember the strain over lisa jackson's emails. surely my republican colleagues would be concerned about a similar lack of transparency from a soon-to-be e.p.a. administrator. but what is the republican leadership's response? strap blinders on their members and rush pruitt through. the absolute height of hypocrisy, the same standard they had for lisa jackson and for gina mccarthy they ought to have for scott pruitt. there's no good reason for it. to wait a few extra days to go over pruitt's emails is not the worst thing in the world. it's the smart and responsible thing to do. it's not the worst thing in the world to take a few extra days to vet someone

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they have very high regard for scott pruitt. they have spoken here on the floor with regards to him and his service. and when someone who is -- whose service and friendship i value as much as i do james lankford and jim inhofe speak so highly of a friend and colleague from their state, it's not easy for me and it's not easy for the rest of us to oppose that nomination, their friend. but we've done that and we've done that for weeks now and we've done that now for throughout this night. i take no joy in doing this. i take no joy in doing this. having said that, i take no joy in the fact that the levels -- levels of seas around my little state of delaware are rising, and we are the lowest lying state in america. we see every day the vestiges of sea level rise. i take no joy that when i catch the train in the morning to come down here -- i go back and forth every day, but i take no joy, standing on the platform at the wilmington train station, looking at a beautiful riverfront, which we've worked on for 20 years to transform an ind

despite all of that scott pruitt was confirmed. we should expect more drama. he's now facing that court order to release e-mail communications with the energy industry. his opponents are looking for potential conflicts of interest. >> the nomination is confirmed. >> reporter: scott pruitt confirmed to the head of the environmental protection agency, the same agency he fought against as oklahoma attorney general. >> the american people have a right to know what he's hiding. >> reporter: his confirmation come as he faces a new court order. a watch doug group filed access to get access to pruitt's communications with the fossil fuel industry. thursday a district judge ruled he needs to turn over 3,000 e-mails by next thursday. democrats and environmental group accuse him of being cozy with the industry. >> he's been hiding that from the american people and how deep his ties go. >> reporter: he's filed at least a dozen lawsuits against the epa. >> in his confirmation hearing senators pressed pruitt for using oklahoma state stationery and signing his name on letter

senate has confirmed or is about to confirm scott pruitt to be head of the epa. we told you there was one republican defection against mr. pruitt, but a couple of democrats have join his side, and the votes are being cast. scott pruitt will be the next epa administrator as a result of the vote just taking place in the u.s. senate right now. we will keep you updated. >> abby: a lot of things very closely at this hour, also keeping a close eye on president trump about to make some remarks at the boeing dreamliner debut, right now you can see the south carolina governor, but we are told the ceo of boeing will be introducing the president probably a few moments from now. we will keep you posted. >> jon: in the meantime, emergency crews in oroville, california, bracing for more rain, putting the region at risk for major flooding this weekend. that could mean more trouble for those living under that damaged dam. live from oroville with the latest, claudia. >> it has been coming down steadily all morning and repairs on the purple still weighs here at dam will be getting

first of all i want to congratulate scott pruitt. [ applause ] >> it's going to be done in a very environmental and positive environmental way i will tell you that, but create millions of jobs, so many jobs are delayed so many years it's unfair to everybody, so i want to congratulate scott. thank everyone here today, we have a great group of farmers, home builders and county commissioners all representing standing along side of me, also jim inhofe who's been so terrific in so many yways, and great friend of mine john baraso -- one of the rules most strongly opposed by farmers, ranchers and agricultural workers all across our lands, prohibiting them from being allowed to do what they're supposed to be doing. it's been a disaster. the clean waters act says that the epa is regulate navigatable waters that affect interstate commerce but a few years ago the epa decided that can mean nearly every puddle or every ditch on a farmer's land ta they decide, right? >> yes, sir. >> the epa regulators were putting people out of jobs by the hundreds of thousands. and regulations and permits started treating o

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ishat wha we'rebout to see with scott pruitt? >> hallie yesterday it was the finance committee so it was steve mnuchin and tom price for hhs. the republicans got fed up, they pushed it through anyway and it looks like that is what is going to happen here today for scott prosecute to head the epa. we have not seen any democrats go through this door where senators have been entering into the committee room. we did speak to john bar rasso, the chairman of the committee, he said he's going to force this through. we'll see how he manipulates the rules. he called it a employ that senator schumer is using to delay these nominees. this has been the tactic the democrats have takenin wake of the executive order over the weekend that sparked protests all over the country. we've gotten some questions to senators who have come by on those questions. i asked bob corker about that reported phone call between donald trump and the prime minister of australia that apparently got heated and that donald trump has been tweeting about this morning say

scott pruitt speaking soon. what more can we expect from him? >> scott pruitt, the latest member of the trump administration to showcase at this key conservative conference. it's going to be a very interesting moment because he's going to be the tip of the spear of what steve bannon said the other day was the administration's agenda of slashing regulations dismantle ing the administration state as the attorney general of oklahoma repeatedly sued a epa, the organization he now runs after it was cently confirmed because he saw the administration as overreaching, of trying to impose environmental regulations after the fossil fuel industry. this is going to be two facets, slashing regulations and i think scott pruitt is clearly a hero to the conservative movement. just because of his action on the environment in oklahoma. so, this will be a coming out party for him in some ways. >> all right. fascinating. we'll check back with you. thank you so much. all right, democrats are voting very soon. on the next leader of the dnc as the last five now candid

meanwhile, scott pruitt's nomination to be e.p.a. director. that's up for a vote as well in the environmental and public works committee. follow that over on c-span3. that vote coming up shortly as well. in the finance committee, democrats boycotted that meeting on monday. their consideration of steve muchein to be treasury secretary -- mnuchin to be tresh secretary and tom price to head the health and human services. and it was a 14-0 vote with no democrats present and voting. here's the chairman of the committee, orrin hatch, after that vote. senator hatch: my colleagues are using their own words as justification for their refusal to even vote on these nominations. as a result we are currently in the midst of the longest transition period without a confirmed treasury secretary in our nation's history. and the process for vetting and reporting dr. price's nomination has taken longer than that of the last two h.h.s. secretaries combined. of course democrat secretaries. at every turn my colleagues' arguments change but their answers are always

scott pruitt: we don't know. that is the difficulty with this issue.

in response to epa nominee scott pruitt, he posted the floor speech. and hawaii senator brian shots post this had series of hashtag meems touting the epa's importance. >> she was warned. >> reporter: earlier this month republicans stopped democratic senator elizabeth warren from presenting an opposing view of then attorney general nominee jeff sessions from coretta scott king. >> i am surprised that the words of coretta scott king are not suitable for debate in the united states senate. >> reporter: so, she logged onto facebook live. >> i just want to read the letter. >> it used to just be the moment on the day of the hearing when people paid attention to it. now you have this after effect. it's the memes, the unflattering clips. so it really is a full cycle that is what the nominees have to kind of weather. >> reporter: after president obama's inauguration in 2009, republicans stepped up their social media game as well. beginning a year's long messaging competition with the white house. >> president made an outstanding choice. >> reporter: mou both pa

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back on the hill this afternoon, the senate officially confirms scott pruitt to lead the epa, a department he built a career fighting in court. he has sued and fought the epa tooth and nail over regulations, particularly when it comes to fracing. we'll get into that. >>> finally, what do coal miners have to say about president trump after he signed a roll-back of regulations on mining waste and water waste. that's coming up as well. we have our panel of pros to walk us through all of this. we'll start by talking about this afternoon's main event, president trump's speech to boeing workers in north charleston, south carolina, the main topics there, industry, factories and defense. >> we're also working on the air force one project, which was a difficult project for previous administrations, but it looks like we're getting closer and closer. and we're going to ensure -- [ applause ] >> that our great service members have the tools, equipment, training and resources they need to get the job done. as george washington said, being prepared for war is the best way to prevent it. >> katy tur is e