Sites, over 100 years ago. So what with what happened tods thel president will sign orders to drastically reduce the size of the Bears Ears National monuments are consensually break them up into much smaller monuments. There are still can be very large pieces of land that are protected but may be that bears his monument, the one barack obama designated will be about 1 7 its original size. It would be ballpark to want a thousand acres. And the grandai staircase will become three monuments, totaling about 1 million acres. Host whats relationship between, giving these tracks of Land Protection and their ability to be mine for the Natural Resources . Guest thats the question everyone is thinking, about. In the cases of the Grand Staircase that was designated in 1996. Largely motivated to keep the Coal Resources in the plateau from being mind. It seems pretty clear that the redraw of that monument is being done to allow these, that cold to be mined. Whether it gets might or not thats a diff
Supreme court, waiting for oral argument tomorrow in masterpiece civilhop, the colorado rights commission. The bakery refused to do make a wedding cake for a samesex couple. The oral argument is tomorrow and recordings of the argument will be released on friday. We will have here for you on cspan. President trump is on his way to utah. We spoke with the utah reporter about the president us agenda this morning on washington journal. Brian, with the salt lake tribune, serves as environmental reporter, good you. Ing to guest hey, good morning. Host can you tell us about the to utah and its purpose . Guest yes, of course. The president is at recommendation of the secretary heinke to address National Monuments in utah, part of many more ew great monuments designated under witty act over the last 20 years. Monuments are , too big for the scope of the that was s act, a law esigned to protect at risk antiquitys and archaeological sites 100 years ago. Today, the appen president s will arrive in
But we want to ask you. Helping or hurting his administration . The phone numbers are on your screen. It was over the weekend which the president sent out several tweets which got a lot of attention. Me dealt with the former f. B. I. Director. F. B. I. Director. Also Michael Flynn. A lot of attention was paid to this tweet in particular. Were interested to hear if you think it helps or hurt the administration and the information you may personally gain from the tweets he sends out. The president just tweeting out this morning saying that putting nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer, liberal puppets, jones, into office in alabama what it was at a recent event at the Reagan National defense forium on saturday, his current c. I. A. Director, the former c. I. A. Director talked about the president s twitter habits and had an exchange on those habits. Heres a bit from that. The problem of suddenly tweeting an antimuslim video like that is that once it goes out, what it does is it inflames people
Move out to of our nominees that are currently pending before the committee. We obviously have to have the requisite number of members here. So until such time as we have a quorum, we will move to our scheduled full Committee Hearing on infrastructure permitting, if were able to get the quorum of 12 we will take up the businessman at that point in time. I would anticipate that it would be relatively quick. So with that, we have names on the table in front of us, but i would invite you each to come to the table as a provide an opening statement. Mr. Casing, ms. Fleagle, astroturfing, mr. Brown, ms. Caruso and mr. Russell if just want to join us there. We are here today to discuss infrastructure permitting challenges ongoing efforts to streamline federal approvals and opportunities to improve the responsiveness, the transparency and the predictability of our system of permit review. I think we all recognize the need to make investments that will both upgrade and modernize our infrastruct
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