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Products. were not manufacturing anything. >> larry: and employers with cheap labor, right? >> excuse me, they take our money and loan it back to us. we should be fighting china, we should be fighting opec. theres oil all over the place. its floating all over the place, including assthe sea rig now because of the oil leak. theres tankers. >> larry: youre not an environmentalist? >> i am an environmentalist. i dont want to stop progress at the sake of unnecessary environmental regulation. >> larr...

Environmentalist because they believe they have a voting block and somebody courting other people who are not white or men. whats the distinction? >> well, for one thing as you just described it, very significant percentage of the religious right happens to be african-american. the fastest -- >> but thats not my question. whats the distension between me saying i think we can get a lot of guys -- or i think i can get a lot of minorities and women to vote for me, lets make sure they vote. where is...

I think anyone in public life has been the target of it. ive been called the "n" word on many multiple websites. when tony snow was stricken with cancer, people were saying that they hoped he died on left wing websites. there are nuts, and with bill clinton, what they didnt like about him is the demagoguery. rush limbaugh is no more responsible for that and an environmentalist is responsible for the unibomber. >> no major act of violence, other than that nut job who flew the plane into the irs o...

Right. the letter is a tough letter. and it just goes to show you that more important than anything is that we need campaign finance reform. >> okay. elijah cummings, thank you very much. >> thank you. and coming up next, the ethics investigation, the house ethics committee widening its investigation into who knew what and when about sexual harassment claims against eric massa. up next on this earth day, finding new sources of clean energy. actor, activist and environmentalist sam waterston ...

Wall street. this is an answer to wall streets prayers. >> thank you very much, mike pence. well see what the president has to say about all of this tomorrow of course in the big speech. thank you for joining us today. >> you bet. >> and what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? thats next right here on msnbc. and its green week on msnbc. tomorrow, environmentalist and costar of nbcs "law and order" sam waterston joining us to talk about the new msnbc documentary "futur...

She actually sad down with the companys chairman, the great-grandson of the companys founder, is this ford really committed to being green? >> its a great question, right? we hear so much about green washing. the companies saying theyre green. last week whennis wasnt talking to you i was in california covering the brainstorm and green conference. you have businesses saying how green they are and how to green the economy and we sat down with bill ford and what i learned, kyra, turns out hes been ...

Of ya ya is decidedly mixed. let me go to you first, joe, an avid environmentalist. are you going to go back to eating steak and meat and everything? >> you know, its so hard when one of the beatles, paul mccartney is a big proponent. its hard when a beatle tells to you stop eating steak. i love that the only people that support issues this vehemently are celebrities and lunatics handing out flyers in the street. they are the only two classes of people who are cut off from the society that they ...

Along the coast, the eastern gulf of mexico and parts of the alaskan shoreline. >> given our energy needs in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs and keep our businesses competitive, with ear going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel as we ramp up resources of home grown energy. >> a changing policy from when senator obama started running for the president, when he first signed the moratorium that prevented them from drilling offcoast. and in august of 2008 considered som...

And, of course, environmentalists have been fighting this idea for a very long time and a lot of elections along the whole coastline have had this as a serious issue in those elections? >> reporter: you bet and which opens up the question, why is the president doing it, then, environmentalist are angry, and ten states up and down the atlantic, they are worried about some of their tourism and worried about fishing but its an interesting step, taking a step closer, to republicans and they like the...

Who are upset about the idea to drill offshore. >> i think this is inevitably one of those decisions where some are going to say you didnt go far enough and some are going to say you went too far. probably means we struck the right balance. the president worked with ken salazar the secretary of interior to look at what the options were. we want to make sure we were focused on those areas with the greatest possibility because we want to break our dependence on foreign oil, gather more information...