water. the president-elect in his statement said the core mission of the epa is clean air and clean water. what i can tell you is this is an agency that was created by richard nixon and right now has lost enormous support across the united states because businesses, individuals, farmers, the people in my state don t believe the epa is listening to anyone other than climate activists so whatever regulations they re going to impose, whatever steps they re going to take to make sure we have clean air and clean water need to be done with a legitimacy such that they garegn the support of all americans and just those who would like to see us move without the support of congress because they believe it s the right thing to do. scott will stick to his legislative mandate and rules that are imposed will be imposed according to the process with everybody s voice included at the table. johnson, you would be one of those environmental activists. you re listening to dustin.
surprise he thinks someone who headed wwe can head the small business association. what about his person being selected as the epa chief? clearly he intends on rolling back regulations the epa has been issuing, especially when it comes to the coal industry and that s what he ran on. this is as advertised. one of the things that president-elect trump is signaling is that he is unconventional. he ran as an unconventional candidate. he s bringing in people like linda mcmahon who when her company started it had 13 employees and we know what the wwe is. but it is unconventional and the epa director will be someone that as advertised will work on rolling back regulations that cost this country jobs and the obama administration has just been in a on a bender of issuing regulations that hurt jobs and those are the very
industry and he has sued the epa several times over. democrats are promising a fight over this particular nomination so let s talk that over with rene marsh, our government regulation correspondent. you have been digging deeper into his background. tell me what you ve learned? we ve learned scott pruitt during his time as attorney general, brooke, there have been at least 12 lawsuits that oklahoma has filed, challenging environmental protections while he was attorney general. that s according to the environmental defense fund. now, when you look at his track record, he has been at the forefront of attempting to dismantle the laws of the very agency that he will now run. he s launched legal battles against the obama administration s clear power plan which essentially seeks to curb carbon emissions from power plants. he s sued the epa for trying to curb methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. those are a couple. the big picture here about what
why do you think mr. trump is there? this is who many people in the campaign have told us who he is behind closed doors. we ve seen him hold babies on the trail, say he loves talking to president obama. we ve seen him just reach out to other communities. even i recall after the pulse massacre really coming out and saying that he wanted to look out for the lgbt community members something we don t hear a lot from our republican presidential candidates. many voters will have a hard time holding that intention with harmful rhetoric he said as well. we ll look for that message, words are important as he ll be in cluck bus neolumbus next hou. let me move to you. and the movement we have so far on the latest administration picks when you look at health education epa and housing and urban development or hud and you look at the lineup.