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So its sort of a double whammy, coal. >> when epa scott pruitt resigned in july of 2018, president trump taped this man to lead his pro coal agenda. who is andrew wheeler? >> i see andrew wheeler as being way more professional than scott pruitt. he knows the agency, and he knows how the regulatory process works. >> andrew wheeler was a lobbyist for the coal industry. >> hes bound to be affected by that. and believe their interests are in the public interest. >> you asked me to do three things, c...

11 and you heard this entire country say it would never forget and then you watched as you and so many like you faded from the rest of our memories and you wound up in another death match trying to get what you were promised. that were even waiting on this, that were even here, you know its a national disgrace. we all do. senator mcconnell, the house passed this bill today with only a dozen dissenters. please dont break your promise to this man and countless others like him. there can be no dela...

New concerns this morning about who is serving in the presidents cabinet. and frankly how they got there. patrick shanahan has withdrawn his name from the nomination process. "the washington post" and others have unearthed nearly decade-old information of domestic violence within his family. should the white house have caught this issue? should the fbi have caught this issue? should the senate have caught this issue when they confirmed him as deputy defense secretary? joining me now is angus kin...

Questions from the press or congress. hes above all that. im sorry. thats not the way this process works. >> harris: its interesting. hes about to become a private citizen. it does change the game in subpoenaing him. i want to get to chairman jerry nadler and what he says about how its up to congress to act and get your reaction. watch, please. >> special counsel mueller was unable to pursue criminal charges against the president because the department of justice policy prevents a sitting presid...

By someone like a different key. it changes the political context. im afraid the democratic leader are going down the same track in 2016. believing the conventional wisdom and the polls and ignoring the real dynamic. that drive elections as measured by the keys. >> very interesting. douglas, to allens point impeachment is a process. tell me how this process works. how soon could it start? >> absolutely a process. and we have to remember in 2018 the democrats did pretty well. you wouldnt have nan...

On politics. let me put it up, the democrats are getting very strange. they now want to change the voting age to 16, significantly the number of supreme court justices. actually, youve got to win it at the ballot box. like i said, this was not an insane tweet. all three of these things are true right now in the democratic party. >> it is the most fascinating thing to watch the democratic party adopting, not as a party, but candidates pushing positions that would have been unthinkable, even just ...

Learns something. it also speaks to the grotesque power of the sports industrial complex within the universities that sports directors get a say over who gets admitted. and it also speaks to the fact that this admissions is a black box. it should be transparent, people should know how it works. this was a scandal waiting to happen because nobody understands how this process works. what i want to say, tucker though, apart from the fact that colleges do not deserve the tuitions they are getting. t...

Well get to it. >> and it is more complex than that. >> is it true? >> unified government doesnt mean you can get through the senate and you need 60 votes. back in the -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> i dont agree with that. you had to get nine democrats and eight and then nine after the alabama debacle -- >> which whose fault is that? >> whose fault is that? in part, in part it is jeff sessions fault but we could get to that another time if you want. you have eight or nine democratic votes for a wall. v...

Mean you can get through the senate and you need 60 votes. back in the -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> i dont agree with that. you had to get nine democrats and eight and then nine after the alabama debacle -- >> which whose fault is that? >> whose fault is that? in part, in part it is jeff sessions fault but we could get to that another time if you want. you have eight or nine democratic votes for a wall. very hard to do. and what i would suggest to you is that the president -- one of the places where ...

Look, howard schultz is a multibillionaire. my contention, craig, is that -- its yet to be proven. because weve talked a long time about we need a businessman, a ceo mentality to run the government. the government is not a business. donald trump has so far disproven the theory we need a ceo. ceos, they execute orders, they give orders and things happen. thats not the way the legislative process works. presidents are consensus builders. they have to work with the other party. they need to have to...