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Capitol hill. e-mails obtained by cnn show epa administrator scott pruitts chief of staff, ryan jackson pushed to influence her testimony. >> my perspectives and statements are mine alone. >> reporter: the retired professor is also the chairwoman of the epas science review board that plays a crucial role in the work the agency does. epa dismissed about 8 of 19 scientists on the board two weeks before the congressional hearing. e-mails show that jackson pushed for the professors dismissal. saying...

Her. an anticipate spokeswoman told cnn it is customary for the office of council and the chief of staff to provide guidance for an epa employee testifying in front of congress. and to clarify if theyre speak egg as an individual, rather than on behalf of agency. witnesses testifying independently and not on behalf of an agency are supposed to share their own opinions not government talking points. but e-mails show jackson tried to influence the testimony, even after he was told swachacker wou w...

Same old trickle-jowl on your own economics that helped bring back the crisis in 2007 2008 in the first play. >> reporter: back in d.c. >> i got hired! >> reporter: ryan jackson from michigan just moved here to find better job prospects, found two in one day, at a restaurant and in retail. he accepted both. not his dream jobs but its changed his life. >> it was about me my personal what these people thought i could bring to their companies, so it was an ego booster, a financial booster. >> repor...

Republicans. >> im lost count how many republicans are running. theyll have enough for an actual hunger games. they keep on coming up with the same old trickle-down youre on your own economics that helped bring about the crisis back in 2007 2008 in the first play. >> here in d.c. >> i got hired! a woman just said congratulations. >> reporter: ryan jackson from michigan moved here to find better prospects, and found two in one date -- at a restaurant and in retail. he accepted both. knolls his dr...

Happens if you do something slightly wrong. you dont know how to fix your mistakes because you didnt get the basic technical knowledge that you would have learned in school. >> dis the best way to learn tht knowledge is sitting in a room with 400 students taking biology or could we get that knowledge from a cheaper more efficient form. >> i am ryan jackson just graduated from a school in indiana. i once witnessed an argument where a student defended her kinder studies degree for engineering degr...

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to 7:00 tonight. heat index 105 today. even counts not under the advisory expect a warm, in fact a hot and humidity afternoon. partly sunny skies to start the day. mix of clouds and sun this afternoon, with scattered storms developing. cold front to the north and west will slowly move through in the next couple of days. wont clear the area until early sunday. risk of scattered storms in the forecast today and tomorrow. sunday looks better. 96 the daytime high in washington. 95 in waldo...

>> welcome to todays program. lets remind you what were covering today. christine. >> were live of course in athens where its last chance for the socialist after the radical left fails on form a government. in london, will the bank of england sanction another round of qe? well speak to a former adviser at 10:30 cet. and well be joined by a former u.s. senator who says the president and congress need to leave town until november. find out why at 11:00 cet. >> we just had some data out o...

>> welcome to "11 news saturday morning." im lisa robinson. first well get to our top stories in just a minute, first well go to the weather. >> im jennifer franciotti. lets go to john collins. >> the chances for rain are minimal through the weekend and into a chunk of next week as well. we look at the radar. nothing locally. nothing in the eastern half of the country, except a few showers off the carolina coast. there is a storm off over the atlantic, but it is not headed this way. vi...

throne. today is saturday, november 5th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome back to "today" on a saturday. im lester holt. >> and im jenna wolf filling in for amy. >> we have lots to get to today. starting with gop candidate herman cain. the restaurant association acknowledged friday that a formal complaint was filed when he was ceo of the organization back in 1999. that happened as cain was making a 2000 presidential bid when he event...