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Rendell. you must be in shock watching this performance. are you a guy who was district attorney, assistant d.a. before that, mayor of a big city, governor. you did everything the normal way in politics. you shook hands, you meet people, you serve the public. and here is a guy with this whackiness of saying stuff we don't know if anything he says is true. and there is no reason to be prima facia agreeing to everything that he says is true. and he's on the cover of "time" magazine. person of the year and he's president-elect of the united states. what do you make of this world we live in? >> my...

Know if anything he says is true until it's proven, there's no agreement that anything he says is true. and he's on the cover of "time" magazine as person of the year and president-elect of the united states. what do you make of the earth right now, ed rendell? >> that boggles my entire mind. how donald trump, who attacked barack obama's citizenship, led a birther movement until this country and around the world, called obama a terrorist sympathizer, said he was the father of isis, how he could switch after one meeting and a few phone calling, all of a sudden he's in love with the guy, they've...

Negotiate with the banks after the mortgage crisis. 49tates got relief after what happened in 2008. oklahoma sat out. that was his decision. >> let's talk about the whole strategy. is there any other indication of what trump wants to do with environmental regulations? because business, i don't know why the market is booming right now, the dow, but clearly onof the reasons is the sense we're coming into a new regime which is going to be a lot less environmental, a lot less regulatory. he's going to be smooth sailing of people who want to make some money. >> i say that scott pruitt is a guy that...

Who would dare go up against the industry of the state? we've seen that in pennsylvania with fracking. >> he is largely speaking to a population that agrees with him in oklahoma. he's quite popular in oklahoma. >> congressman, thank you for joining us. what do you make of this in your face decision by the president-elect to say, screw you guys, i don't believe in climate change, i'm going to prove it by picking a guy who agrees with me? >> he's putting a climate denier in that position, someone with very little experience with the environment. oklahoma, for all its fracking, has seen an increa...

Is going to be a lot less environmental, a lot less regulatory. he's going to be smooth sailing of people who want to make some money. >> i say that scott pruitt is a guy that believes in the rule of law as he calls it and states' rights. he also has ended up in a close alliance with the energy companies. and there are a lot of rules that are pending before the epa right now that they want to roll back. for example, there's a methane rule that limits emissions of methane gas that contributes to global warming. they want to strike down that rule and block it. there's a quite a number of rules h...