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He'll be digging to fill the demand in india. >> do you feel the president gave these communities false hope? >> my opinion, absolutely. i mean, i'm an expert. he's not. and i -- when he was campaigning, i asked -- i talked to his people and said what's your plan? how are you bringing back coal? it could be brought back if these plants would come back up, and deregulating stuff will help this much. it's not going to help a lot. >> trump's epa now led by andrew wheeler recently moved to lift caps on how much poisonous mercury and how much heat trapping carbon power plants can pump into the sky....

Those folks that mines like this are never, ever coming back to life again. not because of regulation, but competition. coal just cannot compete with cheaper, cleaner, natural gas, wind and solar. that's the reason more coal fired power plants have gone out of business in the first two years of donald trump than the first four years of barack obama, another 20 are expected to go down this year and if a minor is hired today, chances are he'll be digging to fill the demand in india. do you feel the president gave these communities false hope? >> in my opinion, absolutely. i mean, i'm an expert. ...

I mean, i'm an expert. he's not. and i -- when he was campaigning, i asked -- i talked to his people and i said, what's your plan? how are you bringing back coal? it could be brought back if these plants would come back up. and deregulating stuff will help this much. it's not going to help a lot. >> reporter: trump's epa led by andrew wheeler recently move to lift the caps on how much carbon they can pump into the sky which really worries climate scientists like penn state's michael mann. >> we're already experiencing impacts of climate change that could have been avoided had we acted two deca...

I'm looking forward to hearing more about the discussion. i do believe there are moments when you have to re-evaluate and say this mission is completed and we need to end our involvement. when you do that, you partner with others, you have to do it in a very careful, planned fashion. there's certainly none of that careful planning that went into the president's. >> senator merkley, thank you for being with us. >> thank you, john. good to be with you. president trump promised to bring back coal. two years into his term, has he done it? cnn went to coal country to get some answers. your insura...

Welcome back to "hardball." saturday night live opened their show this weekend with a spoof ofs it's a wonderful life imagining a world where trump was never, ever elected president. >> wow, so everyone is better off without me being president. >> well, not just them. you're better off, too. >> clarence, what about my agenda, all the things i wanted to accomplish as president? >> well, that's the best part about not being president. you can still say the same stuff, build a wall, bring back coal, but you vedon't have to dl with the fact that their ideas are insane. >> it's like robert mueller ...