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And multiply that by 1300 federal agencies, you would save 300 billion dollars. >> susan is right. let me just say, this stuff was going on when the bushes were in power. republicans have been just as bad at this as democrats. this is on both of them. the fact is, we have republicans committing suicide with medicare. instead of going in and dealing with the issue in front of them, which is the discovery of billions of dollars, billions of dollars we could cut. >> sean: we've got a special report tonight on a lizard that may end drilling if this endangered species list. you are not going to bel...

Which gave politicians and residents a chance to voice concerns. >> based on research that i have seen, there is completely inadequate available data to the scientific community to make any kind of a rational decision about whether this species is in ink dangered or not. >> these are the faces of the people an he canned if. these are the folks who will -- who will lose jobs. >> i don't know if this lizard is going to be listed or not if there is there are permitting avenues that will allow private industry continue to function while we can recover the species. >> they say it won impact oil ind...

Public. >> ainsley: workers in the area aren't buying it. they think the listing will destroy the fragile southeast texas and northern new mexico economy. >> oil production is almost a million barrels a day. 20% of domestic supply of crude. all of these wells are generateing jobs and taxes and livelihoods. >> we make our living in the oil and gas business. the epa is putting the lizard on the endangered species list with will shutdown a lot of the oil and gas projects here in west texas. >> today the lizards, tomorrow the prairie chicken. we are saying enough is enough. american jobs count for...

>> ainsley: conservation groups argue that the lizards' habitat is so small that listing it won't impact drilling and the lizard issue being heightened for political reasons. >> less than two years ago the fish and wildlife service lifted the delta smelts in the san joaquin valley as endangered if you watch, you would know, that the delta smelts listing as endangered put 27,000 farmers in the san joaquin valley out of work. it shut 'em down cold. >> center for biological diversity studied oil and gas activity in southeast new mexico. we found that protecting the lizard's habitat affects less t...

Won't. kind of your typical book attacking a political candidate. >> two things. first of all, you said earlier and andrea said. miss some misses, -- misogynists, against conservative women. last bastion of open racism is any blacks or hispanics who are conservatives. i worked for a president, for five candidates for president, for 30, 40 governors and senators, very famous. i've never told the secrets. you have an obligation is morally -- some day i will write my memoirs when everybody is dead. >> sean: good to see you. the oil and gas industry in west texas and new mexico could come to a sca...