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Owe obama's climate bill. we didn't pass legislation ten years ago. senator manchin is a west virginia coal guy. he made half a million dollars from coal production personally. he is the largest recipient of coal and natural gas money in the senate this election cycle. he just happens to be the chair of the energy and natural resources committee, which means he is crafting the democrats' climate legislation. as if it was not obvious already, he is committed to propping up coal and natural gas, to use the government to artificially extend the life of the fuels we're trying to get rid of, which ...

High school education. >> we came from coal guy who scranton, no jobs. my dad was a white collar worker. >> native town of scranton hometown of womenton. represent thes and towns that make up middle class americans. all my time in public life i have been referred to as middle class joe not always meant as a compliment. >> i know i'm called middle class joe and that's not compliment. >> i know i'm called middle class joe in washington and i know that's not a compliment. steve: documents filed show he is actually a millionaire. he and his wife have made millions of dollars in the two years since...

>> the further they go on a gallon of gasoline, the less gasoline or fossil fuels that we use. >> sure. and to bring this back to the green new deal though. under the green new deal, you'd have to do away with the internal combustion engine with ten years. that's where we burn our ethanol. i'll be interested to see the democratic presidential candidates in iowa before the caucuses and try to explain to the people that live there why they don't want to have ethanol and going into the future. a lot of ramifications from the green new deal that people don't realize. >> charles: you're in this pos...

>> neil: you think the rise we had in temperatures since then owes any connection to man? >> it may. i'm not a scientist. but the debate over the paris accord is not a debate over science. the debate over the paris accord is an economic debate. the president made clear we're far ahead of other countries in terms of co2 reduction. how can it be an effective deal if it lets china and india, two of the major polluters, keep increasing their pollution for another decade or two? that doesn't sound to me like a climate accord. it simply sounds like a transfer of wealth from the united states to othe...

Fewer regulations than the bush administration. president obama has approved 613 new rules. president bush approved 643 in his first three years. these facts don't matter to guys like harold hamm because citizens united opened the door for billionaires like him to affect politics at every level of government. yes, in montana and north dakota. now, this is what former massy energy ceo don blankenchip did. i'm going to give you an example. the coal guy, that's him. blankenship, he spent $3 million back in 2004 to defeat a west virginia supreme court justice. yeah, montana governor brian swieter ...