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Administration diseasing nae is than a half a billion acres of land and water including bears ears. it did so over the loud objections of the people of this state and their elected representatives. governor, right? the results have been very sad and very predictable. here and in other affected states, we have seen harmful or unnecessary restrictions on r ranching and responsible economic development. we have seen grazing restrictions prevent ranching families from passing their businesses and beloved heritage onto the children, the children that they love. we have seen many rural families stop...

This law requires that only a small necessary protection protects monuments. unfortunately, some have ignored the standard and used the law to lock up hundreds of millions of acres of land and water under strict government control. these abuses of the antiquities act give enormous power to far away bureaucrats at the expense of the people who actually live here, work here and make this place their home. this is where they raise their children. this is the place they love. for example, the previous administration diseasing nae ieg for example, the previous

>> and we're going to do the following -- [ applause ] >> okay, if you haven't been following this topic and what it's about, the president signed proclamations to dramatically scale back the size of two national monuments in utah. we refer to them as monuments but they are large pieces of land. the administration has plans now to reduce bears ears national monument by nearly 85%. and the grand staircase escalante in half. opponents have vowed to fight the white house in court about this. i believe jeff bennett is available to us now. geoff bennett is in salt lake city covering this.

Exchange in for land on my reservation because of the value of and there. >> so the idea is if you get it out of federal protection, it means that land could ultimately be exploited for oil and gas, sold, used for commercial purposes, things like that. >> well, that's the whole thing. the monuments are designed to protect looking at cultural artifacts, which bears ears meets the criteria. they have said it point-blankly. we are marking up the resource by designating this monument. so i don't think that i need to assert, they have said it themselves. >> right. you and other tribes are planning ...

Chief lawmaker under the constitution. your thoughts? >> we have heard before from richard nixon that the president is above the law. that didn't work for nixon and it's not going to work for trump. and this is just an extension of the trump administration's attitude. he said a number of months ago the president can't have a conflict of interest. that's wrong, too. the president is not above the law. we live in a democracy. we have a constitution. and if he doesn't want to comply with the constitution, he needs to get out of there. and the constitution does not say that as the chief law enforc...