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The natural resources defense council come of helping china by filing environmental lawsuits against the united states military with a long-term intent of undermining military readiness. kevin joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. give us a sense of the scale of the lobbying in washington on behalf of the communist government of china. >> you mentioned the lawsuits, we had very well-funded environmental groups and thehe national resources defense council really stands out in it that it has continuously filed lawsuits. the end result is that prevents them from doing testing on sonars that are...

Ceremonial pens from the white house, we can imagine some of what dow chemical would like to have happen. having it done by may 15th should be no problem for them since they're talking every single day anyway. but if it isn't just dow chemical, if it's also like our lungs and skin and vital organs that have a stake in these regulations, are those interests getting consulted, too? as we wholesale plan to get rid of health and safety regulations? that we don't know. we talked to two leading environmental groups today who have been epa stakeholders in the past. each of them said they've heard bea...

We talked to two leading environmental groups today who have been epa stakeholders in the past. each of them said they've heard beans from the epa about these new processes that we have documented in these two memos that we have obtained. one of them told us they used to talk to epa all the time under the old administration but under the new administration their official communication is down to zero. maybe that will change. they have a whole six weeks. something else interesting to watch here, we spoke with one lawyer who represents companies that to v to submit to epa regulations. they are w...

Weeks from now. and that's the first step in the process. obviously, it makes it a huge difference who the epa considers to be a stakeholder affected by their regulations. if it's the dow chemicals of the world getting daily calls and ceremonial pens from the white house, we can imagine some of what dow chemical would like to have happen. having it done by may 15th should be no problem for them since they're talking every single day anyway. but if it isn't just dow chemical, if it's also like our lungs and skin and vital organs that have a stake in these regulations, are those interests gettin...

Anybody. so i think when they see that the chemistry council wrote the bill, that 450 groups including the asbestos group, the breast cancer group and i could go on with, you know so long. i have them at the hearing tomorrow. all the groups that oppose it. it's unprecedented. i think maybe my colleagues will rethink it. look, the bill is a udall-vitter-inhofe bill. i want to tell you something, rachel, the rating of 1234589er vitter by environmental groups is 5%. he votes against the environment 95% of the time. the rating of jim inhofe is 5%. i guess they were good 5% of the time. so the bott...