Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. I had an aide next to my ear nearly screaming within the last several minutes when the president was with the italian president in the oval office but its an example of just how hard they are trying to keep reporters from asking the president questions. Obviously they cant be do that in the News Conference coming p up. You may see the president with the investigation, the president may be tempted to call on somebody in the friendly conservative media to lob a softball at him. Weve seen him try to do that before, wolf. Its one of these q a questions. Two questions from american questions, two questions from italian journalists, is that right . Thats right. Obviously the president at some of these two plus twos, one thing that weve noticed is at the very end of it, this happened at checkers with
mueller and the Special Counsel calling him out by name. There are some glaring factual errors in his tweets. Lets go to a
government. cnn government regulation correspondent joins me now. you talked to two families who say they were devastated by this, how serious and how widespread a problem? this story, there are people across the united states of america literally living off of bottled water because they cannot drink the water coming out of their tap. it s contaminated with chemicals that are linked to health issues, but still aren t regulated by the epa. very high levels. very high levels. sandy never suspected the water that flowed through her pipes may be poisoning her. there s a good chance this will be what ultimately kills me. sandy s water is tainted by a class of chemicals that studies have linked to kidney and liver cans, thyroid problems, birth defects and pregnancy complications. it s in most products that are water, heat and grease
supposed to be out until december. a few people will be paying attention. we have cnn government regulation correspondent. what do you expect to hear this afternoon and what will be in this report? this government report will focus on the human impact and people here in the united states. we expect that they will use real life experience. everything from health and the impact on climate change and transportation and many other topics. a bit of controversy before the report is released. why? because this critical government climate report was supposed to be released in december, but now scheduled on friday, the day after thanksgiving and scientists with people involved in the report and others, environmentalists speculating that perhaps this is an effort
viewers. i m wolf blitzer in washington. we re learning the details of a secret tsa program called quiet skies. it s aimed at gathering details on people s behavior at the airport and on planes here in the united states in hopes of identifying possible threats. now they re tracking average americans not suspected of a crime not under investigation and not on the terrorist watch list. our government regulation correspondent has been working the story for us. what can you tell us? speaking to the tsa it s been revealed over the weekend that for the past eight years they have been tracking ordinary americans who have no obvious ties to terrorism and they ve been tracking them as they are on their flights. the tsa won t divulge too much about this program but they will say that there are certain things that they re looking at. they re able to decide who they re going to track based on their past travel patterns, have they ever traveled to a terrorism hot spot or any information that they
industry and he has sued the epa several times over. democrats are promising a fight over this particular nomination so let s talk that over with rene marsh, our government regulation correspondent. you have been digging deeper into his background. tell me what you ve learned? we ve learned scott pruitt during his time as attorney general, brooke, there have been at least 12 lawsuits that oklahoma has filed, challenging environmental protections while he was attorney general. that s according to the environmental defense fund. now, when you look at his track record, he has been at the forefront of attempting to dismantle the laws of the very agency that he will now run. he s launched legal battles against the obama administration s clear power plan which essentially seeks to curb carbon emissions from power plants. he s sued the epa for trying to curb methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. those are a couple. the big picture here about what