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Department officials to loosen restrictions. records reviewed by cnn show bernhardt involved in three meetings with interior officials on the issue, ipaa and other groups thanked bernhardt for his involvement and by december of 2018, the trump administration released a plan to amend sage grous protections and open vast swaths of western land for oil drilling. the industry requests and actions taken go on and on, fracking, offshore drilling, easing of safety requirements, former clients asking and receiving favorable decisions from the government agency run by the former oil lobbyist. >> we're ...

Restrictions. records reviewed by cnn show bern hart involved in three meetings on the issue. ipaa and other groups thanked him for his involvement. by december of 2018, the trump administration released a plan to amend sagegrouse protections and open vast swaths of open land for oil drilling. the industry requests and actions taken go on and on. fracking, offshore drilling, easing of safety requirements, former clients asking and receiving favorable decisions from the government agency run by the former oil lobbyist. >> we're talking about the literal fox guarding the hen house. this administ...

The nominee is currently the acting secretary. now a review of industry requests shows the interior department appears to have been working overtime to grant requests to the very company that he lobbied for. here's the senior investigative correspondent drew griffin. >> it was advertised as press conference. acting secretary of the interior, visiting the martin luther king jr. national park. when the speeches were over -- >> that will conclude our press conference today. >> it was clear he wasn't about to take any questions. >> excuse me, sir. drew griffin with cnn. we thought this was a press...

Exploration. the ipaa, bern heart's former client repeatedly lobbied department officials to loosen restrictions. records reviewed by cnn show bern hea bernheart involved with three meetings on the issue. ipaa and other groups thanked him for his involvement and by december of 2018 the trump administration released a plan to amend protections and open vast swaths of western land for oil drilling. the industry requests and actions taken go on and on. fracking offshore drilling, easing of safety requirements, former clients asking and receiving favorable decisions from the government agency run ...

The bottom line is, this is now a signal that this is far beyond the scope of civilian agencies or the companies involved. that's when the military gets called in, when the rest of the government can't deal with it anymore. it's looking to be a major problem. >> british petroleum says it asked the military for help. that's a little unusual. >> reporter: it really is. that got a lot of raised eyebrows at they made that public statement it was coming to the military to ask for more of the underwater technology to scope up the spill. the military doesn't do offshore drilling. they may not have an...