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Authority over waterways. president trump calling the rule a, quote, massive power grab. there are also reports his administration is looking to cut the budget of the epa. jina mccarthy was epa administrator under president obama from 2013 to 2017 and former new jersey governor christine todd whitman was president george w. bush s first epa administrator from 2000 to 2003. welcome to both of you and first to you, governor, are you in any way skeptical of the new epa add strait administrator, that he ll do the right thing? well, i m fairly skeptical because it s not going to be up to him as jina well knows. as an administrator, you carry out the policies of the president. it s a little hard to figure out this president, though, he ll say one thing in one minute then find some member of his cabinet is doing something else which you have to believe is coming from him. so the signals are very mixed. i hope fervently that the kind of message that the add straiter gave t gave the other day ....
President obama seized that potential and it was a big day. one of the things the president did in his remarks was call out your colleagues in the senate for blocking the nomination of his nominee to be the head of the environmental protection agency, jina mccarthy, and just said there essentially is no reason for her to be blocked. they ve been making her do, jump through a million hoops. do you yeah, they ve been making her jump through specifically a thousand hoops. yeah, explain that. asking her a thousand questions. they ve asked her a thousand questions. explain this, because it s kind of an amazing stalling technique the republicans have employed here. what is going on with her nomination? why have they asked her a thousand questions? well, i think they, frankly, can t accept that the environmental protection agency exists. and so they are very concerned about anybody who might lead it, notwithstanding that she has served five republican governors and has a wonderf ....