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Every politician get in the details of that. mccrory appoints members of that commission. now, also on thursday, an ongoing fight between the state and the southern environmental law center broke into public view when the environmental group released selected e-mails that it claims shows an inappropriately close coordination between duke energy and the department of environment and natural resources. with that, michael besicker has been covering the story for the associated press, and he joins me now live. michael, thank you so much for your reporting and for being here this morning. we really...

Clogged with gray sludge. if you stuck your hand in the water, it would come out coated with it. it remains on the bottom of the river on the banks of the river for miles. when the water goes down, you can see it looks like an old gray dirty ring on a bathtub. >> all right. michael besicker of the associated press, thank you so much for all of your coverage. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. and we will keep watching that story for sure. meanwhile, the presidential document dump delivers our next data bankhead line. the number 4,000. that's how many pages of records will be released a...

Essentially duke, which is the nation's largest electricity company, would have paid a $99,000 fine and been under no requirement to actually clean up its pollution or stop pollution in the future. they were going to study the issue potentially for years. and these e-mails show that before that proposed consent order was agreed to, there were lots of meetings and lots of communications between attorneys for the state, state officials at the environmental agency, and then lawyers and lobbyists for duke that resulted in that proposed agreement. and the environmental groups that initially filed t...

He deserved to be tazed, or at least required to be tazed in order to subdue him. >> michael, when your colleague spoke to him, was he -- do you know if if he was nervous then. we know he was very nervous in this press conference as joy mentioned. at one point he walked out of the room because of the cameras. was he nervous when you first started investigating the story? >> yes, he was very reluctant to talk. we came to his house. my reporting partner is a pretty persuasive guy. he managed to talk to his mother, who was also there during the incident. convinced her that the sun should talk. bu...

Described what happened to him. >> he tazed me. he tazed me and put cuffs on me. sat hon my back twisted my arm. and my mom came around. she is sick. she came around around and got up off of me. >> how did you feel when you found out the officer wasn't punished for what was done to you? i felt it was wrong, and they put me under a certain label. oh he's a criminal so we abt going to worry about him. we don't lock him up. he ain't going to say nothing. he's a black man. i live in a dominant black neighborhood. they consider us messed up. >> his lawyer said this afternoon they plan to sue the no...