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Senator Hickenlooper stopped by Naturita April 26th to hear what locals had to say about the proposed 400,000-acre National Monument in Dolores Canyon. Locals told Hickenlooper they are extremely against it - here's why.
Idea of beaurocrats in washington telling them how to manage that land. the president did say that the monument status unfairly restricts grazing and hunting for local people. that is not true. that's -- all of that is still allowed in this monument. the only thing it prevents is new drilling and mining and frackiing interests, and the biggest push for this monument status came from the five tribes, the navajo, the hopi and the ute mountain nations who came together. they set aside centuries of tribal differences and came together to lobby the government of the seven chapter houses in the utah...
In 1996. state lawmakers pressed to remote the monument status for both sites, believed to hold fossil fuel resources. president trump is scheduled to make remarks in about 20 minutes as he signed his latest executive toorder. we'll bring it live when it happens. today's most anticipated event, the unveiling of president trump's plan to overhaul the nation's tax system. it is set to increase deductions is and major cuts for businesses big and small. all of this comes ahead of the president's 100th day in office on saturday. to start off, let's bring in kelly o'donnell, joining us from the ...
>> why don't you take a look right now at the difference here. we have a little map put together of land owned by the federal government and that is in red and that's out west. that is a lot of land. is that part of the reason why you put together the creation of the 10th amendment task force to get some power back to the states? >> kind of makes an interesting comment on the idea of equal footing for all states. but yeah, the problem is the western states have almost half of the land owned by the federal government. nationwide, one out of every three acres is owned by the federal government. ...
Situation to make sure it's public and we've got a commitment from the administration at least on this time that they were going to do anything that they will do it in public way. and do it better process. but we've introduced some legislation to try to reform the process in the future to make it more open so the states have some say in what happens in their own states. >> right. because congressman, you argue in this case, they have way too much power but here's your other allegation. are you saying that environmentalists are in bed with the administration and that they say they want to put u...