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State police handle police issues for the town, maybe the state attorney general's office could please handle this permit issue for the town. they did not want to change anything materially about whether or not people get okayed for permits or not. they just wanted somebody to do it who has the ability to do it, because they don't have the ability to do it. and so, they made this request to change the permit paperwork part of it to the attorney general's office instead of being at the local level. that's the change they wanted to make. and then all hell broke loose. >> i really don't understan...

So, the little town of exeter made the decision that just as state police handle police issues for the town, maybe the state attorney general's office could please handle this permit issue for the town. they did not want to change anything materially about whether or not people get okayed for permits or not. they just wanted somebody to do it who has the ability to do it, because they don't have the ability to do it. and so, they made this request to change the permit paperwork part of it to the attorney general's office instead of being at the local level. that's the change they wanted to mak...

What would you do differently. >> but i think you see -- first of all, keystone is going to be the answer to everything i think this summer. bobby jindal yesterday outlining keystone, keystone, keystone. and the permitting issue i think they'll hammer him hard on. >> how do you get around the fact that there are four times as many oil rigs in the u.s.? >> the facts are but a detail. >> oil production is up on private places like north dakota, texas and alaska but it's down 40% in the past ten years on federal lands. we've had a lot fewer permits issue. the permit issue is comebersome and clunk...

And if these changes are needed, and if you guys know that, and you're planning on it, and they're not ready yet, why did another permit just go up tonight? joining us now for the interview is the director of the bureau of ocean energy management regulation and agency that's been granting these new permits to drill. he joins us from san diego tonight. he's on a nine-campus tour to review the environmental scientists. director, thank you so much for being on the show tonight. >> it is a pleasure to be here, rachel. >> first of all, i know and you know that i have said a lot about your agency an...

Great. plans them for when? and if these changes are needed, and if you guys know that, and you're planning on it, and they're not ready yet, why did another permit just go up tonight? joining us now for the interview is the director of the bureau of ocean energy management regulation and agency that's been granting these new permits to drill. he joins us from san diego tonight. he's on a nine-campus tour to recruit the environmental scientists. director, thank you so much for being on the show tonight. >> it is a pleasure to be here, rachel. >> first of all, i know and you know that i have sa...