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With a different problem that facebook has to grapple with, and that's russian trolls and others who seek to spread misinformation on the site. facebook announced a number of those ad transparency requirements. not just this past week but in previous months as well because it was facing criticism from capitol hill on the 2016 election. the privacy issues that we're talking about are another layer on top of that. you can expect lawmakers to bring up both. >> do you think this is really a goodwill measure ahead of the hearing? >> they have to do it. they are facing regulation. if facebook doesn'...

These are the additions to guns used in the las vegas shooting, not in the florida shooting, to make it essentially come as the president said, an automatic weapon. the justice department. you see a picture of it. justice department releasing a statement. "the department understands this is a priority for the president and has acted quickly to move through the rule making process. we look forward to the result of that process as soon as its duly completed." "washington post" and abc have a pullout after the shooting in florida saying doing enough to prevent mass shootings. congress at 19%. pre...

To go one step further to stop this so-called sue and settle approach that we've had to curb legal settlements. the sierra club has said what you did here. there's a general hostility that citizen enforcement of environmental laws and reflects the fact that administrator pruitt doesn't want these laws enforced. what do you say to that? >> i'm a former attorney general. i led a grand jury. i know what it means to prosecute folks. we've begun the process to prosecute officials across the country. what happened here the last several years is not enforcement, neil. it was an abuse of the rule-maki...

Then go through rule making. that's a sub version of the rule-making process. it's called sue and settle. any agency of the federal government that engages in substantive rule making through the judicial process is abusing their authority. >> neil: the press has a field day trying to peg you on climate change, sir. i know you tried to address it in the past. i want to know for the record, you said that you believe in climate change. you believe it in a large part could be contributing to it. but you don't take the leap where man should spend a lot of money -- i think i've got it right -- to ad...

Back of the clean power plan? >> the good news is you don't do away with it with a wave of the wand. this is a rule making process. it's going to take time. they have to propose an alternative rule. they have to justify the science, which means the original finding that carbon was something bad for human health, why that no longer applies. tell us about a better way to do it. they will get masses of comments. then they have to answer the comments. the bad news is they are continuing on the path of rolling back, slow waug any enforcement of the regulations that we have in place. and they are go...