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Challenging him. don blankenship, he spent a year in prison over the coal industry disaster in 2010 that killed 29 people and whether he violated safety rules and standards. long story short, mr. blankenship was not a big fan of the eventual republican nominee, mr. morrisey who we'll talk to and seemed to hint that he might throw his support by the incumbent democratic senator, joe manchin. manchin indicating right now one way or the other, that doesn't matter. he wants people to vote their conscious but didn't rule out the possibility that that might help. what will the fallout be and explain...

>> do you feel that part of one of the obstacles in trying to push for more gun laws, stricter gun laws, is there's an interpretation that it means removing guns? i talked to a family yesterday and they said we are all for the right to bear arms but we're also for the right to feel safe. we want to have our lives protected. how do you legislate change with that point of view in mind? >> you say, look, we respect the second amendment. in fact, when you read justice scalia's opinion from the supreme court about how that amendment applies to individuals, he actually wrote in there that you can ha...

Bear arms and to have guns, but we also have the freedom to protect ourselves with safety rules. what we're talking about here is common sense legislation, that two a-rated legislators proposed, senator manchin and toomey, that would have closed the loopholes on background checks on gun shows, background checks on online sales and we're seeing more and more of those. i think our laws have to be as sophisticated as those who are trying to get around them. that's a lot about what this is. >> what are your impressions from the trump administration yesterday to make steps toward banning bump stock...

States for fair game nor offshore drill leases and trigger a feeding frenzy. nearly all u.s. coastal waters and off the coast of california protected for decades. more than a billion acres in the arctic and along the eastern seaboard. governors of both parties lined up against the proposal literally. look at this map of the governors up and down from border to border who are posed to this drilling. democratic and republican governors. but screw the governors. administration's doing right by the friends in the oil industry. upping the drilling. killing the safety rules and getting rid of the ta...

Christmas. so that tax and the thing it funds were killed off last week. that had generated $500 million a year. it was a main source of revenue for the oil spill liability trust fund. proceeds of that tax were specifically put aside for a rainy day when history repeats itself and there's another exxon valdez or another deepwater horizon. break glass in the case of an emergency. slush fund for oil spill disasters. and the republicans just killed it. and at the same time the trump administration has also just hacksawed the safety regulations that are supposed to prevent oil spills in the first ...