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It's the wild west. in the old days the stars were managed. now you have twitter. i don't think these big media companies are setting standards. they are setting standard as they go. they are playing reaction air yaiy. -- they are reactionary. they don't have the standards in place. howie: you mentioned samantha bee using the c word and make these accusations against ivanka trump. then you have the media saying it wasn't so bad, and trump uses worse language against people. katie: if we put the shoe on the other foot if this has been aimed at chelsea clinton.

Publicly. >> then he can tell congress that the investigation -- >> that says more about this town. this is more about the swamp than jim comey. >> you have kind of this shakespearean drama with comey trying to be the hero. he makes us draw the line at that point rather than waiting before he goes through the e-mails. >> 11 days before a presidential election. >> he continues to try to be the one setting standards, but he's not perfect, and unfortunately, when the stakes are this high and you're talking about an institution that's not supposed to be ebbing and flowing with a person. what we've...

Big announcement on climate policy. the epa planning to scrap former president obama's clean power plan, the agency declaring that the rule meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions exceeds federal law by setting standards that power plants could not reason my meet. convicted leaker chelsea manning claims she didn't spill any government desperates, only history -- secrets, only history. manning saying, quote: these aren't intention documents, it's historical data. there's no troop movements, it was a record of everything that had happened in iraq and afghanistan. manning spent seven years in mi...

>> as i've indicated, senator, i really believe that it's important and it's a partnership between the epa and the states. i made reference to the phrase earlier national standards and neighborhood solutions. i think that that shows that the epa can be involved and should be involved in setting standards, setting objective science-based standards to improve air quality and protecting the health of our citizens. >> obviously you know that a lot of local businesses complain about the epa, about bureaucrats in washington, d.c. setting rules and not really understanding what's going on in their ne...

Setting standards for good behavior are very, very porous and i think one of things this raises is the rush to get these nominees through without proper vetting from the office of government ethics, while the office of government ethics is also being targeted by members of congress and the trump administration for being -- for doing their job, essentially and it's going to be a continuing theme and it's going to be troubling, i think. >> does this trip up his confirmation? >> it's going to part of the confirmation hearing. >> but he's going to be confirmed? >> i have noedy. we'll have to wait ...