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Strengths. he would sell the taj mahal in atlantic city as state regulators are trying to close it down. we're seeing him try and put the best possible spin on what has happened. but looking at the checklist of things that he hasn't done, there's a significant amount there that he still needs to draw attention to. >> so i really don't think you can diminish the importance of getting neil gorsuch on the supreme court. chris christie said it there and it was a promise that he made to a lot of people who weren't sure about him. a lot of those people liked mike pence and they trusted mike pence to...

Of marijuana in colorado. >> no. >> none. >> noen. >> reporter: the future of marijuana's legal use and sale remains in question under the if you trump administration. >> i, as you know, am dubious about marijuana. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions has been a vocal critic. but so far hasn't had the justice department intervene where marijuana has been legalized. >> we're part way into this. it is going to be one of the great social experiments. century, i think. and i think it would be short-sided to retreat. >> we talked with sheriffs who say they feel like marijuana issues and prob...

>> no. >> reporter: it remains in question under the trump administration. >> i, as you know, am dubious about marijuana. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions has been a vocal critic but so far hasn't had the justice department intervene where marijuana has been legalized. >> we're partway into this, one of the great social experiments of this century, i think, and i think it would be short-sided to retreat. >> reporter: we spoke with the sheriff who says he feels like it's worse than ever in that marijuana issues and problems are taxing his resources. >> what is he talking about? that ...

Couple of days. we have a couple blackhawk helicopters. they are air lifting big sacks of boulders and other materials to the emergency spillway that was on the verge of collapse sunday night. they hope that this effort will help shore up that spillway to make it structurally sound. crews have been moving around these boulders for the past couple of days, air lifting them about a mile away. again to shore up the erosion damage that happened over the weekend in the wake of the recent rain. that spillway is a ravine that has never been used as a spillway before. officials warned state regulators...

Way. that is the spillway where we have seen so much trouble. that was teetering on the brink of collapse. state water officials spent much of yesterday literally in the trenches as dump trucks and several blackhawk helicopters dropped their heavy loads into a hole that broke open sunday afternoon. layers of rocks should help prevent further erosion to what is a ravine that had never been used as an emergency spillway before. years ago environmental groups sounded the alarm, telling federal and state regulators that that spillway needed to be reinforced with concrete but officials balked at th...