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Them voted against the medicaid expansion last year and you started objecting to this bill. i hope you can find common ground. the whole nation is watching helping you figure it out. i really do appreciate you coming on tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you, chris. >> remember the ceo of exxonmobil who opposed a water tower that could be used in his own backyard but seemed fine with it elsewhere? >> a million wells, you can find where most of them are. go out and talk to people. if there was a problem, state regulators would have already been all over this. >> the response from one of the...

It was clear to us early on, those were air problems. those were all air related. i think that sort of helped steer us in that direction. >> your report today has landed with a big splash. texas state regulators pushed back immediately and hard today. they say overall fracking has no significant effect on air quality and they know that. how do you -- how do you respond to that given your own reporting on texas regulators? >> well, they don't know that. that was kind of one of the points. one of the main things we wanted to point out was there's not enough permanent air monitoring in large port...

>> in terms of thinking about what might possibly make the situation better and what might be a way out of it, if that's your view at how state regulators have dealt with it, is there a role for federal regulators? is in a role for epa or somebody with jurisdiction to make a difference here? >> there is a role for the epa. but i think one thing a lot of people don't know is that when you're talking about the federal clean air act, enforcement of that act is delegated to the states. and so in this case, texas is sort of the first line of defense, or the last line of defense against air pollutio...

Air. rotten egg odors, people who were nausea, nosebleeds, severe asthma attacks. it was clear to us early on, those were air problems. those were all air related. i think that sort of helped steer us in that direction. >> your report today has landed with a big splash. texas state regulators pushed back immediately and hard today. they say overall fracking has no significant effect on air quality and they know that. how do you -- how do you respond to that given your own reporting on texas regulators? >> well, they don't know that. that was kind of one of the points. one of the main things we...

To say they know there's not a problem, i think that's disingenuous. >> in terms of thinking about what might possibly make the situation better and what might be a way out of it, if that's your view at how state regulators have dealt with it, is there a role for federal regulators? is in a role for epa or somebody with jurisdiction to make a difference here? >> there is a role for the epa. but i think one thing a lot of people don't know is that when you're talking about the federal clean air act, enforcement of that act is delegated to the states. and so in this case, texas is sort of the fi...