Page 5 - Steve Spangle News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

He has hired one of washington's most powerful lawyers to speak on his behalf. lanny davis, a democrat. >> the innuendo is well, he's close to trump, there must have been political influence. that's just innuendo. i can't see any evidence there was evidence politically. >> this guy has unprecedented access to david bernhart on august 18, 2017, he invited him for breakfast. isn't that right? >> yes, that's right. >> at his hunting lodge. >> at his hunting lodge. >> and it's shortly after that that the phone call is made to mr. spangle telling him we want you to change your decision. >> and you ...

Administration decision makers who oversee his interests. schedules obtained by cnn show at least eleven meetings, phone calls or e-mails with top trump administration officials, including then epa chief scott pruitt and ryan zinke, who was secretary of the interior. and cnn has learned in august of 2017, mike ingram met up with his old lobbyist friend and then deputy interior secretary david bernhart, the first of at least five meetings with him. this secret meeting, not on any public calendar was a private breakfast held at mike ingram's hunting lodge in montana. just two weeks later, fish a...

Approved the permit. spangle decided before the new villages could move forward, a full scale biological assessment was needed. that was october 2016. then this happened. what followed was a series of events pieced together by cnn. that shows a developer with connections to the trump administration was able to push his project forward despite environmental concerns. it was just 7 months into the new administration, steve spangle received an unusual phone call. >> it was one of our solicitors, one of our attorneys from washington and she told me that she had gotten a call from a high level poli...

Spangle decided before the new villages could move forward, a full scale biological assessment was needed. that was october 2016. then this happened. what followed was a series of events pieced together by cnn that shows a developer with connections to the trump administration was able to push his project forward despite environmental concerns. it was just seven months into the new administration, steve spangle received an unusual phone call. >> it was one of our solicitors, one of our attorneys from washington, and she told me that she had gotten a call from a high level political appointee w...