BONUS: The Acting EPA Director is an Apparent Racist
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 13 October 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Wheeler took over after Scott Pruitt's embarrassing departure from the EPA. Peter Ogburn talks to Alexander Kaufman from HuffPost about his replacement, Andrew Wheeler. Wheeler was caught engaging in very racist social media posts. Will it have any impact on his job? Will Trump keep him? Will any of these Cabinet members face consequences for their actions?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bill Press Show. |
| 0:09.5 | Yes, it is the Bill Press Show. |
| 0:10.7 | My name is Peter Ogburn here with a version of our podcast where we don't have a ton of time to get everything in that we want to during the regular show. |
| 0:19.6 | So we do the podcast here where we bring you some stories that we want to during the regular show. So we do the podcast here, where we |
| 0:21.3 | bring you some stories that we want to talk about. And boy, what a doozy we have today. |
| 0:28.7 | This story is about Andrew Wheeler. He is the EPA chief. I guess he's the acting director now, |
| 0:35.4 | right? He hasn't been officially confirmed. |
| 0:41.2 | And some of his behavior online. |
| 0:44.7 | We are talking to Alexander Kaufman from The Huff Post. |
| 0:48.3 | You can follow him on Twitter at Alex C. Kaufman. |
| 0:50.2 | Alex, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:52.3 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:00.8 | So, first of all, Andrew Wheeler took over after Scott Pruitt resigned, after all the scandals that he had. |
| 1:02.1 | He had to resign back in, I guess it was like July. |
| 1:05.9 | And Andrew Wheeler is the acting director now. |
| 1:10.6 | Is he going to, I mean, what's the deal with his sort of confirmation? |
| 1:14.4 | Is that going to, is that on the table or what's the deal? |
| 1:18.3 | Well, so he was, you know, he was initially confirmed as the deputy administrator around, |
| 1:26.1 | just before actually Scott Pruitt was forced to step down. |
| 1:31.9 | And it was very clear at the time I and some others were writing that, you know, it was very clear |
| 1:37.5 | that Scott Pruitt was in the midst of these mounting ethics scandals and there was a very good chance he could be forced to step |
| 1:45.6 | aside. And so this vote to confirm Andrew Wheeler as the number two could very well be |
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