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The Bill Press Pod

Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) & Randi Weingarten (1.25.17)

The Bill Press Pod

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Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Young Turks, Donald Trump, Jamie Benson, Progressive, News, Bernie Sanders, Progressive Talk, Liberal, Cnn, Msnbc, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Thom Hartmann

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press welcomes Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Randi Weingarten, & Cameron Joseph to discuss Donald Trump's assault on the environment, a threat to send the 'feds' to Chicago, why the AFT opposes Betsy DeVos, & combating the voter fraud lie - all the big highlights from this Wednesday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This is Bill Press and Friends on the district productive network.

0:11.8

Let's talk about the environment.

0:13.5

Donald Trump meets with auto manufacturers in the morning.

0:16.5

This is good.

0:17.6

They bounce back, okay, gets them in.

0:20.0

But what was the message? The message is,

0:23.4

we want you to build more plants in this country. And in order to help you do that, we're going

0:28.3

to roll back the cafe standards. We're going to roll back any regulations because Donald Trump

0:37.3

says, well, I may be an environmentalist, but here he is.

0:43.5

I am, to a large extent, an environmentalist. I believe in it. But it's out of control.

0:50.7

Environmentalism? Out of control? Hardly. I mean, lead levels in Flint, Michigan, finally, the levels are down well enough that the water, people still have to drink filtered water or bottled water, but the lead levels are down.

1:06.0

But I mean, when you look at clean air, clean water, you look at the threats from climate change, environmentalism out of control.

1:15.3

Hardly.

1:16.1

We've got some good, strong regulations in place now for the first time ever on new coal-fired power plants, but they haven't even kicked in yet.

1:25.0

I mean, we're just, in many ways, not taking environmentalism as seriously as we did a few

1:32.9

years ago, even under Richard Nixon when he created the Environmental Protection Act.

1:37.3

But this is Donald Trump, so telling auto manufacturers, yeah, we'll get rid of all those

1:41.1

regulations, we'll get rid of those cafe standards, Cafe standards that the auto manufacturers actually embraced and endorsed and said this is good

1:49.6

because this means we'll make better cars, cleaner cars, and we'll sell more cars.

1:53.6

Donald Trump going back, putting that car in reverse.

1:57.4

And then on the Keystone pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline, I mean, how many times have we been over at the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline, I mean, how many times

2:02.4

have we been over at the Keystone Pipeline intensely studied by the Obama administration? At one time

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