joining me is chris moony. thanks for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> what does the pruitt nomination say about the future of the epa? >> it's a very controversial nomination. democrats have signaled that they want to fight it, and what it suggests is that this agency is going to really reverse itself greatly. it's been under the obama administration it's been really moving on many environmental priorities, including climate change, most of all, and in pruitt you have somebody who has been suing it over those priorities and who has called into question the science of climate change so i think it's a real big turn. >> let me specifically quote him. he's made some controversial statements about climate change. this is a piece he wrote for the national review earlier this year. he said, quote, scientists continue to disagree with the degree and extent of global warming and its connection the actions of machine kind. th that debate should be encouraged. it should not be silenced with threats of prosecution. dissent, he writes, is not a