Bit here as we take you live to the u. S. Capitol. Senators are speaking this morning on the nomination of scott pruitt to be e. P. A. Administrator. Good morning. At this moment were in the middle of a 30hour debate on the nomination of scott pruitt to be the next administrator of the Environmental Protection agency. Those 30 hours would expire at 1 00 p. M. Today because the debate began yesterday morning at 7 00 a. M. But the truth is we dont have all the information we need in order to make an informed vote on this nomination. And we dont have the information because the attorney general of oklahoma controls access to emails and other communications that are relevant to the decision the senate is going to make under its responsibility under the constitution. Senator merkley for two years now, the attorney general of oklahoma, scott pruitt, has stonewalled attempts to make public the records of over 3,000 email communications with members of the fossil fuel industry. Two years ago,