answers it got from zuckerberg. you re watching d.w. news still to come the mystery of the missing princess she said her life was anything but a fairy tale and many fear for her safety after her attempted escape and capture at sea. the u.s. congress has rolled back regulation of banks as right to the vast majority of banks in the u.s. will now face less regulation the u.s. congress rolled back part of the two thousand and ten dog frank law which was an active by the obama administration after the financial crisis is aim was to prevent another financial meltdown in future taxpayer funded bailouts of banks considered too big to fail the rollbacks affect all banks with less than two hundred fifty billion dollars in assets that means only a few big banks will continue to face the previous strict rules which include more stringent capital requirements the vote is seen as a win for u.s.
what i can say the that private matter is something i don t have any knowledge about. i think the white house issued a statement saying the same. what about scott pruitt? he s part of your let me be clear about draining the swamp. rolling back regulation, rolling back special interest, cutting taxes for families. respectfully, the essence challenge of scott pruitt. that s the reason you see this country standing tall on the world stage. i think it s the reason why we re making the progress that we re making around the wild wider world. do you feel fcomfortable wit the behavior of scott pruitt? he s done an outstanding job lifting the burden of regulations stifling american business across this country. we believe that much of the economic growth we ve seen over the last 15 months has been as
what can they do? that s what it is, building pressure that the administration would ultimately have to be the arbiter as to whether this pressure is too much or whether it s offset by the things from their perspective they think scott pruitt is doing in terms of rolling back regulation. so far, those things and the support scott pruitt has within the konz moconservative movemen conservative group, as well as conservative donors. so far that support is outweighing this scrutiny this mounting scrutiny, both from congress and these independent and government watchdogings in a way that is really surprising, given that president trump has, in fact, fired cabinet secretaries for far less and far sort of narrower questions about their stewardship of taxpayer dollars. when he s traveling on his own dime, he flies coach. when the government is paying for it, the post is reporting
issues. he s mad many corrupt secretaries. the issue is he is an enemy of this agency. he hates the mission of this agency which is to protect the environment and he is very smart about his tactics. he is rooting out climate scientists. we heard stories about people who oppose his spending habits. his strongest backers have the group that love scott pruitt the most. they are rolling back regulation after regulation that has protected people but cost a dollar or two or some money to the oil and gas industry. scott pruitt was well known for
is a shell of what it was. we ve heard stories in the news recently about people who opposed his spending habits. people who believe in climate are being pushed out. donald trump s strongest backers are the group that loves scott pruett the most. they re rolling back regulation after regulation that has protected people, but has cost a dollar or two or some money to the oil and gas industry. scott pruett was well known for this in oklahoma and he s bringing those tactics effectively. he s been smart about destroying. his effort to truly detroit this agency that was created by a republican president. the legacy of the epa may be a bigger concern than scott pruett s spending habits in the end. david corn and jill wine-banks, thanks for joining us tonight