return to the point. it s been so fascinating to watch this play out. in which political power in this country is tilted towards older, more conservative, particularly rural americans, consumer power in this country, the things that brands care about, the kinds of people they re trying to get to be customers are younger, more diverse and more urban. and nothing is more clear what politicians are doing post parkland. i don t think the natural place to turn to for gun control is big corporations but i agree. yes, that s not the solution. people are making it a consumer issue because they are shutout of the process because nra has such a lock on the government despite the way people are forced to turn to whatever avenues of influence are open, which in this case are sort of consumer power, it s not ideal and then it creates a situation where gun owners feel even more cultural embattled because they feel like even
the epa is presenting a bold sweeping initiative seeking to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in to the next decade. something a new abc news poll shows the majority of americans favor it but the move is not without its critics. abc s karen travers reports from the white house. reporter: it s one of the most aggressive actions by the federal government on climate change. the obama administration proposed regulation that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants by 30% by 2030. those plants are the largest source of green house gases in this country, releasing about 30% of the u.s. carbon pollution. the obama administration s framing this as a consumer issue, not just affecting american s wallets but also their health. putting these guidelines in place will help protect the health of vulnerable americans including children and elderly. reporter: but republicans and some coal-state democrats are joining business groups saying the requirements will h
consumer protection agency that has oversight. neil: we ve got a dozen of them. we ve got a dozen of them. should they be watched more, scrutinized more? i don t know about more but i will tell you they need to be watched. i don t know that we need more laws. okay? when you re in congress, all you want to do is pass pour laws. when you re a legislator, pass more laws. neil: actually, it s a consumer issue so that s going to be the new consumer agency director, but it involves stocks that could be the security and exchange commitment. that involves futures, so it might be commodity futures. my job is to do everything i can to stand up this agency and to make it work, to make sure that we hire good people and that we move in the right direction. neil: now you re going to be slapped with a charge if you
most members of congress when they do these events, they re talking to people. they pretty much know who is in that audience and what they re going to say. sometime people can infiltrate it. and the polling indicates where the public is at. the public wants to move from this from a political fight to a consumer issue and that is particularly true for women voters. and 80% of the health care decision makers in this country are women. they re the ones who tell the men in their lives when it come to health care and the men admit it. and 80% of the health care voters are women. so women want to move and say what does this do for our family? i don t want another fight. and women who believe in a role for government for sure don t want to shut down government. so you want to talk about a war on women. this is a war on women. and i think they re going to lose massively at the voting booth if they keep this up. this is an important point that she makes. women are make have the economic
money on the storage. perhaps they don t want to make themselves it liable to lawsuits or perhaps it s a consumer issue, that it s bad branding for them to do. they d rather have the government force their hand and have them do it, daniel. yeah, i think that s exactly what happened. i think originally and remember, this is a program, the verizon program, that essentially began under the bush administration. it was that warrantless wiretapping program that was so controversial that the new york times revealed back in 2005. originally, the government wanted the phone companies to store this information as opposed to the government. in the end, that s not what happened. the difference between the old bush program, which was so controversial, and this one, which is also becoming quite controversial, is that under the bush program, they did it without any court supervision. they did it under what they consider to be the inherent authorities of the president and did not go to this cour