disadvantages the american economy vis-a-vis towards other countries. as a journalist, rate for us how the administration has performed on the topic of climate change so far. where would you put him? what has he done? well, the biggest things that this administration has done are to very systematically move forward with undoing, rolling back and repealing the main climate change the only climate change policies that the united states ever had in place. under the obama administration, the epa put out the united states first-ever climate change policies. one to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars, and the other one to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from, from coal-fired power plants. president trump has made it a center pe center piece of his deregulatory agenda to do that. the trump administration s own
the iranians have been using to smuggle in arms. and to reinforce the revolutionary guards, particularly in the southern regions of syria. we need to have troops down there that can at least keep eyes on this movement and introduction them if necessary with air power, because that particular region is an existential threat to israel. and we afford to let that go. julie: always great to see you. thank you very much for joining me now is russell vaught, acting director at the excess of management and budget, in the cabinet meeting, how did you think that the meeting went? it went great, julie, the president heard a great update on his deregulatory initiatives. $50 billion in cost savings to the american people since he took office and put it in charge early in the administration to have two regulatory initiatives for every single one, and outperform that with a 9-1 rat ratio.
raise the right context. that s in the meeting, larry. well, i was in that meeting, and i can tell you the atmosphere in that meeting was constructive. larry, those words came out of boris johnson s mouth. how do you argue that? wait. let me weigh in, okay. yes, i know. but boris johnson expressed support for he has mute different ideas though. that s why i m saying, you re taking it out of context. the president has asked for deregulatory or tax-cutting policies that made the american economy a success. we re growing twice as fast as our allies. every person around the table agreed to take additional
finding out, when they took control of the house was that they would use the debt limit, which is important to be extended for our united states to be used as a leverage point against this president for all of the things that he is doing. regulatory lay, building a wall, so this deal that secretary mnuchin did it with schumer and nancy pelosi extends the deadline and ensures that nancy pelosi surrenders her arms, surrenders her only ability, her leverage point, to have what we call legislative appropriations bill, so there will be no restrictions on the president s ability to build a wall if you re no restrictions on the deregulatory bill: they call them poison pills, right? this will go two years. that takes you pass the next election, obviously. correct? it does. it s a two-year extension feud
and they hate it. and we know that i don t think many aides, exactly where we wanted the president to be today. a lot from the campaign and the white house, wolf, have become accustomed to these kinds of moments when the president creates all this noise and chaos and they ve learned how to move through it in a way that doesn t completely derail them from their mission of trying to get him elected even if that s th is not how they would design and say mr. president, this is the way we want you to go after it. makes people so uncomfortable. yeah. look at charlottesville, for example, the president s comments about good people on both sides. gary cohen resigned after comments about a terrorist. the devil s bargain that the republicans have made with this president. they re getting supreme court nominations, deregulatory efforts and in exchange, they