forcing power plants to close. in this midterm election year, it s a strategy designed to go head to head with republicans who are making hay of the harm these regulations would do to the coal industry. the administration has set out to kill coal and its 800,000 jobs. if it succeeds in death by regulations, we ll pay more for electricity if we can get it. reporter: the u.s. chamber of commerce estimates it will cost the economy $50 billion a year. advocates say those claims are exaggerated. this is something we can t put off. the president deserves huge credit for making this his legacy. reporter: but with the mid terms just five months away, this is a risk. democrat senate candidates are running hard in coal country and this move could hurt them as they try to keep republicans from gaining control of the senate. erin mcpike reporting live from washington.
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that chris christie s administration brought in outside counsel. that firm is i will find it here. the lead attorney there is randy mastro. he is a former u.s. assistant attorney for new york. a lot of experience on both sides here. all right. erin mcpike reporting live from trenton, new jersey. we will get back to you in the next hour. chief political analyst gloria borger is here now. gloria, good morning. good morning, carol. you wrote you wrote a column for cnn.com. i just want to read our viewers a bit of that. it was titled is christie presidential. you write in part, quote, if obama was not tough enough, he is hard-hitting. if obama was partisan, he worked across party lines. in some, christie could lead in the precise ways that obama disappointed. until a traffic jam on the george washington bridge. then came another stark contrast. the vindictive and petty christie culture as opposed to the stature the presidency
during that shutdown. and after that, many of those federal employees were paid retroactively, but a lot of federal workers are worried that won t happen this time. carol? all right, erin mcpike reporting live from washington. want to take you back to the senate. harry reid, the man who leads the senate, is now speaking. let s listen. okay. let s do this again. i ask unanimous consent for premorning business for debate until only 10:30 p.m., with the time controlled between the two senators or their designees and permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. is there objection? without objection, so ordered. under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mr. president. okay. we re going to step away from that. i m not quite sure what just went on, but i assume that
this week to the front gates of the zoo to collect their paychecks for having worked last week, carol. so, some very serious confusion and frustration around here today. erin mcpike reporting live from washington this morning. still to come in the newsroom poppy harlow has been talking to another group shut down by the government standoff. good morning, carol. good morning, everyone. we re going to take you to liberty island. all the nation s national parks are should shudderred today. and that means employees without a paycheck. they re angry today. their story, next.