Thank you everybody, and thank you so much for being here here and for that introduction as well. This is not going to be a late discussion by any stretch but youll final it worthwhile. Ill speak for a while and then engage in questions and answers with you in the audience. This is a like i said headquartersy subject, crucially important for this nation as we head into the 2016 elects. And that is the mean by which business business bs have moved to steer the american political process their way, and by and large, by no means entirely but by and large, theyre succeeding. In its entirety and complexity, this is a story far, far bigger than any one book can hold. It includes such forces as the Koch Brothers and their farreaching networks that are as we speak raising enormous amounts of money to influence the president ial and congressional races and they have the a huge network of donors and also includes a whole swarm of super pacs and dark money groups that are forming alongside pretty
Correct . Yes or no . Im not going to do that. But you did say that. Are you expanding your authority here with this proposal . No. None whatsoever. No. Why have the new rule, then . Because the existing rule, as i mentioned, is based on flawed approaches to determining jurisdiction, is actually more broad than the Supreme Court has asked us to let me ask you this, then. Do you believe that this rule improves the overall clarity of epas jurisdiction or authority . Yes or no . Yes. You think it does. Well, youre absolutely incorrect. You can see the questions were asking here. This rule is not needed. The Supreme Court didnt tell you to make a new rule. It said that you could, and to me, its expanding the authority in breach of the epa, and thats the reason theres so much discontent all across this country, not only in my state of georgia but in every state in this country because you all are expanding your authority. You talked about if anybody wants to put a pollutant into water, they
Senator, i know it is hutto. The key to bipartisanship . You have been in the statehouse. Well, i dont disagree with who about getting people have some ideas in a room and have them sit down and stay there until they work it out. It is how you resolve these issues. ,ou know, taking hard positions posturing for the media, going out and having press conferences, that is not how you resolve it. You have to bring people together who want to work who are willing to give up something and willing to give something. That is the whole nature of compromise. The process he described, that is what we have to do, and the problem is he has been there 20 years, and some of these problems still exist, and while he is talking like he wants to do with comment and he has done it on some occasions and on some not, it they cannot come to an agreement, they have to do it. I think it is important to another issue. Senator graham or senator hutto, do you have a sense that they are getting to a Tipping Point w
You would think that we would get the inside scoop. But we have to wait just like everyone else. My whole week is already derailed at 4 01 a. M. On monday. Sunshine, every day this week. Seven days in a row. No rain. 51 degrees right now the lakefront. Further out to the west its cooler. Sublets composite shows we are dry. Theres a big storm moving through portions of the rockies. Basically it will hit the brakes on everything else. Not much moving from west to east which means we have sunshine for an extended stretch. It will be cooler than normal. Typical high would be 72. 66 today. Abundant sunshine tonight. Getting into tuesday, tuesday as high as 71. A new moon comes into wednesday. You cant sit. She was hoping i would not howl like a wolf but i did. Good morning to you every time he gives me a moon i do it. Lets take a quick look. We have a few items that could slow down outside. This started last saturday to try to get all the boats out of the harbor back into storage. The seaso
A victory in the fight against isil. The pent gone during air strikes in iraq. Mike joins us live now from the white house, and mike, what more can you tell us about this operation. Tony, it is a temporary victory, no question about it. Top officials including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and later in a statement from the pentagon, some top officials now reports have been killed in the continuing air strikes top officials within isil, setting back their cause. They include the head of isil anywhere tear operations in iraq, the governor of the Islamic State so called Islamic State govern ship in the area around moss soul, of course, which has been captured by isil forces and a key deputy to the Top Commander in the top leader of isil, the pentagon has been carrying out these air strikes of course since august with the help of Coalition Partners the pentagon very eager as they always are to emphasize some nations involved here with some 1500 being put on the ground, theres