500-year-old trees, even if you re the president, you re going to make some people angry. what s the reaction? shock and anger. after all the work we put in to keep this area as pristine as we possibly can. can you characterize yourself as a tree hugging liberal? no, not at all. not a tree hugging liberal at all. and the governor and the president, you know, this is what i m saying. do not do not do this to us. we need to keep this place untapped as much as we can. and captain tuck wants me to remind you, these are your trees, america, and any new roads will be built with your tax dollars. bill weir, tenekee springs, alaska. thank you so much for that report and we thank you for being with us for this hour of the cnn newsroom. i m george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. the news continues here on the network after the break. stay with us. when we started our business
our bill weir went there to take a look at how people there feel about it. amid countless signs of a climate in crisis, a camera phone captured a fund-raiser on the pa nins la not far from the swan lake fire. with donald trump on speaker, that is alaskan senator dan sullivan holding the phone and swatting at hornets. the president promises to help them drill for oil in the arctic national wildlife refuge up north and build a road in the south. and then governor mike dunlevey enters the picture. he s been bonding with trump during air force one refueling stops. on our mining concerns, timber concerns often bringing a list of things he wants overturned in