president trump saying his administration wants quote the cleanest air and crystal clean water. the united states has withdrawn from the agreement and environmentalists say his speech was an effort to appeal to voter whose site worries about clean air and water as one of the biggest concerns. among those in attendance, the new interior secretary david bern heart was an oil industry lobbyist. drew griffin has been keeping an eye for months reporting on among other things, allegations he s given preference to former clients for drilling permits. a new report from drew you ll only see on 360 deals with the controversial development in water parks arizona owned by another person connected to secretary burnheart. here is drew s report. reporter: the village is a massive housing development being planned in this arizona desert east of tucson but like all development in arizona, water is an issue especially for
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now more of them have seats at his table in his cabinet. former industry lobbyists for corporate executives are leading at least four agencies. take a look at the wall you can see four of them. former exec at boeing is heading the department of defense. former coal lobbyist is the acting administrator of theepa. a pharmaceutical executive is the secretary of health and human services. the acting interior secretary is a former oil industry lobbyist. reporting suggests that could create more problems for the administration now that democrademocrat s run the house. the former epa chief scott pruitt and the former interior secretary resigned as ethics investigations focused on them. back to the panel.
rigor of government and governing. first of all, you had that cabinet meeting this week. you look around the table. how many titles begin with the word acting around that table, starting right there with the attorney general in the center of the picture. eric lip ton of the new york times said this on social media today. as of thursday, d.o.d. will be run by a former senior bowling executive. epa is run by a former coal lobbyist. hhs is run by a former pharmaceutical lobbyist. and interior will be run by a former oil industry lobbyist. welcome to 2019. and, bill, that s part of the optics, part of the problem. yeah. i mean, people like when rick and i would say to our republican friends, this is not going to end well. they say don t worry so much, gary cohn is in the white house stopping the trade war. h.r. mcmaster, security, jim mattis defense secretary.
in the center of the picture. eric lipton the new york times said this on social media today. as of thursday, d.o.d. will be run by a former senior boeing executive. epa is run by a former coal lobbyist. hhs is run by a former pharmaceutical lobbyist. and interior will be run by a former oil industry lobbyist. welcome to 2019. and, bill, that s part of the optics, part of the problem. yeah. i mean, people like when rick and i would say to our republican friends, this is not going to end well. they say don t worry so much, gary cohn is in the white house stopping the trade war. john kelly is a serious person, his chief of staff. h.r. mcmaster, security, jim mattis defense secretary. even jeff sessions, you may not love him, protecting the rule of law at the justice department. all gone, all replaced by people of much less stature and much less willingness or ability to stand up to the president. that s another huge change from where we were just several months ago. rick wilson