grand escalante contains a plethora of pail logical specimen. 12 new dinosaur species have been discovered since designation. there was one big problem. all of that good news did not fit in with president trump s decision to strip away protections and open up those protected lands to business. so what did interior department do with all that information? well, they buried it, and it was hidden until now. by accident, all of this was recently revealed, including the proposed redactions in an errant document dumped to a freedom of information act request by the center for western priorities. oh, it s obvious when you look at the documents there are big, red outlines, big boxes around what they tried to redact. it was clearly just an error on the production end where they failed to actually hit the final redact button in adobe acrobat. reporter: the department of interior tried to recall the documents, but it was too late.
big, red outlines, big boxes around what they tried to redact. it was clearly just an error on the production end where they failed to actually hit the final redact button in adobe acrobat. reporter: the department of interior tried to recall the documents, but it was too late. allowing aaron wise and other environmental watchdogs to see exactly how trump s politically appointed interior department staff was working. it shows that all of their claims around the national monuments review were false. secretary zinke said there was no outcome that was preordained. these documents said definitively that the outcome political appointees were going out of their way to hide information that didn t make their case. this really is incredibly embarrassing for the interior department. reporter: in another example, this one involving offshore protections, interior didn t want the public to see this
author plethora of discoveries. there was one big problem. all of that good news did not fit in with president trump s decision to strip away protections and open up those protected lands to business. so interior department officials hid it. by accident, all of this was recently revealed, including the proposed redactions. in an errant document dumped to a freedom of information tact request by the center for western priorities. oh, it s obvious. when you look at the documents, there are big, red outlines, big boxes around what they tried to redact. it was clearly just an error on the production end, where they failed to actually hit the final redact button in adobe acrobat. the department of interior tried to recall the documents, but it was too late. allowing erin weiss and other environmental watchdogs to see exactly how trump s politically appointed interior department staff was working.
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administration or trying to go back to the conservative values and beliefs of that of ronald reagan. it was the release was timed to come out right now before the election so you could have sort of make a political statement. absolutely. i wanted to give people proper tools to take with them on november 2nd so they make wise decisions on what course to take. you have made this film outside the usual hollywood movie system. in other words, you say you ve self-financed, right. i self-financed it, the production end of it, where i got private investors for the p and a. going through self-distribution, because, you know, a studio wouldn t pick this up just because of the concerns of the liberal left in hollywood. and it was a there is lots and lots of money being spent on advertising this week, so you ve obviously gotten funding help from other sources. that s the independent financer for the p and a, which is prints and advertising. can you tell us who any of those are