excess of anybody else. i m honored to be here with the governors, with county exec sdpifz m executives around the country. secretary pruitt, secretary ross, thank you for being here. i appreciate it. we re here to discuss the need for america s crumbling infrastructure. and one understands and the people in this room really understand better than most, probably hopefully better than anybody, that the problem the states have and local leaders have with funding the infrastructure is horrendous, and we will build, we will maintain, and the vast majority of america wants to see us take care of our infrastructure. trucking companies are complaining that they used to take trucks from los angeles to new york and there was no damage. now they bring from los angeles to new york and there s tremendous damage to their
we ll check some other stories on our political radar today. secretary of state rex tillerson says the ball is now in north korea s court, that on the question when it comes to possible talks over its nuclear program. this comes after vice president pence told them we would be willing to talk to north korea under certain circumstances. he said, if you want to talk, we ll talk, on his way back from the olympics in south korea. the washington post said pruitt uses travel money much more often than his predecessors. first class from new york to rome costing $7,000. from washington to new york or birmingham to atlanta. the pruitt spokesman says all his travel was approved by the ethics office.
review, that basically said, why consider something that you know is too dangerous. so the issue is that the scientists determined that it was too risky. so we need to base our decisions on that science and quit wasting money from the taxpayers. and ultimately, ruining a fishery that so many jobs and so many family wages depend on. cnn did some analysis on secretary pruitt s meetings between april and september, they found that pruitt held 100 meetings with representatives of the fossil fuel industry during the time, only five with environmentalists or scientists. does that concern you? yes. absolutely. this is not what we expect the head of the environmental protection agency to do. we expect them to try to protect the environment. it is the resource of all people. it is not a special interest for sale sign that should be in the lobby of the epa. so what s next?
appalling. the mining company, pebble limited partnership, argues that they re just looking for a fair shake at submitting a proposal for their mine and what lifting the restrictions does is gives them a shot at the approval process. i guess the argument is, why not allow them to move forward, given there s still a chance the mine proposal may be struck down. because this was a process. so mr. pruitt is wasting taxpayer dollars. he s wasting money that a process took place, eight hearings, lots of scientific review, that basically said, what i consider something that you know is too dangerous. so the issue is that the scientists determine that it was too risky. so we need to base our decisions on that science and quit wasting money from the taxpayers. and ultimately, ruining a fishery that so many jobs and so many family wages depend on. cnn did some analysis on secretary pruitt s meetings between april and september, they found that pruitt held 100
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