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saturday night live. now, away from the jokes for a moment. president trump s top environmental official is calling for the u.s. to pull out of historic paris climate change agreement as o potential fight in the white house takes shape. interview last week scott pruitt becoming one of p highest ranking officials to explicitly reject that agreement endorsed by nearly 200 countries. paris is something that we need to really look at closely because it is something we need to exit in my opinion. bad deal for american. america second, third, or fourth approach. china and india had no obligations until 2030. we front loaded all of our coast. senior advisers reportedly set to discuss tomorrow. according to politic co-both against the agreement will be at that table. joining them will be secretary of state rex tillerson. senior add sigh or is support the deal. national economic director and
never intended to vote in the first place. he would like to retroactively recuse himself from that vote, please. two years later. in a letter to david samson on wednesday, the port authority general counsel told mr. samson, quote, i have concluded that you intended to recuse on that matter. through clerical inadvertence, your recusal was not noted. clerical inadvertence. i m going to get that tattooed in latin on my bag. a spokesman did answer to the bergen record yesterday. but today she responded to the newspaper by providing that letter, the general counsel s letter which says essentially the vote in question never happened. it s not like a divorce, more like an annulment. just never happened. the port authority s general counsel says he now intends to, quote, correct the board s minutes to reflect david samson s recusal. i m not sure i ve ever seen anything as a retroactive recusal, but in new jersey we re all learning that anything is
experts who have different theories and opinions. i m saying, look, i m not ready to say which is right or wrong. turns out that view is shared by the governor of north carolina who put mr. skvarla in charge of environmental issues for the state. this was pat mccrory in north carolina when he was running for governor in 2008. he was asked by an interviewer about global warming. it s in god s hands. frankly, the world has been warming for a long time and back in the 70s, if you look at the covers of newsweek and time, we were getting cold. it s in god s hands. it s one thing to have an abstract debate about not just climate change but whether or not science is a thing. whether or not science is real. but any abstract concerns about having people who deny science serving in public office became very concrete, very real concerns in north carolina this past super bowl sunday.
development in the chris christie bridge scandal today. i did not expect this today. all right, last night on this show, we introduced you to this plot of land, it s a nice place, right? it s a parking lot in northern new jersey just across the river from new york city. the entity that operating that parking lot has been trying for a few years now to figure out a way to maximize its profits from operating that parking lot and a few others. in order to do that, they hired a top new jersey law firm to help advise them on this matter called wolff and samson. they paid them $50,000 according to the bergen record. then they gave the law firm $1.5 million, all in the hopes that wolff and samson could help them figure out how to make more profit out of their parking lots. well, the samson in wolff samson is this samson, david samson. he s the chairman of the port authority. it also happens to own that piece of land where the parking lot sits. hmmm. in early 2012, mr. samson in his official ro
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