president stepped up. i m talking democrat and republican presidents, they have not stepped up and they do have great power. they have great power over you people. they have less power over me. some of you people are petrified by the nra. he alone could take on the nra and he didn t. talk is easy. doing something that might upset the powerful nra and some of his base perhaps, that is tough. the president likes to talk about being powerful, he sure seems to shrink in size when the nra is whispering in his year. this time he s largely singing it in the key of me. they supported me very early and that s been a great decision they made. the nra has made a great
were told the decision was made. as unepa official told us, we were told to get out of the way. they deny a meeting took place and then you show them what you have on it and then they re like, oh, yeah, that happened. that s right. drew griffin, glad you re doing this job. thank you. thanks. coming up, president trump takes hits from the 2020 candidates after his trip from el paso. mers bell] (burke) at farmers insurance, we ve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a three-ring fender bender. (clown 1) sorry about that. (clown 2) apologies. (clown 1) .didn t mean it. (clown 3) whoops. (stilts) sorry! (clowns) we re sorry! (scary) hey, we re sorry! [man screams] [scary screams] (burke) quite the circus. but we covered it. at farmers, we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum
decision. that s the decision. reporter: and the only recourse is for environmental groups to sue. you ll have a host of lawsuits. reporter: alaska s governor is a huge trump supporter. he sent this letter to the president asking for a long list of epa reversals including the clean water 404 veto, a direct reference to pebble mine. a member of his staff used to work on the project in public relations. and at epa headquarters, andrew wheeler, the former coal company lobbyist, has a tie to pebble mine too. he has recused himself from decision-making because his former law firm represents the mine. just the even saying a former coal company lobbyist is
an anti trump deep state in the government or resistance. he calls what he saw a complacent state in a state where political appointees contributed to incompetence and policies that the president would sometimes change on a whim without any notification. chuck park joins me tonight for his first tv interview about his high profile resignation. so explain why you decided to resign. sure. so let me start off by saying this is absolutely a personal decision for me, really difficult for me. i don t mean to project my values on the entire federal bureaucracy. let me say there. there are thousands and thousands of employees that did not make the same decision i did and they are absolutely working to prevent this freight train from going off the rails and exploding. respect for them. but and i think this was the real kind of one of the core
overseas, i hear a lot of laughter and it s not like laughing with us. i ll respond to that. it s really i ve been in meetings where people didn t know i was the u.s. diplomat in the room and it s really interesting to hear what other nations say about us. behind our backs when they think we re not listening and it s not all positive. there is a belief in america. let me reaffirm that. and kind of just to circle back to the core job of a foreign service officer, of a diplomat is to represent america overseas to explain it and to defend america. i m not sure right now that there is a cohaerent america to project the world. there is an america i believe in and i came home to fight for it. chuck park, thank you for talking to us. real pleasure. thank, anderson. up next, exclusive reporting that ties an epa decision