Republican viewers to weigh in on his campaign, his political style. Republicans only for the first 45 minutes. Give us a call, if you are in the easter or central time zone, 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain are pacific time zone, 202 7488001. You can also catch up with us on social media, on twitter, facebook, or email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good saturday morning to you. We are beginning with donald trump this morning. We are talking to just our republican viewers, asking you to call in, to get your take on his lead in the gop primary polls and his political style. Of course, that event last night, we aired on cspan. You can see it online at cspan. Org. Be will be showing you clips during the first 45 minutes. A victory lapd it for donald trump. Badmouth his rivals. Here is a bit of what he had to say. [video clip] you know, i brought back a term that hasnt been used in a long time. Silent majority. There is a tremendous sign the majoritythat silent that politicians h
Drinking the water. There are a lot of impacts. That plume that stretched out over 100 miles is now cleared. There is sort of a yellow sludge in the riverbed. That is being tested. There are epa crews at the site blowout. Ld king mine theyre trying to treat the water, which is traced with heavy metals, as much as possible before he goes on into the animus headwaters. Host you mentioned the gold king mind. That is where this took place. What got into the river . What are the chemicals and heavy metals that people are most concerned about . Yellow sortoranges of mustard hue comes from, my oxidetanding is, iron hearing there are a whole bunch of heavy metals that drain out of mind. Some of the ones that people were concerned about where lead, manganese, copper, arsenic. Us back toou take august 5, and why the Environmental Protection agency was at this mine, and how this all happen in the first place . They were working around the opening of the mine with a contractor. This is the high Sa
He makes a really good point, which is that its hard you got to have skin in the game, you know. You really do. I am always curious to ask people, and we have a poll coming out soon that does ask this question of parents, if money were not an issue, would you send your child to your Neighborhood Public School . If you had a choice and you could send them, you could take them out and send them to a private school, or any school of your choice, would you do it . And it was astonishing to me how many people would. And the fact is they cant, and thats what is frustrating. You know, he is right, politicians and people in power do have a choice, and if you are at a disadvantage and you dont have the money to choose a private school or you dont have Educational Options where you live, you dont, and thats not fair, that goes right to the heart of the inequality piece. If some of our viewers want to check out the poll that you are talking about, is that on the website, the we just completed it,
Im 111 years of bipartisan land conservation, which began with president roosevelts leadership. The most glaring example is an ongoing attack on the Antiquities Act in general and the National Monument in particular. Trying to roll back as a taxpayer weight especially at a time when the administration is proposing significant staff cutbacks. In my opinion, another management designation is that they are seers Intertribal Coalition inspectors working to protect these lands. I believe any action by the administration to undermine protection for any other National Monument is illegal and i will strongly oppose any legislative attempt to weaken this monument status. Secretary zinke, the administration also attempting to unilaterally rule that has gone into effect on the blm mapping rule. The department now statistically dubious decision to suspend the methane waste prevention rule. This is a commonsense rule that implements in 97yearold requirement to prevent waste of federal natural gas.
The senate began its business. Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to consider the president s budget request for the department of interior for fiscal year 2018. This is the second of three budget hearings before our committee this year following the Forest Service last week and the kept of energy which is coming up on thursday. Secretary zinke, welcome back to the committee for your first appearance since our bipartisan vote in favor of your confirmation on march 1st. It was nice to be able to give you the the official tally this morning, make it officially official. I want to start by noting you have taken on some tough tasks at the department including some challenges that really have gone unaddressed for years. I think you are off to a good start. And i appreciate that. I have enjoyed working with you during the early month of your tenure as secretary. I truly appreciated the opportunity to host you and some members here on the commit