all americans, that creates better paying jobs, it increases salaries, that opens paths to the middle class. it actually reduces income inequality. we ve seen eight years of growing government and increasing regulation with increasing income inequality and we did not create good-paying jobs. now we re starting to see that turn around. we need to look at the tax plan for what it does for the american people and not parse this part and that part. but to say we re going to end the war on coal. there s not a war on coal. whether it s an environmental argument or an economic argument, it doesn t make sense to be in that business. the president says we re going to bring back trucking jobs. there s a surplus of trucking jobs. people don t want those jobs. so are we looking at the right industries in terms of creating better paying jobs? first of all, with respect to coal, there are a lot of things that are said in an election process. i don t think the problem with coal was to bring back
now they are saying these rules is why there s a war on coal. you know what the real war on coal is? fracking. fracking bought the natural gas price so low, it out paced coal. if you have more fracking, you get less coal. they are lying on the people. this is another part of the crazy. i am trying to get rid of the crazy so we can have real policy here. how you did that, was subjective in its standard, and all of these went too far, it creates economic disadvantages for workers, and dischanges
president trump had previously signaled a willingness to work with democrats on such a deal when he met with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi last month. pelosi calls the latest immigration proposal a complete nonstarter. the war on coal is over. epa administrator on scott pruitt announced last night in kentucky, today pruitt will sign a new rule to override the obama era clean power plant. pruitt is expected to declare that the clean power plant exceeds federal law by setting emissions standards that power plants could not reasonably meet. the rule mark as victory for pruitt who in 2014 was among two dozen attorney generals that sued to stop the obama administration he d push to limit carbon emissions. the new york times reporting that attorneys general from new york and massachusetts plan to chanlg t challenge the repeal once it is
county, flames are devastating the region s wineries. a huge business, as you know. meanwhile in southern california heavy smoke from a nearby fire turned the skies orange over disneyland. flames are threatening thousands of homes in southern california as well. we ll keep you updated on what we re learning today with the sun about to rise on the west coast. declared war on coal. it is right for this administration to say the war is over. sandra: president trump promised help for coal country on the campaign trail. today his administration taking a big step toward fulfilling that promise when scott pruitt signs an order rolling back key obama administration regulations. let s talk more about this with karl rove former white house deputy chief of staff to george w. bush and fox news contributor.
mine in western pennsylvania or anywhere in the country. i went 1,000 feet down and three miles in. as i spent time on that long wall mine with 30 to 40 miners i looked and said the president has a message for you, here is the president s message, the war on coal is over. and there was great exuberance and great applause. [applause] you know what s exciting about that is the video. when we got back to washington, d.c., guess where we put it? not on the shelf. we put it on the website of the epa. those miners there in western pennsylvania emotional with respect to that message from the president. as i m here today, your senator promised that the epa would come back and spend time here in eastern kentucky. i m excited to be with you here today. it is not just to visit about all the things that we re doing, which i think is very important for this country, but i m here to make an