Van Jones Hits Scott Pruitt Over ‘World Salad of Nonsense’

‘His job is to be the environmental protection person’

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TAPPER: "Back with the panel and, van, I feel like you might have a response."
JONES: "I just — I mean the — there is so much wrong — so many wrong things. Okay. Simple stuff. Simple stuff. He says he is so produced we reduced under the Kerr clean air act by polluteants by 65% that’s Pennsylvania hued huge achievement pursued of it but carbon wasn’t counted as a pollutant under the clean air act under the Obama term but Obama tries to move forward and they stop him they say it’s terrible. You’re either for the clear air act which means that — by the way you’re conservative supreme Court agrees with this you have a responsibility to reduce the pollution or you’re against it. They talk against themselves all the time. For fracturing hurting coal and they’re for coal. When you have the word salad of nonsense coming from an EPA administrator didn’t say one word about the environment. His job is to be the environmental protection person. There was no protection in the speech. This was part of why I think Normal people — you just saw Elon Musk pull out. You cannot deal with this white House because you cannot deal with facts, can’t deal with science. Can’t deal with economics, with You cannot deal with this white House because you cannot deal with facts, can’t deal with science. Can’t deal with economics, with jobs, can’t deal with anything about mythology and slogans that’s where we are."

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