Listen as Larry spoke with Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas regarding ‘caravans’ heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, EPA chief Scott Pruitt and more.
During the interview, Gohmert addressed people calling for the removal of EPA Chief Scott Pruitt:
O’Connor: If you look at one cabinet official who that has been most faithful in executing President Trump’s promises when he was running, it’s got to be Scott Pruitt and the great stuff he’s done at EPA.
Gohmert: Scott has been fantastic. He was a great attorney general and because he has been so effective they are going to throw everything at him they possibly can because he really has been effective. And let me tell you, he just relaxed some standards, I am here in east Texas right now, it’s where I’ve lived all my life – except for my four years in the army, and let me tell you, this isn’t like west Texas we have lots of pine trees, we have lots of pollen and there are some days in the year that without, even if there were no man in all of east Texas, the trees, the weeds, the flowers put out enough pollen that we violate this thing that, the standard, that Scott has relaxed. And the only way, there are some days the only way we can comply is to cut down every single thing that is biologically growing and concrete over all of east Texas and then we could meet the standards. So he did a noble thing when he is relaxing them and we continue to improve both but at some point you’ve got to go wait a minute, mother nature is even violating these standards. You’ve got to cut these people some slack.
O’Connor: So you don’t see anything in this whole idea of him paying $50 a night when he was in town at this condo that was apparently co-owned by the wife of someone who was a lobbyist for fuel standards. You don’t see that as an ethical violation or anything illegal? He should not have to be forced out of his position because of that?
Gohmert: He absolutely should not. They are digging for anything. Absolutely anything. And it is pretty ridiculous the standards that Republicans are held to. But it is tough to survive in this town unless you have, unless you’re like Pelosi or some of the Democrats that are millionaires and there are some republicans that are millionaires. But they are trying to make it like you can only serve in government if you’re a multi-millionaire…
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