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Video 5 Transcript: New EPA Head Scott Pruitt Rules on the Clean Power Plan
ON-SCREEN TEXT: Scott Pruitt was appointed head of the EPA by newly elected President Donald Trump.
NARRATOR: Soon, Scott Pruitt's EPA had moved to delay or roll back more than two dozen rules and regulations.
BOB MURRAY: Scott Pruitt-- he is the star on the Trump team, getting more done, probably than any other appointee to date. I gave Mr. Trump what I called an action plan very early. It's about three-and-a-half pages and... Of what he needed to do in his administration. He's wiped out page one.
DONALD TRUMP: Ready?
SCOTT PRUITT: We're ready to go.
NARRATOR: At the top of Murray's list was the rule that he and Pruitt had sued to stop: Obama's Clean Power Plan.
TRUMP: Okay. (applause)
CHAD WARMINGTON: You know, I think he's doing probably kind of exactly what we figured he would do, meaning we've... we're kind of pretty familiar with Scott. I'd say it was a closed door and it's now open, and in terms of the ability to engage and know that you're going to have the ability to have a seat at the table. I think that's the single easiest way to describe kind of what we feel is, "We just have a seat at the table."