 For Attorney General, we go to Jeff Sessions from I believe Alabama It looks like he's gonna be our Attorney General that the Senate has been very kind to him because he's a senator They tend to take care of their own Has he been a friend of Exxon mobile? He has he's been really a longtime friend of Exxon mobile Also has as a senator has gotten many political contributions from Exxon up to I think $10,000 from Exxon mobile and then even more when you count kind of the entire oil and gas industry at large and similar to Scott Pruitt, he's also written letters in support of Exxon mobile. This is specifically in relation to the investigations going on by the state Attorney Generals in Massachusetts and New York the investigation that we discussed earlier and he wrote a letter to the Department of Justice Which it looks like he'll be running soon Asking them to basically quash any investigation into Exxon on their knowledge of climate the risks of climate change Which would just be a windfall for Exxon mobile to their bottom line It would be like saying when the state Attorney Generals were ganging up on the tobacco industry a couple decades ago and there was this Amazing settlement that supposedly went to to state States to help with health care to pay to pay damages for for cigarettes It would be the equivalent of an attorney general in a Justice Department Trying to stop the tobacco companies from being sued by state Attorney Generals for hiding the evidence that They were manipulating nicotine levels and that they knew cigarettes were cancers before the public did Exactly. Yeah, this is Go ahead I was just gonna say and there's there's a lot of parallels between this Investigation and the settlement reached with the tobacco industry about you know It's kind of fundamentally Misleading the public about the harms of its products Carbon pollution being for Exxon mobile another thing that Settlement recent settlement very recent that we compare this to is the Volkswagen case where they were polluting and and cheating the system basically on their pollution And they just settled for fourteen point seven billion dollars Now it's for lying about polluting over seven years And so if you kind of multiply that by the forty years the Exxon it has Allegedly lied about the knowledge of climate change, then then that's a pretty hefty sum for them You're listening to highlights from the David Feldman show heard nationwide on Pacifica radio or as a podcast on itunes stitcher And now YouTube please subscribe to this channel for more information go to David Feldman show dot com Thank you for listening The David Feldman radio program is made possible by listeners like you You sad pathetic humps