Hi, I'm Congressman John Garamendi. I had to get out of that building, the Rayburn Office Building. I couldn't believe what President Trump proposed last night. He proposed that the Department of Interior, where I was Deputy Secretary during the Clinton Administration, that they be given a task that would destroy some of the most pristine places in America. These are the National Monuments that presidents day back to Teddy Roosevelt have set aside because they're precious. Their unique. These are the very important natural places in America that presidents for more than a 110 years have set aside for America's future generations. Places like, more recently, the Berryessa Snow Mountain, an area of California, 230 acres, more than 200 miles of pristine mountains on the west side of the Central Valley, just east of Napa Valley. Places that are really unique. Unique geography. Unique ecology. Unique creatures and plants. Set aside to protect the Mojave Desert of California. Set aside to protect that pristine desert. The Rocky Mountain,the Rocky Mountain area in Utah. The Grand Staircase Escalante that we worked on when I was at the Department of Interior. Over 200,000 acres of really pristine canyons and gorges and cliff dwellings, set aside for future generations. Eliminating the production of coal or shale gas out of those areas. We don't need more coal mines. We need more green energy. We need to protect these really natural areas of America that are, there's no way to replicate them. And to open them up to just rampant resource development, coal and oil, makes no sense at all. But that's what Donald Trump wants to do. He told the Department of Interior, where we worked for a decade during the Clinton Administration to protect these areas, he wants to roll that back and turn them over to the resource extraction industry, the coal industry, the oil and gas industry, and I'm saying, "No way Mr. President." You want a fight? We'll fight to protect these areas. We're not going to let it happen. We worked too hard over the years to set these areas aside. It's not that they're going to be locked out. People are going to go there, recreation, tourism, hunting fishing, all of those things are available. But no, no, not the extraction of coal and oil in the Utah, Arizona, New Mexico area, and in California, we're going to fight to protect these natural resource areas, some of them are off in the ocean. President Obama set aside millions of acres off the North Coast and Hawaii as a National Monument where the resources, the ocean resources, will be protected. So many different things that play here, and I don't understand President Trump. I don't understand why he would do this. It's not necessary for the economy, maybe for a very small number of coal mining companies. Maybe they would like it. But not the American future. Americans to the future would look at this and say, "Thankfully they did protect this, so that generations from now, it remains in its natural state." it's another fight we're going to have, and I want you to join us on that fight.