Watch Lee Zeldin Correct CNN Host In Real Time As She Tries Gotcha Question On Climate

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin shut down CNN host Kasie Hunt Sunday on “State of the Union,” saying the pictures Hunt displayed in her opening had “nothing to do” with a major Trump administration climate policy announcement.

The EPA on Tuesday announced it would formally end the 2009 Obama-era Endangerment Finding, which allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. In Hunt’s opening monologue before bringing on Zeldin, the CNN host criticized the EPA’s new change while images of power plants with smoke billowing into the sky played in the background, prompting Zeldin to correct her.

Hunt asked if Zeldin accepted the “overwhelming scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest drivers of man-made climate change.”

“Well, it’s great to be on with you. First, it’s worth pointing out that all eight or so images that you just posted on the screen have nothing to do with this week’s announcement,” Zeldin responded. “What the 2009 endangerment finding had to do with was with regards to mobile sources vehicles.”

“This week’s proposal to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding was with regards to mobile sources vehicles. CNN’s been using a lot of photos where they show smokestacks of stationary sources like power plants. That’s not what we proposed,” Zeldin continued. “Now going back to 2009, the science that they were reviewing included both optimistic to pessimistic scenarios. To reach the 2009 endangerment finding, they relied on the most pessimistic views of the science.”

In a public response to the agency’s decision to roll back the Endangerment Finding, Zeldin told the hosts of the “Ruthless” podcast that the regulation is not only costly for Americans, but has also been used to impose strict rules on vehicles. Without it, consumers could see