This administration is out of control

If we should get so lucky as to have Trump impeached, the entire administration should be scrapped along with him. I'm not holding my breath on the first count, and the second isn't even a possibility. But, for the sake of what's left of this country, and for democracy, it should be.

"EPA is opening the second portion of today PFAS Leadership Summit to press. The first portion was available via livestream," the spokesperson said in a statement. "This will start at 1 p.m and last until 5:30 p.m. and you can enter via the East Entrance on Pennsylvania Avenue NW."

The decision follows immense media scrutiny over the EPA's limitation of reporters allowed to cover part of its chemical summit Tuesday morning--including one reporter who says she was forcibly removed from the event.

Reporters from CNN, the Associated Press and E&E News were among a group of journalists barred from attending a two day-long event kicked off at EPA headquarters Tuesday.

While a handful of reporters from publications including The Hill were personally invited to attend EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's opening remarks and the first section of the panel, other outlets not invited were not allowed to attend the summit on hazardous chemicals linked to cancer.

Media representatives in attendance included Politico, The Wall Street Journal and CBS.

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"This morning's PFAS Leadership Summit at @EPA headquarters is open to the press... just not to reporters from @EENewsUpdates, @AP or @CNN. We've all asked the agency's press office why we're being selectively shut out and have gotten no responses," [Corbin Hair, a reporter for E&E News] tweeted.

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"The @AP, @CNN and E&E all showed up to cover this @EPA meeting on widespread, dangerous contaminants in many drinking water systems around the country. We were all turned away at the door of the EPA building," [AP reporter Ellen Knickmeyer] tweeted.

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The AP later reported that guards blocked their reporter from the entrance and grabbed the reporter by her shoulders to remove her from the building after she asked to speak to an EPA public affairs spokesperson.

When asked about the reporter's removal, an EPA spokesperson originally cited space constraints.

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But reporters who were allowed to come to the event were also limited to only an hour of attendance.

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An EPA spokesperson announced Tuesday afternoon that all press will now be able to attend in person the National Leadership Summit on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) being held over the course of two days at the EPA.

  The Hill

So, suddenly there's more space? Where are they meeting, in a balloon?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.