Many ecologists now accept that prohibiting everything in the name of protecting nature is not useful, and so are being selective.

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What I will say is, those two that I just mentioned are the ones that he focuses on -- I mean, if you had to rank them, protecting the United States of American citizens abroad and the economy and jobs, those I will concede outrank everything else that he worries about every morning and every night.

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