And Joe and my Cabinet members who have been involved in this have been on a listening session over the last several months.

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Tony Macri of the Council on Environmental Quality hosts an interactive listening session with Director of the Office of Public Engagement Jon Carson and Deputy Director Greg Nelson.

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They did apologise but after listening to the full session on Tuesday, I began to wonder what they were sorry for.

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