A big new government report on climate change dropped yesterday, and many have criticized the Trump administration for appearing to bury it during a holiday weekend.

CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley told Ana Cabrera this afternoon that’s certainly a fair criticism, adding, “I mean it’s very odd going on here. Donald Trump is basically warring with his own White House over climate change.”

He elaborated:

“People that work in the White House––lawyers, staffers––they realize that scientific documentation is there, that climate change is real. They have careers. They don’t want to go on the side of being a denier and putting out fake history and doing the ostrich routine like Donald Trump’s doing so they deviated from each other and they kind of snuck this report in. It’s not a midnight report, it’s sort of a Thanksgiving-timed release.”

And Trump won’t address this issue, Brinkley added, because “he’s beholden to the oil and gas industry.”

Cabrera brought up Trump’s tweet mocking the concept of global warming prior to the release of the report, before going through the warnings from his own administration on the consequences of climate change.

CNN political analyst Karoun Demirjian said one of the problems with trying to get Washington to take this issue seriously is just how divided Congress is.

Watch above, via CNN.

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