After the State Department issued a report concluding the Keystone XL pipeline would not significantly worsen greenhouse gas emissions, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said that the White House wanted other departments to weigh in before the president would make a decision on whether to approve the controversial project.

The president wants to “insulate this process from politics,” McDonough said Sunday on NBC‘s “Meet the Press.”

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