Story highlights Trump met with Zinke on FridayEarlier this year Trump initiated a review of monument designationsWashington (CNN) President Donald Trump, in a call Friday with Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, said that he intends to accept Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendation to shrink the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, a spokesperson for the senator told CNN. Trump met with Zinke on Friday, primarily to discuss the "monuments report that will be coming out shortly," according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. Earlier this year Trump initiated a review -- led by Zinke -- of more than two dozen national monuments designated by Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. If the President officially announces the plan to shrink either national monument it would make Trump the first president to shrink a national monument using the Antiquities Act. "I'm approving the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase recommendation for you, Orrin," Trump told Hatch in a phone call Friday morning, the spokesperson said.

Source: CNN October 27, 2017 19:41 UTC