Health care is personal to me. Obamacare is personal to me. When i see the president try to tear it down and others propose to replace it and start over, thats personal to me too. Weve got to build on what we did because every american he deserves Affordable Health care. Paul lets bring in kim strassel, kate odell and jason riley. So kate, what do you make of the biden ads . Smart politics . I think it is smart politics because, look, hes trying to differentiate himself from the rest of the field and show hes not as radical as bernie or some of the other candidates who want to basically overhaul private insurance overnight and eliminate it. Now, the policies are smart. The details are less stark than they may appear at first. He is proposing a public option which would be a major expansion of Government Health care and probably a weigh station to single payer. Paul its a question of doing it in stages to get to a government run program or incrementally which is what biden wants or do it in one giant leap, thats the difference . Right. I mean, bernies plan is a four year transition which would be theres no precedent for attempting a massive government expansion on that level in four years. Paul that public option that biden supports, that didnt pass in 2010. Obama tried to get it through. It couldnt even pass a democratic congress. Its a testament to how far the politics have shifted over the past 10 years which is an indictment of obamacare, if you think about it, that it didnt solve the problems that it purported to solve in coverage and acassess to care. Paul what does this tell us about the state of the democratic race . Its pretty early for biden. Its not even labor day, the causcaucuses in iowa are four, e months away. Is it too early for biden to be out there . I dont think so. The game has sort of changed, when people started paying attention to this race a lot earlier than they did four years ago when we had the 2016 race. So people are more engaged now. I think that ii think that has e front load the calendar in terms of when they decide to engage. Biden has been leading the race since he got in. I think this is a real lead that he has including in some of the early voting states. I think it was a very smart ad and i saw the screen shots of obama in there. [ laughter ] paul how many times, like every shot. I think joe biden realizes that has a lot to do with why he is leading this race. His attachment to obama is still a very popular figure among democrats and him saying to people, wait, these guys want to attack obamacare, they want to attack obamacare. Do you want to attack obamacare . And i see where hes going with that. I think its effective. Paul kim, you wrote a couple weeks ago about Elizabeth Warren on health care. She has endorsed the Bernie Sanders medicare for all bill in congress, she said shes for medicare for all. You said if you look at her specifics, she is very fuzzy on the math and the details. Explain. Well, yes, she doesnt have anything. I mean, this is remember, her whole catch phrase is shes got a plan for that. But you go to her website, there is no official plan for health care. She has gone out there and said that shes with bernie on this but there are no specifics. And as we all know, health care is quite complicated. There are many different ways you can get to medicare for all and she has said that before. What shes clearly doing is trying for as long as she can to leave it open as to how long it might take to get there or whether or not this was something that happened over a period of decades. She doesnt want to commit herself until the field clears a little bit and she knows what the sense of this is better because were seeing lots of democrats shifting their positions here as they realize that medicare for all is a little dicey out there in terms of the sell with the public. Paul it gets rid of private hell insurance. Exactly. I think the cautionary tale might be Kamala Harris. It hasnt worked out for her. I think that probably spooked Elizabeth Warren a little more. It comes down to private insurance. Everyone likes medicare for all, single payer, until you tell them you might lose private insurance and then they go whoa. Thats what the democrats are dealing with here. Paul Elizabeth Warren may be caught here a little bit between bernie who is the real deal on medicare for all and has all the he details, bells and whistles and the threat to eliminate private insurance. When is bernie going to smoke Elizabeth Warren out here . Thats a good question. I think thats one thing to watch in the debate, why havent those two turned on each other sooner is an open question. I think jasons theory on Kamala Harris is really right. Kamala tried to say ill leave some token role for private insurers in my system and made herself vulnerable to criticism on all sides. I dont think its going to be easy for warren to get out of medicare for all now, given as you said, she cosponsored a bill in congress and said she favored eliminating private insurance. So i think shes kind of stuck with what shes supported here. I dont know if shell be able to walk it back. Paul coming up next, a brandnew round of polls show joe biden maintaining his lead over his democratic rivals and defeating President Trump in a general election matchup. But despite those numbers, well talk to a strategist who warns that the former Vice President is the democratic version of mitt romney in 2012 and that hes decembe destined to lose. O. But we wont get there without you. 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Well, look, romney never really quite fit republican primary voters that gravitate pretty far to the right but they heard over and over again hes our best chance to beat president obama at the time and that was the biggest goal among republicans. I would argue that probably democrats, many of them, the biggest goal is to beat President Trump but joe biden no longer, at least joe biden 2. 0 certainly doesnt fit the democrat primary and i think thats becoming increasingly clear. The second problem biden has, though, is hes making a lot of mistakes. And hes looking weak in a lot of the base, low energy. I would argue, the reason theyre going up on tv is because they can control that message, film it, put it up there. They know what its going to look like. Even this week, again, the Washington Post pointed out that biden was caught on the campaign trail taking multiple stories, putting them together and it turned out to be a total fixal x fictional account of something that biden remembered. This is starting to make democrats question is he the best opponent to donald trump. Paul he got in in april or something, hes been the frontrunner since april. There have been reports about his gaffes, his slipups, his memory mistakes and so on and people, the media have focused on those relentlessly. Here biden is and hes at the top of the polls. Doesnt that suggest staying power . I think that will happen for a little bit. Lets look at one other thing. We have new rounds of debates. Mostly the centrists are out out because they couldnt get support among the democrat primaries. Its the leftleaning that met all the criteria. At some point, those candidates are also going to be leaving the campaign and those votes are going to start going to other leftleaning candidates. So i think biden is pretty stable where he is and he might drop a little bit but at some point theres going to be a biden versus somebody and when that happens, i think the somebodys in a better position than biden in a democrat primary. Paul from 2012, it was ultimately romney versus santorum and romney won. The biden in that race won. He lost the general election but he won the primary. Why couldnt biden do the same thing near. Theres a little bit of a difference. The wild card is does the left come together and rally behind a single candidate. If you have four or five left candidates and biden is the only one there, its very possible joe biden will be the nominee. The second big difference is how money is raised. Mitt romney had big super pacs, big donors. The other candidates had small dollar donors. Small dollars has become the most important way to raise money. Biden is not a particularly good small dollar donor. Elizabeth warren, Bernie Sanders, theyre much better. As time goes on, i think they might have a financial advantage over biden. Paul on the point about electability, though, let me push back again because you have electability in the polling that ive seen, the democratic primary voters say that is their number one concern and, why, because they really, really, really dont like donald trump. So could that issue this time be the dominant issue and even though theres this energy on the left you talk about, maybe work in bidens favor . Well, its certainly working in his favor right now. Hes a name. He has a known entity. And people think well, i think he could win. But the problem is, hes already starting to move left on some issues, like the hyde amendment, which a lot of pro choice people dont like their tax dollars going to pay for abortions. People in rust belt states, for example, blue collar conservatives, who are often democrats who always have liked biden see now that hes shifting to the left. Not only is he not looking like as strong candidate when it comes to his own personality, hes starting to feel like in the democrat primary he has to move to the left and the more he moves to the left, it makes it harder for him to be competitive effectively in the general election. Paul if youre sitting in the Trump Campaign and wondering who youre running against, who would do you really fear . If you dont fear biden, who do you worry about . In fairness, what i learned with trump and his campaign, they dont think that way and fear anybody. If i look at the field right now, i think probably the most likely democrat to end up being their candidate is Elizabeth Warren. But i also think she comes with a whole host of problems. When we get to the general election and were talking about medicare for all, were talking about green new deal, all these things that are going to cost hard working americans jobs and taxes and take away health care bebenefits they have now, i thik that works to the president s favor. Paul thanks for coming in. Thats going to be fascinating to watch. Looking forward to it. Paul when we come back, james comey claims vindication after the Justice Department declines to prosecute the former fbi director for his handling of memos that detailed his conversations with President Trump. What the Inspector Generals report really says, next. [farmers bell] burke at farmers insurance, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a threering fender bender. clown 1 sorry about that. clown 2 apologies. clown 1 . Didnt mean it. clown 3 whoops. stilts sorry clowns were sorry scary hey, were sorry [man screams] [scary screams] burke quite the circus. But we covered it. 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Paul the Justice Departments Inspector General releasing a report this week that says form other fbi director james comey violated fbi policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations he had with President Trump. The doj watchdog says comey broke fbi rules when he gave a memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the contents with a reporter. The ig says comey failed to notify the fbi after he had been fired that he had retained some of the memos in a safe at home. The Justice Department has said it wont prosecute him for the violations and on thursday comey took to twitter to claim vindication saying, quote, doj ig found no evidence that comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media. I dont need a public apology from those who defamed me but a quick message with a sorry we lied about you would be nice. Were back with kim strassel, jason riley and wall street Journal Editorial Board member allysia findley. What do you think about comeys claims of vindication . I think hes going to be waiting a long time for an apology from most of america. Only jim comey could turn a report that was this devastating into some sort of vindication. I think the ig did two important things here. One, he skewered this absurd claim that comey made that memos he took of official moments with the president were personal and therefore his to keep and leak. Obviously, in doing so he did break any number of rules and regulations in his own employment agreement. The other important thing that the ig did was skewer this notion that comey was justified in doing this. Pointing out that we have rules for a reason. You do not get to run the fbi on the basis of personal conviction and that even jim comey has to be expected to follow all those regulations. Paul kim, he said that the igs report said the motivation that comey had here was selfserving. He wanted to get donald trump. He wanted to get an appointment of a special counsel. So that was for his own and yet comey couched it in a sort of grander vision of oh, i care deeply about the fbi, i care deeply about the country. But he was also he was really looking out for number one. Yeah. And that was the other really great thing to see in this report. It was very welldone in that its very neutrally written, straightforward, but it simply calls out comey on this fiction, he sort of pedaled to the nation for two years now that hes was operating in everyones best behalf. He was actually operating to get his own, as the ig pointed out, his own ambitions achieved and has also pointing out how much this has hurt and undermines the fbi as well. Paul called it a the ig called it a dangerous example for 35,000 other employees. If you can say youre the director, look, i did this because i have a higher duty, boy, and i can break the rules, thats dangerous, this is an Enforcement Agency with enormous police power. Now we know where the behavior of people like peter strzok and andrew mccabe, the rock started at the very top under jim comey. I think the vindication here belongs to the president for firing jim comey, clearly the right thing to do. I wish he had done it earlier. You dont want an fbi director with jim comeys situational ethics. Who saw his job as to undermine the presidency which is what he was trying to do. I wish we could bill comey for the mueller report. Paul what about the argument from some of the right which is saying bill barr blew it because he didnt prosecute comey here, he decided not to prosecute him and, therefore, he abdi kateed and we cant hold comey accountable. Do you agree with that . I think its a close call. There isnt any clear evidence that he violated the law. He violated fbi agency rules. I think if he were to prosecute the case, i think that would have probably been more divisive, underminor trust in the fbi and the government. Paul hes lucky he didnt have jim comey as his prosecutor, jim comey. What are we going to do next here . What are we looking for next . From the ig. This is definitely a sign that the ig is wrapping things up. I think it was really notable that he took the time to actually issue a report as long as this on just one aspect of comeys behavior. I think that suggests to us that when he does release his report, which im hearing is going to be in the next couple of weeks, his bigger reports looking at the fbis broader Counter Intelligence investigation and the fisa process, that it is going to be very comprehensive and that we can expect that nobody just because they have a title or held an important rank or position is going to be spared from a lot of scrutiny. 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Meteorologist adam klotz is in the fox extreme weather center. What are we looking at now, adam . Reporter this system continues to move, but the one thing that has stayed is it is a massive, major storm. Theres your center of circulation, the eyewall very well defined, winds at 150 miles an hour, gusting up to 185 miles an hour. Movement now down to 8 miles an hour to the west, its going to be a slow mover. It has been and will continue to be, so moving over the bahamas getting into monday night or, excuse me, sunday night into monday morning before eventually running closer to the coast. And at this point youre starting to talk about tuesday, that is how slow moving this is. The system makes a turn to the north. Theres still a little indecision here. This is what we call our cone of uncertainty which means the path could be anywhere inside this cone, some of it still including portions of florida, other areas running up the coast, getting into wednesday. Now up around the jacksonville area and running up towards the carolinas, weakening very slowly as it moves and moving very slowly in general. Theres still, as i said, a lot of indecision. It could still run into portions of the state of florida, it could miss it entirely and run right up to carolinas. Thats what our models are currently suggesting. You see it moving over the bahamas, in good agreement, and then suddenly all of these models cant make up their mind what exactly is going to happen, maybe running up into south carolina, North Carolina before heading back out to sea. This is something, unfortunately, its going to take it til maybe tuesday to get a really good idea of where this system is going to head. But nonetheless, laura, it is going to be a big, major storm, and well be watching it. Laura im laura ingle, keep it on fox for all the latest updates on Hurricane Dorian. Paul middle east tensions ratcheting up with israel carrying out a series of strikes against irans proxies in iraq, syria and lebanon in just one 18hour period last weekend. An israeli airstrike killed two iraniantrained fighters in syria, a drone set off a blast near a hezbollah office in the suburbs of beirut, and an airstrike near the Syrian Border in iraq killed a commander of an iranbacked militia. The attacks mark an escalation in the shadow war between iran and israel with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu tweeting, quote iran has no immunity anywhere. Our forces operate in every sector against the iranian aggression. If someone rises up to kill you, kill him first. Jonathan spire is a journalist and middle east analyst. He directs the middle east center for reporting and analysis. Welcome, mr. Spire. Good to have you here. So you wrote this week that the israel iran war is already underway. Whats happening on the ground . Well, as you were describing a moment ago, whats happening on the ground is an ongoing Israeli Campaign to attempt to undermine and prevent what i would describe or what is often described as the entrenchment and consolidation by the iranians on a military infrastructure in syria, lebanon and iraq. And in a sense, the attempt by the iranians to consolidate their own de facto control of a kind of contiguous line of territory through iraq, through syria, through lebanon and to israel. Thats been going on for a while. In syria theres certainly been we know of hundreds of israeli operations, its now clear its expanded to iraq and to lebanon. Paul so how many times a week are they hitting, are the airstrikes going into iraq . And can that continue . Can the israelis keep doing that without some response from iraq . Right. Well, we know so far of four separate incidents, two in july, two in august. The last one august 20th. Israel, of course, doesnt claim responsibility for these actions, but it looks pretty likely, you know . Israels the only serious candidate for responsibility. Paul right. I would say that iraq itself, the Iraqi Government is very much divided on this because, of course, israel is not hitting the Iraqi Security forces. Israel is hitting the Popular Mobilization units, thats shia militia supported by iran inside the country. So i think, you know, the Iraqi Government will probably continue to issue criticism and not do a great deal more. But the issue is will the iranians themselves who, of course, control those militias seek to carry out a response at a time of their choosing. And with regard to that, the answer is almost certainly yes, almost certainly the iranians are already attempting to put together such a response. And, indeed, we saw just last week the israeli action against the operatives in southwest syria, you know, was an israeli sort of foiling of an iranian attempt to launch, we think, killer drones into israel, presumably to hit either civilian or military targets. So theyre already trying to respond, and part of the operation for israel is not only to attack, but also to prevent the attempt by the iranians to react and respond. Paul i wonder if, in fact, here the iranians dont have the strategic advantage, and heres why i say that. Theyre entrenching consistently day by day by day. Israel can attack periodically and set them back, but ultimately, as long as the iranians are determined and as long as its proxies willing to take some casualties, how can israel really stop that without a full scale escalation . Yeah. Well, i think thats a very good point. And that, in a way, is the central question mark which ive written about and others have written about too hanging over this strategy. Israel is clearly superior to the iranians, to iran in two key areas. One is in terms of its intelligence coverage over remember on lebanon, syria ad iraq. And the second is its ability in air power. Israel is able to kind of lop off the low hanging fruits, so to speak, of the iranian project whenever they get too close to looking really dangerous. For example, it appears that israel has prevented an iranian attempt to equip their missiles in lebanon with precisionguided devices. Itll turn them into much more dangerous missiles that would have an accuracy radius of around 10 meters. Israel, it a appears, has prevented that. But when it comes to the broader iranian project of, in a certain sense, trying to hollow out those systems and societies in iraq, syria and lebanon and replace them with irancontrolled power structures, yeah, its very hard to see how that could be prevented by air warfare. I think, frankly, it cannot be. Which means what were looking at is the likelihood of continued iranian attempts to consolidate, probably successful in all three countries, and then as you said, periodic israeli actions to stop the danger from growing too close and too intent. Its a version of whats happening in gaza which we describe in israel, of course, as mowing the grass. Every so often israel goes in to hit hamas and deter them, written on a far larger canvas. Paul can the u. S. Do much to help israel other than say that were, we have their back . I think so. I think look, i think the u. S. Campaign of maximum economic pressure on iran is, you know, a hugely helpful additional element in all this because, of course, as the pressure continues to bite, you know, the likelihood or the hope at least is that it becomes more difficult for iran to maintain these overseas commitment and that then will perhaps produce economic pressure at home on the regime. Thats certainly very welcome. But clearly, the u. S. Does not wish to enter, it looks like at least, to joining the military effort. And the saudis doing what theyre doing down in yemen, but the saudis are much weaker and more fragile. Israel is kind of on its own on the military level of this contest. Paul jonathan spier, thanks so much for your reporting. Still ahead, the s. A. T. Changes its answer. The College Board drops its controversy plan to add a diversity score to the high stakes test. What it means to the College Admissions game next. [ music i am by club yoko plays ] boom goes the dynamite, feels like im taking flight. [sfx poof] [sfx squeaking eraser sound effect. ] i am who i wanna be who i wanna be who i wanna be. Im a strong individual feeling that power im so original, ya sing it louder. I am, oooh oooh oooh oooh Ehhh Ehhh Ehhh ehhh i am, oooh oooh oooh oooh i am door bell rings its ohey. This is amazing. With moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay . 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Score in this country is about 170 points higher than the average black s. A. T. Test score. And this was initially an effort to do manager about that. Something about that. Adversity was basically a proxy for race. This was a back door attempt at racial preferences, i think paul isnt the test biased against africanamericans . No, i dont think its biased against africanamericans. I think what we need to focus on is preparing kids to do a better job for the test. Not change the test or change the standard for getting into college. The problem here is trying to get kids that arent qualified to do the work or cant handle the work into college. Youre not doing them any favors. Youre just going to see higher dropout rates among these groups. Weve seen in the past. The real hard work is going to be done in the k12 system getting these kids prepared to take the test. Paul why do you think the College Board changed its mind . I think its a huge public blowback among people for a varian from a variety of backgrounds. One, this was basically reaffirming the belief that ones success and achievement is a product of ones circumstance, that if youre low income or poor, then youre, you know, we need to handicap that. Paul and youre doomed forever to be that unless we lift you up. Exactly. And, obviously, among the upper middle class, more affluent, it would have also punished if youre a middle class parent and you want to send your kid to a better school, move to a better neighborhood, it would punish those folks. Paul kate, is this decision going to help reduce the cynicism so many of us have about that mystery black box called College Admissions . Well, i think i do think it is, its good for the College Boards value proposition, because i do think going to start to see this capital flight to measures as it gets harder to tell why kids are getting into college. For instance, grades have been inflated to the point of meaninglessness, and so theyre not a way to measure candidates against each other. So i think the College Board maintaining this as close to an objective measure as they can. Its not perfect. Of course you can study for the test and pay for good tutors, but you see in College Class profiles that theyre letting in kids with a pretty broad range of s. A. T. Scores which means theyre looking at other factors like adversity, the high schools they came from. I think the s. A. T. Is right to stay in the lane of offering specific, close to objective, imperfect test. Paul jason, lets turn to new york city that you wrote about for us there, focusing on the chancellor of the school system, superintendent, rather, getting rid of gifted and talented programs because he said it hurt lower income students, and hes already trying to level the Playing Field how you can get into certain high schools. Right. Again, this obsession with diversity for its own sake, this obsession with racial balance in schools, when i think the real focus should be on creating enough quality schools to meet the needs for them. We have high Quality Public School models in new york city that the mayor refuses to replicate. Those are Charter Schools, public Charter Schools. They do an excellent job of getting kids into these gifted and talented programs, but he has no interest in replicating those models because the teachers unions are opposed to Charter Schools a because many of the teachers arent unionized. Paul and the attack on charters continues across the country, california, new york. The Democratic Partys really turned hard, elements of it, against charters. I think thats right. Several years ago you saw arne duncan who was the education secretary in the obama administration, even president obama, you know, come out really support charters, and now, you know, the moderate democrats are much more humid on this issue. You dont have a strong voice in the Democratic Party for this even though most polls show a large majority of hispanics and blacks support charters. Paul do you see any way that turns back, jason . Its going to be tough. In 2018 a lot of governors, a lot of Democratic State legislatures were created and, again, the unions we see more teacher strikes around the country. The School ReformMovement Really has its work cut out. Paul all right, thank you. When we come back, an oklahoma judge to orders Johnson Johnson to pay 572 million for its role in the Opioid Epidemic. Why the ruling could have far larger and more dangerous consequences. Its not sexy. Oh delicious. Or delicious. Or fun. 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These are not things, these are not products that can be easily abused by, you know, people using drugs. And first of all, they also have to be prescribed by doctors, they have to be provided by governmentlicensed pharmacies. They were not, the a. G. Was not able to show that Johnson Johnson did anything illegal, let alone criminal here. Paul so did he even try to show what you would call a line of causation from their manufacturer, distribution, marketing to doctors and then on to patients that you would normally have to establish for Product Liability . No. They basically dodged around most Product Liability by using this, quoteunquote, public nuisance law, by saying this created a public nuisance. Usually public nuisance relates to property paul youre playing your music too loud. Yeah. Maybe pollution. But now what youre seeing is a. G. S have been trying to expand liability under public nuisance laws to including Climate Change because its much easier to get a much bigger damage verdict. Paul kim, i think a lot of people looking at this say, you know what . This opioid scourging is really horrible, its done tremendous damage to the country, to the social fabric, and you know what . Somebodys got to pay. And the deep pockets are there, so they gotta pay. Well, theyre right in the first part in that the Opioid Epidemic is a real problem, and it is causing great devastation, and in particular certain areas of the country. But looking for a scapegoat is not the way to actually solve this problem. Thats one of the other issues with this lawsuit and litigation is that, you know, it overlooks the fact that the vast majority of the opioid decision comes down addition comes down to Illegal Drugs which, obviously, is not the case with what johnson and johnson is prescribing. Yeah, theres a lot of deep pockets here, but i think people should be more angry that you have, in my mind, attorney generals like mr. Hunter who arent doing theyre misdirecting the worry out there, and then also theres a benefit for them, right . They get these deep pockets, and it provides a lot of money for the State Government that theyre suing on behalf of. Paul yeah, kate, it doesnt look like any individual patients are really going to benefit here, much of the money will go into state coffers and, of course, the trial lawyers who brought this public nuisance theory to mr. Hunter are going to get a big bundle of cash. So the question is who benefits . Right. I think the plaintiffs lawyers are the prime beneficiary here, and i think thats really sad given, from what you said, the public is looking for more accountability here. I think one with thing thats interesting about this is the number of prescriptions for opioids has been falling since 2010, but the overdose numbers have not fallen in tandem as you would expect. And i think thats because as kim alluded to, its moved on to a followon problem of fentanyl, of heroin, of even meth and other drugs that people are using and overdosing on. So i think its one of those cases where public is looking for someone to blame, but its a large, intractable social problem with many authors. Paul allysia, do you think j j is going to appeal here, do you think it should keep fighting on . Well, i do think it should keep fighting on all the way to the u. S. Supreme court if necessary in order to establish some kind of precedent perhaps for other cases. There are 2,000 other cases pending in a multidistrict litigation in ohio. Squash these public nuisance claims which are very dubious. Paul because theyve excessive and, essentially, they break the law. Yes. 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He suffered a lacerated kidney, a shoulder tear, torn abdomen, a number of injuries and he finally decided money isnt worth it. My health comes first. I think this sets a good example. Pete all right. Kate. Paul, my miss is to cnn for subjecting us all to a seven hour townhall on Climate Change coming up. Ostensibly the point is cry mate change is so serious it needs to be dealt with in details. We should assume voters are busy people so lets try to give them the facts a on a more densed basis more condensed basis. Pete im going to assign you to watch every minute of those. Jason. This is a hit for david coke, the businessman who died recently at the age of 79. Hes best known for political giving. He gave more money to the arts and medical research than he gave to politics. What he did give to politics was based on principle. Pete whats wrong with giving away your money to do that. Thats it for this weeks show. Thanks to my panel and for all of you for watching. Im paul bigot. 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