we need to make sure, and i tell ukrainians this all the time. here s my point. i think that current elected officials can have a strong impact on whoever the next president is. when president trump was president, i pressed him on the issue of nato quite a lot, and so did many other members. i ll tell you one thing president trump did quite well was press this 2% of gdp issue by the way, president biden has been doing that. president obama did it as well. so i think the current elected republican leadership in the house and senate strongly supports nato, and i think that s the most important thing to look at right now in term of that issue. as i said, i really appreciate you getting up very early for us in anchorage. senator dan sullivan. republican from alaska. very early. who knows. maybe you stayed up very late. good to be with you. more on the politics of military readiness with democrat tammy duckworth of illinois. s. > > more on the p
who ends up in that third of the three positions in that primary. for murkowski, she s running in a little bit of a different race, because hers is still in the primary. there s double digit candidates on the republican senate prime minister side of this race. we expect that murkowski is going to make it to the top four, which means she advances to the next stage. but her primary and palin s primary, they each say different things what it means to be a republican. palin running with trump s backing. murkowski the opposite of that, hallie. ali vitali, live for us in anchorage, thank you. news coming in from the white house. joe biden set to sign that climate and health bill known as the inflation reduction act, into law tomorrow. the white house is setting the stage for what is basically a victory lap, calling it, in their words, coordinated august travel blitz. with joe biden deploying his cabinet to more than a dozen events across the country, to show off a little bit, to flex
because of rising sea levels. alaska is home to rapidly retreating glaciers where the rate of melting is among the fastest on the planet, as our climate editorjustin rowlatt let s go live to justice in anchorage. hello justin. i ve got hellojustin. i ve got to say of bald eaglejust hellojustin. i ve got to say of bald eagle just flew past! i hellojustin. i ve got to say of bald eaglejust flew past! i know hellojustin. i ve got to say of bald eagle just flew past! i know is a relevant issue of climate change. we here in alaska because this place in a way is a canary in the mind and the climate issue. because temperatures are so close to freezing, if you raise them only a little bit you get really big changes. so ice that used to remain frozen and snow that used to thaw and stay until the spring or summer is now melting earlier. that is driving profound changes here in alaska as i ve been discovering. the top of our world is changing warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.
triaging people. you re not likely to make it. you re less likely to make it than these other people, so we re going treat them, not you. i mean, the psychological effect that that has on doctors and nurses in this circumstance cannot be overstated. and that has been the terrible situation this week already at alaska s largest hospital, providence alaska in anchorage. but now tonight the state s governor has announced that all hospitals in the state are moving to those same standards. and it may not just be idaho and alaska. hospitals in kentucky, hospitals in montana and several other states have reported that they are teetering on the brink of the same designation, but this announcement in alaska tonight is new, and we have never as a country had multiple states rationing care like this simultaneously. we ve just never had it. and forgive me for just putting this in personal terms for a second, but people say getting vaccinated or not is a personal
bid to free up so we could transfer them said the hospital chief steph. and that patient died. providence alaska, the hospital that previously set of crisis tentative care they set up 3% of wellness scheme at the hospital, to help their own doctors and nurses who were struggling with these kinds of decisions. because imagine, if you are a doctor or a nurse strange to provide train to go to the most extreme and of a range possible to save the lives of your patients. and you are now in a situation where your triaging people. you re not likely to make, if you re not less likely to make it to a lot of other people so we re gonna treat them not you. i mean the psychological effect that that has on doctors and nurses in this circumstance cannot be overstated. and that has been the terrible situation this week already at alaska s in anchorage. but tonight the governor has announced that all hospitals in