it s sort of a this kind of week at the white house. the president, who has been in many instances leading his own scheduling and communications shop, tweets this. looking forward to 3:30 p.m. meeting today at the white house. we have to protect and build our steel and aluminum industries while at the same time showing great flexibility and cooperation toward those that are real friends and treat us fairly on both trade and the military. so flexibility and cooperation, kelly, does that mean exemptions for mexico and canada? that s certainly how i hear it. at the same time, when you look at the president s words, by him putting it out first, meaning in his own voice on twitter it suggests exemptions might have been part of the plan all along, looking flexible, looking cooperati cooperative. that belies all the heat he has taken from other nations, the european union, friends of asia and around the world and lawmakers who said this was a bad idea to do it in a blanket fashion without
job of covering the reality on the ground that is this massively disproportionate death toll in which the vast majority of those killed are civilians. so i don t think there s any defense for the israeli military operation. to be fair, it is painful to watch for sure, and speaking to karl and ben today, but to be clear, hamas does fire rockets from urban areas. they have been found to hide weapons in mosques and schools, et cetera, taking advantage, in effect, of the civilian population there. do you deny that? will you grant that hamas, as a result of that, has shares some of the responsibility for the civilian deaths? unfortunately, this is a claim that is made in a blanket fashion for every single target which the israeli military is targeting in the gaza strip. we have not seen independent confirmation in any of these instances where that is proven to be correct. what we do know, though, is that
gulf of mexico were open. but fishermen here are fighting that problem, the question that s tainted the gulf seafood, possibly even more than the actual oil itself. so the best way to show you how safe the seafood is is not to give you all of the numbers, just in a blanket fashion here. but to show you how much seafood you can eat before you can reach the government levels of concern. helping me here in grand isle is master carrie bizoe. you re going to pour it out here. let s demonstrate. these are gulf shrimp brought out here. and grand isle. see the big pile of them here? we re looking at 63 pounds of shrimp. why 63 pounds? well, according to the state of louisiana, the testing they ve been doing on how much oil is in the seafood, they figured out that you can eat 63 pounds of shrimp every day for five years