dollars in damage every year. ashley. my heart goes out to those in texas and dealing with this right now. but i also don t think this is a policy window for anyone to use destruction and tragedy to be able to bring about climate change initiatives right now, especially as gary had mentioned science right now is not on the climate change side. and it s a natural disaster. that s exactly what it is. nature. thank you, guys for joining us. we appreciate it. remember playing with card board boxes as a kid. we google just made it cool again. it could mean real returns for you.
released 65 suspected terrorists who have been tied to attacks on americans. karzai still refusing to sign a security deal to keep our troops in the country past the end of this year. afghanistan will elect a new president on april 5. dear climate change deniers, don t buy apple stock. apple c.e.o. tim cook says if you don t agree with the company s climate change initiatives, don t buy the company s stock. he said environmental initiatives are important to the company even if they don t contribute to the company s bottom line. what do you think of that? too stoned to succeed. california governor jerry brown says he s not sure if legalizing pot is a good idea. he s afraid the country could lose its competitive edge if everyone is high all the time. listen. the problem with anything, a certain amount is okay but there is a tendency to go to extremes. all of a sudden if there s advertising and legitimacy, how many people can get
and breaking overnight, a massive rollback of president obama s climate change initiatives. president trump set to sign the executive order in a few hours. one group is calling it the biggest attack on climate action in u.s. history. and supreme showdown, democrats signaling they will try to take it to the brink and filibuster kneel gorsuch. this will be the first successful filibuster against a supreme court nominee in american history. he deserves a fair up or down vote. but we start today with the white house investigation sounding more and more like the backdrop to a cold war spy novel. i have a great panel with me to break it all down in just a few moments. first, let s break down all the new details that have come out on this story. the man in the middle, california, republican, devin nunez, currently leading the investigation into ties between russia and the trump campaign.
hunt. the department of energy rejecting a request by trump s transition team to hand over the names of employees who have worked on climate change initiatives. there are late developments on this as well. athena jones is live at the white house watching all this. the white house reacted. they were not mincing words with this one but there are new details about what exactly happened with that questionnaire going to the energy department. what are you picking up? reporter: right. a few developments this morning. we have heard from press secretary josh earnest saying look, this looks like an attempt to maybe target career civil servants just for doing the job they are supposed to do. we have heard from the energy department, a union representative there talking about employees being concerned about keeping their jobs, and being able to pursue the science with he said independence and integrity. and we have a letter from two members of congress, i have it right here, they isn t a letter