upside down at this point on this front. thank you both, ladies, for your expertise. meantime a lot of international news this morning. the trump administration is closing in on one major potential peace deal and closing the door on another. right now the u.s. is negotiating in the middle of peace talks with the taliban. if a deal is reached, that s still a big if, it could pave the way for thousands of troops to return home from afghanistan. talks come as two u.s. soldiers were killed in afghanistan this week. you see them right there. those soldiers have been identified as private first class brandon and special michael. five u.s. service members have been killed in afghanistan in just over a month, jim. and of course the taliban responsible for it deaths of hundreds of u.s. soldiers there. just hours ago the u.s. formally withdrew from a missile treaty with russia.
climate crisis. you can smell it also with the smoke that s in the air as well. and talking about these fires, they ve been out of control here in siberia for months and it s difficult for people to put that in perspective. but if i take a commercial flight from where i am right now and fly three and a half hours toward the west, i would still be inside the fire zone and those fires are nowhere near being controlled. that s really two issues with that. on the one hand, of course it s absolutely toxic for the people who live here. a lot of the cities are under smoke, but also it also contributes even more to global warming because these fires are pumping so much greenhouse gases into the air. the russians are sort of stepping things up a little bit. they have some more planes that are in action now. but they re saying that they are not going to fight any fires unless they re close to urban centers. so the ones that are in remote areas are still pumping all of that co2 into the air. so c
seems like more voters are julie, there s a question whether it s a smart strategy but to the why of this is it that they feel to win in the primary you ve got to energize the far left part of the base even if they know that a bigger part of the base, say in a general is more moderate? right, i think it s particularly fascinating now because the party has really shifted a lot at least rhetorically as president obama left office. you hear a lot of these candidates endorsing things like medicare for all, decriminalizing illegal borders crossings, things quite a bit to the left than where president obama was. so substantively they are trying to stake oit i think a very different ground knowing that the primary electorate is leaning in that direction. but the implications of that are
really warm temperatures, you have a lot of the per mafrost ground melting and collapsing and that s sending methane and carbon as well. this is hitting pretty close to home to america as well, because we ve just learned that the smoke from the wildfires here in siberia has already reached the western parts of the united states, guys. oh, my gosh. that is astonishing. frederick, thank you for being on that story. keep us posted. the united states may start testing cruise missiles not allowed for decades because of a treaty that we had with russia. but after departing that, everything could change. is the world a less safe place? plus our new original series the movies continues sunday night with the 60s, hear from the actors, directors and people who brought your favorite scenes to life. get the stories behind the movies you love.
republicans in her performance in the debates this week, they seemed really fascinated with her. but part of the reason why is because she does talk about the issues some of the these other candidates aren t talking about. and treatment for mental health is a huge issue and it s something the president cares about. but she has taken and she talks in sort of an unusual way. she s not a typical politician. and so you are going to get some scrutiny to the positions she s putting out there or suggesting she really isn t used to or gotten n past. and look, anderson noted in the interview a lot of this stuff, guise, is right on her website. if you are intrigued, go to her website, read the positions and do your homework. thank you, ladies. have a really nice weekend. so new pressure maybe this morning on nancy pelosi as house democrats are now just one lawmaker away from a 5050 split among house democrats on impeachment. how will she respond? my experience with usaa