Economies, societies, and governance institutions around the world end quote. The pentagon also released a Climate Change adaptation road map this year, detailing the militarys plans for a changing climate. The report states in no Uncertain Terms and i quote Climate Change will affect the department of defenses ability to defend the nation, imposed immediate risks to u. S. National security. Climate change will affect the department of defenses ability to defend the nation and poses immediate risks to u. S. National security. That would seem to me to be a phrase worth listening to. The business and Financial Community also see climate risk. Former bush treasury secretary hank paulson teamed up with form er new york city mayor and business tycoon, michael bloomberg, and indeed, former republican senator Olympia Snowe and others to put together an evidencebased assessment of the risks posed by Climate Change to the United States economy. The report found that between 66 billion and 106 b
Which people assume would be about washington, d. C. , but in fact, the citizens of this town are a very rarefied culture of people of disproportion. Disproportionate amount of influence, wealth, exposure. The citizens do not reflect the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of anonymous, very hardworking people who make the city work, not to mention the men and women who lost their lives at the naval yard a couple of months ago. These are people who make the city work. In retrospect, anyone that you were too hard on in this town . If you had a do over, you would not quite say it that way. I am a veteran secondguess er guess everything. My editor can attest to this. Secondguess her. Guesser. Second i do not think i was too hard on anyone. I would have probably been harder on certain people. Who were you too easy on . Without naming a name, what category of person were you too easy on and in retrospect do realize that was really the problem . I think the old is pretty well covered. I a
The top news story of the year peter and your emails of the year. And your emails and tweets. Earlier this month, a makeover spoke aboutum a women in congress and why they believe there should be more. Held by politico, this is half an hour. Good morning, im a senior political reporter and i am delighted to be joined to my colleague who is our senior washington correspondent and an esteemed group of women who example five the topic of our conversation, the peacemakers. With us this morning we have a democratic congresswoman from hawaii, democratic senator from minnesota, a republican congresswoman from florida and a republican from missouri. Do not forget to tweet questions and comments using women inrule. Thank you for joining us for this conversation. We want to start the conversation with you senator, there has been talk about how ,omen in the senate get along bipartisan, they have dinners. How well do you know these women . We are really good friends. When people talk about how, in
Choice. I it was a storytelling choice, where just bob cochran trying to create stakes. This guy has to stop it. Ment the assassination would be a national catastrophe. And the first black american in the white house. Thats where the choice came from, the choice for dramatic stakes. Last question. Its been great [inaudible] i wanted to circle back to what you referenced about the saudi ambassador saying something that around the world from in africa and thailand and singapore and egypt are viewing americans through television, and i wonder youve already discussed what you think what control do you have about the shows going there and being translated or maybe not the dialogue that you intended . Im just speculating. How does that work . Because, according to him, this has a huge influence in how were viewed as americans. Right. Well, what its actually a distribution model. The question is, what control do we as artists have . Terms of distribution . Do you even know about the running d
Cabinet inside the white house yesterday. The group will be led by Vice President joe biden and will begin looking at a set of proposals that include reinstating a ban on assault rifles like the one used by gunman adam lanza. Its the president s job to promote a plan that fixing, satisfies the needs of the country. He is the commander in chief. Hes the consoler in chief but the commander in chief. Joining me from newtown, connecticut, is Chris Jansing, host of jansing company. Chris, we heard a lot of Different Things about flowers running out of local shops there in town because of the outpouring the support for the victims. As we watched the scene there grow. Describe what youve been witnessing as you people prepare to bury two of these little 6yearolds. Everybody that i talked to, thomas, in this community,s especially the families have told me that they feel the support here and literally around the country. I was talking to principal hochsprungs daughter, erica. We heard from her