people at the highest levels of the u.s. government pretending that this problem doesn t exist, and pretending that we don t know the science, when really, kids who go to anyone who takes a high school class in basic earth science understands how climate change works. nathaniel, your terrific article, which i really commend, is at some level a little disspiriting. it seems like you re saying we had our chance. in the 80s, as you say, there wasn t in denialism, people understood the problem, republican administrations took it seriously, but ultimately we weren t willing to pay the short term price for the long term gain. the problems seemed too distant, too far in the future. but now it seems as though there is there are some hopeful signs, there is this new green revolution, there is solar energy and wind, all very small, i understand, but do you look at is your glass half full in any way or did that article
they might have to resort to dna tests to match children with parents. what happened in the last two weeks? why would we trust them on this? this isn t a policy. this is incoherence. it reminds me of what s going on in the pentagon. is this thought out, or is this just a spasm and a reaction? you know, with the pentagon troops, it is not just iranians or pakistani ipakistans.brazili. we call them recruits, but think about what it means. as america, we extend an offer and make a deal. you serve what you want to be your country. then you become a citizen. we renounce the deal? i mean, it s the same thing. we sawy as a government we re going to proequitect the childr then we lose them and rely on dna testing? it is disspiriting. should make people worried about what it means to be american.
martha: many ran to the aid of others and helping out. when you look at what they have in terms of what s cut out for them lying ahead, and you think with the fact that trey gowdy, announced today he will not be continuing charlie, there are now nine gop committee chairs not coming back. 34 gop members and they can only lose 24 seats. they have an uphill battle here. they sure do. all the defections the decision of someone like trey gowdy of his integrity and intelligence, the idea he s calling it quits does speak volumes about what a messed up and disspiriting place washington has become. trey gowdy was in a powerful position and able to do meaningful things and an important investigations and had
robert mueller will find, and so they have a preemptive defense of the president which is to attack the investigation. we see that everywhere else. what i find interesting is that nearly break down these numbers, independents are really coming to the side of robert mueller and independents and democrats, and even a lot of republicans think the president is lying about what happened with russia. so, i think the reality here is that obviously the president, people think the president did something wrong and they re trying to defend him, but with the american people, i think they re looking for the facts. phil mud, who used to work for the fbi, let me bring you in. as a former fbi official, do you find this disspiriting when you hear these charges made from people on fox news calling the fbi the kgb, from individuals saying that the on fox news again saying that the fbi maybe even thinking about assassinating donald trump, a claim for which there s zero evidence. what is the reaction
ap called the lack of disclosure bizarre and disspiriting. unnamed senior fbi official explained the failure of employe employe employees possible hacks is the bureau was overwhelmed by the sheer number of attempts. president trump s son-in-law was in the news other the weekend. signaling his desire to step back from the responsibilities he took on during the first eight months of the trump administration. new york times reported that some friends of kushner and his wife ivanka trump were at times so discouraged by their brief white house careers and shrinking social circle they would leap at a chance to gracefully turn to new york. at one point this fall, scenario circulated in which ivanka trump could replace nikki haley as ambassador to united nations if haley replaced secretary of state rex tillerson. aides to president trump said they never heard that discussed