time katty was spending time in asia pack in the 1990s, there was so much optimism about hong kong s future when it became independent, when it shed itself from british rule but there were doom sayers then who said who said we d be on a collision point with beijing, this experiment will be tested because the chinese government because it was opening itself up to capitalism it still had the autocratic tendencies and you d hear people in the bright moments of optimism would say we ll have that moment in hong kong. it has taken longer than people thought it would but we re here now and we ll see what happens over the course of the next couple of days. hopefully it doesn t end in a bloody mess. but this conflict has seemed in some sense preordained since the moment that hong kong got free. michael steele, had to that the add to that the economy.
act to do something about the smog that was choking our cities. but at the time when we passed the clean air act to try to get rid of some of this smog, some of the same doom sayers were saying, new pollution standards will decimate the auto industry. guess what? didn t happen. our air got cleaner. we re back talking about what the president can do on his own without congressional approval to fight the most pressing issue of our time, climate change. joining me now, former republican governor of new jersey christine todd whitman. she was administrator of the environmental protection agency under george w. bush. now president of the whitman strategy group. consulting official that specializes in energy and environmental issues. tim dechristopher, a climate activist and co-founder of peaceful uprising. it s great to have you both here. so we bump back in with the president s long section on the clear air act because that is one of the key policy elements announced today in this speech.
of the same doom sayers were saying, new pollution standards will decimate the auto industry. guess what? didn t happen. our air got cleaner. we re back talking about what the president can do on his own without congressional approval to fight the most pressing issue of our time, climate change. joining me now, former republican governor of new jersey christine todd whitman. she was administrator of the environmental protection agency under george w. bush. now president of the whitman strategy group. consulting official that specializes in energy and environmental issues. tim dechristopher, a climate activist and co-founder of peaceful uprising. it s great to have you both here. so we bump back in with the president s long section on the clear air act because that is one of the key policy elements announced today in this speech. i want to just explain this briefly for people then i want to get your response to it, christine. the clean air act regulates things that are dangerous or ha
new york on charges of conspiracy and falsifying records. bernie madoff is serving a 150 year prison term. finally, we re still here. these pictures are from a ceremony led by mayan priests in guatemala marking the end of the mayan calendar, aka, what was supposed to be the end of the world. no word on what doom sayers camped out at this mountain in france are doing today. they have been there for days believing that when the end of the world came a ufo would come to the mountain and rescue them. got milk? you could be in for a major shock. mandy is here with what s moving your money. prices, i saw this headline and couldn t believe it. 6 to $8 a gallon? it is unbelievable. that is if congress does not pass a new farm bill, chris, that amends farm policy that dates back to the truman presidency. obviously this has been kind of
i think it s more complicated than that. i think that, you know, the worst has not happened in iraq. we don t have a civil war. the country hasn t collapsed for the doom sayers who thought the place was going to go up in flames, that hasn t occurred. john mccain and others even today on morning joe was saying it s all blowing apart. well it s not all blowing apart. but what we but there are a lot of reasons for concern. without an american military footprint on the ground, even a small one of a few thousand troops, the iraqi commandos would become less capable of fighting al qaeda in iraq, which is responsible for a lot of these bombings because the american forces really used to enable them, and there s a bit of a drift towards author tare jim under nouri al maliki and iraq has cooperated with iran until very recently, they were tolerating iranian flights