you don t believe it? no. no. i don t believe b it. he doesn t believe it because his gut is better than other people s brains. brenda is a climate sscientist. she worked on the national climate assessment. i would like to thank you for your work. i don t trust my gut more than other people s brains. it s larger than most people s brains but not better. the president said scientists have a political agenda. what s your political agenda in this? there s no politics. the science this report is not policy prescriptive. it s mandated by congress. what the report clearly shows is that climate change is not some distant future threat. it s happening everywhere in the united states. alaska, hawaii, puerto rico and
congress is right to push, to disallow u.s. aid and it s not just refueling. we are not that s correct. we don t have boots on the ground here but we re aiding and abetting this effort creating the greatest humanitarian crisis at the moment on the planet. thanks to you both. we ll continue to follow the story closely. president trump is refusing to accept guidance from the experts, this time blaming the hand picked federal reserve chair for the market selloff and general motors job cuts and factory closures. we ll talk about that next. by the way, take a look at the markets. harp uptick earlier. the dow up almost 1.8%. we ll tell you about that, too, when we come back.
congress needs answers in order to make decisions. haspel has some of the answers that they need. the cia head. any particular reason that we have that she wasn t allowed to be at that meeting or wasn t at the meeting with senators? reporter: based on the framing, ali, the way to think about this, those aren t the questions the white house wants to answer today. the purpose of this meeting from the administration s perspective was to convince senators to vote against this resolution pulling u.s. forces out of that war in yemen. you had the secretary of state and the secretary of defense trying to present their case today that this is a war the u.s. needs to be involved in, both for regional purposes of maintaining stability in the region, sticking by our ally in saudi arabia, standing up to iran, and the secretary of state argued that by the u.s. pulling out they would make matters worse on the humanitarian basis. they did not want to talk about the khashoggi killing today anymore th
and mandated by congress to be released every four years, the new report presents the starkest warnings yet of the consequences of climate change for the united states. among the findings, and this is a places like miami are hitting record numbers. threatening 1 trillion dollars worth of coastal real estate. that other costs between now and 2 2090 could reach above $500 billion just in climate change related damaged. temperatures could increase anywhere between two and a half degrees to more than eight degrees higher than they are today. eight degrees. think about that. that doesn t just increase the likelihood of heat waves but it hurts crops and livestock that
his op-ed isn t subtle. he said the choice is to keep saudi arabia as an ally. therefore, we have to defend mbs. or lose saudi arabia and iran dominate the region. those aren t the choices. saudi arabia is a valued ally of the united states but mbs doesn t have to be the crown prince. i mean, that s a decision for the royalty there to make but we can certainly put pressure on them. we try to put pressure on all kinds of folks everywhere and he s shown by his actions, not just the killing of khashoggi, but the reckless war the yemen and a number of other things that and the imprisonment of the royal family and torture of some of them allegedly, that he might not be the best choice for the ailing king to make as his heir. garrett, this really does bring to the fore what congress powers are in these things. the senate expected to vote on a resolution to withdraw u.s. military support of the yemen