infrastructure. the broader issue here is the white house has not really settled on a strategy. there was concerns and recognition of the ru roll out the transcript did not go very well. the president has not made any decisions on this. i got to tell you guys, the general feel here at the white house is they don t think this impeachment inquiry is as serious as the mueller inquiry. they saw that as a much graver and threat to the president and the presidency itself. hans. the reporting president is worried about losing republican support in this. yes. tell me about that. it is a threshold on 50%. once public polling gets to a certain point for impeachment, there is a recognition inside the white house according to
the increase of those fires, the flooding in the midwest, these horrific storms, this is something that is coming at us, that is really barreling towards civilization, and we must act with a much graver sense of urgency, or else the cost of inaction now is measuring for our economy trillions of dollars. they re predicting by 2100, it could shrink the u.s. economy by more than 10% if we do not act. by 10%. what is your understanding of the fundamental problem here, and i want to talk about your proposal is that it s an issue where there is one political coalition having a debate about it and one political coalition not, right? it is just a one-sided conversation right now. in terms of the human species, it s bigger than that. there is only one major political party on the planet earth that is denying that this is a problem with a sense of urgency. that s how singular, what a small handful of republicans. let s not paint each other with broad brushes.
god so we can pray to god and ask god to bring us through. and joining me now, 2020 presidential candidate senator cory booker of new jersey, who today released his $3 trillion plan on climate change and environmental justice. prime minister of the bahamas there talking about the devastation in that set of islands. this comes actually years after hurricane maria. but it does feel like a matter of time. just a question of when, of how many climate disasters we re going to see increasingly here on the mainland of the united states. tragic fires. the increase of those fires, the flooding in the midwest, these horrific storms, this is something that is coming at us, that is really barreling towards civilization, and we must act with a much graver sense of urgency, or else the cost of inaction now is measuring for our economy trillions of dollars. they re predicting by 2100, it could shrink the u.s. economy by
michael cohen and these raids as a far graver embarrassment to donald trump in terms of revealing some of his least elegant personal conduct if you will and far greater legal risk to the president in terms of his role here as unindicted co-conspirator in the hush money scheme. and if some sort of conspiracy is charged when he leaves the office. your thoughts on this today. it does loom over him in terms of something that can come down the horizon. but when you talk to white house officials and trump political advisers, they say this is perhaps 10 to 20 items on the list congress and house democrats are looking over in terms of the president s conduct that could be used to bring impeachment proceedings against him in the coming months. and they also believe a justice department, especially with attorney general bill barr at the helm, is not going to in any way go against the office of legal counsel guidelines. so they feel it is a threat
moore situation, although on a much graver scale that the president would have to wrestle with. when it comes to jeffrey epstein, call that though the president has denied it vehemently, his attorneys have as well, the epstein matter touches donald trump in a way roy moore never did. donald trump was named in one of the allegations against jeffrey epstein back in a civil complaint in 2016, something that trump can t vehemently deny. but nonetheless, it is his social circle and donald trump needs to get away from this as quickly as he can. and cukudos to the journalists staying on top of it. let s bring in tom winter here. let s talk a little bit about this case that seems to have brought all of this to a head right now. the jeffrey epstein case and acosta s handling of it back in 2008 when he was prosecutor there in southern florida. well, i mean, i think, you know, we got here today for a couple reasons, for the journalistic efforts of the miami herald. certainly we got here for a