stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldn t be around us any more if they didn t. the mouse that didn t care about surviving wouldn t pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, that s part of our survival mechanism, if you like, that allow us to see the future, to generalise. and we re conscious of ourselves as individuals, and that means we re conscious of our own deaths. and of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that, one day, all of their efforts will come to nothing. and so, if we look back through human history, what we see is humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we f
about half firearms. about half of all u.s. households have at least lea one gun at home, and many have. much more than that. plus, they have ammo, billions and billions of rounds of it. those are all real numbers, butg they are hardly an argument forn gun control. they re an argument, in fact, against ask yourself what would it require to confiscate allmmuo those guns and all that ammunition in turn, the united states into disarmed nation like turkmenistan or north korea? wellrea., it would take a police state and it would end in civil war. nono sam sane person wants eithr one of those things. but thankfully, we don t neehinn the fact that so manyirearm americans have a firearm withi n reach but never commit violence that gtbe that guns are no the problem. just as we can this country can be trusted with an ar-15, just as we can be trusted with cars and light aircraft t in andand electricity, basebaw and insecticide and chainsaws and pruning shearsct and countless other objec
night mare. almost feels like it s impossible to buy a home. o donnell: hurricane fiona continues to wreak havoc now heading towards bermuda. and there s concern tonight about another storm that could hit the gulf of mexico next week. and eye on america, cbs s general cbs s jonathan viglios on a natural resource helping an idaho mining town come back to life. duncan: good evening and thank you so much for joining us on this busy thursday night. i m jericka duncan in for norah. tonight, the federal investigation into the top secret documents seized from donald trump s florida home has resumed. the eleventh circuit court of appeals ruled in favor of the justice department and criticized the former president s argument the documents had been declassified. but in his first interview since the f.b.i. search, the former president doubled down on that claim saying just by thinking about it, he could declassify documents. tonight the wife of sct justice clarence thomas ginny
people, re-directed to fund speeches by a former football star. those speeches never even happened. plus, an emotional day in uvalde, texas, as students return to school for the first time since the massacre, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin with major breaking news in the justice departments investigation into those documents seized at former presidents florida club. the washington post reports, they included highly classified information about a foreign government s nuclear program. quote, a document described a foreign governments military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was fined by fbi agents who searched the former presidents private club last month. according to people familiar with the matter. they detailed top secret we operation, so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. earlier, one of the officials who broke the story
a pretty low lying area. that storm surge they re preparing for, what exactly might that look like when it comes to the businesses and the homes in that area? reporter: well, to give you a sense of howe things look where we are right now, we re at a park that s surrounded by three bays, the old tampa bay, the tampa bay and then that third bay. what they re worried about, especially the folks in pinellas county, that storm surge is going to flood things no matter what. even if that forecast track ends up having ian moving parallel to tampa bay and the tampa area, they still believe we re going to see a lot of that water making its way inland. so they want folks to go ahead and come out and get these sandbags. the lines at these three locations were pretty long. it s our understanding they re going to continue to do this today and tomorrow and most likely into wednesday. however, emergency officials again have been telling folks, try to get this done early because we could