when things happen. and this particular bigot does not listen to anybody but his own views is and his own small-minded world. it s definitely not isolated to the right. it s not, no. not at all. i think it s a problem that all of us have to recognize, even presumably the most progressives, the most accepting of sciences have to combat their own biases and struggles. reporter: part of the prevailing sentiment and there s no official crowd estimate, but by hi be observation, we re looking at several tens of thousands of people science has been downgraded by culture as being too intellectual or elitist. they think that science should be proto moted as hip and cool and vital. i do feel compelled to tell you though that this rally has witnessed some of the geekiest placards and hand signs i ve ever seen. one of them said up and atom, it
demonstration against president trump, or with any particular direct partisan appeal, but nonetheless, a lot of the rhetoric from the stage and a lot of the rhetoric on the very colorful signage around here has been explicitly been anti-trump in nature. i saw a sign that said keep your tiny bleeping hands off my facts. and of course, this is an opportunity not just to celebrate science, but of course, as these things turn out, commerce, there are people selling t-shirts and the usual compliment of things you see at big rallies, where there s tens of thousands of people, food and whatnot. my personal favorite, leland and elizabeth, i saw on constitution hawking bernie sanders rolling papers, the image of a smoking marijuana cigarette and the words, feel the bern. you never know what james rosen is going to find at a protest rally.
details as they become available. the president will continue his visit, he ll meet with a number of wounded warriors before returning to the white house before he departs walter reed today. another live look from the march for science where people are celebrating earth day. still ahead, we will talk to one scientist who has met with the president, and he s in the running to become his science adviser. and the president is back the making promises on health care, saying that a new bill could pass as early as next week, but can he deliver? we ll debate coming up.
thank you so much for joining us, sir. we appreciate it. thank you for having me on. leland: and something they are watching here at the white house, the marches for science going on across the country right now. we re going to have the white house response. and as these marches continue, we are going to chat with a scientist who is bucking the trend on what the folks who are there in chicago are saying about our world. hey, the future, what s her problem? apparently, i kept her up all night. she said the future freaks her out. how come no one likes me, jim? intel does! just think of everything intel s doing right now with artificial intelligence. and pretty soon ai is going to help executives like her see trends to stay ahead of her competition. no more sleepless nights. - we re going to be friends! - i m sorry about this. don t be embarrassed of me, jim. i m getting excited about this! we know the future. we re going to be friends! because we re building it.
well, most of them don t know any science. it s sort of a religious belief for them. you know, if you were to test them, very few of them could tell you anything about the science of climate. leland: their argument is that there is not enough funding being put towards climate change research, we need more funding, they say, and we need to take the politics out of science. i guess it s a two-part question. first, were they the ones who put politics in science, or were was the president? and at the same time, do we need more funding? well, we ve had eight years of very highly politicized, so-called research on climate, and it s not what most of us would recognize as real, scientific research. something where the outcome was demanded before the funding was provided. leland: well, i only got through tenth grade chemistry, but that does not exactly sound like the scientific method, to me.