organizers have much bigger problems to deal with. this is a picture of twin toilets in one stall. it has gone viral. russian officials say communal toilets are quite standard, but apparently they have since been replaced. you remember that old snl skit? i think i might have blocked that one out. it wasn t the whole line of them. just two. you know what they say, people who go together stay together. that s not how it applies. checked up. time for the political gut check of the morning. the white house is now clarifying the prent s recent comments on pot. you ll remember in part the president said that marijuana isn t anymore dangerous than
know, a pretty brazen thing if the mayor yeah, fraudulent activity by the mayor. a couple of things. first of all, on the legislative committee, i think the legislatives may be able to get the e-mails and documents they ve subpoenaed, but they re going to have a hard time getting any testimony right now when you have the u.s. attorney on the scene. because what is going to happen, every witness is going to take the fifth amendment. they re not going to let guadagno talk to the u.s. attorney, will they? they may not have a choice. she is going to get a subpoena. she is not ready to face these people. she won t have to testify. okay, thank you. i think she is going to keep away from those agents too. thank you. can you do that? keep way from the agents? no. well, that s good. anyway, michael isikoff, thank you as always, and assembly warm marlene caride from new jersey. up next, president obama says this is going to be an interesting comment. marijuana isn t any more dang
experience with the other stuff, but i do have that concern about the gateway issue. your thoughts? so, first, chris, you hit the nail on the head. most of us know about this issue anecdotally. so what we need, chris, is we need to know what the science tells us. the science of public health. so, i think the president needs to speak to his nih director in charge of drug abuse, nora volcow. because she would tell the president that, in fact, today s modern, genetically modified marijuana, so it s much higher thc levels, far surpass the marijuana that the president acknowledges smoking when he was a young person, so that he is wrong when he says that it isn t very harmful, because the new marijuana is not the old marijuana, and, of course, the president is making this decision based upon his anecdotal experience. we need to have presidential decisions made, based upon public health and the sound science that the federal government s invested in, which shows that this is very harmful. i
a couple of things. first of all, on the legislative committee, i think the legislatives may be able to get the e-mails and documents they ve subpoenaed, but they re going to have a hard time getting any testimony right now when you have the u.s. attorney on the scene. because what is going to happen, every witness is going to take the fifth amendment. they re not going to let guadagno talk to the u.s. attorney, will they? they may not have a choice. she is going to get a subpoena. she is not ready to face these people. she won t have to testify. okay, thank you. i think she is going to keep away from those agents too. thank you. can you do that? keep way from the agents? no. well, that s good. anyway, michael isikoff, thank you as always, and assembly warm marlene caride from new jersey. up next, president obama says this is going to be an interesting comment. marijuana isn t any more dangerous than alcohol. you can read it the other way. it s as dangerous as alcohol.