What that means now in the policy and the security space. Im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Weve got heather conley, our vice president. We have john. We have sara glasser, the Deputy Director of secure fisheries and amy lair, the director of our human rights initiative. Thank you to the panel, and im going to sit down and be quiet and turn it over to my excellent panel, and well start off with heather. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about that intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways the arctic is telling us, actually, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming two to three times faster than any place on the planet. And in many ways we are now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact, our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it in part bec
Battle in the Hawkeye State at a dinner where democrats are made. The candidates flock to the biggest moment in their campaigns, and thats to speak at the liberty for justice celebration, which is the same dinner that helped launch the president s winning bid in 2008 and the pressure is certainly on. Candidates are scrambling to make their mark in the first state to pick a candidate after a new poll there shows the race in iowa is tightening and theres still no clear leader. Right now Elizabeth Warren is holding a narrow lead among likely Democratic Caucus goers. Shes at 22 . Bernie sanders, Pete Buttigieg and joe biden are tightly clustered right behind her. And biden is trying to sell his middle class message both on tv and indigenous ads like this one. I see the backbone of the nation as we rebuild this little class which has been clobbered. This time everyone comes along, everyone. Todays event will also be a lastditch effort for struggling candidates like senator Kamala Harris who
the president said he actually doesn t need a separate team to fight impeachment because he has his whole department behind him. sara glasser is a writer for the new yorker and we have tara sut mire. 47% support impeachment and removal, 47% do not, but look at independents. 47% support impeachment and removal, 59% do not. if there s numbers that the president is courting, what happens here? we re going into a phase now where the american people are now going to hear directly from some of the most damning testimony that democrats have already heard, demonstrating