speaking of votes, this about what would happen if impeachment comes to a vote in the senate. i talked to a well-connected republican in washington whose name you would know well who says if the house votes to impeach and it gets to a trial there is a 20% chance, just an estimate, 20% chance enough republicans will vote with the democrats to remove the president. what do you think of that? nonsense, science fiction fantasy. i have respect for chris wallace, don t know who he is talking about or who he is talking to but whoever is saying this is wrong. there is not the support. the reason is the president hasn t done anything impeachable or even remotely impeachable. it may be he know something the rest of us don t but based on information we have right now this president doesn t have
missile were launched, does the u.s. have capabilities to knock it out of the sky before it does any knowledge or is that just a science fiction fantasy. it is neither science fiction nor is it a definitive capability. we are working on it. we are close to being able to defend against it. against one warhead, we do have the capability. against multiple warheads, not so much. that argument we have to continue to develop this and we are sending some over to south korea which is scaring the heck out of china. we need to persist. here is what former secretary of defense, bill cohen, told my colleague, andrea mitchell, that he thinks it means. our goal is to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until the regime says, let s make a deal. we have restrained that for fear that we might be really
the collapse of our aaa rating, and our solvency and government, and the end of the world as we know it. guest: that is not true. i am pleased to call myself a cosponsor, one of the original cosponsors of senator toomey s legislation protecting the faith and credit of the united states by making sure that we don t default on our obligations. neil: but that is the one, senator, that is the one where toomey said when we are in that brink, we may sure we pay our most important obligations first which are debt service, we pay the note holders and the bondholders and science we are getting the tax revenue still in that is our priority like when families are pushed against the wall they pay their rent or mortgage so as not to be thrown out of their home. guest: that is right and that is why this is utterly science fiction fantasy to say that if you do not raise the debt ceiling that everything is going to collapse.
of the shows on sci-fi, eureka coming up in the 8:00 hour. so he will be here. we ll see if he gets it as well. josh, thank you. 8:00 hour. reynolds, let s not turn to science fiction but real science. real science. look at a flashback, take a look at this storm. this was just a mammoth system. at one time a little bit too big. here we go. there we go. are you with me? i hope so. coffee is strong this morning. this is a look at the storm. this is earl at one time, a category 4 storm. then it began to weaken. it s a now a shadow of its former self. due east of cape cod. latitude, longitude, see it there. pressure still continues to rise a bit. the storm is weakening. see the dryer air in the west. still provide heavy waves for much of the eastern seaboard. rip currents will be a threat for a lot of people today.
i have tried, josh, over the years to understand what this is all about. and i just don t get it. but it s this fantasy, this extravaganza that is happening here in atlanta. this sci-fi thing. josh, i don t understand. i can try to help. i understand what you re saying, it is kind of amazing all these people want to come here and dress up as super heroes. super heroes converging. might break some world records this year. people are very excited about this. so we actually asked some people why do you want to dress up and take part. here s what one told us. ever since i was a young kid i have always enjoyed dressing up in costume. here it s really fantastic because there are so many people with similar interests of mine. all the science fiction fantasy, comics, video games, everything. to be able to dress up as these characters that we enjoy and have people recognize you, it s just a lot of fun. something we really enjoy doing. i m going to give you a sense of today. we had video o