how can you advocate, how can you work even as an intelligence service, when you show up in a place like syria and you see russian contractors or russian military that are squaring off literally with u.s. military personnel at different times. what is our stance with this country? what are we supposed to be doing? are we aligned with them, are we fighting with them? how does this proceed moving forward? it s got to be a confusing landscape. you start to tiptoe, and that s never good for a country. the president at one point asked one of the baltic leaders to repeat her praise from a private meeting in the oval office in front of the cameras. it reminded a lot of folks about the cabinet meetings where they went around in sequence and everyone had to compliment the president out loud. it was on the subject of nato, but the meaning was the same. oh, that s right. the president is certainly not shy to praise people who praise him in his presence. he loves to kind of have that
so they had not even agreed on parameters let alone policy details. they are very far apart. i mean march is still a month away but it is a big heavy load. we cannot thank you enough, lindsey mcpherson, you have a busy week ahead. you have been covering a lot of ground. thank you. have a good one. a deadly violence sadly continues in syria. they continue after a russian military pilot was shut down and killed. you live in jerusalem with the very latest. plus, they are sifting through the dirt left behind after california mudslides that killed and injured so many. what they are hoping to on earth. we have a live report next. you have to tiptoe. you have to discern what is salvageable. what is in. what can be stored, what has to
there s a wonderful line from 1984, the novel about a distoepian future that has somebody saying it s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words, you know, and it gets into what i think is going to cause a lot of discussion here, which is, what kind of power play is involved in trying to abolish a word or sort of take it out of circulation? the reality is, however, there are about 12,000 workers at the centers for disease control. many are sacientists. they are not going to take this lightly. there s research going on for example on the effect of the zika virus on fetuses. it s really important. it s literally life and death. those folks are not going to sort of change their research, change their discussions, tiptoe around these kind of politically loaded terms. i would expect this to get rolled back in short order.
millions of years ago this was all coral reef until madagascar heaved out of sea. time, wind and water then took over carving tit into saw blade and needlepoint canyons. whoa, look at that. are you kidding me? talk about a death trap. the tribes who ran barefoot through this called it signi, which means tiptoe. everything here wants to poke you. yeah. the rocks, the plants. while this a jagged angry place, for human beings it turns out to
time, wind and water took over carving it into saw blades and needle point canyons. whoa, look at that. you kidding me? talk about a death trap. the tribes who ran barefoot through this called it singy, which means tiptoe. everything here wants to poke you. the rocks, the plants. but while this is a jagged, angry place for human beings, turns out to be a wonderful haven for all other kinds of life. you see the singy is like a manhattan apartment building with different tenents at different levels. up top you have your lemurs and lizards frolicking in the sun