Joining us this hour. Heres an interesting thing. Sort of a personal thing, but also a news thing. Right before President Trump was impeached the first time, i published a book called blow out and the weird surprising to me thing about blow out is that tended up being oddly well timed. I had no idea it was going to be well timed when i set out to write it, but thats how it landed. It was a book about the Oil And Gas Industry and the political power and geopolitical power of that industry. And a big chunk of that book was about all of the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine. And of course, then, right at the time the book came out, all the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine ended up being the setting, like the Playing Field for what President Trump got impeached for the first time he got impeached. I did not intend it to land that way. It was fortuitous and i hope helpful to people trying to figure out that landscape while we were looking at that first impeachment. Now, of course, mr.
All about the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine. And of course, then, right at the time the book came out, all the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine ended up being the setting, like, the Playing Field for what President Trump got impeached for the first time he got impeached. I did not intend it to land that way. It was foretuittous, and i hope, helpful to people trying to figure out that landscape while we were looking at that first impeachment. Well, now, of course, mr. Trump is being impeached for a second time, and its kind of uncanny a lot of the things that i wrote about in that book that came out during the first trump impeachment. Theyre sort of coming home to roost now. The whole reason i wrote that book is because i think we were pretty consistently underestimating the sway of this one industry, how much sway the Oil And Gas Industry has over politics and whole governments, both here in the United States and around the world. And so, i thought it would be helpful. I thoug
Programme. Could you hazard a guess as to why Ocean Temperatures are so vastly greater at the moment than they ordinarily would be . Vastly greater at the moment than they ordinarily would be . There are a number of they ordinarily would be . There are a number of theories they ordinarily would be . There are a number of theories being they ordinarily would be . There are| a number of theories being explored at the moment by climate scientists. The first, youve already mentioned, is this transition from La Nina To El Nino. The three years prior to 2023, el nino in the tropical pacific, with cooler surface waters, a rapid transition from La Nina To El Nino in 2023, and that tends to push up temperatures. What we saw was Sea Surface Temperatures in other parts of the world were rising even before el nino kicked in, so there are other potential theories, including things like changes in the amounts of sulphur in shipping fuel over the past few years, influence from the tonga eruption. And
The number of individuals who have reached out to us through the crisis in take form has approached thousand and we are continuing to monitor the situation closely and are going to say that work is ongoing. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of american citizens. Sandra that was moments ago as the State Department continues to give an Update Screen right on the number of Americans Still stuck in haiti at this hour and efforts to get them out. All of this is happening as we are now awaiting an update from the white house. This hour. Screen left on the worsening crisis in haiti. Hello and welcome everyone. Im sandra smith in new york, john, great to be back with you today. John a quick weekend and now back to another busy week of news. Im john roberts in washington and this is america reports. Despite the State Department telling fox news last week americans who were trapped in haiti were on their own, officials appeared to reverse course and chartered a flight to mi
to milwaukee to duke it out in the first presidential debate of the campaign, but several are sharpening their knives to separate themselves from the pack. tim scott is taking a different approach, touting his optimistic message of the future and focusing his attacks on president biden rather than his fellow republicans. ask if his strategy is making enough in-roads coming up. john: the president arriving in lithuania ahead of the high stakes nato summit, he will likely need to shore up disagreements among america s closest allies. sandra, vacation is over, we are all back. sandra: big welcome back to you, john. let s get right to it. sandra smith in new york, this is america reports. president is kicking off the trip with a visit to england where he met with the u.k. prime minister before appearing with king charles at windsor castle. their first meeting since charles coronation. john: his stop in london may be the easy part of the trip as the president s comments