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The announcement beforehand but the trump administration doesn t believe it rules out a political settlement between israelis and others. eamon, let s just start with you. benjamin netanyahu has a habit of doing this. when he s about to go into an election and it s close, he comes up with remarkably inflammatory things he says to either scare or entice voters to vote for him. is this an election answer? the short answer is yes. but this is something that s been going on for a long time. the irony is the party or bloc of parties to the left of him, supposed to be the moderates saying the prime minister stole their idea about the annexation ....
But issues like a gun violence for example, where, you know, voters have clearly indicated their preferences. and we just don t have representation in washington that seems to reflect what voters want. and i think that in terms of climate change, as the impacts, which have been ubiquitous across the united states and across the world in which impact people regardless of their political party, as those continue to unfold, i think and i hope that washington will finally wake up and start making some change on this. all right. and just before we go, clarify that 84% of democrats say that it s an emergency, 81% of republicans say it is not. 56% of overall voters say that it is an emergency. jack levine, thank you very much for your time this afternoon. thanks, eamon. bye-bye baby. one more thing next. ....
States according to the new york times, it has an 80 times the heating trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere. joining me now, former energy and climate aid jake, great to have you with us. help explain this for our viewers. a lot of people may have a hard time wrapping their head around this. but how exactly is the epa trying to loosen this methane regulation, and why does it matter? sure. thanks, eamon. it s great to be here. this is a major rollback on the climate front. and epa isn t really just lowering the standards, they have basically just thrown the entire bar out. and these are standards relating to the certification of oil and gas facilities, monitoring of methane emissions and leaks at these sites. and it s these precise tools that were put in place by the obama administration to try to ....
Israel receives $3.2 billion in aids in the fiscal year 2017 alone. the same year, the u.s. spent more than $46 billion in total foreign aid. about 7% of that went to israel. afghanistan receiving more and iraq. it is the largest aid package in american history. it requires the united states to send $38 billion in military aid to israel over a 10-year period and it prohibits any future presidents to withdraw until 2026. eamon is joining me. you and i have been talking about this because this is another aspect to this whole saga. american aid goes to congress. ....
Of speech issue or not. and that is the grounds that they re doing this. but let s just put this in perspective. this is an american ally. this is the largest recipient of american taxpayer money that comes from the american congress and the votes of people in the american congress. this is not russia. saying, hey, we are not letting senator john mccain in or we re not letting in a somewhat hostile or adversarial country. i would say it s not even similar to the united kingdom because israel is the largest recipient of american foreign aid. so for them to turn around and do this, you can see why a lot of american congress men are coming out and saying it s unacceptable. eamon, thank you for reporting on this. you can watch him on morning show first look 5:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. i want to bring in michael fuse, senior fellow at the american center for american progress, a progressive policy organization. he also served as the former ....