what that means now in the policy and the security space. i m excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. we ve 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 i m going to sit down and be quiet and turn it over to my excellent panel, and we ll 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 they re 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 america s fourth coast. i thought that was a powerful way of thinking ab
michigan s contom mated water supply. as always we ll take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. washington journal is next. host: good morning on monday, september 16. we ll begin this morning with calls from some democrats to impeach supreme court justice brett kavanaugh after the new york times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of sexual misconduct and revealed new allegations. those allegations raising questions about whether justice cavanaugh perjured himself during the confirmation hearings last year. democrats, 202-748-8000, publicans 202-748-8001 and independents, 202-748-800 it 2 2788003 or go to twitter and post comments on facebook.com/c-span. we ll get to your thoughts in a minute. let s begin with the new york piece that ran over the weekend and the headline was brett kavanaugh was one of the privileged kids and she didn t fit in with the privileged kids. a story about deborah ramirez and h
a fantastic piece of good journalism they ve managed to expose the real names of these two individuals and i believe the british intelligence services will ignore them anyway but what they ve done is the sure the amount of personal information out there is of it on the internet in league databases and elsewhere individuals whose personal security and their operational security should be protected hugely so i think this is a huge embarrassment to the g.r.u. and to president putin he said british intelligence you presume already were aware why did they not tell the british government so that they could sell to the dispatch board and say both of these people are decorated by putin himself well treason may did say that she believed that the two individuals were travelling under false identities and then she said very very clearly that they were members of the g. or you and blame them very clearly and that s the piece of the subtlety the british intelligence services. their source
treason may did say that she believed that the two individuals were travelling under false identities and then she said very very clearly that they were members of the g o u m blame them very clearly and that s the piece of the subtlety the british intelligence services their sources could have been highly classified sources so they wouldn t want to release the names did upton s to compromise their sources so it s better that it s come out through investigative journalism and through been caught you know what i m getting at though if the kremlin and the russian government are basically saying denying all of this dres of a could easily is there and said look i ve got the passport these are the names and presumably into the dirt that is photo of the friend of the grandmother but she s a she didn t she didn t she didn t need to you she didn t need to go to that level of detail she got sufficient detail into the crown prosecution service then to bring charges all she needed to do
the sour g 20 leaders are expected to focus on the climate crisis on the final day of the summit in rome. just ahead of the cop $26.00 conference in glasgow earlier they had agreed to impose a global minimum tax on multinational companies or a diplomatic editor james base has this updates from room. the main plenary session, when all the leaders are sitting around the table is on climate. those words obviously important the words as the final communique are important, we don t know those yet. they re not, it s not been released yet, but we ve certainly seen a draft copy out there as obtained a draft copy. and that language in there, which talks about keeping global warming well below 2 degrees is not the 1.5 degrees that the u. n. and most expert, si se is absolutely essential. the united states and the european union have agreed to ease tariffs on steel and alan minium imports. the u. s. will now allow certain metals from the you to enter a duty free. it avoids you retaliato