joining us with the questioning from politico and john sullivan from the washington post. let me begin with a broad issue of climate change and global warming. are we experiencing that today in the u.s. and around the world? >> we are. there is no doubt that the climate is changing and has been changing for a number of years. you can see it both in the measurements that they have been taken rigorously over the last number of decades and also in the increasing number of events that are taking place largely in the water related events, whether they be floods or droughts or things like hurricane katrina or superstorm sandy. >> temperature changes. are we experiencing that? a number of studies conflict that we are facing global warming today. quite i did not think that is true. the studies also show that the temperatures are rising. i think you are referring to the fact they have not risen that much over the last decade. scientists talk a lot about why that is true. when we talk about climate change, people are focused very heavily on the temperature in the air. there are a nu

joining us with the questioning from politico and john sullivan from the washington post. let me begin with a broad issue of climate change and global warming. are we experiencing that today in the u.s. and around the world? >> we are. there is no doubt that the climate is changing and has been changing for a number of years. you can see it both in the measurements that they have been taken rigorously over the last number of decades and also in the increasing number of events that are taking place largely in the

joining us to break this down is john sullivan. thank you for being with us is morning.uest: thank you for having me. one of the things is interesting is this caught democrats on capitol hill by surprise. obama kept within a close-knit circle. republicans have been calling for her resignation for months waiting -- dating back to the troubled rollout of the health-care law last fall, as you mentioned. it seemed like obama was going to stick with her. she has been around for just about five years. it is something that caught people outside of the immediate orbit of the white house by surprise. as we have seen from some of these reports, this is not something that happened overnight. this is something that had been planned for a few weeks. even within the president's own party, there is a little bit of shock today at this upcoming announcement. host: as you mentioned republicans for months have been saying that catherine stability is -- to kathleen sibelius should be stepping down. is there different storyline here? guest: i think the fact that she did resign last fall at t

host: john sullivan, you can almost hear the campaign ads coming out from what the president said in ann arbor michigan last wednesday and what republicans are saying. you have an issue between this republican budget plan the democrats are taking aim at and of course the republicans taking aim at the affordable care act. guest: we have two competing issues here. from the democratic perspective they want to make this election about the ryan budget. they want to make this about the items in the ryan budget. the republicans are content to make the 2014 midterm elections all about obamacare. if you look at the polling what we have seen over the last couple of years is what we are seeing now. health care law, on the whole is not very popular. and neither is the president. they are content making this election about the health care law. from the democratic perspective that is obviously not a popular issue to talk about right now. they would rather talk about the ryan budget. this gives them a potential opening to shift the conversation to something else. we will see in the coming months if

joining us with the questioning from politico and john sullivan from the washington post. me begin with a broad issue of climate change and global warming. are we experiencing that today in the u.s. and around the world? >> we are. there is no doubt that the climate is changing and has been changing for a number of years. you can see it both in the measurements that they have been taking rigorously over the last number decades and also in the increasing number of events that are taking place largely in

. >> john, i want to read to you something that got a lot of attention blogged by andrew sullivan who said the following about the ouster. this whole episode disgusts me as it should disgust anyone who is interested in a tolerant and diverse society. if this is the gay rights movement today, hounding our opponent was a if a national simple more like the religious rights than anyone else, then count me out. a lot of people look to you as a prominent gay mroger, but you have a very different opinion. >> yeah. i think andrew raises some good concerns in the sense that we should always be careful about who we go after. if we have the power to destroy, we should use it wisely, fair enough. in this case, i think you have a company that -- no corporate america is going to hire someone who is an anti-semi or a racist. if someone was a hollow co haul denier, not -- >> you described brendan ike who neither of us probably heard of a week as as an anti-gay activist when all he did was contribute $5,000 to a proposition six years ago. >> his intention was to repeal gay marriages. when you start ta

. >> john, i will read something that get a lot of attention a blog by andrew sullivan on this story. >> episode disgusts me as it should disgust anyone interested in the tolerant and diverse society. if this is the gay rights movement today, with a fanaticism like the relidgous right, count me out. people look to you as a. prominent gay blogger and you have a different sullivan. >> andrew raises some good concerns that we should be careful about who we go after. if we have the power to destroy, use it wisely. in this case, you have a company that no corporate america is going to hire someone who is antisemite or or racist. i was on a slow and someone said if someone was a holocaust denier, i would be fine if they were a c.e.o. i 2409, nowhere but america. >> you describe brandon as an antigay activist when all he did was contribute $1,000 to proposition 8 six years ago. >> that does make you anti-gay advocate. the position was not just against gay merge but to repeal 18,000 gay marriages that existed in california. it was legal in the state and when you start talking about repealing

sullivan. >> no, we didn't. >> i can't tell any of you about it. but johnlike my career. >> by the way, my earpiece is not working. i can't hear a word john is saying. so i'll remove this. let's go. >> all right. let's talk about what's happening in the marketplace because last week not so good. we had a good rally yesterday, maybe balance out some of the losses or what? >> here's what's weird. file this stat under boring but somehow interesting. the market is up 12 of the last 14 tuesdays. why? i have no idea. no idea, katty. but it is tax day too so there's a lot of talk about some of the weakness has been tax selling. bigger bills, people surprised. a lot of insiders in companies, sheryl sandberg, facebook just took some heat for selling half of her stake. she said it was because of taxes. twitter's founders said we're not selling, we believe in our name. but just watch this. this is an issue here. you've also got ukraine, a bombing in nigeria, there's a lot of reasons to be nervous from a macro perspective. >> i should point out tax day, yeah, rolling o

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