he said this was written largely by members of the trump administration. guest: career staff in the federal government. host: the president's reaction, was that surprising? guest: no. he rejects the science. he does not believe this report. he said similar things like that in the past. he pointed out it was called on thanksgiving, and asked where was global warming. weatherflates conditions over a short period of time where climate is conditions over a long period of time. a single day does not equal the absence of climate change. all brand-new research or depend on other research? how does that possibly skew the results? guest: there is plenty of new research in this. one of the most intriguing areas basicallyearch looking at how we can attribute human-caused climate change to some phenomenon like hurricanes, individual hurricanes we have seen. the way we can study that is improving. you can look at hurricane irma and any other hurricane that has caused devastation and say this is the fingerprints of human-cost climate change. is easier with heat waves to

the trump administration put it out an hour ago.screams that serious action needs to be taken as it relates to climate change and taken soon. wildfire season they say is long right now but it will get even longer burning six times more forest area per year by the year 2050. more people will be exposed to ticks that carry lyme disease and mosquitos that transmit viruses like the zika virus and dengue fever. higher temperatures they say will kill more people. they zero in on the midwest, which is predicted to have the largest increase in extreme temperature alone. they say 2,000 more people will die premature deaths by the year 2009 in the midwest. the cost of climate chang wie w be a blow to the economy. it says it could cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually. in the southeast, they say the southeast alone would probably lose over half a billion labor hours due to extreme heat. i mean really, as you read through all of this, it's hard to find any good news, brooke. >> as this ominous report is out, congressionally mandated, it

i ask the american people to demand that the trump administration stop undermining the a.c.a., get to work, this administration, do its job, implement all parts of the existing law, the affordable care act. we should be looking for ways to help people like elaine and j.j. and meghan and elizabeth. we should be looking for ways to help them get through the tough times. we should be working together in a bipartisan way to make the a.c.a. work better, not trying to kill it. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. a senator: i ask unanimous consent that ariel casillo, a legislative fellow in my office be permitted floor access for the remainder of the 115th congress. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. hirono: i thank my good friend, the senator from florida, for speaking out on the critical importance of the affordable care act for millions of people in our country and calling upon this administration to support health care for all instead of what they're doing to the health care of millions of people in our co

-iran relations with the trump's administrations -- the trump administration's regime and the sanctions. >> welcome to heritage. so glad so many people could come through the rain and voting obligations. we are approaching a key inflection point in the evolving confrontation with iran. yesterday the trump administration reactivated nuclear sanctions that it had initially reimposed last may. the second round of sanctions is targeted at iran's oil shipping and banking sectors. but this time around is supposed to -- the crisis with iran during the obama administration, there was not as much -- buy-innal by in with sanctions. that has led to more uncertainty about the likely impact of those sanctions and the way iran is likely to react. tehran apparently believes it can ride out the sanctions and outwait the trump administration. it has refused to negotiate on the nuclear issue with the trump administration and undoubtedly hopes to have a new administration after 2020 to negotiate with. and i think for that reason, iranian officials will be watching this midterm election as much as many ame

for slowed down by the trump administration. according to washington post the paces of u.s. immigration course has ballooned past 750,000. the delay in processing migrant claims has exacerbated a humanitarian crisis at the u.s. doorstep. president trump has threatened to close the border and is demanding congress fund the wall he promised mexico would pay for it. the question we're asking is donald trump trying to create the crisis he needs to force funding on his border wall? i want to get to you with reporting and facts on the ground. what's happening down there. is it as chaotic as the images would display it or painted and what are the people down there asking for right now? >> reporter: the first question here that's been asked this morning at the migrant caravan shelter is whether or not mexican police are going to raid this migrant shelter and try to apprehends some of the people involved in yesterday's skirmishes. this is a huge contingent of mexican police. they are walking toward a corner over there. they just held a pr

you will have countermeasures by the trump administration.antly, if you want to y end the war en, you need diplomacy and efforts by the united nations. a locan happen between when the debate is starting and when the debate will end. laura: are we eing many diplomatic attempts by the trump administration to get through to the saudis? we are seeing a big defense, a big full-court press in "the wall street journal," the secretary of state denouncing the caterwauling on capitol hill and the media pile-on. but what about outreach? brian: none at all. this is the great mistake by t h trump, that leverage over the saudi-led coalition and it is not exercising it. the u.s. should link security a realation measures t plan to end the war in yemen. in their defense of saudi arabia, especially in light of khashoggi's murder, the trump administration is eliminating the leverage we have over saudi actions. laura: how about the crown prince himself, mohammad bin salman? we know he has a closesh relati with jared kushner but is there much leverage the u.s. is

guest: i think the actual writing took place under the trump administration. one of the lead authors pointed that out yesterday. she started in 2017. she is from texas tech university. this is career staff largely from 13 different federal agencies. some of the best scientists in the world. i think it is more than 300 scientists contributed to this report. it is fairly broad-based in terms of the input from all across the administration. host: when it comes to the findings, what were the main pieces of information that made the most impact? guest: it shows an alarming climate situation in the u.s. -- the information is nothing new necessarily in terms of what we have known for years. it builds upon that. it takes it further by showing and emphasizing this report compared to previous iteration that climate change is here now. we are seeing the effects right now. it is not just something happening in the future. one example is in miami where there is nuisance flooding where parts of the city are flooded without any sort of storm moving in. there is climate gentr

the question is what will the trump administration do about all of this, if anything? the eu speaking out against this. for the united states the problem is this, president trump long criticized obama, as you remember, for not doing anything when russia went into crimea. trump will have to decide what he wants to do and will president putin even pay attention to it. does putin see any -- any strength in the trump administration's russia policy right now. he sees vulnerabilities, and he tweeted that nato allies are not spending enough on defense, so when putin sees this and him pulling back seems unlikely. putin is going to have to believe that president trump isn't intending to do anything about all of this. >> thank you for all the reporting from the pentagon this morning. >>> this morning 10 million americans under a storm, and cnn meteorologist, chad myers, has our forecast. >> 1,000 flights worldwide canceled, and 500 flights inside the u.s. proper and the numbers continue to rise. colorado picked up two feet of snow in the ski resorts and then that storm moved into

a lot of americans perceive the coal industry as something the trump administration is trying to save and assist. when we see reports out of west virginia, a lot of times it's about saving jobs and an industry. >> well, we're pleased with what the administration has been doing looking back at some of the what we consider regulatory access in the past administration, particularly on coal and its markets. when we saw the tail off in production and demand, it largely coincides with the series of regulations on the last administration that started kicking in 2011, '13 and '15 and that we lost 50,000 or more megawatts of coal capacity. looking back at some of the policies and saying did they overreach, not to totally dismiss them or repeal all of them, but look and reshape them is important to us to bring some stability. i think it's important to our customers who are looking at what do they need to invest in terms of keeping those power plants running and running more efficiently and cleaner. i think the new ace rule, which is -- has that in mind which is let's look plant by plant and get

minutes the white house put out this statement, "president trump has developed a strong relationship with the incoming obrador administration and we look forward to working with them on a wide range of issues." that's notable for the lack of specificity. i think it's safe to assume president trump will claim credit, that his threat to militarize the border, that that was the thing that forced the hands of mexican officials to effectively capitulate, now allowing asylum seekers to stay there. a homeland security official says since the mexican presidential election in july, the usg has been working jointly with the current mexican government. we're interested in ensuring those who travel to our borders do so safely and orderly. we appreciate the leadership and partnership the mexican government has shown on these and other challenging issues. as we watch how this deal comes together, we should pay close attention to the money. what, if any, u.s. funding goes from the u.s. to mexico to help them deal with is an extraordinarily expensive undertaking. this the short term this is a victory for president trump, who has keyed in o

you clearly are talking to the trump administration.hem, it's about the international community. but do you not worry that there is a very difficult message coming from the trump administration when it comes to relations with central america? if we think about what donald trump says about migrants coming from central america right now, mexico, they are mostly guatemalans and hondurans, i dare say there are some nicaraguans there too. donald trump characterises them as an invading horde, potential criminals, a danger to the security of the united states of america. it's a difficult time for you for appeal help from donald trump. i think it is the right time not only for the trump administration, but for every country in the developed world to tackle the issue of refugees and migrants. what i can tell you is no one leaves their home, the safety of their family, because they are safe. they leave it precisely because they do not have the opportunities to pursue their dreams. so people who are leaving their place, their communities, in let i

the trump administration also went to alabama for environmental expertise. that guy from the state environmental agency in alabama, the guy who was referred for criminal prosecution, the one who got in trouble for accepting all the gifts and private plane rides from his family for companies he was supposed to be overseeing, the one who left state office in a cloud of scandal and then got involved in what turned out to be a giant criminal scheme to keep a poor black neighborhood polluted and not cleaned up, that is who president trump named to run the environmental protection agency for the whole southeastern united states. was anybody else on the short list? his name is trey glenn. president trump appointed him to run the biggest region in the country for the epa. it covers eight states in the southeast. john archibald, the pulitzer prize winning coliseumist wrote a column at the time when trey glenn was pointed in which he john archibald could not contain himself. he wrote, quote, ha ha exclamation point, that guy now heads the environmental protection agen

the question that i was have as a journalist covering the trump administration was whether trump was different in degree a crime. in some ways, the sister conservative republican. where he is really different is what you've written this book about. ejecting 70 years of u.s. leadership of the world order. it created a prosperity. a lot of satellite asking both of you, it's a vacuum. what are the real world consequences of america advocating his leadership role? what happened in the world since trump was elected and decided american leadership was really a crummy deal for us? >> that's why it only right people whose name comes after me in the alphabet. even if they have a nobody. can't be daa. >> you got a lock on that. >> thanks so much for presiding. it's an important question. it's a very important question. about what the vacuum is. and how it can be felt. this a good news story, bad news story is a gets filled by people who don't care about our values. the appreciation of the space order. and who want to do something different. we are already seeing that emerging. with regards to

beaking news this hour, "the washington post" reports that the trump administration has struck a deal with the incoming mexican government to keep asylum seekers in mexico while their claims move through u.s. courts. plus former fbi director james comey and loretta lynch have been subpoenaed to testify in a closed session on capitol hill regarding the hillary clinton e-mail scandal that rocked the election. and the democrats prepare to take over the house and vet t investigate the president on a number of issues. >> and climate crisis? we begin with the breaking news again from the "washington post," this regarding a potential overhaul to u.s. immigration policy. the post is reporting that the trump administration has won the support of mexico's newly elected government for a sweeping plan that would require asylum seekers to remain to wait in mexico while their claims are processed here in the united states. joining me now by phone, "washington post" mexico bureau chief joshua partlo, who wrote that story. this is extraordinary news. perspective-wise, sir, how big a break would this

a little bit here, but what in brief at the actions that you actually want see donald trump and the administration well, it's literally the actions that we don't want him to take, right? because what trump has done from day one, as he has taken office, is first of all use the bully pulpit, use the office of the presidency, to attack the science and to undermine the public‘s faith in science, making silly statements about how a cold day on the east coast is supposedly invalidating 200 yea rs of coast is supposedly invalidating 200 years of science, which is of course absurd. and at the same time, his administration, which is staffed with fossil fuel industry lobbyists and climate change deniers, have been doing everything they can to dismantle the environment protection that were put in place by the last administration, and by previous republican and democratic administrations. so the first thing is we need to stop donald trump's war on climate science and climate action, and we need to improve on the commitments that have already been made by the united states. the good news, by the way, is that w

aide, kellyanne conway uses colorful and coarse language to describe what he thinks of the trump administration. we're going to hear him in his first interview. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. president trump saying he's now answered written questions from the special counsel, robert mueller. sources telling cnn that the president's lawyers took issue with questions about the transition period after the 2016 election. and tonight the president is threatening to write rules of decorum for white house reporters after a federal judge appointed by mr. trump sided with cnn and ordered the white house to reinstate the press pass of our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. i'll talk about that much more with senator ron wyden of the intelligence committee and our correspondents, analysts and specialists are also standing by. >>> first, let's begin with those two stories coming out of the white house tonight. our chief media correspondent, brian stelter, standing by with details on the federal judge's order and

we saw shoot down some of the trump administration's agenda. what do you see the role of it right now especially as we just saw the trump administration's latest nominee clear the senate energy committee this past week? >> well, it's an important one. and i think notwithstanding the fact that ferc rejected the earlier proposal forwarded by secretary perry, but at least one thing they identified is there a real problem here, there is an issue here. the markets that so-called competitive markets are not competitive. they are being distorted by out of market payments. and so when the rules of the game are created, i don't think -- you didn't see that much pressure from these out of markets payments state policies. so i think ferc has to focus on how do you accommodate what the states want but at the same time not distort the marketplace. because you know, frankly, based on the power, whether nuclear or coal they are struggling to get back their marginal cost when they are dealing with other resources that are coming in both capacity markets and th

. >> for the last two years i think the actual writing to place under the trump administration the lead author pointed that out yesterday starting in 2017 from texas tech but this is career staff largely from 13 different federal agencies some of the best scientist in the world in this area they have more than 300 actually contributing to this report it is broad-based in terms of the input all across the administration. >> host: so what was the and with the climate situation here in the us the information here is nothing new necessarily in terms of what we have known for years that builds upon that and takes a littler further to show us and emphasizing in this report that climate changeat is here right now it just will not happen in the future it is already happening being here so in miami with nuisance flooding on a sunny day where parts of the city are flooded even without any sort of storm there is climate gentrification slightly higher above sea level are worth far more's there are pockets throughout the united states you can see examples right in front of you obviously the wildfire

it's kind of funny, because when you think of what american administrations have done, there's not a lot of different between what trump is doing is other administrations have done. they might have done it privately, but trump is doing it privately. take a listen to what ben sass had to say about this. >> mbs contributed to murdering somebody abroad and it is not strength to mumble past that. strength is telling the truth even when it's hard. our intelligence community is really good and the report is really clear and the president should be stronger. that was ake weak statement. >> will growing dissent among the president's party force him to take a harder stance against the crown prince? >> it's a very good question and i've been pleasantly surprised at the number of public senators, ben sasse, bob corker, who have come out since the murder of jamal khashoggi and said this crown prince is not a reliable ally, he's erratic, he could be a murderer. will that change the equation? so far not. it trump continuing on what previous presidents have done in in the past. is this about his personal bottom line? hopefully adam s

the ball of the trump administration is to try and stop china in some way, to contain it.ve heard vice president mike pence and others talk about the advent of a new cold war in terms of stopping chinese economic aggression. isre is no way xi jinping going to give into that in no way donald trump will abandon that easily and that is why we have to be careful when we talk about deal or no deal. guy: what is a good outcome for china and the u.s. midterms? shawn: i'm not sure. carefullyatching this and i think they will look for any sign of weakness in donald trump. how does he come out of this on wednesday morning? there is one race i am watching carefully, and that gets into the chart you had before hand, the losing chart on soybeans. that is the late -- that is the race in north dakota and heidi heitkamp. campaigning actively against trump trade policies and pointing out soybean farmers in north dakota are getting hit hard. she is behind. tuesday andn upset she wins, it will be read as a clear repudiation of trumps trade policies. that is not a bad result for china. that p

>> i think the trump administration can do a couple things. you talk about transformation of the energy sector. one thing we have talked about is the role that storage has to work with any of our fuel sources to help modulate the grid. is r&d part of storage? having investment tax credit for storage is one clear thing that congress can do. can letp administration the market work. let the technology compete. we are not in favor of some of the proposals that have come out to provide subsidies to existing generators, we push back hard on that. do is stayhey can out of that area. this is important to all of our industries. for u.s.trade policy investment would be a good thing. >> i want to talk about what the trump administration has done for nuclear and coal. what you see the role is right now, especially as we just saw a trump administration's latest nominee clearly senate energy committee this week? think,s important and i notwithstanding the fact that they rejected the earlier proposal forward by secretary perry, there is a real problem here.

the trump administration announced new sanctions over russia's 2014 annexation of crimea. this comes as both trump and russian president vladimir putin have said they might hold talks in france next week as they attend armistice day celebrations i in paris. google is overhauling its policies for dealing with claims of sexual misconduct after tens of thousands of workers worldwide staged a mass walkout last week.k. google said thursday its ending its practice of forced arbitration, which usually happens in private settings and often forces employees to agree to confidentiality clauses. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg h h been hospitalized after a fall w wednesday e eveng resulted in three fractured ribs. the health of the liberal 85-yeaear-old juste,e, the oldlt sitting justice on the supreme court, has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. she previously fractured two ribs in 2012 and is a cancer survivor. once news of her fall became public, many took to social media to offer their support. actress alyssa milano wrote -- "ruth bader ginsberg can have my

administration did to those of us who didn't like what obama did. and i'm not convinced, given the way things are at the moment, that if trump were to lose in 2020 andama administration too was to come in in whatever form whether president devol patrick or kemal harris, that they could adjust very quickly return back to the obama policy then to the jc poa because that's what the europeans and democrats are hoping, they hoping to work with the iranians to keep it on life support until they can come back and revive it.>> thanks mike. were going to open it up to questions and to give the interns time to get around and going to ask the first question. that would be to basically everybody on the panel. if you are in the place of the nsc advisor to talk to president trump, and you could only emphasize one or two points, what would be the major take away you would leave with the president on how to increase the economic or geopolitical pressure on iran? we talked about re-imposing past sanctions but there is a lot about the new sanctions that the administrations has hinted about. >> broaden the basis of support for the sanctions. for instance, the administ

in the first year of the trump administration we've seen 2% reduction. i have some questions about the assumption. i want to know more about what they used and how they looked at some of the assumptions and how they looked at the interplay of technology and projections for the future because with 14% reduction that we've seen and the 2.7 in the first year of the trump administration, i think we really need to take a hard look at where the markets are going, where technology is going, where innovation is going and what has driven the reduction in co2 and we need to give credit for that co2 reduction. >> now as president trump and others, including your predecessor and i think you've noted, that clearly the u.s. has made, for example, significantly more reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in recent years compared to other countries whether you're talking about major emerging countries or developing countries overseas as we've seen. they don't have many of the same natural gas resources or have the same rapid deployment of the renewals. at the end of thi

they believe they can write out sanctions and outweigh the trump administration. has refused to negotiate on the nuclear issue with the trump administration and undoubtedly hopes to have a new administration after 2020 to negotiate with. for that reason, iranian officials will be watching the midterm election as much as americans. we are fortunate to have with us our expert panel to look at the number of issues. this panel will include the ceo of the foundation of defense for democracies. michael durand of the husson institute. and patrick. we will look at the likely impact of sanctions, what additional u.s. policies are needed to deal with a wider range of iran's behavior. and what needs to be done, if improved to get to an nuclear agreement. is that in the cards? i will reduce the speakers in order. our first speaker is patrick clawson. he is the senior fellow and director of research at the washington institute for policy. initiativethe iran there. he is widely consulted as an analyst and media commentator. he has authored more than 150 articles about the middl

i started by the story really starts with the trump administration's not bothering to engage in a transition with the obama administration. they were meant to have, you know, hundreds of people flooding into the federal government the day after the elections to receive briefings that had been a year in the works. it was essentially the best course ever created in how the federal government ran. waiting for them, and they didn't show. i mean, didn't show to the point where there were like little finger sandwiches on the table that didn't get eaten and parking spots that didn't get filled. when i learned this had happened a couple months after the election, i went and started wandering around the federal government. asking what were these briefings? could i have them? just to find out what they didn't know. what emerges is really a picture of a couple things. one is you can think of a government, a lot of ways to think of it, but the way i'm framing it is it's a portfolio of risks, many of them catastrophic, very long-term in nature. that are being managed. and the white house, to get to the t

virtue of a memo it issued last year, will empower democrats do exactly that, investigate the trump administration. how did it do that? by sending a memo to capitol hill saying that the administration, the trump administration only had to be responsive for requests for information from the majority party in the house and the senate. well, that's going to be the democrats. they can also use their subpoena power. but even this other mechanism that the trump administrations that given them, meaning everyone on the trump administration must respond to house democratic requests for information could make those investigations more intrusive. will that lead to impeachment in? that's way down the road. a lower-level priority for pelosi. there will be other deals on infrastructure and immigration? very hard to say. but, president trump in that phone call with pelosi did note in her remarks a call for bipartisanship. at leastthe house by picking upt 26 seats. anthony mason takes a look at how exactly they did that. >> reporter: we wanted to take a look at what contributed to the democrats taking control of

trump. i think this goes to a broader point with her role in the administration. t of critics would say that ivanka trump uses the first daughter role when it seems convenient to her and she also uses her role as the president's advisor when it seems convenient to her. and i think critics would point to her private e-mails and the use of that as potentially, you know, how this -- how these two roles have played out for her. >> julia manchester, great to have you this morning. kevin, always a pleasure. thanks for being here this saturday. >> thank you. >>> that will do it for me. i'm dara brown. thank you for watching. at the top of the hour it is "up" with david gur ra. first, it's your business with j.j. ramburg. a new beginning. some welcome relief... or a cause for celebration. ♪ what's inside? ♪ [laughter] possibilities. what we deliver by delivering. the full value of your new car? you'd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ liberty. l

the trump administration established the tent camp in tornillo in june as a temporary shelter amid the administration's zero tolerance policy, which included forcibly separating children from their parents. it has since expanded to contain 3800 beds for migrant children, with officials saying they're unlikely to meet federal plans to close tornillo by new years' eve. in mississippi, republican senator cindy hyde-smith has won a runoff special e election for the u.s. senate seat vacated by thad cochran, who retired earlier this year for health reasons. hyde-smith's victory came after she joked about hangings on the campaign trail and after photos emerged showing her posing with a confederate army cap and rifle. she captioned "mississippi history at its best." hyde-smith beat her democratic challenger, mike espy, who's african-american, with 53.9% of the vote. the outcome gives republicans a 53-to-47 majority in the senate, while democrats will take control of the house after gaining at least 39 seats. there is one more house in contention in california, house seat. russia is sending adv

general motors cited tariffs levied by the trump administration on imported steel as one of the reasons for the u.s. layoffs, saying the tariffs cost the company an extra $1 billion. president trump said monday he does not believe the findings in last week's government report on climate change. 13 federal agencies contributed to the report, which warns that human-driven climate change threatens to shrink the u.s. 10% by by as much as 2100, while destroying infrastructure, worsening air quality, destroying crops, and leading to more frequent disease outbtbreaks. this is trump speaking with reporters on monday. pres. trump: i have seen it. i have read some of itit. it is fine. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: i don't believe it. i don't believe it. and here's the other thing. you're going to have to have china and japan and all of asia and all of these other countries -- it addresses our country. right now we're at the cleanest we have ever been. it is very important to me. we are clean, but every other place on earth is dirty. that is not so good. so i i want clean air. i want clean water. ve

the trump administration will claim yes, they are safe. they're safer than they were in their home country. but here again, it's the trump administration essentially deflecting the responsibility and not wanting to do that. at the end of the day, what we see here with the asylum process that i believe makes the trump administration very nervous is that there is no cap on asylum here in the united states. whereas with refugees there is an annual cap that is set by both the president in consultation with congress. with asylum cases, it's more of a case by case issue and i think that has always made the trump administration nervous. that is why we see so much movement in trying to fiddle with asylum through executive orders here and there. and this is i think why we're seeing what we're seeing today rather than just actually going through and putting through a conscientious reform. >> 15 seconds, deal or no deal on asylum? >> i think even if you have a deal, richard, it's going to get challenged in the court. it's going to be challenged by th

have been more timely, urgent even into the big question i had as a journalist covering the trump administration is whether trump was different in degree or kind because in some areas of the drastic policy he is just a conservative republican but where he is different and kind is what you've written this book about. what are the real-world consequences of america abdicating its leadership role. >> that is why a woman you write for the people whose names come after me in the alphabet. it is an important question. a very important question about the vacuum is and how it can be filled. the bad news story is that it gets filled by people who don't share our values or share the appreciation of the rules-based order and who want to do something different. and we are already seeing the emerging in particular with china and russia particularly in the middle east. the capacity of filling the vacuum of bringing others along with force or money or the fear they may be left behind to fill in the vacuum. you saw that in particular with the transpacific partnership president walked out of disagreementhisagree

at thehe peak of the monstrosity is, in fact, the trump administration. hould recall that trump himself, as i mentioned, is a firm believer in global wararmi. recently, he applied to the government of ireland for permission to build a huge wall -- one of his famous walls. this one to protect a golf course of his in ireland, which has -- his plea indicates is threatened by sea level rises as a result of global warming. banks,look at the big j.p. morgan chase and the others. they are increasing their investments in fossil fuel development. the entergy corporation's are working all over the world to try to find new resources that destroyed the environment. realedia are focusing on outrages like the ludicrous military preparation for this wave of mothers and children planning to invade us and destroy us, concentrating on that, but take a look at their coverage of these things. there was a big report to a long front-page report in "the new york times" a couple of days ago about the opening of the west to further fossil fuel extraction. you cand everything think

this was necessary this was the trump administration staging its own demonstration in a very very predictable way you know it's very interesting so i think it's almost one of those news stories words like. we were talking earlier about it where you look at it it's like everybody you know very cynical world everybody got the images they want to get out of this news story you know trump and them got their work tough on these guys will not let them cross their borders if you seriously. especially the corporate left and the news media you also got the shots of look at these people running in the hall when no one really did the thing that you're talking about no one took the time to say hey these people are coming these people are coming should be there waiting for an europe is taken care of refugees we all know how to take care of one g.'s europe had one point six million refugees coming all at once yes this was a very manageable problem now i have to say i think the individuals who were on the caribbean i don't think that they're well informed politically about all of the match nations either be

the trump administration broke another budget record. there has been a large amount of investment in the system. it has far outpaced the patient growth. the key issue is that they are not using the resources they have as efficiently as possible and they are not set up to serve the current generation of veterans we have. it is set up to survey world war ii population. most facilities are over 50 years old. they are located where there was a certain veteran population at the time but that just doesn't exist now. there are still problems in the system. some vacancies need to be filled. the amount of investment that has been put in the system has been overwhelming. usboth gentlemen will join or this discussion over the course of the hour. talk to them, there are two separate lines. the president made comments about the veterans choice act at a function of last week. i want to hear a portion of that statement again your reaction to it. >> since i took office, 2.2 million veterans have been able to receive the care they need outside of the v.a

be why did they want this image because the image was completely predictable i believe the trump administration and border patrol actually wanted exactly the images that we see and that the world is revolted by seen they wanted it because they're sending a message. just don't come here that a lot of and well dan asked before i even get or you can call these less than lethal weapons well not for children not for adults in two thousand and thirteen following the coup that overthrew the morsi government in egypt there was a truckload of muslim brotherhood prisoners going to court the egyptian military a lot of the same tear gas see as gas into their truck thirty seven of them died burned to death as fixated their families could not recognize them that's the level of toxicity of that this chemical weapon actually has. yeah you know what's really terrifying about at least for me and doing research on it is that it essentially works by going to our pain receptors it's making your brain believe that you are being ripped apart like you said and as you said it's children it woks you can't control it it'

research act of 1990, 13 federal agencies are part of the group that worked on this report, the trump administrationort seems to contradict some of president trump's views on climate change. >> now the other big question is is it possible that climate change is a real issue here. >> we are looking at everything. it is land management and forest management, really is what you mean. but we will be looking at every factor and we will get to the bottom of it and i think we can do it fairly quickly. >> economies and industries that are set to be particularly at risk are things agriculture, tourism and fisheries, back to you guys. arthel: ellison barber, thank you so much. >> large percentage of young voters who stayed home past election day, so now both political parties are wondering how they can tap into this potential voting base ahead of 2020, we will take that up with our panel next and nancy pelosi appears to be inching to be house speaker once again but nothing is guarantied even after picking off a possible challenger, so how concerned should democrats be that this process has dem traited cracks

so why is the trump administration. the supreme court? is this a test, in effect, for the supreme court? well, it is certainly a test for the supreme court, but it is also, i think, an attempt by the trump administration simply to get this done with, the fast track this issue. the legal situation has actually become quite complicated, with a number of lower courts considering it, and i mentioned a number of injunction still in force. this is an attempt to go to the highest court in the land, the supreme court, to get an overriding judgement on this issue. and the reason for the fast track is that the administration clearly wants to get this done with before the end of the current term of the supreme court, which ends in the middle of next year. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: remembering the end of the first world war in east africa. but has the sacrifice of colonial troops there been overlooked by history? we have a special report from kenya. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the mur

they are promising to go as aggressively as possible against the trump administration and that will halt trump's legislative agenda. it will come to a screeching halt on capitol hill. a lot ofng to suck up the oxygen in the room. hopes will quickly fade as investigations kick into high gear. host: how soon after the new congress sits do you expect the first one of these to launch? are you thinking it might happen on the first day of the new congress? melanie: it can't happen on the first day, they have to get new committees staffed up. documents.t it does not happen right away, but they're promising to go after issues right away including the firing of jeff sessions. that has become a top priority. the tax returns, even this new wall street journal article suggesting trump had direct involvement in the hush money to stormy daniels. these will be top of priority next year when they get into the majority. host: deborah's next in spokane, washington. democrat, good morning. caller: hello. my name is deborah, i'm a veteran and a trans woman. i want to thank all of our veterans for their serv

trump has been not willing to provide that kind of consensus. congress has been stifled of any kind of deal with administration and even resistance to funding the law. it's unlikely they're going to be enthused about this. where is the money coming from is i guess one of the big questions. remember, president trump offers to enter into this details like with north korea where there's this big announcement and the details are where things fall apart. so that's what we need to find out. there's big costs here and those are real and we need answers to how this will be financed. >> if there is u.s. money involved here, congress, you know, potentially has to play a role. what do you suppose the negotiationings are like right now? what is the trump administration saying to voters of this transition of congress now about whether this will ever come to fruition. >> he's got only a number of days because the federal funding bill is going to expire on december 7th. that would be something he's trying to work out with republican leaders. it seems like that might be a little quick given we don't know the details. but if he's going down the line, i really do

of the tools that international law allows us, we are not talking about pressure from the trump administrationparticular. in fact, we are saying that would be a problem if only the trump administration puts pressure on the regime. we have said that the international community in general has to pay attention to the fact that human rights in nicaragua are at the most severe crisis in generations. economic sanctions, do you think they would help your people? i think it is immoral that some parts of the international community and international banks are putting money into nicaragua that pays political parties. i would say yes, if we have to go that far to go back to the table, it is a painful process but there is no other way. it is easy for you to say it isa other way. it is easy for you to say it is a painful process while you sit here in washington, dc, the truth is that the economic analysis i have seen shows that at least 200,000 jobs have been lost since the uprising in april due to the destabilisation of the politics and economics of your country. you are saying you want to see more econom

it was last week this report was released by the trump administration although it started in the previousdministration, the fourth national climate assessment breed a lot of findings. one of the key findings that was highlighted and reported on from it goes about saying this, a couple of comments saying the continued warming projected to occur without substantial and sedate reduction in global damage to the economy throughout the century, increased and adaption efforts. annual losses in some economic sectors are projected to reach 100 billion -- hundreds of billions of dollars by the e&e end ofcentury, -- by the the century. president and other members of the administration upon its release went to comment about it. of president trump before heading off made comments about the report, particularly the science behind it. [video clip] >> i have seen it. i have read some of it and it is fine. i don't believe it. no, i don't believe it. here is the other thing. you are going to have to have china and japan and all of asia and all these other countries -- it addresses our country. we are the c

and just this morning, the trump administration is responding. spoiler alert, they're not backing down from this fight. let's get to aeroeon de vogue following all of the details. what does this ruling mean? >> this all stemmed from the november 9th proclamation where the president said, look, people who are seeking asylum coming over the border, they can only do it now in official ports of entry. they can't do it anywhere on the southwestern border. that was immediately challenged by the aclu and other groups. they said look, federal law clearly says that you can either ask for asylum at a port of entry or anywhere on the border. and last night, as you said, this federal judge agreed with the challengers. he issued this temporary restraining order, and he had some strong language for the administration. he said look, you're trying to rewrite law. and at one point, he said that their reasoning strains credulity. this is indeed a loss for the trump administration. it's a loss early on. but they responded so far with a statement, and the department