i flew to west berlin with the security people who work out security with the westerman's members of the oppressed office and check the camera angles and i went to gather materials. first stop is where the president would speak and it's very difficult to convey how momentous the place felt. just a few feet away is the water had damaging the second world war i climbed and observation platform to look over the wall into east berlin behind the westerman modern city and on the other side of the wall color listeners, more soldiers and pedestrians, on one side life, the other side twilight. next i went to the office of the american drinking diplomat of what present reagan should not say it east west relations should not say no bashing don't mention all there used to it by now and then i was given a ride in u.s. army helicopter over the wall and from the air it looked even worse from the ground because you can see the guard runs dog towers a killing zone or no man's land. then that evening i broke away from the american party to go to a residential suburb from west berlin were at dinner par

william: republican representative bruce westerman chairs the house committee on natural resources andeform the endangered species act. he supports reinstating trump-era policies that conservationists say weakened its protections. >> you cannot be shortsighted and say, "at all cost, we must save this species." i think we should do everything we can to save all the species. would not want to see anything go extinct. we've also got to use a bit of rationale and reason and look at -- what we need to be doing is what we need to be doing is actively managing these forests in these natural areas to create the habitat that allows these animals to thrive. it doesn't need to be a tool just to stop all kinds of development. william: he argues that the law isn't doing what it set out to achieve. >> people will say it's got a 99% effective rate, meaning that 99% of the animals that have been listed under the act have not gone extinct. only 3% of the animals that have been listed have actually been recovered. and if you look at the original -- that was the intent of the endangered species act, reco

westerman is actually a descendant of one of the 38 men at least one of the 38 men executed on december 26th. 1862, and i wish she was here to really to give what i know was going to be kind of like a powerful talk about that. but that's one of the better known ones at least you know for historians are there's a decent historiography of that. another one is the sand creek massacre in 1864 in colorado. most people have heard of that, you know, and there's some some historical literature on that as well. but there are many many other moments of violence in this particular period in the civil war years particularly in california under what was what's known as the california genocide which was going on for a decade or two before the civil war and continued after but was a particularly bloody time during the civil war. so for example a lot of these are lesser known there, there was the the bear river massacre in idaho of where the us army massacred 280 shoshone men women and children. there was another massacre around the same period in california where settlers it wasn't even the military t

professor gwen westerman was a defendant8 of one of the 38 men at least one of the 38 men executed on december 26. i wish she was here to give what i know is going to be powerful talk about that. that was one of the better-known ones. there is a piece of historiography of that. the another one is a sand creek massacre in 1864 in colorado. most people have heard of that. there's some sort of literature on that as well. there are many, many, many moments of violence particularly in california under what's known as the california genocide which was going on for a decade or two before the civil war. it was a particularly bloodied time during the civil war. and so for example audits are lesser-known. there's the bear river massacre ande idaho were that u.s. army massacred 280 shoshone men, women, children. there is another massacre around the same. in california sellers it wasn't the military local settlers rose up and murdered probably 300 indians inia california. these are just to name a couple of the more extreme ones. so many of these massacres going on in the civil war years. many are

host: bruce westerman there with his thoughts on the inflation reduction act.is morning after president biden marked the one-year anniversary of the law, we are asking you if you consider climate change a major threat. there that if the lines yes, no, and those who have purchase alternative energy products like electric vehicles, heat pumps, solar panels, etc. from pew research and recent post they have done about american views on climate change, this is what they cap file -- what they find. the majority of americans support prioritizing development of renewable energy sources. two thirds of u.s. adults say country should prioritize this development such as wind and solar over expanding the production of all you, coal, and natural gas. it also found the americans reluctant to phase out fossil fuels altogether but younger adults are more open to it. bill, we will go to you next in cleveland, ohio. you say no, not a major threat. caller: i am sorry. i did not state not a major threat. i possibly caught in the wrong line. put it to you this way, i am a republican