i caught you speaking about al gore. al gore was really raised in -- andton, d.c. newsline that is why he cannot win in his own state. you was a creature of washington. basically, his father was a very racist democrat from the 1960's or whatever. like, i don't know. that's all i've got to say. thank you. guest: he went to saint albans. when i talk to them, it was on the phone so i could not tell his facial expressions. ini like to do interviews person. but we talked on the fun. i asked him what it was like working with the most powerful first lady in history. said, i think our conversation is almost over. to me, think he was joking but it was also that he did not want to get into that relationship with hillary clinton because it was so challenging. the president, vice president, and the first lady. imagine how hard it was to navigate. well andt along really it was like to baby boomer couples on a double date. but at the end, he lost, he did not even what bill clinton go and campaign for them and arkansas. a lot of clinton supporters said that was a mistake. peoplet

i just caught you speaking about al gore and al gore really was raised in washington dc and that is why i think he cannot win his own state. i believe that is because we do not look at him and we basically looked at him as if he was a creature of washington. his father was a very racist democrat from the 60s whatever but i don't know. that's all i got to say. thank you. >> host: thank you, chris. >> guest: it is true. he went to saint alden's and it was funny when i talk to him it was on the phone so i couldn't tell his facial expression. i like to do interviews in person but he could only talk on the phone and i asked him what it is like working in a white house with the most powerful first lady in history. we have not seen a family member that powerful since robert kennedy was attorney general. he said i think our conversation is a most over. to me, he was joking but it was also like he did not want to get into that relationship with hillary clinton because it was so challenging because they were two power centers. it is a president and the vice president and the first lady and imagin

big thing that al gore got wrong? oren: i will answer and big terms because i do not pay much attention to what al gore says. they that partly ceaselessly and partly true. al gore has been a very destructive force in the climate debate. the things he says that are inaccurate do a direct disservice to the debate and they encourage people from the other sideo say, client-side science is incorrect. but he is not doing climate science. oddly, al gore and others focus on that motive communication. something they got right, this is a cop-out answer but something is they can be very effective with their climate communication. i mean, the climate industrial marketing complex that has risen up to find ways to make climate change sound scary is very impressive and effective. and, you can go to seminars and become a certified outdoor climate corps communicator and --rn about the way to and you will see this with your thanksgiving articles, how to talk to your drunk uncle about climate change. this is a real thing. i especially f

and what is one big thing that al gore got wrong? [applause] will answer in vague terms because i don't pay much attention to what al gore says. al gore has been a very destructive force in the climate debate. the things that he says that are an accurate obviously do a direct the service to the debate, but they also encourage people from the other side to say climate science is a joke. i'm sure he knows something about climate science but he is not doing climate science. and folksl gore focused on that kind of climate communication, something they outright, this is a cop answer, but something they got right is that they can be very effective with their climate communication. [laughter] the climate industrial marketing complex that has risen up to find ways to make climate change sound scary is very impressive and very effective. you can go to seminars and become a certified al gore climate corps communicator, and learn about the way. and you see this with the thanksgiving columns, how to talk to your drunk uncle about climate change.

you can go to seminars and al gore climate core commune kart. learn about the way to and you'll see this with the thanksgiving columns. how to talk to your drunk uncle about climate change. this is now a real thing. there's an entire generation of people that are distraught and given what the facts look like, impressive thai blood pressure ab able to do that. what he gets wrong is everything i've been talking about which is the idea and uncle, discover climate change and decide to be an environmentalist. al gore was deeply focused back to the late '80s on these narratives and they make for compelling documentaries. but the math behind it doesn't usually match up well with reality. >> we have time for a few more questions. >> thank you. if you look from say 75 to 95, there's been a net migration in the united states, very clearly from north to south. in that period, there's been a significant increase in average temperature. so do we need to cop collude that people move to the position. there will be a worse climb. >> it's a great and question th

crest aces and al gore this time as are my mother and my father in law. i can remember when my mother was dying of cancer and i told her you know what the next time we see each other we're probably going to be i'm going to have taken you out to a wonderful dinner at the best restaurant on the moon of titan with the best view of the planet saturn and you and i will toast to life is will be together again. to the youth worker who did your story of course. as an atheist. i had accepted the fact that there is nothing after biological death it's just dust to dust just gone because i have accepted it doesn't mean that i liked it it was just a fact and then i read the prospect of immortality by robert it to who is considered the father of crying on x. and i said wow that's a great idea. well initially back in the early one nine hundred seventy s. . this was considered. a lunatic fringe kind of thinking i mean nobody was actually doing this this was just. science fiction and so we the problems we ran into was evenly and a member who had made arrangements for the

probably the election. >> cost al gore was the election.all he needed was 500 more votes. >> next question. >> also enjoying this very much. we have heard comments over the political scene in both countries. i would like to know a bit more. what is the feeling towards change. do the cuban people have a strong idea pointing to change? are they fatalistic like you said or could you elaborate more and what like the civil sentiment is? >> you take that. >> welcome i think there is great hunger for change, but at the same time i think there is this sense that every time change appears to be on the horizon to horizon keeps getting further and further and further away and so there's this sort of fatalism. there's also especially, you know, before the wet foot dry foot policy was changed there was a huge brain drain, so, i mean, people think that migration is only to the us-- us, but it's not. cubans are dispersed all over the world with huge cuban support communities in spain and mexico and colombia, certainly in venezuela all of them now desperat

i caught you speaking about al gore. al gore really was raised in washington, d.c., and that is why he couldn't even win his own state, and i believe that's because we didn't look at him -- we looked at him as a creature --washington from basically his father was a racist democrat from the 60's or whatever. i don't know. that's all i got to say, thank you. kids true that he went to saint albans. when i talked to him, i couldn't his facial expressions, i was talking on the phone. i asked him what it was like working in the white house with the most powerful first lady in history. we haven't seen a family member that powerful since robert kennedy was attorney general. he said, i think our conversation is almost over. to me, i think he was joking, but it was also kind of, he didn't want to get into that relationship with hillary clinton because it was so challenging. there were two power centers. imagine how hard that is to navigate. he also told me that he and bill clinton were like brothers, for most of the time he was in

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they have had john kerry and al gore. i think in retrospect obama was the upset of hillary clinton on either side. he was the first genuine upset on either side. think back to carter. each of the other elections was predictable on who the nominee would be. or semi-predictable. and who would be well-established are well-known senator where is obama upsetting hillary was astounding. and i think a little bit of a hint on what was to come on the republican side, not to compare them but in terms of voters being sufficiently willing to take a gamble to not reward experience, to not go for the next in line, on the republican side was john. so, i think we are in a new era. obama was a foretaste of it, the upset of clinton but we are in a more volatile area. and so, my main advice is do not assume the rules we have learned, people might eight going to her looking through the 90's and 2000 and predictable races in those holes in politics or of the next few years. you can see a lot of evidence of that. i think it is unusual. voters

when al gore said -- >> you're supposed to own it. >> do you remember when al gore said a leopard can'tin a wheelchair to stand up? >> you can't just keep saying other people do it, too. they get called out. joe biden was chased and had to admit when he was wrong. so does al gore. so did obama. so does everybody except this man in your estimation. and that's why -- >> that's not true. chris, chris -- >> you have never said the president should go out and apologize for this. the president should admit it, never. you always say somebody else did something else. false equivalency, is what we call it. that's why people who watch this show -- not all, but some -- will say oh, you're having him on? you're having her on. all they do is lie and spin. they never tell the truth about anything did you. don't have them on anymore. is that's where we've arrived. this is unhealthy. it's unproductive. you know they weren't telling the truth about what happened on that plane. why not just call it out. your integrity. >> chris, chris, look, look, look, i had nothing to do -- i wasn't on the plane. >> bu

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or if you want the really great example, it's al gore.clinton sent little elian gonzalez, who was found, taken to miami. back to cuba. the cuban-americans were horrified. you remember that great picture of the special forces and the jacket and the helmet with his m-16 haand little elliott gonzales in the closet scared to death. so he went back. the first thing happened that fidel undressed him up in a uniform. the cuban-americans went crazy. and they had -- >> right. it cost him the election probably. >> yes it cost al gore the election. all he did was 500 more votes. >> right. next question? >> also enjoying this very much. throughout the talk, we have heard comments over the political scene in both countries. i would like to know a bit more about bthe famous -- what is t feeling towards change there? do the cuban people have a strong idea of wanting the change? are they kind of fatalistic, like you said? or could you elaborate more on liquidity civil sentiment is? >> you can take that. >> yet again! >> i think there's great hunger for c

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and my feeling is unlike with al gore or something like that, and there wouldn't be a big sense among trump voters necessarily that they need to be for mike pens. they'll be other candidates running. there will be people like sass. kasich. you have a wide open presidential race if trump decided not to run. and i don't think pens would be very dominant position.i gus pe normal, a, trump gets re-elected and you are the sitting vice president for two terms, as you are in al gore, you won the nomination. but even then depends how trump turns out. so i'm less convinced that, you know, he'll take a shot, and he's entitled to it, and real supporters out there. but i'm not convinced that pence ends up ever being a presidential nomie. >> 2016 washington [ inaudible ] in 2016, it seemed like the news media had basically had to take responsibility for what the outcome was they failed to report. and there was very little critical reporting. from your voon taki from your vantage point, are you seeing any change in the media? do you forsee a different election and different quality of reporting? >>

do you remember when al gore was going to reinvent government.ut maybe somebody remembers. >> martha: i remember. >> al gore was going to reinvent government. usually in the administration this is fluff and busy work. i'll quote our friend charles krauthammer when asked about the middle east peace not process he said the same thing. wake me when peace breaks out. so wake me when government is reinvented. >> martha: maybe so. but i have to say, you know, i live up here in new york. every time i come to washington, and i go around the blocks i still can't believe that the department of agriculture is an entire city block. there is four different entrances. department of education, enormous, guy. you just have to wonder as an american taxpayer when you look at all this, what the heck are they doing in there in all those little offices? >> yeah. so i'm all for this. at least in theory. i think that the federal government has so many inefficiencies and duplicative groups and workers and charges that we can trim some fat off of this leviathon. is there

the us that i have on hand al gore says well i have i have a bunch of. my mind. and i'm just. going out on our own or hearing as foreign and lunar. and man of the cold war. i will call. it more momentum for. there my i want. well we're arming. almost the gallows and they're. what i am a man. there's. a. saying that. the united states has announced it will impose aluminum and steel tariffs on the european union mexico and canada the punitive measures are to immediately take effect after last ditch talks in paris broke dying european commission president john claude said that europe will respond with countermeasures. it's a these right wing lead and populist five star movement see they've reached a deal to form a new government it will be led by law professor giuseppe cons to who will be sworn in on friday.

sue trained as a legal assistant like many young people in turkey she come from member a time when al goreon wasn't turkey's leader but unlike a k.p. campaigners she's had enough of him in a thread he invests in rather than an education he behaves like a racist a warmonger or a nationalist he doesn't care about the people that's why we say it's enough to add one he and his people say we build roads and bridges for you but in fact so many people don't have hope. or anything to eat. turkey is a youthful country roughly fifty percent of those alledged will to vote are under thirty an entire generation that's grown up with the address and the religious conservatism of his justice and development party. all to sixteen years is a long time for a government and the same mentality the same person and power that's not good. do wash them such a member i'm not sure where they're all both for everyone but i don't think there's anyone else who could do the job so i can only. put on so the good news so i'll just make the strong our health system is very good. he's done a lot for us and so thanks to the

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think what's important is that the saudis are losing the war in spite of the prop propaganda and al gore data the saudis have been unable to capture the city they've been unable to capture their port they've been they face serious casualties we have from according to the resistance and yemen the americans have a command post and border and maha in support of the attacks we know for example that al qaeda in yemen as the head of al qaeda said last year that they are fighting alongside the soul would be the. u.a.e. backed forces which is not strange because that's exactly what happened in libya there was use overthrow as up and look at look at libya today just the fighting right now that's been taking place over the last few days or what or what we saw in syria and of course in syria the western media likes to say that president assad has killed hundreds of thousands of its own people in reality it was obama and his allies that are responsible for these deaths and in yemen if you notice they always say it's for three and a half years now they've been saying ten thousand people have died and

cockroach was a nice way i mean i mean while you are right which is tell me where me resilience fish al gore well where you could compare them to my question els and miles that would be a bizarre way of writing copy and very poor english but let me ask you a question the aquarius with i think it's six hundred thirty two it could be nine hundred thirty two i apologize for not knowing let's say six hundred thirty two migrants on board it has nowhere to dock it's really just said no we won't have you tell me what would you do about that if you broke it you own it it was in part western and primarily u.k. policy that created the massively bit and if you created that mess in those neighborhoods you should expect certain representations for yourself. which court was really won't while you guys have to chip in as well. but that's no solution so why is it why is it not solution just so you can stay current foreign country or to send your special forces there to hold a live there and then refuse to accept them we shouldn't be running ferry boats across the med that's a no you are a common occurrence

bush and al gore so that had the limelight at the time that was one of the reasons and the other reason is they couldn't quite get the concessions through from the north koreans that they felt that they needed in order to give them the reward of a meeting of course he's been given the reward of the meeting without making any concessions at this stage so he will see that as a victory the fact that he is being treated equally is being treated with respect he's no longer being called rocket man he's being treated as the leader of a sovereign independent country he's being treated as a fellow nuclear power all of those are going to plead as the north korean leadership i have to say. the leadership will understand that there is a little bit of an effort to try and get the north korean people to understand it because on your t.v.'s in north korea and i was there just a couple of months ago all you get is one channel most of the time occasionally they have a second channel but they're both pretty much the same they are state propaganda from north korean television and they give the party line

using cockroach was a nice way or only i mean while you are right which is where me resilience fish al gore well you could compare them to my questions and miles that would be a bizarre way of writing copy and very poor english but let me ask you a question the aquarius with i think it's six hundred thirty two could be nine hundred thirty two i apologize for not knowing let's say six hundred thirty two migrants on board it has nowhere to dock it's really just said no we won't have you tell me what would you do about that if you're broken you own it it was in part western and primarily u.k. policy that created the massively bit and if you created that mess in those neighborhoods you should expect certain representations for yourself what you want culture which port was really won't. you guys have to chip in as well. but that's no solution so why is it why is it not solution just going to take on a foreign country or to send a special forces there to hold a live there and then refuse to accept them we shouldn't be running ferry boats across the med that's a no you are a common sense lady and

the vote recount with al gore and george w. bush. it was not until mid-december, the 13th that al gore conceded, defeat and simply time or not. time ran out on planted. even in early january clinton had not given up hope. in recent days, president trump has told kim yong-chol to take his time on denuclearization. it is a wonderful song by the south korean all girl group, red velvet called make it so. it is a love song and somewhat reminiscent of that. take your time, no rush. president trump also said, that he believes that north korea can change. before its economy under the stewardship of kim jong-un. history suggests otherwise. we see still of course, a persistent tendency on the part of americans to underestimate, patronize, condescend the north korean leaders. and the reasons are quite obvious. because they are so weird. but north korea has been weapon rising its own weirdness since the early 1970s. under the stewardship of the founder. in 1972, the mood dramatically changed in the region. in the aftermath of the dramatic -- bet

state department policy planning direct, senior foreign policy adviser to volunteer al gore and this presidential campaign, served in the clinton administration state department and is a important policy aide and has send on a number of policy commissions including the responsibility to protect working group. he is here to talk but his book, "peacemakers." the book offers pore drivers transformative leaderses who advances international peace, justice, and resume rights. it's called an nevertive addition to burgeoning field of leeway studies. foreign affairs magazines says he remained readers that leaders to matter. help me welcome our speaker. [applause] >> thank you for horsing me. to c-span for covering this. my roots with c-span go back to when its start in the late 1970s, and when they were starting covering the house and the senate, they're not meeting on the floor all the time so they used a lot of the seminars we ran for our students, meetings with members of congress, meetings with others in washington, when brian lamb was first starting its. so a great for me to be so-ed wit

al gore said that was pressurci time with the president, i could talk to him about issues i cared about. it seems odd their relationship seems to need to be managed this way. >> there are stories in this book about melania's role in the pence selection. stories about people like paul agnew. walter mon dame and a human role he played in the history of the modern vice presidency. all part of kate brouwer's new book "first in line." thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> coming up, the wide ranging comments of our president on the south lawn today prior to departing for canada. my name is cynthia haynes and i am a senior public safety specialist for pg&e. my job is to help educate our first responders on how to deal with natural gas and electric emergencies. everyday when we go to work we want everyone to work safely and come home safely. i live right here in auburn, i absolutely love this community. once i moved here i didn't want to live anywhere else. i love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other people's lives. together, we're buildin

he is not going to run against trump and he could decide not to run and my feeling is unlik what al gore or something like that, it wouldn't make sense among the voters necessarily that they would need to be for mike pence. there would be others so you would have a wide-open presidential race and i don't think that he would be in a very dominant position. his play is the normal if he gets elected then you are in that situation to win the nomination en then a lot of depend on how it turns out. i am less convinced that he will take a shot and he has real supporters out there but i am not convinced about him ever being a presidential nominee. [inaudible] it seemed they had to take responsibility for the outcome was and there was little critical reporting. are you seeing any change in the news media and do you foresee a different kind of election and quality reporting? >> we tried to do ou try to do e weekly standard, cnn or fox. i don't know, i don't quite agree i guess. it seems the voters do an awful lot o by the time they vote for him and in the general election for whatever reason eliza

scalise: we had al gore testify before our committee. five minutes to question him. that time goes by really quickly. you get to confront a lot of those differences. but at the same hey re moving their agenda through. very rapidly. i think helped wreck the economy. but you could see the damage that it was going to do. i still have my original version of obamacare in my district office back in new orleans. little notes that i would flag that, ok, this is going to hurt this part of the economy. this is going to make health reorse and more expensive and awful those things happened. we now have a chance to reverse a lot of that. jake: could i ask you back to the sheeting for a second, we heard a lot about your recovery and seeing a lot of footage on "60 minutes" and you talked about it. could you talk about what you said before, the days after the shooting, you weren't sure -- i am sorry if there is a spoiler alert for the book -- but talk about the days where it was pretty touch and go by all accounts? mr. scalise: the first three days i was unconscious. i was in and ou

the guy who always brought someone like he was a guy standing on the stage next to bill clinton or al gore or john kerry and he was so ingrained in the democratic party. he voted for bernie sanders in 2016 in the primary in pennsylvania. he found himself about midsummer taking a look at this race and saying i've got to go with trump because the democratic party -- they just are not there for the working people. he had been in charge of all the working people in his county. he'd seen the economic devastation and what president trump on inauguration day said what did he call the -- >> forgotten many women. >> he also said there is carnage. he said there was carnage in america and people laughed at him and i was on several panels where people were making a joke about it but there is carnage out there. the ed harries of the world sought. they were trying to save it. they decided that he made a very strong decision that he was going to flip and leave the democratic party behind. for someone that ingrained in the party that was so remarkable for me to see the change in him. the sky was incredibl

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her president was horrified at the prospect of leaving under an al gore presidency.tired under george w. bush but criticized her replacement sam alito for being too conservative. and then the evolving justices, david sutor and john paul stephens. they shifted to the left and the court shifted right. so they were among the liberal vote. so post departed under president obama allowing him to appoint justices that would maintain their legacy. and then the other side of the spectrum. justice byron white, a democrat appointed by john f. kennedy. but over the years, he moved away from democrats on key issues like abortion and justice white still choice to retire under bill clinton. and ruth bader ginsberg, the oldest justice said that liberals were misguided if they thought that she was going to step down under president obama so he could replace her with someone with a similar idealogical bent. but of course, replacements don't turn out the way the presidents hope they will. bottom line, when it comes to retiring and replacing supreme court justices, timing is almost ever

. >> host: it's wrong to do as al gore did to think that we can prevent this because even if we were to stop burning all carbon tomorrow it will still continue to warm and we don't know how long. >> guest: we have passed the point of no return. >> guest: we are not going to end it. no more then we are going to bring back coal is a major industry not just for the environmental reason but the economic reason. >> host: you and i could fix this. now going to get to some things we really disagree about. so here i'm going to quote you from page 131. this is in central america. you say, regarding nicaragua by the way i worked on nicaragua issues when i worked in the reagan white house. i remember this well from my own personal experience. see say there is no reason except the feared communism left over from the cold war for the united states not to recognize this. now, -- communism? let's just talk about this, you don't talk at all in your book about the human rights abuses that they committed or the fact at the made an outright attack and they had cuban advisors on every block teaching the

nonetheless changed history when a poorly designed ballot in palm beach county, florida, led many al goreupporters to accidentally check off buchanan's name. even buchanan said the votes were not intended for him but they were counted for him. in a state that delivered the presidency to george w. bush by a grand total after 537 votes. and the bush presidency gave us the iraq war, gave us afghanistan, it ended with the financial crisis, economic meltdown. and it was some time around then in post-bush america that donald trump did something very untrump like. according to reporting from tim alberta in politico, trump picked up the phone, called pat buchanan and apologized for all the hurtful things he said. he made amends bay buchanan pat's sister and former campaign manager said of trump. long before he got into the presidential race he reached out to pat and apologized for what he'd done, realizing it had been wrong. and then in the america forever altered by war and economic catastrophe, donald trump set out to run for 2015 in president for real, this time on pat buchanan's platform. and

to me, it struck me as very odd because al gore said that was precious time with the president, unstaffed talk to him about issues i cared about. and it strikes me as odd that their relationship needs to be kind of managed in this way. it's really unusual. >> to your future hopeful readers, we'll point out there are stories in this book about melania's role in the pence selection, stories about people like ted agnew, all but lost to history, walter mondale and a huge role he played in the history of modern vice presidency. all of it part of kate andersen brow ir's new book, first in line. great pleasure to have you here. thank you very much for staying up with us on a friday night. >>> another break for us. coming up, the wide-ranging comments of our current president on the south lawn today prior to departing for canada. what is an act of mutuality? for a single mother, it's preparing her daughters for the curveballs life throws. ♪ and it's guarding a family weekend- letting calls go to voicemail. ♪ it's planning so by the time this little guy's ready for college, she will be too. ♪ and

and this is one that i didn't supply to al gore as vice president for an occasion. . . . . . >> tourist slightly murdered as well. and my assignment or the suggestion made, the guy who mostly talked to me later went onto be a writer on the west wing. and this is a once extremely famous 18th century poem by w l william collins written at the beginning of the year 1746, which was the last attempt by e srage to take the island over again. the failed attempt. and people died in that as well. and this also uses one syllable words. here, i'll just read the poem to you. and then you'll be the experts. old version in the beginning of the year, 1746 by william pond how sleep the brave who sink to rest by all their countries wishes blessed. when spring returns to deck their hollowed mol she there shall drift a sweeter sod than fancy feed have ever drod. which is in the spirit. fancy feet. not as sacrasangt. by fair hands there knell is rung. again, one syllable words. by forms unseen. their dirge is sung. to bless the turf that wraps their clay and freedom shall awhile repair to dwell a weeping h

including al gore, dick cheney, dan quayle.e, and they cancelled at the last minute. i think one of them -- i was cleared in, my social security number was in the west wing, cleared in. i think what happens is, i've been told on background of aides that there is no upside for them to talk to a reporter because if he looks too good, trump will be mad. his boss will be angry. if he looks like he's not doing anything what about 2024? he's going to run for president. so, he doesn't want to look powerless. i was just struck in reporting this book about how ambitious he and his wife are. i interviewed people who worked with him in indiana and his former boss at the radio station said he's never seen a more on-message obedient directable talent. and they call him on-message mike for a reason as you saw with the water bottle. >> he's looking to 2024. >> absolutely. >> if not 2020. >> you mentioned the water battle. let's talk to people and show people what we're talking about here. >> can we play this again. what's going on there? >> i

us now to talk about the national debt, ron klain, the former chief of staff to vpts joe biden and al goreormer senior aide to obama and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and the co-author of the best-selling book "russian roulette." he is also an msnbc political analyst. ron, it's not easy every day to pick what's the biggest story that donald trump doesn't want us to talk about. but the national debt is it. and it is going to be fascinating to try to see how the republican party turns around, as it has on russia and so many things and decides that debt is good, a higher and higher national debt is a good thing because that seems to be the only way for donald trump to address it. because there is nothing they're going to do to bring it down. >> yeah. i mean, they're not only not going to bring it down, as you said, lawrence, they're skyrocketing it up. this is the story of a promise broken and an odd promise kept trump promise head would get rid of all the national debt, total, wipe it out while he was president. instead he is going to raise to it a record level. that's