figures from hong kong's fisheries and conservation department show that the number of pink dolphins here have crashed from 188 in 2003 to only 65 in 2015. and although nobody is exactly sure how accurate that figure is, there's no doubt that numbers are falling. well, i've been coming to hong kong for around 20 years now and i'm ashamed to say i had no idea there were dolphins in the waters here. but, of course, you won't find them in victoria harbour where the tourists are. to be in with a chance of seeing the dolphins you have to leave hong kong island and head west towards the airport. land reclamation, population growth and pollution are all being blamed for destroying the dolphins' habitat. huge new infrastructure projects like this new bridge and tunnel to macau might be good for the economy but environmentalists claim it is playing havoc with the dolphins' natural environment. the hong kong government has announced it will create a new 2500 hectare marine conservation park in northern waters to help counter the effects of building another runway at the airport. the conservati

figures from hong kong's fisheries and conservation department show that the number of pink dolphinse how accurate that figure is, there's no doubt that numbers are falling. well, i've been coming to hong kong for around 20 years now and i'm ashamed to say i had no idea there were dolphins

figures from the conservation department showed a number of pink dolphins has crashed from 188 in 2000 years and iam coming to hong kong for 20 years and i am ashamed to say i had no idea there were dolphins in the waters but of course you won't find them in victoria harbour or the tourists are. “— victoria harbour or the tourists are. —— where all the tourists are. to be in with a chance of seeing them, you have to leave hong kong island and head west towards the airport. land reclamation, population growth and pollution are all being blamed for destroying that dolphin's habitat. huge infrastructure projects like this bridge and tunnel might be good for the economy but environmentalists claim they are playing havoc with the dolphins' natural environment. the hong kong government has announced it will create a new 2.5 thousand fair marine park in the waters to help counter the effects of building and other runway at the airport. people say it the airport is in the wrong place and won't help the situation. what we are proposing is detect what is important to be animals first. —— protect

some colleges or universities, he can't find a conservative in the department.s are getting a one-sided education and their parents are paying for it. it's an outrage. >> kimberly: it's concerning to think that this is what parents are paying for. and trying to get an education in this country and they are programmed and brainwashed. it's a groupthink situation at these college campuses. >> this is where we have to get the word out. college students need to understand that during this period of their lives, the four years that they're going through the process of being educated, that it's incumbent upon them to listen to different views. to go to classes that they don't necessarily like. and challenge themselves and look beyond what they think they know. unfortunately we have adults at the schools who are not encouraging young k people to expand their thought process. to be tolerant and reach out and attend class or lecture from a subject matter that they think they know nothing about. that's where the adults in the room, the professors and leadership need to un

that money goes into acquiring more land for conservation efforts. the department of transportation reviewed safety accidents conducted under president obama's administration showed ta this addition to providing a substantial cost advantage, pipelines result in fewer spillage incidents and personal injuries than either road or rail. as coal-fired power plants continue to shut down, the demand for natural gas is to keep going up. while the gas produced in canada, alaska, north dakota, pennsylvania or the gulf of mexico will be used all over the country, we need to ensure a regulatory framework is in place to get the supply where it is needed. the amendment is a backhanded way to prevent pipelines from being built. i urge my colleagues to vote no on this amendment. the chair: the gentleman from texas yields. mr. mullin: h.r. 2883 strikes the right balance. the amendment would upset this careful balance and urge a no vote on this amendment and i yield back the remainder of my time. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from -- the gentle

this was a big criticism conservatives had of the obama justice department. that it was too political. are we hearing the same message from conservatives no you? i don't think -- the message is so shifted. in a way i think jeff sessions really acted in the president's best interests to recuse himself. the president doesn't see it that way. >> interesting. often when the president is in a controversy, his base and his piece of the media, slice of the media cheers. even when the republican leadership gets this, that love that. the trump base loves poking paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. listen to this on breitbart. what can be certain, sessions ouster would be a blow to the nationalist populist underpinnings of the wider trump move moneyment not only sessionses the first u.s. sitting senator to endorse trump for president, he and his staff establishing the framework which would become trumpism. >> and lindsey graham essentially agreeing. came out with a statement saying this is highly inappropriate. the president trashing sessions. that's a shift in terms of where

conservative. you cover the justice department. do you have an inkling where sessions is headed versus last night? >> i wish i did. it certainly seems in the recent days that he is just keeping his head down and doing the work. i have talked to people inside the justice department who wouldn't disclose if they talked to jeff sessions or not. they told me they are demoralized, but a part of them hoping this would blow over, that everyone would roll their eyes and say, well, this is just what the president does and this will blow over. i don't think that's going to happen. so far, it seems jeff sessions is drawing a line in the sand saying if you want me to go, fire me. >> it's hard to see this blowing over, but it's mard to see a lot of things. we are here today. great to see you matt. david, thank you as always. >> sure. >>> we are following two fronts. the senate judiciary xhit tee issued a subpoena for paul manafort, compelling him to testify in public as opposed to what was being negotiated before, testifying behind closed doors

department. he is moving forward on his conservative agenda. d at the end of the day, the attorney general announced a crack down on so-called sanctuary cities. the justice department will withhold some funding from cities who don't cooperate with federal immigration officials. and tomorrow or the next day, sessions will announce leak investigations. exactly what trump was complaining that he hadn't been doing. >> jeff sessions is a hero, i would say, to the kind of breitbart publication that was published by steve bannon and works in the white house. it was a platform for the alt right. they have rushed to sessions' defense in a spirited manner. >> i have to tell you, of all the cabinet heads, jeff sessions is the one who has done the most since he came in on february 9th until now, to push forward the conservative agenda of president trump. in terms of criminal justice, civil asset forfeit you are, down on immigration, he has been moving forward methodically undoing the policies of president obama and former attorney general eric holder and pu

they think is too important for the conservative agenda at the department of justice on crime, immigration, other issues. they feel it would be a huge loss for jeff session to go, and by the way, it would also be a loss for the russia investigation, which apparently president trump believes to get at that investigation is to first get rid of jeff session. >> bill: if you look at a pattern, comey was in his crosshairs when he got fired. this is a very big, serious matter. and it is his decision. >> it is his decision. he can fire the attorney general anytime he chooses. it just never happens. i think this would be a very, very big deal, and the thing to remember is of course the president's adversaries go nuts. in this case, watch those jeff session allies on capitol hill, people supported him. there are two reasons. on a human level, they say, look, this was a u.s. senator who was for the first and only senator to come out and endorse donald trump, and now donald trump is doing this to him for no reason. the second is, the conservative agenda. look for them to say, this is too important. j

the conservatives are focusing on who can get more money for their department.ed, she doesn't have the numbers. she will be fine for the next few months but she will look more we get she goes into this. you say when not if, this must be a great win for the labour party. the optics are good for labour. the conservatives were never going to keep this pay cap for ever. but it looks like the reason it is being quick and it's because of the pressure labour are putting on it. we saw with the amendment to the queen's speech on public sector pay cap, it would he put the pressure and it was very bad that when the conservatives voted to get rid of the amendment, they cheered at it was not a good look. it played into labour's cams, suggesting the conservatives don't care about public sector workers. —— labour's hands. there does seem to be a definite mood change towards austerity by the british public and politicians as well. yeah, if you look back to david cameron, when ed miliband was labour leader, you couldn't really get back through a pmqs 01’ any common session witho

a conservative national review recently published a piece that included, "the state department's core is being gutted." tillerson is runny foggy bottom the way a corporate raider might take over a company, firing half the workforce, repurposing its original mission, scaling back operations across the globe. offices are being shuttered while ambassador, secretary and under secretary posts remain unfilled. since it is the beginning of the debate i assume, i wanted to take most of my time to say that. let me ask you in what time i have left one or two strategic questions. can you share with me whether, you know, during your nomination hearing before this committee in may, which i supported you, you noted the culture and policy differences between usaid and state including the long-terminature of development and offered a focus of diplomacy. can you give me a sense of whether it is true that proposals to merge usaid into the state department is, in fact, taking place, or to reduce the agency's autonomy, and if so how do you intend to incorporate this perspective view? you said under oath

department he is not quitting. so he's carrying on. ironically, a lot of the president's agenda. his very conservative agenda on voting rights and other such issues at the justice department. he's been one of the more effective cabinet secretaries. and the recusal is mandated under the legal procedures governing conflict of interest for lawyers, judges, and of course for the a.g. >> his decision to recuse himself, andrea, has been praised by democrats, by republicans, by legal experts who say look, he served on the campaign and so it would have been a conflict of interest. so it was the right move for him to recuse himself. and yet the president continues to step up his attacks on a daily basis. he was asked yesterday over and over again why doesn't he just fire his attorney general if he no longer has confidence in him. he disputed that he was allowing him to twist in the wind. he said look, i'm just disappointed in his skiegs to recuse himself, i want him to get tougher on the leaks. i thought that was an interesting comment. is he hanging that over his head and saying look, if you take this action

the conservative national review recently published a piece that concluded," the state department's core is being gutted and running in the way of the corporate takeover company scaling back its operations across the globe. offices are being shattered. so, since this is the beginning of the debate. the cultural and long-term nature of development showed a focus of diplomacy. ten you give me the sense of whether that is true the proposed to merge into the state department is in fact taking place and how in order to reduce the agency's economy, and if so how do you intend to incorporate this perspective to sit under oath in terms of going through the conversations on the reorganization. >> the first thing i would say is we are including the committee that i chair and all of these five working groups including the foreign assistance working groups, senior officials who first dominate the working groups and the steer committee in there is representation so it is well represented in the perspective that you just articulated and i agree in the confirmation hearing and still at very. >> there's

the second is a letter from the commissioner of the new york state department of environmental conservation again opposing the bill. the third is a letter signed by 15 medical and public health organizations, again or posing the bill. and finally a letter signed by 121 environmental and other groups opposing the bill. the speaker pro tempore: all will be considered under general leave. mr. tonko: mr. tonko: i yield to the entleman from minnesota, mr. ellison, for three minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ellsworth: for the folks who -- mr. ellison: for the folks who might be watching, bad ozone causes a whole lot of health problems, making it difficult to bron e deeply and cause white is and is associated with thma attacks as it can cause obstructtive pulmonary disease. it's a bad thing, it's dangerous and hurts people. in the obama administration, we tried to pass some standards to say that companies that emit the polluting substances have to comply with certain air standards to make sure that people don't suffer these nasty health effects. what's going on today with h.r.

if you were a very, very, very conservative person on policy matters and you looked at the e.p.a. and the justice departmentfor the reasons this "wall street journal" article suggests, there's stuff happening in those areas in particular where if you're an environmental conservative, climate denier, if you want to return to a law-and-order, pre-obama, bush, clinton, reagan, back to a nixon-style law-and-order approach, you would say things are happening in those areas so some constituency say the ball's moving forward. charlie: mark, you've said two things. you've said in this conversation that this election was a huge event in terms of the flow of american history looking at things like the second world war and other things that have had huge significance to most americans. you've also said at this table that donald trump is probably as good a politician as you have seen in american politics with the exception of bill clinton. do you still believe both of those things? mark: in the context of being a candidate, he won the white house having never run for anything before and making lots and lots of mistakes

conaway: it does saves and conserves taxpayer dollars and it holds the department of defense accountable. mr. chairman, we have a in place a vert of agreements to buy biofuels. the army bought some atlanta $0 a a gallon. and the need for conserving resources and prioritizing and having those new contracts makes no sense whatsoever. this amendment will say while sequestration is undergoing and the army and the department of defense, army and defense, will ot enter into existing contracts. we will honor those. ut as long as we are under sequestration and this tight budget process, these would prevent this from going forward. and this restriction would be lifted and new contracts to be entered into and would have an accounting department would have a process in which the cost of the fuels would take into the agencies that are contributing to this fund. there was a $510 million by the department of and the department of agriculture and using the commodities credit corporation to fund this $510 million. we don't know where this money went. we do know they brought jet fuel same a gallon and th

just yesterday he was on a conservative talk show and what was notable is how he departed from the repealnd replace obamacare in its entirety, but rather suggesting that an option would be to do it in two parts or piece meal. i had a chance to talk to senator bill casse who does not think that's the way to go just yet. >> do you agree, first of all, with the vice president's approach that now he's looking at the possibility of this two-stage process here, repeal and then replace? is that where you are? >> no because i think that if you wait to replace, you never replace. and there's going to take the pressure of linking them. remember, president trump ran saying he wanted to repeal and replace. and he had very specific things to replace with. and so i think if we separate the two, the replace never occurs and that will break president trump's campaign promise. >> senator cassidy is pushing his own plan forward, one with moderate senator susan collins. we'll have to see how that goes. how far that goes. and vice president pence continuing his push as well. a trip to kentucky, and then late

for now, all the conservatives seem to be focusing on is who can get more money for their department.a may is vulnerable, here. it means that if enough mps are annoyed about this, if enough mps are worried within her own party, she doesn't have the numbers. so, i imagine she will be fine for a few months. but she will look more and more weak as she gives into these things. you are saying when, not a case of if. this must be a great win for labour. yeah, the optics are really good for labour. even with the public sector pay cap, the conservatives were never going to keep this forever. but it looks like this is... the reason this has been hastened or quickend is because of labour and the pressure they're putting on it. and we saw with the amendment they put in this week to the queen's speech on the public sector pay cap, it really put the pressure up. it made it look very bad when the conservatives did vote to get rid of the amendment, they all cheered. that wasn't a good look and it really plays into labour's hands and suggested the conservatives don't care about public sector workers.

. >> jeff sessions getting a lot of support from conservatives and republicans who like the priorities he is pursuing at the justice departmentthought this was president trump venting. he's been angry at sessions for months. now it appears clear he is trying to, through the trash tweeting, trying to force them to resign as if then he can say well, i may have fired jim comey but i didn't fire jeff sessions. given the nature of these humiliating attacks, which is what they are, seems to be a distinction without a difference. if sessions were to resign even though he seems to be hanging on. >> bret: does he stay or go? stick i think he is not going anywhere for now. >> if he cares about donald trump and the agenda, he has to try to find a way to stay even in the face of the humiliation. probably most people know, what if had enjoyed. i will see you later. >> bret: let's turn to the rally in ohio. campaign style rally. talking about health care. >> any senator who votes against repeal and replace is telling america that they are fine with the obamacare nightmare, and i predict they'll have a lot of problems. it's time for democra

conservative things. first and foremost, we see he worked on torture in detention policy during his time at the department of justice -- which will be coming recently regular -- increasingly regular with the travel ban, the muslim band.. we have also seen in right conservatively on the 1010th cicircuit court of appppeals ofe hobby lolobby case that would he effectively given organizations a blank check to make religious moral objections.n we will see that passed. the case in colorado where a baker refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple on the grounds that he had a moral and religious objection to same-sex marriage. it wasn't just that he turned them away. he explicitly said he would not vacate because they were a gay couple. the supreme court has taken up that case and we will see it. there are the pending rumors of a retirement for justice anthony kennedy. justice gorsuch was anthony kennedy's clerk, and there was a lot of speculation that one of the reasons he was the nominee was to help smooth the relationship over with justice kennedy. after all, they are friendly and collegial. r retire,ustice

. >> jeff sessions getting a lot of support from conservatives and republicans who like the priorities he is pursuing at the justice department. i thought this was president trump venting. he's been angry at sessions for months. now it appears clear he is trying to, through the trash tweeting, trying to force them to resign as if then he can say well, i may have fired jim comey but i didn't fire jeff sessions. given the nature of these humiliating attacks, which is what they are, seems to be a distinction without a difference. if sessions were to resign even though he seems to be hanging on. >> bret: does he stay or go? stick i think he is not going anywhere for now. >> if he cares about donald trump and the agenda, he has to try to find a way to stay even in the face of the humiliation. probably most people know, what if had enjoyed. i will see you later. >> bret: let's turn to the rally in ohio. campaign style rally. talking about health care. >> any senator who votes against repeal and replace is telling america that they are fine with the obamacare nightmare, and i predict they'll have a lot of problems. it's time for dem

general jeff sessions genuine conservative republican has been making liberals per expire the whole time by doing the job that donald trump appointed him to do at the justice department >> you know that's the irony of the whole thing. attorney general sessions is doing a better job at carrying out the president's conservative law and order agenda better than other cabinet officials who trump is trying not to fire. if we look at sessions he wants to bring back the failed war on drugs. he did a big speech last week about assets forfeiture which allows the justice department to seize the assets. people who haven't been convicted of crimes. and he wants to bring back drak ownen sentences. this all is in step with what trump promised during the campaign. ironically he wants to get rid of him. apparently they love law and order when it applies to poor people and young black men but when it appears to people of the collusion investigation not such big fans of law enforcement. >> two terrific lawyers to have of counsel to us tonight. paul butler nick ackerman thank you gentlemen np lawmakers gave john mccain ma standing o when he returned to the senate floor. he returned wit

a positive impact, if you were a very very very conservative person on policy matters and you looked at the epa and you looked at the justice department, for the reasons that this "the wall street journal" article suggests, there is stuff happening in those areas, in particular, where if you are an environmental conservative, very far right, climate denier, et cetera, if you want to go back to law and order, not just preobama but preobama bush clinton, reagan, back to like a nexton style law and order approach, you would say that things are happening in those areas. and so there is some constituencies that look at those things and say well, the ball is being moved forward. >> you sat at this table two things. you said as you suggested earlier in this conversation that this election was a huge event in terms of the onward flow of american history, looking at things like the second world war, and other things that had huge significants to most americans. you have also said at this table that donald trump was probably as good a politician as you have seen in american politics with the exception of bill clinton. do you still believe both

department of education is on doing what's right for students, and that's my commitment. >> thank you. >> thank you, all. sgloor later today, kentucky senator rand paul will address the annual national conservative student conference sponsored by the young america's foundation. we'll have live coverage on c-span. on c-span3 tonight, american history tv in primetime. we'll look at whether law can restrain war and the impact of religion on foreign policy. american history tv in primetime starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> tonight, on the communicators. >> well, as the internet grew and there were jobs and people were putting things on line and there was money at risk, they kept getting these e-mails of people telling me, give me an announcement that makes it souns special. i have to convince my goss i made something special for def kon, and one of my friends said you should throw a real conference, charge real money, and make it a professional company. i thought that was brilliant. but i didn't have the money at the time. i was too young. i savored my money for a year. i took a loan out and started black hat a year later than i wished. every year, unbelievably, it's grown for 20 years. >

interior department secretary ryan zinke announced that close to $80,000 from the president's first paycheck will help fund restoration at a national battlefield. an environmental conservation group criticized this donation saying america's parks need real funding, not a giant fake check. that's a quote. now, under trump's proposed budget the interior department funding would be slashed by more than $1.5 billion. now, a little bit of a lighter story here. when it's been more than a century since a baby girl was born into your family, you go big with the birth announcement. take a look. friends of a south carolina couple plastered their newborn daughter's picture on a billboard along the side of a highway. a 12-feet tall double the width and a hot pink background, everyone the dad said the billboard is a little obnoxious. co-workers at his advertising company set it up for him, and her parents say they chose the name carter because it's a strong name and she'll need it in a family full of men. coming up, while all eyes have been on europe, stateside health care remains front and center. up next, the latest on the senate's plan and possible amendments they're considering. you

the state department has been a bug in the bonnet of conservatives for decades, the fact that they have their own way of doing things that doesn't necessarily benefit the people of the united states as much as their buddies abroad. do you think somebody like tillerson, a smart guy who's been around the world a dozen times or several dozen times is the man to change that ethos? >> my understanding is that tillerson is just appalled at the waste and abuse in the state department -- david: absolutely. >> -- the duplication of bureaucracy. i tried to tackle that when i was chief of staff to undersecretary of state john bolton. we got rid of one bureau, and it took almost 18 months to do. [laughter] charges were lodged against us. it was awful. that's just a tiny piece of the disaster at the state department that has to be fixed. david: well, it's the swamp, i mean, let's face it. >> that's right. david: do you think trump's going to have any progress? tillerson is one guy but, apparently, has a great support staff working with him too. >> well, i think that the state department is woefully

i have been at the justice department all day, and all indications are that jeff sessions is not going to resign and that he's moving forward with his conservative agenda. he really more than any other cabinet member has been putting many place, moving quickly, methodically, to undo holder, eric holder and obama policies at the justice department, and he's moving forward on that. he's compartmentalizing these disparaging comments by the president, which i'm being told by people at the justice department he's been doing since he got in as attorney general in february. you know, he recused himself in march, and this has been going on since march. >> brown: sari, you and your colleagues reported today on discussions within the white house about replacing jeff sessions and how that might happen. so those discussions are taking place? >> we heard they had been taking place up until now, but it's interesting today, the conservative media, breitbart, rush limbaugh, conservative senators came out and said we like the policies jeff sessions has been putting in place. actually today, late afternoon, jeff sessions announced another new conservative policy

department of justice can be used by special counsel mueller. lauren blanchard, fox news. >>> uc berkeley officials switched gears today and now say a conservative commentator will be allowed to speak on campus. the berkeley college republicans invited ben shapiro to speak. cal officials denied the initial request, saying they couldn't find a venue to accommodate shapiro and the 500 students expected to attend but today uc berkeley administrators said finding a venue shouldn't be a problem after all as long as the college republican group is willing to work with the administrators. >>> a berkeley middle school teacher and political activist is facing three felony counts for her alleged role in an anti-fascist demonstration that turned violent. yvette felarca was arrested this week. the 47-year-old is charged with rioting and intent to commit bodily harm. the brawl involved neo nazis and counterprotesters. three other people have been arrested. >>> police at stanford university say they've identified a person of interest wanted for raping a woman at a residence hall. students and staff were sent an e-mail alert about the attack. the victim says s

it shows that the conservatives have a industrial and energy strategy, because they were accused of establishing the departmentt, of course it is they have shown that leadership today. it is not often we have had a good news story all round. the storage, we are still in a position if wind and solar generates too much, we are having to pay people turn the gear off because we can't store it. that is the next change. absolutely. today energy stores energy in smaller scale consumer and mid scale commercial and larger scale that can enable producer to produce electricity, store and use it when you can. we can't use electricity out of solar at night. they can't produce it when it is not windy. today if we can produce and store that electricity, we can be almost off—grid, we don't need to choose the soushes of electricity coming from the grid any more. who is come going to come up with that invention, who is going to say this is future, the cell, whatever it is battery that will revolutionise everything? a number of companies, i am delighted to say uk companies are in the forefront of these. we welcome the announceme

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