in fact, devin nunez, the republican congressmember dr. this area, calls it absolute nonsense. but the president says that, although you can't blame any particular weather event on climate change, that it is leading to extreme weather and we have to be ready for that. he pointed out that california's water wars in the past have been a zero sum game, that's got to change. he said we need to get hold on carbon emissions and until we do that, he said, and as scientists would mostly agree, there's going to be more extreme conditions in terms of rain, floods, fires, and all the rest. >> he's proposing a $1 billion climate resilience program. how are republicans likely to receive that? how do you think his visit here will affect the response to the drought by lawmakers? >> he did set up these climate hubs which are basically research areas to help farmers and farms become more resilient in the face of all this extreme weather. you know, this issue, like virtually everything else in washington, has become very partis partisan. republicans blame the drought on democrats. they say this

it's part of a bill introduced this week by republican congressman devin nunez. >> remember what thisater's being dumped for. it's being dumped for what i call phantom salmon. they don't exist. >> reporter: he got support from house speaker john boehner who said he'll bring the legislation for a vote. >> how you can favor fish over people is something that people in my part of the world would never understand. >> reporter: but the bill is expected to die in the senate. senator dianne feinstein called the republican drought bill irresponsible and plans to introduce her own legislation soon. restoration work on the san joaquin river is continuing slowly. for now, it remains impossible for salmon to swim the length of the san joaquin river and spawn. but a few fish are living in the river and are reproducing. still, even if the project overcomes drought-inspired opposition, it may take another 20 years before the restoration of the san joaquin can be judged a success or a failure. >> and that story was produced in partnership with the pbs "newshour." >>> joining me for a look at other st

and i spoke with congressman devin nunez before i came on tonight, and he said the government kills mores kill. >> there's also an effort to try to re-create new places for salmon, which is their ancestral homeland. more water being diverted, charles. >> in the end, all the revenues they talk about, obama and the others, especially the epa wants to shut down u.s. coal because it puts carbon in the atmosphere, is utterly useless. the united states is 6% of the population of the world, with india and china and the other tigers in the third world developing, spewing carbon into the atmosphere, no matter what is done here, will have zero effect on climate. that's why even if you exact all of the climate science, all of it, there is nothing that we can do unilaterally in the u.s. other than destroy our own economy. >> out of time. you get the last word. >>> next up, the friday lightning round. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> this week you chose eric holder. and we're back with the pa in this weekend at the time human rights campaign dinner. attorney general eric holder announced major changes in how the justice de

i sat down with devin nunez, from illinois, a republican. he said it wasn't a profile on courage.e said the scene in the republican cloakroom in the house, likely in the senate, was a lot of republicans privately were hoping a clean debt limit passed but were publicly opposed to it. that's the state on capitol hill. republicans know they have to govern. at the same time because of the pressures from the right, political climate, they're not will to go that far in either chamber. >> i was thinking about the old kids game, finger to the nose, not me. it's almost that literally. yesterday that was the scene on the senate floor. everyone sitting around being like, oh, man, who's going to have to eat this one? and finally, it's basically mcconnell and leadership allies who suck it up and do it. >> that's right. i think there are two key scenes here this week. you saw boehner at the capitol hill club right before the vote saying we're going to do it clean. much of the political games. he surprised a lot of house republicans. they were shocked when they heard this message so bluntly and

joining us now, republican congressman devin nunez. thank you, congressman, for joining us.r opinion, did mike morell, lie when he testified the first time? >> well, we don't know if he lied or not. i actually went back through the testimony last night down in the intelligence committee because it was all done in a classified setting. the senators do believe he lied. i went back through and actually re recollected, kind of as i've said in the press, which is the story is just not believable. so i think what we need to do is there are analysts that originally -- that wrote the original talking points that work at the cia. i think they did their job. somehow from what the analysts did, it got changed. now, morell took some responsibility for it but not complete responsibility for it. some of hillary clinton's people were involved in that -- in the changing of the talking points. the white house seems to -- there seems to be a clear line that the white house was not involved, but that, to me, is not believable. >> right. congressman, let me jump in here. the statement mike more