senator james inhofe of oklahoma. his new book is called "the greatest hopes: how the global warming conspiracy threatens your future." we'll be right back. >>> correction. i'm not going to fact check every argument that he and i had right now, but i got to say when senator inhofe called a clinton-era tax hike the biggest tax increase in three decades, just a moment ago, he was not right about that. in the senator's book, he makes the same mistake, except he calls it there the biggest tax increase in history. it wasn't. the biggest peacetime tax hike ever actually was not the clinton tax hike senator inhofe is describing in 1993. it was the ronald reagan tax hike in 1982. clinton's tax hike was $30 billion. reagan's tax hike was $37.5 billion. because it was ronald reagan who levied the biggest in american history, it's sometimes hard for conservatives to remember that. that's the truth. i'm grateful senator inhofe was here tonight. i hope he'll come by. he said at the interview he enjoyed it and thought it was fair.

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all those emails among scientists those are for michael mann who are all off and now you have james inhofe saying that he if he gets one notch higher in his power in the u.s. senate he's going to come after you. a i'm curious your thoughts and responses to all that be academically intellectually be emotional you know how do you feel about this right well you know there are larger forces at work than you know i ever imagined i would be subject to and when i got interested in this problem i found myself sort of in the center of this raging controversy over climate change you know and i was really reluctant and really essentially an accidental public figure in this debate and. i think it is exactly what you say you don't and you don't need to understand the way a theoretical climate model works in the math and the physics behind a climate model to understand what a graphic the hockey stick is telling us that there is something unusual about the recent warming people get that in a very basic level and because of that it became an icon in the climate change debate and i think it became a threat

we're here for just a half an hour then senator james inhofe will be with us. emailing us, when will the republicans and democrats come together and move forward. who -- no matter who moves, they will not move in any situation. frank said -- host: next up it's a call from houston, texas. it's a call from open phones. how are you doing? caller: good morning. how are you? host: i'm doing well. caller: i want to make a comment. hopefully i won't go to jail again. host: does that mean cutting you off? caller: sometimes when i call your show i have a few problems but i'm not going to dwell on that, because god is good. but i see gas prices and the arabs are about to get their $150 barrel oil. i don't know why y'all pretending we use a lot of oil. our oil consumption is down since y'all said we were addicted to oil, but somehow more than $they give me a discount. i love the, but to move on me just being against wealthy pee, just like my pastor says, we're not against wealthy people. we're against people who got illened got game. how you can not the theing with -- sel

>> up next, senator james inhofe , republican from oklahoma and wrecking member of the senate environment and public works committee questioning climate change. senator inhofe discusses his book in response to viewers on the morning program washington journal. this is about 45 minutes. >> and on this friday morning we are pleased to welcome back towe our table senator james inhofe,. republican of oklahoma. the top republican on the environment and public works committee in the senate and author of the new book the greatest hoax of the global wel tag conspiracy to is your future. talk about all that and more. thank you for being here. let's set with oil prices. $110 on the pipeline explosion report denied by the saudis. the president in new hampshire talks about yesterday about whae gas prices and the amount of oii we drill at home does not set the price of gas on its own because oil is bought annd sold on the market. just like last year, causing thi price of world to rise, the ie biggest thing is instability ine >>e middle east. do you agree?: >> guest: no.ing >> host: what is affecting g

host: and on this friday morning we're pleased to welcome back to our table senator james inhofe. he is the ranking committee member on the environment and public works committee and author of a new book. we'll talk about all that and more. let's talk with -- start with oil prices. oil crossed $110 on the explosion of the pipeline report issued yesterday. and sought to explain to people the amount of oil we drill at home doesn't set the price on its own because oil is sold on its is instability in the middle east. you agree with them? >> no. host: what's affecting oil prices? guest: of the millions of people watching this. there's not one who didn't learn in elementary school that thing of supply and demand. and here we are in the united states of america. with the largest recoverible reserves in coal, oil and gas of every -- that we would have 90 years of natural gas just from us, and 60 years of oil. the problem is this president has spent four years now doing everything he can to attack and stop it, not just the pipeline, everybody knows about that. the hydraulic fracturing, i

like you know the science has been rigged like you know climate change is the elaborate hoax that james inhofe claims that to be and so what they did was to cut you know he did was to use what's called a civil investigative demand basically a subpoena to demand from the university all of my e-mails based on this law that allows him to ferret out state fraud and he claimed well you know climate change is an elaborate hoax it's a fraud so therefore he could use this law to go after all of my emails and the lower court found that in his forty page filing he hadn't provided any evidence whatsoever of any impropriety of any wrongdoing on my part and ultimately it went to the state supreme court and they rejected the case with prejudice meaning he can't come back and try to refile it and so it was a minor i'm sorry it was a minor victory in this long war prejudice they didn't just reject it they rejected it and slapped him upside the it's not exporting it's. not exist. really i have had at least a dozen. people i consider to be conservatives here come regularly come on come on this program and tell

. >>> senator james inhofe, republican from oklahoma and ranking member of the senate environment works committee questioning climate change. senator inhofe discusses his book and responds to viewers on the c-span morning program washington journal. it's about 45 minutes.ing we'r >> we are pleased to welcome back to the table senator jim inhofe republican of oklahoma and he said top of the senate in the author of a new book thette author of a new book. we'll talk about all that and more. calld $110 on the explosion of the pipeline report issued yesterday. and sought to explain to people the amount of oil we drill at home doesn't set the price on its own because oil is sold on its is instability in the middle east. you agree with them? >> no. host: what's affecting oil prices? guest: of the millions of people watching this. there's not one who didn't learn in elementary school that thing of supply and demand. and here we are in the united states of america. with the largest recoverible reserves in coal, oil and gas of every -- that we would have 90 years of natural gas just from us, and

. >> good evening, ed, tonight is my interview with james inhofe of oklahoma i was talking to you about the other day. >> a republican is coming to your program? i can't score any republicans, not that it

. >> good evening, ed, tonight is my interview with james inhofe of oklahoma i was talking to you about the other day. >> a republican is coming to your program? i can't score any republicans, not that i want , but i'm going to watch jim inhofe. >> if you were wondering what the fireworks about in the hallway, it's us celebrating we got a republican coming in here.

coming up in half hour, we will talk with republican senator james inhofe of oklahoma about global climate20 a.m. eastern, we will focus on proposals by some states that will

. >> good evening, ed, tonight is my interview with james inhofe of oklahoma i was talking to you aboutram? i can't score any republicans, not that i want to, but i'm going to watch jim inhofe. >> if you were wondering what th

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the part of the show we call the interview we were lucky and excited to have oklahoma senator james inhofe interview and then some. tonight we're luck y and excited and probably the exact opposite direction, the one and only lewis black is here, newest comedy rant, "in god we rust" lewis black, very nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> president obama in 1990 said that he wanted to move -- wanted to work toward a world, country that was less mean-spirited, more generous. the right says that means he hates america. i think it means he wanted a kinder more agagentler america. >> that is a different republican party because we have moved on, there is a new republican party, and they seem to have -- that language doesn't work for them. it's a new republican party. it's -- there is a -- it's like -- i mean, i think of it like if you were in the communist party, toe the line, here what is they think, that is the deal, screw him, that's the deal, you can't -- are you going to use those words, they don't work. whatever words he uses don't work. >> do you think we're at the point some -- i feel

. >> good evening, ed, tonight is my interview with james inhofe of oklahoma

a conservative republican united states senator, james mountain inhofe of oklahoma will be on this program on tuesday, hurray. senator inhofe has a new "i don't believe in global warming" book out. in publicizing the book, mr. inhofe has been talking up one of his main arguments for how we can be sure there is no gloloba warning. genesis 8 cln 22. while the earth remains, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. genesis 822. >>> he said "my point is god still up there, the arrogance of people to think that we human beings would be able to change what he is doing is to me outrageous. we could not screw the earth up even if we wanted to, only god can do something that big a deal. you know what the ohio department of natural resources said today? they said apparently we can cause earthquakes. and we have been, in ohio. "since march 2011 the youngstown ohio area experienced 12 low g magnitude seismic events. 12 earthquakes in youngstown, ohio. it's not exactly san francisco, not earthquake territory. all 12 of these earthquakes were clustered less than a mile around this. this is

to the magic number that will support a longer-term bill, and barbara boxer in the senate and james inhofeaying they would have liked a longer bill, too, but they could not find the money. the reason they want to do a longer bill is because state departments of transportation, the construction industry and others say that those problems -- projects take a number of years, and they need more lead time, more assurances of a stable flow of money to get the financing to do those projects. host: what happens the house does not pass a bill and nothing goes to conference? guest: the nightmare scenario is the shut down we saw that the faa times 10, or maybe a 100. this is a bigger issue. we are talking about a lot more money. some employees will be furloughed. the main concern is worked on construction projects across the country will slow or even shut down if they cannot get federal reimbursement to the states for the federal share of those projects. the construction industry at the end of january at an unemployment rate of 17.7%. they are really hurting because of the housing crisis. if, all of

it's not every day that senator barbara boxer and senator james inhofe agree on a bill, but that's what happened with the senate bill. now, i'm not going to stand here and say that the senate bill is the bill i would have drafted. to the contrary i want a five-year re-authorization that is fully funded. a bill that results in real jobs and a bill that invests in important areas like public transit. while the senate bill allows for only two years, it is a good start and a much -- and it is much better than the republican proposal we have here today. for my colleagues who have a short memory, let me recap where we were last month. the republican leadership took a 1,000-page bill, undoubtedly the most partisan transportation bill in congressional history and made it worse. they took a bill that was written in secret and jammed through the transportation committee and inserted unrelated and controversial provisions like the keystone pipeline, anwr, and cuts federal in pensions. even worse, they changed the rules in the middle of the game. specifically, after everyone had submitted their ame

but we never give up over here, and james inhofe isn't going to give up, and we're going to fight hard to get a bill. thank you. i yield the floor. ms. collins: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to proceed as if in morning business for up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, during the past week, the supreme court heard arguments on the constitutionality of president obama's health care law. this week also marks the two-year anniversary of the president's signing that law. now, mr. president, there is no question that our health care system required and still requires significant reform. in passing this law, however, congress failed to follow the hippocratic oath of first do no harm. the new law increases health care costs, hurts our seniors and health care providers and imposes billions of dollars in new taxes, fees and senlts. this in turn will lead to fewer choices and higher insurance costs for many middle-inco

for >> tomorrow morning, our guest include republican senator james inhofe asked.reject considering requiring drug tests for welfare recipients. you can call in with questions .bout that fo we will discuss state and local government finances with tracy gordon from the brookings institution. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern for >> next, a look good by several business owners have made plans to help fund the occupied wall street movement. this is a half hour. host: joining us from our new york studer is the co-founder of ben & jerry's and a political activist. mr. ben cohen. what is your most recent political project that you are getting involved with? guest: i am working with the movement resource group.org. that organization is raising money to help support a lot of the work that's being done in the occupied and 99% movement around the country. host: why are you supporting those movements? guest: i have been working for economic and social justice for decades. it seems to me that the thing that has been missing in the struggle i

. >> our guests include republican inhofe. jamesnd half some state are been thinking about welfare -- drug tests for welfare recipients. we will discuss state and local government finances with lisa blumerman and tracy gordon. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern every day. >> not a senate foreign relations committee hearing on political unrest and violence in syria. the united nations estimates more than 7000 people have been killed since the start of the uprising one year ago. this a little more than 1.5 hours. >> this hearing will come to order. thank you. i apologize for being late. i was a little delayed their. senator casey will chair this morning. which, i will have to do that. we appreciate everyone's coming here to discuss the ongoing situation in syria. as we all know, serious it's in the heart of the middle east, straddling its ethnic and sectarian a fault lines, and all of the region's important powers have a direct interest in what is happening in syria, as to non-state actors like hezzbollah and hamas and

james o'keefe. that's david's counterpart. we have all become very good friends. he worked for senator inhofe, though, so i would say betin anchts david, ruth, and james have all become like family working on this. i am going to list the incredible people who worked for me who worked with betina. andrew doorman, murphy barrett, tyler crushforth, grant cope, mike burke, tom lynch -- noi know that mike works for -- with senator cardin and staffs on the committee. and tom lynch works with our committee through senator baucus. mark hogner, charles brittenham, alex rinjel, dmitri karakesos -- just amazing. and lastly, i want to thank the leadership staff. this became a bill that was so big and involved so many committees. you couldn't do it without a leadership team. and so working, of course, with the leadership, with the senators i mentioned in the leadership starting with senator reid, senator durbin, we had bill douster, amazing job, bill. rema, highway mentioned -- who i mentioned before, who did the whip counts, and the staff directors of the key committees that worked on this, ellen doneski