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>> one of the other things that they've done is to co-opt politicians, like james inhofe, senior senator of oklahoma who has declared climate change to be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the american people while it continues to ravage his state because indeed oklahoma has been at the front lines of the impacts of climate change on the u.s. the record drought, the record heat that they've seen in recent years. but, you know, other politicians like joe barton, who was the chair of the house energy and commerce committee, a large number of politicians, sadly many of them on one side of the partisan divide, republicans in particular, whose campaigns have been financed heavily by fossil fuel interests and who are now doing little more than acting as advocates foror fossil fuel interests. whn it comes to the question of, you know, passing legislation to deal with climate change, that's really the scientization of politics that i i was talking about. this idea thahat the underlying scientificic evidence is just a a politicaal footbtball to be contested as ay other political issue would b

james inhofe, you argue your point so well, we'll have you back. >> read my book, greatest hopes you d out. neil: very good seeing you, senator inhofe. >>> news on james comey. he is is set to testify a week from today. indication he will implicate the president of the united states, donald trump tried to force him to go slow on investigation of general flynn, whole russian collusion thing. could be some fireworks a week from today, after this. think again. this is the new new york. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov ♪ neil: this has makings of a pay-per-view event. former fbi chief james comey is expected to testify and confirm what is long been rumored in memos that leaked out allegedly not from mr. comey we're told but those close to mr. comey, other republicans say from mr. comey that donald trump asked the fbi head to simply back off the michael flynn probe and let the whole

this bill has made it difficult to defend even for those who support it, like oklahoma senator, james inhofetold reporters this week, "i'm not sure what it does, i just know it's better than obamacare." asked how it's better? gets into elevator. and something tells me he pushed every button. [ light laughter ] as we've said before the bill is essentially just a giant tax cut paid for with massive cuts to medicaid that would leave millions more uninsured. in fact, studies have shown that people could quite literally die as a result of this bill, with estimates ranging from about 28,000 to nearly 100,000 a year. but there are some who have a counter argument to those projections. and this will shock you, those people are on fox news. >> you know what the crazy thing is? we're all going die, and they can't predict it. there's no way unless they're absolutely psychic and have a party line to heaven, they don't know whose going to die, or when, or how many people. >> seth: imagine if your doctor said, "your test results came back and i have good news and bad news. the good news is we're all going