jonathan swan from "the hill,"" thanks for joining us. >> a pleasure. >> sreenivasan: there's another, new international agreement to combat climate change. today, at a summit in rwanda, 140 nations agreed to freeze and then phase down their use of hydrofluorocarbons, chemicals used in air conditioning and refrigerators that also warm the earth's atmosphere. this deal follows last week's formal adoption of the paris climate accords that require members of the united nations to limit emissions of planet- warming gases like carbon dioxide. a quarter of the greenhouse gases emitted from the united states come from transportation-- cars, trucks and planes-- which is one reason something happening in the u.s. auto industry may have increasing significance, a shift away from cars powered by burning fossil fuels toward cars powered by electric batteries. in tonight's signature segment, newshour weekend special correspondent john larson reports, ten years ago, a documentary asked, "who killed the electric car?" but today, it might be more appropriate to ask, "who saved it?" >> welcome to the

joining us now, jonathan swan, national political reporter for "the hill", and charlie sikes from milwaukeean, tell us about the, about this situation with this e-mail. there's bannon saying he's a campaign manager, the year before he's hired to be the campaign manager, a year before he's officially associated with that campaign. that's one element. but at the same time, plotting to get rid of paul ryan, it seems. >> steve bannon has long fantasized about destroying paul ryan. and it's pretty clear from breitbart's coverage, you can see, they've dedicated immense resources to destroying paul ryan. they attacked him for sending his kids to a private catholic school, for building a border wall around his house and not supporting donald trump's border wall, this is the first time we've seen him give orders that he wanted ryan gone by the spring. >> rewind the tape here for a minute. they've attacked paul ryan for sending his kids to a catholic school? >> yes. >> do you want me to explain the rationale? >> you're going to have to. >> the rationale is donald trump, sorry, paul ryan opposed donal

steve hayes, jonathan swan, and charlie hurt.teve, reaction to the interview and where things stand now considering this breaking news today? >> yeah. well, we don't know where things stand in reaction to the latest news today. it seemed as if there was some tightening towards donald trump over the past week. and when you look back at the week that hillary clinton had, it's no wonder that there would have been some tightening to donald trump. you just look at some of the things that came out. the wikileaks scandal. the obamacare premiums on top of the fbi 302 interviews which suggested that a senior state department official was trying to pressure the fbi changing classification on some of these emails. and then you had the doug band memo talked about clinton inc. and laid out how he makes his money and overlapping ten calls olapping . hard to imagine a candidate having a worse week than donald trump just had. and now you look at this and you think well, this might be close. >> >> i'm getting text messages from republican operati

steve hayes, jonathan swan, and charlie hurt. steve, reaction to the interview and where things stand now considering this breaking news today? >> yeah. well, we don't know where things stand in reaction to the latest news today. it seemed as if there was some tightening towards donald trump over the past week. and when you look back at the week that hillary clinton had, it's no wonder that there would have been some tightening to donald trump. you just look at some of the things that came out. the wikileaks scandal. the obamacare premiums on top of the fbi 302 interviews which suggested that a senior state department official was trying to pressure the fbi changing classification on some of these emails. and then you had the doug band memo talked about clinton inc. and laid out how he makes his money and overlapping ten calls olapping . hard to imagine a candidate having a worse week than donald trump just had. and now you look at this and you think well, this might be close. >> >> i'm getting text messages from republican opera

steve hayes, jonathan swan, and charlie hurt.ve, reaction to the interview and where things stand now considering this breaking news today? >> yeah. well, we don't know where things stand in reaction to the latest news today. it seemed as if there was some tightening towards donald trump over the past week. and when you look back at the week that hillary clinton had, it's no wonder that there would have been some tightening to donald trump. you just look at some of the things that came out. the wikileaks scandal. the obamacare premiums on top of the fbi 302 interviews which suggested that a senior state department official was trying to pressure the fbi changing classification on some of these emails. and then you had the doug band memo talked about clinton inc. and laid out how he makes his money and overlapping ten calls olapping . hard to imagine a candidate having a worse week than donald trump just had. and now you look at this and you think well, this might be close. >> >> i'm getting text messages from republican operative

joined now by jonathan swan, reporter for the hill. , jonathan. >> it is no surprise to folks who follow it that steve wasn't a fan and has not been a fan of speaker ryan. how did it develop? what's his influence now within the trump campaign? >> his influence is extraordinary. my sources say he's in some ways the most powerful person in the campaign. he has trump's ear. he's in the room with trump when big decisions are made. as far as brightbart, you're right. it's clear for anyone who follows coverage they were fans of paul ryan. steve bannon gives directions to the staff that he wanted paul ryan out of a job by spring. this was only a few weeks after he was elected speaker. >> what do you think? the strategy for donald trump of going around the republican establishment. is that going to work for him? >> well, will it work? the polls are obviously what the polls are. he's double digits behind. but if people think donald trump will back off paul i don't think they are aware of who he's listening to. steve bannon used to say paul ryan

joining me now is the political reporter for real clear politics and jonathan swan a. national politics reporter for the hill. let me begin with you, if i may. what can you tell us about the speech in gettysburg today, and are we expected to hear anything different than what we heard in the past from trump? >> right, he's going to be campaigning in a place that has lots and lots of symbolism, particularly for the republican party and in terms of unity which is interesting, because that is running counter right now to his strategy in terms of going after the republican party particularly house speaker paul ryan. which is a really interesting facet of this. he is supposed to be outlining his first 100 days in office, but this, of course, comes against the back drop of donald trump really behind in critical battleground states, of course, and also with the six-point lead for hillary clinton natalie, and as casey mentioned, clinton right now is focusing on expanding her map and donald trump is really having to focus on keeping the support he already has, and so it comes at

joining us, jonathan swan for the hill.e in new york city, phillip bump for "the new york post." i was surprised to get so much coverage and interviewed trump here i would say close to ten times since the convention and this one really exploded. why do you think that is? >> i think in part because donald trump isn't doing a lot of interviews and been reserved, didn't have the press conference in several months now and i think when he has an opportunity to sit down with someone and share the views, that's something to get attention. >> did anything in the interview jump out at you? >> yeah. i think that he's -- when you asked him about women voters, i think that was probably of the one key things people focus on and i don't think he had a good answer. i think a key point you raised which is that he is struggling with that demographic and i don't think he was able to present a way in which what he would be doing moving forward was different. >> both pence and pence just said it, too, mr. swan, that you -- they're going to bas

scientists found swans making annual migration from arctic rush you to northern europe dwindled a third over the years. one conservationist was determined to find out why. she joined the flock. jonathaneports. >> reporter: europe's swans hatch an unlikely new co-pilot. 41-year-old sasha dench with the help of a motorized para glider is joining their seasonal migration south. a 4,000-mile journey that begins in the remote feeding ground in russia's arctic north and ends all the way in england. her mechanical wings are part of a bold effort to save the endangered species from the growing threat below. hundreds are illegally shot out of the sky each year. and the land they breed in is being built on. >> hi, sasha. >> hello. >> reporter: we spoke with sasha via skype during the first leg of her expedition on the russia tundra. did it occur to carry it out on foot or in a car? >> it's not possible. only people up there are reindeer breeders use sled and reindeer. >> rose reindeer breeders and fishermen and farmers she has come all this way to meet to speak with and to share the story of the swan's decline. >> they want to know. i am able to tell them all of the data. why we know the swans

close tonight in the skies over the arctic where a dwindling number of swans are making their annual mitbraigz to northern europe. jonathan vigliotti tells us about a british conservationist who is taking fli birds. >> reporter: europe's majestic bewick swans have an unlikely new copilot. 41-year-old sacha dench, with the help of a motorized paraglider, is joining their seasonal migration south. it's a 4,000-mile journey that begins in the remote feeding grounds in russia's arctic north, and ends all the way in england. her mechanical wings are part of growing threat below. hundreds are illegally shot out of the sky each year, and the land they breed in is being built on. hi, sacha. >> hello. >> reporter: we spoke with sacha via skype during the first leg of her expedition in the russian tundra. did it ever occur to you to carry out this research on foot or just in a car? >> it's not possible. the only people up there are reindeer breeders who use sleds and reindeer. >> reporter: and it's reindeer breeders, along with fishermen and farmers, she's come all this way to meet, to speak with, and to share the story of the swan