. >> if we, the chinese, the ussians, -- >> we won to keep our environmental air standards up so we areot putting our future, our kids, later on down , there is an estimate that over one billion people live in energy poverty that do not have ready access to refrigeration, light. we need all energy sources. >> if you just said now we're going to replace all of the fossil fuels with three nobles still not meeting the energy needs of the planet. that should be the goal. >> it actually came out of the international energy agency world energy outlook in 2008 and this quote says the world's energy system is at a crossroads. current trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable. environmentally, economically, and socially. >> energy is like a big ship. when you navigate their ships down the mississippi river and start to turn, you have to turn before you are in the turn. like, you're looking well before the turn and energy is he same way. the only challenge we face right now as we are already at the turn. >> fossil fuels are dwindling. unsustainable. rising global demand,

news this morning, this from the telegraph out of explosion kingdom, an on the metro network in the ussian city of st. petersburg, at least 10 people killed, 50 eported injured, pictures from the scene show carriage doors blown open by the explosion, the reportedly caused by nal-filled device. more facts will be coming from the investigation and the fallout from it. robert in illinois, line for republicans, robert, good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. russians have, the been messing with our election for seven years, 11 months, last month president obama. he did something about it. didn't want his f.b.i. director to submit the op ed to "wall street journal." agree with bonnie from arkansas, trump should ent appoint the czar of common sense the authority to some prisoner wants penile implant, no, the authority to say, he can't have it. somebody wants sex change surgery, we should not pay for that. and if vice president pence is listening or anybody from his a personal friend beach,orks in huntington california for motor vehicles, they say 3 million undocumented got drivers licenses w

three, russia has ewed syria as a shiite partner to sunni extremists that have affected most of the ussian caucus with, so kremlin views a alliance with the shiite syria to be a buffer, if you claim that against sunni extremism in the south. so for all those reasons you have that relationship. host: how much influence has bashar al-assad's mother had on him? guest: when we look at the family, the assad family, and i our it's important for viewers to understand, they ame to hauer as a alowhite religious sect in a very minority shiite country, the alowhites are zurosatrians and his father took power in a military coup in the late 1960's and the country has been more or less an assad dictatorship. the mother and the brother-in-law of bashar al-assad have had enormous influence over his thinking and over in some respects those of us who expected better of him, after all, he's a trained ophthalmologist. host: studied in london. guest: and speaks fluent english. you watch him speak as he's been interviewed time and again since the civil war began, you ask yourself, what has -- what has caused hi

charlie: do you think you will see president clinton -- the ,ussians are -- president putin the russiansre sending a message this is between the secretaries. derek: sometimes be things happen where they don't announce it and i have a surprise meeting, but i think that will be the easy indicator whether he gets in a room with president putin. charlie: was it a mistake for president obama to believe the russians would do what they had promised to do in that agreement? do what they promised, and make sure all the chemical weapons were gotten out of syria? derek: i think president obama ended up achieving something none of us imagined was possible, a peaceful removal of 1300 tons of chemical weapons, materials, and weaponize to stuff from syria. that is a huge accomplishment that made us all safer. in many ways, the fact that that material is not in syria today, and the concern is not how that would proliferate in response to any u.s. strike, freed president trump up to take the strike heated. we are not worried about setting off a proliferation nightmare inside of syria. noted, it is whethe

whoseve to wonder influence mattered in making this decision and the statement that came out afterwards. ivanka,ussian or, mattis? that wing of the administration had a great influence on this decision tonight and the statement that followed. haidi: do you think there is likely to be bipartisan support? it feels like potentially there are two camps. not the it is methodical approach we have come to know from the obama administration. another says this is not a president that stand idly by. action is being taken as it should be. the one statement i saw from a democratic senator, was supportive. although it was cautious, it said further actions require congressional oversight. you are not getting into the crazy got from mccain and graham. i suspect democrats will line up in support of the strike. there were the harrowing images of the deaths and the women and children, it would be awkward for democrats to say this was not a necessary action against an inhumane act by assad. haidi: thank you so much for that opinion, government editor marty shanker joining us from the phone with analysis. we will share d

ussians and chinese vehicles if we design a system and a missile is launched at us from russia or china, the system try to engage without question, but as ad it take gadgets finds a set of threats, missiles, and vehicles from russia or china with more advanced countermeasures? first on north korea, then iran, then russia, china. on north korea, i don't recall the particular three or four we are speaking of, but i would say the question of home and north korean missiles -- obviously i will be in touch in terms of the new threat assessments, what was done -- back in the 2000 10 p.m. tr, then again in 2013. ok,s looked around and said this is worse than it was in 2013. happened in what is 2013. the new administration will look at that. it is not like anybody has something to say there will be 37 as opposed to 39 icbm threats. that's with the new administration will look at. take a look at the threat again. do notme i checked i think we are better off than we were in 2013. they will look at that realistic terms. >> where is iran and that makes? -- mix? recognizing that iran could break out, and