students at the university of rice and is conducting a new round of testing to figure out why cupcakes so well whether it has application for this machine here is very much my more hearts just. yes where it's mixing together so i'm very active now. what are you trying to find from almost experimentation so the main aim is to figure out where the kick off is when is the c o two reacting with the salt to form carbonate why is the carbon insulation so fast i mean in other carbon storage methods it takes tens of thousands of years or is this a procedure that could be. copied around the world that is the hope i mean right now it has been done in iceland and they are doing studies united states in the columbia river you have to try and link up with other companies and universities and other countries in the world in order to bring this matter to them but also alter it to what type of industry they have and what type of rocks they have and then in a way looking at the different industries seeing. what they do on a daily basis and seeing how you can alter it in such a way that they can also st

could be safe and effective scientists at the university of rice and harder and they studied. capturing c o two is just one possible solution but scientists have another plan and not burying carbon dioxide but they are finding a way to use it the technique. scientists in amsterdam are studying another solution to help reduce global c o two levels they're innovating green manufacturing techniques of some common products like plastics that actually remove instead of add carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during production currently the plastic manufacturing process emits huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the environment adding to the problem of climate change. but what if a new technology could produce a type of biodegradable plastic that could actually help reverse the greenhouse effect the possibility of this lies inside bacteria an ancient organism the first of three point five billion years ago which turns carbon dioxide into valuable organic compounds from which plastics can be made as a whole variety of organisms. but there is a wrong particular. microorganisms recall th

to discuss, douglas brinkley, a presidential historian and history professor at rice university and larry sabato director of center for politics at the university of virginia. larry, he's getting lots done, but without popular support. can that continue? >> i doubt it. look how difficult it was to get that tax bill passed. and he never could get obamacare repealed. i know about the individual mandate being abolished, but that's not the same thing as abolishing obamacare. this is with a new presidency usually coming with some kind of honeymoon. republican majority in both houses, i grant you thin majority in the senate. but still most majority, gate a great deal done. while certainly trump has accomplished some things, i agree with you on the judiciary, he could have accomplished a great deal more if he were a different kind of president i don't know about being the most consequential. but i'll tell you this, he's the most different president in the modern era. >> i think everybody could agree on that including the president. douglas brinkley, there's a lot to be said for that which takes place through inact

rice university. they eventually moved to the bryan-college station area in 1959. one of his to doctoral professor at rice, dr. frank vandberg, who would himself become president of texas a&m university, helped haskell get his first job he became professor of history at the agricultural and mechanical college of texas. this began a decades-long career as a teacher and leader. he was appointed to a commission to recommend changes to the university to put the institution on sound footing for the future. among the recommendations to come out of this committee were the admission of female students, noncompulsory membership in the corps of cadets, racial integration, higher admission standards and input that led to changes the name of the university to texas a -- texas a&m university he left texas a&m to become president of the university of texas el paso, known as utep. after seven years at utep, he became chancellor at university of missouri where he remained until 1993. you should his leadership, both schools reached new heights as academic institutions. enrolling record nu

university endowment. raphael rice, the president of m.i.t., spoke to us about how his institution is preparing for it. >>g hit. basically, the government is giving us a budget cut. >> what is it mean? will tuition and fees go up? >> no. we cannot do that. everything isep controlled as possible, but it means use all this money for the things we are expected to do -- money for financial aid, for research, money for innovation and education. move.a very surprising it is going to hurt. >> out of the change your strategy? will you have to set aside more cash to pay this tax? >> we will have to figure this out. we have to figure this out, but unfortunately i think we will have to do more with less. so what we want to cut? >> where do you think the biggest area will be heard? financial aid? >> i do not want to hurt that. this is putting pressure. that is where the money goes, to help. we want this place to be accessible to everybody who belongs here, who can fit in here. that is going to hurt in producing that kind of support. i have not made any decisions and i have to see all the options. we have to figure th

of where he was was astonishing. the condy rice going off to the university of alabama. pointing out harvard and georgetown. you would like to think there's always been this thing about the trump administration. some big overreaching plan. some grand wizardry plan going on. i just couldn't see it last night. i just thought it was somebody speaking saying smuf not going to go down very well. >> by the way, after steve bannon jets out of alabama today, he's going to head to new york city where he is the headline speaker at a manhattan fundrais fundraiser. who represents the populist unclaims of the hamptons. >> oh, good. >> i think its banking on the belief that alabamians don't have a finally developed sense of irony. he may be right. >> oh, good gracious. >> what are you feeling right now? scared to say. >> i'm getting tequila no matter what. >> all right. my kind of day. >> thank you so much for being on the show. >>> coming up, the polls are now open here in alabama. we are going to go live to reporters on ground. nbc gabe gutierrez brings us strange moments in this strange race. morning joe live from ala

strategist from the national security council under condoleezza rice and and capri is here, an executive and resident at american university school ofaffairs and i am a graduate of american university. so let's make sure we have full disclosure on that. sarah, critics are suggesting that the republicans are trying to rush this probe to conclusion. why would they do that? >> they are. critics are going to say that. it seems like the house republicans are on a fast track to try to end this investigation. it's clear that yesterday, you know, congress fled d.c. they got the tax bill signed, got the stop gap measure in place and cut of of d.c. today they're in new york continuing the investigation. we also heard today though however that the health intelligence committee is going to expand the investigation into corey lewandowski and steve bannon. while they're trying to rush the investigation, it's going to go on well into january. >> rick: sarah, does it matter the interviews aren't in washington? >> it's different. it's circumspect. if they're getting the information they need, that's okay. i'm not worried. >> let's hope there's no le

of anyone in the audience. when he says, in the rice university speech, we're going to go to the moon, the reality is, the technology people weren't sure. and so how do you think he had either the presumption or the confidence to rally a country and organize people. clearly i know if he hadn't we wouldn't have made that. there would be so many advantages, from the start of gps, to literally dozens of advantages. how did he have the instinct to do that, and rally people at every level? >> he had a lot of confidence in himself. he was very accomplished even before he thought he would run for president. he was not afraid of ideas. i think that's one thing i personally honor about john f. kennedy, is the confidence with which he walked across the stage of great thinking and great idea s. there was a pew poll in the last couple days, that shows i big intersection of our country thinks it's a bad thing about i live in washington, i don't want to go there, whether you're republican -- william f. buckley jr. was a great champion of ideas on the right. the space program was an exciting idea, and he got the whole country behi

rice back in the day, during the george w. bush years, when there was the issue of the university of michigan and the amicus brief, the issue ofdmissions and the preferential admissions they were dealing with at that time. when you have people in the administration, they bring the issues of a culture to the table. i mean there have been a lot of issues on the table. taking the knee. the misunderstanding over why colin kaepernick was taking the knee. if you had that voice at the table maybe it would have changed the dynamic of saying it's about the flag and about soldiers. also, you know, charlottesville. if you had those voices at the table, and maybe they are, but they weren't maybe loud enough, you know, there could have been more sensitivity, it makes a difference. when you have people of all cultures, to include maybe native americans. listen, we just heard what happened with the navajo code talkers with the president having a backdrop of andrew jackson and talking about pocahontas. there is more of a sensitivity and hope for understanding when you have people of different backgrounds at the table. >> chris, i want you to

of anyone in the audience tonight. so when he says that we'll go to the rice university speech, that we're going to go to the moon, the reality is they weren't sure. so how do you have the confidence to rally a country? i know if he hadn't we couldn't have made that. there have been so many advantages. from the start of gps to dozens of technology advantages. but how did he have the instinct to do that and then rally people at every level? >> well, he had a lot of confidence in himself, that's for sure. he was highly accomplished even before he thought he would be a politician. he had written his first book at a very young age. he followed achievement his entire -- he was interested in achievers. he was not afraid of ideas. i think that's one thing i honor about john f. kennedy is the confidence with which he walked across the stage of great thinking and great ideas. there was a pew poll in the last several days that showed how a big section of our country thinks it's now a bad thing to go to college. it's not a good thing. i don't want to get into partisanship at all. believe me. i live in washington. i don't want to

recent report from texas a&m and rice university researchers highlights what they call, get this, the growing disconnect between the 100-year fema floodplain and the location of actual flood losses. and, again, the growing consensus over the inability of the fema derived floodplains to capture actual lost. on average, about a quarter of insured flood losses occur outside the mapped floodplains, and in some cases, more than 50% of flood losses occur outside of what the max said would be flooded areas. with bad mapping, we are leaving local communities at a terrible handicap. so back to that g.a.o. report, quantifying those coastal risks. it notes, quote, given the potential magnitude of climate change and the lead time needed to adapt, preparing for these impacts now may reduce the need for more costly steps in the decades to come. but it also points out, and i will quote them here, the federal government does not have government-wide strategic planning in place to manage what it called significant climate risks before they become federal fiscal exposures. the federal government does not have government-wide strategic planning efforts in place. madam president