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william riley under president george h.w. bush were to to amend the clean air act to control acid rain. .r. daniel botkin general. attorney i welcome a colleague here. is a juniorph mason louisiana bancorp's association at louisiana state university and senior fellow at the wharton school. i welcome our panel. whitehouseu, senator and other members of the subcommittee for convening this panel on the matter of enormous importance. i am pleased to be here and reassure some of you i am still alive. it is several months ago after speaking to former epa administrator sitting in front of you, we were convinced by the overwhelming verdict of scientists the earth was warming. and we humans are the only controllable contributors. given those facts, we all signed an op ed piece that america gets serious about reducing our rather than simply sitting back and accepting. haveything, new reports made that needed to act even more urgent. it is hard to believe there's any question of that. report validates to the strongest terms of the science of climate change and projected impacts. the national climate assessment documents imp

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on thursday night, booktv will be in columbia, missouri, at the daniel boone regional library hosting a talk by travel writer william pete moon, he'll be discussing his best-selling book, "blue highways." on that same night, we'll be covering james oakes on his book "the scorpion sting: anti-slavery and the coming of the civil war" at the new york historical society. and then on sunday, june 8th, we'll be at the center for african-american history art and culture in aiken, south carolina, to record south carolina congressman james clyburn talking about his memoir, "blessed experiences." and that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more, go to booktv.org and visit "upcoming programs." >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. jack devine, former deputy of director of operations at the cia recounts his 32 years of service in "good hunting." in "sally ride: america's first woman in space," journalist lynn scherr details the life and career of the first female astronaut. journalist nell bernstein argues the juvenile prison system does nothing t

williams, thank you for breaking it all down for us. appreciate it. >> reporter: you bet. >>> a funny thing happened on the way to washington for mississippi state senator and tea party darling chris daniel. six-term incumbent thad cochran used every option to squeak by the same opponent who picked up votes three weeks ago. >> there were literally dozens of voting irregularities reported all across the state. you know why. you read the stories. there is something a bit strange, there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary that's decided by liberal democrats. >> fighting words there. joining me now for our daily fix, chris ill lizza, manager of post politics.com. nbc political reporter kasie hunt. "washington post" report nia-malika henderson and steve kornacki, host of "up." this is what we call a monster panel. thanks for joining me. i'm going to start with you, chris. you said something i just loved. you said cochran pitched a political perfect game. how did he do it? what did you mean? >> if you looked three weeks ago yesterday, there is no one who spends time following politics who is not being paid by thad cochran who would say thad cochran is going to win. he had bee

william reilly. must render under president george h.w. bush were to amend the clean air act to control acid rain. dr. danielodkin is professor emeritus at the university of california santa barbara. i welcome my colleague here attorney general and dr. joseph mason is the hermon moose junior louisiana bankers association professor banking at louisiana state university and senior fellow at the school so i welcome the panel and it will begin with the honorable dr. ruckelshaus. >> thank you senator whitehouse and senator sessions and members of the subcommittee for convening this hearing on a matter of enormous importance for our future. i'm pleased to be here and reassure at least some of you that i'm still alive. several months ago after talking with one another the former epa administrator sitting in front of you were convinced by the overwhelming verdict of scientists that the earth is warming and that we humans are the only controllable contributor to this phenomenon. given those facts we signed op-ed piece that america gets serious about reducing the world's climate rather than sitting back and avoiding t

. >>> danielle, raped twice by the same perp in '99 and '03. >> dna should prove it's william harris.ttacks occurred. >> it's in here. >> you got to be kidding me. >> we've counted almost 7,000 kits. we think there might be as many as 16,000 kits here. >> have any been tested? >> about 1200. our lab was so screwed up, they shut it down two years ago. state lab does our cases now, but they don't have the money or the eyeballs to get through this mess. >> that's an illustration of a troubling situation actually playing out in many of our nation's cities. a severe backlog of rape kit testing. msnbc's ronan fairro has been reporting on this and bringing the story. >> reporter: in 2003 megan was a memphis area high school student. she loved art, hoped to be a painter. everything changed one monday afternoon. she just had gotten home from school and letting her dog out when a masked man attacked her at knifepoint. >> i had just been attacked in my home, so i consented to the invasive procedure of a forensic examination on my body. my body was the crime scene. >> woman who describe that as l