trump is considering naming princeton university physicist and trump science advisor william happer to head the effort. he is a known climate change denier. he has accused the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration of manipulating climate data and compared climate science to the holocaust. this is dr. happer and a 2014 interview. >> the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor jews under hitler. carbon dioxide is a benefit to the world and so worthy jews. amy: we'll have more on this story later in the broadcast. in a major victory foror civil liberties advocates, the supreme court unanimously ruled to limit the practice of civil asset forfeiture, a controversial practice where police seize property that belongs to people suspected of crimes, even if they are never convicted. on wednesday, the court ruled the eighth amendment protects people from state and local authorities imposing onerous fines, fees, and forfeitures to generate money. the case centered on indiana man tyson timbs, who had sold drugs and was sentenced to prison. timbs did

and william happer, an unsightly climate change denier. >> if climate change is real how come it snows? i'm going to go punch a dolphin. >> together, they summon the power of willful ignorance "trump's climate committee." >> punch a dolphin! >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, summit 2: atomic booingly. plus, stephen welcomes don cheadle and colin quinn featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: beautiful, looks great, looks great. thanks everybody. please have a seat. please sit down! wooo! welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. it is friday. i'm feeling good. i don't know what your plan sjon, but i'm not going to watch any news. i'm going to do a full-body trump detox. it's like a juice cleanse. and i've already got my juice. here we go. uh-oh, somebody left this corn juice in a barrel too long. ( laughter ) donald trump is planning a vacation, too. on wednesday, he's going to vietnam. apparently, his bone spurs are retracta

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the proposed commission will be led by william happer.es that carbon emissions should be viewed as an asset rather than a pollutant and that is not all. listen to this. >> the demonization of carbon monoxide is just like the demonization of the poor jews under hitler. carbon monoxide is actually a benefit to the world and so were the jews. >> the white house is not commenting on the "washington post" report. just a few weeks ago dan coats confirmed the long standing belief climate change is a significant security risk. cnn has learned white house officials are discussing replacements for coats now. they are concerned that president trump may be prepared to fire him. >>> much of the eastern u.s. is cleaning up this morning after a big winter storm rolled through. thundersnow caught on a doorbell camera in cumberland, maryland yesterday. major flooding in tennessee and the front stalled over the south bringing on high water. and that flooding threat won't abate with another winter storm taking shape out west. pedram javaheri has more. >> go

william happer, this is the die tapped by the white house to lead climate change. >> reporter: he isessor from princeton university. he's a physicist. he's had some unorkt docks is how i'll couch them, views on climate change. he's very skeptical of the role carbon emission plays in any sort of climate change. he thinks we should be celebrating carbon. so, that's an indication of what direction this panel is going to go and it's apparently clear that they want -- the white house wants to cast scientific doubt on all these studies that their own pentagon has put out. guys? >> can you let him say that one more time? to cast doubt on scientific studies from our own pentagon. >> here's my question, hans. the pentagon -- this is not new for the pentagon. this $300,000 study, the pentagon has for a long time, i've been speaking to people in the military who understand in particular coastal facilities where water levels are rising. does this task force -- i'm going to withhold from using an adjective, does the task force have the authority to tell the pentagon to stop any of the actual effo

the man spear heading the committee is william happer known to deny climate change as a real thing goingto say this about carbon dioxide. >> the demonization of carbon dioxide is like demonization of poor jews under hitler. carbon dioxide is a benefit to the the world and so were the jews. >> it is carbon dioxide that is getting a bad rap. one of the co sponsors of the green new deal, thank you for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> the green new deal is big on goals when it comes to climate change, light on details and movement to tackle climate change. what is your reaction to this washington post report? >> it's just one more sign that this administration doesn't take the threat of climate change seriously. you know, there was a federally mandated study, a pretty large one that was scheduled to come out in december. the trump administration released it the friday of thanksgiving weekend black friday because they wanted to release it when people weren't paying attention. here is what the study shoed, a ten percent projukted drop in our nation's gdp by the end of the century if w

and one of the -- heading up to committee say guy named william happer. an atomic physicist, not a climate to gift,. one of the things he's famous for talking about is how he sees carbon dioxide, which is the greenhouse gas that traps all kinds of energy inside the atmosphere leading to global warming, he says it's misunderstood. he says it gets a bad wrap. and he's also been quoted repeatedly for saying that there's -- if you will, a bit of a connection between this greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, and the way jewish people were treated during world war ii. listen. >> the demonization of carbon die si dioxide is the jews under hitler. carbon dioxide saban fit to the world and so were the jaws. >> reporter: benefit to the world. "the washington post" says it got a hold of planning documents for this new committee and that is how it reported this story. alisyn, back to you. >> this will be a doozy, joe. thank you very much for showing us that. >>> our next guest has a message for new attorney general william barr, quote, buckle in because it's going to be a

according to a white house memo, the committee will be headed by retired princeton professor william happerually benefit the planet by spurring vegetation growth. he's even compared the media's treatment of carbon dioxide to the treatment ofjews in nazi germany. the comment i made was the demonisation of common dioxide is just like the demonisation of the poorjews under hitler. carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world and so were thejews. and yet it seems so obvious to all of us that the climate is changing, and in some places is becoming more erratic. right now the uk is in a winter heatwave — with parts of the country experiencing what would be their average july temperatures. startling to think thatjust a year ago the country was bracing for the beast from the east snow storm. here's a photo of a suffolk road mid—blizzard back in 2018. now, here's the same scene — taken one year on this week — basking in sunshine. this time last year those peering out of the jamaican high commission saw london grind to a halt after historic snowfalls. but this week the views outside the building