full interview in a little bit. but first we start with the news that has dominated the week, a story that republicans have reintroduced by design. on friday house speaker john boehner picked seven republicans to sit on the new select committee that will spearhead a new roundinvestigations into the attack and aftermath of attack that killed four americans in benghazi, libya, september 11, 2012. none were elected before 2006 and they include a mix of establishment and tea party republicans. boehner's choice to chair the committee, trey gowdy of south carolina. it was day before boehner made his appointments to set up the benghazi special committee. still up in the air is this question. will the democrats take the five seats the republicans are offering them on the panel or will they boycott the whole thing altogether. it was on this show last weekend that house democratic leader nancy pelosi first responded to the news that republicans planned to create the select committee. pelosi told us that boehner hadn't even informed her of that decision, but now that the cat is out of the bag so to speak, she's dismissing the committee as a political maneuver to take the investigation out of the congress. darrell issa holds up the government oversight and reform. >> the fact is this is a stunt. this is a political stunt. and the fact that -- i mean -- issa just is damaged goods. they had to move from him to another venue with another chairman. that's what this is. we've been there, done this over and over again. and so the question is there at least a level of decency in terms of respect? >> there's been a lot of discussions about political motives that might be at play with republicans turning away from their single focus on the american care act. could this select committee be just the start of a much bigger strategy by republicans? this week "slate's" asked will republicans try to impeach president obama? there's a chance this is already headed. already the conservatives are clamoring for an impeachment. >> we've impeach pt a president other sex with an intern. a coverup of a burglary. why wouldn't we impeach this president for not protecting americans in the bloodbath known as benghazi. >> this talk isn't new on the right. andrew mccarthy has a new book about to hit the shelves entitled "faithless execution:building a political case for obama's impeachment." last fall steve stockman, an early supporter of the benghazi select committee gave every member of congress a copy of the book. stockman is not alone. >> in my mind, the president has committed impeachable offenses. >> i've had lawyers come in, and these are lawyers, ph.d.s in history. they say, tell me how i can impeach the president of the united states. >> people need to know how serious this is. to me people may be starting to use the "i" word before too long. >> "i" word meaning impeachment, yeah. >> i don't have the back fwrounld to know if that's high creams and misdemeanors, but i think they're getting perilously close. >> we've got three years to get this guy out. let me put it this way. i think he probably has been engaged in these unconstitutional approaches that may make his own ability to stay in office a question. >> these growing calls for impeachment from the right wing could gather steam. they may end up feeling the pressure to go along. more than a year ago just after the 2012 election, the prominent gop lobbyist named ed rogers offered this haunting premonition totime magazi "time. he said, quote, we're probably one e-mail away from benghazi being an impeachable offense for much of our party. i think that's nuts, but that's where we are right now. >> >> it had 28 particulars that king george had committed against the rights of englishmen. well, this particular report lists 76 examples of lawlessness and abuse of power. >> over at the "washington post," plumline blog, it's noted the gop was backed into shutting down the government in defending the affordable care act last fall and the same thing could play out with impeachment. we ask is impeachment where we're going? is that the only place they're tanging the investigation? if that's the road they are going to go down, how much political blowback could that create? by the way, what do they do? do they refuse to go along or do they grudgingly take those five committee seats? is it better to fight it from the inside to the outside. to talk about all this. i want to bring in msnbc and jerry. and congressman, aisle start with you. i have heard the case from both sides in the democratic part on this, hey, you want to know what they're up to, you want to have a voice, you don't want to be blind-sided, or the other case has been if you deny something bipartisanship, any sort of by partisan cooperation you're denying it legitimacy and you're making so the public turns against it. >> i come down very strongly that you have to participate. as march of a kangaroo court as it is, even in a kangaroo court it's good to have a defense attorney and you can't seed the battlefield. of course it's nonsense and it has no real legitimacy. but trying to deny legitimacy by boycotting it is a story. the witnesses will have questions and they'll be asking over and over. they'll be unfair questions, they'll badger the witness. you've got to have somebody to say, wait a minute, let him answer the question or to point out how unfair or ridiculous the question is or to point out what is being done unfairly. you have to have, i believe, very strongly -- i argued this in the democratic caucus the other day. you can't seed the battleground to the bullies. >> by the way. the democrats met on this the other day. >> mm-hmm. >> how would you break down where your party in the house stand on this right now? do you think ultimately what you're saying is where it's going to go? what's the sentiment? >> i think it's mixed. we're not going to take a vote on this, so i don't know that. she'll make the decision. i think she was conflicted in herself. i mean we all recognize that this is a kangaroo court. this is nonsense. there have been eight investigations. even chairman mckeown, the republican of the armed services committee said this is nonsense. there are really only two allegations here. one is that somehow they let this happen. they didn't send in the armed forces. secretary gates in his book who was very critical of president obama said this was nonsense and the chairman of the armed services committee who's republican said it's nonsense, not true. the other allegation -- it's what were the talking points for ambassador rice on "meet the press" a couple of days later, and the answer to that is probably somewhat confused and so what, and the president labeled it, you know, a terrorist attack the day after and they say no, we didn't. but does this all come down to whether the administration called it a terrorist attack right away or waited a week or two? so what. >> i mean what they're trying to suggest or have been trying to suggest is that the obama administration and president obama was running for re-election. i kept us from having another terrorist attack. i don't know how you would ever cover up an al qaeda attack. >> no one said they tried to cover it up. by the way, under the bush administration, something like 16 american diplomats killed. you had an attack in calcutta by another al qaeda affiliate. nobody tried to impeach him. nobody said this was a coverup. no one -- you know, if we wanted -- if the democrats wanted to be political about this, we would mount a major campaign and say those four americans died because the republican congress refused to increase the budget even though the secretary asked for it. we didn't ask for that. this wasn't foreseeable. >> rightly we talk about the tragedy of benghazi. at the same time when you look at the violence of american diplomatic outposts, it's not that uncommon. tim wrote this yesterday. he said the state department counts 86 significant attacks just in 2012. that's the year of the benghazi attack. the death toll was not four. it was 24. this is not a new problem. since 1970 there's been 521 attacks on diplomatic targets. you're covering the politics of this in washington. how are the republicans looking at this? are the republicans afraid if the democrats don't take the seats? >> my understanding from talking to, you know, republican aides and people close to the house leadership, they're at least posture posturing as if they want the democrats to participate. boehner is getting calls from the right and conservatives to do this for a long time and he's been very hesitant to do it. how he wants this to have an air of legitimacy. the house leadership wants to be able to hold this out as a legitimate investigation, as something they really put real resources into. that gets understood cut a little bit if the democrats don't come to the table because then the democrats can hold it out and say it's a partisan hack job. if the democrats are at the table they at least get the optics of it. >> so, dave, also we had that quote, you know, after 2012, somebody from the republican establishment basically saying, hey, we're one i'm away from this sort of far right and the party being able to call the shots on where we go on benghazi. we kind of got that e-mail, the ben rhodes e-mail. you wrote something that sort of put the ben rhodes e-mail in context. there's a question should the white house have released this a while ago and it didn't have to come the a judicial watch, freedom of information request. that being said you put this e-mail in context and said this is really not any kind of smoking gun here. >> i think that's why you're hearing a few more democrats say it's thinkable to join the committee because the advantage, i guess, for the people that are confused about it is there have been a bunch of panels asking sometimes the same question. you see trey gowdy, who's a very good prosecutor, who goes on tv and asks the questions that have been in the reports but people aren't familiar with them. there was a ton of embassy attacks that were explicitly based in it. that has been left out of the narrative. whenever you try to bring it up, it was lost. it's completely forgotten that this happened and if you don't have democrats on that committee bringing this up, it's not going to be brought up. i think in general, overreach is what democrats would hope for just in the way that, i think, overreach helped the president clinton. remember, democrats want ing th tape to be released. it made the republicans look overzealous. more cently keith ellison participating in peter king's muslim thing here. he kind of skploesed the flimsiness of it. democrats are confident there's so much evidence here it's being lost in the fog. if it comes out, it would correct a bit of a narrative. >> do you think they're going to join the committee ultimately? 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let's sea democrats do join the committee? let's say they have the back and forth they have with eli cummings and darrell issa. that plays out itself. i just remember the lewinsky thing. it took -- what did they end up with? did they have any democratic votes for that? they might have had one or two. >> no. the question you're talking about, the buck mckeon argument, i remember talking to republican voters about benghazi. they would bring it up without me mentioning i. they would show up outside obama buses that went by with benghazi signs. what made them angry and has kept them angry is the fury that they were told not to help any of the people in the compound, any of the people responding that night. and, again, because the reporting has been so confusing it's not widely known. i think you can go on conservative radio and media and you'll hear they were told to stand down. this was in together of 2012. to the extent that that's vetted again in public on tv with lots of people watching it, that might remove some of the fury. and gowdy, who i respect on all sides here as a prosecutor, that's what animates him, the idea that families were lied to and that their family members who were dead were not given the help they needed. if that is -- that story's fully told that everything was done to help them, that changes that. >> what's missing is a key piece of information. >> yeah. i think -- we've -- we basically know now it's misinformation. he and a lot of republicans say we haven't been told the truth because it's been so scatter-shocked. they don't want to believe it. it's underable. you have grieving families, sons who were navy s.e.a.l.s. steve king the other day was saying we need the autopsy of chris stevens because maybe that would reveal more clues. they want every fact related to the deaths of the people they love. i don't think it's bad thing to vet that in public. walk into any room, any tea party room, republican meeting, anyone will believe, one, barack obama didn't do anything that night, nobody in the chain of command did anything, or they were told to stand down, which as mccain said is kind of an insult to the military. >> we have to squeeze in a break. we have a member of the republican party who supports this committee. we'll gore to talk to her and the rest of the panel right after this. i'm l-i-s-a and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way of hosting my book club. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. and breo helps reduce symptom flare-ups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. breo is not for asthma. breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. it is not known if this risk is increased in copd. breo won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. breo may increase your risk of pneumonia, thrush, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking breo. ask your doctor about b-r-e-o for copd. first prescription free at mybreo.com a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet again. 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administration somehow failed on the night of the attacks to adequately respond to it? or is it this idea of, you know, in the aftermath of the attacks, the obama administration supposedly was trying to cover something up? what specific concern do you have that you want this committee to address? >> good morning. i think the question is a very good one, but just let me put it in my perspective. i believe that the american people, those who are paying attention and care -- and there are many who care deeply about this problem -- there are still questions about what happened leading up to the attack, during the attack, and certainly afterward. and think having a bipartisan group look at these questions, you know, if we can get simply bee beyond the bipartisanship, it's really important. as i see it, there are people still serving around the world in the same capacity that the men in benghazi served. they deserve a right to know, you know. are they leading up to the same sort of similar situation or are they protected? what will happen if they find themselves in danger? and i think in their honor, i think we ought to be looking at this thoroughly, and think trey gowdy has the capacity to do this and i think it's important that the democrats participate. >> we read about safety stats in general. i can see this incident pointing to that sort of broader question and being in need of clear -- i think clear need for maybe washington to take a look at that issue. the question of benghazi in that context. but when we look at benghazi, there seems to be something very specific, very political, very partisan that's animating i'm not going to say all republicans on this but a lot of republicans. we talk about steve stockman, your former colleague, was calling for president obama's impeachment last year, calling for this committee. now he gets this committee. is it fair to say a lot of people in your party have been looking for a reason to go after president obama, looking for a reach to can impeach president obama? >> i hear your statement but that's now how i see it. there are those who have gone that far and then there are those who are complete deniers and apologists and act like this is not an important issue. but, you know, there are really people in congress on both sides of the aisle who have the capacity to get together, have hearings, to really look at the facts an let the facts speak for themselves. there are still a lot of questions that need to be asked. i don't think over-the-top statements need to be made on either side. hearings on the acts deserve it. they deserve thoughtful inquiries over what happened. nifr asked for impeachment and never put the two together in this context. go ahead. i'm sorry. >> we have congressman nadler here. could this be potentially what she seat saying, a bipartisan way to -- >> highly unlikely. we've already had eight separate investigations and reports. they've gone through 55,000 or something like that pages of documents they've produced. there have been eight reports. the accountability review board, the bipartisan lieberman congressman senate report, the democratic report. eight different reports. nothing new has come up. and all the allegations we're seeing now, everything that they're supposedly going to investigate, has either been thoroughly debunked and i'll reference again the republican armed services committee chairm chairman mckeon has said given it, we probably couldn't have done more than we did and secretary of defense gates, former secretary of defense gates who wrote a very critical book about obama said exactly the same thing. and the talking points memo, the question of the talking points has been pretty wet ll debunked too. i don't know where you're getting at with all the reports. and, you know, this committee, select committee, has no more power, subpoena power than the issa committee had, than the mckeeim m mckeon committee. congressman nadler makes the case for it. 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is that she took issue with some of the master report. that's the report that christie says exonerates him. the second is renna says she doesn't think kelly was the mastermind behind the lane closures, that she would not have made that kind of call on her own. one described kelly as indecisive based on his own interactions with her. here's how renna responded to that. >> it sounds like bridget kelly because she was constantly checking before she made a decision all the time. >> right. so you -- i don't want to put words in your mouth. what you said today is bridget was not a decision maker. is that what you said? >> yes. >> here's what she said. >> i wouldn't say she was the architect but she was instrumental in the process. i believe that, yes. >> okay. >> i think bridget was not the architect but think she was, you know, participating in whatever this was. >> so, of course, if kelly wasn't the master mooinld that leaves the question of who was. so that was last tuesday. and now this coming tuesday just 48 hours from now, that committee will reconvene to hear from the next witness, one of the most anticipated witnesses on the docket. he's michael drewniak, christie's longtime spokesman. last december according to the report drewniak had dinner with wildstein. he told wildstein he had spoken to the gronch about the lane closures at an event last september. drewniak also, according to the report -- excuse me. wildstein indicated according to the court that they had knowledge of the closures as they were playing out. well, democrats on the committee questions renna aggressively last week and are expected to do the same with drewniak this coming week. republicans are tries to steer the conversation away from it and toward the broader topic of port authorities reform. >> they are the ones who are deciding about all the shenanigans over there, and i don't think that we should continue to let them continue to run their clown operation while we pursue headlines any way that we can. >> after that another republican on the committee motioned to s&p more port authority officials. time now to bring in democrat state senator linda greenstein. she's a member of the committee and a candidate for the 12th district and holy schepisi. i just mentioned her a minute ago. so, brian, i want to start with you. i also want to put up first, after this hearing on tuesday where christina renna basically -- you know, she said that bridget kelly had been instrumental in the closures but had not been the mastermind behind them, she also said there had been this e-mail that bridget kelly had asked her to delete, an e-mail from when the lane closures first happened where bridget kelly is first told about them and says good and bridget kelly according to christina renna was asked to delete the e-mails. she responded and said rest assured, under cross-examination her requests will be seen as ridiculous and if she thinks she can rewrite history, she does so at her own peril. christie makes the case she would have deleted the e-mails herself when she found out christie said nobody in his office knew. >> he gets to make the case, critchley does, for his client, bridget kelly, that she was not involved in an obstruction of justice, which is either a federal crime, depending on the incident or a state crime. >> deleting the i'm or ordering the i'm. >> that is obstructing justice. getting rid of evidence is an obstruction. i'm flanked by two lawyers. i don't think they'd disagree with me on the definition. maybe on the act. he's got to get out in front on that. i think that's the motivation here. i can't let my client, bridget kelly, be perceived as somebody involved in an obstruction of justice. >> what do you make of the -- and it's not -- this was not a shocking statement, thing, to anybody who follows new jersey politics, who's followed this closely. but, still, to get it on the record, somebody in the governor's office saying, no, i don't think bridget kelly was the mastermind behind this, what does that say? >> that's the $64,000 question. you know, the speculation -- i said in my story that day, the speculation could go anywhere and i'm ghoinnot going go anywh because i can pull a name out of my hat and they're all equal. obviously the focus is on people like david wildstein who is at the port authority as well as bill stepien, the governor's former campaign manager. that's where all of our focus has been up until now. could it be anybody else? of course, it could be. will it be anybody else? we don't know. that's the point of the whole investigation right now as i see it from the outside. so, you know, i'm not going to say that, well, what does it mean for your the governor, what does it mean for ron tune yak, what does it mean for gia and all these people trying to separate it into an alphabet soup of letters and stuff, but think at this point you also have to recognize, again to the lawyers, i defer, that her claim that bridget could not have been an architect is also kind of a hearsay. it's her feelings. >> right. she was asked do you think shelf wasn't asked you do have specific knowledge. she was asked do you think. >> right. >> senator woman schepisi, we talked at the beginning how you wanted to sort of expand this to look at port authority reform, you had some subpoenas in mind. the democratic leaders of this committee want to go in a different derek of this. the direction they went on tuesday and the direction they want to go this tuesday with mike drewniak, when you look at christina renna's testimony this week, did you find anything of value? she said the master report has some problems. it sounds like there was some valuable stuff she said on tuesday. >> we learned she shops at banana republican and gets coupons. candidly, i don't think we really learned anything beyond what we had already seen. most of her testimony was encompassed in the master report. there were a couple of small things that she did want to clear up from a consistency perspective, but even going to mike drewniak's testimony on tuesday, listen da, i don't know if you've gotten anything. we have received absolutely nothing regarding what the strategy is. we've gotten nothing from our counsel about, you know, is there an outline of questions. what is it that we're looking to talk to him about? what are we looking to ask? and so, you know, you very poornltly pointed out that we have gone off and veered off the path of what the stated purpose of our committee was, which was to investigate how something like this could have taken place at the port authority and implement appropriate reforms. and that was the stated purpose of the chairman from day one. now all of a sudden we're going into the inner workings and having politicians investigate politicians into how the campaign was run. so we're really setting a dangerous precedent. >> linda, you're on the committee. do you agree with that? >> i totally, totally disagree with that. thing we're doing exactly what we set out to do. in the original legislation that enabled us to do this, we left it broad, but we said we were going to start with what happened with the bridge. well, everything that's happened so far, all the materials we received, took us to the idea that there was involvement in the governor's office which is why we're talking to people in the governor's office, but in three weeks, we're also talking to several port authority people. so indeed we are taking your idea that we will look at port authority. we have to just take it where it takes us. it starts with people in the governor's office, and it also starts with people at the port authority. >> we've got to to squeeze one break in. we'll get to brian. i want to know what senator greenstein and senator schepisi wants to ask on tuesday. we're going to ask them that when we come back. and that's epic, bro, we've forgotten just how good good is. good is setting a personal best 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>> i think it's something democrats and republicans should get behind. let me tell you why. last july when new borrowers were in the spotlight, remember, student loan interest rates because of what the law said were about to double, nearly every republican in the house and the senate at most democrats voted for the exact same interest rates that are in the bill i'm proposing and my co-sponsors are proposing. so thing about that. they just said in july, those are the right interest rates for new borrowers who are trying to get an education. why on earth wouldn't those be the right interest rates for anyone else who had tried to get an education. so if the republicans will say out loud -- and actually there may be some movement on this, that's the right principle is where we want to be on the interest rates, then let's talk about the pay for. i put the buffett rule out there and my colleagues did as a way to try to give our kids a fair shot, but if they don't like the buffett rule, then come to us with something else. how you do want to pay for this? but here's the key you've got remember. i think about the fact that it requires a pay for. why does it require a pay for? because right now the system is designed to have students or former students pay tens of billions of dollar above the cost of these loans in order to fund the united states treasury. so it puts a very direct question to us, a question of economics, but also a question of values. does this country support its billionaires through tax loopholes or for the same amount of money does this country support students who tried to get an education? that's the issue on the table. >> well, i tlink's a bigger issue and bigger question that gets to the paralyzed state of government and politics for the last few years. what you're trying to do here is sort of to me is similar on what we receive on any number of big proposals that the president's put forward, other members of your party have put forward. we live in a time when the republicans control the house of representatives. we've talked so much about them being terrified of tea party members. john boehner not putting things on to floor because he does not want a coup. has the reality of that been frustrating to you or has something about it -- have you been surprised? have you learn something about it, hey, there's more i can get done? what's the experience been like? >> i wrote this book called "a fighting chance," and the book is about my eyewitness accounts of what it was like to fight washington from the outside. and i go through all of these battled. and the basic conclusion that i drew because i saw it, ran smack into it, is that washington is rigged to h for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and armies of lawyers, and, you know, this is my life's work. i've been following this for 25 years now. i've got to tell you. it's gotten worse, it's gotten worse, it's gotten worse. the playing field is tilted, tilted so badly that america's middle class is starting to crumble. so how is it we're ever going to rebalance the playing field? they've got the advantages of concentrated money and power. we have the advantage on our side of our voices and our votes. so for me what this student loan bill is about and all of the issues we we're working on, around minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, holding banks accountable, it's about saying we're going make our voices heard on this. we're going to make it clear that there are economic choices to be made here in the case of student loans, go for the billionaires, or go for our students. go for one or the other. we're going to make those choices and make them clear, and then the voters can decide which way they want to see this government run. but we've got to break through. we can't just say, well, the republican republicans don't like this, so we're never going there. we need to make changes in this country. we can't keep running it for the billionaires who want to keep their loopholes. we've got to run this for our kids who are trying to get an education. they just need a fair shot, that's all this is about. >> so i want to talk to you a little bit about breaking that logjam. whether it's on the student loan question. you mentioned the student loan rate. that was fill bustered to death in the senate. you had one republican, bob corker from trn who was willing to switch sides. we see it over and over again. publixly what i see in looking at washington from afar and seen for the last two years is one skpak example of this. there's gridlock. it dies in the house, dies in the senate. not much has really happened in the last few years. privately i'm wondering. maybe you can tell me this. when you have conversations, especially across the aisle, is it different? are there republicans? i'm sort of wondering what the disconnect is to break through that logjam. >> well, you know, this is why i frame it in terms of the rich and powerful get what they want here in washington because a good example of that is glass-steagall. you remember glass-steagall used to be the law coming out of the great depression. it said that ordinary banking, checking accounts and savings account, had to be separated from taking risks on wall street. if you wanted to be a bank, that was fine, if you wanted to be a wall street risk taker, that was fine, but you couldn't be both. that wall got broken down. ultimately glass-steagall was repealed in the end of the '90s and we saw the consequences with the financial crash in 2008. now, came to congress a year ago and sat down with john mccain. and with angus king, who is an independent from maine with maria cantwell, another democrat from washington, we crafted a tough 21st century glass-steagall bill. so we've got republicans, independents, and democrats on that bill. they want it. they want a tough bill. america supports a good strong glass-steagall make banking boring and yet very, very difficult to move. why? because the largest financial institutions in the country don't want it. community banks are good with it. credit unions are good with it. but a handful of huge banks wield a lot of power on capitol hill, and that's what we've got to break. it's about leveling the playing field again. it's about giving a fair shot to our families, to small financial institutions, to small businesses, and not have everything just run for the big guys. >> yeah. and, you know, i mean we're talking here about sort of the partisan gridlock that everybody's familiar with. when you talk about the power of wall street, the power of the financial sector, we're talking about something that cuts across party lines. 's one thing i want to ask you about. i know in some ways it's a tired topic. we get to 2016. you've been asked a gazillion times if you're going to run or not. one thing, we're looking at a unique situation with hillary clinton. we're looking at a potentially unique situation where it is at least plausible she could get the democratic nomination out without opposition. when you talk about it, i was struck by it. i think you've been asked about it before. i was struck by a book you wrote a few years ago before you were in the senate where you talked about how hillary clinton as first lady opposed a bill where once she was in the senate and representing new york and representing the big wall street interests, she changed it. the banking bill, the bush administration was supporting and you wrote in the book it seems hillary clinton could not afford such a principled position in terms of the position she used to have. i wonder when you look at the potential of hillary clinton being your party's standard barer both in 2016 and years to come, are you sfietsd she's free of the kind of wall street influence you're talking about? >> look. i want to make this clear. i'm not running for president. i am focused right now on 2014 and the issues we need to cover right now. i think that we have to address the student loan issue. we need to bring it out there and push as hard as we can. as i said, people getting crushed by student loans, republicans say they don't like the pay for. then come back with your own pay for. that's on the table right now and that's what i want to work on right now. and that's where i'm going to keep my mow was. >> i understand that but i want to ask one more time. again, i know 2016 seems so distant, but i also know -- i've watched enough of these elections where decisions get made a few parties out. when you look at the role hillary clinton is playing in the democratic party right now and is poised the play in 2016, does it concern yu at all? i mean you've written about it before. you wrote about it in your first book. you seem to be suggesting that wall street kind of got it claws into her. do you still have that concern about her? >> look. as i said, i -- you can ask the question a lost different ways, but i'm going give the same answer, and that is i'm staying focused on the issues in front of us right this minute. we can't let them off the hook by talking about things down the line, by talking about where hypothetically we're headed. what we have to do is hold people accountable right now who are in the united states senate, and then we have to hold them accountable in the 2014 elect n elections. you know, there's a big question about what's going happen to control of the united states senate. i think the most important thing we can do is to say to the american people, here's what we stand for, here's what we believe in, let the other guys say what they stand for and what they believe in, and then let's let the voters choose. that's where we need to keep our focus, and that's what i'm going stay focused on. >> we'll finish with this then. we'll finish with the question about 2014 because i don't know if anybody could have imagined this the night that you beat scott bruin in 2012 in massachusetts. >> yep. >> that two years later he would be a resident of. >> announcer: a of new hampshire and challenged gene she mean. you ran against scott brown, you defeated scott brown. if gene sheheen comes to you and says, senator warren, what's the best piece of advice to give me to make sure scott brown doesn't beat me, what would it be? >> here's the deal. i've now worked with gene for nearly a year and a half, and i'm going tell you something. jean is smart. she's independent and she's strong. she doesn't need my advice. you know what? scott brown's going to have his hands full with her. >> all right. senator elizabeth warren, we've been hoping to get you on the show for a while. appreciate your time and hope to have you back sometime. >> thank you. >> and our thanks once again to senator elizabeth warren from massachusetts. as she mentioned her new book is called "a fighting chance." we'll have more with what we talked about with elizabeth warn warren. we'll talk about that more after this. energy and became moody... that's when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. we discussed all the symptoms... then he gave me some blood tests. showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number -- not just me. 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"the new york times" reported on thursday for residents o. miami beach, all it takes to trigger a flood these days is high tide. there's a reason for it too. yes. the arctic ice that's melting is threatening the entire coast line but south florida is sitting on limestone which is especially porous. all of that extra water is soaking in and bubbling up. it could dramatically and permanently change south florida, predicting that sea levels will keep rising by as much as four feet by the end of the century, which means climate change isn't so much a future thing in south florida so much as it's already here. on tuesday president obama was asked about it. >> we can take some hitgatimiti efforts but if we don't tackle the long-term problem of climate change, if some of the predictions about two, three, four, five-foot increases in sea levels occurring come true, then it's going to be very hard for miami not to go through catastrophic changes. so we've got time to do something about it. we've already increased fuel efficiency standards on cars, doubled production of clean energy. we're going to be making sure that power plants are more efficient. but even with those steps, we're not taking enough action. >> you can measure the effect of what's happening in florida not just by the rising tides but by the silence. "the new york times" wrote about the climate change report and flooding problems in miami this week they noted that senator marko rubio, governor rick scott and former governor jeb bush all declined to speak with them on the issue. senator rubio and bush are both viewed as potential presidential candidates in 2016 and as the paper noted political analysts say the reluctance of the three men to speak publicly is because of the political reality of people grappling with climate change. many of the solutions to climate change are things that the base of the republican party rebels against like the solutions like regulating the energy industry, taxing, taxes of any kind really. so some prominent florida republicans at leefrt for now on this issue are getting silence. when you look at the data shows the partisan decide on climate change, that reluctance to speak is not surprising. 25% of republicans in this country consider climate change a major threat. if you look among democrats, though, it's a very different story. 65% of them see climate change as a very serious threat. making it clear that americans still approach climate change from different ends of the political spectrum. republicans called this week's report alarmist while democrats like president obama warned that places like miami are already under water and say we're running out of time to act. in miami we have was john morales. he's the chief meteorologist for the nc station wtvj who was able to sit down with president obama and we have coral davenport, energy and policy reporter of "new york times." she wrote the paper's article about miami this week. alex buzz mass ski he's with george mason university, a conservative group making a case for the free market to deal with global warming and hoardly. welcome to all of you. joran, in miami, i'll start with you you had a chance to sit down with the president this week. we have this report from "the new york times" saying the biggest named republicans from your state, the governor, u.s. senator marko rubio, former governor jeb bush, they don't want -- it sounds like they don't want to talk about this issue publicly right now. is that something you're finding down there? >> well, interesting enough the senator was here talking about it openly. they held a big open meeting on miami beach. this was about three weeks ago. many local planes were invited. i know the city of miami beach is taking action with their new mayor and they're using 2.7 feet as the possibility of what they might see by the year 2060 as a planning target for the city itself. so there is some action locally. it's a polarizing issue. it's not sciencpolitics. it's science. >> you have a democrat being very public about this. as the article indicates this week, three big named republicans in florida apparently want nothing do with this publicly. let me ask you. with the reality of the politics that you're seeing and you're talking about there in your conversation with the president this week, i mean this has been an issue, obviously, that's been talked a lot during his presidency. did you get any indication from him given how urgent these warnings are right now about where you live? did you get any indication from him that he is more optimistic about something real happening, something real to break through that logjam you're describing? >> well, listen. its like the president said. it's going to take mitigation to stop the rise of the ocean, of the sea level across the world. there's a lot that's already been baked into the system. there's a lot of the rise in sea level that we're not going to be able to stop, and we're going to have to be able to find some solutions which particularly in south florida are going to be quite complicated to be able to stop the rising seas because we sit on limestone, which is poro porous. the water's not just going to come in from the coast. it's going to come up from below. so as far as the president is concerned, you know he's taking steps at least in the executive branch to be able to work on mitigation and find ways to curtail the injection of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. but it's been, as you know, a difficult -- it's been difficult to gain traction when you can't enact laws given the polarization of this issue in this country. >> let's -- coral, your paper, the headline for this, the national climate assessment was the report that came out this week. i mean this is the headline in "new york times." u.s. climate has already changed, the study finds, citing heat and floods. there's a map that went along with that i think we can put up on the screen here. this showed temperature changes all across the country. tlirng's one tiny speck there, troy, alabama, where it's been decreasing. the rhett of the country, it's not a question of if temperatures are rising. it's a question of how much. we hee lite and you highlight in your story south florida, but there's a nationwide reality that's setting in here. >> yeah. one of the most interesting things about the report, this is the most detailed granular study to date on the impact of climate exchange in north america. there have been a lot of reports, the big u.n. report that talks about global impacts and global warming. those reports sort of talk broadly about north america. this report talks about the impacts of climate change on cedar rehab ids, iowa. where sea levels are rising. this is the first time -- you know, this takes us across the country into communities, into states, and shows the impact of climate change right now in different ways. droughts in some places, flooding in others. but it's really -- it's a roadmap to what's happening right now an what's going to happen. >> so, bradley, how -- what is happening right now? you say the climate has already changed. is any of the changes that are taking place reversible or is it now locked in and the question is how much more damage is there? >> i think one of the real points to emphasis here is we're probably locked into some additional warming. greenhouse gases last in the atmosphere over 100 years or so. but the key point is the decisions we make today impact on whether we get into a trajectory that's so extreme in terms of sea level rise, changes in heat waves, things like that that adaptation won't respond -- it won't be feasible. it will be more than we can handle. the other thing from our climate assessment report is that we really have probably already burned half the carbon dioxide that we can get away with burning if we want to stay under this target. so that as you look at the fact that emissions are still going up, it gets to the point we have to make these changes right now. there's urgency. the longer we wait, the longer it remains impossible to stay under those targets at which point the risk goes up a lot. >> so there's urgency, an urgent warning this week and the political reality we're talking about that has been the reality this week. i want to talk to you about whether the urgent warnings that came out this week might have changed or might have the potential to change some of the attitudes on your side of the aisle, your sort of the end of the political spectrum. i want to ask you about that when we come back. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious, and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber. from phillips. that, my friends, is everything. and with the quicksilver card from capital one, you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you purchase. not just "everything at the hardware store." not "everything, until you hit your cash back limit." quicksilver can earn you unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you could possibly imagine. say it with me -- everything. one more time, everything! and with that in mind... what's in your wallet? 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because you just made the case for the urgency behind this, what we already lost, what we stand to lose if there's no more action. i would thing from the president's standpoint you would say cap and trade. there was an effort behind cap and trade that went nowhere. the clock is ticking. how do you look at what can he do? what should he be doing? >> quickly to say climate change is a fact. one thing that we've learned that's come out in this latest national assessment is how vulnerable we already are to what seemed like small changes. we look at sea level rise. conservative projections, something like 2 feet by the end of the century. it could triple the chance for flooding, even if the storms don't get any stronger, raising the sea level baseline, you ee changing it from what was a 100-year flooding convenient to that of a traditional mortgage. i agree that these are large societal discussions. it's not just about the science but it's so important that we're having the climate conversation right now so that we can engage with all communities including most vulnerable populations. the latest assessment talks about bringing indigenous groups to the table. >> coral, i just wonder, have you seen anything in the political reaction to this that you've watched this week that suggests that logjam is loosening in any way or will loosen in any way? >> no. and what's interesting was you highlighted in my story that the three republican key lawmakers from florida didn't respond to my questions. i had actually -- i had started working on that story two weeks before and repeatedly sent them questions. i said any time they can talk, ten minutes on the phone while they're in a car ride, this is what i'm interested in, this is the science. you know, it was very clear. i mean i think to each one of those offices, multiple questions. it was very clear they absolutely did not want to talk about this issue even though lawmakers like marko rubio and jeb bush are very comfortable talking about issues like immigration in which they are, you know, much more moderate, veer away from their party, are comfortable going to a place that, you know, maybe doesn't sit as well with the far right of their party. on this one, there's such discomfort, such unwillingness to even address the issue. >> it's almost like if they go off the reservation on one, you don't want to risk two issues. john, we're sort of running out of time but i want to go back to you. we started with south florida and laid out what you guys are facing down there. can you tell us quickly, though, is there a consensus what the solution is, how you can stop the change that we just outlined in south florida? >> yeah. so i mean south florida is not the netherlands. it's not even new york city. and the solutions that work there are not going to work down here because of the porous limestone that lies beneath. so whatever geoengineering solution is needed down here is something that we still need to come up with. i've been to workshops and conferences with scientist from the university of colorado, jim white. jim white has been quoted as saying miami does not have much of a future past the 21st century. we need to take that as a challenge and try to find a solution to try to protect our coastline. >> all right. my thanks to john morales with wtvj in miami. we'll be right back. can help yl get extra stuff. they're the only cereals with box tops for education. you can raise money for your kids' school. look for this logo. only on big g cereals. you can make a difference. every cereal box counts. you can make a difference. and it feels like your lifeate revolves around your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief, and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure have occurred. before starting humira, your doctor should test you for tb. ask your doctor if you live in or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you have had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. ask your gastroenterologist about humira today. remission is possible. constipated? 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