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Emir sheikh hamad ben khalifa al fani. the monarch who was the emir of qatar until last year he passed to his son. but the father is still a powerful figure in that tiny nation and personally attended the graduation at west point to mark the occasion of the fist cadet from his country to graduate from the u.s. military academy. qatar and the united states have a very long and close and complex set of military ties. the u.s. military divides the world into different commands, right, afrikaans, fo...

To close down. they didnt have to close down because of the seat bells, didnt have to close down because they had to put in catalytic converters and eventually meet mileage standards. and the clean air act of 1970 did help in terms of terrible air pollution. by the 1980s, though, there were new worries, new worries about a hole in the ozone layer that was being created by a very specific group of chemicals that were then in wide use. even if that was a scary idea, the ozone layer still was way u...

River plain of new yorks adirondack park. it looks beautiful and serene, picture postcard perfect. however, indian lake is dead. indian lake is not an isolated example. over a quarter of the 2,700 lakes and ponds in the adirondack park, a preserve as big as vermont, are so acidic they can no longer support fish life. they, too, are dying. it isnt just the lakes that are being killed by acid rain. its the forests as well. >> that was the national treasure that is al roker doing that report on the...

Catalytic converters and eventually meet mileage standards. and the clean air act of 1970 did help in terms of terrible air pollution. by the 1980s, though, there were new worries, new worries about a hole in the ozone layer that was being created by a very specific group of chemicals that were then in wide use. even if that was a scary idea, the ozone layer still was way up there, right? way up there somewhere. you couldnt see it. and even though we were worried about that, we had a much more e...

Mark the occasion of the fist cadet from his country to graduate from the u.s. military academy. qatar and the united states have a very long and close and complex set of military ties. the u.s. military divides the world into different commands, right, afrikaans, for example, the african command. centcom is central command, which kovrs the middle east and huge swaths of asia. centcom has been the command in charge of the iraq and afghanistan wars. centcoms overseas headquarters are in qatar. wh...

Vague environmental catchphrase. this lake nestled in the moose river plain of new yorks adirondack park. it looks beautiful and serene, picture postcard perfect. however, indian lake is dead. indian lake is not an isolated example. over a quarter of the 2,700 lakes and ponds in the adirondack park, a preserve as big as vermont, are so acidic they can no longer support fish life. they, too, are dying. it isnt just the lakes that are being killed by acid rain. its the forests as well. >> that was...

Compounds beesieged by militias. the u.s. human rights chief is reporting waves of ethnic killings and says at least one mass grave has been found. joining me now, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, samantha power. ambassador, thanks for being with us, especially on christmas eve. one of the things as we have seen marines have been mobilized and are standing by for any possible evacuation, standing by to provide security to the embassy, the u.s. embassy there as well, african command was...

You lose your job. so there is incentive not to talk. what will happen? i was in the white house during watergate. these things have a progression. there will be congressional committee hearings. there will be immunity given. people who will be called to testify will be midlevel people. they will all have to hire their own attorneys on their own dime. so they will come out and say the truth and implicate --. gregg: there is paper trail for everything. >> you bet there is. gregg: maybe wasnt that...

So many of these weapons, reportedly they went into algeria. many went down here to mali. that is what were contesting at the moment. furthermore, i make mention of this. i come back to what is happening here in egypt. i never thought we would be on television talking about u.s. military involvement, operating out of niger, to contest islamists in mali. but you say, people have been talking about this for some time, it is just a question whether we listened to them or not? >> right. the pentagon...

Die down. waiting for it to be far enough away that they can breathe. thats why they are not getting rid of these employees, right? >> it is hard to get rid of them. they dont want to get rid of them, at least not now. the culture at stake is very very peculiar. largely dysfunctional. greg, i have dealt with it when i was in uniform i dealt with it over and over again. they are disdainful of the military. go back to what happened in benghazi didnt have to happen. because general carter ham head ...