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August 30, 2019
They really care. this is something of importance to them. and its important to us. ive got seven grandkids. i want them to grow up in a healthy environment. i dont want to see my legacy that we left them a planet that is being destroyed. >> i want to get your sense of this question. you worked in an administration that did do some regulatory rollbacks. >> uh-huh. >> the roadless rule for forestry was put in by clinton and tried to -- not out of epa, out of interior, tried to roll it back. if so...
August 30, 2019
>> the roadless rule for forestry was put in by clinton and tried to -- not out of epa, out of interior, tried to roll it back. if someone says, look, donald trump is just behaving the way any republican president would on this issue. if it were marco rubio and jeb bush, it would be the same. what is your reaction to that? >> no, no. he has taken it to an extreme we have not seen. was the bush administration as environmentally sensitive as i would have liked? no. but they didnt have a war on sci...
May 22, 2019
The possibility that we might slide into a military confrontation with iran without having clearly thought through the consequences and the costs. >> you know, most of us -- you im sure grew up understanding how we got into world war i. it was a series of mobilizations on both sides. one triggering the other side until we had a terrible war with everybody involved. do you think this president knows that he is starting trouble over there? >> im gravely concerned that because we have a president w...
March 23, 2019
Kind of get this settled. so, i mean, some of these things are not an easy decision. and the other thing is if he decides to send, say, only summary conclusions and not the whole report, then i guess theyll, they have the right to subpoena the report and everything? if. >> well, you know, theres a middle ground, right? you could observe the right rules and policies and redact portions but not give just a summary report. so there can still be a pretty fulsome document that goes over. but youre ri...
October 26, 2018
Aniston. >> right. >> reese witherspoon, steve carrell. john and i are wondering who is going to play us. >> i have learned a lot, but so much as changed in morning tv. my book could end up being background material because it was an anne curry and matt lauer. its stranger than fiction. its been interesting in the writers room to see the writers come up with a more shocking story line. >> this is the plan. >> you all are impossible. right? youre impossible. >> youre right, to imitate. >> thats m...
April 22, 2018
Experts on the kinds of complicated situations like iran and north korea that you just mentioned, more and more soldiers and spies making policy. in "war on peace" i talk about the ramifications in a very immediate sense, in conflict afflict around the world. >> when i was reading it, what i was thinking of is, with the korean negotiations theres a very complicated set of background material you need to understand. those are the details that area experts understand, assistant and deputy secretar...
February 3, 2018
Campaign and finding the efforts. even though the political origins of the steele dossier were then noticing an doj and fbi officials. house minority leader nancy pelosi has called the memo a quote - desperate attempt to distract the american people from the truth about the trump and russia scandal. z says the committee is now moving onto phase 2. specifically what the state department did in the rush investigation during the last of the president obama is in term. >> thank you molly. >> and let...
February 1, 2018
Pledge. and it may be that he understood the question from congressman jeffries to be prior to being hired. since, remember, one of the things thats been a problem here is suggestions that the president asked for example andrew mccabe when interviewing him to the fbi director for whom he had voted in 2016. so i would give rod rosenstein the benefit of the doubt in this case. >> okay. so you are not worried about that. the fbi has said when it comes to this memo they dont want it out, gop, nunes ...
December 19, 2017
Presumably from inside pbs, persons close to the investigation, thats the phrase they use. they have time to research my background, there is background material about me in the story. leaks they placed in the story, i assume an editor looked at this before it went online. but all of that was done inside of 12 minutes. you tell me whether or not theres an agenda here. >> tucker: yeah. do you think the rule ought to be that you are not allowed to sedate your subordinates, should that be allowed? ...
December 19, 2017
Overly from inside pbs, person close to the investigation, thats the phrase these. they have time to research my background, there is background material about me in the story. leaks they placed in the story, i assume an editor looked at this before it went online. but all of that was done inside of 12 minutes. you tell me whether or not we have an agenda here. >> tucker: yeah. do you think the rule ought to be that you are not allowed to sedate your subordinates, should that be allowed? >> i ce...