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His shadow . Dana every groundhogs Worst Nightmare today running into Bill Deblasio. He dropped the groundhog in new york. Bill that was hedge hog sam. It wasnt the original punxsutawney. Dana no, he is protected. Bill i love the turtleneck. I forgot mine. Dana i think i might try to wear a turtleneck every day this week. Look, you got a lot of compliments. You didnt . I think so. If you wore a turtleneck you might break the internet. Well see. Lots more to get to this morning. Bill not indoors....

Setting aside yosemite. richard nixon, the clean air act, safe drinking water act, all of those things were added to bush 41 and reagan, and its continued through it. why we sudly hadenly have gotte this point is endemic. every issue is looked at through the partisan political prism rather than the policy prism. its not about how do i solve the problem, its can i get another vote in caucus or is this going to enhance my ability to get another percentage point, and this all goes to government reg...

>> i also think people dont understand these emissions stay in the atmosphere for centuries, if not millennia. you know, this is the exhaust from -- you know, whatever. its just out there. its there for your kids, its there for your grandchildren and great-grandchildren. >> but what do you care if youre unemployeed? i live in texas, in austin. its easy to sit here and talk about particles. when there are folk, south texas the most economically depressed region in the state and sudly have this sh...

Eliding a huge factor in this, which is the most profitable corporations in the history of human civilization on the planet of have an incredible stake continuing to put carbon in the air. the entire, traction industry of fossil fuels. bp made $26 billion,ç and extr carbon in the sayre not priced, and zero sum. you mentioned that. i want to play this. so reveals. senator james inhofe on rachels program talking how he came to be a denier of the scientific consensus on global warming. listen to ...

The last three years. heres john kerry talking about how he cant even gain traction in conversations with his colleagues about the issue. you cant talk about climate now. people turn off. its extraordinary. only for national security and jobs will they open their mind, and he said thats true even among democrats. paul, how do you, one of the problems we face from an editorial perspective is finding news hooks. right? its like, there are more parts per million of carbon in the air on wednesday. t...

The money. you have this energy industry that is so invested in the whole issue, but i think, you know, i dont know if well gelt the republicans to change. i dont think conservatives will change on this issue and it is fundamentally an economic issue on that tide, but i think the other side has not done a good job. i think again and again whether its environmentalists or liberals of whatever stripe, have not fought back hard enough against the organized right in this country. and so we need more...

Patchwork. you have s.n.a.p., section 8, tanf, all of these. one thing i worry about is the issue of poverty traps. people who are working poor maybe a family with an income arounds 25 $25,000, they approa 100% because they pay taxes on the income and lose benefits as they get wealthy. a critical factor. talked about it last week having this discussion. >> that when you, one of the ways tanf reform, welfare reform, get rid of the cliffs. if someone gets a raise or a better job, the actual gross ...

People get back into the labor market. theres a broader issue i think about the way we think about incomeç support for people at e bottom of the social hierarchy and economic pyramid. weve moved towards programs, the way tanf works and s.n.a.p., ways to essentially subsidize the working poor so that they can have essentially enough to just barely get by while working, and it strikes me as, that thats a sort of distopeic vision of the future in which people have, theres a huge class of people w...

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Isnt it about the price of gas at the pump? >> it is. for example we have all these blends that the epa forces to us have, over 100. have to have a blend for each geographical region of the country and a blend for each season. mexico they have one blend. gas is $1 cheaper per gallon. if we would suspend the whole very awkward and very costly blend situation that the refineries have to follow for each region of the country that alone would have a significant impact on gas prices. >> judge jeanine...