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You add more energy into the atmosphere it sloshes around. energy doesnt simply uniformly warm up the planet. and that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100 year floods here, 100 year forest fires here. its becoming monotonous. 100 year x every ten years. >> do you find journalists in general the ones that interview, do they have enough knowledge and background to explain this to their audiences or are they lacking some of the scientific background they should have...

I say that not because of any data before me because this is not new. fox news reached out for a statement, and of court we -- of course weget one from the fbi. join me with a -- this is my weather map and my ipad thing, and the idea is that as youre wandering along, this me and the ipad and me and the wall and as im speaking to this thing and maybe im just looking at web sites or doing whatever i do, or checking the stocks, if this thing is here, and i dont put my finger over it like that or pu...

What do they learn from all these records? well, its our understanding that through their very advanced computer programs essentially very advanced mathematical equation systems, they are able to match up essentially records of phone calls between known intelligence targets or terror suspects and unknowns, people that may be contacting them. then they work their way back and figure where those contacts are coming frchlt one of the big questions, of course, is can they really parse through, sort ...

Of their overall bulk collection system. basically what theyre saying is, its not that they believe people using their cell phones abroad are necessarily tied to terrorism but due to their advanced computer programs, what they can do is look at those records and make some connections, make some ties. if theres a known intelligence target, a terrorist that theyre looking at and they see that some phone records indicate phone calls had been made to this person, then they move backwards and look at...

In iraq. and after abu ghraib, he offered to resign. after abu ghraib initially. and president bush didnt accept it. he later offered again. but you dont see that very much anymore. its a lost -- its a lost custom. >> if this, though, it is sort of interesting that this -- i dont think she is down in the sort of the rooms trying to figure out the computer programs or something, because it is sort of a specialized area. i mean, i dont know who hired, who did it and who promised what, but it seems...

>> that is a question of the day, uma. i can tell you, we had many, many hearings and listening to the head of v.a., it was almost humorous in the fact that they kept saying oh, were getting to it, were going to do it, with were going to do it. but ultimately it was never getting done. there is frustration with congress and with soldiers and their families, obviously. there is a certain amount of frustration with the v.a. they received more funds and received more people. they received the compu...

Now theyre having some problems. in the past, the chinese government has always bailed out the state-owned banks. now theyre sending the signal, theres a new guy in charge and saying, you know, we want to reform the system and one way to reform the system is to kind of let some of these financial institutions die and dry up. that is causing a certain amount of panic. >> dan, i want to talk about the invigorating thing that is quantitative easing and bring this back to the fed a little bit. "usa ...

Do because of the lack of qe, are we even in position, do investors have the tools within those programs to actually live in a world without qe? i think thats something that most investors dont understand. perhaps their brokerage firms dont have the computer programs to deal with this newfound phenomenon. >> i would take issue with that metaphor. strictly from what im told, marijuana makes people more mellow. again, what im told. qe, by contrast, has made people sort of hopped up because its put...

These middle east adventures and middle east wars. >> meanwhile, i want to ask both of you, because you know this world so well, about the nsa leaks and the damage or how serious the damage is. david, first to you, your take on this extraordinary explosion of leaks, the fact that we have contractors who are now able to navigate themselves around the top secret computer programs and what edward snowden did. how serious is it? >> well, its mind boggling what this young edward snowden, relatively u...

Offensive, others dont. will that be under scrutiny? >> it will. i think the way facebook will approach this they said they will be working with the organizations that brought the issue to their attention that come up with the definition that all parties can agree with. but, frankly, as you mentioned the names of some of the groups that existed earlier, i dont think there is a question of should those things exist on face pook? theyre pretty vial. so i think its more about setting out, these are...