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Well in tilling the field and focusing on their crops. so, shes, she has a less ability to use these markets. >> right, but the question. if those markets are artificially reducing the, are artificially locking in a price that is harder to get in the future because of the volatility of the climate, if were heading towards more droughts, is it locking in a kind of unsustainable vision of what we grow here in the u.s.? >> theres some of that, as you know, hedgers are meeting speculators in the mar...

No explanation that its only money that you make above $250,000. all of these nuances. when people are like, im against higher taxations, that is a meaningless. >> you make a great point, people dont actually understand, some of them understandably dont understand the basic concept of marginal tax rate. the tax cut proposal by the president cuts taxes for everyone because everyone who makes above $250,000 pays the lower rate on the money up to $250,000. i mean, i think people dont get that like ...

Youre saying about, jack, whether the political system has the capacity to do this thing. >> it doesnt. >> it doesnt appear to. but i think thats a profound statement about the political system. forget all of these arguments. i mean, just as like a test of the capability of the legislative process to raise marginal rates, which we havent done since clinton. right, its been since, i guess, 93 that budget. >> marginal rate increase in the health care law. >> thats true. and capital gains tax incre...

So, where we are today in terms of the last week, we found that the battle for the damascus isnt necessarily about holding ground. its about showing the rest of the country symbolically that the regime no longer controls, not only the capital, but anywhere of syria. >> can the free syrian army beat assad forces without continuing to demonstrate its capability to insinuate itself into places like damascus and, therefore, cause further defections from the forces. is that possible? or are these peo...

gene louis and daniel louis. thanks for talking with us. gene, im going to start with you if i can. what do you know is the latest about your dad, his condition and how hes being held? >> good morning, soledad. i thank you for having us on this morning. and soledad, were going to tell you what weve been telling all of the news media outlets that has been interviewing us and we thank them also. the information that were getting is trickling down and is information that people are gettin...

Governorships, et cetera. is that a case of them being more committed to their vision than the other side, or is there something that is really genuinely lost in a poisonous fashion in those institutions and im not going to let you answer that question. maybe after the break. well also talk about mitt romneys caribbean money.

The same thing that were seeing now. >> all deliberate speed, the three words in that opinion that set the stage for a lot of focus on the deliberate, not so much on the speed. >> exactly. the point that im making, one, i just find really challenging that the republicans genuinely believe this is terrible for the country. i dont think thats their interest at all. i think their political strategy around paralysis succeeds in consistently putting the democrats on the offensive. condemination is a ...

>> the issue came up about your dad and im saying it has to be 12 years, but why not release more years than just this year or rather 2010 and then an estimate for this year? >> that will be more than any other republican candidate and im not going to go gak back to dads years, that was even before the internet. >> well see if he holds to that. he talked about not paying more than $1 more in taxes than he owes. >> do you think its patriotic of you to stash your money away in the cayman islands? ...

Increase in carbon in the atmosphere and the carbon change its producing making more extreme weather more common. the to answer to that is yes. uses a good anology to describe the relationship between climate change and the increase in extreme weather. >> imagine a baseball player who has been taking steroids. this baseball player steps to the plate and hits a home run and, yes, the question, was that home run due to the steroids? if you look at the number of home runs he hits over a season when...

>> is america prepared for climate change and its effects going into the future? >> we are seeing the change in weather patterns and were seeing what already has been a very difficult summer. >> is it climate change? >> you have to look at climate change over a period of years, not just one summer. you can always have one abnormal summer but when you see one after another after another, then you can see, yeah, theres a pattern here. >> thats janet napolitano talking about the wildfires in the co...