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Fighting against the climate crisis. so there were some of our colleagues in the democratic caucus that said wed like to break this into two parts. one part is going to be something well negotiate bipartisan with the republicans and then a second part. and the rest of us went along with that on the understanding all the pieces move together. not one piece moves and gets passed and then maybe we can negotiate the rest of it. all the pieces move together and thats what that letter is about. thats ...

Zuckerberg himself approved the project. i want to bring in one of the authors of that scoop, "times" journalist cher frankle. thank you for being us with. >> thank you. >> what did this project consist of and whats different now? >> this is something they have been mulling over if a while and then they said enough is enough and well start inserting stories into the actual news feeds. when you think about facebook the news feed is the prime digital real estate and what people see when they open ...

Negotiations, you are a business guy. if you are negotiating with somebody, and you are trying to get them to do something they dont care about, china doesnt care about climate change. they dont care about emissions. we seem to be obsessed with that what does it do to their dynamics? we are demanding do something they dont care about. they are still holding out on that by the way. what are those back channel conversations sound like? sound like well the americans want us to stop polluting so muc...

Permeates the far right. so if it were someone with a little more gravitas, if it were someone with a little better standing in maga world, we may be looking at something very, very different. >> see, this is what has been striking to me about this also, is the difference between a universe in which donald trump is the president of the united states and on every platform, rallying people to go do something, and him not being that. i mean that really does make a difference. it was apparent on jan...

Honestly. there has been pressure on the united states to kind of do something. it is a horrendous situation, it is a tough one. and the united states tends to impose sanctions honestly whether it doesnt really know what to do. it is a relatively painless way to do it. americans dont feel it. it appeased a group or two in washington. i generally think they are often hurt the situation more than they help because the people that get hurt are ordinary people, when you block economic contact activi...

Now what were going to see in d.c. is probably a crowd of maybe 200, because this is not even the "b" team. these are real wannabes. but all around the country there are white power, extremists organizations who are protesting afghan refugees. that is something that we need our governors to be prepared for. >> chris, what is the impact of a statement from the ex-president in these sort of forums that you monitor when he says hearts and minds are with you, when he makes clear that when faced with...

The president has over 300 laws that allow him to use emergency powers. theyre considerable. he can launch nuclear strikes on foreign nations without the authority of any other person. though i think in this case, again, to go back to mark milley, we ought to be grateful we had a patriot, a man of integrity, experience and good judgment who acted as a final firewall. he never actually told trump he wouldnt do something, but he was setting up the condition to make sure the armed forces werent inv...

Independence, and he obviously was very troubled by that photo-op in june of 2020 at lafayette square, the photo-op when trump walked across the park to hold up the bible. that was the lowest point in milleys career as the chairman of the joint chiefs, and he became determined. we detail this in depth in our book, he became determined never to let that happen again. it is one of the reasons why he was so on edge in the months after the november election, looking for any sign that trump could do ...

Military officer has been placed in this terrible dilemma. >> well, and it would seem, phil rucker, that if you wanted to examine something that really should be scrutinized before anyone with any echos of donald trump is ever the countrys commander in chief again, you could see bipartisan interest in looking at someone who publicly called them my generals. i mean he publicly wanted these parades. you and carol leonnig explore a lot of the same terrain, and what is extraordinary is what donald t...

As a sign of their anger they have cancelled a major gala. it is interesting because one of the things that joe biden -- and, again, this is not a huge rift on the global scale, but one of the things that president biden promised was he was a statesman, he knew foreign policy. this seems like one of those easy mistakes that could have been avoided with a simple heads up or pre-discussion with allies. >> ashley, what is sort of the general tone and tenor? i know theres a feeling that they survive...