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Chile and argentina, this glaze sures receding. we had to go over the lip of a volcano and descending into it and theres a giant, giant chunk of ice. >> this wasnt just for tv. climate scientists are gaining data from this height? >> yeah. i was with an ice scientist. he goes to the end of the earth to collect data. er i did get to live a few dangerous weeks with him. >> this is msnbc. i cannot have this discussion without raising the issue of certain skeptics about climate science. >> yeah. >> ...

Lets start at the beginning with the history and where we are today. what is the intent of the environmentalist community really? >> well, as i explain in "ecotyranny" if you want to know why the environmentalists and the obama administration want to allow us to be slaves to opec, are willing to allow us to endure rolling blackouts, critical water shortages and not allow you to choose between paper or plastic bags, thats why you need to read "eco-tyranny" all in the first half of the book. >> gi...

Approve the keystone pipeline. at a time when the big issue for all americans is jobs, creating jobs and there is an argument as to how many but obviously going to create thousands. why is he resisting this so much? >> well, the environmentalist community is an important constituency within the democratic party and he has disappointed them on other issues, cap and trade, for example, never happened. didnt allow the epa to do forward with some ozone rules and they are kind of disgruntled right no...

>> i think going back to the immigration issue, during the last days of health care debate, a bunch of hispanic lawmakers were very upset with the white house, threatening to vote against the bill. essentially they met in the white house and they talked to the president and they were given something to the form of an implicit agreement that immigration would be tackled within the next year. if it doesnt happen before 2010, it will happen shortly thereafter. but theres a real issue here, a real c...

Which hes already turned against the base. its on nuclear energy and on offshore drilling. both of which have angered the environmentalist community. so theres concerns among people there wont be as much energy for 2010, which is already an election year which should historically favor the republicans. >> and about the republicans and this latest effort by bunning and coburn, and the results of this, each of them went out on to that platform and got the platform sawed off behind them by other re...

Immigration issue, during the last days of health care debate, a bunch of hispanic lawmakers were very upset with the white house, threatening to vote against the bill. they met at the white house, talked with the president and given something to the form of an implicit agreement that immigration would be tackled within the next year. if it doesnt happen before 2010, it will happen shortly thereafter. but theres a real issue here, a real concern that the base wont be motivated. when you look at ...