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Conservatives, some tea party activists. you noticed that, right? >> i did notice that. what i thought of when i heard the president say those words, i thought of the grand bargain. the attempted negotiation between boehner and the president and we were never quite sure where the failure was, on which side of the aisle. in retrospect it seems clear to e me that the two of them in that room could have got an deal done. my hunch is that boehner could not control his caucus. >> lets talk about your...

And air sampling continues to show that the carcinogen benzene remains in the air. so how safe is keystone? a former transcanada inspector says keystone xl "will likely leak." we cant afford to let foreign oil companies risk our health so they can make a buck. next week, we head west where clean energy is creating good jobs and repowering our economy. see you there. ♪

Each week were visiting places that know what it would mean if transcanada is allowed to build the keystone pipeline through americas heartland. see, keystone would carry 800,000 barrels of dangerous tar sands oil every day... through farms, towns, and fresh water supplies. the same stuff theyre dealing with here in mayflower. my name is genevieve long. i live in mayflower, arkansas, and ive lived here 28 years. the oil was running right through the middle of town, by the elementary school... yo...

Being found in air sampling and water sampling? >> tell us why that matters. why you know the chemistry? >> because it might give you clues as to whats happening inside the reactor. it might tell you something about the integrity of the containment vessel. whether its just damage or whether, in fact, it has ruptured. and it would tell you something about whats going on over at the spent fuel ponds, the places theyre keeping nuclear waste. and about how people should be protecting themselves goin...

Staff members with oil spill experience. residents much southeast louisiana may be detecting an odor from the oil spill. theyve requested air quality testing and monitoring from the epa. deq will insist by increasing air sampling. the samples will receive expedited turn around. the epa administrator is from this area and understands the importance of monitoring the air and water. weve activated the joint department of transportation, democratic of social services, shelter team in case the specia...

Miniaturize a nuclear weapon and put it on an icbm. >> let me bring in cnn correspondent barbara starr on the phone because we were talking about knowing that they had maybe the components of some type of hydrogen bomb, that was determined back in january of 2016. but this appears to be the first time were seeing, if its true, a full bomb that it would be small enough, according to experts like colonel rick francona, that could potentially fit in an icbm. >> well thats right, and thats why the i...

Largest trading partners, totaling $650 billion last year. >> think about all the goods we get from china. thank you, athena jones. barbara starr is with us now. experts have said its nearly impossible to verify with certainty north koreas claims that it detonated this hydrogen bomb. barbara, how would the u.s. go about trying to confirm it? >> reporter: well, one of the things theyve typically done in the past is there are spy planes, u.s. military spy planes with very highly classified, techni...

And i would like to introduce him right now. thank you. >> thank you, admiral. im going spend a few minutes talking about what osha has been doing and how they have been working with the incident command, other government agencies to protect workers that are cleaning up the oil spill. both on the land and sea. osha has been involved in protecting workers on this oil spill since the last week of april. since we immediately anticipated that workers were going to be mobilized to work on the clean s...

Wildlife and fisheries deployed field biologists for testing purposes. they have additional biologists staged for wildlife rescues as they become necessary. there is regional staff members deployed. and there may be an order detected because of the oil spill approaching the coast. there is continuous request for air quality testing. and they will increase the frequency of air sampling and those samples will receive expaw indicted turn around by labs. and i think they understand the importance an...