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Look, were not naive in this process. >> im joined by susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today. covering the funeral on saturday, i just felt great to cover such a great marriage and to honor the marriage. and the marriage and honor our country. its one of the great partnerships going back to world war ii. its great stuff in any way you look at it in human terms. what do you think about it when you think of those two, because year writing a biography of mrs. bush? >> you know, when i in...

There didnt need to be negotiation. i took direction. we would have conversation about it but it was planned. so im not frankly -- im concerned -- my only concern is that we lift up a service that honored here, what a wonderful woman she was and is and honors her faith. others having speaking roles will address other matters. >> neil: i remember most about you, reverend, an uncanny knack to see the most beloved or historical figures of our time in human terms. i know the gene cernan funeral. cer...

About it in human terms like fire, as if its spatial or it has time. so for the pope to say something like, you know what, the way we talk about hell, that hell doesnt exist. hell is the separation from god. i could understand and imagine the pope saying something like that. so the headline becomes, wow, the pope denies hell when in fact hes trying to refine our understanding, maybe, of what it is. >> is that a problem for this pope? it seems as though this is obviously a job that requires quite...

Shooting war with north korea are enormously high in human terms, that risk is considered less of a threat to the u.s. than a nuclear north korea would be. >> so is any action imminent? >> well, lets make this clear. the administration intends to exhaust any and every diplomatic solution or possible diplomatic solution, and its focus remains for now on pressure and doing everything they can now to prevent north korea from perfecting a nuclear icbm, including covert and cyber means. in addition, ...

Brief. but the problem is now they are coming more frequently. you could get a gust happen once a minute, now youre getting a gust that happens three, four, five times a minute. the sustained winds are now elevated, right, so now youre just -- ratcheting up -- yeah, im good. >> unbelievable. >> hes been in this for, like, 20 minutes. >> the best depiction ive seen of the strength of this storm, as human terms as we can put it. and that is a guy like mike standing out there -- >> you know this is...

>> we saw houston just barely dodged the bullet with hurricane ike back in 2008 with the storm surge. at this point, we would have seen more demonstration because the storm is a category 4. ike, for all the storm surge it brought was only a strong category 2. it didnt produce a lot of wind damage like what harvey is capable of producing. >> as this meanders and stalls and dances around the coast, we were saying last night the european models looked like a birds nest. pick your route for this sto...

Option. there is no palatable military option that involves small costs in human terms or even financial terms. and thats why we need to enforce these sanctions, commit and invest whatever it takes to enforce these sanctions and make them stick. because the secretary of state has said well monitor and then well have conversations. whats needed is a proactive approach. >> do you think the u.s. right now should negotiate with north korea if the north koreans wont even put the issue of nuclear weap...

There is also something a little bit weird going on over there that you should know about. as this presidency and this white house has been so bee leaguered and pressured by these ongoing investigations that have already resulted in at least one federal grand jury being impanelled in virginia, already the appointment of a very formidable special counsel bob mueller, it also resulted in five separate congressional investigations into the administrations behavior up to and including in some cases ...

Seriousness of this scandal that has surrounded them even in the early days of this presidency, it has been fascinating in human terms to watch the president himself and his administration in terms of how theyve responded, how they would like to try to discredit the investigators who are looking into them. how they would like to do anything they can to try to shut this thing down. but you know what, its not just them alone. it is increasingly clear that they are not having to do that all on thei...

Its a bad decision but you cant stop him. thats what the paris accord is. the worlds worst lottery ticket. where the prize is way smaller than the price of entry. a ticket that cost ten grand and get to five bucks in 100 years. that is the accords most optimistic prediction. let that sink in. in scientific terms, its trivial. in human terms, its homicidal. it would be no difference if it turns nothing. the things we might have done instead with all those trillions of dollars. you could solve eve...