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And few suitable runways beyond mcmurdo. for short hops, the main mode of transportation is helicopter. ryan skorecki gets a lot of flying time shuttling scientists to and from remote fuel camps. >> ryan: so thats mount lister its probably 60 or 70 miles away and thats over 14000 ft high. >> anthony: it looks close. >> ryan: yeah. look at that massive snow bridge over there. those are some good building sized blocks. >> anthony: how deep are those crest? rtd swallow budis, its very impressive. >...

He fought in it, alongside omani infantry as a british royal marine. and later wrote about the experience in his memoir "in the service of the sultan." a rare chronicle of the brutal incredibly difficult and almost entirely unknown war, fought in the rugged southern mountains. >> ian: the old sultan was not an inhumane n, but he was an old man, and he was deeply reactionary, so he wanted to keep his country in a medieval time warp. the thing that changed it, was the advent of a japanese transist...

Weve seen united states senators get in trouble because they were getting a mortgage interest rate that looked maybe a quarter of a percent better than their neighbors. >> right. >> the striking thing to me, lawrence, as you are highlighting, is president trump has been in full melt-down mode the last couple of days. and why is that? obviously part of it is that he understands that in bob mueller he is facing the new untouchables. a guy who is not going to be influenced, who is not going to be i...

This lawyering up? >> i think what were seeing is that the president is starting to realize just how serious all of this can be. we saw reports about even his lawyers having lawyers and weve seen also that mike pence, the vice president now, has lawyered up. as serious as he may be coming to understand this investigation to become his social media activity is not reflecting that. hes been repeatedly advised to back away from twitter because some of the things that he is saying can compromise the...

Ive had some dealings with her in those various roles she had in covering issues over the years. and she always seemed to me to be a straightforward person, but also a very conservative republican. shes not, i would say, the sort of trump supporter model. shes a traditional republican, conservative person. and so she is -- shes not a jeff sessions type for example. so it will be interesting to see what she does. >> i thought she would get on the record because this story has been moving so quick...

We were quoting you a little earlier. is congress taking the right steps towards democracy away from what you said youre worried about? >> so far, congress, i think, is taking gingerly steps. its a very different situation from watergate where early in 1973, the so-called irving committee led by senator sam irving convened. by this point in the spring of 73 had witnessed, hearings going full throttle. here the republicans have been very reluctant, i think, to cross trump. so they are slowly movi...

Of the united states, president-elect. and so they have plenty of incentives. weve seen united states senators get in trouble because they were getting a mortgage interest rate that looked maybe a quarter percent better than their neighbors. >> right. >> the striking thing to me, lawrence, as you are highlighting is president trump has been in full melt-down mode the last couple of days. and why is that? obviously part of it is that he understands that in bob mueller he is facing the new untouch...

Forward person, but also a republican. she was not, i would say, the sort of trump supporter model. shes a traditional republican conservative person. and so she is -- shes not a jeff sessions type for example. so it will be interesting to see what she does. >> i thought she would get on the record because this story has been moving so quickly, we just never know. shannon, here in new york. so this west wing you cover, lets just call it highs and lows this week. this week saw the shooting of con...

Weve had stories in the paper about their efforts to find some way out of this building. and it leads to a related problem. you cant -- when youre working in the white house, negotiating normal work out of a troubled loan because it raises all sorts of ethical questions. and yet apparently during the period from the financial disclosure today when trump was president-elect, he arranged two loans that cut his interest rates on more than $50 million of debt by a third. and that certainly is an int...

Congressman scalise, who remains in critical condition we learned today arrived at the hospital close to death, much worse than anyone thought after the baseball shooting. so we saw the president in that mode, but then tonight these competing reports and i know youre hearing the same things about a president yelling at television setshrghout the west wing >> and that moment where we could havead real unity, something the president called on and he hasnt called on unity very often during this pre...