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>> right. so what were asking of people is were asking them based on their seniority, were asking -- were ordering the juniors to not use the water that they might be taking out of the stream. now, some of them will have groundwater and so they will be able to keep their farms alive using groundwater. >> for years california did not regulate groundwater. >> yes. >> and ground water is a little like the thought experiment with the faucet. im just going to draw it out. i can use it for my farm. i ...

Ask yourself this thought experiment. if donald trump were a democratic mole placed in the republican party to disrupt things, how would his behavior be different? i dont think it would be. >> conservative commentator george will just one of the establishment to criticize. in his interview, katy tur, trump fired back. >> george will said you could be a democratic operative. >> george will is another one. he was there years ago. i didnt want to hear him speak and hes never forgiven me for not lis...

Not fit. >> safety first. no channing in the cockpit. >> you are -- >> this mile high club thing is in fiction. nobody can get it done in a bathroom that small. >> as is lady pilots. its also fiction. isnt it? >> poor attractive ones. >> it was a thought experiment though. >> exactly. >> i tried to get more information from vickis twitter feed, but she wrote it in a code that i cant fully crack. like she writes, mas international, cue, nunka, that has to be a or i, but i cannot figure out the re...

The long arm of the law is extraditing them and bringing them here. if you flip it and imagine 12 nfl executives, even if they were accused of wrong doing, being shipped to some country we dont like extradited over, you can imagine people feeling differently. all you have to do is the thought experiment. >> thats not a perfect thought experiment. nfl is outside the u.s. a little bit. this is awide organization. >> thats not the issue. the only issue under the law is that they did this through am...

This community. you can get a bank account. >> as a thought experiment if you throw all the lawyers out of the room and say, well, what happens when you do other things that break rules? what happens when someone is driving 70 in a 55? do they cease to become, you know someone who can hold a drivers license or be in the state state? no. the reason why theres rhetorical debate undocumented versus legal, many people former immigration reform make the argument it doesnt mean your existence itself i...

Arguing that gore offers a genuinely different view of what the democratic party and american politics should be about. not just because of his work fighting climate change. the issue hes been most closely associated with since leaving office in 2000. but also for his embrace of technology and visions of the future which are laid out in his most recent book "the future." lets not get ahead of this weeks speck la. after ezras piece in a "new york times" story, close confidantes told alex seitz wa...

Is climate change. and while i dont actually think doing anything about climate change is a political winner, im pessimistic that the world will do something about climate change in time thats an argument worth having. its an argument worth having to say we should be focused on something bigger than tweaks to public programs as they exist now. instead of thinking about what were doing to the planet. >> i know you said in your answer this was -- you really dont think al gore will run, and this wa...

David ignacious, had an interesting, frightening thought experiment he put forward on "morning joe." take a listen. >> i think it is useful to ask the reverse question. suppose he hadnt been released and it is a year from now. and american troops are getting ready to come home. you have this american sitting there in, ever more frequent propaganda videos from the tal -- taliban, the pressure on the president to act would be enormous. think about the alternative. >> michael, that was tuesday. isn...

Course, being the split within the taliban. senior taliban officials may not be able to control their guards. may be angry, the idea of freeing the hostage they have held for five years. off awe mi >> i want to play you sound from david ignacious, had an interesting, frightening thought experiment he put forward on "morning joe." take a listen. >> i think it is useful to ask the reverse question. suppose he hadnt been released and it is a year from now. and american troops are getting ready to c...

Watching the bundy incident unfold, i couldnt help think about this, in 1985 a group called move had bunkered themselves in a row house, police didnt back off, eventually a bomb was dropped on the house which included 11 people, including five children. needless to say, the right wing media was not exactly rushing to defense. imagine if the new black panthers, the tiny group, imagine if they decided to greet law enforcement with long guns. or here is a thought experiment for those who are agast ...