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Vague environmental catchphrase. this lake nestled in the moose river plain of new york's adirondack park. it looks beautiful and serene, picture postcard perfect. however, indian lake is dead. indian lake is not an isolated example. over a quarter of the 2,700 lakes and ponds in the adirondack park, a preserve as big as vermont, are so acidic they can no longer support fish life. they, too, are dying. it isn't just the lakes that are being killed by acid rain. it's the forests as well. >> that was the national treasure that is al roker doing that report on the "today" show in 1988. that was j...

Compounds beesieged by militias. the u.s. human rights chief is reporting waves of ethnic killings and says at least one mass grave has been found. joining me now, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, samantha power. ambassador, thanks for being with us, especially on christmas eve. one of the things as we have seen marines have been mobilized and are standing by for any possible evacuation, standing by to provide security to the embassy, the u.s. embassy there as well, african command was talking about how these were lessons from benghazi that really prompted them to be prepared in this...

You lose your job. so there is incentive not to talk. what will happen? i was in the white house during watergate. these things have a progression. there will be congressional committee hearings. there will be immunity given. people who will be called to testify will be midlevel people. they will all have to hire their own attorneys on their own dime. so they will come out and say the truth and implicate --. gregg: there is paper trail for everything. >> you bet there is. gregg: maybe wasn't that way during watergate. >> there were tapes during watergate, white house nixon tapes. gregg: one wo...

So many of these weapons, reportedly they went into algeria. many went down here to mali. that is what we're contesting at the moment. furthermore, i make mention of this. i come back to what is happening here in egypt. i never thought we would be on television talking about u.s. military involvement, operating out of niger, to contest islamists in mali. but you say, people have been talking about this for some time, it is just a question whether we listened to them or not? >> right. the pentagon has been concerned about the terrorist threat in north africa over a decade. even before the new a...

Die down. waiting for it to be far enough away that they can breathe. that's why they are not getting rid of these employees, right? >> it is hard to get rid of them. they don't want to get rid of them, at least not now. the culture at stake is very very peculiar. largely dysfunctional. greg, i have dealt with it when i was in uniform i dealt with it over and over again. they are disdainful of the military. go back to what happened in benghazi didn't have to happen. because general carter ham head of african command had offered in late spring to leave more troops already on the ground in place...