Page 20 - Ahfc News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Frantic effort to bring members of the conservative house freedom caucus along while not alienating more moderate republicans, an effort that ultimately failed. what does the defeat mean for president trump and the gop agenda? let's ask "wall street journal" deputy editor dan henninger, kim strassel and columnist mary ann says a ya o'grady and bill mcagain. mcgurn. joe, why did this fail? >> well, they came very close to getting a majority. as recently as wednesday. then what happened was you had hfc, house freedom caucus, keep upping their demands, keep moving the goalpost in a way that alien...

I'll refer to it as hfc. you need to understand this. it's fascinating to see what's actually happened. now that the scientists have gotten away from the cscs and brought in the substitute hfcs, they've noticed all right, congratulations, we're no longer harming the ozone layer. it took them years to determine that the hfcs were a significant heat-trapping greenhouse gas, similar to carbon dioxide. but 10 to 100 times more potent in trapping heat where we don't need it. you've heard of global warming and global climate change. carbon dioxide contributes to that. that's a greenhouse gas. so is ...

Basically from back in the '80s right through present moment in time. you can see that dramatic drop-off in the size of the ozone hole. that was the good news. that's what the montreal protocol solved, reducing the cfcs which by the way were part of the cooling agents in our refrigerators and within our air conditioner units. we enter in hfcs now. that's hydrofluorocarbons. i'll refer to it as hfc. well, the good news is they did what they were supposed to do, not harm the ozone layer like cfcs did. it took us 20 years to realize that this substitute for cfcs was a greenhouse gas that was 10 t...

Of the conservative house freedom caucus along while not alienating more moderate republicans, an effort that ultimately failed. so what does the defeat mean for president trump and the gop agenda? let's ask "wall street journal" deputy editor dan henninger, washington columnist kim strassel, editorial board member joe rego and columnists mary anastasia to gradely and bill mcgurn. >> well, they came very close to getting a majority. as recently as wednesday. then what happened was you had hfc, house freedom caucus, keep upping their demands, keep moving the goalpost in a way that alienated the...