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Banks of the toby river in botswana. he raised up an extraordinarily large tree. it's probably the biggest tree that the members of the royal family have put up. he spoke passionately about climate change and young people striking around the world. he said, we couldn't deny science. and i asked why it gets so stuck in the middle of conservation issues. you have been so hands-on for years with conservation. why do you want to be in the middle of it? >> middle? we're all in the middle of it. it's a race against time and one that we are losing. everyone knows it. there's no excuse for not knowing...

Legislation since january. sure, some of these are smaller matters like naming post offices, but they have taken on some major issues. among them sweeping bills to address ethics and campaignrefo and bands on discrimination, universal background checks and the paris climate agreement, just to name a few trying to keep u.s. in that agreement. grant, many of these items are things that the president and his republicans do not want, and many of them ran into a stonewall when they ran over to the senate and were met by the republican control there under mitch mcconnell, but to say the democrats di...

>> um, i think what happens in washington, d.c. is what's going to happen in the water, yeah. it's a very national thing. >> conservation issues are front and center here because so many jobs depend on the tourist economy. you're out here almost every day? >> i'm almost on the water more often than i am on land. it's not just taking people out and catching fish. for me it's about being a steward of the sea, showing them egrets and manatee and stingray. i tell people you're selling your self short if you're going out on a fishing trip hoping you're just going to catch a bunch of fish. that's so...

At the makes fun of everything that tries to deal with conservation issues. what do you make of the glen beck, for example, that fellow? >> well, i've had some celebrated disagreements with the man as you know. so my view is this. really need to be talking credible solutions and not about fear. we need not to be scaring people with misinformation. we need to be talking about credible ideas. that's what conservatives are supposed to be doing. that's what you know, my hero is somebody like ronald reagan. he led with ideas and believed in america and had an optimistic spirit. i'm not sure that ro...