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Because from simple calculati s calculations, we are dumping enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we're in a dangerous realm where we may really have trouble in the next coming decades. >> is that what you're hoping to frame in your testimony on capitol hill today? what do you hope to accomplish? because this is not only a complicated issue, but a controversial one at times. >> it has been controversial. and many of the skeptics have been unfairly ignored. i think they raised good issues that needed addressing. that's why two years ago i was not convinced that global warming was real or ...

Answer that fits with what rock solid main street republicans have been telling us for a couple of years. >> that's what i want to know, michael steele. because after the debate my father said well, he's the only one on that stage that doesn't pander. and certainly i like that answer, but i'm not the answer he's going for. >> not even close. michael? >> no, i don't think so. >> so where does it stand in terms of the base? in terms of the audience he's hoping to -- >> i think the broader base is as joe noted is lined up with huntsman on that point when it comes to afghanistan. i know a got in t...

Tried to do at the debate was, a, cover a lot of ground and require the candidates not to rekite whatever talking points they brought on stage, which is their right and privilege, but to force them to think about issues as they're likely to confront them if they -- >> what was the news? what did you think the news out of that was? if you had to pick one or two answers? >> well, debates often give you impressions of where candidates are. and if you look at herman cain's lack of comfortability. he simply isn't prepared and wasn't prepared even though he said he'd been waiting for this debate for...

He's on pretty stable ground there. and the economy, not so much. >> michael steele, the take away if you looked at what some of the conservative people were talking about, erick erickson blogging, the big loser of the night, herman cain. would you agree? >> i would. i would. >> he was in over his head, wasn't he? >> it was the first question out of the box. the first thing i wrote down was clue. the problem is, you cannot answer foreign policy answers with a sound bite. you cannot say, for example, repeatedly as he said, you know, i would go to my advisers and my advisers would tell me. and t...

And have you had -- on the other side skeptics wanting to burn you at the stake as a heretic? you've been used as a political football, i'm sure. >> well, the reaction -- the political, the bloggers' reaction has been very volatile, let me simply say that. with many -- >> what a surprise. >> sir, please don't read that. we've learned. >> don't read comments. >> especially the comments. >> i don't. >> you can't. >> i learned -- >> searing, disturbing. >> i bring that up because you were checking out the skeptics' claim. you were saying in a very even-handed manner here that the skeptics had a p...