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>> we saw houston just barely dodged the bullet with hurricane ike back in 2008 with the storm surge. at this point, we would have seen more demonstration because the storm is a category 4. ike, for all the storm surge it brought was only a strong category 2. it didn't produce a lot of wind damage like what harvey is capable of producing. >> as this meanders and stalls and dances around the coast, we were saying last night the european models looked like a bird's nest. pick your route for this storm. but way too many projections have this kind of taking a hard right and going to houston at the...

Option. there is no palatable military option that involves small costs in human terms or even financial terms. and that's why we need to enforce these sanctions, commit and invest whatever it takes to enforce these sanctions and make them stick. because the secretary of state has said we'll monitor and then we'll have conversations. what's needed is a proactive approach. >> do you think the u.s. right now should negotiate with north korea if the north koreans won't even put the issue of nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles on the table? >> we should negotiate when the north koreans evidence ...

There is also something a little bit weird going on over there that you should know about. as this presidency and this white house has been so bee leaguered and pressured by these ongoing investigations that have already resulted in at least one federal grand jury being impanelled in virginia, already the appointment of a very formidable special counsel bob mueller, it also resulted in five separate congressional investigations into the administration's behavior up to and including in some cases the behavior of the president of the united states himself, as we have watched this white house and...

Seriousness of this scandal that has surrounded them even in the early days of this presidency, it has been fascinating in human terms to watch the president himself and his administration in terms of how they've responded, how they would like to try to discredit the investigators who are looking into them. how they would like to do anything they can to try to shut this thing down. but you know what, it's not just them alone. it is increasingly clear that they are not having to do that all on their own. the idea here is that when trump does this stuff, when he tries to discredit the investigat...

It's a bad decision but you can't stop him. that's what the paris accord is. the world's worst lottery ticket. where the prize is way smaller than the price of entry. a ticket that cost ten grand and get to five bucks in 100 years. that is the accord's most optimistic prediction. let that sink in. in scientific terms, it's trivial. in human terms, it's homicidal. it would be no difference if it turns nothing. the things we might have done instead with all those trillions of dollars. you could solve everything from malaria to malnutrition. for $75 billion a year, you could give education, basic...