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ronald reagan leading toward it is moment when the berlin wall comes down. it's one of the signs of how brief western history can be that one person can experience both of those. i think you are right, an interesting 2021 twist on this is francis and joe biden are both less about confronting these kinds of cold war military threats and they are about confronting these human threats, these human rights opportunity, take care of the least of these and it's kind of spiritual under taken. i think that's what we'll be talking about. >> willie, in 1935, 1936, an advisor was talking to joseph
how do security officials navigate trying to ensure the lone wolf doesn't have easy targets given, for instance, the person who tried to bomb several different places in washington, d.c., on january 6th is still out there? they haven't been caught. >> well, boris, the way that i look at this is pretty simple. you know, human threats, this is what we're talking about today, human threats will take the path of least resistance and surrounding the capitol today we have a -- a large mobilization of law enforcement officers, backup of military. we have fencing. so that path of least resistance is not the u.s. capitol today and that's the challenge for law enforcement because what they have to be, you know, looking for is individual actors, these lone actors who can mobilize violence with little to no warning, not necessarily at the capitol but as ryan nobles just reported a little while ago, there are a lot of other events. there are counter protests,
nafta, workers rights, human threats, environmental principles. if there was a destructive undermining of a democratic constituency once the party did not deliver on the promises to remedy some of those deficiencies. >> laura: obama said he would renegotiate. he said that, but he didn't. >> i want to say though that candidates do have an obligation to express a sense of urgency about those things that they see coming up that could present a problem for the country and climate change, national and global challenge, the potential of wider war as tulsi gabbard pointed out -- >> laura: who kept us out of more wars -- more military involvement than from? again, he's taken so many of these issues off thehe table. >> he's taken them off the table but at the same time i think -- >> laura: he wants a better relationship with russia. we can't even talk to russia anymore. that was never mentioned tonight again. mueller, trunk allusion wasn't
>> the biggest threat really is global warming and what we're doing in terms of the atmosphere. that's affecting the oceans most principally. >> until now, overfishing has been the biggest threat taking out all these big fish and other species. pollution has also been very, very big stressor on the coast and now the emerging threats, warmer and acidify case are more and more important and probably overwhelm the other human threats. >> a lot of people have been concerned, of course, about the threat of the nuclear disaster at fukushima. are we seeing the results of that? we see trash coming to the west coast of the united states. what about any kind of nuclear contamination? >> as far as we know, the nuclear fallout from fukushima has not had a significant impact on the rest of the pacific. and we should worry more about the destruction of resources and the pollution, stopping plastic going into the ocean and cutting
>> carrie volter soars among birds that have a tarnished image but are vital to the ecosystem. >> vultures are our natural garbage collectors, they do prevent diseases. >> carrie has become their protector. >> it's been an absolute lifelong passion to actually make a difference and work on conservation with animals. >> and there happened to be a vacancy working with vultures. >> i still say to this day, it was a species that chose me. i sure as hell didn't choose them. i mean, who would choose vultures? >> i loved her comment about the fact that she didn't choose the species, they must have chosen her. that's brilliant. >> the vulture is already extinct in neighboring namibia and becoming closer to extinction in south africa by the day. >> the threats are human