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>> reporter: and the more greenland melts, the more it speeds up the melting process. take the large melt lakes that are forming on top of the ice sheet. stunning to look at, but bad news for the ice. these lakes are deceptively beautiful, because whereas the white of the ice actually reflects the sunlight, the piercing blue of the lakes actively absorbs it, heating them up and then accelerating the rate of melt. perhaps the clearest example of this vicious melt cycle can be seen in greenland's many glaciers. a glacier is a mass of thick ice that moves under the force of its own weight, like a...

Fastest-moving glaciers, named hellhime after the viking realm of the dead, it is vast and unforgiving. >> this is one of the most productive glaciers in greenland. it's about three golden gate bridges wide. and it drains on the order of like 40 billion metric tons per year. it's like almost an astronomical amount of water that this is delivering from high on the inland ice sheet down into the sea. >> reporter: between august of last year and august of this year, new york university scientists say hellhime retreated a whopping two miles, the furthest retreat inland they have seen in a decade. ...

Because their view was, this is a party that's had a hawkish view of russia for a long time. >> and the fact that these members of congress, some of them are going on the record with you, that seems significant. what do you -- did it surprise you? what do you read into it, do you believe they're trying to send the president a message? why would they go on the record? >> it was surprising that they were so direct about describing the conversations they had with the president. some of the folks we're mentioning right now, did not go on the record senator mcconnell did not go on the record to tal...

The president, where they stopped talking for a period of several weeks. what mcconnell told folks in august was his sense was that the president made no distinction between how all the issues touching on russia, and questions about collusion in the presidential campaign. if it was a debate about sanctions, he saw it as a debate about his own political legitimacy, that was frustrating to mcconnell and to other republicans in the senate, because their view was, this is a party that's had a hawkish view of russia, a suspicious view of russia for a long time. >> and the fact that these members of...

These lakes are deceptively beautiful, because whereas white of the ice actually reflects the sunlight, the piercing blue of the lakes actively absorbs it, heating them up and then accelerating the rate of melt. perhaps the clearest example of this vicious melt cycle can be seen in greenland's many glaciers. a glacier is a mass of thick ice that moves under the force of its own weight, like a slow river into the sea. but as melt water moves through the ice, it softens it, draining to the bed, where it then lubricates the movement of the glacier. we got a rare, close-up view of one of greenland...