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Coast uninhabitable. that gets your attention, especially along our west coast viewers where you have time before bed to unwind. peter links to a new york types article about how nuclear arms with back in a big way. it feels like our former relationship with russia, better yet, the soviet union before that. all kinds of talk now about reversing the reductions in nuclear arms of the past several decades. this explicitly mentions a new kind of nuclear arms rice. so we ll see how that goes. any kid who grew up during the cold war, this one included, would say this time argues for cool heads, smart decisions, good communications, and knowledge of the risk. otherwise as they say, what could go wrong? that s our broadcast on a monday night as we start a new week, thank you so much for being with us. ....
And all the ramifications we deal with today, not only in the middle east and the chaos that s there, but also across north africa and libya and down into nigeria. even ukraine. it s a result of that bad decision, that lapse of judgment back in 2002. well of course on your iraq stance, you and i both know that the aftermath of the war set the stage for this current crisis. but do you think iraq still resonates with the average voter who may not be paying attention to the region? i do. and at that time when we took that vote back in 2002 yes, we d had september 11th, but the world was still peaceful. we were looking at an era of lasting peace at that time right before september 11th. after the anger and fear that came with the attacks of september 11th we needed to make good decisions, smart decisions, and so when the premise for going to war in iraq and taking down saddam hussein was based on weapons of mass destruction, everybody needed to ....
progress. democratic senate leader harry reid and republican senate leader mitch mcconnell on the senate floor moments ago. look. today the speaker republican leader held a press conference to announce they re in talks with the president and that a bargain to raise the debt ceiling is in the works and is close. in president, members of the senate, that s not true. i just spent two hours with the president, vice president, and leader pelosi, and it s fair for me to say that the engagement there is not in any meaningful way. the speaker, republican leader should know that merely saying we have agreement in front of a few television cameras doesn t make it so. the fact of the matter is that the only way we re going to get an agreement before tuesday is to have an agreement with the president of the united states. and the only person in america of the 307 million of us who can sign something into law. and i m more optimistic than my friend, the majority leader. we ve bo ....
Sense is real. but the scary predictions that you often hear and the one you also talk about, you know, the idea that we are seeing melting icebergs and we get a sense of we re all doomed is simply wrong. it s not just wrong because it scares our kids witless. we talked to the british kids that seriously believe their future may become, you know, may end before they get to adulthood. that s just terrible. it also makes us make bad decisions because if we re scared, we don t make smart decisions. shannon: the newest members of the house and senate are coming to house and washington today. we sit down with a couple of them. coming up, senator elect rand paul talks to us live about his views on earmarks and whether the tea party will fit in on capitol hill. ....