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Did not appear to be as severely impacted. i mean american airlines, for example, canceled only 2% of its flights. does that suggest anything to you? i mean if this was an faa issue, wouldn't they have been impacted just as much? >> yes, they would. and if it was a weather issue, airlines would be impacted similarly. and so what has happened is many airlines have taken out excess capacity. in other words, they've gotten the extra flights, the extra seats, the extra planes, and they've reduced their flight schedules to the point where the flights are very full. and of course that helps them mak...

We have to treat it more like a defense issue than naturally occurring weather issue. second of all, chris, we're not healthy. this is one of those things we don't talk about enough because people comingle it with shame. not my intent. 42% of the country is obese. these diseases of affluence put us in tough shape for this pandemic. we think about things causing disease, problems later in the life. four or five times more severe illness in those who had severe obesity, chronic kidney disease. all these things. this is a wakeup call we have to obviously get healthier. we spend $4 trillion a year...

They haven't had monsoons in three years, something that arizona relies on and we've talked about this. this is a climate story. we are in a 21-year drought. it is getting hotter out here, record temperatures are five, six degrees higher than normal. you add to that it is not raining, as i said, that is the major crisis out here and when they go to sell their cattle, they're basically selling it at a reduced price. not a market we talk about often, we probably should. the price of cattle has gone through the basement because everybody is selling, stephanie. >> who do they sell the cattle to? n...

Kristof, colonel. nick is saying -- he's talking about the possibility reasons the strike may have been called off. maybe it's postponed. again, not sure. i think there's more reporting to be done. what do you think the reason would be? >> well, there could be several things. i think nick pointed out some really good ones such as the idea of there perhaps being a weather issue. perhaps things weren't quite in pla place. when we went into iraq in 2003, we had months of preparation before we did anything, and of course there's nothing like that in this particular case. so, you know, not that we ...

You know, we could see another attempt to shoot down another drone. we could see some attacks perhaps against some of the bases on the other side of the persian gulf in the middle east. those are all possibilities. i would hope it would not get to that point, but the u.s. has to be very careful in this case, and we also have to make sure that our force protection efforts in the region are at a very high level at this point. >> listen, i'm sure you heard my conversation with nicholas kristof, colonel. nick is saying -- he's talking about the possibility reasons the strike may have been called o...