Here's about this time yesterday that Donald Trump sitting there in the Oval Office with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi started

talking about the wall and government shut down and that sort of stuff with cameras present and they got into a full on negotiation about that which I thought was awesome. I wish more of that stuff would be in front of the cameras and out in the open so we can hear the arguments.

That was quite something for whatever reason Nancy and Chuck kept saying can we can we move this behind closed doors.

I liked it out in the open but Marshall's got more in that and his news coming up in a little bit and we're going to talk to a reporter coming up a little bit later about what are the exact battle lines on this the government runs out of money for a parcel shut down I believe on the 21st and Donald Trump at least so far as saying either I get funding for my wall or or I'm okay I'm not going to sign whatever bill that goes through that doesn't include funding for the wall we'll see who blinks we always have these standoffs somebody always blinks and somebody always

gets blamed we'll see how it turns out.

Interesting article New York Post about climate change so you're seeing the riots in France that started with a gas tax hike that was proposed to well it was in effect to combat climate change the idea being you know this money is going to go to help make the world a better place and pull back on pollutants and all that sort of

stuff people started writing and they've been writing for five weeks.

So I came across this article in the New York Post that I really thought was interesting about getting it right on the whole climate change the politics of it and just recognizing what is the data shows that for all the evidence that does exist that climate

changes real man made and dangerous you might disagree with that but just go with it for now don't get all worked up and despite wide public acceptance of those propositions polling does show that most people believe

that people in the United States don't necessarily want to stop climate change in the sense of being willing to pay the cost which is the only sense that really matters if politically people aren't willing to themselves pay a price for this it doesn't really make any difference.

So in other words we believe it's true but think well you know it's true but I think most people have the feeling of what can I do about it it's too far off and I'm not willing to take a financial

hit for it the public levels of the public's level of concern about climate change is not risen meaningfully over the past 20 years.

So as we get more and more information and hotter and hotter temperatures and this example in that example and you see icebergs melting in polar bears having no place to stand and all that sort of stuff over the last 20 years

people's concern about it hasn't really moved in 20 years and addressing the problem with government action ranks among one of the lowest priorities for Americans according to a review of the public opinion literature published last year

by New York University in a series of open end of gallop surveys this year asking Americans to name the most important problems facing the country environmental issues never scored above 3%

if you live in an area like I do where you're surrounded by a lot of people that talk about this all the time it's the religion their religion is climate change and you can't have a conversation where climate change doesn't come up and everybody drives a pre-iss or something and

you know you're an awful person if you don't you got to remember that for the rest of the country there aren't that many people talking about it it never scored above 3% in all these gallop surveys

even before the recent riots against president macron's climate related fuel tax in France there was a quieter backlash in the US anti fossil fuel referendums lost in calorato Washington and Arizona during the midterms where people just said you know I'm not willing to pay extra this percent on this to try to deal with this

undoubtedly there have been some well funded efforts to so climate skepticism in recent decades president trump talks about it but again the polls show that most people believe it's true they're just not willing to make any personal sacrifices for it

slashing carbon emissions is a cause that has no core constituency with a concentrated interest in policy change while a majority of people benefit from our agents arrangements that currently cause climate change and that's just the way it is and it's going to be that way for some time to come

which is something we have been saying for for quite a while recent pretty good story in the New York Times over the weekend

about the last time this happened I don't have my notes in for me right now which which era it was it was many many many tens of I think it was hundreds of thousands of years ago that the earth got this warm and killed off I think 90% of the life on earth

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