Le Show; 2018-07-29

From deep inside your audio device of choice, ladies and gentlemen, just a day or so I'll be in one of the great hugely enjoyable festival cities of the world, at least at this time of year Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland, you see, they have, I think four or five festivals going on in August because that's the month when the weather is good. So right now I'm in London, I'm away there, and the entirety of the United Kingdom, you may not know this because we in the United States have been hung up on President Trump. But there's this wrenching, long running drama, let's say, with touches of comedy, but no music on the subject of Brexit, the impending exit of Britain, hence the portmanteau, thank you, of the Britain from the European Union.

And it's all seemed so simple back when people voted on it a couple of years ago, but come March of next year, it's going to happen, something's going to happen, nobody knows what the it is, there have been these start and stop negotiations, the Brits have changed their negotiator for a different negotiator. The Europeans have stayed with their guy, Michel Barnier, who basically just keeps saying to every British proposal, no, and the problem for the British government, well, one of the problems with British government aside from being the British government is people, the British people by not an overwhelming margin, but an actual margin, voted for something called leave, get out of the European Union, didn't really have many, many, much flesh on the bone, let me see.

And on the other hand, there are all these experts, of course, like the vote for President Trump, the vote for Brexit was in some ways a vote against experts, but the experts are saying, hold on, disaster, lost jobs, lost income, GDP plunging, figure out some way not to have this happen. So the British government is trying to do that while at the same time not being accused of betraying the voters who voted in the referendum, very unusual for the Brits to have a referendum, and this is probably one reason why. So right this week, as I arrived here, the talk was of a backup plan, a backup plan for no deal that is to say Britain and the European Union do not come to an agreement, but by terms of Article 50 of the European Union treaty, Britain crashes out of the EU next March.

So no deal, nothing, okay, now, all the food, they don't grow, well, there are farms here, of course, there's a farm show on BBC, but Britain imports a lot of food. And so the discussion this week has been, are you stockpiling? Have you built any warehouses, climate controlled warehouses? Well there are plans, we can't say what the plans are, that's a tell. So as of next March, come on over for the culture, the history, but don't plan on eating. Hello, welcome to the show. I'm in love with the sheep of you.

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Push and pull like the magnet, do in my heart. Push and pull like the magnet, do in my heart. Push and pull like the magnet, do in my heart. Maybe they'll change the thing where you can't fly in with your own food. From London, England, I'm Harry Scherer. Welcome you to this edition of La Show. And now, ladies and gentlemen. Nears of the Olympic Movement. Produced by Jim Ebersol, Jr. And first to Canada.

I said, Canada, the Canadian government, environmental group, not a government group, wants the United Nations Agency to warn the Canadian government about the possible impact of holding winner of Olympic events in Banff National Park. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society has written a letter to UNESCO saying ski events at Lake Louise, Tom. That would be a late Louise. Yes. Could threaten the values that have made the park a world heritage site. Feasibility study presented to Calgary City Council, which is considering bidding for the 2026 Winter Games, suggests Lake Louise should be considered a venue for ski speed events. Concerns have been raised about how the park would be affected by the crowds attending the races as well as by grandstands, media facilities, and other required infrastructure. Lake Louise is still in the mix, according to the bid committee. Banff is part of the Canadian mountain park's world heritage site. Rugged mountain peaks, ice fields and glaciers,

alpine meadows, lakes, waterfalls, extensive karst cave systems, and deeply incised canyons, Canadian rock and mountain parks possess exceptional natural beauty, according to UNESCO. Yeah, but a grandstand would be UNESCO monitors its sites and can request mebernations to report on them and waste to fix problems. The letter says Banff is already overloaded with visitors and as much infrastructure there as it can stand. The scale scope and cache the Olympic Games have will greatly and inevitably exacerbate the pressures and impacts the park is already challenged with. It's according to the letter which points to a park's Canada assessment in 2016, suggesting Banff's ecosystems already are only in fair condition. By the way, Lake Louise holds regular World Cup ski races. I'd look at those. Meanwhile, over in Tokyo, two years to go till the 2020 Olympic Games, the Japanese capital is hoping to use the Games as motivation

to approve its environmental sustainability. Tokyo Governor Urico Coique made lowering emissions and plastic litter prevention some of her main objectives in charge of the Games. We'll see about that. Coique is hopeful the Games can spur a change and makes Japan more sustainable. As one example, the Olympic Village will be powered by hydrogen energy following the Games and will contribute to our goal of a smart energy city. Japan joined the United States in not signing the Ocean Plastics Charter earlier this year. I didn't even know about that to do. It's determined Tokyo will play a leading role in the battle against plastic pollution. Don't bring your plastic to the Olympics. And when the International Olympic Committee approved the calendar for the events of the Tokyo Olympics, 339 events, the schedule remained undecided for just one sport, swimming. The swimming organizing committee were hoping for the final events to be sometime in the evening or later,

out of consideration for swimmer's physical conditions. The IOC on the other hand insisted the events must take place in the morning, which aligns with prime time on major television networks in the United States. Along negotiation was expected, but on July 19th, the World Body of National Swimming Associations announced it was agreeing with the Morning Time. The turnaround is symbolic of the reality of the Games' money from television networks has considerable sway. Because the Olympics, it's a TV show. No, it's a movement. And we all need one. Every day. And now, just like that, news of our friend, the Adam. Oh, we're at this time of year again.

This will sound familiar to you because it's happened the last couple of years. And you've heard about it on this program. The model of nuclear power plant that is in wide use around the world is water cooled. You have to take a lot of water from a nearby body of water, run it through the plant to keep the plant running cool, and then expel the water again. Now it's heated and possibly irradiated. But we got a lot of water, don't we? Yes. And this is the summertime. And so over in Finland, the Louvisa power plant, two reactors, one gigawatt, had to reduce power by 170 megawatts this week because the sea water used to cool it was too warm. Too warm to cool the plant, you see. Because of the very warm temperatures the Nordic region is currently experiencing the sea water collected to cool the reactors. It was 90 degrees the water. In Finland, off the coast of Finland, ladies and gentlemen,

that's releasing hot water back to the sea after cooling the reactors could be a hazard. If it exceeds 93, the reactors must be shut down due to those dam regulations. It may happen again in the next days because of the unusually warm temperatures up here in northern Europe. London just got over. A quite amazing heat wave ended with a very new Orleans-like two hours of incredibly heavy thunder and rain. High sea water temperature may indeed reduce the efficiency of the cooling systems of the plant. Said the nuclear safety section head at Finland's nuclear regulator STUK. Yes, that spells STUK. What's your point? In Germany, they were warned last week that higher temperatures next month may create cooling issues for that country's reactors. Output has been cut slightly from two reactors already.

Sweden's nuclear energy regulator SSM. No, that doesn't spell anything. It told Reuters that the power production at the 4-smark nuclear plant has also been reduced. Last time, that had to happen with seven years ago. But on the other hand, unusually warm and dry weather in the Nordics led temperatures to record highs, affecting water levels at the reservoirs that feed Norway and Sweden with hydropower. Pipe prices spiked as a result. So it appears to be no way out. Oh, there's the sun. Nobody seems to, nobody seems keen that is to buy the partially built VC summer nuclear plant in South Carolina. Now the state's biggest power provider is trying to sell off the equipment. Want a new plant? It could be fun. If you're near water, it's cool enough. No other utilities have shown interest in purchasing part or all of the construction projects, as the interim chief executive officer of San T Cooper.

The board declared the equipment is surplus property. San T Cooper and its partner Scana Corporation pulled a plug in the project a year ago after costs ballooned. Ballooning's fun. Oh, to more than $20 billion and put the two half-done reactors on the block. Two half-done reactors. Total one. No, it doesn't. It doesn't work that way. It's scrap. Nuclear scrap. And, ladies and gentlemen, another data point for my theory that when you get right down to it, Homo is not sapiens. They line Tokyo, the operator of the crippled food plant. You'd think, you know, if you've been through food, you might learn a little bit about safety. No, Teppko was rated poorly over drills that assume a severe accident at a nuclear plant happens. That's according to Japan's nuclear watchdog this week.

The report showed none of three nuclear plant or plants operated by Teppko received the highest marks on a three-grade scale for the performance of plants in information sharing with the watchdog. Information sharing. You see the time of a disaster would be a thing. The nuclear regulation authority and major utilities including Teppko conducted drills at each site during last fiscal year through March on the assumption that the cooling of an atomic reactor has stopped. Well, that could never have... Oh, the results of their drills were discussed this week. The regulator, oddly enough, deems information sharing as the most important item out of the nine-point evaluation. A lack of information sharing is said to be one of the factors that worsened the 2011. Fook disaster. You see. A member of the watchdog criticized Teppko's performance calling it, quote, unforgivable that the operator which caused the nuclear disaster had a low rating. Unquote,

homo is not sapiens. Clean cheap. Two ill-informed demeter are friendly atom. And speaking of lessons not learned, news of the warm. Won't you? I know I will. Soft listening to the warm. We can listen to the warm. Longstanding technology troubles at FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, could get in the way of the organization's disaster response efforts. They tell us just as hurricane season has gotten underway last month. This is from nextgov.com. This, according to the Homeland Security Department's Inspector General, FEMA's outdated information technology, that's a good idea, impedes the agency's ability to integrate systems across mission functions,

to manage disaster funds, to share information, there we go again, with emergency management partners, like local police, and coordinate disaster response efforts. That's according to John Kelly, not the president's chief of staff. This is another John Kelly. Two John Kelly's in the federal government. Go figure. He's performing the duties of the Inspector General at DHS. I don't know if that means he actually isn't the Inspector General. We're all performers, John. The shoddy tech infrastructure creates numerous delays in day-to-day operations. He says it limits how quickly the agencies can scale up. To respond to major disasters. That's the thing we all want to do in this day and age. Isn't it to scale up? I know it's what all the tech companies want. Let's all scale up. Right now. Come on. We can do it. Employees are frequently left to create manual workarounds to conduct critical emergency response efforts, and Kelly says that waste considerable time and money.

Otherwise, it's a good idea. The Inspector General previously reported many of the existing issues to FEMA. Officials have yet to take action on the majority of the watchdogs' recommendations, some of which date back to just after the New Orleans flood and Hurricane Katrina. Many major disasters over the past number of years exposed numerous limitations to FEMA's IT infrastructure and system capabilities, Kelly, told the Congress. Until FEMA provides the IT systems and capabilities needed to meet the demands posed by emergency management, timely response and recovery from disasters will be hindered, and the risk of delays in providing assistance and grants will be increased. The Inspector General attributes FEMA's technological shortcomings to insufficient IT management. The agency is missing a strategic plan to guide IT programs and modernization efforts, officials generally don't know what technologies they have at their disposal.

Kelly said, what's this button? What does this one do? How do I send an email? He added FEMA's Chief Information Officer doesn't have the authority to guide enterprise-wide tech projects. The agency also largely lacks a governance process to guide IT acquisitions, meaning who signs this? And meanwhile, a secret agency very near you. The National Security Agency's Inspector General, wow, issued a rare report this week condemning the administration for insufficiently protecting data gathered from US citizens. What's this next job going to be? A semi-annual report issued to Congress details many instances of non-compliance by NSA personnel dealing with rules meant to protect computer networks and data. Other issues of non-compliance at the NSA, ladies and gentlemen,

included flash drives not being scanned for viruses before being used by staff, don't tell the Russians, as well as inaccurate or incomplete security plans. Those plans again. Damn those plans. None of the violations. You'll be glad to know that despite the tremors you may have felt adhering, things like flash drives not being scanned for viruses before being used by staff, none of the violations warranted immediate reporting to the NSA's inspector, sorry, the NSA's director or Congress, according to the inspector general, even though it revealed significant problems and deficiencies within the agency. Carry on then. Never mind. I'll just file this. News of inspector's general, ladies and gentlemen. More general than inspector, I'm beginning to suspect. But let's round out this first half of the program with some news of the godly.

We've talked on this program in this segment about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. He was the former Archbishop of Washington, D.C., a prominent diplomat, a Cardinal, the diplomat was a Cardinal. It sounds like a 40s movie and the center of a mushrooming sexual abuse scandal, dating back decades. Well, the news this week is he's resigned, according to the Vatican. He presented his resignation as a member of the College of Cardinals. The Pope has accepted his resignation and ordered his suspension from any public ministry. The Cardinal would remain in seclusion for a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial. You're going to bring out the canon. The Cardinal was removed from public ministry in June after an investigation found credible accusations that he had himself sexually abused a teenager 47 years ago while serving as a priest in New York.

Some of the church hierarchy, according to the New York Times, had known four decades about accusations that he had prayed with an E with two E's, actually, on several men who wanted to become priests sexually harassing and touching them. I was helping them to become it. No. At least one man said he was abused by Cardinal when he was a New Jersey bishop in the 1980s. Well, New Jersey. The Times' investigation discovered settlements amounting to tens of thousands of dollars over the years, paid to men who had made allegations of abuse against Father McCarrick, who was then a rising star in the Catholic Church. I didn't know they have a star system. The Cardinal was a star. The star was a Cardinal. Cardinal McCarrick's resignation is the first since 1927. The relevant point is he's no longer a Cardinal said about against spokesman. He is the first Cardinal in living memory to lose his red hat and title. The red hat, you know, was bad, but the title, I guess, hurts more.

And it's not just children and it's not just other priests. It's nuns, according to the Associated Press. A nun had an Italian priest forced himself on her while she was their most vulnerable. She was recounting her sins to him in University Classroom 20 years ago. I pretended it didn't happen. She told the Associated Press. She was silenced by the Catholic Church's culture of secrecy, her vows of obedience, and her own fear of repulsion and shame. She's one of a handful worldwide to come forward recently on an issue the Catholic Church has yet to come to terms with the sexual abuse of religious sisters by priests and bishops. Just when you thought, yeah, the AP has found cases emerging in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia, demonstrating the problem is global. And pervasive thanks to the universal tradition of sisters' second class status in the Church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it.

It's a system. Some nuns are now speaking out, void by the Me Too movement, none too. And the growing recognition that adults can be victims of sexual abuse in situations where there's an imbalance of power and relationship just as Harvey Weinstein. He didn't, I haven't heard of him in nuns, but trial yet to come. The sisters are going public in part because of years of inaction by church leaders, even after major studies in the problem in Africa were reported to the Vatican, way back in the 1990s. The extent of the abuse of nuns is unclear, at least outside the Vatican. Victims are reluctant to report the abuse because of well-founded fears. They won't be believed. Experts told the AP, church leaders are reluctant to acknowledge that some priests and bishops simply ignore their vows of celibacy. But they're vows. They're like marriage, oh. Knowing their secrets will be kept. About a dozen sisters, sorry, half a dozen sisters.

Or a dozen half sisters, I guess, would be. No, it's half a dozen sisters in a small religious congregation in Chile went public on national television. There's good viewing with their stories of abuse by priests and other nuns and how their superiors did nothing to stop it. Meanwhile, in India, a nun recently filed a formal police complaint accusing a bishop of rape, something that would have been unthinkable even a year ago. Cases in Africa come up periodically in 2013, a well-known priest in Uganda wrote a letter to his superiors that mentioned priests romantically involved with religious sisters for which he was promptly suspended from the church until he apologized. That'll make you feel welcome. A retired Australian Catholic priest convicted of indecently assaulting three boys is being punished by the church. He's still being financially supported by the church. It's even provided him with a new car. Robert Francis Flarrity was five years ago convicted of the assaults

which took place in the seventies and eighties. He openly made admissions about two of the attacks, claiming that a 14 or 15-year-old boy had consented to the touching. There may have been mutual touching, said Flarrity, nothing else. The Catholic Church is continuing to pay for Flarrity's Kia and for his other bills in his retirement. His explanation for that incident that he talked about on television at the time my mother was in palliative care and my father had just died. So it was a time of life when you know I was gone, second assault took place ten years later. Didn't have the same excuse. The boy was aged between 14 and 15. It's a thing. Flarrity claimed he was covering the fellow up against the chill of the night when he touched him on the outside of his pants.

That was just carelessness. He said, lack of judgment, lack of self-control. He says the church paying his bills as a standard practice would apply to any retired priests. The third of Flarrity's victims, who was also an altar boy at the time, said he was flabbergasted by the fact the church was still paying. That altar boy was assaulted by Flarrity. While he slept, woke up as the assault was being carried out. Flarrity told him the church would believe the priest over an eight-year-old boy. The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney says it seeks to minimize the risk to the community once pedophile priests have served their sentence. Spokeswoman said, research showed offenders who were supported. Here's your Kia, and monitored were less likely to reoffend. The church is also financially supporting to other priests convicted of sexual abuse. There's your retirement plan right there, and Chile is now investigating 158 members of the

country's embattled Catholic Church, both clergymen and laypeople for perpetrating or concealing the sexual abuse of children and adults. News of the godly ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. The church is now investigating 158 members of the country's embattled Catholic Church, both clergymen and laypeople for perpetrating or concealing the sexual abuse of children and adults. The church is now investigating 158 members of the country's embattled Catholic Church,

both clergymen and laypeople for perpetrating or concealing the sexual abuse of children and adults. The church is now investigating 158 members of the country's embattled Catholic Church, both clergymen and laypeople for perpetrating or concealing the sexual abuse of children and adults. The church is now investigating 158 members of the country's embattled Catholic Church, both clergymen and laypeople for perpetrating or concealing the sexual abuse of children and adults.

The church is now investigating 158 members of the country's embattled Catholic Church, both clergymen and laypeople for perpetrating or concealing the sexual abuse of children and adults. The church is now investigating 158 members of the country's embattled Catholic Church, both clergymen and laypeople for perpetrating or concealing the sexual abuse of children and adults. The church is now investigating 158 members of the country's embattled Catholic Church,

both clergymen and laypeople for perpetrating or concealing the sexual abuse of children and adults. The revelation that Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer, well, you got to have a lawyer fixer, you know, just a lawyer, you can't fix it. Michael Cohen was prepared to tell the special counsel, Robert Mueller, that Trump then candidate Trump did know about the notorious Trump Tower meeting in July of 2016 before it took place. Now, I'm one of those people who has to remind you because the major media seem to have forgotten.

We don't have on the public record yet any indication that any Russian promised dirt on Hillary Clinton at that meeting. What we have on the public record is that Rob Goldstone, a music publicist who worked for a Russian rock star that Trump had met in the Miss Universe contest in 2013. Rob Goldstone had been tasked by the music star and his dad to get somebody from the Trump administration to meet with this Russian lawyer. And it was Goldstone who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton when they got to the meeting according to everybody present so far. The lawyer discussed the Magnitsky act which was passed by the Congress to retaliate for the parent killing murder of Mr. Magnitsky, a lawyer who had discovered corruption in Russia and in retaliation to that, the Russian government prohibited the United States citizens from further adoptions of Russian children, which is probably why Russian adoptions was the cover story for the meeting originally. Anyway, I just have to parenthesis that because nobody apparently remembers it. So yes, Michael Cohen made that statement this week. Of course, one of the tapes did become public this week.

A conversation between then candidate Trump and Michael Cohen in October of 2016 when the subject of payoffs to a playboy model, a payoff to a playboy model, you don't need to pay more than once, apparently. I think that's the system. We're discussed and the question was did Trump say, pay her with cash or don't pay her with cash. So that was a big debate this week. Acoustic experts were called in. I did some cleaning up at the tape myself, but didn't prove much either way. Meantime Trump's new head of communications bill, Shine, who was head of, who was a major executive at Fox News until he was forced out in the wake of the sexual allegations against Fox News Chief Roger Ails. That happened last year that Shine has just joined the administration. He had announced on Thursday a ban.

Well, somebody in his office had told Caitlin Collins, a White House reporter for CNN that she could not attend a press conference between the president and President Trump. And the head of the European Commission, Mr. Junker, because she had shouted questions at the president the previous day at a press availability. They have a photo op in the presses in the room and then they heard the photographers and the reporters out. And she had shouted some questions, a couple of questions at the president during that heard out much like Sam Donaldson used to do to Ronald Reagan. You know, this is different. So she was disinvited to this press conference. This very important press conference with the president in the head of the EU. And Bill Shine said, it's not a ban. Ask her if we ever use the word ban, because she was just disinvited. That's all ban. No thing. Also in Trump world this week, the president, the president's daughter Ivanka announced that she was closing down her clothing and shoe line, her fashion lines.

The stuff was made in, it was made in, no, it wasn't made in America. And several departments store change had stopped carrying her line. The president in a tweet had actually denounced the Nordstrom chain for treating her unfairly. Sad. That's one way of putting it. Oh, and the special counsel's office announced this week that not that they were accepting Michael Cohen's offer. You don't usually make offers to testify to special counsels of prosecutors of any kind in public. But he did announce, his office did announce that he was subpoenaing Alan Weiselberg, who has been Trump's CFO and accountant pretty much since he got out of college. A guy who people in the nose say, he's really in the know.

He may not know where the bodies are buried, but he sure knows where the dollars are. So that all sounds kind of like this. This week, for the first time, some of the teams are showing signs of fatigue. But for the businessman turned chief executive, there's no reverse gear. There may be no gears at all. Bill. Mr. Trump. It's our first face to face since you joined the comms team. Toronto. That's right. Just to just to double check it. Bunch of people in that job before you. Yes, sir. I dealt with all of them in my old job at Fox. Yeah. Then you were at the receiving end. Now you're at the point of this fear. I guess I am. Better side to be on, right? Better to be pitching than catching.

You met, sir. More manly, right? Speaking of which, you caught some of that full figured action at the reception desk. I'm older, sir, but not too old or not as that. She's, as we used to say at Fox, she's hotter than Bill O'Reilly's Lufa stand. Let me tell you this. I have no idea what that means. It just refers to his habit. Okay, look. Anyway, just in case you're taping, this is an equal opportunity workplace, okay? Yes, sir. Your chance is whether or as good as anyone else is, right? We'll soon find out. Okay. Now. So how's the operation pivot from Helsinki going? That's a deal, right? Oh, yes, sir. Two news cycles on your run tweet. We do think all caps help to galvanize media attention. Great. Because I think it looks stronger anyway without those little levels. Two news cycles on banning the CNN gal from the press conference with the you guy, including one cycle about my contestingly use of the word ban. I didn't see much of you on TV. There was one little clip.

Okay, because, you know, some people on your team might get jealous if you show up on cable news too much. Called name Kellyanne. Yes, sir. Mentions of Helsinki, of course, spiked when Putin had his press conference. Yeah. What's his deal? He better not be digging around with me. But I'll hold the press conference the likes of which he's never seen. I do think going after Michael Cohen has legs. Okay. Good. Because his lawyer, this Davis guy, you know, he worked for the Clintons. I could spill the beans on him really good. You know, I'd advise on holding back on the beans for now. I don't think we need to go full bean yet. Okay. I get the feeling you're ready for a really big task this week. I'm ready to go, sir. My wife's already in a tweet, too. And that's your problem. So look, your task for this week involves that CNN Gal that keeps shouting questions at me. Kate, Caitlin.

Okay. We can't keep banning her because it wasn't really a ban. So your task this week is to keep her from shouting questions at me. Enough with the shouting, okay? It won't be easy, sir. It wasn't easy for the five people who had your frigging job before you. Shut up. Like I told Roger Ails, when the wolves were circling, I eat wolves for breakfast. Sheesh. I have trouble keeping downstaking eggs. Ivanka. Morning. I'm so sorry about your fashion line. I know. I mean, I'm sure. I don't know, but I think I probably know. Good. Because you know between the rallies and the phone calls. So I'm glad you made time for me today. Good. Because you're still a very valued member of the home team. Maybe the most valued, okay? I mean, I'd say you've earned it. But really, you were born into it. But that's okay, right? Yes, sir.

What was it with your fashion thing? People didn't want to buy stuff made in China anymore? That's like a good thing, right? I know you don't want to hear this. But what my executives were saying is a lot of negative reactions. A negative reaction to the name. Uh-huh. That's a tough one. And I do feel kind of responsible, because I let your mother call you Ivanka. I want to don't know the... But look, you've got a big task this week. Yeah, I've got a parental leave for him and grand rabbits. It's a little charred can do that. This is big stuff, honey. And I need somebody who's big time. I can't do to handle it. Not that. I need you to go out and say that all the children and immigrants have been reunited. You do women and children? This is women and children. Okay. And have they been? Been what? Re-united? My people tell me that all the ones who could be have been. I can tell you that.

If you want more of a briefing, I guess General Kelly can set one up. I think he's still breathing. What about Kristen on the Homeland Security team? She's a blonde woman. Have you seen her on TV? You called her in the Burger King Shake. It's you, honey. You're a task. You're a thing. Can you do it? You know, I had to close down the shoe line, too. Great. So you need something big to do, right? Right. Alan? Alan Weiselberg? Yes, sir. Hello, Mr. Trump. I heard you got... ...seppeeded by the witch hunt. Yes, sir. Just got it. The guy slipped it in under... I don't care what he slipped. Listen, Alan. Not a lot of time. Oh, I don't have to meet with them until next time. I mean this episode is running long. Look. You were a little patient. Fresh out of your frigging cap and gown. Who gave you your stud? You did, sir. And who kept promoting you like you were like the Warren Buffett of the East Coast or something? That'd be again, you, sir.

And when all the Schmendrix and Goobbots were bangin' down our doors and the Gracie Mansion Piles refused to stay fixed, who was down there in the bunker with me? Well, I was certainly doing lay hours in the office during those times. Damn right. So, you got a little task this week, Alan. It's the longest serving member of the smallest team, the eight plus team, I call it. Yes, sir. It's a little thing called... ...dummy up. What do you think? Slippery Bob Mueller wasn't the guy who rescued you from Brad School in Podunk, was he? No, sir. Okay, Alan. You don't need to answer me. I'll take your silence for a yes. New team. New tasks. Same mission. We're gonna make Ivanka's brand great again! Now, the world is his boardroom. The president is. This week. Anything else is just fake reality. We had so much news of the warm.

Had to divide it into two parts. Here's the rest of the story. This week, the frequency of lethal hot weather is increasing as is the duration of high-risk heat. These are grim reminders of report published late last year by climatists from Columbia's Earth Observatory, reporting that considering the present climate change trajectory, heat stress could exceed human endurance by the end of the century. So let's not live that long. The conditions we're talking about basically never occur now. People in most places have never experienced them, said a lead author, but they're projected to occur close to the end of the century. Closer at hand, carbon dioxide emissions are killing off coral reefs and kelp forests, as you know. Writing in scientific reports, researchers say that three centuries of industrial development have already had a marked effect on our seas. But if CO2 levels continue to rise as predicted, the coming decades and lowering seawater pH levels, acidification of the ocean, will have an even greater and potentially catastrophic impact.

This follows a comprehensive study of the effects of recently discovered volcanic CO2 seaps, often islanded Japan, which is on the border of the temperate and tropical climates. So they've had the experience of seeing what rising CO2 levels affect future ecology. Many people cling to the hope corals will be able to spread north. Therefore, it says the lead author, it's extremely worrying to find that as a result of the study, tropical corals are so vulnerable to ocean acidification, this will stop them from being able to spread further north and escape the damage caused by water that is too hot for them. They could grow legs, I'm just saying. A global biodiversity collapse is imminent, unless we take urgent concerted action to reverse species loss in the tropics, that's according to a major scientific study in the journal Nature. In the paper, an international team has warned that a failure to act quickly and decisively. Yeah, right. We'll greatly increase the risk of unprecedented and irrevocable species loss

in the most diverse parts of the planet. It's the first high level report on the state of all four of the world's most diverse tropical ecosystems, forests, savannas, lakes, rivers, lakes and rivers and coral reefs. The authors found that although the tropics cover just 40% of the planet, they're home to more than three-quarters of all species, almost all shallow water corals, more than 90% of the world's breed species. Most of these species are found nowhere else. Millions more are as yet unknown to science. At the current rate of species description, 20,000 new species a year, it can be estimated at least 300 years will be necessary to catalog all the biodiversity, and they go bye-bye in the meantime. Many species facing the double jeopardy of being harmed by both local human pressures, fishing and logging, and droughts or heatwaves, linked to climate change.

Even many small songbirds are at risk of imminent global extinction due to their capture for the pet trade in Southeast Asia. The rainforests where they live are increasingly falling silence at the leader of the study, the declining health of tropical ecosystems, also threatens the well-being of millions of people. Oh yeah, there are people too. Coral reefs provide fish resources and coastal protection for up to 200 million people, and forests and savannas store 40% of the carbon in the terrestrial biosphere, and support rainfall in some of the world's most important ag regions. We need to change our efforts to support sustainable development and efficient conservation interventions to preserve and restore the tropical habitats. They have been the home and last refuge for the overwhelming majority of the Earth's biodiversity for millions of years. I'm going to get right on that, so is everybody else. The author said the fate of the tropics will largely be determined by what happens elsewhere on the planet. He's looking at us.

Just as humans rely on their sense of smell to detect suitable food and habitats, avoid danger and find potential mates. So do fish. Instead of smelling scent molecules through the air, they use their nostrils to sense chemicals suspended in the water. Fish will start losing their ability to detect different smells by the end of the... I don't want, you know, this end of the century is not sounding good. By the end of the century of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels keep rising according to a study published in Nature, Climate, Change. For fish, the sense of smell is particularly important when visibility is not great, said an author. You know, like down deep, when exposed to elevated levels of carbon dioxide, the fish had to be about 42% closer to an older source to detect it, making it harder for them to notice food or predators. They didn't swim as much in some cases. They didn't move for more than five seconds at a time. Well, what's over there?

In addition to the data show that elevated carbon dioxide affected the expression of genes in the nose and brain of the fish. A study focused on seabass is applicable to other kinds of fish, said the author. Smelling like fish has a whole different meaning. The Netherlands is going through a heat wave this week, much like rest of Northern Europe. Several council, city councils have chosen a novel way to stop roads from melting. They're salting them, just like they do when it snows. News of the war, one more time. And now, the apologies of the week. We won't even wait for Paul this time. Wells Fargo apologized on Friday to customers who were having issues with their bank accounts after getting a stream of complaints on social media about checks not clearing or deposits not working. We apologize to our customers who may be experiencing an issue with certain type of transactions. Wells Fargo's Twitter account is set. If you're impacted, please check here for updates. Wells Fargo, just one more time apologizing.

They're getting good at it. The New York Times travel cover feature about retreats in sanctuaries, received numerous complaints, found the piece dismissive of Latino culture and portrayed the city in a cliched way. We want to assure readers as the times that was absolutely not our intention. The writer of the recent travel story apologized for calling causing offense. Dan Harmon, the co-creator of Rick and Morty and creator of Community, deleted his Twitter account this week after disturbing 2009 video service online resurfaced. The video broke out toward the end of the weekend when Harmon was a comic con, partaking in a drunken fake radio show style discussion with fellow Rick and Morty creator. He deleted his social media account soon after an statement provided by his publicist, Harmon apologized for the video. I made a pilot which strove to parody the series Dexter and only succeeded in offending. He said, I quickly realized the content was way too distasteful and took it down immediately. Nobody should ever have to see what you saw.

And for that, I sincerely apologize. The video started off with a... Harmon's character breaking into a house and simulating rape on a baby doll. It's not the first time he's taken part in... What someone called Creepy Behavior was called on a Twitter this year by a co-writer for sexually harassing her on set which he then apologized for on his podcast. I want to say I did it by not thinking about it and I got away with it by not thinking about it. He said on the podcast. Michael Valor, founder of North Carolina based digital ad agency Valor Media, has issued a series of apologies on social media following reports about a tweet his shop posted to promote client Z burger. It featured an image from a video released by ISIS in 2014 that depicted an American journalist moments before his execution. It's still a bit altered to include the line. When you say you want a burger and someone says, okay, let's hit McDonald's along with an image of a burger and the line, you disgrace me. The tweet was deleted within the hour. It was created and published by Valor Media without expected oversight by Valor's managers.

No one at the Z burger saw it before it went live. The series of apologies followed. This is a nightmare, said Michael. A Romanian minister apologized this week for having compared the incineration of dead pigs infected with African swine fever to the Auschwitz concentration camp. I respect all the members of the Jewish community, clarify, only wish to describe the difficult situation facing Romanian breeders. The man behind the controversial PewDiePie character on YouTube, Felix Kelberg, has apologized again, talking about the stress YouTube creators feel about having to continually top themselves in the unhealthy obsession with numbers that develop over time. But then he posted an insensitive meme making fun of Dami Lovato's recent drug overdose. He said it was incredibly insensitive, he apologized and claimed to not fully know about the situation. That always helps when you're talking to the public, not really knowing. The apologies of the week, ladies and gentlemen, copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Thank you very much.

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