Welcome from the Natural History museum. As a nation, we face one of the most difficult moments in our history in my view. All of theic crises same time. The worst pandemic in 100 years that has already killed nearly 200,000 people and counting. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has cost tens of millions of american jobs and counting. Emboldened White Supremacy unseen since the 1960s, and a reckoning on race that is long overdue. Acceleration, the punishing reality of Climate Change on our planet and our people, on the lives and livelihoods, which i would like to talk about now. I continue, as i suspect all of you do, pray for those in california, oregon and washington, and across the west as these devastating wildfires rage on. Just as we hold those in our hearts those who faced the hurricanes, tropical storms off the coast of florida and north carolina, or in like parts of new orleans that have been issued an emergency evacuation for hurricane sally. Floods across the midwest. The fury of Climate Change everywhere. , wethis year and right now stand with our families who have lost everything, the firefighters, the First Responders risking everything to save others. And the millions of americans caught a between relocating during a pandemic or staying put as ashes and smoke pollute the air they breathe. Think about that. People are not just worried about raging fires, they are worried about the air they breathe, the damage to the lungs. Parents are worried about covid19 for their children when they are indoors, and now they are worried about asthma attacks, if their kids are outside. Over the past three years the total damage from wildfires has reached nearly 50 billion in california alone. Vicki billion dollars. 50 billion. This year alone 5 billion acres have burned across 10 states. It is only september. Californias wildfire season runs through october. Fires are blazing so brightly, smoke reaching so far, nasa satellites can see them one million miles away in space. The cost of this years damage will again be astronomically high. Think of it from the view on the ground. Ashes. Ldering loved ones lost along with the photos, the keepsakes, all the memories. Spouses and kids praying each night for their firefighter husband, wife, mother will they come home . Entire communities destroyed. Nation. To act as a it should not be so bad that millions of americans live in the shadow of an orange sky, and are left asking, is doomsday here . Dread ands feeling of anxiety extends beyond the fires. We are seeing record hurricane seasons costing billions of dollars. Last month hurricane laura intensified at a near record rate. Just before landfall on the louisiana and the gulf coast. It is a troubling marker not just towards increased frequency of hurricanes, but more powerful and destructive storms. They are causing record damage to peoples homes, lives, and livelihoods. Before it intensified, it hit the gulf coast, laura ravaged whererico puerto rico, three years ago our fellow americans are still recovering from damage and devastation. Think about that reality. Fellow americans putting things back together from the last big storm as they face the next one. Midwest flooding in the often compounding the damage delivered by last years floods that caused billions of dollars of damage. Many of you traveled through the midwest and saw it. This past spring in midland, michigan, a flood so devastating with debbie flash flooding, deadly flash flooding, it displaced 10,000 residents. It was considered once in a 500 year weather event. But those once in many generation events are now happening every year. The past 10 years were the hottest decade ever recorded. The arctic is literally melting. Parts are actually on fire. What we are seeing in america, in our communities is connected to all of this. With every bout of natures fury caused by our inaction action on Climate Change, more americans see and feel the devastation, whether they are in a big city, small town, coastline or farmland. It is happening everywhere. It is happening now. It affects us all. , noty 200 cities republican or democratic cities, 200 cities are experiencing the longest heat waves in 50 years. It requires them to help their poor and elderly residents adapt to extreme heat to simple he stay alive. Especially in homes without air, which many do not have. Family farmers in the midwest are facing historic drought. Windstorms. Ped by the speed of those windstorms has been incredible. You saw it on television or in person. It has ravaged millions of acres of corn, soybeans, other crops. Willre very livelihoods sustain their families and our economy for generations is now in jeopardy. How do they pay their bills this year . What will be left to pass on to their kids . None of this is happening in a vacuum. Recent studies showed air pollution is linked with increasing risk of death from covid19. Our economy cannot recover if it cannot build back. With more resiliency, more ability to withstand extreme weather, extreme weather that will only come with greater frequency and intensity. The unrelenting impact of Climate Change affects every single solitary one of us. Too often, it falls disproportionately on exacerbating the need for environmental justice. These interlocking crises of our time require action, not denial. Requires leadership, not scapegoating. It requires the president to meet the threshold duty of the office, to care for everyone, defend us from every attack seen and unseen. Always and without exception. Here is the deal. Hurricanes do not swerve to avoid red or blue states. Wildfires do not skip towns that vote a certain way. The impacts of Climate Change do not pick and choose. That is because it is not a partisan phenomenon. It is science. ,ur response should be the same grounded in science. Us, likegether, all of with our federal response to covid19 a lack of National Strategy on Climate Change overall leaves us with a patchwork of solutions. As a matter of fact, made worse by the decisions this administration has made. Im speaking from delaware at the lowest lying place in the state. Last week delaware state attorney general sued 31 big fossil fuel companies, alleging that they knowingly reeked tannic and damage wreaked havoc and damage on our climate. Damage everyone can see but the president. He flew to california today he has no interest in meeting this moment. He will not listen to the experts, or treat this disaster with the urgency it demands. As any president should do during a national emergency. He has already said he wanted to withhold aid to california, to punish the people of california because they did not vote for him. This is another crisis he will not take responsibility for. The west is literally on fire. Whose homese people and communities are burning. He says, quote, you have to clean your floors, clean your forests. This is the same president who threw paper towels on the people rico, instead of helping them rebuild. We know his disdain for military leaders and veterans. Just last year the Defense Department reported that Climate Change is a direct threat to more than two thirds of the military operational vertical installations. The military warned him. This could well be a conservative estimate. Denialtrump, his climate may not have caused these fires and record floods and record hurricanes, but if he gets a second term, these hellish events will become more common, more devastating, and more deadly. Meanwhile, donald trump warned that immigration is threatening our suburbs that is ridiculous. You know what is actually threatening our suburbs . Are burning suburbs in the west. Floods are wiping out suburban neighborhoods in the midwest. Hurricanes are imperiling suburbs along our coast. We have four more years of climate denial, how many neighborhoods will have been flooded out . How many suburbs will have been blown away in superstorms . If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the white house, why would anyone be more surprised if we have more of america ablaze . A climate denier four more years in the white house, why would anyone be surprised if more americans are underwater . We need a president who respects science, who understands the damage from Climate Change is already here. Unless we take urgent action, we will soon be more catastrophic. If the president recognizes and understands and cares that americans are dying, which makes president trumps climate denial is him, his disdain for science and facts all the more unconscionable. Once again he fails the most basic duty to a nation, he fails to protect us from the its clear that were not safe in Donald Trumps america. This is Donald Trumps america. Hes in charge. What he doesnt get is that even in a crisis, theres nothing beyond the capacity of the American People when we stand up and act together. And while so many of you are hurting right now, i want you to know that if you give me the honor of serving as your president , we can and we will meet this moment with urgency and purpose. We can and we will solve the climate crisis. And well build back better than we were before. You know, when donald trump thinks about Climate Change, he thinks hoax. When i think about it, i think jobs. Good paying unions that put americans to work, building a stronger, more climateresilient nation. A nation modernized, we have modernized water and transportation systems. An Energy Infrastructure to with stand the impacts of extreme weather and changing climate. When donald trump thinks about renewable energy, he sees windmills somehow as causing cancer. I see american manufacturing, American Workers racing to lead the global market. I see farmers making agriculture the first in the world to achieve net zero emissions. And in the process, gaining new sources of income. When donald trump thinks about l. E. D. Light bulbs, he says he doesnt like them because the lights are no good. They always make him look orange. I see Small Businesses and master electricians designing and installing awardwinning Energy Conservation measures, rebuilding buildings across the country. This is going to reduce electrical consumption and save businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in energy costs. While he turns against our allies, ill bring us back into the paris agreement. Ill put us back into the business of leading the world on Climate Change. And ill challenge every other country to up the ante on climate commitments. Where he reverses the obamabiden fuel efficiency standards, he picks big oil. He picks Big Oil Companies over American Workers. Even when the Automobile Industry agreed. And not only brings ill not only bring the standards back, ill set new ambitious ones that our workers are ready to meet. Ill also see American Workers building and installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations along our newly engaged infrastructure programs and highways. All across the country. I see American Consumers switching to electric vehicles through rebates and initiatives. Not only that, the United States owns one of the and maintains an enormous fleet of vehicles. And were going to harness the purchasing power of our federal government to make sure were buying electric vehicles that are made and sourced by Union Workers right here in the United States of america. And together this will mean more than a million new jobs in the American Auto industry. You know, and well do another big thing. It will put us on a path to achieving a carbon pollutionfree electric sector, electricity sector, by 2035. That no future president can come along and turn back. Transforming the electrical sector power to produce power without carbon pollution. It will be the greatest spur to job creation and economic competitiveness in the 21st century. Not to mention the positive benefits to our health and our environment. We need to get to work right away. Well need scientists at the National Labs and land grant universities, start black colleges and universities, to improve and innovate technologies needed to generate, store and transmit this clean electric. We need engineers to design and workers to manufacture these new products. Well need iron workers and welders to install them. Well need to become the Worlds Largest exporter of these technologies, creating even more jobs, sourced in america. We know how to do this. The Obamabiden Administration rescued the Auto Industry and helped them retool. We made solar energy costcompetitive with traditional energy. And weatherized more than a million homes, which is just the beginning if we get reelected. And well do it again. Bigger and faster and better than before. Well also build 1. 5 million new Energy Efficient homes and Public Housing units that will benefit our communities three times over, by eliminating Affordable Housing crisis, by increasing energy efficiency, and by reducing the racial wealth gap linked to home ownership. There are thousands of oil and natural gas wells that Oil Companies and Gas Companies have abandoned. Many of which are leaking toxins. We can create 250,000 jobs now by just plugging those wells right away. Good union jobs for energy workers. This will help sustain communities and protect them from the environmental damage as well. Well also create new markets for our family farmers and ranchers. Well launch a new modern civilian climate corps to heal our public lands and make use of us less vulnerable, make us much less vulnerable to wildfires and floods. I believe that every american has a fundamental right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. And i know that we havent fulfilled that right yet. Thats true of the millions of families struggling with the smoke created devastation of the wildfires right now. But it also has been true for a generation or more in places like cancer alley in louisiana, or right here in delaware along the route 9 corridor. Right here in delaware. Fulfilling this basic obligation to all americans, especially in low income, white, black, brown and native American Communities who too often dont have the clean air and the clean water. Its not going to be easy. But its necessary. Im committed to getting it done. These arent pie in the sky dreams. These are concrete, actionable problems that create american jobs, mitigate Climate Change and put our nation on the road to net zero emissions by no later than 2050. You know, some say we cant afford to fix this. But heres the thing. Look around at the crushing consequences of the extreme weather events ive been describing. Weve already been paying for it. So we have a choice. We can invest in our infrastructure to make us stronger, more resilient and improving the health of americans and creating millions of goodpaying jobs, while at the same time tackling the root causes of Climate Change. Or we can continue down the path donald trump has us on, a path of indifference, costing tens of billions of dollars to rebuild, when the human cost, the lives and the livelihoods and the homes and the communities destroyed are immeasurable. We have a choice. We can commit to doing this together. Because we know that Climate Change is the existential challenge thats going to determine our future as a country for our children, our grandchildren and our greatgrandchildren, or we can do it Donald Trumps way. Ignore the facts, deny reality, which amounts to a full surrender and a failure to lead. Its backward looking politics. Thats going to harm the environment, make communities less healthy, and hold back economic progress while other countries race ahead. Its a mindset that doesnt have any faith in the capacity of the American People to compete, to innovate and to win. Like the pandemic, dealing with Climate Change is a global crisis. That requires american leadership. It requires a president for all americans. So as the fires rage out west on this day, our prayers remain with everyone under the ash. I know its hard to see the sunrise, believing today will be a better day than yesterday. Americans face this historic inflection point. In a time of real peril, but also a time of extraordinary possibilities. Im confident, i know we can do this. We will do this. This is the United States of america. Weve seen the light through the dark smoke. We never gave up. Always without exception every time we succeed when we try. May god bless our firefighters and keep them safe and our First Responders. May god protect our troops. Thank you very much. Thank you. I am anxious to hear what the president had to say. [no audio] President Donald Trump and former Vice President joe biden are set to debate tuesday, september 29. Has pledged to end cash bail. Just last week, sleepy joe accepted the endorsement of the antipolice portland District Attorney who has a policy of releasing rioters, criminals and violent extremists without charge. He lied to the American People. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. He had the information, he knew how dangerous it was. While at the deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job on purpose. It was a lifeanddeath the trail of the American People. Watch live coverage of the first president ial debate on september 29 at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and watch all of our debate covered live or ondemand debates. N. Org find all past debates in our video library, and theres also a link to our campaign 2020 website with information and election results. Cspan. Org debates, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Cspans washington journal l, discussing policy issues that impact you. Morning, we discussed campaign 2020. Then, we talk about a new pbs frontline documentary, policing the police. Watch tuesday morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. Tuesday, up live on the u. S. House meets at 9 00 a. M. Eastern for general speeches and at 10 00 a. M. To consider legislation to provide federal grants to improve diversity in publicly funded Early Childhood education programs. Eight 15 am,at florida senator marco rubio interviewed by the washington post. At 9 15, secretary of state mike pompeo at the Atlantic Council to discuss his recent trip to europe and challenges posed by china. The Senate Returns at 10 00 a. M. To consider a judicial nomination to the u. S. District court in california. 9 30 a. M. Eastern, House Republican leaders talk about their legislative priorities if they win back control of the house in november. At 10 00 a. M. , the Senate Committee looking at if College Athletes should be paid. And at 2 30 p. M. , a Committee ConsidersGoogle Online advertising and if algorithms are harming competition. Next, Vice President mike pence campaigns in wisconsin. In his second trip to the state into weeks, the Vice President spoke to supporters at a holiday inn in janesville. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] janesville. Ing, pence,esident mike welcome back to wisconsin. [applause] have the viceo president here in my hometown. Mom and dad, thank you for coming. [laughter]