Movement. Good afternoon, welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. I am the 112 president of the National Press club and i am the investigation editor at the associated press. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch and follow along on twitter at the npclive. In the audience today, there are members of the general public in addition to journalists. Any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. I would like to begin by introducing our head table, please hold your applause until all the head tables are introduced. Vall valerie jackson. A member of the National Journalism institute. Board of directors. Next is debbie. Adam eaton. A reporter at e e news. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowen a reporter at the energy news network. To my immediate right, a former npc president and the cochair that organized these events. We have amanda bennett, the director of voice of america and this years National Press club state honorary. Next to amanda is mary williams, james daughter. Next to mary, rebecca baker, shes Deputy Team Leader at Bloomberg Law and a past president for professional journalist. Gil kline, the university of oklahoma, Washington Bureau chief and pcs past president. Valerie hopkins. The correspondent at the financial pass. Thank you for being here. Actor jane fonda turns 82 this saturday. Pretty impressive, huh . [ applause ] however, she was in jail. Since she moved to washington in sech september, she engaged in what she calls the fire drills. Protest on Climate Change. Friday will mark her 11th protest and her fifth arrests. The idea she said came to her over Labor Day Weekend spent in big sur with friends and fellow actors. The burning case spur her into action. Last summer at my home state in california and young people like Greta Thunberg powerfully reminded us that we are the last generation that can prevent a catastrop catastrophe. I decided it was time for me to do more. The United States fonda says it is failing to act. Civic protests have defined her as much of an actress that brought her two Golden Globes and one emmy. But it is not always without controversies. During the tour in vietnam in 1872 to protest the war, fondas photo in hanoi appears to be aiming at american planes landed on the wrong side of public opinion, sidelined her career and stuck her with the nickname hanoi jam. It was a mistake she wrote that she will regret to her dying day. Changing climate, the world must address. Each of us one day will have to answer this question. What did i do to protect the planet for our children, grandchildren and so many precious species while we still have time . Please join me and welcoming jane fonda to our National Press club. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you for being here and thank you to the National Press club for having me here. Thanks to the Womens Media Center which i cofounded for a number of years ago. I lie in bed at night searching for the right words thatll galvanize people to action around the Climate Emergency and show them why it is too late for moderati moderation. I try out conversations what the fossil fuel industries have done for us. I get so worked up, i cant sleep. I tell my imaginary senator how back in july, 1977, james black, a Senior Scientist at exxon, the burning of fossil fuels influencing Global Climate that doubling co 2 gases in the atmosphere would increase Global Temperatures by 2 or 3 degrees and mankind had a small window of five to ten years before they would have to make hard decisions about new ways to get energy. Exxon knew 40 years ago. A decade later the fossil fuel industry scientists telling them the warm effects of their car go car Carbon Emissions could double. It would cause the disappearance of specific ecosystems, destructive flooding and low line farmlands. And that new source of fresh water would be rewired and dploe global changes and air temperatures would drastically change the way people live and work. The change may be the greatest recorded in history. The american midwest, other parts of the world would be desertlike. That was in the mid 1980s. You know what exxons executive says. This problem is not significant to mankind as a Nuclear Holocaust or world famine. And they continued to drill. Exxon, shell, mobil and others knew that their profit would not stand profitable unless the world understood the risks. They use the same consultants that Tobacco Company used to launch a huge communication effo effort, to develop strategies on how to fool us. Tobacco companies were primarily harming people who smoke. The fossil fuel companies are harming the entire planet and all its in habitants. The company not only hid what they knew. Spent tens of millions of dollars on think tanks like the Hartland Institute that promote false science and confusion about Global Warming so that people wont try to stop them. Their lines was and continue to be. Science about Climate Change is not clear and even if it were, the fault lies with the government and consumers and not with them. The thing is these Oil Companies have played a big role in actively stopping government r from enacting Clean Energy Policies with exxon leading the way, for example, exxon prevented the United States from signing the International Treaty known as the kyoto protocol to control greenhouse gases. Exxons tactic worked not only on the United States but also stopped other countries such as china and india from signing the treaty. This very year. Greenhouse gases hit the highest level ever recorded ever in human history. Our window to do anything is quick little closing. Fossil fuelling companies are expanding new drilling, mining, fracking and exports. Then there is plastic. Fearful that oil and Gas Exploration will be curtailed and wanting to maintain profits. Exxon actually proclaim recently our future is in plastics. Really . I mean really . They feel okay of saying a thing like that when we are facing the damage. Arctic e arctic ice sheets and water ways and on our entire species. Their newest attempt to fossil fuel production and infrastructures include the American Petroleum institute released a video called Americas Energy security, a generation of progress at risks. The video shows American Flag and statue of liberty making fracking and drilling patriotic and ban on them somehow weak weakening the country. The oil and gas industry like to say natural gas is a Bridge Energy that has a role in reducing Carbon Emissions but they ignored fracking contributions to increase highly dangerous Global Warming methane emissions. They denied the seismic danger of fracking, at the pollution of precious under water that provides Drinking Water to millions of people. A Coalition Calls pennsylvania against fracking is advocating for a fracking auditorium in their state and following visits from families of rare Cancer Patients announced nearly 4 million in funding for studies on the Health Impact of fracking. The fossil fuel industry has gotten the senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute which is paid for to warn for a global recession should the u. S. Ban fracking. The Manhattan Institute says the democratic president ial candidates climate claim are quote, pure fantasy and moving to Renewable Energy is not possible given todays technology and basic physics. They referenced notorious, the empowerment alliance. Several republicans, senator pat toomey introduced by the way, just so you know toomeys reelection against the progressive democrats was largely financed by Michael Bloomberg. Officials like senator toomey tells us that american oil and Gas Production is the only path to Energy Security. This narrative is add odds with the fact that we export so much gas and oil, i mean if we needed for Energy Security, what are we doing shipping overseas . This narrative also ignores the fact that 100 Renewal Energy which over 100 u. S. Cities have already committed to also creates Energy Security and dependence and for a comparable or lower price. Climate scientists are very clear. We can transition to newer newer newer newer forming emissions and resource extractions and a catalyst for a green economic transition, labor rights improvements and poverty elimination. We just have to break the strangle hold that the fossil fuel industry has on our government. Will we continue to allow these executives who committed crimes against humanity and the earth to keep on doing it . Not just with oil and gas and coal but with plastics, dangerous fertilizers and pesticid pesticides. Most americans realized that we are paying them to do this with subsidies more than 16 billion a year, our taxpayers money. Oil change International Says 45 of their existing drilling would not guilbe profitable wit these subsidies. We cant allow this to continue. The fossil fuel industry has controlled the u. S. Government and too many governments for too long. This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and experti species on a unimaginable scale. Last year the Governmental Panel on change published its report. The worsening disasters we are already seeing and the additional warming thats already bake d in because we di not act 40 years ago. We dont stand a chance, a changing course in time without profound, systematic economic and social change. And they said we have it best 11 years before the Tipping Point is reached. 11 years to reduce fossil fuel emissions roughly in half and then continue to reduce to net zero by 2050. Yes, we are facing a climate crisis. We are also facing an empathy crisis and inequality crisis. It is not only the earth life support system that are unraveling. The fabric of our society is unraveling. It is going to take an all out war on drilling and fracking and deregulation and racism and colonialism and despair all at the same time. Now, some people say we cant deal with it all. When we try to solve problems with inequality and in justice that it never works. The problem we as we are facing require all of us to join the fight. Fossil fuel workers must continue to earn good union wages and benefits. In people of color have to see they we dont want be viewed as sacrificed or cancercausing waste from the Oil Industries getting dumped. There will be a plan to invest in their communities to rebuild and restore. All you have to do is look at what happens when there is no plan that sercenters workers. Look at how people have been treated in former coal countries. Suffering from lung disease, many are too old to be trained for jobs. With healthcare and pensions being cut . The fossil fuel industry leaves 11 trillion of fracking in the future. These are called stranded assets. Their workers must never be stranded assets. Thats why those who are working to address the Climate Emergency supporting the Green New Deal. This is what provides the framework to bring all of us together into a sustainable future. Proposals that dont set fairness and justice will not pass. Yes, it will be a huge disruptive super ambitious under taken and yes, it will cause a who whole lot of money. The last three years of the total cost of a billion dollars, weather and climate events exceeded 450 billion. We cant find the money. And remember this country is kind of been here before. In the 1930s, a massive financial collapse. It was also an environmental collapse and my dad started a movie that shows what happened to foreigners. And it was a time of huge social unrest of labor protests and riots and in the streets of a grown inequality, demanding the government stepping up with large Scale Program to help alleviate the hardship. Do you know what roosevelt said to them, i agree with you, go out and make me do it. It is really important that we remember that. They wont do it unless we make them. So they did. With the force of public pressure behind them, president roosevelt launched the new deal. It was largely by executive order, roosevelt created Government Spending programs that millions of people in hundreds of public projects back to work across the country. The civilian conservation employed 3 million young men to restore the great plains. Thousands of farmers could move away from places that could not support them onto fertile lands into towns or cities, they became the new american little class. The associate Social Security administration that we have. This is the kind of brave leadership that we need to see for our next president. On december 9th, just this last december 9th, a consortium of policy experts that released a plan taking actions starting day one to confront the Climate Emergency without waiting for congress. By the time of the inauguration, well have ten years left to reduce fossil fuels by half and we are saying to the next president , we have ten years, you have ten days, ten executive actions to do in ten days to make history and make change course from the climate. The actions included in a media halt and new fossil fuel. Use the Clean Air Act to slash greenhouse pollution and a prosecution of fossil fuel polluters. The plan urges the next president to ensure and protect workers and communities, disproportionately harm by the car gone pollution economy. The plan is intended to work alongside actions taken by congress, state and local government as well as international partners. The rich and powerful hated the new deal. Hated roosevelt because it sets a precedent for the government to play a central role for economic and social affairs of the nation. It was criticized as socialist. Bankers triied to overthrow roosevelt, big business and big railers against him. There were millions of people in the streets demanding that roosevelt do more because it was helping them and because of that, it succeeded. The same interests that hated the new deal are the ones telling us today that the Green New Deal is bad that government should not be so involved in economic and social regulation and they convince a lot of people of this. Big government is evil they say but it is not the size of the government that matters. It is who the government is working for. And for too long, it has been a government controlled corporation, those fossil fuel industries. This is why it has not been working for working people. And powerful forces are against the efforts to change this. Just like back in the 1930s. Already there is a branch of new laws supporting and happening across the country thats criminalize protests aimed at fossil fuel and infrastructure. These laws are called Critical Infrastructure laws. Since they reclassified fossil fuel and infrastructure as critical. In order to justify harsh penalties around advocates and exercising their Constitutional Rights to peaceful protest. This is a huge problem. Scientists say we need to cut fossil fuels in half. Protesting the expansion of fossil fuel is being crimin criminaliz criminalized. The fact is the Green New Deal are in line of what American People have already done when there was no choice and there is no choice. Have we known that the fossil fuel industry in the 1970s, we could have begun a nice, black and white and incremental transition of a new economy off of fossil fuels. They lied and they hid the science and as a result, we lost decades. And our carbon budget, the amount of budget we cant still burn without passing the Tipping Point. Now because of the fossil fuel industry, it is too late for moderation. And given the emergency it is those in believe in moderation in pretrump business as usual who are truly delusional and those who lie and helicoptconti lie of what they are doing. They should not be awarded with tax cuts and secretary of state. I beg people to think about how they can ratchet their activism on climate. Not as individual but in with others, which will wake more people of urgency and the focus of changing policies, shifting power and electing brave people who are not scared in the face of the crisis and now, i am addressing the media in the room. It is hard to get people to increase their activism when only 43 of americans report hearing about Climate Change and 23 said they never hear about it. We cant fix the climate kries if we are not talking about it. If we are going to build a robot climate movement, we need to media to step up. The announcement of the global collaboration news outlets called covering planet now is an encouraging sign. Very grateful for that. More Media Outlets need to begin to draw links through extreme weather echbvents and the clima crisis. Need to stop taking ads. There is not, there is not 97 of Climate Science agree about the prices and agree of its causes and the timing remaining to act. There are two sides of the story narrative continues. If americans realize the level of consensus among scientists, they would not want to do something to prevent the worse from happening. And also here is another thing. While it is important to write about the tragic impacts of climate crisis, it is also important to give people a hopeful vision of what can be by reporting on what city like seattle and oakland and los angeles and boulder and states like new york and maine are already doing to transition from fossil fuels to sustainable clean energy. Right about the young climates glob globally who are trying to draw attention to climate and asking folks to take action. On behalf of the future, this is it. Folks, this is the time, thank you. [ applause ] i am talking at so many rallies, i am losing my voice. Thank you very much. We have practically 6,000 heres. I dont think well get through all of them. Well do our best. I would take a moment not to defend the news industry, too. If you know about the globa global we can always improve. I wonder about you are pointing specifically to exxon and the fossil fuel industries, do you think there are more blame to go around . You are pointing specifically. I think it is absolutely essential. For too long and even the Environmental Movement talks about Sustainable Energy and windmills and solar panels and they dont point their fingers at the culprit. Even the most famous environmental organizations because it is scary. We have got to acknowledge what is happening because no matter what we do, we can pour billions of dollars into, you know, building out windmills and the alternative energy. If they keep on drilling and fracking and exporting, it is not going to make a difference. So we have to start calling out the people who are responsible and it is not our fault, okay . It will be our fault now that we know and we dont do every single thing we possibly can. What brought us to this is not our fault. It is the fossil fuel industry. [ applause ] you mentioned several times of the next administration. What will it mean for activism if President Trump is returning . Well, one of the reasons that have moved to d. C. For four months to engage in these teachins on thursday night and once a week actions on every friday is because it was the best way that i can think of of using myself and my body and my platform, that makes me kind of popular to raise the sense of urgency to get the word out wider than it had been. Unfortunately, there is a cult of celebrity and so i get covered when foster whos every friday in front of the white house and other young people protest every friday dont get cover covered. The reason to answer your question is because i am well aware the person elected whether republican or certain of a democratic kan democratic candidate may not be brave enough to step up on the plate to do what roosevelt. Massive numbers of americans in the streets mobilized and organized and demanding, demanding and even if the best person with a climate plan gets elected, we still have to be in the streets holding their fate to the fire. When we elect someone that we feel thats a good person, oh, good. Now i can learn how to garden or learn a new language. Thats all fine. I have seen it and you know there is a big advantage of being old because you can look back and see president s. I have seen president s and ones that dont do and dont force people in office to do what they need to do. Terrible things happened. So no matter who gets elected and including that guy. We have to organize and being in the streets and demand. I was asked to speak to the senate task force on Climate Change. And, i asked, you know, am i doing the right thing . Can can you give me some advise. Senator ed markee said to me, you are building an army, make it big. They need the force to do whats right. Come on folks. Do it. We got to organize. [ applause ] maybe some of you heard of anthony, the scientist at yale. He told me that 43 million americans would do something about Climate Change but nobody asked for it. We have to talk about it, everyoeven with uncle bob at christmas dinner. He probably has grand kids. Find a way into peoples hearts so theyll feel that they have a responsibility to do something. We have to talk about it. We dont seem to have in our culture like there may have been a few decades ago, what do you think have changed . Where were you the day after trumps inauguration . I was at work . You were at work with your head in the sand . Didnt you watched tv, there were a million women in the streets . California, 750,000 men and women and children in the streets. It was the largest mass demonstration in the history of los angeles. People are out. They are not big enough numbers and one of the things i have learned that i did not know. You dont know, you give a party and nobody comes. I didnt know what was dpoinggo happen. I realized after five fridays, it got fraction. People are coming from all over the country to do something they never done before. They are transformed. It is so hard in this day and age to align our bodies with the deepest values and sbecome integrated with people and thats what these actions do. If we tap in and without making sure that we are tapping into a deep need in a whole lot of people in this country to take the next step. Take the next step. We have very little time how do you plan to continue . I try to get a year but the head of netflix could not arrange it to give us a hiatas from frankie. I have four months. The last one is january 10th. I go back and do the last season of grace and frankie and travel, i want to devote two years of my life to devote an army. Is somebody here ready to take off the slack after you are gone . I dont know, well see. They have been here all along. They have been here for a year. The young people have been doing this every single friday. They are the one that inspired me and theyre going to stay behind when i am gone. But, they are here. What do you say to people of what you are doing . I say, okay, okay, fine. It does not matter. You think i like doing this . I have a four month old grandson, i feel hes going to be in college by the time i get back. I have a dog thats my soul mate that i wanted to bring but she as seizure on the way to the airport. I miss her every moment, it is hard being here living in a hotel room. But i have gotten a lot of publicity because i am a celebrity and so thats why i am doing it. I have two tree hugging fear less daughter, how do i keep them encouraged after President Trump intimidated Greta Thunberg . Help them feel sorry for him. Help them understand that a man who could do that to a girl like greta is so empty and lacking in empathy and compassion. We need to be compassion. We may hate the behavior, we have to understand the behavior is the language of traumatize so we dont hate the traumatize. Then encourage them to see whats happening with the students all over the world and tell them they can join a movement. Here is the thing, it was not just with the fire drill on fridays that i learned a long time ago. Activists are at dontidotes. Better than prozac and other things. It lifts you out of despair and start doing something more than you have been before. When trump was elected, i like many of us, i felt like a truck had hit me. I am so desperate and then i went to standing and the depression lifted. I was very depressed when i moved to d. C. Because i knew i was not doing enough and i came here and i started these actions and the depression lifted. It is very interesting. I encourage you to try it. If you had five minutes with President Trump, what would you say to him . I do have empathy but i am afraid there is no changing him. The day after the election, i had to go to atlanta to speak to 1600 women. I hatched a plan on a way because i kind of known men like trump, well, not as bad. I sort of know those inclinations. I am going to get three or four of the most beautiful, volupt voluptous, activist, Pamela Anderson is one of them. If you sign this, well make an appointment and see trump and well get on our knees no, well say to him, President Trump, you can be the hero of the entire world. You can be the most important human being ever to be born. The most better perfect, wonderful and big and huge if you protect the planet. So i called Jared Kushner and i told him my plan. Ivanka is the environmentalist of the family and i will have her call you. She did. I told her my plan and she laughed. She never got back to me. Pamela anderson was ready. That was the only way i could think getting him to do it. He wanted a hero forever. Women appeared to be taken the lead in climate movement, why do you think women are so proud and what do you see of the role of women specifically . It is interesting that we have gone from ten people being arrested to 53 people being arrested and friday will be more than 100 and in variably three quarters of them are all women. As Gloria Estefan says it is not that we are not better than men, we just dont have our masculinity to prove. Gloria, what will we do without her . Um, think about it. Starting with reaganism, the public sphere, Civil Society began, it was deliberate. Margaret thatcher who has been saying there is no such thing as a society. It is obvious why these kinds of people dont want us to think about the collective good about the commons and about our interdependence. Thats what we know in our hearts, thats when we start to organize. Hearts, thats when we start to organize. Women, for biological reasons, for evolutionary reasons, profound reasons, are less vulnerable to the disease of individualism. We just are. Way back, hunter gathering time, the men would go out as individuals with the spears to get the tigers. It was always iffy if they were going to bring any meat back. It was hard. It was an individual task of great courage. But the women stayed back and they helped each other, they helped raise each others children, they helped deliver each others children. Human babies are the hardest of all to deliver and raise because our heads are so big. You know, eo wilson once said he thought god granted the gift of intelligence to the wrong species, they should have given it to species that dont eat meat and have no thumbs, like whales and dolphins and porpoises. But anyway, so women were there around the campfire helping each other. The grandmas were really important because they would stay back with the little babies, but they knew where the tiger was and they knew where the good water was and they knew where the best roots were. The women depended on each other. This is in our dna, very deep, us women, the sense of int interdependence. And i think thats why, in this moment of grave collective crisis that requires a collective solution, that women would be in the lead. And it moves me very much. And most of the women coming to get arrested with me are older, not as old as me, but theyre old. And we were talking about how much we like getting older. Yeah, its really cool. I mean, if youre healthy, if youre healthy. We both have issues, but they dont define us, right . Yeah. But what was i going to say . Right. See, when you get older, i mean, what have you got to lose, right . Im not in the market for some guy thats as scared as older women, scared of strong women. Ive been married three times to one of those. I dont need that anymore. Im on my own now, ive got time and ive got courage. And thats why older women are stepping up. Grandmas unite, right . [ applause ] so you in 2005 helped found the Womens Media Center with Gloria Steinem and robin morgan to, quote, ensure women are powerfully and visibly represented in the media. What do you think the status is and the biggest achievement of the Womens Media Center . The status of women in the media or the Womens Media Center . The Womens Media Center is just fine. The status of women in the media. We train women. We let news organizations of all kinds know, we have the shesource. Too often a network or a magazine, well, we couldnt get a woman because theres no woman thats an expert in this, that, or the other. No. We now have lists. We have lists of all the women that are experts in all kinds of things. [ applause ] so were doing good. But theres a lot of work to do. Yeah. You were once married to ted turner, i think most people here know that. He created cnn. What do you think when you watch the network now . Oh, i will always be nice to ted. I was sitting like right there when he gave his last speech in this very room. That was when jerry levin was taking over teds what ted built. And ted, he said, i feel like a woman who has had genital mutilation. I see a wideeyed man out there. How many of you ever knew ted . Im sorry there are not more. It was a treat to know ted. I miss ted and i think cnn misses ted. But, you know, cnn is good. Anything thats not fox news is good. [ applause ] i mean, cnn tells the news. As do a lot of other networks. They just need to talk more about climate. This is another nonclimate question. Whats your view of the portrayal of a female reporter sleeping with a source to get the story in the movie richard jewell, its based on a person thats now deceased. I have to see the movie before i can comment on it. I havent seen it. A question from somebody in germany. Just like Greta Thunberg is for younger generations, you seem to be a symbolic figure for the older generation. Are you protesting because you feel the need to make up for what your generation has done to the environment . Hey, wait a minute, now. My generation didnt do anything to the environment. It was the fossil fuel industry knowingly harmed the environment, not my generation. We didnt know or we werent paying close enough attention, maybe. But basically the information was kept from us. So dont feel guilty. Guilt is a terrible you know, unless you deserve to feel guilty. And we dont deserve to feel guilty for whats happened to the environment. So i dont agree with that. What is that, oh, boomer thing, what is that . Whatever it is, its wrong, its probably started by the fossil fuel industry. Here is somebody looking for some concrete information, possibly they want to join you. Where coudo i meet you on frida to get arrested . Were right there behind the capitol. Whats it called . Southeast lawn. It starts at 11 00. You know whos going to be there . Gloria steinem, delores huerta, martin sheen, reverend barber. Thats just to mention a few. Its going to be my 82nd birthday and were focusing on health and climate, which is a very important issue. [ applause ] starts at 11 00. What kind of actions can state governments do to transform to 100 clean Energy Without the federal governments support . Its not easy without the federal governments support. But some of the cities that i mentioned, like seattle and oakland, and a state like maine, the key thing weve discovered is for all of the stakeholders to be at the table. If labor isnt at the table, it doesnt work. Labor has to be there. Front line community, people of color. The communities that have been the most impacted. Indigenous communities, where those are. And state legislators. And a lot of lawyers. And one thing that becomes clear when you look at whats happening in all these cities, there isnt a cookie cutter. Thats why it has to be decentralized, because every city has different challenges and different opportunities, depending on topography, depending on their proximity to water, depending on a lot of things. Depending on already existing public transit, for example. So they all are doing it a little differently. But in all the cases, labor has signed on. And that is a critical i mean, when you think about the 1930s, without labor being there, it wouldnt have happened. So thats what they do. Its different everywhere. What do you think is the biggest misconception about you and what would you like people to know that might change that misconception . I dont care. [ applause ] next . All right. Next. Its sort of in the same vein. The Washington Post reviews your book, my life so far, talks about how complex your causes and convictions have been, calling them a, quote, beautiful bundle of contradictions. What do you think of that description . Is it accurate . Beautiful bundle of contradictions . Well then, whoever wrote it, or else maybe it was my fault, because theyre all interconnected. Theyre all interconnected. Women, war, environment, climate, injustice, racism. Theyre all connected. Thats one reason why i insisted when i came here and we started fire drill fridays, that every week we focus on a different aspect of the climate crisis, so that we can show the new word that everybody is int intersecti intersectionality, we can show the connections between them. Maybe i just didnt write my book well enough so that i made those interconnections visible. Maybe i need to write a new one, i dont know. In your extra time. There are several questions about the recent United Nations convention on climate in madrid and what many questioners have said are the disappointing results. Well, yeah. It was disappointing, i think we hoped it would conclude with some concrete successes. But one thing was very important, and it hasnt been reported in the press very much as far as i know. And that is that for the first time at one of these conferences, they talked about the the fossil fuel industry. They named names. And that is new. And that is essential. So thats good. And i guess now we wait for the next one. And, you know, we just have to make our voices heard. A lot of people are asking who is your favorite candidate for 2020. Im not im not whoever wins, we have to mobilize in the streets in huge numbers and hold their feet to the fire. And it doesnt help anything for me to say who i prefer. I mean, i know you know, ive said pretty clearly its too late for moderation, so i guess that tells you something. You know, the idea that going back to what existed before trump. Trump isnt some unicorn that appeared out of nowhere. There was a reason he was elected. The solution requires addressing the reasons he was elected. And thats why i like the Green New Deal, it will not only solve the climate crisis, it will address the reasons that someone like trump could get elected in a country that is supposed to be a democracy. This is where you clap. [ applause ] Michael Bloomberg has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to stop Climate Change but hes also spent a lot of money electing republicans, including in the 2018 midterms. Do you consider him to be on the same side as you . I like michael. I admire much i love his work on gun control. But i dont like the fact that he supports candidates i mean, pat toomey in pennsylvania was running against a very progressive woman, and Michael Bloomberg put a lot of money into toomeys campaign, because toomey is good on guns. But hes terrible on climate and fracking. So theres a lot about where bro bloomberg is coming from that i dont like. On top that have, i dont like people buying their way into the electoral process. Weve got to get money out of politics. [ applause ] so we are almost out of time. But before i ask you the final question, i just want to present you with the very highly coveted National Press club coffee mug. Cool. Or anything mug. [ applause ] thank you. This question seems to have come from many, many corners. How much fun are you having working with lily tomlin . Oh, yeah. Shes coming friday the 27th to get arrested with me. [ applause ] grace and frankie do jail. I love lily tomlin, okay . Lily tomlin is an inescapably loveable human being with the largest talent of anybody ive known. Im just i feel very blessed that i go to work every day and get to see her radiant face. And we love each other a lot. [ applause ] and sorry, one final. Somebody asked whether you ever intend to bring dolly parton back into your threesome. Weve tried. Dolly is kind of busy. She might. She wants to, she says. So i dont know. But we keep trying. Jane fonda, thank you very much for being with us at the National Press club. Thank you very much, i appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] the nations Unemployment Rate stayed at 3. 5 last month, even as employers added 145,000 new jobs. The Labor Department attributes the job increase to retail and hospitality sector hiring during the holidays. The jobless rate stays at the same rate for the second straight month and remains at the lowest level in 50 years. Sunday, on American History tv on cspan3, the 1999 interview with the late senator robert byrd prior to the impeachment trial of president clinton. We have a great body of evidence before us, much of which is sworn testimony already. It hasnt been crossexamined. But it would be possible in my own mind for us to conduct a trial without having witnesses called. Sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Next, a hearing on the nasa workforce. Nasa officials and s. T. E. M. Education teachers talk about working with universities to help get students ready for jobs in the space industry. Good afternoon. This hearing is called to order. Im very pleased to see a hearing on s. T. E. M. And math and