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Brand, wealth, everything hes worked to build is under threat right now. The former president just left a new york courtroom for a lunch break after facing off with the Attorney General. Just moments from now well lay out the significant stakes that trump faces. Plus Kevin Mccarthys speaker ship is in danger. His lastminute deal to avoid a Government Shutdown could come at the cost of his gavel. The new and growing threat from inside the Republican House caucus. The pointed warning that this is the new normal, flooded streets, floating cars, water pouring in from the walls. As challenges grow and infrastructure increasingly buckles across the country, what can be done to combat Climate Change . Ill speak with two leading experts. We begin with the empire that made donald trump into a mogul and a president , on trial right now in New York City. Trump decided to be in court and face the judge that has already ruled he consistently committed fraud. Before arriving he acknowledged on social media hes fighting for his name and reputation and once there echoed familiar complaints that he is the victim of a Rogue Prosecutor and judge. This is a continuation of the single greatest witch hunt of all time. It was never a default. It was never a problem. Everything was perfect. There was no crime. The crime is against me because we have a corrupt district attorney. We have a corrupt Attorney General. Attorney general Letitia James sitting in the direct line of sight to trump today put out her own statement, quote, no matter how rich or powerful you are, there are not two sets of laws for people in this country. I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst paul butler, also writer at large for the bulwark and msnbc political annual nift tim miller and New York Times Investigative Reporter Suzanne Craig who has been listening inside the courtroom. Suzanne, i think you were in the overflow room. Whats going on today . Reporter i actually had a pretty good view because we had a view of the whole court including the former president. We started with opening arguments like a lot of trials do. The new York Attorney general, they made her case today saying, and what they have to prove, because remember, weve already had a finding and Summary Judgment that the fraud the main allegation has been proven, and now what the Attorney General has got to do is naive got to show their evidence and theyve got to show it was a conspiracy. Theyve got to convince the judge how big it was because theyre looking at damages. Theyve asked for 250 million in damages. It could go above that. It might come in below that. Theyve got to make their case. On the other side which was just fascinating to see, we saw as mr. Trump looked on, one of his lawyers got up and made a very audible and angry speech to the judge saying this was a witch hunt, donald trump was a victim here. I was surprised, she just continued i wouldnt say i was surprised. It was probably not surprising, but kind of shocking to hear, they immediately started doubling down on some of the things they said that are false, things like maralago is worth a billion, more than a billion dollars, things that hes said in these Financial Statements that are in question. Doral is worth more than a billion dollars. Even at one point she said to the judge, you said it was just worth 18. This is not a jury trial. Its from the bench. The judge actually stopped her and said, i have never said that. Donald trump repeats a lie and peemd think its true. Hes doing that even here today, now accusing a judge of saying something that the judge hasnt said. This is so different, paul butler. Its one thing to play to a jury. Its one thing to be emotional, to make that kind of vociferous appeal to 12 men and women, a jury of your peers. Very different from a judge. Tell us about the dynamics that play out thats very different from what most of us are used to saying on law and order. Trump actually had the option of a jury trial, but he preferred a judge decide his case. He didnt get to choose the actual judge, and he probably wasnt counting on judge eng engoron. Last week when Trumps Team Asked for a delay of the trial, the judge had a twosentence response, decline to sign. Defendants arguments are completely put out there. The judge is going to decide this case on the law, not on whether he likes donald trump. The judge has sworn an oath to be impartial. The judge also knows that however this trial is resolved, there is certainly going to be an appeal. Vaughn, whats behind trumps decision to voluntarily be inside the courtroom today . He got to choose a judge. He didnt have to be there today. He made that choice. Why go facetoface with a judge youve called deranged . Reporter i think its important to note that what donald trump, by being inside of that courtroom today, sure, yes, the political angle of this. This is him telling his supporters hes defiant. Hes going to stare down the judge, stare down new York Attorney general Letitia James. As he was leaving for the lunch break, he looked directly at the new York Attorney general and glared at her. Also part of this is hes able to listen directly to his own attorneys attempt to defend him in front of the judge. Not only alina habba who is the spokesperson for his legal team, she went before the judge and said she hadnt intended on speaking today until new York Attorney general Letitia James went and smoke from the steps and she went on a monologue making the case this is a politically motivated case, the likes that Michael Cohen shouldnt be believed. Also, this is Donald Trumps opportunity for him to hear from chris kise, his lead attorney, go and present the defense on his behalf. This could have very broad implications for donald trump, not only politically but financially in the future of the Trump Organization. Chris kise, his lead attorney, that future in so many ways is now in his hands. So for donald trump outside of being able to come and sit here in trial and hear from his attorney specifically defending him, there are no cameras that are streaming this line or recording this in realtime. For him, donald trump has gone through attorneys quite frequently in the past. He has led some to exit on their own accords and has fired other attorneys. Notably in just the last year, except for chris kise, this is an important opportunity for him to watch his attorney go and present the case and see whether hes happy with the work of his own defense attorney. I want to bring in msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin who has joined susanne. Give us your impressions of what you saw today. What is legally significant and what is the mood inside that courthouse . Notably after his florida indictment and at his arraignment. There is a lot of excitement in the courtroom and a lot of folks in that courtroom including tons of Court Security officers and secret service. Then, of course, you have the defendant himself, donald trump who, although accompanied by his adult son eric, who is also a defendant, sat at the counsel table. Eric did not. He sat in the gallery. Donald trump, you could told how he felt the arguments were going by his Body Language all throughout. In particular as judge engoron was going back and forth you saw a lot of arm crossing, head shaking, even pushing from donald trump, almost as trying to push chris kise to say certain things, doing the same thing with alina habba. I think the demonstrated performance by alina habba, in marked contrast to chris kise, was not as intellectual or methodical, just all passion was because donald trump prodded her to that, because he was dissatisfied with the performance of chris kise who is talking about very, very specific and Pond Rouse Accounting Principles in his opening statements. Let me follow up on that. We talk about how extraordinary everything is from donald trump. To have him in the courtroom, very nearby is the Attorney General who decided to pursue this case, in addition to the judge whom he has tried to rip apart. What was that like . Give us your impressions of just that dynamic. Tish james came into the courtroom much earlier than donald trump did. She sat there with the press for almost an hour as we awaited the former president s arrival. She sat in the gallery, not wither lawyers. At one point trump seemed like trying to get her attention, almost to dare her to make eye contact with him. She didnt want to. Then when he left the courtroom at this last break, he walked very slowly. As he passed her in her front row seat, he looked down and gave her a defiant glare. Tish james looked directly ahead. There could not have been a more dramatic staredown than what we just witnessed. I was reading everything from your piece, sue, that donald trump believes just by being there he can influence the outcome of this trial and he took advantage of it. When he went in, he spoke. At the lunch break, he spoke. I want to play what we just heard from him. Were going to be here for months with a judge that already made up his mind. Its ridiculous. Hes a democrat judge. Hes an operative and its ridiculous. Other than that, things went very well. Sue, he doesnt often let sort of a temper show. He has these lines he uses all the time, but you can feel and see and hear the frustration in his voice with that. You really could. You could also see it in court today. He was angry. He walked in angry, and at times he looked a bit bored during some of it. Boy did he perk up when his second lawyer got on. She was audible, almost yelling at times at the judge. I have to say the idea this may help him being here, im not sure about that. This is the judge that just last week found him liable on the fraud charges, on the main charge. Today in court the lawyer one of the lawyers was sparring with the judge and was saying things that the judge has never said. I can just imagine this is not sitting well with the judge. This judge is the one thats ultimately going to decide when we go into the Penalty Phase what is it going to be . So i found that was just interesting, his decision to show up today and just the temperature in the room was very high. He was very angry. Well, that leads me back to the judge, paul, if i can. If i can call them antics. I dont know. You can forcefully defend your client, sfliet again, how is that likely to play . Is he going to be immune from the fact that donald trump goes out in the lunch break and rips the whole process to shreds . I think the judge will be immune from trumps antics. But lisa used just the right word to describe what the lawyers are doing in court. Its a performance. Its a performance for donald trump, their client. It has nothing to do with the rule of law. Trump out of court called the judge a deranged democrat who is trying to take away his property. Thats playing more to his Political Base than a court of law. If the lawyers do that in court, theyll get in even more trouble. I say even more trouble because last week the judge fined five of trumps lawyers 7500 each because he thought they were acting inappropriately in court. Thats more money, a bigger sanction than tish james asked the judge for. Its the lawyers on the line here in terms of how the judge responds to this case, much more than the defendant donald trump. Tim, it may not help him legally. Apparently isnt helping the pocketbook of his lawyers. Having said that, trump truly believes, right, that this is going to help him politically. We know from Michael Cohen, at least what cohen says is trump did all this because he wanted to be higher on the forbes list, inflate the numbers, increase the value of his assets. He wanted to be higher in ranking. For him, his reputation, his standing, peoples belief that he is this great businessman is so important to him, i dont know if this will change the opinion of a single supporter of donald trump. Is there any way in which you see it helps him, it advances him politically . I dont think that this case is the particular threat to him politically. I guess if you were going to look at how this could conceivably help him, he is running as an antiestablishment candidate. I think theres a theory among some of the establishment republican times that all of these court cases will add up and people will get sick of him. I think the opposite has happened. Despite the fact hes a former president , its ridiculous from an objective standpoint. But it plays into the narrative that hes antielite, that people are out to get him. That helps him with the maga base. I dont know how much that will help in the general election with general election voters. Theres another case about the Trump Organization thats coming up which is this fraud case where he was involved in a multilevel marketing scheme, acn, and he screwed over for people that signed up, thinking they were going to get rich like donald trump and they lost their savings. I think that type of case is much more vulnerable than his lying to deutsche bank. I think it depends on who his victims are, on which ones are more vulnerable for him politically than others. Let me take you back into the courtroom, sue and lisa. First of all, what comes up next after the lunch break . Sue, im curious, what are you looking for Going Forward . Who are the key witnesses in a legal sense. People want to see what some of the people closest to him have to say but who the other folks are. Lisa, let me start with you and what youre looking for later today. After the lunch break, chris, the first thing i think thats going to happen is were going to see the prosecution call their first witness. We understand that witness is likely to be donald bender. He was Donald Trumps Lead Accountant. One thing interesting about alina habbas presentation, in addition to her tone being so different than chris kise and cliff robert who represents donald trump jr. And eric trump, she put the blame on ms. Czar. Essentially they had disclaimers saying these were performed by accountants, why is nobody investigating the czars. I think we can look to that crossexamination to be a much more strenuous and heated one than we might have expected than someone who served as Donald Trumps Lead Accountant for a period of many, many years. Accountants are traditionally Mild Mannered people. I dont think this examination will be Mild Mannered. After that, sue, who else . Who will you be looking at . One other point this afternoon is alina habba, trumps lawyer saying not only diz ms. Czars prepare the statement, thats not what my reading says. Theres disclaimers on them. Theres a big defense for trump, there are these disclaimer. They say we were provided information and this is all on donald trump. So i think how that exchange goes this afternoon is going to be really important. Going forward, were going to see a number of trumps testify. Whether or not they take the fifth i think will be really interesting. At the end well have someone come in who is a discouragement expert. Thats going to be crucial because it will determine ultimately the penalty that will be paid. I think part of what we saw today, and i really want to make this point because i think its important. Today the other audience for what was going on, donald trump was clearly the most important audience for his lawyers, but the Appellate Court is very, very important in this. This is going to go on appeal. Trumps team is very angry at a number of the rulings that have happened and they are playing to the Appellate Court as well as their client. Would you expect, paul, a difference in tone between crossexamination, again, always an interesting thing to watch, but in terms of the prosecution and defense, what would you look for . The prosecution is basically already proved its case. The main issue thats going to take three months to resolve is just how much money in damages trump has to pay. Im not sure what the defense is. Again, theyre going to say that how much real estate is worth is subjective and theyre going to also make that point about they have all these disclaimers that said were not saying these Financial Reports are exactly right. The problem, chris, for that defense is that the judge already resolved many of those issues when he ruled in favor of tish james, that motion for Summary Judgment last week where the judge said basically the receipts of this case, the evidence including that submitted by donald trump makes it clear that there was fraud. Again, the main issue is just damages. Of course, donald trump who spoke, as i said, going in, coming out for the lunch break isnt the only one who had something to say. Here is Attorney General tish james. Donald trump and the other defendants have committed persistent and repeated fraud. My message is simple, no matter how powerful you are. No matter how much money you think you may have, no one is above the law. So, tim, this isnt a trial that could send trump to prison. And as you rightfully point out, it isnt one where you can look at a lot of victims that people might relate to. Deutsche bank is probably not going to gender a lot of sympathy for what happened there. What do you think is at stake beyond trumps personal wealth, obviously . Is james right about the message that needs to be sent . I dont think we can understate how important this is for him. I think others that were there testified to just how personal he seems to be taking this. This is how he sees his legacy. Its his baby, his business. Thats tied to his ego. Thats where this moves from the legal into the political. His whole aura, his whole ego, this invincibility about him, somebody who became rich and put his name on top of all these famous buildings and became president , if that is undermined to such a degree that it was all a house of cards, that it was all a fraud, obviously i think thats going to impact how he responds personally which will have a political impact. I think it has an impact on his broader brand, maybe not for his core base, but for particularly low Information Voters who are trying to determine what yet still whether they would get on board with him another time. It looks like lunch break is ending. Donald trump once again speaking to the cameras. We have our cameras there, obviously our reporters there. Well keep an ear to it. Well keep you posted. In the meantime thank you all. Appreciate you very much. Up next, the Government Shutdown averted for now. Can Speaker Mccarthy keep his job . Weve got that in 60 seconds. 60s at this hour were learning more about congressman matt gaetzs plan to challenge Kevin Mccarthys leadership. Moments ago the florida congressman hinting on the house floor that a motion to vacate, in other words, essentially fire the speaker, could come later this week. The chaos of a Possibility Shutdown averted over the weekend with the help of democrats has been replaced by new fights. What will the speakers battle look like . Joining us is nbcs ali vitali on capitol hill and jake sherman, cofounder of punchbowl news and an msnbc contributor. Ali, what did matt gaetz have to say . A lot of words, but not specifics. We asked how this might work. Gaetz telling reporters on the front steps including myself he would introduce a motion to vacate some time this week, he didnt specify. He said he didnt think hed have the votes to oust the speaker but said he would do this as many times as he saw fit. I asked him the critical question who, if not mccarthy . He couldnt provide an answer. Instead choosing to filibuster. Ill show you more of that conversation on the steps after he left the floor. Who would you want to see as speaker . We have a lot of talented people. There are probably hundreds of republicans i would vote for as speaker. We need to rebuild trust. We need someone who can connect the most conservative features of our conference to the most moderate features of our conference. I understand that. Im not running for speaker. I understand it might not be someone who agrees with me on every position. Reporter again, its the ageold question of you cant replace mccarthy with nobody. Right now gaetz is not proffering a name. One he did throw into the mix casually is steve scalise, the number two House Republican here. His health has been something that might make him doublethink a run for leadership. Again, no one is outright talking about challenging mccarthy. For gaetz, hes throwing this motion to vacate at the wall, hoping for the chaos of it. Not something we pressed him on. The idea that, if he kuntz putting up motion to vacate votes, this would effectively paralyze an institution that his party is the majority and holds the power to, he seemed unfased by that, instead listing things that he thinks mccar they didnt abide by, from the concessions he made to hardliners in january, things like a supposed side deal with President Biden on ukraine funding. That, of course, is something that gaetz has challenged mccarthy to speak to. He also mentioned the idea that in the speaker ship rule making process, mccarthy agreed that members should have 72 hours to read legislation, that he wouldnt do things by suspension. Both of those things happened on saturday to avert a Government Shutdown. So while mccarthy says this is all personal, gaetz is saying its all about policy. I think its probably more a mix of the both. Jake, i want to play a little bit of what republican jason smith said about a possible effort to oust mccarthy. The only way a motion to vacate could be successful is if matt gaetz did exactly what he yells at Speaker Mccarthy doing and thats working with the democrats. In fact, hed have to get more than 200plus democrats to join him to remove Kevin Mccarthy because more than 200 republicans are 100 behind Speaker Mccarthy. Jake, pick up where ali left off. Where does this go from here . Apparently there are a hundred republicans out there who could be speaker. With all due respect to mr. Smith, thats not exactly the case. These are typically in typical times votes for leadership, especially on the floor, although we have had a motion to vae kate, are party line votes. Whether democrats vote with Mccarthy Or Against mccarthy is not gaetz pairing with them exactly. Thats an important distinction. Listen, i dont know if Kevin Mccarthy is going to be speaker by the end of this week. I dont know the answer to that im not saying he will or he wont. Its really, really difficult. To be clear, if mccarthy stays speaker, it will rely on democrats. I dont know at this point if he can get 218 republicans to be with him, and neither do his aides, Leadership Aides as well. They think if mccarthy can become speaker, its either because democrats sit the vote out or vote present or somehow dispose with this motion otherwise. Mccarthy has vowed, his aides have said, Leadership Aides have said they will not negotiate with democrats. Democrats should do the right thing and not line up with gaetz. Democrats dont see it that way. There has to be some sort of conversation between mccarthy and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries today or tomorrow morning to figure out what democrats are going to do. If they dont figure it out, it could be quite messy for mccarthy. Whats the likelihood that happens and whats the likelihood that Hakeem Jeffries is include to help any republican out. It wont be cheap, lets put it that way. If youre asking the minority to save the majority speaker, thats a very big askment i cannot imagine that democrats are going to do that for free. I just dont think thats going to happen. But all of that said, the calculus for democrats to make is a few things. Number one, can they extract some sort of rules concession out of him . I think mccarthys aides say the answer is no. And what stands on the other side of mccarthy. By the way, we havent heard from the administration on this yet in a substantive way. Does the Administration Want more ukraine aid . I think its very unlikely as it is. It becomes less likely if Kevin Mccarthy is not speaker and its someone more conservative than Kevin Mccarthy. So democrats listen, this is a republican problem that mccarthy is going to need to ask democrats to solve for him. Democrats have a big choice to make here. I think well see more and more of that in the next 1224 hours. Democratic leadership meets tonight, the steering committee, a Caucus Meeting tomorrow morning. I think the shape of this will become more clear in the next 24 hours. Ali, for anybody who doesnt follow this closely, why would he go to the democrat . Why not go to the republican who is making trouble, right . Is there anything Kevin Mccarthy could offer to matt gaetz to go away . Even if there was, is he inclined to give gaetz anything . I dont think so on either of those scenarios, chris. It goes back to what we were talking about and what i was talking about with congressman gaetz. Mccarthy on the weekend chose, and he says this to as many people as will listen, that he thinks this is all personal for gaetz. There might be a sled of that, that the personal is swirling in the pot. Certainly personal relationships are the currency on capitol hill. Its how deals get done. Its probably why its a nonstarter between these two men at this point. For gaetz, he was very clear to outline to me and other reporters just now, that for him, this is about mccarthy violating some of the rules he created while doing negotiations with his hard rank flank back in january to get this job in the first place. You have to think about all that in tow at that time. Its not one singular thing. Its not just personal, its not just politics. Its always a mix of all of those things. Thats why mccarthy might have no choice just as he did on saturday, but to look left, having exhausted all the options within his own conference, having looked at the numbers, looked at the realities of whats movable, whats not. It may be concessions to democrats could get him where he needs to go if hes running up against brick walls from his own conference. Hed certainly take fire from that from some of the right. Now now, whats the alternative . Ali vitali, jake sherman, thank you. Former President Trump just spoke in his defense during the lunch break. 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Reporter every time donald trump has had the opportunity to take the microphone, hes taken the microphone. Donald trump could very well decide to testify himself and go before the judge and actually answer questions of the prosecutors. Theres been no indication that he intends to do that. Instead hes going to use the microphones that are available to him and he will continue to talk. Take a listen to part of what he just said just moments ago. This rogue judge, a trump hater. The only one that hates trump more is his associate up there, the person that works with him, and shes screaming into his ear almost every time we ask a question, a disgrace. Reporter chris, he spoke for several minutes. As you can hear the sirens, several of the streets around the courthouse are shut down. His motorcade awaits him. The only way for donald trump to hear the pending trial go forward is by being in the courtroom himself and hearing his own attorneys come to his defense. As for the other remarks that donald trump said, were listening to several minutes of remarks. Of course there are personal attacks against Attorney General Letitia James, suggesting this is nothing short of a witch hunt and since she ran for Attorney General has been, in his own words, out to get him and thats exactly what this lawsuit is. Hes also made direct attacks on the judge overseeing this case suggesting he should even be disbarred. He also made very specific remarks that nobody was defrauded for this, the banks didnt lose money, the lenders didnt lose money. This will ultimately play out over the next two to three months and will be the determination of the judge, to extend to which hes liable for these financial fraud claims. He also made reference of an Appellate Court ruling over the summer in which ivanka trump was taken out as a defendant. She is no longer going to be taking the stand she, i should say, is no longer a defendant along with her brothers and her father and the Trump Organization. Last week the Appellate Court threw the ball back into this judges determinations to analyze the extent to which the statute of limitations may clear donald trump from facing the civil suit brought by the new York Attorney general suggesting numerous claims made by the prosecutors happened at a time previous to which he can be liable for. Ultimately the Appellate Court, much to the chagrin of donald trump did not expressly rule in his favor and not throw this suit out. He was hoping that at least the Court Proceeding would be delayed. Instead the Appellate Court said today would be the first day of the proceedings. The question is whether the Appellate Court could still jump back into this case which donald trump in his remarks is clearly hoping for, suggesting he is believing this judge would be a biased one. As the judge laid out in his ruling last week, as somebody unlikely to rule in his favor in these months ahead. Thats been his consistent defense. Still months to go in this trial. Vaughn hillyard, thank you. Supreme Court Justices are back on the bench today with a number of political Lightning Rods on the document. Among those issues, should guns be banned for anyone who is the subject of a Domestic Violence Restraining Order . Should states prevent social Media Companies from censuring their users . How much power should the federal government have over things like Financial Institutions and Environmental Protection . In addition the justices could hear arguments in a case to limit the availability of mifepristone. Scorching heat waves and flooding destroying aging infrastructure across the country. Up next, whats happening to our globe with Climate Changes firm grip and how can we fight back . Youre watching Chris Jansing reports only on msnbc. 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Thousands of basements and ground level apartments, entire livelihoods destroyed in near minutes by rising waters. While the east coast is having its rainiest fall season in 140 years, another alarming sign from above courtesy of nasas satellite. The color of the ocean is shifting from blue to green, signaling an abrupt change to the waters ecosystem. Dr. Michael mann, aptal distinguished professor of earth and Environmental Science at the University Of Pennsylvania and author of the new book our fragile moment, how lessons from earths past can help us survive the climate crisis. David lip see, the author of the parrot and the ig gloo. David, you live in new york. It was a deluge. The government declared a state of emergency. Parents got frantic calls to come and get your kids from school. We cant have them here. Whether its here or texas or the plains or hawaii that we were warned about decades ago. We were warned in 1979 by the National Academy of sciences, if this continues, theres no reason to doubt that Climate Change will occur and no reason to believe that those changes will be negligible. Here we are. Roger ravel, first generation to the Great Professor that dr. Mann belongs, he warned that within 50 years Carbon Dioxide could have an effect on the climate. How fragile are we especially when it comes to aging infrastructure and overall, infrastructure not built to sustain the rain, the winds, the snow, the heat that were now experiencing . We built this massive Global Infrastructure over thousands of years during a relatively stable climate, there are 8 billionplus people who depend on that infrastructure and its threatened by the fact that were now changing the climate. Thats what makes this moment so fragile. Were warming the planet at rates that have no precedent as far back as we look. What that means is that we are losing the reliability of the infrastructure that helps sustain this very large population, helps provide resilience in the face of extreme weather events. Those events are getting more extreme and theyre starting to pass thresholdtion as we see with New York City where theyre no longer just a nuisance, they become catastrophic in their consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels and go down this road, its worse than the new normal. It was mentioned a new normal earlier in the segment. Its an evermoving baseline of greater warmth and other extreme weather events. The good news here, the science tells us, if we stop burning fossil fuels and stop putting Carbon Pollution into the atmosphere, the surface of the planet stops warming up almost immediately. So theres a direct and immediate consequence of our efforts to act. I want to ask you who to lead the charge. Youre both professors. Michael, ill start with you about young people. They are turning high anxiety over Climate Change and we know they have it, into action. First a successful lawsuit in montana that argued the states failure to combat Climate Change wasnt constitutional. In portugal, six young actiists are fighting 32 countries, offering that Climate Change is threatening their basic human rights. What are they fighting for, michael . What might the world look like when theyre our age if theyre not successful . Yeah. So, and it comes back to the theme here of the book, urgency versus agency. We see the urgency, but urgency without agency, without anyway of changing things can be debilita debilitating. The fortunate thing here is we see with these young folks that we do have the ability to change things. The Youth Climate Movement has had a massive impact. It has changed the entire conversation. We see these court cases that are going to now require that governments take Climate Change more seriously when they make decisions, for example, about granting new fossil fuel infrastructure. Were making some progress. Weve seen Global Carbon emotions stabilize. Theyre no longer rising. Were making progress, but were not yet making enough progress. Thats why we have to take advantage of this moment, this fragile moment where theres still time to act, take advantage of the door that these young people have opened for us but now we have to collectively walk through that door. We have to make the decisions, we have to vote, we have to do all the things these young folks cant yet do so we dont leave a degraded planet behind for them and their children and grandchildren. Professor lipsky, there are young people organizing who are not buying into the denialism that you spent five years researching and writing about. What is it that changes people from maybe a household where theres denialism or a culture where they operate thats in denial . What does history tell us about it . Is it public pressure . Is it political pressure . Is it courts . How do you see change coming and what role young people are playing in it . Its putting your hand on the stove and drawing it back. Before, i think, the few people that did this study in june, only 54 of the country believed that Climate Change was a major threat. Ap did a study last week and 87 of americans believe they have been touched by an extreme weather event. Thats a huge jump. That was up by 10 since july. Thats the change. Thats what Climate Scientists said would be the change, were going to see this happening. I was watching the footage on the monitor, and that was like a Thought Balloon over Climate Scientists heads since the late 1980s, which is this is going to happen. Lets try to avoid it. The deniers knew that kind of like in the science of smoking, which you write about in your book, it would start to shift because you put your hand on the stove . Exactly. The scientists believed that. Along the same lines, what actually stopped people using tobacco were the courts. It wasnt actually politics. The master Settlement Agreement was all of these states settling with Phillip Morris at all in knorr of 1998. And so this movement is something that Climate Scientists like jim hanson has seen coming too. Politics may get bottlenecked, people like matt gaetz get in the way. The courts come through. It taps on us on the shoulder. This is happening. I found out that my water proof boots werent water proof at all. It took ten years to learn that. There are two books, ive read them both. Terrific. Michael man, david lipsy. Some of europes top diplomats in kyiv today. A Show Solidarity for ukraine. The u. S. Stopgap funding bill includes nothing for kyiv. In europe, similar signs of political strain are emerging 19 months into this war. Eu official says this unannounced informal meeting, the first ever held outside eu borders was intended to signal the blocs unwavering support and to discuss the peace plan. While that meeting in kyiv may be symbolic, the conversations taking place on capitol hill could really be A Matter Of Life And Death for ukraine. In just the past two hours, nbc news reported theres roughly 5. 4 billion left in funding for ukraine, according to a u. S. Official. Broad bipartisan majorities in both chambers support sending more aid to help. But a faction of those hardline House Republicans were able to shut off that lifeline in this latest spending bill. And in the process, raised doubts over whether it will ever open again. Nbc news chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is covering the response to the u. S. Funding deal. Always good to see you, richard. What are we hearing from kyiv and the kremlin about the Government Funding Deal without aid for ukraine, and the impact it might have on the war . Well, you know, people are very frightened when they dont say anything at all. Thats the situation we have in kyiv right now. I have had many conversations with ukrainian officials and in private, they will tell you they are very nervous. They are worried that the United States is giving up on them. Theyre angry and frustrated because they feel they are risking their lives, in many cases giving their lives to not just defend their country but the cause of freedom. They say that if you stop supporting ukraine in its efforts to defend itself that you go back to appeasement. They believe this is another 1939 moment, and that the world saw what happened when dictators and fascists were appeased at the dawn of the second world war. But they know they cant say that out loud. They dont want to antagonize their friends. They want the russians to remain their enemies. They dont want to pick fights within the coalition. They know that the polls are facing a very similar situation. The polish government, which has been immensely supportive of ukraine and supplying weapons and supplying funds to a degree, hosting many refugees, they are now facing pressure from the far right as well saying weve done enough, we have spent too much. This is an openended commitment. We need to spend more money at home for the polish people. Very similar kind of rhetoric that were hearing in the United States. And the ukrainians are saying its not just about ukraine. History has shown that if dictators are allowed to gobble up their neighbors, that they wont be appeased. They wont be satisfied. They will keep going. But so far that argument is not having the same sort of weight that it did six months ago, a year ago, when ukraine was making Rapid Advances on the battlefield. Appreciate your updates. 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