look at that, there s a whole lot of crazy right there. election deniers. insurrectionists. weirdos, freaks, you have it all. the republican candidates in arizona, all of them extreme, all of them insurrectionists, all of them people who actually don t believe in american democracy. they believe in their form of government, where, well, you only recognize elections where your side wins. and this is what folks on the far right have been working on for quite some time. what this says about trumpism and the future of the republican party. also, a russian court sentences wnba star brittney griner to nine years in prison. we will have reaction from president biden and the latest on efforts to get her home. and monkeypox now declared a national public health emergency. we ll speak with a top health adviser about this later this morning. willie, we have a lot to talk about. we also have some polls out of ohio. it seems that butter is down by 10 or 11 points, according to h
big piece of this legislation, steve, as you point out in your second chart, is the biggest action on climate change in american history. what are we talking about there? this is quite extraordinary, willie. so the chart here shows we have, in fact, been reducing our co2 emissions gradually over more than ten years, but we need to accelerate that to meet our targets under the paris agreement, which is that little red dot down in the bottom right corner there. the dotted dark line shows what would have happened without this legislation. we would have continued to reduce our emissions, but we wouldn t have gotten close to paris. this actually, in the turquoise dotted line, as you can see, makes up half of the gap. it gets us about halfway from where we would have been to paris. there s still more to do, but that s an extraordinary move. it is a huge package of tax credits and incentives, some government grants, that we have to pour through the details, but