democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s
information, which suggests officials believe trump knew he had classified documents and released allegedly intentionally did not return them. justice department prosecutors made the case for secrecy warning, quote, evidence might be destroyed. even saying the affidavit would provide a road map as well to the investigation. that does not appear to be resonating with the judge, who set in motion the possibility at least of releasing a redacted version of that affidavit, something that could happen as early as next week. and in a cnn exclusive report, some former trump allies are calling the president s claims that he had a standing order to declassify documents, quote, i ll paraphrase, bs. cnn watched out to 18 former top administration officials from the trump years and all of them told us they never heard of any such order, issued during their time, in the trump administration. but, first, a critical deadline for fulton county, georgia, prosecutors, just expired. they had un
that s a process that we didn t cause and can t control to any great degree. we will never be able to control. there s upsides to it and down sides to it. by the way, if the earth is indeed getting warmer and seems to be, that will make more airable land in canada and northern europe. so like everything in this life and the temporal world, it s a mixed blessing. you only hear the down sides, which tells you a lot. tells you this is not science. it s manipulation. these are not report from the experts, these are threats. here s joe biden. that s what climate change is about. it s literally not a clear and present danger. the latest climate report nothing less than code red for humanity. say it again. code red for humanity. tucker: code red for humanity! he never explains what that means.
chains back home. it strengthens people s belief you can t rely on china too much for the battery materials processing. reporter: this is china s strongest and longest heat wave on record. lasting for more than 60 days, pushing temperatures above 110 degrees fahrenheit in some regions. it put extreme pressure on the power grid, because of spikes in air conditioning use and hide re power plants that are struggling to meet demand. droughts are sweeping across the country. parts of china s longest river, the yangtze and other reservoirs have completely dried up. fire trucks are sending water to places struggling to get enough drinking water. villagers line up with their buckets. in this south, the heat and droughts are ravaging crops, impacting 159 million acres of airable land. many regions are taking desperate measures, central hubei province is firing rockets
people in the nile delta run out of airable land and freshwater and have to go is north into europe? what happens when the glaciers in the himalayas stop providing enough freshwater for both pakistan and india? here in charleston, south carolina, it s so real they re planning for a billion dollar seawall, and they re completely rezoning this historic city to deal with the realities. but the politics in washington continue to whistle past this graveyard. joe biden s build back better plan would spend about $350 billion a year including a big carrot and stick program for big utilities to move away from planet-cooking fuels and into renewable resources like solar and wind. but senators like joe manchin say that s too expensive. in the meantime, they approved a $750 billion a year budget for the pentagon, 10 billion more than they asked for going forward there. of course, all of this comes as we count down the days to cop-26. that is the conference of parties who signed onto the