want these heat extremes to be categorized as a federal disaster. is that the right call, given the fact that this is, in all likelihood, going to be an ongoing situation for us to be grappling with? my own feeling is that most of the measures that are going to be taken in response to these hazards are going to be initiated locally. it would be nice to have those officers and those officers well-funded. it would be nice to know that they have the support of the federal government. but it s not primarily, i think, going to be a federal response it s gonna be a local response. what we really need is an understanding at all levels from a rhetorical, through the political, down to the individual, that we are living in a very different world. and we are not going to be able to respond to the threats of this new world in the same way or at the same scale that we responded to threats of the past. and we need every policymakers and every leader at every level to understand that quite clear
investments in the infrastructure of 2030 or 20 can handle the actual weather of 2030 or 2035, and we don t find ourselves standing at this incredibly horrifying gap between what our local communities can adapt to and can endure, and what they can t. david wallace-wells, thank, so always, for your time and thoughts, david. really preceded it. that is our show for tonight. and a quick note to all of you heard that last block, will hurd, he s of course running for president, but he is pulling it close to 0%. so, is he really running for president? i m getting. now it s time for the last word with ali velshi, who is in for lawrence. good evening, ali. it s by the night at ten pm, and the indictment watch continues. we are, actually, still on the lookout for a possible indictment in connection with jack smith s special investigation after donald trump posted this about a meeting between his lawyers and justice department officials. quote, i expect nothing from
phones. this is just starting to develop right now. on the u.s./north korea relationship. we were talking last block. constantly talking to white house officials. the door is open if they want to talk. there has been no engagement. they have continued to escalate very aggressively. there are missile launches and tests. what s your sense right now of not the u.s. relationship with north korea but just north korea generally and what they re trying to accomplish? north korea we all know there are ebbs and flows of how much noise they make. we do have unusual event going on where we have a port call of ballistic ship that s happening in south korea, which we know has agitated them. but you know, my sense is they re a country that is deeply in poverty and gets attention when they have bad behavior. and the bad behavior is something that they periodically insert into our lives. we just have to manage it. but, it s interesting to me that these things are happening around the same time.
last block. the policy issues, we got into the abortion law. i want to talk about the biggest issue and that is the debt ceiling. take a listen to what the former president said when it came to how republicans should hold their position going forward. take a listen. i say to the republicans out there, congressmen, senators, if they don t give you massive cuts, you re going to have to do a default. as president, he said absolutely can t put this on the line. should be something that we use to negotiate over. i m more interested, what do you think the effect is on the republicans in congress right now? i mean, he was pretty sh shameless saying i m president now so i can take a different position. i think on this issue, until americans really dee digest what this means for them that, is when i think lawmakers are going to feel the heat on this. until that moment, we re seeing sort of early signs that some folks are having concerns about
said. jackie, it s sam stein here again, i was mentioning it last block, but this goes to the idea that republicans are living in a closed off ecosystem, where they think bringing in someone who is on the record saying trump should be prosecuted and committed more crimes than he ,g him in as a key witness. my question is a technical one will the subpoena work could pomerantz say, this is an ongoing investigation. i m not going to prejudice it. if he fights the subpoena, what will republicans do after that that s what he is being advised to do right now. he s previously told the judiciary committee that he wouldn t be providing records or documents when they initially sent him a request this was prior to the subpoena the general council from the manhattan d.a. s office advise that pomerantz not cooperate with this. it is longstanding policy,