extensive as labor s and perhaps. overwhelming verges read what it was trying to achieve voters consistently put climate change as the number one issue affecting them and when you put the tea party side by side in fact had more to offer in that respect they were much more ambitious they wanted to get trend towards renewables and things like electric cars for example where is the government was quite happy to just on its commitments to the paris accord but not go further than that because of it was worried about the economic impacts so yeah it clearly agenda didn t connect to viruses also to i think personality played. to bill shorten as someone. i don t necessarily like he is he was involved in the downfall of 2 prime ministers and i think people with suspicious of him and perhaps
julia gilad so he s had a bit of a struggle sort of a getting trust from verges he s been plus the species of him and he s had a bit of an uphill battle to win them over you know everyone talking about all this political instability but australians are actually calling this the climate change election jared hang on we just want to have a look at what some of the voters are saying in australia about the climate. really more about the. future for the. south of me while i think greens of them i have an odd just because climate time she s so concerning and i feel like no one s really taking any serious action on making any serious moves towards her i d be very old labor with the greens mostly because where this is a time of change and i m going to these racial problems i was a really big one as well and they re really octon on doing what the government parties are diving off to do because it s our nose so clearly climate
it is a serious problem that the popular vote diverges from the electoral college and has done so a number of times and that is going to create doubt in people s mind about the legitimacy of the system. it is a problem that people understand the supreme court to be a political institution, no matter what the chief justice says, with trump judges and obama judges and red suits and blue suits. that is a problem. we need to think about ways to fix both of these things, but what we need to know is to think about achievable ways to fix them, not pie in the sky constitutional amendment ways. thank you! you re welcome. it just seems to me the senate s the problem. right. how they do this is the problem. but i think to ruth s problem, when you talk about packing the court, whether it s the electoral college and popular vote, it s reflecting people s anxiety about the legitimacy of institutions and the feeling that they re rigged. so by saying that you re open to proposals like that
stalwart republicans saying, let s reopen the government for another three weeks. put the president s $5.7 billion, now up to a $7 billion proposal to fund the wall, put it through the committee process. put it on the floor of the house and see what happens. obviously, that s not going to pass congress, but just the fact that some republicans are willing to take that step and reopen government, even if temporarily, diverges from the white house line. this thing the thing to look for if republicans head to head for the exits looking for an off ramp on this thing, you ll start to see real movement. this just might be the week, richard. it has been the week, the word off ramp and fig leaf as well, certainly is that time of year. and as members are back in respective districts, they re getting stories, potentially, from many not getting a paychecks. the ones who got a big zero on friday. the big egg. the new washington post abc poll shows that, who is to
presidency? those things not necessarily being the same. i was going to say there s increasingly big difference between what s good if the president and what s good for the country. as the president defends himself and his office and his election and whether the election was actually a fair and just and well done election, there s so many questions swirling around that as these increasing allegations come out from mueller about whether or not there was collusion in that election. what is good for the president and the white house seems to be diverging. as that diverges, republicans on the hill are becoming increasingly worried that their party might go down with this man if this man is going down. i think the thing to watch moving forward especially once democrats take the house is how do republicans on the hill respond. do they move to protect the president and do they say we re not going to protect him anymore? the mid term midterms still