heat. 2023 was the year the world woke up to the climate change threat. i don t think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. what have we learned and what will next year look like? plus, landmark act. world leaders agree to transition away from fossil fuel, the chief driver of the climate crisis. we re not turning back, that is the future. but with loopholes in the agreement, is it enough? former vice president al gore is ahead. and seeing green, as governments around the world struggle to combat climate change, what role does wall street have to play? who s got the money on lock by being able to make it profitable. i ll ask the multibillionaire investor who is focused on climate change. ray dalia is coming up. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is sounding a very clear alarm. we are closing out 2023, a year we may look back on as the time that people started to truly grasp that the climate crisis is here and
democracy. no independent media or independent civil society. he and allies bought it all up. the ultimate expression of kind of right-ring populist authoritarianism. even orban, however, has had to take a somewhat anti-russian line in this. even though prior he was a pal with putin expressed admiration with putin. that sounds familiar, but in the conflict constrained because the hungarians are, of course, outraged by what they re seeing, but it s a sad reminder that if you keep taking steps away from democracy, and if you allow into power people who are fundamentally not committed to democracy, you could lose your democracy forever. viktor orban may be able to, with another term in office, fix hungarian democracy, destroy the norms the institutions to a point where, i don t know. it becomes unrecognizable.
that is true. the stagnation for 40 years has been responsible for the wave of populist authoritarianism that is not only present in the united states, but quite a few countries around the world. i m a member of the democratic party, and i will say that both parties have to respond much more effectively to the deep concerns and anxieties that americans have been expressing and they have not gotten the kind of response that is needed. we spoke of norms being change and when we have the president criticizing the justice department for not being partisan enough. ugh. and how do you counter act that? well, the rule of law is the bedrock of the united states of america. going back to the magna carta, long before our revolution and our founding, we cannot allow that to be challenged or overturned. this experiment with trumpism is