created this moment where joe manchin has created more doubt that your legislation will pass, and you ve -ot legislation will pass, and you ve got a legislation will pass, and you ve got a very legislation will pass, and you ve got a very conservative supreme court got a very conservative supreme court about to take a look at whether court about to take a look at whether your epa can regulate greenhouse gas emissions. what s your message to people outside who worry your message to people outside who worry this your message to people outside who worry this isn t enough given the crisis? worry this isn t enough given the crisis? . worry this isn t enough given the crisis? , ., . ~ worry this isn t enough given the crisis? , ., ., ,, ., , ., crisis? first of all, i think anyone who is focused crisis? first of all, i think anyone who is focused on crisis? first of all, i think anyone who is focused on the crisis? first of all, i think anyone i who is focused on the env
instructions with their negotiators. around 100 countries have already signed up to cut the potent greenhouse gas methane by nearly a third by the end of the decade. but away from the glitz of the main stage and down a quiet corridor in a tiny office a sign ofjust how hard an overall agreement will be. chinese president xi isn t here, but one of the most powerful people you have never heard of is here in his place. chinese climate negotiator. my discussions with john kerry and alok sharma were very constructive, but there were still huge gaps. he criticised developed countries for not coming up with cash that promised to help the less wealthy go green and warned that focusing too much and limiting global warming to 1.5, degrees as borisjohnson wanted could destroy the consensus. i am cautiously optimistic i
one of the things that s been positive here in recent days is that de might their disappointment at a number of key things they had pushed hard for, progressives i spoke to last night and yesterday in the senate and house, indicate a willingness to move forward with this package and now there s text that folks are working through over the weekend and optimistic we ll have a vote some time in the coming week. how concerned are you about china? i know, you know, you re an important voice on foreign relations and china testing this hypersonic missile that national security officials whom i ve talked to are very concerned about. we heard what the chairman of the joint chiefs milley said, it could possibly be a sputnik movement, a game changer in terms of defense policy and a military threat from an increasingly aggressive china and president xi isn t even at the g-20. one of the reasons i am so glad that president biden is our leader at this moment, he s at
be at the united nations in order for china to overhang everything and dominate it. what does president biden need to accomplish? setting the tone matters in this moment. i think more than words, people will be looking to actions from the white house. what are they planning to do on issues like climate change, human rights, the democracy summit in a few months, what will it mean for the world? what is the white house trying to achieve? i really go back to china and that relationship, of what people are looking through the lens. the white house made this calculus that there is this blowup between france and the u.s. what they are building with this situation with the australians and the british. there s reports out of the uk today that they, too, are going to move their nuclear-powered submarines over to australia. this is a larger play. this is just sort of the many ways the first building block. while president xi isn t there, you can be certain having the two other bigger economies
what s worst than that, steve mnuchin the treasury secretary went on fox news and he was asked a question of well, what & this all about the president calling jay powell an enemy of the people, and mnuchin said, well, president xi isn t such a bad guy and he never mentioned powell at all. wow. so even the treasury secretary wasn t willing to come to the defense of the chairman of the fed as a man of integrity, trying to do the right thing. and in the views of every economist a superb chairman of the federal reserve. and so when i want to just jump in, steve, ask you quickly, trump has a lot of tools still in his economic kit. i m wondering if there are ways you think he could try to juice the economy as we head into the election year? there s been talk about a payroll tax cut. other things he could do that would try to flush more money into the economy. to help his re-election chances. what do you think of the