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our children from the devastating effects of covid and now the first variant, delta. who knows what is next? these folks are responsible and they are costing lives. it is so interesting. all of the data that i have seen suggests that where children are getting sick, they re getting sick in unvaccinated households. you re right. it is what adults can do to protect children. congresswoman madeleine dean, thank you for making time for us today. it is nice to see you. when we return, a major new report on climate change warns that a hotter future is now unavoidable. there s a small but shrinking window to prevent the most terrifying worst case scenario. that story is next. ah, there s no place like panera. enjoy the toasty, saucy chipotle chicken avocado melt on freshly baked bread. panera. order on the app today.
this comes as the trump administration is working to assemble a panel that would re-evaluate the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions. chuck schumer said if president trump moves forward with this panel, he is going to try to defund that panel. this is beyond willful ignorance. this is intentional, deliberate sewing of disinformation about climate science by our own government. so this cannot stand. so this morning i m announcing that if the trump administration moves forward with this fake climate panel, we will be introducing legislation to defund it. so this panel was organized by the white house, being organized by the white house in response to a report on climate change. that report was compiled by several federal agencies. president trump didn t like the conclusion.
countries moving ahead because although the paris agreement was ambitious, it didn t have concrete detail and now the countries are adding detail you need to know the ingredients of every dish that s on that potluck table and you need to know that we have enough food sort to speak, reductions, to actually hit the target. that s an advantage. there s a new poll, this confuses me. a new nbc news/ wall street journal report on climate change. this is partisan saying 71% of democrats believe it s serious and requires immediate action. 15% of republicans agree with that sentiment. what kind of a challenge does this pose for you as a researcher? it seems to be appealing to people of a political stripe opposed to everybody. i agree. a thermometer is not republican or democrat. it doesn t give us a different number but when we act as if it does we are making decisions
climate change is real. it is already being felt in america and around the world. it will surely get worse. it is and will continue to be bad for health, agriculture, infrastructure and much more. and it will cost america hundreds of billions of dollars a year by the end of the century if unchecked. those are the findings of a damning new report from the federal government released quietly the day after thanksgiving. i don t believe it. president trump, the head of the federal government, scoffed at the report telling the washington post, a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, but we re not necessarily such believers. such a response does not surprise my next guest, the best selling author michael lewis, who spent more than two years reporting on first the trump transition, then the trump