Giving up the new leases on federal lands for natural gas. martha: well, doesn t work that way. renewalable energy except for hydro is far more expensive than natural gas, for example. what mr. sullivan was suggesting is americans pay much higher prices for their utilities and fuel their vehicles in return for some distant promise of renewable green energy. martha: the president and chancellor have walked out. let s listen in. we had a very productive meeting. i think our staff wondered whether we would let them in at all. we spent the first half hour together and it s been a very useful meeting. one of the things that struck me is the shared values that each of us a of us approaches
Folks, it is the only way we can deal with the crisis on climate change. there s not a lot of time left. we need a clean energy revolution. we need it now. we have to start now. we have to move on what we ve already built. by the way, we have to stop saying clean energy and job creation don t go together. they do. they do. we need so set the most impressive goals possible. folks, we have to work together to get it done. look, we re never going to convince the climate deniers or the special interests. even now, some of the special interests, polluters, are realizing, the gas and oil industry, automobile manufacturing, they re saying, mr. president, you have to do something about global warming. the oil industry would be under water. not a joke. not a joke. the automobile industry, they agreed when barack and i came along and said, we ll double the
Benefits of a good economy in 1996, as he ran for re-election. it is the way it is going to be. i don t think that s a debate that he is going to be able to win. i thought his comment about climate change was, frankly, a cop out today. i don t think that s going to be very inspiring to the people in the democratic party who this is their number one issue. you mean you don t think it was enough there is a lot of energy you feel there no. to say, i ll give you my plan, i ll give you my plan after i beat the other guy. now, look, there is plenty of time for him to develop policy, but i would be stunned if that were enough for the most liberal activists for the democratic party, to say, i ll beat trump, and that is the plan. alexandra, is that how you heard it, when biden said, my climate plan, beat trump. did you hear him say, elect me, i ll tell you later? how did you interpret that? i think there is a
Decisions and this plan, particularly around climate change, and in the wake of what s happening right now with the administration. it is not about just being angry for no reason. people are really, really hurting. i want a country, too, that is united, but it s got to be krooe y united around actually believing america is possible. we look at climate change and tackle it with the same way we looked at when we tackled war d war ii. embrace a bold vision, like expanding medicare for call. when you talk about going up against the special interests that are halting progress on these issues, you know, yes, the economy is moving towards renewalable energy, whether we like it or not, but it is going to take someone that is going to stare those people in the face, that is going to take on the multi-billion dollar lobbying exploration that is halting progress on health care, climate change, rising income
There. i wonder whose campaign he is with. while he s lashing out at his political opponents, obsessing over his personal grievances, look, the rest of the world isn t waiting. china isn t waiting. they re pibuilding 5g, masterin ai. they re rewriting the rules of the internet. they re moving into areas that should not be abandoned by us. the rest of the world hasn t given up on the paris climate accord. they re pushing it. they know it is essential to human existence. folks, the greatest challenges we face in the future will be over technology, intellectual property, clean energy, a warming planet. there s not a single thing that building a wall or imposing another tariff can address on