highways, roads, bridges, public trains et cetera. but we will see, with regard to the disappointment the disappointment relates to the fact that russia, including not only russia but china basically did not show up in terms of any commitment of climate change. there is a reason why people should be disappointed in that. i found it disappointing myself, what we didn t do we passed a number of things in the subsidization of coal, we make commitments from across the board in terms of what were going to bring to the g26 and i think the old saying goes the proof of the pudding, we have made significant progress and more has to be done but it is going to be required of us to
basically didn t show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change. and there s a reason why people should be disappointed in that. i found it disappointing myself. but what we did do, we passed a number of things here to end the subsidization of coal. we made commitments here across the board, all of us. all this raising the stakes for the u.n. climate conference this week. nbc news correspondent josh lederman is in glasgow with a preview. reporter: climate activists from john kerry to uk proipt boris johnson has said this summit in glasgow is the world s last best chance to avert the most catastrophic effects of global warming and to keep hopes alive for meeting that paris agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. the big focus, what kind of commitments are countries going to make to curb their emissions now, not in two decades or in three decades. a lot of these commitments have
i don t buy the argument that this is bigotry or excluding certain points of view. it s simply she said her piece and nancy pelosi and other democrats said hers. jake, the reason i brought up the iraq war, we can t divorce this moment to what congresswoman omar was speaking to. talib says those whose parents came from that part of the world are closer to the consequences of the same american add vunturism or subsidization, be it in israel or iraq. and there is a response that is a lot more visceral when the people you know and love, who have names are made to suffer because of american policy. and i think the failure to see the broader point that representative omar was intending to communicate, i think, is it takes, unfortunately borrows from the