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Transcript 0:00 was reportedly said to vote to release its report on former FL former Florida congressman and Trump's new pick for attorney general Republican Matt gates for years now the Ethics Committee has been investigating a string of allegations against Gates the most serious being the allegation that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl potentially violating sex trafficking laws Gates denies these allegations but this week just hours after being chosen by Trump for attorney general and just days before before the Ethics Committee was set to potentially release its report Gates resigned from Congress and now Gates's Republican colleagues are saying that by resigning Gates is no longer under the ethics committee's jurisdiction and so its report and whatever is in its report should not see the light of day it is all a very convenient series of events and excuses however the house Ethics Committee has released reports on lawmakers after they have resigned multiple times in the past president is 1:03 not in Matt Gates's favor but Republicans control the house and so what this really is here is a test of party not predent as far as the timing of a release or report or something I don't I don't know the speaker of the house is not involved in that can't be involved in that so um I'm not really the person probably to answer that question now that was the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Wednesday the day that Matt Gates resigned Johnson's stance then was that as the speaker of the house he is not involved in Ethics Committee matters like this one in fact he cannot be involved that was Mike Johnson's take on the matter Wednesday and this is Mike Johnson's take on the matter today I believe it is very important to maintain The house's tradition of not issuing ethics reports on people who are no longer members of Congress I think it would open a Pandora box I think it's a very important rule that should be 2:02 maintained if it's been broken once or twice it should not have been because that would be a Pandora's Box oh yes the classic Pandora's box a box that you can open several times without incident but if you open it again be careful or maybe don't be careful who can know not only is what speaker Johnson describing here not a Pandora's box it is also a full 180° from his stance 2 days ago that he could not that he would not get involved in this issue at all when asked today by The Washington Post if he would do anything to prevent the ethics report from being released Johnson responded I'm going to request that it not be that is pretty involved if you ask me so what changed what did Mike Johnson do between Wednesday and today well I want you to take a listen to Johnson's answer after his whole Pandora's Box 3:03 Spiel it's a very important rule that should be maintained if it's been broken once or twice it should not have been because that would be a pandor box I think it's a very important tradition to maintain about I'm not talking to anybody about what I've said to Trump yes there we go last night Mike Johnson spent the evening with Donald Trump at a Gaya down at Mara Lago speaker Johnson doesn't want to talk about what he Trump discussed but somehow somehow in the past 48 Hours Mike Johnson stance on whether or not as Speaker of the House he should try and stop the ethics report about Matt gates from being released somehow in the past 48 Hours Mike Johnson stance on that issue has completely reversed I wonder how that happened Donald Trump has picked the most radical group of potential cabinet members in American history Fox News host Pete hegseth for defense secretary V vaccine skeptic and conspiracy 4:05 theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr for Health and Human Services secretary Tulsi gabard to head the nation's intelligence agencies Matt gates to run the justice department it is truly an unbelievable group of nominees and the question now is will any Senate Republicans stand up to block their confirmation it would only take four Senate Republicans an any4 to block any nominee now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Republicans in the Senate see Matt Gates's nomination in particular as doomed people familiar with discussions among Senate Republicans said that far more than three of them are prepared to vote no other estimates ranged from more than a dozen Republican no votes to more than 30 it won't even be close another person told the journal that might be true or that might just be how Republicans in the Senate feel today 5:03 who's how who's who can say how they might feel a few weeks from now how much are Republicans in the Senate underestimating the weight of Donald Trump's thumb on the scale here Mike Johnson wanted no part in the gates Ethics Committee report migas two days ago and now he's leading the campaign to make sure it never sees the light of day as one house Republican told the Washington Post today it's a given Trump's going to beat us into submission Trump has already even floated a backup plan a plan for how he could still get the Senate to allow him whomever he wants in his cabinet even if he doesn't have the votes recess appointments essentially Trump would just tell the senate to take an extended vacation allowing him to bypass the confirmation process on the premise that the Senate is out of town and according to the incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thun that option is 6:01 very much alive so you have said that you would do recess appointments if it came to that uh what's the threshold for getting to that point for recess appointments well I what I said is BR and I think this is that all options are on the table including recess appointments hopefully it doesn't get to that but we'll find out fairly quickly all options are on the table we are now facing the first real test of the Republican party we might even be gearing up for a lowke constitutional crisis Congress after all is supposed to be an independent and co-equal branch of government the legislative branch is supposed to check the power of the executive branch but now Donald Trump is looking at these Republican Senators and saying jump and the question is will they respond how high there's no question he's a leader of our party that means a leadership if Donald Trump says jump 3 ft High and scratch your head we all jump 3 ft high and scratch our heads that's it joining me now is NBC News senior 7:07 National political reporter sahil kapor Sahel thank you for being here I'm very eager to hear your uh your latest what you're hearing on the hill as far as let's start first with speaker Johnson who seemed to have done a u-turn on his position Wednesday his b position now seems to be firmly that he does not want this report to come out do you think Donald Trump had anything to do with that well Alex there's one key to understanding everything speaker Johnson has been doing these last few months and that is the fact that 7 weeks from today he's going to have to stand on the house floor and get the votes to become Speaker of the House for the next two years it's a very slim Republican majority that means he's going to need the votes of just about every one of them and one thing he cannot afford to do is get on Donald Trump's bad side this house Republican majority the current one and the upcoming one is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary of Maga at this point and Donald Trump can end Mike Johnson's speakership Ambitions with a single tweet now I don't know 8:00 what happened in that conversation he had with Donald Trump but he certainly is uh using the office of the speaker to try to encourage the Ethics Committee to do something which a couple of days ago he indicated that he did not have the power to do so again without going too deep down the the rabbit hole of what Mike Johnson may or may not be thinking this is the crucial political survival question for him he cannot get on Trump's bad side if he's seen as failing to use his power you know to uh to advance a goal that that Donald Trump wants to achieve that could end up uh you know working out badly for him so that's the again that's the Dilemma that he's facing right now and he's arguing again In fairness to him that this was only about precedent he says you know those situations where the Ethics Committee did release a report on a member of Congress after they resigned were wrong and he's hanging this entire thing on he believes deeply in this Norm I I I wonder how much I mean I kind of see the ethics report as a litness test for how how much if at all the Republican party will stand up to Donald Trump right if they allow this what is what we are hearing is a very damaging report to be released about Donald 9:05 Trump's pick for uh the Attorney General I mean that could Doom his chances do you think at this point the Senate can muscle its way can muscle the house enough to get its own copy of the report if not a public copy released it's unclear Alex there are a couple of ways that this ethics report could be released the most obvious of course is that the committee meets and uh decides to release it they still could do that there's some been some chatter in the Senate including from uh the Texas Republican John cornin about potentially subpoenaing that report but that uh got some very quick pushback uh from Senator Lindsey Graham the South Carolina Republican said he would object to any effort to subpoena it there are a number of Republican Senators who say they do want to see the report but again this all comes down to how aggressively they're willing to push and this is where Senate Republicans are now this has turned into quite a a prisoners dilemma situation between them and president Trump because they either confirm Matt Gates which based on are reporting most of them don't want to do uh macket is far short of the the you 10:04 know the 51 votes in the Senate that he needs if Republicans were to all vote the way they want to so they seem to be trying to encourage Trump subtly to either withdraw the nomination or prevent it from coming to a vote because if they if they vote him down they would weaken the new president- elect of their party right out of the gate and right now they're in the Afterglow of the election it's been literally one week and a few days since Donald Trump won the 20 24 election it would be highly unusual to see this kind of party division they don't want that they think Donald Trump doesn't want that as well and one Republican I recently spoke to thinks Donald Trump is also testing the Senate he likes to push the limits to see how far he can go before they push back this is shaping up to be a crucial test of whether Senate Republicans are going to do what they what they deep down uh you know many of them feel they should do or whether they'll ultimately feel they need to submit to Trump here yeah I I just real quick sahill I mean it seems like Trump has put their I guess if there's like a get out of jail 11:00 free card in the may maybe it's the recess appointments that way they don't actually have to vote for Matt Gates but he still gets confirmed I mean do you think that that is ultimately a road that is looking more appealing to them Alex I've asked a number of Republican Senators about this and they're not going there at this point all of them say even you know staun Trump allies like Senator Ron Johnson say they expect this to be done through the normal process they expect Matt gates to come through committee some of them are prepared to vote for Matt Gates uh others may not be but not talking about recess appointments right now that would be the fallback option Republican senators are sort of saying that there might be the situation they're Conjuring up an image of Democrats trying to grind the chamber to a halt you know in in which case the recess appointments issue might come to the four Senator John th suggested that as well but I've not heard a single Democrat say that they're going to do that what they're saying is that Republicans should uh either reject Matt Gates or that Donald Trump should withdraw that nomination so that could be the next beat if Trump persists with this Republican Senators at least some of of them seem to want to avoid that entire conversation okay Sahel kapor NBC News 12:04 senior National political reporter it's great to hear from you Sahel thanks for your time tonight thank you I want to bring into the conversation Mark Lovich staff writer at the Atlantic and a man who knows a lot about servitude on Capitol Hill um Mark Jamal Buie um our mutual friend uh has an Obed today asking kind of the big question here which is will they show a backbone if Republicans say yes to this group of Trump's picks for the cabinet or allow Trump his recess appointments neutering the Senate's constitutional right to give advice and consent then that means they'll say yes to anything there's no use holding your breath here unless you want to suffocate I completely agree with this I think this is like the the big indicator if Matt Gates gets confirmed as attorney general it's Off to the Races for Donald Trump um how are you looking at this and what's your I mean what's your over under that Senate Republicans show a backbone well I mean I I think it's Off to the Races no matter what I mean I think the rule of thumb that that I have followed since the beginning really is that when in 13:00 doubt Republicans will show no spine whatsoever and I think that's even less likely now given the Republicans who are no longer there I mean there are no mitt romneys there are no um you know Jeff flakes around anymore I mean that's those days are so over I mean I think it's it's somewhat likely because there is so much noise around Matt Gates I do buy the thing that this is a loyalty test but I also think that the fallback options whether it's you know Ken Paxton or um or I don't know Matthew Whitaker I mean people who are out there are you know probably Matt Gates makes them all the more confirmable and I do think that Matt Gates once the incredible shock and awe of his appointment wears off and the incredible trolling value of it um is not someone who who you know knows how to run a day-to-day operation of a huge and complicated and very chaotic agency which will become even more so after the inevitable Mass firings and mass resignations that someone coming in from that that perspective is going to bring so I don't know I think it's it's it's I would say possible maybe even a little 14:02 bit more than possible that this nomination doesn't go through but I also think it pretends absolutely nothing for Donald Trump being chastened over this well yeah and I know I I hear what you're saying about like maybe there's a glimmer of a chance that he's so out there and the you know backup the backup candidates are you know sufficiently conservative that maybe Gates's nomination is is is is killed in the crib but that requires Donald Trump to back down and it's really hard for me to imagine Trump who is feeling himself you know given the results of the election he it's his party that's in charge of confirming these nominees like it's it's hard for me to imagine Donald Trump in one of the opening acts of his nent second term saying you know what I'm going to give you another option just it doesn't seem trumpian and I and I I and for anybody who's doubting how hardcore Donald Trump's fan club of one is he he said after meeting the House GOP on 15:00 Wednesday I suspect I won't be running again unless you say he's so good we've got to figure something else I mean he's already Mark dangling a third term out there in case anybody's you know considering second guessing him yeah I mean Donald Trump believes he has every reason to feel completely um un you know uninhibited and you know look the the results of the election certainly underscore that a little bit I think the other side of this is will there be you know a few Republicans other than the kind of usual suspect Susan Collins Lisa marowski who might in this case grow a pair of of Courage uh courage grow a pair of courage and and maybe be the first people out of the mark who are going to willing to defy him whether it's Tom Tillis of North Carolina whether it's uh John Cassidy of Louisiana I mean two people who you know have had some ambivalence uh recently and I think tius is up in a couple of years so there is some potential out there but look those people are immediately going to volunteer to be the next person suspect potential troll victim which is obviously not a fun place to be and one that has driven a lot of people out of of the Senate and 16:05 the house and and even thinking about working for another Administration do you think I mean as it's as you look at the landscape now Mark do you think that Trump is g to get all of his people I mean like put Matt gates in his own category but I mean this even if Matt Gates doesn't make it that means that Pete Heth is the Secretary of Defense it means that tuls gabard is the Director of National Intelligence I mean that RFK Jr is a Health and Human Services secretary is he going to bat a thousand here I would think it's it's probably unlikely that he'll bat a thousand but I think and whether this is strategic or not I mean I think the flooding of the Zone this week of putting you know all of these somewhat you know each more outrageous than the next names out there um makes it pretty likely that that there will be one possibly two sacrificial victims of this and you know again that that's a that implies or that suggests that there going to be a couple 17:01 of Republicans who are willing to be out there on that um I think the larger kind of surprise I feel like about this week if you look at like the middle of the week when Gates was nominated um was that actually Republicans on the Hill are freaking out about this I mean are you kidding me like what about what did he say on the campaign that made you think that he might take a more moderate position or he might take a more governing position and and look I mean this is something that they all campaign for basically for the last two years and this is the environment they have to govern in yeah and this is the man they chose not to impeach weeks after an Insurrection he staged at their workplace this is what you get enjoy the Harvest of the seeds you have sown Mark lebovich staff writer at the alc my friend thank you for spending a little of your Friday night with me relishing the thought of president-elect Donald Trump exacting revenge on the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the now retired General Mark Millie who has reportedly called Trump the most dangerous person to to this country and a fascist as the transition to Trump 2.0 18:03 gets underway Trump and his allies have their sites set on retribution and their plans are now coming into Focus The Wall Street Journal reports on the potential establishment of a warrior board to review and recommend the removal of senior officers deemed unfit for leadership and new reporting today from Reuters reveals that Trump's team is drawing up its own list of Military Officers to be fired a list that could include the chair of The Joint Chiefs as well as any and all officers connected to former chairman Millie according to One Source there's a very detailed list of everybody that was affiliated with Millie and they will all be gone joining me now is Congressman roana Democrat of California he sits on the house armed services committee Congressman cona thank you for being here um first just the the retribution and the Revenge fantasies are so transparent and so uh you know on the front burner what is your reaction to that and can anything be 19:03 done Al here's my concern what is Putin and Russia thinking as he's reading this what is gping thinking in China I mean this is putting our troops uh at risk this kind of chaos and threatening to hollow out the ranks of the military and my hope is we have a chairman Republican chairman Mike Rogers uh we have disagreements but I respect him I respect other people like Rob Whitman on the Comm committee I hope the committee is going to put the National Security of this country and the strength of the Department of Defense over politics because we need to stand up to sort of any kind of chaos that could ensue well we're hearing that you know among the people that the Trump team is targeting is uh CQ Brown the chairman of the Joint Chiefs uh he started his term last October chairman of the Joint Chiefs usually serve four-year terms I mean it would seem to have implications to OU a sitting chairman of the Joint Chiefs for no particular reason other 20:00 than you don't like him and I wonder if you think that House Republicans are going to stand in the way of that given the general sort of climate among House Republicans as it comes to standing up to Donald Trump Alex I saw your previous segment and this is going to be a a test and actually this test goes beyond just confirmations this goes to the heart of our national security I mean there this is a bipartisan committee the armed services committee we disagree on the levels of spending but most times we operating a bipartisan way I was just with the chairman in Jordan uh and in Saudi Arabia and Israel it was uh very much on American National interest and I would hope that my colleagues on the other side would see that just firing generals especially uh at this point where we need to make sure that Ukraine just doesn't fall to Putin would be a big mistake I would hope they would realize that at a time the military is having a challenge recruiting that sending a signal that you're just going to fire the Joint Chiefs uh is a mistake and it it's really going to be a test for the Republicans on that committee 21:03 can you can I get your thoughts on Pete heg I mean he's out there this is a person W with no no experience running running a massive bureaucracy like the US military um and he's suggesting that again CQ Brown the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was a Dei hire this is what he said was he hired because of his skin color or his skill we'll never know but always doubt which on its face seems unfair to CQ but since he's made the race card one of his biggest calling cards it doesn't really much matter I am old enough to remember Congressman when the the the whole gist of this you know being American was putting country before party and especially for republicans and especially when it came to the US military what is the net effect of having someone who may be the incoming defense secretary saying these these explicitly R racial and racist things about the sitting joint Chief chairman of the Joint Chiefs what does that do to morale among troops well it's so offensive because even the Republicans on the committee start out by praising The Joint Chief's uh 22:06 military Brilliance his advice you can disagree with him but that is just insulting and you're insulting the officers you're insulting somebody people who are enlisted you're insulting people uh who are working hard to recruit uh new members into the military and I I mean I hope that their colleagues of mine who are going to speak out against that because in the past they have always as you pointed out put our troops and National Security Beyond politics and and this is very very concerning I'm also concerned I don't care as much about every detail of his background but I'm concerned about what that means about his ability to make sure that there's not sexual discrimination in the military because as you know there have been a lot of those issues and Jackie Spear and others worked in a bipartisan way to try to clean that up I mean there are a lot of questions about his leadership and I hope Republicans will have the courage to speak out does Pete Heth have the 23:00 organizational skills to even carry out a massive Purge inside the Pentagon I mean is that viable I I think the reality is it's going to be he's just going to be listening to Donald Trump and certainly I would not underestimate Donald Trump's capability to do that and and the question really becomes will Congress stand up to the executive branch you know in our Federalist Papers we always thought that Congress would never exceed power to the executive branch because we would have too much pride in our own uh prerogative well they didn't count on a Republican party that is afraid of a tweet by Donald Trump and really uh this is going to be a question of whether we're going to stand up to Trump whoever he puts at defense is just going to be largely doing his bidding and there were plenty of Republicans you know Mike Gallagher Mike Rogers people I disagree with who he could have chosen who supported him but he's chosen to pick someone who's really going to do his bidding well the framers never conceived of a man like Donald Trump Trump and here we are sah incognit congress with 24:02 Republicans in control of the executive and legislative branches and the Supreme Court dominated by a conservative majority the lower federal courts may be the most powerful Bull workk against trumpism in the years ahead and before he leaves the White House President Joe Biden may be able to do something about that by installing a record number of federal judges Donald Trump sent the current record confirming 234 federal judges in his first term in office but Joe Biden is a close second having already confirmed 215 judges including three just this week and he has not done Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told Democrats yesterday to prepare for a final push to confirm as many judges as possible in these last few weeks before the next Congress begins that effort got a boost yesterday when Senator Joe Mansion of West Virginia signaled that he is willing to back Democrats judicial nominees even though without Republican support because as Mansion said we are in different times 25:03 right now yes we are Joe Mansion joining me now is Lisa ruin MSNBC legal correspondent and dear friend of the program Lisa thank you for um spending some time here on your Friday night let me just first get to like the notion of the lower courts and from your bigger you know the the 30,000 foot view here how essential they can and should be in acting as a guardrail to Trump's most potentially unlawful measures during a second term Alex when I think about what a trump second term looks like the lower courts and particularly the district courts are imperative that they remain guard rails and we saw that really during Trump's first term particularly around the Muslim ban around the attempts to add the citizenship question by the Census Bureau there were any number of attempts made by the Trump Administration to change policies in ways that felt blatantly unconstitutional and of course our district courts were the first lines of defense and in many cases issuing what 26:06 then attorney general Bill bar complained about Nationwide injunctions that prevented those policies from taking place and being implemented I mean it it seems like we should hold out hope that the those courts will do what they're supposed to do regardless of who the judges are partisan um or that they're not acting in partisan fashion right the reality is you know independent and apart from the these you know judgeships that we're talking about the looming Prospect of trump 2.0 is shaping judges decisions in ways not really seen before and I I'm talking particularly about January 6 defendants and those who've been convicted of crimes right there are two judges that have already delayed sentencing for January 6 riers over the assumption that they're ultimately just going to get pardons from Donald Trump can you talk about how unus usual that is for J judges to preemptively assume it's pointless to sentence someone convicted of a crime I'm not really 27:04 aware of any other analog but before we condemn those judges and say that they're just throwing up their hands and feeling helpless I want to provide a counterview about what might be going through their minds in the district of Colombia where all of these cases are situated the courts have been entirely overwhelmed by January 6 and the case load that it has brought upon these judges and that means for other litigants they are having to wait longer to have motions disposed of or to go to trial it has literally clogged up the federal courts in DC so if I'm a judge thinking through what my case load looks like who else is waiting for trial I might not want to use judicial resources right now on a case where I know the defendant is going to get pardoned particularly if it means delaying Justice for someone else and if it means calling in jurors whose efforts are only going to be feudal several weeks to months from now think about how that 28:00 affects potential jurors out there in DC to see 12 of their peers stand in Judgment of someone only to have it wiped clean later doesn't really Inspire confidence in the concept of jury service which as you and I know next to voting is one of the most Elemental things about our democracy yeah I and I I kind of wonder how broad the scope of Pardons is going to be you know Donald Trump has expressed a Zeal for getting people off the hook but at the same time I think in an interview with Time magazine in April Trump said in the way that only Trump can if somebody was evil and bad I would look at that case differently I mean it's hard to expect the naturally unexpected uh whims of of of Donald Trump Lisa but would you expect that someone like Enrique tario is going to get off the hook here I mean how how how ambitious do you think the Trump justice department or Trump can be in in in terms of issuing these pardons well look Alex my mantra for the next 4 years in counting is expect the unexpected I don't put anything people whether it's through a pardon or 29:03 not um as we talk about Trump escaping accountability for his potentially criminal actions and we talk about his allies getting pardons there's one guy that can't seem to get off the hook and that person is Rudy julani Lisa he had to do some things today um as part of his defamation suit can you talk a little bit about more about how Rudy is paying the piper so Rudy for the first time has officially turned over some but not of the property that he's been ordered by a Manhattan federal court judge to turn over to Ruby Freeman and sheos they are the two Georgia election workers that he defamed when he accused them of essentially passing a thumb dry full of ballot information back between them it turned out to be a ginger and he ruined their lives in the process and he now owes them $148 million per a Judy verdict in DC Ruby Freeman and sheam mo then sued Rudy Giuliani here in Manhattan to recover some of what he owes them and today he handed handed over to them his vintage Mercedes Benz it's a 1980s Benz originally driven by the actress Lauren McCall and two 30:04 watches that's a start but not even a considerable dent in what he owes them I should note that the perhaps the most valuable thing Rudy Giuliani has is his Manhattan apartment and as far as we know Alex that is not yet in the women's possession let's just focus for the moment in this climate on the fact that Rudy Giuliani had to hand over a vintage Mercedes-Benz a watch and a ring to Ruby Freeman and J moss there is just the beginning of a little Justice in that case Lisa Rubin thank you for making the took place before Trump's first term ever began and now it's about to happen again Donald Trump is on the verge of once again Sweeping in and taking all the credit for the economic stewardship of his Democratic predecessor put a finer point on this take a look at the unemployment rate for the last three presidents when Barack Obama took office at the height of the financial crisis in January of 2009 the unemployment rate was 7.8% when Obama left office in January of 2017 the unemployment rate had been 31:06 cut nearly in half and was just 4.7% Donald Trump then took credit for a booming job market right up until the country was hit by a global pandemic and Trump's colossal mismanagement of that crisis caused the unemployment rate to Skyrocket once again when Trump left office the unemployment rate rate was back up to 6.4% Joe Biden then managed to bring unemployment back down to 4.1% where it sits today as Donald Trump is set to retake power it's a similar story with inflation which spiked after the pandemic all across the globe President Biden actually positioned the us as a global leader in bringing down inflation taking it from 9.1% in June of 2022 to just 2.6% today Republicans taking credit for Democratic economies is not really anything all that new as my friend and colleague Steve bennon has 32:05 pointed out before over the last 35 years employers have added roughly 51 million jobs in the United States and 50 million of them as in 98% have been created during Democratic administrations but Donald Trump's cynicism self-aggrandisement and mendacity make him uniquely suited to take credit for someone else's work in fact he's already begun and we had three or four of the highest I guess almost every single day we set new records in the stock market we set new records economically we we're doing good now the only thing is Mr Speaker I think it's important maybe you should pass a bill you have to start my term from November 5th okay or November 6th if you want November 5th because the Market's gone through the 33:01 roof that was Donald Trump last night saying he wants credit for the stock market even before his term Begins the challenge for Democrats over these next four years will be Administration Noah announced that there is a greater than 99% chance that this year 2024 will be the hottest year on record it is a fitting backdrop as leaders from nearly 200 countries are meeting right now in Baku aeran at the United Nations annual Summit on climate change which is known as cop 29 as has happened before cop 29 has been the target of protests and criticisms for lacking the urgency required to confront what is the most existential threat of our time but this year there is particular urgency given the election of Donald Trump a man who not only has denied the existence of climate change but also promised to reverse any and all progress that has been made to reduce fossil fuel emissions joining me now as David Wallace Wells an opinion writer at the New York Times and author of the uninhabitable earth life after warming David thanks for being here um this week we learned that Trump's going to be appointing Doug or is aiming to appoint Doug bergham

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