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Will all die if we dont do something. >> all right. so theres protests that are planned for monday not only here in d.c., but also in new york for the u.n. general assembly. what was striking being in the crowd, laura, you think about the polls of voters overall. >> right. >> climate ranks as fourth. 50% of voters say that the climate issue represents a major threat to the security of the united states. laura: right. leland: but if you talk to young people, which was primarily the crowd out ther...

Bathroom policies in public places. the question is should he have commented at all and some people on the sidelines ive heard from said im glad hes speaking, glad hes not being politically correct and saying what a lot of people have concerns about, which is that somebody may wind up if you have a child and youre in a boot roo bathroom au dont have the ability to screen them as you would like. but he should be careful with the way he words things like this. he has a strong leadership poughkeeps...

Party, that democratic party, that someone in the party felt moved too far to the left, there was an ideological rot, a sort of more friendly approach towards markets. im curious how you think of yourself ideologically and thinking as you have for 30 years about the climate issue has changed the way you think more broadly ideologically about the role of the state and the role of markets. >> very thoughtful question. but before i get to the part about how my involvement with climate has affected ...

There is no way of framing the climate issue that is going to cause mitch mcconnell to change his mind. there is no way to do this other than to swamp the legislative branch with an election. and so if young people in america feel -- >> just have vote out republicans. >> look, there are some people who are starting to get curious about is there an opportunity -- >> climate curious. >> can we do some bipartisan work and im all for that. but make no mistake we just have to beat them. and it way we...

>> thats how you got into politics? >> thats right. but the fact is weve been failing for more than 20 years, and these young people are demanding that we do better. even among climate activists, even among climate hawks in the senate and elsewhere, theyre saying, look, whatever youre doing, its not satisfactory. its not getting the job done. and heres what i think about the political situation were in. there is no bill. there is no clever tweet. there is no way of framing the climate issue that...

They have a proposal to fight obesity. they want to ban chocolate melts. they are thinking about cutting it out. they are concerned about its high sugar content. jesse, do you love chocolate milk? >> jesse: i love it. im going to target on the next break. about the protests, if we only have ten years left on planet earth, juan, why are kids in school anyway? why dont they just go hang out with their parents? think about it logically. they say that miami is going to be underwater in a few years. ...

Have other states join to the extent that the strategy of the adversaries is to do the defense blizzard strategy and just try to blow you out and file so many papers and bomb you with so much discovery that you get overwhelmed. its good to be able to share the work but i think that its important to proceed, you know, california has set i think a reasonably good example on lead paint it wouldnt surprise me if over time other states joined in and we were able to share the load a little bit better....

When the wind doesnt blow, turn off the television, darling. theres no wind. turn off the television, please, quickly. >> it is tremendous weight. l and g is sought after all over the world. of it than anybody else. and im not going to lose that wealth. im not going to lose it on dreams, on windmills, which, frankly, arent working too well. im an environmentalist. a lot of people dont understand that. >> the trump administration has targeted 85 environmental rules to roll back. and their effect ...

Done to give those earned media opportunities. soy look at the debates as part of a broad array of opportunities for the candidates to communicate their vision. and again, i appreciate, for instance, that msnbc and cnn are both tackling the climate issue. and i think thats incredibly important. and so i think overall, you know, i think these debates are working to help candidates communicate their vision. >> i want to talk to you about something larger here. do you view 2020 in sort of the campa...

The pollution of the carbon we are throwing in the air comes from three industries. >> dana: have plastic bans ever really shown a decrease in carbon emissions? >> well, no. in fact, the best available science shows the opposite. after plastic bags were banned in california, carbon emissions actually went up because people used more carbon alternatives. not just paper bags, but also cloth bags. i think this is not really a climate issue that people are worried about. we all saw the sea turtle wi...