science guy coming up. and also making the beat debut is one of the few live witnesses from the january 6th committee hearings, an expert who stuck to the fact about donald trump s lies and found telling the truth can become something of an act in the maga universe. all of that is coming up here but our top story right now is about democracy, and i d like to clearly tell you what we re trying to do around here. so let me tell you up front right now this is a little different than our typical start to this news program the beat. right now i m going to try to walk through the broader path of how democracy is in danger even beyond how that point itself has become a kind of rhetorical refrain in washington, a refrain that is also true. so we re going to go through that right now, me and you together, and then turn to a special expert on this a little later. the mid-term elections may occur on one day in november, and we know that, of course, is election day. but these primari
larger question may be weather human impact is making the earth less inhabitable as president biden signs the climate program over the no votes and republicans in congress. so we welcome bill nye the science guy. he might even help us see the forest from the trees. his new series is the end is nye premiering tomorrow on peacock. welcome back. so good to be back. your thoughts on the tree question and more importantly the climate. well, it s the same it s part and parcel the same thing. mr. walker i m sure is passionate, but the places where we need trees are in the same places where lower income people live. in this case the inherent problems associated with low income people and their neighborhoods and so on. and part of the inflation reduction act is to plant trees in urban areas. this is not what the main part