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Of climate change? >> well, you know, wolf, there are really two ways that things change in terms of government. one is, the kind of legislation and spending that pushes clean energy, pushes electric vehicles, pushes all the new kinds of changes we need. the second thing is rules, and this is an administration through the environmental protection agency, through the department of transportation, through the department of commerce, can change a lot of rules that push us in the right direction, an...

Balances, we have divisions over turkey with the pyd, the kurds we supported in syria, so everywhere you look, theres a problem. im not suggesting turkey remains an important country, it straddles east and west, but i think were talking about managing those differences as we can, wolf, not resolving them. >> and what do you think about turkeys request now to go ahead and purchase a new generation of these f-16 fighter jets from the united states? under normal circumstances a nato ally would be a...

Substantial, the biggest move by america by far, to address our climate crisis. i mean to put it in context, this is $555 billion and the biggest ever climate package in american history under the obama administration was $90 billion. so he has a very powerful weapon in his back pocket that says that america will live up to its pledge and can go back to leading the world in terms of climate. hes in a good position. >> as you know, tom, many of the leaders of the worlds biggest polluters, talking...

Lethal and transmissble in character. bidens been pretty good on this. hes pledged to buy -- purchased almost a billion doses of the pfizer vaccine for distribution. i think the u.s. is the largest single donor of vaccines to some of these developing countries in the world. the reality, unless big pharma decides, the drug companies, ease up on their intellectual property claims, and agree to allow local manufacturers to produce these things, however difficult it may be and to transfer to them, t...

>> appreciate it, wolf. well be checking back with you throughout the morning. right now up next for us, election night in america. now just two days away. were going to go live to virginia to check in on the governors race that could have clues for how the midterms might play out. plus, some critical crvotesn the biden agenda this week. a progressive member of congress who has been in the room negotiating this deal. what she has to say next. sustainability is essential to creating a better to...

Miller. thanks so much for joining us. whats your impression so far? how do you think its going? >> you know, i think even to the most partisan partisan and skeptics, i think president biden has a lot to be happy about. pretty auspicious beginning to the trip. youve got the mea culpa to french president macron, which is exceedingly important, particularly as angela merkel leaves the stage, the u.s./french relationship will become central i think to what happens in the transatlantic relationship....

Global minimum tax, which has been in the works for quite a while and janet yellen and president biden deserve credit for that, and g-20s are usually long on words and short on action, and i suspect that will probably remain the case as we approach glasgow, but i think for biden on balance its probably going to bump up his numbers a few points back home. whether or not that makes a difference given the fraught climate is highly uncertain. >> what about this very strained relationship between the...

Talk about turkey, in large part because theyre part of the nato alliance and were obligated to commit to their defense under article 5, but an ally is a country where theres a high degree of coincidence of interest, of values, and theres a strong base of domestic support. i think on all three, wolf, turkey really no longer meets the definition of what a u.s. ally is. everywhere you look, whether its erdogans human rights violations, imprisonment of thousands of civil activists, judges, teachers...

Issue of climate change is a hoax, and its fake? >> come on. this argument is over. there is absolutely no legitimate argument against this. we have put ourselves in a position where we are risking the safety and health of american citizens going forward in a very broad way. i mean the whole reason to address this climate crisis is to avoid unimaginable human suffering, and anyone who is in a position of leadership, who is willing to risk unimaginable human suffering in my mind is completely irr...

>> oh, absolutely. you know, theres an old saying in investment, strategy is easy. execution is hard. and boy, is that true here. and thats really why i mean i keep coming back to it, wolf, i apologize, but this really is not just about government setting the tone. it really is about civil society, people at large, businesses in particular, investing in innovation, investing in change, in a massive way. i really expect that. i believe that whats going to happen is, new, cheaper, better ways of d...