Shirley on campaign 2020. At 8 30, new yorker magazine writer jelani cobb discusses his new pbs frontline documentary policing the police 2020. Host good morning. Its tuesday, september 15, 2020. The house returns this morning at 9 a. M. Eastern and at 10 a. M. Today in the white house, representatives from bahrain, the united arab emirates, and israel gathered to sign an agreement to normalize relations. We begin this morning back on the campaign trail yesterday as President Trump met with california officials overseeing the response to raging wildfires in the state as joe biden sought to put the issue of Climate Change front and center in an address from his home state of delaware. This morning we are asking you how important our climate issues when it comes to your election 2020 vote. Give us a call. Phone lines split this way, if you are a supporter of the biden harris ticket, 202 7488000. If you support the trumppence ticket, 202 7488001. A special line for those who have been impacted by recent ural disasters, 202, 7 202 7488002. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. Otherwise, cap catch up with , twitter andmedia facebook. A very good Tuesday Morning to you as we show you one of the headlines from todays paper on this topic. The lead story in the new york. Mes their story on this topic noting that President Trump blamed poor Forest Management yesterday rather than Climate Change for the unprecedented wildfires engulfing western states while joe biden focused on Global Warming and warned of natural disasters if President Trump prevailed in november. This is joe biden, yesterday. [video clip] hurricanes dont swerve to avoid red states or blue states. Wildfires dont skip towns that voted a certain way. The impacts of Climate Change dont pick and choose. That is because it is not a partisan phenomenon. Its science. Our response should be the same, grounded in science. Acting together, all of us. Like with our federal response to covid19, the lack of a National Strategy on climate and Climate Change overall leads us without solutions. It has as a matter of fact been made worse by the changes the administration hasim speaking e lo level. Just last week delaware state attorney generals sued 31, 31 big fossil fuel companies, which knowingly wrecked tabak and damaged the climate, our climate. Damage that is plain for everyone to see but the president. As he flies to california today, we know he has no interest in meeting this moment. We know he wont listen to the experts or treat this disaster with the urgency it demands. Host joe biden, from delaware yesterday. This is a photo of the president from yesterday during his meeting with governor gavin newsom along with other officials to talk about the wildfires out west. Blaze isdent sang the caused more by Forest Management issues. One of the key moments from the president s briefing there was his exchange with wade crowfoot, california secretary of natural resources. When he was talking about the impacts of Climate Change and its effects on the wildfires. [video clip] our perspective there is an amazing partnership on the ground and there needs to be. As the governor said, temperatures exploded the summer. World record in death valley, one hundred 30 degrees. Eat of and in greater los angeles, we are seeing the warming trend make our summers and winters warmer as well. One area of mutual agreement and priority is Vegetation Management and we want to work with you to really recognize the changing climate and work with that science. The science is going to be key. If we ignore the science and put our head in the sand and think it is about Vegetation Management. Cooler. Start getting you just watch. I wish science agreed with the. I dont think science knows, actually. Host the president during his meeting with california officials yesterday. This morning we are asking, how important are climate issues in your election 2020 vote . The Pew Research Center occasionally asking voters what their top issues are in a given election year. Heres their most recent poll from an august finding that Climate Change is lower down on the list among registered voters. Only 42 of those contacted by the Research Center say that Climate Change is very important to their upcoming 2020 president ial election vote. Climate change, below economic inequality, immigration, race, ethnic inequality, foreign policy, violent crime, coronavirus outbreak, supreme court, health care, and the economy, those topics are all higher up on the list. Climate change coming in ahead of abortion as an issue that is a very important issue to voters. Again, those numbers from the Pew Research Center. We want to hear from you this morning and the phone lines are open to hear your calls on the issue of Climate Change and how important it is to you. If you support the biden harris , 202 7488000 is the number to call in. If you support the trump fence ticket, 202 7488001 trumppence ticket, 202 7488001. Bill is up first out of cleveland, ohio, on the line for Trump Supporters. Good morning. Caller good morning. When start by saying that nikola tesla died, or government went in, took his papers and examined them and after a short time they said this had no scientific and if it whatsoever to anybody. That was Donald Trumps uncle. In ohio we thought we would give somebody a different chance. But my god, ive got a feeling about corona. Now hes got a feeling about wildfires. We cannot keep going on feelings. If you want to live, youve got to vote biden. If you are ready to die and cash it in, vote trump. Thank you. Bill i believe on the wrong line, their. Phone lines it up this way, 202 7488000. If you support trumppence, 202 7488001. On the line for supporters of President Trump, ben, state college, pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller i love the environment, i love the land of course. But i agree with pew research for once, Climate Changes at the bottom of my list when selecting a candidate. Im an ardent President Trump supporter and when he was out there in california supporting them firefighters, of course an elected political official like wade crowfoot, i believe his name was, would try to make a name for himself by disagreeing with the president. Hes going to try to get a soundbite to be played over and over on the news. Like i said, i support the president and believe in what hes doing in regards to the environment and Everything Else. Thank you. Before we go, what do you like it about his Environmental Policies . My openingd comments, i think that the environment is not at the bottom mobile list, but towards the bottom. Hes putting other topics first, not in place of the environment, while keeping the environment in mind, but while keeping industry, the economy, Everything Else rolling forward. Is been out of state college. Mary, new york city, thank you. Good morning. My name is mary wiley. I really support biden and harris. Biden believes in god and thats good. He doesnt do qanon, like trump. Hes not holding the bible upside down. Hes not repulsive like trump. Climate the topic of caller change Climate Change, i really support biden because hes with the scientists and with the lord god and that is the best thing for our climate. Pulled her support him wholeheartedly. Its terrible what trump is doing to us. I support biden. John, on the line for those who support President Trump, good morning. Caller good morning. Host caller caller go ahead. Host go ahead. Caller i support trumppence on the matter of many different things, Climate Change and hes, going on as far as you know, not allowing china to send in more Infectious Disease and boatloads and shiploads and plain loads of, you know, things that they are already, you know, sent to our United States and other countries. Putting tariffs and, you know, stopping them from doing the things theyve been doing to us for years and years and years. As you know, like the biden and the marxist allowing it to ,appen and i just think that you know, its prophesies to buy jesus christ that trump will be aesident and he will be praying president in the second term. Thats john in new york city. On the line for those who have been impacted by recent natural disasters, bob, go ahead. Caller good morning. My backyard was destroyed by a hurricane a while back. You know, i understand how everybody thinks that the Global Warming is important. But i dont think it is as important as just taking care of our environment . Likely throw too much garbage into the ocean. Theres a continent the size of around in theg pacific. All the Climate Change people say the temperatures are going up in this and that. How about like when the dinosaurs existed a long time ago, the co2 levels were 500 times higher than they are now. Then back in the eyesight ice age, they were 200 times higher. Right now they are lower than they have ever been in history. How can we have Global Warming . I dont understand it. Have a nice day. Bob inhat is massachusetts. We have been trying to put numbers to those pictures for you. Nearly 17,000 firefighters are battling 29 major wildfires since august. The blazes have destroyed 4500 buildings, fires in the gulf, 3. 3 million acres of land just in the state of california this year. Desolation greater than the size of connecticut. When it comes to other western states, this is a tweet from the National Forest service out of the Northwest Region from yesterday afternoon. Another day of challenging firefighting begins and crews are confronting 34 large wildfires burning. 1,000,006 hundred 66,534 acres across oregon and washington, with some 8651 fire personnel, 200 and 17 crews, 609 engines and helicopters asking civilians please be safe out there. Showing you some of the pictures of the devastation from social media and from twitter today, asking you how important the climate issue is in election 2020. Joe biden is seeking to put the issue front and center. In an address yesterday out of delaware, heres a bit more of joe biden talking about trumps record on the environment. [video clip] we know his disdain for our own military leaders and veterans. Just last year the Defense Department reported that Climate Change is a direct threat to more than two thirds of the militarys operationally critical installations. This could well be, this well could be a conservative estimate. Trumps climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and record hurricanes, but if he gets a second term, these hellish events will continue to become more common, more devastating, and more deadly. Meanwhile, donald trump warned that integration is threatening our suburbs. Its ridiculous. But you know what is actually threatening the suburbs . Wildfires are burning the suburbs and the west. Floods wiping out suburban neighborhoods in the midwest. Hurricanes impair a suburban life along the coast. If we have four more years of how manylimate denial, suburbs will be burned in wildfires . How many neighborhoods will have been flooded out . Suburbs blown away in superstorms . Superstorms. More inlimate arsonist the white house, why would we be surprised if more of america is ablaze . Why would anyone be surprised when more of america is underwater . Joe biden yesterday in delaware with his comments and the Washington Post with some of the policies he propose when it came to the environment both yesterday and as he has moved along the campaign trail, vowing to meet the threat of Climate Change by setting more fuel efficiency standards and creating a climate core to make the country less vulnerable to wildfires and floods. He rolled out a plan that would treat host back to the wall street journal, their take on the speech yesterday, calling him biden of the climate apocalypse, giving a speech on wildfires without mentioning forestry management, saying that his speech shows that on Climate Change and so much else, hes no moderate and has adapted a Climate Policy that is more extreme than prevailed during the obama years. As he repeated on monday he is proposing a vast spending and regulatory agenda to remake the u. S. Energy economy. All of it more evidence that he lacks either the desire or the will to say no to the political. Ft we do have that special line for those impacted by recent natural disasters. Leah is on that line out of seattle. Good morning. Here. Ind of a mess out so thick with i mean it looks like a heavy, heavy fog, but it is air that you shouldnt be breathing. So, its and the fires . They are a couple of hundred miles away in Central Washington or, you know, a lot of it is flowing out over the ocean from california and then blowing back towards western washington and getting stuck between the mountain ranges that we sit between. So yeah, the environment has always been one of my top issues. I would say that this year the pandemic is. But taking care of the environment answers so many of the other problems the country has, like biden said, with the you know,d with, setting up the economy for the future and getting good paying jobs for people who have been put out, you know, based on manufacturing in the country and just so many things. Today saide robinson he understood the physical focus on a slowmoving crisis with so many immediate crises, economic meltdown, protests over systemic racism buffeting our lives, but the urgent cannot be allowed to exterior the existential. Lookky is not supposed to martian, hurricanes and tropical storms are supposed to come one or two at a time, not in platoons. Climate change is here right now and steadily getting worse. What do you think about that . Caller he kind of nailed it. Beente scientists have saying for years or decades that when its here, its too late. As here and we can still do lot about it, but you know, we sat on our hands for too long and its really time to get this under control. Host thank you for the call. Here is some of the york times photographer images out there from their front page of their paper today. We will show you that as we hear from asoka out of gainesville, virginia, on the line for those who support joe biden. Good morning. Im calling from ginsberg, think you for taking my call. For those who believe the words of what donald trump says, i have news. This is the guy who told us that his father was born in germany and that his crowds at the inauguration were so much bigger than obamas. Finally, he also told that mexico will build the wall, but mexico has not spent a penny on the wall and is using the money from the military to build a wall while claiming he has requested the largest amount of money in the military while hes robbing that bank to build a wall. Come to Climate Change for me. Yes, sir. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was an article that said there was a hole in the sky. What it meant was because of the fossil fuel and Carbon Dioxide depleted the protective layer above the skies call the ozone layer. Basically, the ozone layer has been depleting, causing the heat of the sun to warm the world. Thats essentially what Climate Change is all about. Like the guy who said dinosaurs ite, you know, living when the ocean was so high. Thats a different phenomenon. Here we are talking about a manmade Climate Crisis by the human beings destroying the nature of this world by use of fossil fuels. Whats essentially going on his hey, its going to get cold again, dont worry, the cold is going to go away. Does anybody believe him . I would rather go with biden and, who talk sense and science, rather than listening to a man who lies 24 hours a day and thats my comment. Host this is more from President Trump yesterday, meeting with california officials to discuss the blazes out west. A little bit about his discussion about the states Forest Management planning, which was the key issue that President Trump focused on yesterday. [video clip] a the county just completed master stewardship agreement and we have acres that are ready to go across all boundaries in the nationalsthe four forests. Gavin is working on that with me. You make money, too. You sell the trees for a lot of money and its pretty good in a lot of ways. I guess one of the things are the cuts. Whether it is 50 or 100 yards, the cuts to stop it from spreading. Thats always tough, environmentally, but they can do it in a way thats pretty good in the environmentalists have come a long way after watching this. The ones that really want to take care of the problem, they have come a long way. You are working on a plan to thin it out . That is the plan right now. I will say that we have an excellent working relationship with calfire as well and we need to marry the state programs with acrosseral programs boundaries, jurisdictional boundaries so that we are effective in moderating large fire behavior. Supervisors point, thats exactly what the stewardship partnership will do in the next 20