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Still raining there. phil weir joins us. how would a declaration of a national emergency help now? >> well, it would vary, depending on how ambitious the president wanted to be with that particular tool. he's already used sort of provisions of the war powers act to ramp up production of fire hoses out west when there was a shortage of that. there are those that say if you declare a national emergency, shut down offshore drilling, these signals that the cause of this problem is the kind of fuels that leak and burn that the world depends on in so many different ways. but the need to move away fr...

Giving this speech also is recognizing he has to address climate from a political perspective. there is a portion of the democratic base, particularly younger voters for whom this is a huge issue. this is a big promise that he made to people, and he needs to look like and act like somebody who is doing something about something that he calls an emergency. >> bill, you said this was a drop in the bucket. what else could the president have announced today that would have made a bigger dent? >> well, you know, the war powers act, he's always used those to sort of nibble around the edges everythin...

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Digested it, it was like some of those comments -- senator durbin again, george wallace as an example,s you know, didn't sit too well. everyone knew that we had two holdouts in the democratic party, senators sinema and manchin. so i don't think the press was negligent in not putting that out there. it's almost like, hey, you know, the earth is round. we know that. [laughter] howard: well, i would disagree with both of you to this extent which is when using that kind of language about george wallace and i don't know how many people remember bull connor, the guy who turned fire hoses on demonstr...