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But the biggest difference is that among the people who believe in it, they want to do something about it a lot and are ranking it very high. like right alongside health care as a top priority. and that's the biggest shift, for many years it was, yeah, i care about climate change, if you ask people to rank it, which i personally believe is a bizarre thing to do. >> right. >> do you care more about a job or having a habitable planet? >> right. >> it's a weird question. all issues are inside the planet. but that said, people would reliably rank climate last and now they're ranking it first, seco...

Asking it is weird. >> yeah. >> but it's also the case, like, political movements, like, presidents have to prioritize, legislators, you know, they're going to move some bill first. some bill second. it is really striking to me how effective i think a lot of organizers, grassroots groups, all sorts of people -- >> absolutely. >> -- have been in pushing that priority urgency question. >> pushing the priority. also, there is lived experience. there are a lot of americans whose lives have been personally tuc touched by wildfires, by megastorms. droughts. >> flooding. >> yeah. there's the fact tha...

Florida greating these grass roots groups. the seeds are there to make a major impact on the next election. donald trump has major decision to make about how he will conduct himself in additional rallies. he's been called out. he's been called out on this network. he's been called out on other networks. we have been replaying his comments about shooting immigrants, making the comment about that only happens in the florida panhandle. is he going to continue to allow this type of discourse at his rallies or is he going to step up to the plate. if he does not, i think this is a moment for all the...

Changed fundamentally. we have created a movement. all of the grass-roots groups, moms demand action, sandy hook promise, new town action alliance, brady, have made a key difference. in the last election, gun violence prevention was on the ballot. it won. look at the presidential candidates this year. can you recall a time when all of the major presidential candidates on the democratic side were advocating for gun violence prevention? most importantly, the vice-like grip of the nra and gun lobby on congress is breaking. the nra is imploding. the gun lobby no longer has that kind of dominance t...

At least 20 cities last week alone, grassroots groups like vote, run, lead, and emerge, teaching them how to tell their stories. >> i saw a lot of gang activity. >> reporter: build community relationships, and learn from successful candidates about the harsh realities facing black women candidates, like where to go to raise money. >> i mean, they say, oh, call friends and family. honey, my family doesn't have any money. you foe whknow what i mean? so i went out, i put myself out there, i started meeting other women who were elected already, particularly women of color. >> what are you worried ...