make no mistake. they are changing people's livelihoods and the landscape of some of the downtown areas of our most beautiful cities, they are destroying them. jason, thank you for joining me all the way from the other coast in the state of washington. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." i'm here weekdays at 11:00. and now noon eastern, it's "outnumbered." we begin with fox news alert. democrat second impeachment trial of former president trump now being called "dead on arrival" is 45 republican senators effectively signal mr. trump will be acquitted after moving to dismiss, many call unconstitutional. g.o.p. senator rand paul's calling out democrats for inciting violence, pointing out that several democrats called for their supporters to target republicans without review. >> they want to say that he incited violence because he said he'll fight for your country.

he said marched peacefully and patriotically. one of bernie sanders supporters came to the ball field, nearly killed steve scalise. maxine waters has said get up in their face. so has cory booker. that sounds like an incitement to violence, but nobody is talking about impeaching maxine waters, bernie sanders, cory booker force and got up in their face. so it is a significant hypocrisy and doubles standard that they are putting forward. >> harris: g.o.p. senator lindsey graham told sean hannity last night that trump impeachment trial runs counter to the democrats call for unity. >> why are they doing this? they were afraid. i think democratic senators are afraid of their party. if they don't give some credibility to this trial that started in the house, they were in trouble. joe biden has been a huge disappointment thus far, not only on policy, but on the idea that i'm going to bring the country together. how easy would it be, sean, for

joe biden to say it is bad to impeach a president after they leave office? unless already with donald trump, let's look forward. >> harris: you're watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. today, emily compagno, fox nation house, tomi lahren. host of "lara logan has no agenda," laura logan. and country music star and fox nation host, john rich. all right, let's get john's take on what is happening with impeachment on capitol hill. may be just a little thoughts on what senator graham said too. >> john: well, i think he's spot on. senator graham said that they are afraid of what they are going to say. if they can stick a national indictment of impeachment on the president, our former president,

he might run again for president, and they don't want that, so i think it plays a little deeper than that, but the calls of unity that we hear, we say you know, don't always just listen to what they say. watch what they do. that's where you really know. and it's almost like on christmas eve, two of my kids, i said all right, boys. i said guys, we are going to have a really great, beautiful, peaceful christmas, but tonight, we are going to have a fist fight right here in the living room. if they don't go together, it is fork and tongue. it is not authentic. president biden, if you wanted to say enough is enough, let's move on, that i would actually go a long way, and we would believe him or with the culture unity. >> harris: well, you know, john, it also goes along with what president biden had promised he would do. lara, that was to focus in on

covid-19. we have been focusing on exactly the first news conference that the covid team under biden is holding, and we are hearing things like yeah, 1 million shots. we need 500 million, which is a lot more than 1 million a day. they have to focus in on that. >> lara: while, and there is a lot of similarities between their program and the previous administration program, so they are going to face some criticism for that as well, but what is not being addressed is so many things that have happened because of the pandemic and because of covid. that is one city in this country that reported 100,000 children had just literally dropped out the day they went to online schools. how many has not happened and all over this country? you know, there are other diseases like heart disease and cancer, dementia, mental illness, suicide. they are so many things that are

happening at such a staggering rate because of the pandemic. not to mention the effects of policy and the complete obliteration of so many small businesses in this country, and none of that is being addressed. these are very, very significant issues for millions of people in this country. >> harris: tomi, your take on it. >> tomi: well, i think everyone has been corrected thus far, but not only the democrats are obsessed with donald trump, they want to make sure they set a clear message to anybody who would dare utter the words "voter fraud" or anything about election integrity to sit down, shut up, and comply. they are terrified he's going to run in 2024. they think that by the fact that he wasn't reelected and the fact that he was taken off twitter and instagram and all of the big deck platforms, they think that suddenly he is going to go away. but if they are really honest with themselves, that little

kernel of truth that live somewhere within their dark hearts, they know that his supporters haven't gone anywhere. we are more fired up than ever. we are going to hold biden administration accountable, and that's the other thing. president biden is now signing a record number of executive orders, a lot of which he said he would never do. it is the socialist far left agenda he said he wouldn't enact. he was supposed to be a moderate, present and for all. now they are distracting us with this impeachment trial, signing all these executive orders. watch this hand while he uses his pen with his aunt. it's a distraction. it's an obsession, and it's the priorities of the democrats. it is something that we are going to have to put up with for two and four years. point out every time that they do it because it is never going to stop if we don't. >> harris: well, emily, we are getting some access to the president and to his communications team here they are giving daily briefings, you know, taking some questions, so on and so forth, but some of the bigger questions that have been

asked are tough for them to answer. in fact, we saw corrections between the president saying oh, yeah, this will be something that we can really sink your teeth into you and really turn things around. i'm paraphrasing him. by spring. and jen psaki said you are talking about getting the majority of americans, adults, vaccinations, we are looking at summer. i mean, she said that she started her sentence with "the fact is." >> emily: that's right, and not mixed messaging flies in the face of this administration that came out of the gate saying that one thing that you can count on with this administration's constancy of messaging, and i think that also underscores the fact that, to echo my colleagues went here, that the average american would be surprised with pursuing impeachment when there are clearly bigger fish to fry that would have an actual effect on us, and i would like to make the point that even if you are looking through the lens of this impeachment that it is

constitutional, but the argument of futility still applies. what purpose does it serve the average american if they do accept as true that this is indeed the remedy to turn to congress for an impeachable offense committed by the president at the latter days of office, that this is a power reserved to them because it is not specifically alienated in the constitution, if you accept, even still, you have to accept, then, that it is futile because it is a numbers game. again, what purpose does it serve? i argue that it backfires, right? represented a maxine waters came out and said "we must take away his power," about former president trump. to me, that is taking away the power of the voters, the power to elect. and we have additional remedies. we have alternative legislation that would get the point across, but wouldn't take away the powers of the average american for whom these people are

supposed to be our representatives. >> harris: you know, you mentioned censoring. before we go to the commercial break, follow up with you, emily, karl rove told me last hour, yet, you could censure. some saying that i was out of the round that he was supposed to do as a leader of the country. but he has already been impeached twice in the house. congresswoman waters to be gang up on this issue. what are they hoping to do? they are not senators. [laughs] you know, 45 out of 50 say that that is unconstitutional. what do you those numbers say to you about the future, emily? >> emily: i think it indicates the fact that there is a priority of these other issues that are more pressing to the american people appeared again to echo what my colleagues that, regardless, how many g.o.p. sens see that this is a constitutional process, they

further, more pressing lee see that there are other needs that would be served by their time legislatively, and i also think that speaks to a collaboration that frankly is lacking on the hill, that a censure might take place to illustrate that we condemn this behavior. it's impeachable. it's not necessarily a crime, but it is part of the political process afforded within our power to do so, but we recognize that there is game is futile, and therefore we will focus our legislative energies elsewhere. we know how they feel. it's been made clear, so perhaps the ability and the power of the american people to see whether we see him as fit to hold a second office should be reserved to those at the time and this time better spent for those on the hill that are having their salaries paid by asked. >> harris: all right, we will move on to your tulsi gabbard going over top democrats in her own party. why they say they are the larger threat to america. >> those like john brennan, adam schiff, and others, also

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>> john brennan, adam schiff, big tent, trying to undermine

our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into the police stayed with kgb style surveillance, also domestic enemies, and much more powerful and therefore dangerous than the mob that stormed the capital. >> emily: welcome back. former hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard singh leaders like john brennan, congressman adam schiff, and big tech executives are bigger domestic threats then the crowd that stormed the capital of the yard picking and choosing what people can say. doubling down on her comments on tucker's show last night. >> those like john brennan, adam schiff, and others, also acting as domestic terrorist because they are also undermining our constitution by trying to take away our civil liberties and rights that are guaranteed to us. lara, i would like to start with you. i know you have such strong thoughts about this as well as boots on the ground journalistic experience. how do you feel about this?

>> lara: well, you know, there is a very specific example you can use to highlight the hypocrisy that is really going on here, which is russian collusion, for example. you know, john brennan, adam schiff, the people mentioned here, these are people who accused of the president the united states of being a russian spy, being a traitor, working for vladimir putin. they didn't just accuse them. they outright said it. in fact, they backed it up and said there is evidence of this, that they have seen evidence of this, that the intelligence agencies have i confirmed it, et cetera, et cetera. that is the absolute definition of sedition. that is trying twothrough and undermine an elected government of the people, and nobody talked about domestic terrorism at that time. how many months of burning cities in this country, burning businesses to the ground, destroying people's lives,

killing people, has everybody forgotten about the off-duty police officer who was african-american, by the way, who was murdered during one of the riots? there were many more than that. so when you look at this, tulsi gabbard, good on her for having the courage to speak about a time when very few people actually speaking up. with republicans, these issues have become, for the most part, indistinguishable from their colleagues on the other side of the aisle. to me, what is most significant about this, what i hear from people all of the time every day is what this really means in terms of anyone who supports or supported donald trump and anyone who believes in the things that he believes in order that he represented. this movement was never about one man. it was about millions of americans who said we have a people. when we say "we the people," we are the people, and we are exercising our rights.

now you're going to condemn us as domestic terrorist, and that is a very dangerous thing because there is legislation before congress now, and this is about the surveillance of american citizens, about silencing and intimidating, and that is not consistent with freedom or the first amendment or the fourth amendment, and you can go on and on and on. it is a god-given right. these are god-given right. >> emily: tomi, to lara's point, are we a country of censorship? tell us about the danger that puts us in. >> tomi: yeah, we are in a country right now where one voice is the acceptable voice. valiant voice, moral voice, and that is the voice of the left because they've decided that the only boys that they want to hear, but again, we talk about what happened with the capitol riot, all summer long with the blm and nt 4.0 riots, misleading information, contact platforms,

all the things that the tech giants are trying to use to censor conservatives. i'm one of those people that says hey, if their speech that you don't like, including speech that i don't lie, the remedy for that is more speech. more dialogue. let's allow people the ability to decipher what they believe and what they don't. let's trust the american people to be adult enough and responsible enough to be able to be exposed to speech and be okay with it. no more free speech sounds on campus is, no more censoring not only a sitting president but the pillow guy. they are going to go after the first amendment first, and then all of our other rights are open game because they have silenced us, censored us, taken us out of the conversation. everything becomes so much easier after that. let's think about it. they've got the white house. they've got the entirety of congress. they got big tech, hollywood, academia. what do we have left.

well, pretty soon, not a lot. >> emily: so, john, to tomi's point, will it get worse before it gets better? >> john: probably, but i just want to say way to go, tulsi gabbard. that showed courage. it showed conviction. she knows she's going to get a lot of heat coming back at her for saying something like that, but i was really encouraged to hear her, a democrat, step up and say something as truthful as odd, and honestly, the republicans that i have watched over the past six months that say certain things, trying to say out of the hot water or when the kitchen gets too hot, they go running out with their hair on fire. we are sick of that to be honest. americans are sick of it, whether you are republican or democrat. i say way to go. that gives me hope for something i have been hoping to see, which is a new spirit of truth and of conviction and of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, regardless of your political

affiliation. people like tulsi gabbard, people like myself can find things to agree on that are a bigger subject, and some of the things that they tried to put us in our corners, and i do hope that we see a coming together of like-minded people, regardless of if they are republicans or democrats. she really made a statement that hit me in a strong way, and i applaud her for that. >> emily: so, here is, using tulsi gabbard as an example, will anyone report on what she is saying? >> harris: you know, it depends on how much support she gets, i suppose. she will continue to be as vocal as she always has been. i just want to say grainy rich would have been so proud of you, john ridge. you are looking for what i call the the middle. coming together on things that really matter most because we can. we never know where the great ideas are going to come from.

>> john: that's correct. yes, ma'am. >> emily: all right, president biden's signing a record number of executive actions and what has been a long pattern of repealing entire agendas. is this how the u.s. is going to be governed now? plus, chief of staff now backing the chicago teachers union as critics say they are contradicting the cdc's own guidance. what happened to decisions based on science? reaction from "outnumbered," ahead. his musical/ month

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joe biden last october, blasting the need for executive orders, but the now president joe biden has signed a record 38 executive orders and executive action so far with more expected to come today. remember, it's only been a week. 22 of them being executive orders dwarfing orders issued by former president bush, obama, and trump. and of course, many democrats accused trump of being a dictator as biden also suggested in that video. john rich, your take? >> john: that is a lot of paper. that is a lot of paper. in seven days. and i watched a couple of videos of him signing. which one is this? which one is that? is this the new lease on my suburban? is this the parking 400? what am i signing? i don't even know that you can keep that straight. it makes me wonder back to when

he was running. a lot of people said they are going to hand him a piece of paper. he is going to sign it. writing these orders, initiatives, going to write these things up, and biden is just going to stamp it. here we go. i think he is at 38 pieces of paper moving, more coming today. nah, i don't buy it. i don't expect him to not sign executive orders, but that is a lot. >> harris: that's part of the problem, right, john? turn some things around that weren't exactly permanent. we saw the with daca. but this, emily, if you really look at what these actions and executive orders do, i and some of them just temporary? i don't know if it will completely turn things around as completely as this president would help. >> emily: exactly. especially actions are sort of largely symbolic, and we see orders going thr the courts,

the challenges navigating their way through the courts almost immediately. to me, fundamentally, this goes back to where conversation at the beginning of the show about surrendering power and that this is supposed to be a country where the people governed, where the people choose representatives to represent them legislatively, and instead, it has become a pattern where every president out with the stroke of the pen undoes the prior administrations agenda. and as you pointed out, this agenda that going back and forth, there is no collaboration in the legislature. there is no conversation. there is no debate. there is no meeting in the middle for that juicy spot that you mentioned before. this is just back and forth. and i also see foreign leaders watching and simply waiting because they know that if they don't agree, they just have three years to wait or at the most, seven. if they do like it, they are likely will squeeze a bunch in.

>> harris: you know, lara, this has already gotten the ire of some republicans. he would hope that they would be some sort of honeymoon. matt, but why do you think republicans are so angry right now? republicans are saying this is far left leaning this is radical. they have lots of words for it. as john pointed out. >> lara: i'm sitting in the great state of texas, as texans like to say. the attorney general responded, the first to challenge in court, one of biden's executive orders, putting out the deportations. no deportations for 100 days. more temporary then permanent, it doesn't change the fact that it has a very profound and dramatic impact, right?

because you halt deportations for 100 days, for example, and you shifted to migrant care. no longer about border security. when you are instructing border patrol, the orders are coming down. to stop security patrols, to surge your agents literally just to process people. when they are planning on 70 people coming in that they are not even going to go through the normal process, right? they need resources just to treat them get them pushed through. that tells you that there is a real intent these executive orders. >> harris: i didn't mean to come in, but we have press secretary jen psaki introducing the envoy for climate change. john kerry, national climate advisor, expected to join this press briefing. let's watch it together.

>> secretary psaki: take a few questions as well, and always, national climate advisor, gina mccarthy, special presidential envoy for climate and my former boss, former secretary of state, john kerry. in the briefing room. >> thank you. big day for boston every day. thank you, everybody. today, president biden will build on the actions he took on day one, and he will take more steps to fulfill a commitment he made to tackle the climate crisis while creating good paying union jobs and achieving environmental justice. in his campaign, he and vice president harris put together -- any presidential ticket had ever embraced, and he spent more time campaigning on climate then we have ever seen. the president also has

consistently identified the climate crisis as an existential crisis that are gripping our nation all at once. and he's demanding answers that can address all four. and he is not waiting to take action, getting us started on his first day in office because science is telling us that we don't have a moment to lose to fight against all four of these crazies and no way that recognizes their intersectionality. he's always committed the u.s. -- i'm sorry, already committed the u.s. to reenter the paris climate agreement and undoing the assault on our environment that has occurred over the past four years, and he is now taking additional action to really target the challenge of climate change. so, today, for me it is a very good day. just one week into this

administration, president biden is continuing to move us forward at the breath and the pace that climate science demands. two days executive orders starts by saying that it is the policy of this administration that climate considerations shall be an essential element of u.s. foreign policy and national security. that's where the big guy comes in. it gives my colleague, john kerry, the first-ever international climate envoy the authority to really drive forward a process that will restore american leadership on climate throughout the world. and you will see in him more about that from secretary kerry. we have to do our part, or we will not be able to do the kind of worldwide change that climate change demands. this executive order establishes the white house office of domestic climate policy, and it directs everyone who works for

the president to use every tool available, and to solve the climate crisis. because we are going to take a whole government's approach. we are going to power our economy with clean energy. we are going to do that in a way that will produce millions of american jobs that are going to be good paying, that are going to be jobs that have the opportunity for workers to join a union. because as president biden has often told us, when he thinks of climate change, his first thought is about jobs. and it should be. because people in this country need a job. and this is about making that happen. in the most creative and significant way that the federal government can move forward. and we are going to make sure that nobody is left behind, and i'm not just talking about communities in terms of environmental justice, but workers as well. this order takes historic

strides to address environmental injustice. it creates both the white house interagency task force to address environmental justice as well as an advisory council. it directs the department of health and human services to create an office of climate change and health equity because after all, climate change is the most significant public health challenge of our time. and it tasks the department of justice with establishing an office of climate justice. because we know the communities who are being hurt, and we know we have to start enforcing the standards today, ensuring that they are part of the solution in the places that we can invest. in fact, it commits 40% of our investment in clean energy towards disadvantaged communities, so they can benefit from the new jobs that are available and feed that better future. president biden's order establishes a working group on coal and power plant communities

because we have to make sure that in this transition, every agency and government is using every tool at their disposal to drive resources to those communities. and it fulfills long-standing commitments to leverage vast natural resources to contribute to our clean energy future. it places a pause and reveal on new oil and gas leases on federal public lands and waters, consistent with the promise president biden has repeatedly made and has been very clear in the face of efforts to distort his promise. and it sets a goal of doubling offshore wind production by 2030. in addition, he plans to sign a presidential memorandum that aims to restore scientific integrity across the federal government and earn back the public's trust, making a commitment to solutions on the

best available science and data. so, today is a very big day for science and for our efforts to power our economy with good paying union jobs. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, everybody. it's great to be here. let me say, first of all, what a pleasure it is to be here with gina. i am a big fan of gina's. we work very closely together during the campaign when we sat down to bring the bernie sanders folks to gather around the biden climate plan, and she is the perfect person to be tackling the domestic side of this equation, which is complicated. nobody knows the details better than she does. nobody is going to be more effective at corralling

everybody to move in the same direction. it's also an enormous pleasure for me to be here with jen psaki. she mentioned that nobody was her boss, but -- she, seven years ago, we gathered in the state department briefing room. she has traded up, obviously. not giving away any of her fundamental principles and commitment to telling you all the truth, telling the american people the truth, doing so with great candor and transparency, and i'm very happy to be here with her. the stakes -- the stakes on climate change -- just it couldn't be any higher than it is right now. it is existential. we use that word too easily. we throw it away. but we have a big agenda in front of us on a global basis.

president biden is deeply committed, totally seized by this issue as you can tell by this executive order and by the other -- the initiative of getting back into paris immediately. that's why he rejoined the paris agreement so quickly because he knows it is urgent. he also knows that paris alone is not enough. not when almost 90% of all of the planets omissions, global omissions, come from outside of the u.s. borders. we could go to zero tomorrow, and the problem isn't solved, so that's why today, one week into the job, president biden will sign this additional executive set of orders to help move us down the road, ensuring that ambitious climate action is global in scope and scale as well as national here at home. today, in the order that he will sign, that gina has described to

you, he makes climate central to foreign policy planning, to diplomacy, and to national security preparedness. it creates new platforms to coordinate climate action. of course, the federal agencies and departments, sorely needed. and most of all, it commissions a national intelligence estimate on the security implications of climate change, to give all of us and even deeper understanding of the challenges. this is the first time a president has ever done that. her 17 intelligence agencies are going to come together and assess exactly what the danger and damage and potential risks are. the order directs the state department to prepare a transmittal package, advice and consent, on the amendment, montreal protocol, an amendment that by itself, if ratified and fully enforced globally, could hold the temperature by 0.5 of

an entire degree. not insignificant. and the process for us, to develop an ambitious new paris target as well as a u.s. climate finance plan. both of which are essential to being able to bring countries of the world together to raise ambition and meet this moment when we go to glasgow for the following agreements of paris. so, that's the only way for the world to succeed together, my friends. again, this is an issue where failure literally is not an option. as he committed to doing on the campaign trail, the president is announcing that he will host a leaders summit on climate change less than three months from now. on april 22nd, earth day, which will include a leader level reconvening of the major economies for them. we will have specifics to lay out over time, but the convening

of this, of this summit, is essential to ensuring that -- that 2021 is going to be the year that really makes up for the lost time of the last four years, and that the u.n. climate conference, top 26, as it is called, which the u.k. is hosting in november, to make sure that it is an unqualified success. the road to glasgow will be marked and not just by promises, but by progress at a pace that we can all be proud of, and gina is going to be putting her efforts into making certain that that is true. the world will measure us by what we can do here at home, so with these executive actions today, we believe there are steps further down the journey. thank you. >> secretary psaki: all right, let's start with andy. thank you so much. >> question for you and then for

administrator mccarthy. we have talked about that i want to really matter if the rest of the world doesn't do the same thing, but the u.s. has had a fairly rocky relationship with china recently. how do you plan to try to bring both china and india to the table? >> before i answer that, let me say that the issue of -- of making a difference, i.e., what we do at home, what i am saying is you can't solve the problem alone, but our doing things makes an enormous difference. essential to our ability to have credibility in the world. now with respect to china, obviously, we have serious differences. very, very important issues, and i am as mindful of that as anybody served as secretary of state and in the senate. the issues of the theft of

intellectual property in and access to market, south china sea, from the list. we all know them. those issues will never be traded for anything that has to do with climate. that's not going to happen. but climate is a critical stand-alone issue that we have to deal with in the sense that china is 30% of the missions of the world. we are about 15%. you had the e.u. to that. you have three entities that are more than 55% or so, so it is urgent that we find a way to compartmentalize, to move forward. and we will wait and see, but president biden is very, very clear about the need to address the other issues with china, and i know some people are concerned nothing is going to be siphoned off into one area from another. >> a question for you on coal.

your executive order talks about oil and gas on federal lands. doesn't really say much about coal. what is this administration policy when it comes to call? >> make sure that we take our review for the entire strategy, how we are looking at public land, so it will include looking at what new leases ought to be approved. it is looking at our ability to look at coal in the mix, so the program is going to look at how we manage public lands consistent with climate but also consistent with the marriage between climate and really growing jobs of the future. so, it will be in the mix to be looked at, but it is not at this point included. it was not part of that campaign. we are going to take a close look at all of it, and can i just add on your comment about china, which i am not going to speak to the international dynamic, but i am going to say that part of the challenge that we face here is a challenge that

president biden has already started to address with his buy america pledge. we have to not only start shifting to american, but in the united states of america, not in other countries. there is going to be a large discussion about how we make sure that a lot of the investment is about building our manufacturing base again. that's great jobs, that's often hopefully union jobs, but it is also a wonderful opportunity for us to recoup the benefits of that manufacturing and lower the cost of clean energy. part of the way we are going to get there is by making sure the federal government buys american and that the federal government looks at its procurement across every agencies so that the breadth of what we spend is designed to advance drunker than the united states, to advance health benefits for in

environmental justice communities, to begin to tackle the existential challenge of climate change. >> thank you. question for both of you. can you give us a sense of when you expect to have the so-called ndc orcutting greenhouse gases s a part of the paris accord? do you plan to make that number? 40%, 50%? higher than that? >> on the dude who is supposed to deliver this. he says the timing. so, basically, we want to make sure that it is something that can be announced before the summit on earth day. e're going to be out of the gate, working with the agencies to see what kind of reductions and mitigation opportunities there are. and also to look at our public

lands to make sure that we can continue to store carbon in our soil, to work with agriculture and others, to look at how we better manage our forests, so we are not seeing the devastating forest fires that we have been having before. so all across the federal government, every agency coming in d.c. many of them specifically with this executive order will participate in the task force that we are going to have to actually develop the most aggressive ndc that we can, to deliver the kind of boost that secretary kerry is looking for, to be able to ensure our international efforts are robust, and sufficient to address the challenge internationally. >> follow up on that for secretary kerry, international partners that the u.s. will stick to whatever you propose after having seen the trump administration take of the u.s. out of the paris accords?

>> i think our word is strong. i have been on the phone for the last few days, talking to our allies in europe and elsewhere around the world, and they are welcoming us back. they know that this administration already had a significant part of what has brought us -- will bring us to glasgow, which was that there the paris agreement. the obama-biden administration had great credibility on this issue, and president biden will be the person now who is driving this forward. an enormously meaningful to the folks there, and they also know that i was deeply involved in the negotiations in paris. and am now asked by the president, by president biden to make sure that we do the same in glasgow, if not more. so, i had no one to question our credibility at this point in time. someone probably will, and the answer will be that i think we

can achieve over the course of the next four years, things i will move the marketplace. the private sector. global finance. innovation, research that in fact no one, no one political person in the future will be able to undo. the planet will be organizing over the next few months and years. this is the start of something new. i don't know if you read larry's letter at black rock the other day, yesterday, but there is a new awareness among major asset managers, commercial banks, and others, about the need to be putting resources into this endeavor because it is major investment to manage. so, i -- i think the proof will be and what we do. neither gina nor i are going to start, you know, throwing around a lot of big promises, but you heard what she just said. we will work very closely

because we are going to try to bring to the table to help inform her and the folks we are working with, what we are picking up abroad, and what people are doing abroad. the steps they are taking and how we now have to measure ourselves against them. we are well aware of that. >> i just want to call attention to the fact that cities and states have really picked up the initiative to move forward on clean energy because the solutions are cheap. the solutions compete effectively against fossil fuels. we are talking about solutions that we are not asking anybody to sacrifice but acted to their advantage. if you look at the record over the last four years, while the prior administration might have wanted clean energy to head in a different direction, it has gone faster and farther than anyone ever expected. and the idea that we could, with this new work that we are doing together, send signals to the

marketplace who are purchasing at the federal level and are looking at different ways of having on the ground change, we can build that demand. we can actually grow significantly, millions of clean energy jobs, and all of a sudden, the question want to be whether the private sector is going to buy into it. the private sector is going to drive it, so this is going to be a signal setter, the way the federal government ought to set what our values are, what we think the future needs to be. and this is a value laden effort that president biden has undertaken, with full knowledge that it is going to benefit jobs. it is going to benefit your health, and it is going to lead to that future we want you and to our children. >> secretary psaki: we will come back, i promise. >> mr. secretary, if you would, there certainly are oil and gas industry workers who are

watching you both right now. they will hear the message, and the take away is that they are seeing it as their livelihood. what do you say to them? particularly those people who president trump was with on the campaign trail when he promised to save their jobs. and also to the oil industry executives who are listening. are you putting them on notice today? >> i didn't come here to put anyone on notice. the serious intent to do what needs to be done with this crisis, and it is a crisis. with respect to those workers, in this room, people are concerned about it, and the president of the united states has expressed in every comment he has made about climate, then need to grow the new jobs that pay better, that are kleenex. you know, you look at the

consequences of black line for minor, for instance. fastest-growing job before covid was solar power technician. people can't do those jobs, but doing the solar power one now, that is a better choice. similarly. you have the second fastest-growing job, pre-covid was a wind turbine technician. this is happening now. 75% of all of the electricity that has come online came from renewables. not, you know, coal plans have been closing over the last 20 years, so, what president biden wants to do is make sure those folks have better choices, that they have alternatives. they could be that people who go to work to make the solar panels. we are making them here at home. that is going to be a particular focus of the build back better

agenda, and i think that, unfortunately, workers have been set up false narrative. no surprise, right? for the last few years. they have been said that notion that somehow, dealing with the climate is coming at their expense. no, it is not. what is happening to them is happening because of other market forces already taking place. and what the financiers, the big banks, the asset managers, private investors, venture capital, all discovering, there is a lot of money to be made in the creation of these new jobs in these sectors. and what is going to come. geothermal, whatever it is going to be, those are jobs. the same worker who works in south carolina today putting together a bmw, which happens to be made there, and is currently an internal combustion engine can put together a car, but it

is electric. it is not a choice between having jobs. quality of life will be better when gina has put her team together that produces choices for us that are healthier, less cancer, cleaner air. the greatest cost to america, hospitalized every summer in the united states, we spend $55 billion a year on it, environmentally induced asthma. that will change as we begin to reign in what we used to call pollution in this country because it is pollution. and i think that workers are going to see that with the efforts of the biden administration, they are going to have a much better set of choices, and frankly, it will create more jobs rather than being stuck where we were. >> pulling out a couple of things in the executive order that i want to just call to your attention. we talked about the civilian

conservation corps. that is an opportunity to put younger people into work, vitally important efforts, but if you look at this, it also has set up a task force that is looking at these coal communities, communities that are really reliance on their energy, utility, and it talks about how to revitalize those economies. and it talks about how we can put people to work using the skills they currently have where they are to start looking at those old, abandoned oil and gas wells that are spewing out methane. all of the coal mines that haven't been properly close that are doing the same here that has great impact on climate but also will keep an opportunity for those -- for those individual workers to have work in their own community. we are not going to ask people to go from the middle of ohio or

pennsylvania and to ship out to the coast to have seller jobs. you know, so their jobs will everywhere, but we need to put people to work in their own communities. that's where their home is. that's where their vision is, so we are creatively looking at those opportunities for investment so that we can get people understanding that we are not trying to take away jobs. remember when we say climate change, eventually, people are going to think jobs, just like president biden. when he use the words "climate change." so we will do to find creative ways to put them to work, and then we are going to do as secretary gary says and start investing in new technologies and new manufacturing. that includes large manufacturing like cement and steel, that is work we should b doing here. that his work that inevitably