so montpelier the previous staff knew. yes. the previous staff knew that that was their social responsibility. there was a leadership change at the chair and at ceo level, an unfortunate lead. they were going against their own leadership in the field. and after that rubric in 2018, it a best practice for helping organizations become accountable to. equitable interpretation and the beauty. what was exciting is the board at montpelier amended their bylaws to advance parity, which meant that there would be 50% representation. descendant represents position on the board of trustees and then all chaos broke out. yeah, there was a lot of fragility fear chaos in that process, but for us in the shadows, we that it might happen in 2022. it could be 23. but we knew that it was important for structural parity, co-equal stewardship for that to happen at a presidential site to set the blueprint for innovation in our field. and i am so glad that because of the leadership of dr. shue and dr. matt reeves, james french, dr. michael blakey, dr.

madison, home from from washington to montpelier, hamilton could stand on the doorstep of montpeliernd said, i told you. so i told you. but of course, the flip side is that madison turned around and charters hamilton's bank and it behaves in all none of the ways that the first bank did but in all actually did but in all the ways madison feared from the from the 1790s, he could turn around to him and say, i told so what are you going to do? yeah, but let's let's take one final question and then our time will unfortunately be up. we can go up here in the front. let's get a microphone and see. you talked about the taxes, but you didn't mention taxes or estate taxes. was there any that those who had the most should pay most, either alive as property are dead, is estate taxes? was that at all part of the evolving revolutionary ideas? yeah. so there were several things that took place. some of it had to do with. graduated rates on on landed property. but they also made an egalitarian move in how they assessed taxes, which is just as important. and this took place in several states after th

the french president, emmanuel macron, earlier described the incident near montpelier as an act of terrorice officer. security outside jewish schools and places of worship has been stepped up. the incident happened during shabbat, thejewish day of rest, when religious services are held. a woman who lives near the site of the attack described her experience. translation: i was very shocked. the noise i heard was louder than anything i've ever heard in my life. since i've been in la grande motte, it's been over 25 years, so it was a big shock. some breaking news — the afp news agency is reporting that telegram chief pavel durov has been detained at a french airport. the french tv channel tfi reported that durov was arrested at bourget airport outside paris on saturday night. citing an unnamed source, tfi said he was arrested after travelling from azerbaijan on his privatejet and had been targeted by an arrest warrant in france. russia's embassy in france said it is is taking "immediate steps" to clarify the situation around the arrest of the russian—born businessman. brazil's sao paulo stat

the french president emmanuel macron has described an explosion outside a synagogue near montpelier aser. the authorities said it was caused by two cars being set alight, one of which had a gas cannister inside. police are hunting for a suspect, and security outsidejewish schools and places of worship has been stepped up. the incident happened during shabbat, thejewish day of rest, when religious services are held. the french prime minister gabriel attal has been to visit the synagogue and condemned the attack. translation: we have escaped an absolute tragedy because, - as the commander of the gendarmerie told us, the first information, in particular from video surveillance, was that the assailant was extremely determined. and if the synagogue had been full of worshippers at that time, if people had come down from the building in the first minutes, they would probably have been victims. what happened here shocks and scandalises all republicans in our country. i know that because the reality is that once again, frenchjews have been targeted, attacked because of their beliefs. that's the

year 1786 up in a little small in his family's house in montpelier, which you can visit, not too far from here in orange, virginia, not much of the square footage there with all these books, some of which jefferson has sent him from paris about republic, ancient and modern and reading. but he'd also gotten around and he'd been member of the virginia house of delegates as the house of burgesses was renamed after the after the revolution. and so and a collaborator with jefferson, his geographic, it seems to me, tends to go to the southwest. one of the things that you see when he's a young delegate to continental congress under the articles of confederation in the early eighties, he has this sort of tussle with john jay, who was the a new yorker french huguenot ancestry, who was the who is the secretary of foreign affairs for the confederation government and john jay is saying, well, we let's not the spanish then have louisiana, the western bank of the mississippi river. he says, we're not we insist for the moment on navigation rights in the mississippi river just the western boundary o

this is in the southern part but of france, near the city of montpelier on the south coast and saying that with all the jews of france as well everything is being done to find the perpetrator of what president macron described as a terrorist act. and to protect places of worship, he added that the fight against anti-semitism is a constant battle. now, it's also worth noting that there has been an upsurge in anti-semitic, anti-jewish attacks in france, not just since october the seventh, since the hamas terrorist attacks, but also this year. in fact, they've almost tripled in the first half of this year. and the initial investigation of this this attack this morning says that the perpetrator was reportedly carrying a palestinian flag and a gun as well. now, jewish institutions at the best of times, jewish institutions in france and other countries in europe such as the uk have more security than institutions belonging to other religions have fear of attacks. they were bolstered in the wake of the october the seventh, hamas led to terrorist attacks. and now the interior minister france

. >> my name's katie swick, and i live in montpelier, vermont. >> my name is ben nguyen and i live inouston, texas. >> my name is beverley blackwell bowen from reidsville, north carolina. >> my name is juan declet-barreto. i'm a senior social scientist for climate vulnerability with the union of concerned scientists. danger season is a term that we use at the union of concerned scientists. starts in may, ends in october. the concerns around danger season are the increased frequency of extreme weather events that can occur back to back that can threaten the population on an almost regular basis. by may 7, almost 33% of the population have been under at least one extreme weather alert. this number jumped to 50% or nearly 170 million people, by may 20. by june 22, that number had reached 95%. that's very concerning. >> my family has been here for generations, beyond when this place was a state or even a territory. and i grew up outside playing outside. but right now you don't see kids playing outside. i am eight months pregnant, and one of the things that i discussed with my doctor when