pretty al gore as president first, how would you situate al gore's preferences within this framework of your and second, i broadly, temperamentally and politically with you your analysis of let's call it neo liberal second term of clinton, but he had some manifest at least on the data. they were within ten years of wiping out of federal debt. yeah the is balanced unemployment low and then comes not 2008 instantly but a administration that cuts taxes that raises deficits that in effect undid the strategy you and i probably don't share not liking but it was a strategy so when you say the results were use the phrase built on sand are we sure and how do we know that. so the two barrel question one situate gore in this story imagine a gore presidency not that hard to imagine it's not big counterfactual and and that to the policy six cesses of at least by any by many measures of late years of the clinton. well yeah one thing to say about that is when you do have these budget surpluses by, that point clinton is well party that the republicans there and he's he saying you know i mean what yo

pretty al gore as president first, how would you situate al gore's preferences within this framework of your and second, i broadly, temperamentally and politically with you your analysis of let's call it neo liberal second term of clinton, but he had some manifest at least on the data. they were within ten years of wiping out of federal debt. yeah the is balanced unemployment low and then comes not 2008 instantly but a administration that cuts taxes that raises deficits that in effect undid the strategy you and i probably don't share not liking but it was a strategy so when you say the results were use the phrase built on sand are we sure and how do we know that. so the two barrel question one situate gore in this story imagine a gore presidency not that hard to imagine it's not big counterfactual and and that to the policy six cesses of at least by any by many measures of late years of the clinton. well yeah one thing to say about that is when you do have these budget surpluses by, that point clinton is well party that the republicans there and he's he saying you know i mean what yo

they want ownership. >> it is weird al gore wants to ban al gore rhythms. >> are we defending tick-tockg in the world. are they advertising? i don't understand. he has an argument for this. it is about brain capture, kids. the evidence is there. we are seeing a rise in mental illness driven by ideas on social media. when you see the videos, what do you see? you see the deranged look the same, wild eyed, emotionally incontinent. they are mocking the atrocities. it feels like it is a side. i don't like the messages and is that why i don't like them around. what if tiktok encourages patriotism or encouraged stem education or encourage the pledge of allegiance. the answer is, is what x did with community notes effectively remove the stranglehold the left had on fake news. the community notes are doing a lot of heavy lifting. china polices tiktok so their own kids don't get poisoned and we should be able to figure it out and away. young people would pay to get rid of social media. if all the kids abided by it. if they don't, they won't. they are only doing social media as mutually assured de

>> yeah and well, it's weird that al gore wants to ban al gore rhythms. >> oh!ending tiktok because we thought it was the worst thing in the world. are they advertise something he's got an argument for. this it's not about data capture. it's about brain capture. it's about kids. we are seeing a rise in mental illness mainly driven by pernicious ideas on social media. when you see tiktok voters you see the deranged look the same wild eyed emotionally incontinent, fervor of activists or boasting of indoctrinating your kids. i don't like the messages. is that why i don't want it around? what if i like the messages? what if tiktoken kushlgd american patriotism or stem education or doing the the pledge of allegiance? the answer is capturing tiktok, what x did what elon musk did with community note effectively removed the strangle hold the left had on fake news. those community notes are doing a lot of heavy lifting. china police tiktok in their country so their kids don't get poisoned but we don't. research shows that one people would pay, pay to get rid of social me

former vice president al gore will join me ahead.th us. >>> welcome back to "state of the union." i'm jake tapper. much of the dialogue centered around what a trump term might look like particularly after comments by the former aides and trump called concerns about what he might do in office, quote, the threat to democracy hoax and key trump ally and republican senator j.d. vance of ohio joins me live in studio. thank you very much for being here. >> you heard secretary blinken and you and senate erepublicans among the reasons more support for a border package to protect those southern border. senate republican mitch mcconnell said that threats from china, russia, china hamas are all interconnected and i want you to take a listen to what he had to say. >> sure. >> the challenges facing america and our allies today are not on a la carte menu of projects we can address at our leisure. america couldn't have the luxury of facing these threats individually. our ability to contend with complex, simultaneous threats is exactly what our adve

and joining me now is former vice president al gore. thank you so much for joining us. you were just with leader as the the cop 28 hosted by the uae, one of the biggest oil producing countries in the world. the president of the summit is the ceo of a state run oil company who recently said that there is no science to support phasing out fossil fuels. that is obviously not true. this all feels like having an arsonist host a fire prevention seminar. do you have any hope that something substantive could come out of this? >> well, jake, they've overreached. the fossil fuel industry has sought to control and manipulate this process for a long time. they're way better at captured politicians than capturing emissions but they've gone too far and i think it could end up as a kind of blessing in disguise because it is awakened a lot of people to this situation. it is a fossil fuel croisis and they try to pretend to keep on burning them and catch the emissions into the air is ridiculous. maybe one day in the future that might be possible. but it is nowhere feasible. it is not whe

would you agree with al gore who said the i agree with al gore who said the cop28 process has been capturedifficult to see the presence of fossil fuel companies and trade organisations at cop28, there's a definite presence. this process that brings together thousands of people from around the world is a process we have right now for international climate negotiations, and unfortunately we don't have time to be thinking about whether this is the structure we need or not because every year that goes by its us further and further from where we need to be in terms of reducing emissions, and limiting feature climate damages.— emissions, and limiting feature climate damages. emissions, and limiting feature climate damares. . ., ., ., climate damages. what more would you like to see happen _ climate damages. what more would you like to see happen at _ climate damages. what more would you like to see happen at the _ climate damages. what more would you like to see happen at the summit - like to see happen at the summit this time? we like to see happen at the summit this time? ~ ., ., , «i ., this t

the only thing that has risen his al gore's bank account.very rich man. and now al gore is saying if we don't all start driving electric cars, there's going to be a brilliant man migrant caravan. >> the scientists who warned us of these mega storms and the floods and mudslides and droughts and the ice melting and the seam level rising and the storms getting stronger and the tropical diseases and climate migrants crossing international borders in larger numbers, they were dead write and so we need to pay more attention to them now. here's one thing they say. if we don't take action, there could be as many as 1 billion climate refugees crossing international borders in the next several decades. >> rachel: turn on the news, al. there's already a migrant crisis. and they are coming -- if they are going to be a billion ingle goals, is the more reason to finish building the wall? or is it the first democrat to claim the border on the weather? here is aoc. >> it is not a border crisis. is an imperialism crisis. it is latin america. they are going t

then vice president al gore when the supreme court ruled. he's not inspired people to storm the capital or do anything but accept that even though arguably half the country thought al gore had been robbed just because of how divided everyone was. this case comes to us in a way that is so much more polarized. i try to rule on these issues quickly. al gore was vice president and on january 6th, can you imagine if he thought the trump acolytes falsely argue mike pence can reject florida's -- underlying the point. when it comes to presidential immunity, they order to stay out of this. why, do they want to drag along? >> yes, actually trump is appealing what a trial judge had said. you can't have blanket immunity. which is the case brought by special counsel drugs smith. he's appealing trial judges decision and march for the trial date. he's appealing to the district of columbia circuit. they play out over that period, arguably they have some grounds to say look the normal course of things is that it's first heard by an appellate court. it is som

so working for gore was my first job. i was kind of kid, speechwriter, and election night 2000, nashville al gore has three speeches prepared a victory speech, a concession speech, and then a modification where we explain that has won the electoral college, even though he has lost the popular vote. now america since learned that an electoral college win still a win. but at the time, we felt like that demanded some explanation and that. you know, florida goes to gore. we think he's won because it's too close to call. we don't know goes to bush. we think, well, where are you. so i'm in memorial plaza, veterans memorial plaza in downtown nashville. it is a sort of mr. rainy night. so as rain of starts up, people retreat to bars, restaurants around and and i was sort out of the action right like election nights are weird like once all the calls have been made, the doors have been knocked. there's really not much left to do except trade and traffic and rumors. what are you hearing? you know, and interestingly, i have a friend

former vice president al gore is ahead.nd seeing green, as governments around the world struggle to combat climate change, what role does wall street have to play? >> who's got the money on lock by being able to make it profitable. i'll ask the multibillionaire investor who is focused on climate change. ray dalia is coming up. ♪ ♪ >>> hello. i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is sounding a very clear alarm. we are closing out 2023, a year we may look back on as the time that people started to truly grasp that the climate crisis is here and it is already costing lives and livelihoods. from deadly wildfires to mud slides, devastating floods and soaring temperatures, we saw it all. 2023 was the hottest year in at least 125,000 years, scientists say as they warn that the world is inching perilously close to the threshold beyond which humans and ecosystems will struggle to adapt. in the u.s., cities in the south and southwest were particularly hard hit with houston, texas, experiencing the longest extreme

i mean, al gore. yeahl , they want less people. p i mean, the u.n. climate activists have said the earth's carrying you is only about a billion people. you have to remove about 7 billion people to reach that. al gore at a bill gates event, a bill gates sitting next to him, lamented that africa would have more populatio would hn than cha and india combined by mid-century. and he urged ubiquitousment fertility management, whatever that means. you can imagine what that means, but that's what he was urging for that. so make no mistake, he's saying we're going to have to give up our freedoms unless we tackle climate change. weclimathe's basically saying gp your freedom. now to the world economic foru m to the u.n., to the world health organization, which wants to declare climate a publicalth org health threat,t up so that we can then make itsa so that you won't have to give it up later. so he's basically saying give u givur freedp your freedo else you'll have to give it up later. the problem is, if we give it up nowthe promise is it to fig i in his agenda

: bush v gore was disruptive in court, spent years trying to repair the division on the court itself. to get unanimous decision to reject colorado decision and to protect our democratic values to show the public that the court is divided idlogically. >> joey: makeup of the supreme court, look at bush v gore, 5-4 decision, decision people say politics influenced that. this would be precedence is how we pick our president. >> griff: the clock is ticking. january 4 is the deadline, we're a week away, we'll see what the supreme court does. it was a divisive ruling and this has more at stake because you are talking about the ballot before you get to the election. bush v gore was deciding the election, this is the ballot, beginning of the process. >> carley: the stakes are high. seven after the hour. right now israeli forces are working to wipe out last hamas battalion in northern gaza. [shooting] >> joey: fighting comes at a high cost, idf announcing three more soldiers have been killed. >> griff: trey yingst joins us live. trey. >> trey: good morning. i want to start with the latest out o

kat: all right well meanwhile al gore says he wants to pox on the climate crisis.et people have to vote democrat. >> the solution to political despair is political action now is the time to get active you know there's a mental health crisis around world jake that we hear people talking about. i think that one of the main reasons for that -- is that young people look at the fact that we're not yet solving the climate crisis. we have to make sure that we make the right political choices in our democracy to enable ourselves to make the right choices. >> and you're not going to believe this but there's climate activist who are being hypocritical at the u.n. climate summit in dubai. the summit is expected to call for people to stop eating meat. and meanwhile attendees at the summit are eating juicy beef slabs of meat and filly cheese steaks and melt in your mouth barbecue are you just shocked by this? >> shocked now hungry and -- >> kind of starving now. hypocrisy name of the game for climate folks and you know al gore it is great to see him back there on the screen isn

the court super expedited its process in bush versus gore. it even released its decision on the same day it heard oral argument. this colorado case is actually significantly more important because bush versus gore was about florida and the colorado case would impact all 50 states. so if the court follows the same procedural precedent for the colorado case, it will expedite and decide this issue long before colorado's primary, which is on super tuesday. i think the larger concern is whether the court's decision will be interpreted as political as bush versus gore, which is widely considered a legal embarrassment. and the supreme court itself has considerably less legitimacy now than it did in 2020 when it decided bush versus gore. so the colorado case isn't just a challenge for donald trump. it's also a test for the united states supreme court and whether it can rise above all of the concerns that americans have about it as an institution. >> governor, it's not just colorado. acrding to law fair, there's at least a dozen more states trying to

and joining me now is former vice president, al gore. vice president gore, thanks so much for joining us. so mr. vice president, 2023, officially the hottest year on record. deadly heat waves, catastrophic floods, devastating wildfires. more powerful storms. we've gotten dangerously close to the 1.5-degree celsius threshold beyond which experts say humanity and the planet will struggle to adapt. >> stronger than the tropical diseases and climate and migrants crossing international borders in larger numbers. they were dead right when they warned us about this and so we need to pay more attention to them. if we don't take action, there could be as many as 1 billion climate refugees. the temperatures will stop going up right away and if we stay at true net zero, half of the human cause will fall out of the atmosphere in as little as 25 to 30 years. we have the ability to do this. and it's not impractical, because we now have the cheapest new source of energy in the history of the world with solar electricity and wind electricity and the ele

gore., everything aside, i think the one difference, it's a very different court than the one under bush v. gore. this is a quote goes legitimacy and called into question numerous times over the last three years. this is not the court that was in 2000. and i think that has to weigh on them as well. i don't know that it will necessarily lead to a different outcome, but it may shape the way they get to that outcome. >> and i also don't want to be -- i don't want to be over, like, it is a set of novel issues. they said that in the majority opening. they were quite clear about that. the big question, yes, the plain plain language is clear about what is the direction, and more, precisely, who gets to say, who is the orbiter of wetter weather and individual counts here. >> and that's where there is room for the supreme court to get rid of this case, in a way that is intellectually respectable, which is, which is, you don't, that yes it is true a presidential candidate can be disqualified for supp

bush versus gore was just about florida. these cases would impact all 50 states. if the court follows the same procedural precedent for the colorado case, it could ultimately expedite a decision and decide this issue long before colorado's super tuesday primary. >> let's follow the bouncing back. back to jack smith. the special counsel has filed a motion today to block mr. trump from citing conspiracy theories in his election interference case. the court should not permit the defendant to turn it into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant information and should reject his attempt to inject politics into this. we're not going to see a decision on this motion before the court rules on donald trump's immunity appeal. do you see this motion standing? >> you know, it's really just a motion about what's relevant at trial. i think jack smith paid close attention to donald trump's defense in the new york fraud case where his lawyers and ultimately trump, when he got on the stand, basically put out an infomercial about how great

al gore for president. >> i was facing foreclosure and we got a telegram to our local vendor who offered to come sit down at the mediation table and try to work things out between myself and my bankers. you might remember the organization getting things back. >> the governor of america. he served his country in korea. he wiped of huge budget cuts, helped 40,000 welfare mothers find jobs and had an economic turnaround. mike dukakis. quick similar msages are being conveyedy this cycle of democratic candidates as well. right now, president biden is well ahead in his bid for the pridential nomination, according to the latest poll from the messenger. next, to ads, onfrom president biden's reelection campaign and another from challenger dean phillips. both hitting on themes of experience, leadership and working for the middle class. >> every action and policy for joe biden is about truth. our community has been cut in half. our businesses are the fastest growing in the country, driving our nation's economic recovery. and for our family, the price is $35 because who president joe biden is fight

for families. >> is not like all the rest, this is al gore, senator from tennessee, different because he's strong enough to rebuild our economy. he's the only one that understands peace requires negotiating and strength and integrity. 12 years in the house and senate fighting for change. no one else comes close. al gore for president. >> i was facing foreclosure and we got a telegram to our local vendor who offered to come sit down at the mediation table and try to work things out between myself and my bankers. you might remember the organization getting things back. >> the governor of america. he served his country in korea. he wiped of huge budget cuts, helped 40,000 welfare mothers find jobs and had an economic turnaround. mike dukakis. quick similar messages are being conveyed by this cycle of democratic candidates as wel right now, president biden is ll ahead in his bid for the presidential nomination, according to the latest poll from the messenger. xt, to ads, one from president biden's reelection campaign and another from challenger dean phillips. both hitting on themes of exp

gore. >> bush v.was destructive for the court enemy respects: justices spent years trying to repair the divisions on the court itself. i think that the chief justice is going to try to get a unanimous decision here. i hope that it can speak with one voice. and that voice should be to reject colorado's decision and to protect our democratic values to show the public that the court itself is divided ideologically but they remain unified on these basic values that define us. >> joe: there is a chance here this really doesn't hurt donald trump because, if they go through this process and they have the primary election without donald trump on it, someone else wins and donald trump still wins the nomination, chances are the supreme court will rule on this before the actual presidential election. and at that point he would be back on the ballot in colorado. and they would have just taken any opportunity for really someone to hurt him in a poll because primaries work that way in a sense of. [clearing throat]

is bush versus gore it?. >> it does, but bush versus gore was an extraordinary case, because the supreme court had to do three things. the first is, it had to create a new legal doctrine that never existed before. here, it's in the constitution, right? no one is asking the supreme court to create a new theory out of thin air. the text of the 14th amendment has been well settled for a while. number two, the supreme court was doing it after the election took place, here in a nation of 300-plus million americans, presumably there's some other election die nigher vote suppression to run for president. donald trump is not the only person who can oppose a woman's right to reproductive health. there's a whole party of that that can run for president. three, that brings me to the largest context, donald trump is not a taint-free candidate who this is being thrust upon? al gore had doing nothing wrong. george bush, frankly, had done nothing wrong. the supreme court was interjecting itself into a political dispute aft

gore. jack smith asked the court to bypass the appellate level and make a decision about whether donald trump is entitled to immunity. and separately, this week they agreed to hear a challenge to a law used to prosecute hundreds of january 6th defendants for obstructing or impeding an official proceedingsing, which could impact smith's prosecution against trump on those charges. here's what's interesting to me. nowhere in the government's petition is there any specific reference to the 2024 presidential election, but that's clear ly what is driving smith's request. in making his case, here's what he told the court. quote, this case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy whether a former president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal prosecution when he's been impeeached before the criminal proceedings begin. the justices have already agreed to fast track the request they decide

the same might be said of al gore, -- cheney or joe biden.th tradition, the clinton-gore ticket offered none of the obvious contrast that had once governed the vice presidential selection process. the two men came from neighboring states. they were of the same generation and political outlook. west new deal than democratic leadership council. by the same token, -- cheney certainly wasn't asked to run with george w bush because of his swing state appeal. wyoming's electoral votes, all three of them were safely ensconced in the republican column. whoever ran for vice president cheney's uniquely powerful position in the second bush presidency reflected the president's trust and confidence in a vice president who had no desire to succeed him. a rare example of self-denial that reinforced both cheney's loyalty and paradoxically, his independence. which brings us to the vice president that -- cheney knows best. gerald ford was chosen for the job under duress during his eight months in office. ford would have his loyalty severely tested. in the end,

gore case. i'm not sure there's any decision by this court that's going to be widely accepted by the public in the way the bush v. gore decision did. al gore had something to do with that accepting the decision saying he disagreed with it and moved from a peaceful transition from clinton to bush. but we are so much more polarized now than then. so it's hard to imagine the supreme court touching this in a way that's going to unify the country or strengthen the belief in institutions. >> it's a great point. just a completely different time and the way americans look at any decision different. we talk about the words that donald trump uses i know and there's more polling out that essentially finds why voters are okay with it. they're okay with the language used about immigrants and comments about democrats. it often, shouldn't be surprising, tends to bolster support for the president. >> this is the lesson learned over the last eight years of donald trump on the political stage. that he has an abil

and i wasn't there. >> the bush/gore recount, we had a month of that.mple, election officials looking at hanging chads. that's inherently funny. we had a b bit about h how clos was onon the suprereme court. . >> steve, what can you tell us about this supreme court decision? >> my bit was that it was 5-4, but in kennedy's mind it was incredibly close. >> as you can see, gore locked up the justices' cerebellum and orbital perculum, while the orbital areas were bush country. if you look at the southeast portion right here, you can see justice kennedy's all-important occipital lobe was simply too close to call. horrifying, just horrifying. >> that was when the entire news media, thehey had to p pretend wawas normal.. whereas s we dealt i in absurdi so this s was in ourur sweet sp. >> suddenly, jon stewartrt is totopping a lilist of trususted joururnalists. which is v very weird.d. >> he wawas doing cocomedy with genenes of a jouournalist. >> a more e serious woworld demd a more sererious stylele of com. really tacackling whatat was go onon. >> and s some of

and that was in november... ..or after november 2000, after the bush—gore election, when the vote wasally virtually tied in florida. yes, it was very close. there was a recount. and in the end, the outcome of the election was effectively settled in the supreme court of the united states. why was it that... well... ..in the end the case came to you? i don't think in the end it was settled so much by this court as by the votes that were cast in florida. but what came to the court were issues of whether the florida courts had correctly applied federal election law, which govern presidential elections. there are certain federal requirements. and the first case came to the court, and this court was unanimous in saying that the florida courts had not correctly applied federal election law and sent the case back. and the case was not then treated by the florida supreme court again before the second case returned. we'd had no response from the florida court. and then came the second case raising additional issues, and the court resolved it. but of course, by that time, the time contemplated u