today, i am joined by oregon democratic senator jeff merkley. tor merkley, thank you for joining us today. senator merkley: thank you. it is good to be with you, leanne. leanne: we have a lot of topics to get to but i want to start on climate change. as you fully know and most of our viewers know, this summer has been extremely hot in many places around the country, you have what is called a heat dome over the southern part of the country, but in addition, there has been a lot of weird climate events over the last couple of months and beyond, so you have asked not only just recently but for the last couple of years for president biden to declare a climate emergency, what do you mean by that? what would you like to see? speech to layout the challenge that the united states has to set the example and has to work in lead other countries there put less country in the outlets -- less carbon in the atmosphere. we have to have an example lead and help the world take this on. but instead, what we have seen is the biden administration has regarded two and

. >> next, democratic senator jeff merkley on the biden administration's approach to climate change. the senator chairs and appropriations subcommittee on the environment. he talks about why he believes climate change is the biggest threat humanity has faced. this is hosted by the washington >> as you and most of our viewers know, this summer has been extremely hot in many places around the country. they have what is called a heat dome hovering over the southern part of the country. in addition, there has been a lot of weird climate events over the last couple of months and beyond. you have asked not only recently but for the last couple of years for president biden to declare a climate emergency. what do you mean by that. what would you like to see? senator merkley: july 4 was the hottest day in human history. these have been the hottest nine years in human history. we've seen stronger storms and ocean acidification. when you look at the collective impact, this is a global emergent biden was inaugurated, i was using that speech to layout the challenge that the united states has to s

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. >> next, democratic senator jeff merkley on the biden administration's approach to climate change. the senator chairs and appropriations subcommittee on the environment. he talks about why he believes climate change is the biggest threat humanity has faced. this is hosted by the washington

today, jeff merkley will talk about russia, ukraine, climate change and other topics with the washingtonost. you can watch that on c-span, c-span.org, and the free c-span video app. today, members of congress away on the august about 15 minutes left in this open forum. any public policy, political issue or state issue you want to talk about. the line for republicans is (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. from new york, sean, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. host: what is on your mind? caller: all this propaganda was brought up about biden. the people know biden was pushing buttons. he was standing up for what is good and right, standing up for the people, standing up -- he is the people's president. when they step on toes, they are going to try and nail him anyway they can. bring out anything and anyone to nail you. that is what they are doing with biden right now. if biden stood up for the people, they are doing everything in every possible way to slam joe biden and now hunter biden. they use the bidens as constant nail joe biden, presid

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