merkley: yes. they give very vague answers. like, you understand why we have to follow the course we are following. and i will say, no i do not understand. yes, i realize the senate is split in the last session of congress. now it is 51/49. i understand introducing bills that will be helpful require essentially every democrat to be on board. i understand this, but i do think that people rally around a leader who lays out a clear and powerful vision and says how urgent it is. and that is more important, more needed than a little bit of cooperation that some senator will come sit down and talk to you. so, i really think, quite frankly, president biden and his team do not understand the level of challenge we are facing, and really president biden, as one climate scientist said, he is the last president who can keep the earth from exceeding 1.5 degrees centigrade, which we are hurtling towards so rapidly. >> does president biden need a primary challenger to push him on this issue? sen. merkley: well, it probably wouldn't hurt if th

merkley: yes. they give very vague answers. like, you understand why we have to follow the course we are following. and i will say, no i do not understand. yes, i realize the senate is split in the last session of congress. now it is 51/49. i understand introducing bills that will be helpful require essentially every democrat to be on board. i understand this, but i do think that people rally around a leader who lays out a clear and powerful vision and says how urgent it is. and that is more important, more needed than a little bit of cooperation that some senator will come sit down and talk to you. so, i really think, quite frankly, president biden and his team do not understand the level of challenge we are facing, and really president biden, as one climate scientist said, he is the last president who can keep the earth from exceeding 1.5 degrees centigrade, which we are hurtling towards so rapidly. ms. caldwell: does president biden need a primary challenger to push him on this issue? sen. merkley: well, it probably wouldn't

senator merkley, thank you for joining us today. senator merkley: thank you.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 all of the above strategy. they are green lighting more fossil projects aft

merkley: -- guest: well there is a lot there. people are frustrated over what other presidents have done. he was not convicted by the senate in either of his camp -- impeachments and we can talk about those things. the collusion, to use bill barr password, the communication with the russians on behalf of donald trump in his campaign is established in the molar art. i'm a lawyer, i'm a law professor. those are bible facts, right? -- viable facts, right? testimony under oath. documented evidence used in a way that is consistent with various rules that bind courts. that's different from politics. in this instance i think the question moving forward is can the government meet its high standard of proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, of these charges? it is clean. if the rules of the game apply to everyone who ends up in that position, the position of donald trump. in the argument that others should be indicted where donald trump was president for four years and had that authority in his department of justice, we saw what we saw but it d

. >> all right, senator merkley, we are waiting for senator records, but will that with senator merkley. there's so much going, on so we'll have a lot of in and out here. >> thank you very much. and i appreciate your testy and your work. a couple questions. i want to start with the issue that has been brought up in my state. oregon's in the cascadia subject an zone, and there's a lot of preparation for essential infrastructure to survive the big one, if you will. and we have been told by the government of transportation they don't consider the need for seismic resiliency as relevant to a number of the grant pool applications. and that certainly is concerned. we are working to rebuild one of our bridges to make sure that there is at least one bridge that survives, and can you speak a little bit to my seismic resiliency is not considered a factor for you all in the number of these grant programs? >> thank you, senator, and i am always made aware when i travel to the west coast and these seismic zones, the difference in bridge repairs, and the size of those peers, as compared to non seismi

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