noam chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, linguist, and author. has a new book out called "who , rules the world?" stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: performing in albany, new york, part of a wave of actions against also feels around the world. -- against fossil fuels around the world. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. noam chomsky world-renowned , political dissident, linguist, and author, his latest book "who , rules the world?" let's turn to the presidential election and a clip of the presumptive front-runner donald trump speaking last month when he dismissed concerns about climate change. >> president obama said the biggest threat to our country is global warming. give me a break. the biggest threat to our country is nuclear. and we cannot let iran get a nuclear weapon. any code that was donald trump. noam chomsky, your response to that comment and donald trump overall as a possible president of the united states? >> is a pretty scary prospect. or one thing, it is not easy to find out what he

amy: world-renowned political dissident, author, noam chomsky.ill continue our conversation with him and the minute talking about president obama's legacy, cuba, the death of michael ratner, coming up. ♪ [music break] amy: "o que sera" performed by nara leao. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we continue our conversation with world-renowned political dissident, linguist, and author, noam chomsky, institute professor emeritus at m.i.t.. his latest book "who rules the , world?" ii asked him for his assessment of the obama admdministration. >> it't's about what i thougught before he -- befefore the 202008 primaries whenen i wrote about m just based on the information in his web page. i didn't expect anything. i expected mostly rhetororic and , you know, nice rhetoric, good speaker and so on, but nothing much in the way of action. i don't usually agree with sarah palin, but when she was ridiculing this -- what she called this "hopey-changey stuff," she had a point. there were a few good things. you k

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was that there was -- the people that are sort of the leaders of that movement, everyone from noam chomsky to "the nation" basically said, no, we don't want you. we're not going to flirt with you, we're not going to openly embrace you. there was a concerted effort to sort of quarantine and cordon off those people. i fundamentally don't think the same thing has happened on the right, particularly because matt drudge has the power he has to because he loves this stuff. >> well, listen, i'm not in a position to throw rocks at 9/11 truthers because donald trump is one at this point. but i will say this, the one thing i remember in 2008, john edwards was confronted by a truther at one of his rallies and instead of saying "that's ridiculous, we don't believe in that," he pulled out a note become and thoughtfully wrote it down what this person was saying about how the towers fell, and he said, "i'm going to get back to you." >> i do remember some cordon of the 9/11 truthers. >> yes, but the democratic party never nominated a truther, they did not -- >> that's fair. >> they did not nominate someon