A Conversation with Secretary Ernest Moniz

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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Former Sec. of Energy Ernest Moniz and Al discuss putting pragmatic meat on the bones of the Green New Deal. Al coins a new Kennedy-esque slogan, “We choose to go to zero-carbon not because it is easy, but because otherwise WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!” Moniz, who was the chairman of MIT’s physics department, negotiated the technical nuclear parts of the Iran Deal with his Iranian counterpart. Because Trump has repeatedly called the US negotiators of the Iran Nuclear Deal “very stupid people,” Al tries to determine throughout just how stupid Moniz is. Not very, it turns out. And Al opens with a monologue about a high school commencement in Willmar, Minnesota, explaining that Trump has no understanding of what America is. The valedictorian was a girl born in Ecuador, the class-speaker, a Somali-American girl, and the class president, a boy of Minnesota Norwegian/German stock. They’re all Americans.

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0:31.0	Hi, everybody.
0:34.0	Before we get into my conversation with former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, who among
0:41.6	other things was the chairman of the Physics Department at MIT before he was Energy Secretary,
0:50.5	of course.
0:51.5	So as Secretary, he negotiated the technical details of the Iranian nuclear deal.
1:00.5	And you may remember that during the campaign, and since Trump has referred to the people
1:07.8	who negotiated that deal on the American side as stupid.
1:12.6	So a big goal of my conversation with former Secretary Moniz is to determine whether
1:20.0	or not he is stupid.
1:23.6	And I'm not going to give it away, but he's pretty smart.
1:28.8	But there's one area, one area where he seemed not to be familiar with something, and that
1:33.6	is the concept of working for the man.
1:37.9	He didn't know who the man is.
1:42.1	So pretty smart, pretty smart.
1:45.9	And before we get into that, I want to just say something about Trump's go-home remarks
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