Al Gore: Trump Administration Is the Most Corrupt in History
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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More To The Story: Few political figures occupy the sort of space in American history that Al Gore does. A longtime member of Congress before becoming vice president, Gore lost the presidency in 2000 to George W. Bush after a highly controversial decision by the Supreme Court. But in the years that followed, Gore didn’t slink into history. Instead, he worked to sound the growing alarm on climate change, most notably with his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which came out 20 years ago. A year later, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Today, he’s still at it and in many ways more adamant than ever that now is the time to act on global warming, especially as the Trump administration rolls back environmental protections and condemns climate science. But he also has more on his mind than the state of the planet, namely the state of democracy and the direction of the country under President Donald Trump. On this week’s More To The Story, the former vice president admonishes the White House for making an “astonishing mistake” in its attack on Iran, looks back at his groundbreaking climate change documentary, and talks about why he believes political will in America is still a renewable resource.
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| 0:00.0 | People think, well, if he said it in public, it can't be illegal. |
| 0:04.1 | It is illegal. |
| 0:06.1 | This is the most corrupt administration, not only in American history, but more corrupt than |
| 0:13.8 | I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that |
| 0:19.0 | he has. |
| 0:20.0 | It's shocking to me. |
| 0:26.2 | On this week's more to the story, an unfiltered interview with former Vice President Al Gore, the founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, rebukes the Trump administration |
| 0:31.3 | for its cozy relationship with the fossil fuel industry, and he condemns the president's |
| 0:37.0 | decision to brush aside decades of war |
| 0:39.8 | planning in attacking Iran. It was a lively conversation. You won't want to miss it. |
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| 1:22.8 | This is more to the story. I'm Al Letson. Few political figures occupy the sort of space in American |
| 1:29.2 | history as Al Gore. A longtime Tennessee congressman before becoming vice president, Gore, of course, |
| 1:36.4 | lost the presidency in 2000 to George W. Bush, after a highly controversial decision by the Supreme |
| 1:42.7 | Court. But in the years that followed, Gore didn't slink into history. |
| 1:47.5 | Instead, he worked to sound the growing alarm of climate change, |
| 1:51.3 | most notably with his documentary and inconvenient truth, |
| 1:55.1 | which came out 20 years ago. |
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