from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, March 12th.

We begin today with our climate story of the week, which we do every Tuesday on the show,

and this week we're leading with it for a closer

look at the climate section in President Biden's State of the Union address, and because energy

and the climate are already breaking out as one of the biggest and most divisive issues in the

presidential election campaign. Remember this remark from Donald Trump just a few weeks ago when

Sean Hannity asked him in an interview if he'd act like a dictator? We love this guy. He says,

you're not going to be a dictator, are you? I said, no, no, no, other than day one. We're closing the

border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dick later. Okay.

So make no mistake, promising more fossil fuels is one of the top ways that Trump thinks he'll get reelected. And at least one big thing will be different this time, even after day one,

if Trump does get back into the White House, unlike during his first term, when few people expected him to actually

get elected, there is now a detailed pro-fossil fuels policy agenda called Project

2025, developed at a conservative think tank, prepared specifically so that Trump, if elected

this year, can move specifically and quickly to roll back

the climate policies the country has today. What would they be rolling back? Well, here is the

climate section from Biden's State of the Union speech last Thursday night. This runs about a minute.

We're also making history by confronting the climate crisis, not denying it. I don't think any of you think there's no longer a climate crisis.

At least I hope you don't.

I'm taking the most significant action ever on climate in the history of the world.

I'm cutting our carbon emissions in half by 2030,

creating tens of thousands of clean energy

jobs like the IBW workers building and installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations.

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