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Today, Explained

CNN's climate marathon in 20 minutes

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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We watched seven straight hours of Democrats discussing climate policy so you wouldn't have to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yesterday was an unprecedented day for United States presidential politics and the environment.

0:12.0

We had many lines going directly, many models, each line being a model, and they were going

0:16.4

directly through, and in all cases Alabama was hit.

0:21.2

If not lightly, in some cases pretty hard, Georgia, Alabama was a different route.

0:26.5

They actually gave that a 95 percent chance.

0:29.3

On one side, you had President Trump hold up a map of Hurricane Dorian's path that

0:34.6

looks to have been altered with a sharpie to include Alabama, even though the National

0:40.5

Weather Service has made it clear over and over again that the hurricane will not hit Alabama.

0:46.5

But I think Georgia is going to be in great shape.

0:50.7

Everyone's going to be in great shape because we're going to take care of it regardless.

0:54.5

That's never really happened before.

0:56.8

Good evening and welcome to the CNN Democratic presidential tower hall on the climate crisis.

1:02.0

On the other side, you had 10 of the leading Democratic candidates for president stop by one

1:07.2

by one at CNN to talk about climate change.

1:10.7

Tonight, Democratic and independent voters will be asking the questions live here in our audience

1:16.6

and also by video.

1:18.6

It was in depth, it was unprecedented, it was seven hours long.

1:23.7

Do Mayor Irfan watched it from beginning to end for Vox?

1:28.7

Because I have sinned and God hates me.

1:32.4

Was there a reason this thing needed to be seven hours?

1:35.1

Well, it was a constraint from the format.

1:38.6

The backdrop of this is that the Democratic National Committee, which manages the presidential

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