Dark money's insidious impact on U.S. politics
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
NBCNews
4.5 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout. |
| 0:04.0 | These couples have been raising families, sending their kids to church and school, paying |
| 0:10.0 | taxes, but living in the United States all this time with a fear and uncertainty. |
| 0:16.2 | We can fix that and that's what I'm going to do today. |
| 0:20.9 | And Biden's historic announcement about legal protection for the undocumented spouses of American |
| 0:29.8 | citizens to keep hundreds of thousands of American families together. |
| 0:34.6 | Plus, White Boy Summer, the new symbol of white nationalists and the latest recruitment tool |
| 0:39.6 | for the far right. |
| 0:43.8 | But we begin tonight with the lucrative politics of climate collapse and the greed that is literally |
| 0:49.7 | letting our country burn. |
| 0:51.8 | Today millions of Americans from Iowa to Maine are suffering through heat warnings, |
| 0:55.8 | watches, or advisories. |
| 0:58.3 | Cities across half of the country, like Chicago, St Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit, Philly, and now New York are hitting temperatures |
| 1:05.8 | exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit, though it feels closer to 100. |
| 1:11.2 | Many of these cities could experience heat indexes hitting 105 degrees by Sunday. |
| 1:17.0 | These increasingly oppressive hot days aren't a coincidence. |
| 1:21.0 | They aren't, they are the predictable impact of the climate crisis and they're not just an inconvenience. They're also killing us at higher rates. |
| 1:30.0 | Heat related deaths among older Americans have increased 54% in recent decades. |
| 1:35.4 | In Florida, changing weather patterns are bombarding the southern tip of the state |
| 1:39.7 | with a seemingly never-ending series of storms that have left whole streets flooded, cars crippled, |
| 1:45.1 | and two people dead. |
| 1:47.5 | In California, more than 20 fires were sparked across the state since Saturday, burning |
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