Dooley and Pelosi: Bridging Trump's Divide

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🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Executive Committeewoman of Democratic National Committee Christine Pelosi, as well as staunch Trump supporter and clean energy advocate, Debbie Dooley, join Climate One for a discussion about the politics of energy more than a year into the Trump presidency. Reviving fossil fuels and rolling back action on climate change has arguably been one area where his agenda has achieved the most traction. Debbie Dooley, President, Conservatives for Energy Freedom, Co-Founder, Tea Party Movement Christine Pelosi, Executive Committeewoman, Democratic National Committee This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on March 1, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.7	environment. Burning fossil fuels disrupts all of the systems around us.
0:39.3	But one system climate has not disrupted is American politics,
0:43.3	despite there being a strong conservative case for climate action.
0:46.3	Moving to a decentralized grid structure is a national security issue.
0:51.3	Rooftop solar is a national security issue. There is nothing more
0:56.6	centralized in our nation nor more vulnerable to a terrorist attack than our power grid.
1:04.0	So when it comes to climate, Republicans and Democrats are not always as divided as it looks
1:08.4	in Washington.
1:09.4	If you took out the big money and you just looked at the facts,
1:13.2	most of the decisions would be made closer to where the people are,
1:16.9	which I think there is a climate action majority in the country.
1:24.4	Bridging the partisan divide.
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1:28.3	Is climate really as partisan an issue as politics in Washington makes it seem?
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