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The Brian Lehrer Show

Health & Climate: Day One

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump's first day in office and his administration's actions regarding health and climate.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

0:13.3

Good morning again, everyone.

0:14.8

One of the things we're doing on the show for the coming few months at least is a health and climate Tuesday section that focuses specifically on new

0:23.3

policies and policy debates in those two related areas. There was a lot on climate and energy

0:30.1

yesterday, including withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty and declaring an energy emergency

0:36.2

in the United States.

0:38.6

Here, there was less on health, but there was at least one nod to the likely RFK

0:43.6

junior agenda in the inaugural address, and we'll get to that.

0:46.8

But at Trump's Capital One Arena speech yesterday evening, kind of Trump unbound compared to

0:53.1

even the pretty blunt inaugural address,

0:55.6

Trump went directly after wind power as an alternative to fossil fuels.

1:00.7

He painted wind power falsely as leaving people in their homes vulnerable to whether a particular day is windy or not,

1:10.5

as he referred to a hypothetical couple

1:13.0

wanting to watch TV.

1:15.4

They want to watch the debates on television.

1:17.8

They want to watch your favorite president on television.

1:20.7

But the wind is blowing, so we can't watch television that night, Gladys.

1:25.9

Remember?

1:27.0

Gladys, I'm sorry, the wind is just not blowing. We're

1:30.1

not watching Trump tonight. But I'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair one-sided Paris climate

1:37.6

accord ripoff. Trump last night with us now, J.L. Holesman, senior reporter at the climate-oriented news site

1:46.7

heat map. Previously, she was an energy and climate policy reporter for Axios and covered energy

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