John Kerry on Coronavirus and Climate Change
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 0:03.0 | And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 0:05.3 | And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod. |
| 0:09.9 | And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share, |
| 0:14.1 | tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show. |
| 0:19.7 | Last fall, former Secretary of State John Kerry launched a major initiative |
| 0:24.1 | designed to focus laser-like attention on the threat that climate change posed to the future |
| 0:29.6 | of the planet. Calling his new coalition World War Zero, |
| 0:33.5 | Kerry recruited former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, former Republican governors, |
| 0:38.1 | Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Kasich, and Hollywood celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio |
| 0:43.2 | to participate in town hall meetings and other events around the country that Kerry hoped |
| 0:48.4 | could lead to wartime mobilization to address the issue. |
| 0:52.5 | But as he was about to get started, the coronavirus pandemic hit, offending daily life and |
| 0:58.0 | distracting the country's attention. And yet, the existential threat posed by climate change |
| 1:03.4 | has hardly gone away. We'll talk to Kerry about his initiative and what lessons can be learned |
| 1:08.1 | from the country's COVID-19 shutdown on this episode of SkullDuggery. |
| 1:19.6 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of crook, well, I'm not a crook. |
| 1:23.6 | I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. |
| 1:27.1 | My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence |
| 1:31.9 | tell me it is not. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
| 1:37.2 | There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm Michael Azagab, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
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