from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, September 13th.

Now a follow-up on the climate section of the presidential debate. You could be forgiven for asking what climate section,

as it came right at the end before the closing arguments and was really short. And what's more,

the moderator's question was about climate, but the candidate's answers turned into an exchange

about manufacturing jobs, not protecting the world from potentially catastrophic warming.

Here's the full exchange, beginning with the question from ABC's Lindsay Davis.

We have another issue that we'd like to get to that's important for a number of Americans,

in particular younger voters, and that's climate change.

President Trump, with regard to the environment, you say that we have to have clean air and clean water. Vice President Harris, you

call climate change an existential threat. The question to you both tonight is

what would you do to fight climate change and Vice President Harris will start

with you one minute for you each. Well the former president had said the

climate change is a

hoax. And what we know is that it is very real. You ask anyone who lives in a state who has

experienced these extreme weather occurrences who now is either being denied home insurance or

it's being jacked up. You ask anybody who has been the victim of what that means in terms of losing

their home, having nowhere to go. We know that we can actually deal with this issue. The young

people of America care deeply about this issue. And I am proud that as Vice President, over the

last four years, we have invested a trillion dollars in a clean energy economy while we have also increased domestic gas production to historic levels. We have created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs while I have been vice president. We have invested in clean energy to the point that we are opening up factories around the world.

Donald Trump said he was going to create manufacturing jobs. He lost manufacturing jobs.

And I'm also proud to have the endorsement of the United Auto Workers and Sean Fane,

who also know that part of building a clean energy economy includes investing in American made products,

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