Pod Save America - “Can Youngkin escape Trump’s taint?”

Joe Biden tries to rally the world to save the planet while Joe Manchin is still holding up his climate agenda back home, Donald Trump wades into the final days of the Virginia gubernatorial contest, and NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray joins to talk about today’s Supreme Court oral arguments over the Texas abortion law.

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Duration: 54m
Broadcast on: 02 Nov 2021
Audio Format: other

The Supreme Court has had a busy summer loosening gun restrictions in states, overturning Roe vs. Wade, and severely threatening our Miranda rights. I'm Leah Litman, and each week on Strix scrutiny, I'm joined by my co-hosts and fellow law professors, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw to break down the latest headlines and the biggest legal questions facing our country. It's more important than ever to understand the repercussions of these Supreme Court decisions and what we can do to fight back in the upcoming midterm elections. Listen to new episodes of Strix scrutiny every Monday wherever you get your podcasts. [Music] Welcome to Piazza America. I'm John Fabro. I'm John Lovitt. I'm a guitar. You keep doing a new inflection every day. I don't think I am. Keep doing. Keeping on your toes. I appreciate it. It's the afternoon. On today's pod. On today's pod, Joe Biden tries to rally the world to save the planet while Joe Manchin is still holding up his climate agenda back home. Donald Trump wades into the final days of the Virginia gubernatorial contest and NYU law professor Melissa Murray is back to talk about today's Supreme Court oral arguments over the Texas abortion law. But before we start, Lovitt, tell us about your upcoming show in New York. It's almost here. It's almost here. Two weeks to love it or leave it at the Beacon Theater. Very exciting. Where's that now in New York City? New York City. We got to listen. All I'm saying is we got a big confirmation on a guest today. Up until now, we have a lot of pretty exciting passes, but this is a yes. Finally landed Eric Adams. We finally got that vegan mayor from out of town. Congratulations. A vegan cop from out of town. New York, you sure can't pick them. I'd like a seven foot tall guidance counselor who seems to like S&M followed by a vegan cop. Give me a tiny, a tiny billionaire who hates soda. And before that, I'd like a person who's I'm done. Did you pull this string? Wow. I don't know what this is going on. I like that a lot. Anyway. Where can people buy tickets? Crooked.com/events. Thank you. We have great. It's gonna be great. All right. Let's get to the news. President Biden spoke at a global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday that opened with some pretty desperate warnings about what will happen to life on this planet. If most world leaders don't do dramatically more than they're doing to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade, UN Secretary Antonio Guterres said that we're quote, careening towards climate catastrophe and quote, digging our own graves. Even UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared the climate crisis to a doomsday bomb that's about to explode. And while the leaders of China and Russia to the biggest carbon emitters on the planet refused to show up to the summit, Biden used the moment to apologize for Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accords and pledge more action from the United States. Here's a clip. I guess I shouldn't apologize, but I do apologize for the fact the United States in the last administration pulled out of the Paris accords and put us sort of behind the eight ball a little bit. This is a challenge of our collective lifetimes. The existential threat threat to human existence as we know it and every day we delay the cost of inaction increases. So let this be the moment that we answer history's call here in Glasgow. Apology tour, huh? It's still early, but so far I'd say that Glasgow doesn't feel as optimistic as the summit in Paris did back in 2015. What do you guys think about the coverage you've read so far and what's been going on there? That was a low point when Greta Thunberg threw a bucket of polar bear blood on Emmanuel Macron. That was weird. I want to know that I was going to say Antonio Guterres, which would have been a funnier name to use, but you threw him in the intro. Over to you, Tommy. I found out it was funnier. I liked both jokes. I think the coverage reflects the fact that this is an urgent problem and that but even the pledges that countries are bringing to this conference don't do enough to reduce emissions by the amount we need to reduce them to stay underneath the 1.5 Celsius temperature increase by the end of the century, not to be dorky for a second, but that's the challenge. Even the pledges they're making don't meet the moment and these are just pledges. They are not backed by laws or policies in a lot of cases. So I understand the skepticism, but that's why you do the summit. I mean, the Paris Climate Accords kind of pulled

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