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[cars on a road]

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[car driving]

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[Varshini]
This all looks not great.

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I don't know if that's cause
of fire or just because–

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[woman]
I think it is.

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Yeah.

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Whoa you can
see it on the trees.

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[Varshini]
Like were there
traffic jams?

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Yes, people were in
traffic for hours–

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That's my greatest
nightmare is just like

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people are trying to
leave and they just can't

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because of the
fricking traffic

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getting out of
places like this.

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A lot of people
burned because of that.

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So this is the
shopping center.

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It used to be going from
all the way over there

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there was a Round Table,
there was Papa Murphy's

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There was Safeway,
there was a yogurt shop.

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See there's all the carts.

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Whoa.

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[quiet birdsong]

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[buzzing flies]

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[Varshini]
We always knew
it was coming for us.

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[eerie music]

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This was exactly the images
I was fearing years ago.

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I think there's a sense
of, wow, it's here.

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And it's terrifying.

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And it's real.

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[crackling fire]

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[intense musical buildup]

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[eerie music]

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[woman]
Scientists have issued
their starkest warning yet

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about the danger
of climate change.

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In a dramatic report, the UN's
intergovernmental panel

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says the world is
nowhere near its target.

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[man]
A panel on Climate Change
issued a report

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that claims a worldwide
environmental disaster

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tipping point is
12 years away.

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[man 2]
The question is whether
national leaders

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have the political will
to bring about

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the changes
recommended.

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[man 3]
They're telling us
that we need, quote

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“rapid, far reaching and
unprecedented changes

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in all aspects of society.”

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Deadly wildfires from
California to–

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[Varshini]
When I was younger,
I remember just like

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hating the news.

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[man]
One of the shocking parts
of this report is just

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how soon these
experts are predicting–

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[Varshini]
It just gave me a view
of the world

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that everything
happening outside

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of my little bubble
is dangerous.

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It's scary.

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It's too big.

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It's out of your control.

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[grinding, tapping]

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So stay small, do what you
can. Do your homework

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practice your volleyball,
get into a good school.

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When I joined a
movement, it was like

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the first time in my life
that I didn't feel alone.

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♪ Let the life I lead
speak for me ♪

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♪ Let the life I lead
speak for me ♪

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♪ When I get to the
end of the road, ♪

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♪ And I lay down
my heavy load, ♪

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♪ Let the people I loved
speak for me. ♪

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[Varshini]
I have a personality
that's really like

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pick yourself up and let's
keep going kind of mentality.

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Like my family
situation was very

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it was very volatile,
very intense.

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I feel this like need
that whatever is happening

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like I have to be okay
for the movement

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and I have to just like,
pull myself together.

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Be strong, be cool.

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[Yotam]
All right, let's go
let's go.

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Let's go, let's go, let's go.

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What we're doing is
Debate Club.

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Your side, the most
important thing is scale.

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Over here is escalation
and disruption.

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This team, give us
your best shot.

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We need scale because scale
allows us to credibly talk

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about representing Americans
from all walks of life

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about having a broad
“us” if there

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are actually millions
of people in the streets.

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We believe that we need to
scare the shit out of elites.

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[wild cheering]

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We believe that big numbers
don't do that anymore

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just if they're like in the
streets wandering about.

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Boom!

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We need actual disruption
to make transformational

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socio-economic
changes happen.

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[Yotam]
If you had to choose
which of these two things

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to prioritize, go
to that side.

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If you had to choose
which of these things

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[group laughter]

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[cheering]

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Look around.
You are aligned.

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[pensive music]

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[Varshini]
We started
Sunrise Movement

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because we're not
banking on the adults

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in the room
to have a plan.

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The climate crisis
is a global issue.

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But there's really
no way to solve it

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unless we change politics
in the United States.

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[music fades out]

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–By chance are
you filming?

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My name is
Aracely Jimenez.

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I'm fighting for the home
that I've known for 21 years.

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[snapping applause]

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I'm Tris Patoine.

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And I'm fighting for
the White Mountains

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and lake region
of New Hampshire.

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My name is Shana and
I'm fighting for the millions

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of lives that will
continue to be lost

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to climate-fueled
disasters

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if our elected
representatives and leaders

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continue to fail to take
meaningful action

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to address this
urgent global crisis.

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[applauding]

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[crowd cheers,
hopeful music]

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[Varshini]
We have the UN report that
came out just weeks ago.

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And that report says
we have 12 years.

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We have 12 years to
radically transform

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our economy
and our society

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to stop this crisis
and protect

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human civilization
as we know it.

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We'll talk about it like that
because that's what it is.

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We want Nancy Pelosi and
Democratic leadership

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to back a program
like a Green New Deal.

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[crowd cheering]

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I just want to let you
all know, how proud I am

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of each and every
single one of you.

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[exciting music]

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[woman]
On Capitol Hill, police
arrested 51 members

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of the youth climate
group Sunrise Movement.

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[man]
While a rising star
in the party

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Congresswoman elect
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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spent her first day on
Capitol Hill demonstrating

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outside of
Nancy Pelosi's office.

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[woman]
Congresswoman elect
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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has put together what
she wants to call a

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Green New Deal.

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–Green New Deal.
–A Green New Deal.

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[man]
The Green New Deal calls

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for a 10-year national
mobilization

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to bring greenhouse gas
emissions to zero.

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[man 2]
Create millions
of high paying jobs

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and equal justice for
underserved communities.

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[AOC]
We can use the transition
to 100% renewable energy

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as the vehicle to truly deliver
and establish economic,

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social and racial justice in the
United States of America.

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This is going to be
the Great Society,

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the moonshot, the civil rights
movement of our generation,

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that is the scale, that is
the scale of the ambition

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that this movement
is going to require.

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[crowd applauding]

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[crowd chattering]

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Thank you,
thank you so much.

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[crowd cheering]

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[AOC]
The climate and
environmental piece

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in the Green New Deal
is what we need to do.

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The inequality piece
and the justice piece

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is how we
need to do it.

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That is what actually
makes it sustainable.

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Hello.

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–Hello Senator

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Hi everybody.

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we'll sit down, we’re
gonna work together

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on a lot of good things.

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Thank you so, so much.

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Congratulations.

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[hopeful music]

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Fighting for change politically
requires faith.

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If we're trying to
make a new world

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if we're trying to
change our future,

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we have to act as though
that future is here.

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[crowd chattering]

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In some ways,
like my mom used to say

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you speak things
into existence.

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[Sanders]
Putting your staff
together and everything?

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[AOC]
Yeah, yeah.

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Is it a temporary office or do
you have your permanent?

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No, we just got
our permanent one.

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I'm in the
Cannon building.

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–So was I, what floor?
–Oh, really?

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I'm on the second floor.

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Better than me.
I was on the fifth floor.

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[Jones]
That was my job in the
Obama administration

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Green Jobs Czar.

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Our main slogan
was green jobs, not jails.

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That was our slogan, We
got beaten really badly.

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[congresswoman]
Our hearing topic today
is toxic coal ash

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adverse health effects
from the Puerto Rico plant

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and options for
plant closure.

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I now recognize the
gentlelady from New York,

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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez
for five minutes.

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There is layers of
environmental

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racism and injustice,

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you have the
environmental racism

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of the colonial status
of the island,

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which makes it easier
to subject to injustice.

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But then you also
have that layered

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on the racial injustice
of poisoning

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with coal ash having
this poison concentrated

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in a Black, Afro-Boricua
community on the island

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correct?

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[woman]
—Yes.
–Okay.

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[man]
As I explain in my
written testimony

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there is climate change,
but not a climate crisis.

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Definitely not a
climate crisis

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and definitely not
in Puerto Rico.

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[man]
by denying them low
cost fossil fuel energy.

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One of the things
I was most shocked by

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when I started doing
committee hearings,

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was how mediocre Republican
expert witnesses are,

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like I thought they would
send in like sharks,

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you know, like, Wall Street
finance, like statisticians.

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For just a brief moment,
I'd like

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to ask all of you
to close your eyes.

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I'd like you to imagine
an ambitious, young

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Puerto Rican woman.

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I'll call her Mia.

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She dreams of
working in a

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–high tech startup.
–I can't, I can't.

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[man]
Sadly, opportunities
are sparse

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because many companies
have fled Puerto Rico.

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[man]
When you defeat an
incumbent, it rarely happens,

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but when you do,
you get a platform

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to decide what you think
the party should believe in.

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With AOC, she
decided her issue

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was going to be
climate change.

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In a weird way, the
Tea Party is bringing out

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the worst of the
Republican Party,

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and we're trying
to bring out

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the best of the Democratic
Party using similar tactics.

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[Alexandra]
If we want a Green New Deal
it’s going to take

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groups like Justice Democrats
aggressively challenging

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key Democrats  that are
halting progress right now.

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Make them feel like they’re
gonna lose their seats

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if they don’t support this.

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I'm really grateful
that you decided

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to come here when there's
a lot of other places

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that maybe pay more or less
volatile work environments.

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I think the big thing
that we're up against,

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in addition to all of these
powerful forces for ourselves

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and for the country
is cynicism.

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We have to be hopeful,
we have to keep going.

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And these next
two years are critical.

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[man]
So let's move on

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because we have
the debate coming up.

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Former Vice President Biden,
new Fox News national poll

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has him up 33%, Sanders is the
next closest 15%, Warren 12

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[Alexandra]
We're in the battle for the soul
of the Democratic Party.

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There's also a
huge battle

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to overcome
in the media.

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I just recently
became a contributor

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to CNN, which is
pretty crazy.

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I didn't get a
college degree.

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So I just knock myself
a lot of times,

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like, am I prepared
to do this?

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[TV chatter]

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So crazy sometimes
how like,

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I know that I'm so sure
in what I believe in.

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But then the moment that
you look at a camera.

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[laughs]

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[whispering]
You’re gonna do great,
you’re gonna do great,

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[exhales nervously]

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Don’t get scared.

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So Alexandra, you just saw
the recent poll numbers,

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what do you say
to these

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you know,
poll numbers that show

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that you guys are too
radical for the country?

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Well, I fundamentally
believe, fundamentally,

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I keep saying
fundamentally.

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Americans are excited about
bold action on climate

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and who their demographic,
what am I trying to say?

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Why can't I get this out?

00:16:12.471 --> 00:16:16.558
You're not leaving until you
get this right at least once.

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The only way
that we're going to

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fundamentally
transform the lives

00:16:20.104 --> 00:16:21.855
of working people
in this country,

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is by going up against the
powerful special interests,

00:16:24.942 --> 00:16:27.736
the power structures
that have halted progress

00:16:27.736 --> 00:16:29.738
on all of these issues
for so long.

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And if the candidates
aren't willing

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to do that, aren't
willing to inspire people

00:16:34.952 --> 00:16:38.747
with solutions that match the
problems that we're facing,

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we have a real risk of
losing the presidency.

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Okay, let's go.

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[woman]
All right. For more
on this week's debates,

00:16:47.506 --> 00:16:49.466
let's bring in Democratic
strategist Hilary Rosen

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and Alexandra Rojas,
the executive director

00:16:51.844 --> 00:16:54.346
of the Junior Democrats,
good to see both of you.

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I think the reality is

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is that the more
centrist wing is arguing

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that they want to maintain
the status quo

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and not really
change very much.

00:17:00.936 --> 00:17:02.438
And what progressives
are talking about

00:17:02.438 --> 00:17:05.816
is transforming this
country fundamentally,

00:17:05.816 --> 00:17:08.694
I think the candidate
that is authentic,

00:17:08.694 --> 00:17:09.987
that is clear in
their values

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that remembers
who their base are,

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is the one that's
going to win in 2020.

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You know, I'll just
say, I think that's silly.

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I think that not
a single Democrat

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on the stage
either night actually

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is advocating
for the status quo.

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[Alexandra]
My first appearance
here with CNN.

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I was literally
called silly on air.

00:17:29.465 --> 00:17:30.674
And then like,
12 hours later,

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I'm in the shower
this morning,

00:17:31.800 --> 00:17:33.802
like thinking of all of
like the perfect rebuttals,

00:17:33.802 --> 00:17:35.095
and I'm like, great.

00:17:35.095 --> 00:17:37.806
12 hours later, I got
my talking points

00:17:38.348 --> 00:17:40.392
[crowd chanting]
USA. USA.

00:17:40.934 --> 00:17:42.770
[music]

00:17:42.978 --> 00:17:46.398
[Trump]
The Democrats plan
to completely destroy

00:17:46.398 --> 00:17:48.150
America's economy

00:17:48.150 --> 00:17:52.905
through their new $100
trillion Green New Deal.

00:17:55.449 --> 00:17:57.242
They want to rebuild
your home,

00:17:57.242 --> 00:17:59.495
they want to take away
your hamburgers.

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This is what Stalin dreamt
about, but never achieved.

00:18:05.375 --> 00:18:08.629
[Alexandra]
Republicans are tearing
the Green New Deal apart.

00:18:08.629 --> 00:18:11.256
They have their own
coordinated media operation,

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There is no man made
climate change.

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[Alexandra]
Then you also have

00:18:16.011 --> 00:18:17.763
on the Democratic
establishment side

00:18:17.763 --> 00:18:19.223
a leadership that is saying

00:18:19.223 --> 00:18:21.308
that these things
are not possible.

00:18:21.517 --> 00:18:23.143
Senator Dianne Feinstein
gets into

00:18:23.143 --> 00:18:24.812
a heated discussion
with a group

00:18:24.812 --> 00:18:27.648
of kids representing
the Sunrise Movement.

00:18:27.648 --> 00:18:30.651
I've been doing this
for 30 years.

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I know what I'm doing.

00:18:32.444 --> 00:18:34.696
You come in here,
and you say

00:18:34.696 --> 00:18:37.699
“It has to be my way
or the highway.”

00:18:37.699 --> 00:18:39.118
I don't respond to that.

00:18:39.201 --> 00:18:42.162
[Alexandra]
The CNNs of the
world the MSNBCs,

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the media is expecting
us to fail.

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It is all very expensive.

00:18:46.166 --> 00:18:49.044
Outrageously expensive,
totally impractical.

00:18:49.044 --> 00:18:51.463
[man]
Even if you support,
obviously a green economy.

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Talk about getting
back involved

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with the Paris Accords
talk about carbon tax.

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Apparently, it's also
going to give everyone a job,

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and health care
and free education

00:19:01.557 --> 00:19:02.891
and provide
affordable housing

00:19:02.891 --> 00:19:04.685
and get your parents
back together.

00:19:04.685 --> 00:19:05.936
[crowd laughter]

00:19:05.936 --> 00:19:08.939
[Rhiana]
No one's saying this will be
one giant omnibus bill

00:19:08.939 --> 00:19:12.401
that's pushed through, we're
saying that it is a coherent,

00:19:12.401 --> 00:19:16.238
overarching vision for what
our economy should look like

00:19:16.238 --> 00:19:17.656
and the ways that
we should structure

00:19:17.656 --> 00:19:20.159
this transformation
as we go forward.

00:19:20.159 --> 00:19:22.286
It could be 10 bills,
it could be 15 bills,

00:19:22.286 --> 00:19:24.538
it could be 20 bills,
it could be three bills.

00:19:24.538 --> 00:19:26.957
I frankly, don't care.

00:19:26.957 --> 00:19:29.418
And I know that
everyone like wants

00:19:29.418 --> 00:19:30.961
to talk about this
dispassionately,

00:19:30.961 --> 00:19:32.171
but like this is
the world

00:19:32.171 --> 00:19:34.214
that I will raise
my kids in.

00:19:36.758 --> 00:19:37.968
[door opens]

00:19:39.928 --> 00:19:40.929
Sit.

00:19:42.514 --> 00:19:43.765
Good girl.

00:19:45.601 --> 00:19:48.061
[Rhiana]
I don't think people realize
the way that poverty

00:19:48.061 --> 00:19:50.606
can strip out
your insides.

00:19:52.774 --> 00:19:56.486
You can look around, and
your neighborhood tells you

00:19:56.486 --> 00:19:59.114
that the world doesn't
give a fuck about you.

00:20:01.408 --> 00:20:04.244
When I was growing up, I
never expected to have power.

00:20:05.662 --> 00:20:08.999
I made a choice in college
that I was going to continue

00:20:08.999 --> 00:20:11.793
to talk the way that I talk
because I wanted people

00:20:11.793 --> 00:20:14.129
to have to deal with
my brain coming out

00:20:14.129 --> 00:20:16.715
and my words
out of this body.

00:20:26.183 --> 00:20:29.561
[Rhiana]
Our goal is to be able
to tell candidates

00:20:29.561 --> 00:20:32.439
that it's possible to
both decarbonize

00:20:32.439 --> 00:20:35.943
and keep equity and
justice at the center

00:20:35.943 --> 00:20:38.445
and that they don't
have to compromise

00:20:38.445 --> 00:20:41.490
because we already figured
out how the fuck you do it.

00:20:45.452 --> 00:20:47.412
[Rhiana]
The Green New Deal
is the only plan

00:20:47.412 --> 00:20:49.539
that meets the scale,
speed and scope

00:20:49.706 --> 00:20:53.919
that science says we need
to mitigate the climate crisis.

00:20:54.211 --> 00:20:56.630
But if we're actually
going to build a policy

00:20:56.630 --> 00:20:59.424
that works for everyone,
we need to get

00:20:59.424 --> 00:21:01.843
 a slice of everyone
in the room

00:21:01.843 --> 00:21:04.263
that is actually
incredibly difficult.

00:21:06.139 --> 00:21:09.518
You might be trying to get
folks to work together

00:21:09.518 --> 00:21:14.481
who have had
active beef for years.

00:21:15.399 --> 00:21:17.401
[dramatic music]

00:21:17.567 --> 00:21:20.237
[man]
With the Green New Deal,
we are not going to

00:21:20.237 --> 00:21:22.239
put a complete end
to white supremacy

00:21:22.239 --> 00:21:24.157
or create social equity
where the brown man

00:21:24.157 --> 00:21:25.659
and the white man
live together.

00:21:25.659 --> 00:21:28.078
I mean, these are all
great things.

00:21:28.078 --> 00:21:30.372
But we have to focus
first and foremost

00:21:30.372 --> 00:21:33.667
on reducing
global warming.

00:21:33.792 --> 00:21:36.795
[woman]
We have to look at the
Black, white and brown issue.

00:21:36.795 --> 00:21:39.589
And I'm not looking for a
debate with regard to that.

00:21:39.673 --> 00:21:42.467
I think the Movement for Black
Lives should be in this room.

00:21:43.427 --> 00:21:46.054
[woman]
I do feel that it's almost
like a taboo subject

00:21:46.054 --> 00:21:47.472
to talk about
air capture here.

00:21:47.472 --> 00:21:50.267
And I think that
that's a bit problematic.

00:21:50.475 --> 00:21:54.187
We have some really great
direct air capture technology.

00:21:54.187 --> 00:21:55.439
It's called a tree.

00:21:56.398 --> 00:21:57.524
[man]
What is the relationship

00:21:57.524 --> 00:21:59.401
between this and
Justice Democrats?

00:21:59.401 --> 00:22:00.986
I think there needs to
be a little transparency

00:22:00.986 --> 00:22:02.821
about that a little bit.

00:22:02.821 --> 00:22:03.822
[man 2]
Looking at this agenda.

00:22:03.822 --> 00:22:05.490
I think there's a
serious tension around.

00:22:05.490 --> 00:22:08.618
Is this a people's plan
or is this a process

00:22:08.618 --> 00:22:11.038
to get elected officials
a policy

00:22:11.038 --> 00:22:12.998
in a timeline
that will allow them

00:22:12.998 --> 00:22:15.459
to promote it around
the 2020 election?

00:22:15.459 --> 00:22:19.129
[crowd cheering]

00:22:20.714 --> 00:22:21.882
I totally understand why

00:22:21.882 --> 00:22:24.176
there's some confusion
about process.

00:22:24.176 --> 00:22:26.428
And for our
responsibility in that

00:22:26.428 --> 00:22:29.139
like I am truly sorry,
we understand.

00:22:31.141 --> 00:22:32.642
–Oh thank you!

00:22:32.642 --> 00:22:34.853
I'm not often
called classy.

00:22:36.229 --> 00:22:38.065
Thank you, no one ever
calls me classy.

00:22:38.065 --> 00:22:40.150
Tell my mom,
actually.

00:22:42.527 --> 00:22:43.362
I'm going to be frank

00:22:43.362 --> 00:22:45.322
just cause I need to get
this out before six.

00:22:45.322 --> 00:22:47.574
I'm not here to fucking
be tested.

00:22:47.574 --> 00:22:48.700
–mm-hmm [snapping]

00:22:49.034 --> 00:22:50.660
And they going
to keep testing me

00:22:50.660 --> 00:22:53.205
until I chop somebody.

00:22:55.040 --> 00:22:57.334
I just feel like I
thought I had a handle

00:22:57.334 --> 00:23:00.921
on the scale of
what we were doing.

00:23:00.921 --> 00:23:05.675
And some of the like
thorny politics involved

00:23:05.675 --> 00:23:12.599
and both are so much
bigger than I expected.

00:23:17.270 --> 00:23:20.273
[pensive music]

00:23:24.611 --> 00:23:27.614
[Varshini]
We always knew that
stopping the climate crisis

00:23:27.614 --> 00:23:30.575
would take a series of
policies at all levels

00:23:30.575 --> 00:23:33.829
of government over
a decade or longer.

00:23:35.956 --> 00:23:39.501
I didn't even know this kind
of policymaking was possible

00:23:39.501 --> 00:23:41.962
until we looked back
at American history.

00:23:48.802 --> 00:23:50.554
[wind]

00:23:57.018 --> 00:23:58.770
[cheering]

00:23:59.271 --> 00:24:01.857
[Varshini]
The New Deal was
based on the idea

00:24:01.857 --> 00:24:05.610
that it is the role of
government to help people.

00:24:11.366 --> 00:24:12.742
Because there was
a president

00:24:12.742 --> 00:24:15.203
who was responsive
to public pressure.

00:24:17.080 --> 00:24:18.832
The New Deal proved
it is possible

00:24:18.832 --> 00:24:22.878
to put millions of people to
work in the midst of crisis.

00:24:28.091 --> 00:24:32.012
America has faced threats
before and come out stronger.

00:24:33.430 --> 00:24:35.599
And if we could do it
with the Great Depression,

00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:37.767
if we could do it with
World War Two,

00:24:38.727 --> 00:24:41.271
we could do it with
the climate crisis.

00:24:44.691 --> 00:24:47.694
[pensive, hopeful music]

00:24:57.704 --> 00:24:59.706
[woman]
We need to push
the right narrative,

00:24:59.706 --> 00:25:02.626
not one that says scary
things are going on

00:25:02.626 --> 00:25:05.921
shore up our borders,
but one that says, like

00:25:05.921 --> 00:25:07.797
the Green New Deal
has a hopeful future

00:25:08.256 --> 00:25:09.382
for all of us.

00:25:10.967 --> 00:25:12.886
And how do
we do this?

00:25:12.886 --> 00:25:15.889
[drone motor sound]

00:25:27.192 --> 00:25:31.154
[Varshini]
We had just 20 chapters
before the Pelosi sit in.

00:25:31.154 --> 00:25:33.949
Now we have over 300.

00:25:42.707 --> 00:25:44.626
We have tens of
thousands of new people

00:25:44.626 --> 00:25:46.336
joining every month.

00:25:47.212 --> 00:25:48.838
Politicians are
paying attention

00:25:48.838 --> 00:25:51.383
the media are
paying attention.

00:25:53.051 --> 00:25:55.720
I feel like I'm on like
water skis.

00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:57.556
And I've never
water skied before,

00:25:57.556 --> 00:25:59.849
and the boat is moving
at like 40 miles an hour.

00:25:59.849 --> 00:26:01.935
And I'm just like
holding on.

00:26:02.811 --> 00:26:05.480
[group chattering]

00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:07.482
[Varshini]
All right, let's
kick things off.

00:26:07.482 --> 00:26:09.943
Wow, guys, we're in the
same fucking room

00:26:09.943 --> 00:26:11.778
together,
it's awesome.

00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:13.780
[Guido]
What would the
win conditions be

00:26:13.780 --> 00:26:15.323
for the Green New Deal?

00:26:15.323 --> 00:26:17.409
A president that's going to
lead on the GND

00:26:17.409 --> 00:26:20.161
make the GND a number one
priority in the first 100 days

00:26:20.161 --> 00:26:22.455
We have flipped the Senate
and held the House.

00:26:22.455 --> 00:26:25.458
So there's a majority in
the US House and Senate.

00:26:25.458 --> 00:26:28.920
The GND flagship bill, we
know it's not one bill,

00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:31.798
but that first policy that we
want to hammer people on,

00:26:31.798 --> 00:26:33.717
that's going to
crack open.

00:26:33.717 --> 00:26:36.553
The policymaking window for
the next decade is written.

00:26:36.553 --> 00:26:38.722
And there's a strong
majority of public support.

00:26:38.722 --> 00:26:39.806
There's people power.

00:26:39.806 --> 00:26:41.433
[Varshini]
Vast people power

00:26:41.433 --> 00:26:44.144
a significant amount
of political power.

00:26:44.144 --> 00:26:46.896
And then an alignment of
thousands of groups

00:26:46.896 --> 00:26:50.191
think tanks, unions,
businesses and more.

00:26:50.859 --> 00:26:52.694
And if we do that,
we will win.

00:26:53.612 --> 00:26:55.238
Secret is this is probably
going to take 10 years

00:26:55.238 --> 00:26:56.448
to really pull off guys.

00:26:59.826 --> 00:27:01.369
[Saikat]
Oh sorry, just one year.

00:27:06.875 --> 00:27:08.460
[man]
People who
do nothing

00:27:08.460 --> 00:27:10.920
people who have not even
canvassed and everything

00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:12.756
they start critiquing
your strategy to win

00:27:12.756 --> 00:27:14.090
“But how are you
going to win?

00:27:14.090 --> 00:27:15.258
What's your strategy?

00:27:15.258 --> 00:27:16.301
Is it realistic?

00:27:16.301 --> 00:27:17.135
Can we win?”

00:27:17.135 --> 00:27:19.095
Who cares if
we can win, man?

00:27:19.095 --> 00:27:20.388
we're just
unpacking boxes

00:27:20.388 --> 00:27:22.015
you do things
step by step.

00:27:22.432 --> 00:27:23.808
I think the real question is
what's our strategy

00:27:23.808 --> 00:27:25.143
for getting this inside?

00:27:27.896 --> 00:27:29.564
3, 2, 1

00:27:36.446 --> 00:27:40.575
[uplifting music,
crowd clapping in unison]

00:27:45.121 --> 00:27:47.415
[crowd cheering]

00:27:50.752 --> 00:27:52.420
Welcome everybody.

00:27:56.091 --> 00:27:59.636
All right, say it with me
now, Green New Deal.

00:28:01.304 --> 00:28:02.555
Green New Deal.

00:28:04.974 --> 00:28:08.728
[Markey]
Here's what I say,
for wind and solar

00:28:08.728 --> 00:28:09.854
and clean energy

00:28:09.854 --> 00:28:12.357
give us some
of that socialism

00:28:12.357 --> 00:28:15.193
that the oil and
gas industry

00:28:15.193 --> 00:28:18.029
has had for a century.

00:28:18.029 --> 00:28:20.865
[crowd cheering]

00:28:21.950 --> 00:28:23.201
[Sanders]
We don't have a choice

00:28:23.201 --> 00:28:25.161
for the future of our kids
and grandchildren

00:28:25.161 --> 00:28:26.037
this is what
we have to do.

00:28:26.037 --> 00:28:28.790
And you're working with
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on this

00:28:28.790 --> 00:28:31.668
Do you think you'll ask her
for her endorsement?

00:28:31.668 --> 00:28:32.919
—Okay, thank you
—no?

00:28:32.919 --> 00:28:35.672
We're here right now.
Let’s, you know, see this is–

00:28:35.672 --> 00:28:38.717
Okay, we're talking about
saving the planet

00:28:38.717 --> 00:28:40.760
you're trying to become
political out here.

00:28:40.760 --> 00:28:43.054
–I just
–Alright. That’s fine.

00:28:43.054 --> 00:28:44.681
Right now we're
here to talk about

00:28:44.681 --> 00:28:46.015
the environment,
okay?

00:28:46.015 --> 00:28:46.850
Okay.

00:28:46.850 --> 00:28:48.143
–Thank you very much.
–Thank you sir.

00:28:48.768 --> 00:28:51.146
[Rhiana]
When people are like,
Is veganism part of it?

00:28:51.146 --> 00:28:52.814
I'm like, absolutely not.

00:28:52.814 --> 00:28:57.110
And if it is my true idea is
that we should structure it

00:28:57.110 --> 00:28:59.320
like reparations, white
people can give up meat

00:28:59.320 --> 00:29:01.698
my people have
given up enough.

00:29:04.743 --> 00:29:07.495
[crowd cheering,
somber music]

00:29:09.998 --> 00:29:12.083
[AOC]
I wish that as a leader,

00:29:12.083 --> 00:29:14.836
I could give you comfort
about our future.

00:29:14.836 --> 00:29:17.046
I wish that as
a public servant,

00:29:17.046 --> 00:29:18.298
I can come here
and tell you

00:29:18.298 --> 00:29:20.383
that everything's going
to be all right.

00:29:20.383 --> 00:29:22.719
But I can't tell you
that today

00:29:22.719 --> 00:29:25.930
because I'm not in
interested in lying to you.

00:29:28.016 --> 00:29:33.980
But what I am here to say
is that we must try

00:29:34.397 --> 00:29:36.816
we must try.
[applause]

00:29:37.901 --> 00:29:40.737
So will you join me in
helping write

00:29:40.737 --> 00:29:45.158
the next chapter of
American history together?

00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:48.453
[crowd cheering]

00:29:53.625 --> 00:29:56.377
[marker writing]

00:30:04.803 --> 00:30:09.098
What questions
am I asking?

00:30:09.098 --> 00:30:12.811
This isn't a real option,
God damn it.

00:30:14.604 --> 00:30:16.898
How do you make
that happen?

00:30:17.398 --> 00:30:20.693
Top of my head,
doesn't have to be right.

00:30:20.693 --> 00:30:23.613
Probably won't be right,
okay.

00:30:24.155 --> 00:30:27.158
[pensive music]

00:30:31.496 --> 00:30:33.915
[Rhiana]
Just because
something causes pain

00:30:33.915 --> 00:30:36.334
that doesn't mean that
it is seen as a problem

00:30:36.334 --> 00:30:38.628
that the government
has to act on.

00:30:40.547 --> 00:30:43.174
We still have
a whole party

00:30:43.174 --> 00:30:45.802
that the majority of their
elected leaders

00:30:45.802 --> 00:30:47.887
would not say that
climate change exists

00:30:47.887 --> 00:30:50.682
and if it exists, that
it is created by humans.

00:30:51.558 --> 00:30:54.435
That's completely
about disinformation

00:30:54.435 --> 00:30:57.522
as well as money from
fossil fuel companies.

00:31:01.943 --> 00:31:03.945
The fossil fuel industry,
one of the ways

00:31:03.945 --> 00:31:06.364
that they've been
able to exist with

00:31:06.364 --> 00:31:10.034
so few regulations is
because of the ways

00:31:10.034 --> 00:31:12.912
that they capitalize
on racial division.

00:31:16.708 --> 00:31:19.252
Redlining has created
segregated communities

00:31:19.252 --> 00:31:23.423
that they can then put fossil
fuel infrastructure in,

00:31:23.423 --> 00:31:25.550
because no one's going to
pay attention to it

00:31:25.550 --> 00:31:26.801
for a while.

00:31:35.685 --> 00:31:36.728
As long as
there are people

00:31:36.728 --> 00:31:38.938
that you can poison
without consequence,

00:31:38.938 --> 00:31:40.690
there will always be
a loophole

00:31:40.690 --> 00:31:43.735
that the fossil fuel
industry can exploit.

00:31:44.611 --> 00:31:47.614
[musical buildup]

00:31:50.992 --> 00:31:53.328
they are some
savvy motherfuckers

00:31:55.121 --> 00:31:56.956
and they're not going
to just sit back

00:31:56.956 --> 00:31:59.918
and wait for us to take
apart their industry.

00:32:00.001 --> 00:32:02.253
[music fades,
quiet hallway sounds]

00:32:04.923 --> 00:32:08.301
[man]
I'm the president of
the Oglala Sioux tribe,

00:32:08.468 --> 00:32:11.054
the second youngest
president in our history,

00:32:11.429 --> 00:32:14.223
for me, the Green New Deal,
we're not moving forward

00:32:14.223 --> 00:32:19.020
we're bringing our
original way of life back

00:32:19.020 --> 00:32:23.608
during my inauguration, some
elders put a sash on me.

00:32:23.608 --> 00:32:28.196
And traditionally,
to be to wear a sash.

00:32:28.196 --> 00:32:30.573
You have a duty
and an obligation

00:32:30.573 --> 00:32:32.825
to stake yourself down

00:32:32.825 --> 00:32:35.662
in front of the people
in the face of a hardship

00:32:35.662 --> 00:32:37.205
and to fight
to your death.

00:32:40.375 --> 00:32:43.086
[AOC]
I would not
be here today if

00:32:43.086 --> 00:32:45.964
it wasn't for
Standing Rock.

00:32:46.172 --> 00:32:50.426
I remember the moment
when we got there at camp.

00:32:50.426 --> 00:32:52.387
The first thing
that we were told was

00:32:52.387 --> 00:32:55.348
everything you do here
is ceremony.

00:32:55.974 --> 00:32:59.519
Every step you take on
camp, every sip of water

00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:05.149
every piece of wood that you
chop, all of it is ceremony.

00:33:05.692 --> 00:33:07.944
I left that experience

00:33:08.444 --> 00:33:11.739
willing to just
give everything.

00:33:11.739 --> 00:33:15.326
and so this is not about
switching to solar panels.

00:33:15.743 --> 00:33:21.290
It is first and foremost
a spiritual battle.

00:33:29.590 --> 00:33:30.633
How are you sir?

00:33:33.886 --> 00:33:39.350
[AOC]
To actually get what we
demand requires us to work

00:33:39.517 --> 00:33:41.686
with institutions and
established powers

00:33:41.686 --> 00:33:43.980
that we loathe.

00:33:46.441 --> 00:33:50.778
Sometimes I feel like my job
is to get my hands dirty,

00:33:50.778 --> 00:33:55.199
so that community organizers
and activists don't have to.

00:33:55.199 --> 00:33:58.202
[dark, brooding music]

00:34:06.627 --> 00:34:10.923
It's really weird how
Washington DC works.

00:34:11.799 --> 00:34:14.135
There is so much money
and there is

00:34:14.135 --> 00:34:19.390
so much inertia on the
side of corporate power.

00:34:25.688 --> 00:34:27.899
What's so alienating
about it is

00:34:27.899 --> 00:34:31.402
that it feels like
everyone's bought in.

00:34:34.030 --> 00:34:36.741
It's not like some like
shady lobbyist

00:34:36.741 --> 00:34:38.993
calls you up ahead of
a vote and says like,

00:34:38.993 --> 00:34:41.120
You better vote no
on this.

00:34:41.120 --> 00:34:44.499
It's the environment
that makes you imagine

00:34:44.499 --> 00:34:47.085
the bad things that
could happen to you,

00:34:47.085 --> 00:34:48.628
without anyone
saying anything.

00:34:52.590 --> 00:34:55.134
And there are
a lot of opportunities

00:34:55.134 --> 00:34:58.096
where you follow a wrong
path and meet a dead end.

00:34:58.096 --> 00:35:01.182
And you waste your time
and you waste your energy.

00:35:03.226 --> 00:35:04.352
It's a maze.

00:35:06.437 --> 00:35:09.232
That is what
this place is.

00:35:12.777 --> 00:35:15.780
[music fades out]

00:35:19.700 --> 00:35:22.453
[crowd chanting
and cheering]

00:35:28.334 --> 00:35:30.336
[Varshini]
Hi, everybody, you
can see behind me there

00:35:30.336 --> 00:35:32.880
the crowds already
gathering in New York City

00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:35.383
for the Youth
Climate Strike.

00:35:35.383 --> 00:35:37.426
There are going to be
thousands of people

00:35:37.426 --> 00:35:39.137
gathering here
in New York

00:35:39.137 --> 00:35:40.930
there are already
millions of people

00:35:40.930 --> 00:35:43.141
gathering
across the world.

00:35:43.141 --> 00:35:44.225
What makes
Sunrise different from

00:35:44.225 --> 00:35:45.935
the other movements
that are out here?

00:35:45.935 --> 00:35:47.520
We are building an
army of young people

00:35:47.520 --> 00:35:49.689
to stop the climate
crisis and create millions

00:35:49.689 --> 00:35:51.440
of good jobs
for our generation.

00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:52.525
And I think what
makes us unique

00:35:52.525 --> 00:35:55.027
is we are both
a social movement.

00:35:55.027 --> 00:35:56.779
But we're also
a political movement

00:35:56.779 --> 00:35:58.364
for this strike movement
to continue

00:35:58.364 --> 00:35:59.699
and to be truly effective.

00:35:59.699 --> 00:36:02.076
We have to kick people out
of office who aren't with us,

00:36:02.076 --> 00:36:03.703
we have to elect
people who are.

00:36:03.703 --> 00:36:05.538
Can you imagine
what would happen

00:36:05.538 --> 00:36:08.708
if we took these young folks
got them involved in elections,

00:36:08.708 --> 00:36:10.126
and young people
were the reason

00:36:10.126 --> 00:36:13.880
why certain politicians won
or lost in the 2020 elections.

00:36:19.927 --> 00:36:21.554
[Varshini]
The thing that we cannot do

00:36:21.554 --> 00:36:25.391
that I have seen progressive
movements do for too long,

00:36:25.391 --> 00:36:28.227
is say, political power's
too icky.

00:36:28.227 --> 00:36:30.855
It's messy, it's corrupting.

00:36:30.855 --> 00:36:32.231
Let's not engage.

00:36:33.858 --> 00:36:35.484
Our enemy
you better believe

00:36:35.484 --> 00:36:38.029
is figuring out
their political strategy

00:36:38.029 --> 00:36:40.531
every second of every
day and pouring billions

00:36:40.531 --> 00:36:43.367
of dollars into
making it happen.

00:36:46.996 --> 00:36:51.083
[crowd sounds, patriotic music]

00:36:51.083 --> 00:36:55.379
♪ God bless America ♪

00:36:55.379 --> 00:36:59.467
USA! USA!

00:37:01.302 --> 00:37:07.475
♪ CNN Sucks ♪

00:37:09.644 --> 00:37:12.521
[crowd jeering]

00:37:12.813 --> 00:37:14.440
[Delaney]
Folks we have a choice.

00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:17.193
We can go down the road
that Senator Sanders

00:37:17.193 --> 00:37:19.695
and Senator Warren
want to take us

00:37:19.695 --> 00:37:22.782
which is with bad policies
and impossible promises

00:37:22.782 --> 00:37:24.742
that will turn off
independent voters

00:37:24.742 --> 00:37:26.869
and get Trump reelected.

00:37:26.869 --> 00:37:28.287
[moderator]
Thank you Congressman.
Senator Warren

00:37:28.287 --> 00:37:30.206
you're a co-sponsor
of the Green New Deal

00:37:30.206 --> 00:37:31.999
your response to
Congressman Delaney.

00:37:31.999 --> 00:37:35.920
[Warren]
So climate crisis is the
existential crisis for our world

00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:36.796
[Varshini]
Okay, let's go Lizzy.

00:37:36.796 --> 00:37:40.216
[Warren] It puts every living
thing on this planet at risk,

00:37:40.216 --> 00:37:43.886
I have a plan for a
green industrial policy

00:37:43.886 --> 00:37:45.513
that takes advantage
of the fact

00:37:45.513 --> 00:37:48.975
that we do what we do best and
that is innovate and create.

00:37:48.975 --> 00:37:50.768
[Varshini]
I feel like Elizabeth Warren

00:37:50.768 --> 00:37:54.313
and Bernie don't lean into
the aspirational frame at all.

00:37:54.313 --> 00:37:55.940
[Alexandra]
You know what?
Warren's team is messaging me

00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:57.275
both of them are
messaging me right now

00:37:57.275 --> 00:37:58.943
I'm going to say, why
doesn't she talk about

00:37:58.943 --> 00:37:59.860
Green New Deal

00:37:59.860 --> 00:38:01.696
She says just “green
industrial policy.”

00:38:01.862 --> 00:38:04.240
[Varshini]
She's not getting
the je ne sais quoi

00:38:04.240 --> 00:38:05.616
about the
Green New Deal

00:38:05.616 --> 00:38:06.951
that's actually
really exciting.

00:38:06.951 --> 00:38:10.329
And what the Green New Deal
is about, it's a bold idea.

00:38:10.329 --> 00:38:13.499
We can create millions
of good paying jobs

00:38:13.499 --> 00:38:15.084
we can rebuild
communities

00:38:15.084 --> 00:38:16.752
Okay, here we go,
here we go.

00:38:16.752 --> 00:38:18.629
[Sanders] ...that have
been devastated.

00:38:18.629 --> 00:38:21.757
So we are not anti-worker, we
are going to provide

00:38:21.757 --> 00:38:24.093
make sure that those workers
have a transition

00:38:24.093 --> 00:38:27.138
New jobs, health care
and education.

00:38:40.109 --> 00:38:42.987
[insect sounds]

00:38:45.990 --> 00:38:47.658
[Alexandra]
One of the biggest things
that I think we have

00:38:47.658 --> 00:38:49.952
to overcome is politicians
that tell us

00:38:49.952 --> 00:38:51.162
that we can't do
anything

00:38:51.162 --> 00:38:53.372
that we shouldn't believe
in the best of ourselves

00:38:53.372 --> 00:38:56.375
that we can't
dare to dream big,

00:38:56.375 --> 00:38:59.211
and I think that's what
you represent is hope.

00:39:00.254 --> 00:39:02.923
And I think the message
of we can do

00:39:02.923 --> 00:39:06.218
what we did back in the day
like electrify the nation,

00:39:06.218 --> 00:39:08.471
go to the moon
and tackle some

00:39:08.471 --> 00:39:11.140
of the biggest existential
threats facing us

00:39:11.140 --> 00:39:14.977
is one of the most American
things you can possibly do.

00:39:16.020 --> 00:39:17.063
Go.

00:39:17.188 --> 00:39:20.816
[in Spanish]

00:39:20.816 --> 00:39:22.693
[in English]
I'm speaking to you all
from Laredo, Texas,

00:39:22.693 --> 00:39:24.904
which is my hometown,
I'm running for Congress.

00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:28.407
[Alexandra]
We have always been
wanting to challenge

00:39:28.407 --> 00:39:31.327
Henry Cuellar
in Texas 28.

00:39:31.327 --> 00:39:33.788
We finally found
our candidate

00:39:37.124 --> 00:39:38.751
we're going to actually
make the case

00:39:38.751 --> 00:39:43.631
for a Green New Deal in the
heart of oil and gas country.

00:39:46.342 --> 00:39:48.135
So Cuellar's going to
be walking in

00:39:48.135 --> 00:39:50.971
with probably like 4 million
by the time of the primary,

00:39:50.971 --> 00:39:53.224
like if there's opportunities
to collaborate

00:39:53.224 --> 00:39:55.267
like elevate how
he is like literally

00:39:55.267 --> 00:39:56.852
fossil fuel's favorite
Democrat

00:39:56.852 --> 00:39:58.354
that would be
super helpful too.

00:39:58.354 --> 00:40:00.856
It would be relatively
low cost for us

00:40:00.856 --> 00:40:03.609
to recruit and mobilize
large numbers

00:40:03.609 --> 00:40:05.736
of callers and/or texters

00:40:05.736 --> 00:40:08.989
I mean I think we could
probably get 20 kids

00:40:08.989 --> 00:40:13.994
Spanish language bilingual
to come for a week.

00:40:16.122 --> 00:40:18.082
[Waleed]
We will be judged on
whether we're able

00:40:18.082 --> 00:40:22.420
to replicate the success
of AOC and Ayanna Presley.

00:40:22.420 --> 00:40:24.880
But this race is an actual
race where like

00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:28.300
if we do win it is a defeat
of the fossil fuel industry,

00:40:28.300 --> 00:40:30.219
Oh this is real,
like it's going to be

00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:32.388
a really competitive race.

00:40:32.555 --> 00:40:34.557
It's actually positive
that when you fight

00:40:34.557 --> 00:40:37.476
for a Green New Deal, more
establishment people are like,

00:40:37.476 --> 00:40:39.395
well, we should do
something about climate,

00:40:39.395 --> 00:40:40.771
but not that thing.

00:40:40.771 --> 00:40:43.482
This is what every social
movement ever has to deal with

00:40:43.482 --> 00:40:44.942
which is like there are
people who are like,

00:40:44.942 --> 00:40:45.860
We have to act now.

00:40:45.860 --> 00:40:48.529
And there are people who are
like, "we should act."

00:40:48.529 --> 00:40:50.156
At some point.

00:40:50.156 --> 00:40:51.949
The thing I've realized
with like,

00:40:51.949 --> 00:40:54.201
people who are more from
the party establishment

00:40:54.201 --> 00:40:57.079
is that all they care
about is like winning.

00:40:57.079 --> 00:40:59.623
So as long as you can make
your ideas winning ideas,

00:40:59.623 --> 00:41:01.584
they will become the
dominant ideas in the room

00:41:01.584 --> 00:41:03.419
because they don't
really have ideas.

00:41:23.772 --> 00:41:24.565
You said you
wouldn't take—

00:41:24.732 --> 00:41:25.900
[tense music]

00:41:26.484 --> 00:41:28.861
[woman]
The 2020 campaign trail
is heating up.

00:41:28.861 --> 00:41:30.529
[woman 2] Former Vice
President Joe Biden

00:41:30.529 --> 00:41:31.947
positioning himself
as a centrist.

00:41:31.947 --> 00:41:34.450
[man]
Joe Biden hasn't signed
on to the Green New Deal.

00:41:34.450 --> 00:41:35.367
[woman]
The Sunrise Movement

00:41:35.367 --> 00:41:39.413
gave Joe Biden's climate
plan an F rating.

00:41:39.830 --> 00:41:42.333
[crowd sounds, music fades]

00:41:50.966 --> 00:41:52.718
[Varshini] So on Thursday

00:41:52.927 --> 00:41:54.136
thousands of young people

00:41:54.136 --> 00:41:56.722
with our movement
voted overwhelmingly

00:41:56.722 --> 00:42:00.893
to endorse Bernie Sanders for
President of the United States.

00:42:03.646 --> 00:42:06.148
And he was ridiculed by
pundits and DC elites.

00:42:06.148 --> 00:42:07.942
And while they were
mocking him,

00:42:07.942 --> 00:42:09.860
what they failed
to realize was

00:42:09.860 --> 00:42:12.780
that Bernie Sanders
was emboldening

00:42:12.780 --> 00:42:14.782
an entire generation
of young people

00:42:14.782 --> 00:42:18.702
to believe in electoral
politics for the first time.

00:42:18.702 --> 00:42:21.455
[crowd cheering]

00:42:22.206 --> 00:42:25.084
[Sanders]
What I'm going to say today,
what you already know,

00:42:25.084 --> 00:42:27.628
is the situation
is more acute

00:42:27.628 --> 00:42:29.213
–than I think most people know.
–That’s right.

00:42:29.213 --> 00:42:30.339
Most people know
we have a problem.

00:42:30.339 --> 00:42:31.590
They don't know how
severe the problem is.

00:42:31.590 --> 00:42:32.591
[Varshini]
That's right.

00:42:32.591 --> 00:42:34.468
And we can't solve it
alone in America,

00:42:34.468 --> 00:42:37.388
we got to get the whole
world involved in this, yes?

00:42:37.388 --> 00:42:38.222
Yep.

00:42:38.222 --> 00:42:39.181
So it's going to be
an enormous,

00:42:39.181 --> 00:42:42.309
literally unprecedented
undertaking of what we have

00:42:42.309 --> 00:42:44.436
to accomp- sending a man
to the moon was pretty easy

00:42:44.436 --> 00:42:46.105
compared to—
No, it's true.

00:42:46.105 --> 00:42:46.939
[Varshini]
It's true.

00:42:46.939 --> 00:42:48.107
Alright, so we're gonna
have to work together

00:42:48.107 --> 00:42:50.985
in an extraordinary way
to save the planet.

00:42:50.985 --> 00:42:52.945
Other than that, not a problem.
[laughter]

00:42:52.945 --> 00:42:53.862
[Varshini]
We got this.

00:42:53.862 --> 00:42:56.782
Alright. I like your
youthful optimism.

00:43:02.538 --> 00:43:05.958
[Varshini]
I had this moment
when I was 13 or 14

00:43:06.125 --> 00:43:08.127
My science teacher
told us that

00:43:08.127 --> 00:43:12.172
The world had to reach
peak emissions

00:43:12.506 --> 00:43:16.302
by 2020 or we were
in big trouble.

00:43:16.510 --> 00:43:19.013
and I remember being
a teenager and being like

00:43:19.346 --> 00:43:22.975
Oh 2020 that’s like a
decade or more from now

00:43:23.517 --> 00:43:26.687
Surely some adult is going to
figure it out in that time

00:43:28.439 --> 00:43:30.816
On a lot of days,
I'm like, working

00:43:30.816 --> 00:43:33.027
to not be too deep
in my feels about it

00:43:33.027 --> 00:43:36.280
because it's almost
too intense to bear.

00:43:37.698 --> 00:43:40.534
And just focusing
on minute by minute,

00:43:40.534 --> 00:43:42.870
hour by hour,
day by day.

00:43:43.495 --> 00:43:45.873
[soft music]

00:43:46.081 --> 00:43:48.250
[woman]
It's not just any Tuesday
here in America,

00:43:48.250 --> 00:43:49.543
it's Super Tuesday.

00:43:49.543 --> 00:43:51.295
14 states hold primaries.

00:43:51.295 --> 00:43:52.671
[woman 2]
This as a growing number

00:43:52.671 --> 00:43:54.882
of moderate Democrats
are coalescing

00:43:54.882 --> 00:43:58.344
behind Joe Biden amid their
push to stop Bernie Sanders

00:43:58.344 --> 00:44:01.221
[man]
to stop liberal front runner
Bernie Sanders.

00:44:03.474 --> 00:44:05.517
[man 2]
Another progressive
versus establishment battle

00:44:05.517 --> 00:44:08.228
heating up in Texas before
the Super Tuesday primary

00:44:08.228 --> 00:44:11.357
Jessica Cisneros. She's a 26
year old immigration attorney

00:44:11.357 --> 00:44:13.692
hoping to unseat
Congressman Henry Cuellar

00:44:13.692 --> 00:44:15.486
a more conservative
Democrat

00:44:15.486 --> 00:44:18.906
who's represented his border
district for 15 years.

00:44:20.366 --> 00:44:24.578
[woman, in Spanish]

00:44:30.834 --> 00:44:33.754
[Cuellar, in Spanish]

00:44:38.384 --> 00:44:39.760
[dog barks]

00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:41.553
[Alexandra]
Just trying to
spread the word.

00:44:41.553 --> 00:44:43.389
The election is I think one
of the most important ones

00:44:43.389 --> 00:44:44.848
in the entire country.

00:44:44.848 --> 00:44:46.975
and will really send
a shock wave through

00:44:46.975 --> 00:44:48.769
the political establishment
should she win, so—

00:44:48.769 --> 00:44:49.770
–Yeah?
–Yeah.

00:44:52.022 --> 00:44:54.733
There's less than an hour
until the polls close today.

00:44:54.733 --> 00:44:56.944
And the last person
to win the seat

00:44:56.944 --> 00:44:58.946
literally won by 58 votes.

00:44:58.946 --> 00:45:00.781
So every vote counts.

00:45:02.533 --> 00:45:05.786
[Alexandra]
The students in
the Rio Grande Valley,

00:45:05.786 --> 00:45:08.247
particularly the places
that we invested heavily,

00:45:09.081 --> 00:45:10.499
are still waiting in line.

00:45:10.499 --> 00:45:13.127
And they haven't
called anything yet.

00:45:15.546 --> 00:45:18.048
No matter what, this was
the right thing to do.

00:45:20.467 --> 00:45:23.387
[crowd chattering]

00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:41.280
[somber music]

00:45:41.697 --> 00:45:45.242
[woman]
In Texas, Democratic
congressmember Henry Cuellar

00:45:45.242 --> 00:45:47.411
appears to have
narrowly defeated

00:45:47.411 --> 00:45:50.122
Democratic Socialist
Jessica Cisneros

00:45:50.122 --> 00:45:53.792
to hold on to Texas’ 28th
congressional district

00:45:53.792 --> 00:45:55.753
along the
US-Mexico border.

00:45:58.714 --> 00:46:00.966
[Alexadnra]
I think when you lose by 3%

00:46:00.966 --> 00:46:04.303
you think about every
little possible thing

00:46:04.303 --> 00:46:06.805
that you could have done
right from the very beginning.

00:46:07.890 --> 00:46:12.644
[crowd chanting]
Jessica! Jessica!

00:46:17.024 --> 00:46:19.943
[cheering]

00:46:20.986 --> 00:46:25.365
There are people counting on
us to get through this moment

00:46:28.368 --> 00:46:30.662
but right now it does
feel a little cloudy.

00:46:35.918 --> 00:46:37.252
I wanted to win.

00:46:38.796 --> 00:46:41.715
[somber music]

00:46:43.300 --> 00:46:45.761
[Alexandra] Biden won
three states already.

00:46:47.137 --> 00:46:49.765
Motherf—!

00:46:49.765 --> 00:46:53.977
Massachusetts. What the–?
Biden's winning.

00:46:53.977 --> 00:46:55.479
Massachusetts?

00:46:55.771 --> 00:46:59.775
There's such a gap between
what voters actually want

00:46:59.775 --> 00:47:02.820
and who they think is
going to achieve it.

00:47:04.780 --> 00:47:05.697
[woman]
Tonight the breaking news

00:47:05.697 --> 00:47:08.242
the Coronavirus hits
another cruise ship

00:47:08.242 --> 00:47:10.828
the CDC now working with
officials in California

00:47:10.828 --> 00:47:12.412
after discovering another
cruise ship

00:47:12.412 --> 00:47:14.748
with confirmed cases
of the virus

00:47:14.748 --> 00:47:17.793
and Joe Biden is expanding
his lead over Bernie Sanders

00:47:17.793 --> 00:47:20.921
after winning 10 out of 14
states, including Texas,

00:47:20.921 --> 00:47:24.424
and three states that
Sanders won in 2016.

00:47:24.424 --> 00:47:26.218
[man]
Senator Sanders
has been hoping a lot

00:47:26.218 --> 00:47:29.555
on young people showing up
propelling him to victory,

00:47:29.555 --> 00:47:31.765
certainly last night
that wasn't the case

00:47:31.765 --> 00:47:33.392
in many of these places.

00:47:33.392 --> 00:47:36.186
Where are you today in terms
of what happened last night?

00:47:36.186 --> 00:47:37.729
It was a strong night
for Joe.

00:47:37.729 --> 00:47:40.232
But let's remember the
context of which this is

00:47:40.232 --> 00:47:43.735
we saw party leaders, this
is very reminiscent of 2016

00:47:43.735 --> 00:47:46.864
stepping in and signaling
very clearly

00:47:46.864 --> 00:47:49.825
to Democratic voters who they
think should be the nominee

00:47:49.825 --> 00:47:52.035
and who they think should
not be the nominee.

00:47:52.035 --> 00:47:53.745
Particularly on
young people

00:47:53.745 --> 00:47:55.080
just because they're
not turning out

00:47:55.080 --> 00:47:56.790
I think that the
Democratic Party leaders

00:47:56.790 --> 00:47:58.667
should see this as
an existential crisis

00:47:58.667 --> 00:48:00.210
to the Democratic Party.

00:48:00.502 --> 00:48:03.463
[TV announcer chatter]

00:48:18.353 --> 00:48:22.065
They get nervous,
like do they want?

00:48:23.859 --> 00:48:25.944
And I'm sure I had
resting bitch face real bad.

00:48:25.944 --> 00:48:27.404
I was like

00:48:33.368 --> 00:48:35.037
[Filmmaker]

00:48:35.329 --> 00:48:38.790
Because I'm actually saying
something that fucking matters.

00:48:45.339 --> 00:48:48.508
[Varshini]
It's been a year
since the moment

00:48:48.508 --> 00:48:51.929
that really catapulted
us into the spotlight.

00:48:51.929 --> 00:48:57.392
And that moment is

00:48:58.727 --> 00:49:00.812
I don't know if waning
in a sense is the right word

00:49:00.812 --> 00:49:02.981
but it's– we're on
the come down.

00:49:02.981 --> 00:49:06.068
The way that I've seen it
manifest here is the majority

00:49:06.068 --> 00:49:11.907
of people feeling really
anxious, cranky, impatient.

00:49:12.699 --> 00:49:16.286
[Will]
We experienced
explosive growth

00:49:16.286 --> 00:49:19.289
and navigating entirely
new political terrain.

00:49:19.289 --> 00:49:20.999
And we're like
a little insect

00:49:20.999 --> 00:49:24.670
compared to where we need
to evolve and become.

00:49:24.670 --> 00:49:27.881
And so that's like,
really fucking scary

00:49:27.881 --> 00:49:29.216
because the
world is on fire.

00:49:29.216 --> 00:49:31.301
And like, Donald Trump
is the president.

00:49:32.594 --> 00:49:35.263
[Erin]
There's this story
that we tell ourselves

00:49:35.263 --> 00:49:37.182
that we are special.

00:49:38.517 --> 00:49:42.604
And that we are
the only ones.

00:49:42.771 --> 00:49:45.065
I profoundly do not
think we are special.

00:49:45.065 --> 00:49:46.692
And that's what makes
the fact

00:49:46.692 --> 00:49:48.235
that I don't see anyone
doing the thing

00:49:48.235 --> 00:49:51.279
that needs to be done
so fucking scary.

00:49:51.279 --> 00:49:52.906
I really do think that
we're a room

00:49:52.906 --> 00:49:55.701
full of kids trying shit.

00:49:55.701 --> 00:49:58.704
[Stevie]
The pressure that we
put on ourselves is so bad.

00:49:58.704 --> 00:50:01.456
I feel like an imposter
every day.

00:50:01.456 --> 00:50:03.041
I've just like had
to like go talk

00:50:03.041 --> 00:50:06.503
to like media or
like political people

00:50:06.503 --> 00:50:08.380
or like partners or
like these people

00:50:08.380 --> 00:50:09.840
just don't believe in us
and think

00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:12.884
that we're like
kids that are stupid.

00:50:12.884 --> 00:50:15.762
[Will]
The thing that we have,
that they don't

00:50:16.471 --> 00:50:20.267
is...faith.

00:50:20.267 --> 00:50:23.562
Is belief that
it can change.

00:50:23.562 --> 00:50:26.106
The thing that we
decided to do is try.

00:50:28.150 --> 00:50:33.655
You kind of open the door
to miracles of various kinds.

00:50:37.576 --> 00:50:39.745
[eerie music]

00:50:40.203 --> 00:50:45.167
[man]
This is for real. This is live
from Brooklyn, New York.

00:50:45.167 --> 00:50:48.003
They’re putting bodies

00:50:48.003 --> 00:50:51.298
in the back of a
freezer truck,y’all.

00:50:52.132 --> 00:50:55.927
Please stay inside,
this is for real

00:50:57.971 --> 00:51:02.142
Lord have mercy,
help us Lord, this is for real.

00:51:03.727 --> 00:51:06.730
[eerie music, quiet birdsongs]

00:51:17.449 --> 00:51:19.618
[AOC]
There’s just like one to one
comparisons

00:51:19.618 --> 00:51:23.497
in a lot of ways between
coronavirus and climate change

00:51:29.628 --> 00:51:32.047
It's not just
the human toll.

00:51:33.048 --> 00:51:36.927
I've been feeling kind of
like this larger mourning of

00:51:37.886 --> 00:51:39.554
we just live in a country

00:51:39.554 --> 00:51:44.017
that doesn't care
about a lot of people.

00:51:54.569 --> 00:51:59.407
[Rhiana]
When the first reports
of the racial disparities

00:51:59.407 --> 00:52:02.327
and fatality rates
came out,

00:52:02.327 --> 00:52:05.455
it was pretty clear
what was going on.

00:52:07.916 --> 00:52:09.376
The fatality rates
are worse

00:52:09.376 --> 00:52:12.754
where people are living
near toxic pollution.

00:52:12.754 --> 00:52:15.298
Toxic pollution is
connected to a lot

00:52:15.298 --> 00:52:17.217
of the pre-existing
conditions

00:52:17.217 --> 00:52:19.136
that put you at
high risk for COVID.

00:52:22.472 --> 00:52:24.724
[emotional music]

00:52:29.813 --> 00:52:32.065
I want to build a world
where you feel like

00:52:32.065 --> 00:52:36.695
it's telling you, you being
alive is a good thing.

00:52:37.529 --> 00:52:40.198
It's not how much
money you make.

00:52:40.198 --> 00:52:46.997
It is not how you look,
you existing is enough.

00:52:49.040 --> 00:52:55.213
[crowd chants]
Black lives matter...
Black lives matter

00:52:55.672 --> 00:52:59.134
[explosions,
many excited voices]

00:52:59.134 --> 00:53:00.552
[woman]
More than a dozen cities

00:53:00.552 --> 00:53:02.596
imposed curfews overnight as
protests continued

00:53:02.596 --> 00:53:04.097
over the death of
George Floyd.

00:53:04.097 --> 00:53:05.473
[French man]
The US president is
threatening to

00:53:05.473 --> 00:53:08.059
deploy the military
on American citizens.

00:53:08.059 --> 00:53:10.562
[woman]
The country is already
being tested in many ways

00:53:10.562 --> 00:53:12.939
by the Coronavirus, we've
got an economic crisis

00:53:12.939 --> 00:53:15.442
we've got a reckoning on
systemic racism and now...

00:53:15.442 --> 00:53:16.693
[man]
Seven tropical systems

00:53:16.693 --> 00:53:18.320
churning in the Atlantic
at the same time.

00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:20.655
[man 2]
Winds were up to
150 miles an hour.

00:53:20.655 --> 00:53:22.616
[woman]
Half a dozen states
in the Midwest

00:53:22.616 --> 00:53:24.743
cleaning up this morning
after a rare storm.

00:53:24.743 --> 00:53:27.329
[woman 2]
The hottest temperature
ever recorded on earth.

00:53:27.329 --> 00:53:29.497
[British man]
The skyline of San Francisco,

00:53:29.497 --> 00:53:32.167
looking more like
an image from Mars.

00:53:32.167 --> 00:53:34.336
Wildfires burning
miles away,

00:53:34.336 --> 00:53:35.962
shrouding the city's
landmarks.

00:53:36.421 --> 00:53:39.216
[man]
Dude right here just shot them!

00:53:40.759 --> 00:53:42.969
[Varshini]
The future we fear
is right here.

00:53:42.969 --> 00:53:45.347
You know, it's right now.

00:53:49.017 --> 00:53:51.478
[wind in trees]

00:54:01.029 --> 00:54:04.824
[Alexandra]
Throughout this entire
pandemic

00:54:04.824 --> 00:54:07.118
I have not stopped
looking at my work

00:54:07.118 --> 00:54:08.119
cause I can't.

00:54:10.747 --> 00:54:15.710
I feel like I don't have control
over anything else, you know?

00:54:17.045 --> 00:54:19.631
[rousing music]

00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:26.805
Justice Democrats had
some tremendous victories

00:54:26.805 --> 00:54:29.975
with Jamaal Bowman out in
New York's 16th district,

00:54:29.975 --> 00:54:32.102
Cori Bush in Missouri's first.

00:54:32.102 --> 00:54:34.896
A movement designed to
push back against

00:54:34.896 --> 00:54:37.607
the system that's
literally killing us.

00:54:37.899 --> 00:54:40.819
Y'all, we about to
change the world.

00:54:42.529 --> 00:54:45.907
[Alexandra]
Sunrise movement
has been an incredible ally.

00:54:45.907 --> 00:54:51.288
They did literally
850,000 dials for Jamaal.

00:54:52.455 --> 00:54:55.083
We are forcing our way
into the power structures

00:54:55.083 --> 00:54:59.170
of the actual Democratic
Party that works on the hill.

00:55:01.631 --> 00:55:04.092
[music fades out, crickets]

00:55:05.176 --> 00:55:10.056
Right now, we have
no choice but success.

00:55:10.765 --> 00:55:13.435
We’re gonna go out
in a blaze of glory

00:55:13.435 --> 00:55:15.770
or we're going to win
what we want.

00:55:16.271 --> 00:55:17.939
[applause, dramatic music]

00:55:18.023 --> 00:55:19.691
[man]
Dreams of the
Green New Deal

00:55:19.691 --> 00:55:21.651
didn't die when
Bernie Sanders dropped out

00:55:21.651 --> 00:55:23.653
because he just helped
Joe Biden put together

00:55:23.653 --> 00:55:25.572
a quote,
"group of leading thinkers

00:55:25.572 --> 00:55:27.907
and activists who can
and will unify our party

00:55:27.907 --> 00:55:30.744
in a transformational and
progressive direction."

00:55:30.744 --> 00:55:32.912
AOC has been
named co-chair

00:55:32.912 --> 00:55:35.540
of Joe Biden's
Climate Committee.

00:55:35.540 --> 00:55:39.127
Remember, she is one of the
authors of the Green New Deal.

00:55:39.669 --> 00:55:42.422
[rousing music]

00:55:43.381 --> 00:55:48.595
[Varshini]
Moments of crisis crack open
the window of possibility.

00:55:50.096 --> 00:55:52.724
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
and myself

00:55:52.724 --> 00:55:55.143
are on the
climate task force.

00:55:55.977 --> 00:55:59.981
And it honestly left me
feeling optimistic

00:55:59.981 --> 00:56:03.485
in a way that I
did not think I would.

00:56:04.527 --> 00:56:07.655
Joe Biden's climate plan
has transitioned

00:56:07.655 --> 00:56:11.326
to be far closer to a
Green New Deal.

00:56:11.618 --> 00:56:13.286
It is very clear that
the baseline

00:56:13.286 --> 00:56:16.039
for the conversation
about climate has changed.

00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:18.458
[Biden]
When Donald Trump thinks
about climate change

00:56:18.458 --> 00:56:21.836
the only word
he can muster is "hoax."

00:56:22.420 --> 00:56:24.672
When I think about
climate change,

00:56:25.173 --> 00:56:27.592
the word I think of is "jobs."

00:56:27.592 --> 00:56:30.929
We're not just going to
tinker around the edges.

00:56:30.929 --> 00:56:32.639
We're going to make
historic investments

00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:34.849
that will seize
the opportunity

00:56:35.517 --> 00:56:37.435
to meet this
moment in history.

00:56:41.439 --> 00:56:45.360
[AOC]
If we were not there, I do not
believe that that change

00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:47.612
and that commitment
would have happened.

00:56:48.988 --> 00:56:52.367
Even though we didn't
send our candidate,

00:56:52.367 --> 00:56:56.955
we got the candidate that
was nominated to come to us.

00:56:58.164 --> 00:57:01.543
Now the question is, will
there be follow through

00:57:01.543 --> 00:57:04.045
in a potential
Biden administration

00:57:10.093 --> 00:57:11.845
[music fades out]

00:57:12.470 --> 00:57:18.560
[crowd chants]
Biden be brave...

00:57:18.810 --> 00:57:20.687
[Sunrise member]
Joe Biden

00:57:20.687 --> 00:57:22.355
You’re going to the
White House in January

00:57:22.355 --> 00:57:23.606
Because of us.

00:57:24.149 --> 00:57:26.067
Young people
and people of color.

00:57:26.693 --> 00:57:29.070
Biden be brave...
Biden be brave...

00:57:29.237 --> 00:57:31.781
[Anthony]
If Joe Biden wants to
lead the way on climate

00:57:31.781 --> 00:57:33.658
there is no more
time for reform

00:57:33.658 --> 00:57:36.077
we need massive
transformation.

00:57:36.077 --> 00:57:38.163
We cannot simply
restart the economy

00:57:38.163 --> 00:57:40.123
when we have a
generational opportunity

00:57:40.123 --> 00:57:42.500
to reshape it all together.

00:57:43.126 --> 00:57:44.752
I'm so excited to be

00:57:44.752 --> 00:57:46.754
working on this
legislative phase with you

00:57:46.754 --> 00:57:50.175
because COVID
is this great elucidater

00:57:50.175 --> 00:57:52.177
It is this
magnifying glass

00:57:52.177 --> 00:57:56.097
exposing every single system
that has not been working

00:57:56.097 --> 00:57:58.349
for a long time,
at the exact same time.

00:57:58.600 --> 00:58:00.602
[Rhiana]
You know, you learn
about the civil rights movement

00:58:00.602 --> 00:58:03.271
you learn about these
like moments of tumolt

00:58:03.271 --> 00:58:05.690
and you sort of
I remember thinking like,

00:58:05.690 --> 00:58:06.774
what would I have done?

00:58:06.774 --> 00:58:08.151
Like, who would I have been?

00:58:08.151 --> 00:58:10.487
And it feels weird to be like,

00:58:10.487 --> 00:58:12.655
oh we're definitely in that
moment right now.

00:58:13.364 --> 00:58:15.241
Oh, my gosh.

00:58:15.241 --> 00:58:17.327
[Anthony]
You worried about what
the Republicans gonna do

00:58:17.327 --> 00:58:20.121
Bro, I'm worried about
three Democratic senators

00:58:20.121 --> 00:58:21.873
in particular that can
block anything:

00:58:22.248 --> 00:58:24.959
Manchin, Sinema
and Hickenlooper.

00:58:24.959 --> 00:58:27.670
[Rhiana]
The next six months
are gonna be wild.

00:58:28.838 --> 00:58:32.800
[Varshini]
Good evening everybody.
Hello, hello.

00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:34.636
You know how this
story goes, right?

00:58:34.636 --> 00:58:36.721
Biden didn't just like
decide overnight

00:58:36.721 --> 00:58:39.140
to care about
the climate crisis, right?

00:58:39.140 --> 00:58:43.102
You did that, we did that,
collectively.

00:58:43.102 --> 00:58:46.773
And so now is the time
to leverage our power

00:58:46.773 --> 00:58:49.025
to win big things.

00:58:50.902 --> 00:58:53.780
[rousing music]

00:58:54.113 --> 00:58:56.658
[Varshini]
Right now Democrats
control the House

00:58:56.658 --> 00:58:58.660
the Senate
and the Presidency.

00:58:59.285 --> 00:59:01.037
And we have
a chance.

00:59:01.663 --> 00:59:03.748
The next few months,
before Congress

00:59:03.748 --> 00:59:06.876
spends all of 2022
running for election next year

00:59:06.876 --> 00:59:09.170
it is make or break.

00:59:11.464 --> 00:59:15.468
[Madeline]
I don't remember a Fall
without fires and smoke.

00:59:15.468 --> 00:59:19.889
I don't remember a year
where I haven't had

00:59:19.889 --> 00:59:23.560
to pack multiple
evacuation bags.

00:59:24.269 --> 00:59:28.398
So now we leave
for a 266 mile trek

00:59:28.398 --> 00:59:31.442
to tell them,
“do something!”

00:59:32.151 --> 00:59:34.529
[Nikayla]
We're really going
to pass the first piece

00:59:34.529 --> 00:59:37.240
of climate policy
in American history.

00:59:37.574 --> 00:59:40.994
Like that's what waits for
us at the end of this march.

00:59:41.202 --> 00:59:44.914
[rousing music, crow caws]

00:59:50.295 --> 00:59:51.713
[Chanté]
After every storm
we’ve been through

00:59:51.713 --> 00:59:53.965
I’ve seen us,
my community

00:59:53.965 --> 00:59:56.884
get to work, rebuilding
homes and relationships

00:59:56.884 --> 00:59:58.803
because we’re powerful.

01:00:00.138 --> 01:00:02.056
So now, we march.

01:00:02.056 --> 01:00:04.726
[brooding music]

01:00:07.228 --> 01:00:08.605
[Hope]
So we're coming up
on a part now

01:00:08.605 --> 01:00:11.482
with a huge
processing plant.

01:00:12.317 --> 01:00:15.486
And it smells so bad.

01:00:16.237 --> 01:00:20.325
They call this area
Cancer Alley for a reason.

01:00:23.870 --> 01:00:27.373
[Sharon]
We have 12 industries
in the fifth district.

01:00:28.291 --> 01:00:31.169
We already can't
breathe the air.

01:00:31.169 --> 01:00:32.879
We can't drink the water.

01:00:32.879 --> 01:00:34.756
We don't have clean soil.

01:00:34.756 --> 01:00:37.550
Our public officials
gave them the permit

01:00:37.550 --> 01:00:39.177
to build this industry

01:00:39.177 --> 01:00:42.555
without consulting us,
the citizens.

01:00:43.556 --> 01:00:47.435
[woman]
My cousins, from age
32 to 42.

01:00:47.435 --> 01:00:50.271
They're struggling...

01:00:51.356 --> 01:00:53.358
stage four cancer

01:00:53.358 --> 01:00:57.987
they are younger people
in this area.

01:00:58.196 --> 01:01:02.742
My sister, she has
stage four cancer.

01:01:02.950 --> 01:01:06.788
My brother has
colon cancer.

01:01:07.372 --> 01:01:15.463
And I am the third one out of
seven kids who beat cancer.

01:01:15.630 --> 01:01:18.091
[Clapping]
Praise God.

01:01:18.299 --> 01:01:19.425
People need to be wise.

01:01:19.425 --> 01:01:21.886
When y'all put these
officials in these office,

01:01:21.886 --> 01:01:25.056
y'all better know what
they're looking for out of you

01:01:25.056 --> 01:01:26.933
because it just ain't money.

01:01:26.933 --> 01:01:30.561
We want to live,
we want to breathe.

01:01:31.396 --> 01:01:34.273
We want to drink clean water.
[applause]

01:01:39.904 --> 01:01:41.447
[soft suspenseful music]

01:01:42.907 --> 01:01:45.243
[man]
Big Oil on edge
as President Biden

01:01:45.243 --> 01:01:47.662
unveils his ambitious
climate change agenda.

01:01:47.662 --> 01:01:50.707
[woman]
President Biden's new
jobs and infrastructure plan

01:01:50.707 --> 01:01:53.418
is massively ambitious
and expensive.

01:01:53.418 --> 01:01:54.752
[woman 2]
It's a historic investment

01:01:54.752 --> 01:01:56.629
in infrastructure, climate
and technology.

01:01:56.629 --> 01:01:58.756
[man]
If you look inside this
you could even call it

01:01:58.756 --> 01:02:01.008
The Green New Deal
in disguise.

01:02:02.260 --> 01:02:04.262
Can you guys speak to the
leverage that you have

01:02:04.262 --> 01:02:06.472
in this moment, especially
with the thin margins?

01:02:06.472 --> 01:02:09.851
To me, the greatest risk
is doing nothing on climate

01:02:09.851 --> 01:02:11.686
or doing too little.

01:02:12.395 --> 01:02:15.022
[man]
But key Democratic senator
Joe Manchin of West Virginia

01:02:15.022 --> 01:02:17.567
already says he’s
very uncomfortable

01:02:17.567 --> 01:02:19.402
with how much
it costs.

01:02:19.402 --> 01:02:20.695
50 years from now.

01:02:20.695 --> 01:02:22.530
Do you think folks are going
to look back at this Congress

01:02:22.780 --> 01:02:25.450
and say, boy, I'm glad
they were fiscally–

01:02:25.450 --> 01:02:27.452
worried too much
about the fiscal

01:02:27.452 --> 01:02:29.620
and not enough
about climate mitigation?

01:02:29.620 --> 01:02:32.165
There's a balance. There's always
been a balance Chuck

01:02:32.165 --> 01:02:34.041
Let’s be responsible
and reasonable about it

01:02:34.041 --> 01:02:35.668
—Okay
—That’s all I’m saying.

01:02:35.668 --> 01:02:38.504
[man]
Now Senator Manchin is the
largest recipient of coal

01:02:38.504 --> 01:02:40.506
and natural gas money
in the Senate.

01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:42.341
And he just happens
to be the chair

01:02:42.341 --> 01:02:44.343
of the Energy and
Natural Resources Committee.

01:02:47.930 --> 01:02:51.809
I saw it in a tweet.
Here we go.

01:02:52.602 --> 01:02:57.482
Did we aggressively fight
against some of the science?

01:02:57.482 --> 01:03:00.651
Uh, Yes. Um.

01:03:00.818 --> 01:03:03.988
Did we join some of
these shadow groups

01:03:03.988 --> 01:03:06.741
to work against some
of the early efforts?

01:03:06.741 --> 01:03:09.327
Yes, that's true. Um.

01:03:09.494 --> 01:03:12.413
–But there's nothing
illegal about that.

01:03:12.830 --> 01:03:15.917
On the Democrat side,
we look for the moderates

01:03:16.042 --> 01:03:19.003
On these issues, so it’s the
Manchins, it’s the Sinemas

01:03:19.253 --> 01:03:22.215
Joe Manchin, I talk to
his office every week.

01:03:22.215 --> 01:03:25.051
Um, he is the kingmaker
on this.

01:03:25.092 --> 01:03:29.514
The bottom line is it's going
to take political courage,

01:03:29.514 --> 01:03:33.059
political will in order
to get something done,

01:03:33.059 --> 01:03:36.521
and that doesn't exist
in politics, it just doesn't.

01:03:37.563 --> 01:03:41.150
Cool, cool, cool, cool
cool, cool, cool, cool, cool

01:03:41.651 --> 01:03:43.110
cool.

01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:47.657
This is my Job,
this is what I do.

01:03:48.032 --> 01:03:50.618
I burn down the planet.

01:03:50.618 --> 01:03:53.830
And I make a lot of
money doing it.

01:04:01.379 --> 01:04:04.382
So this is the block
I grew up on.

01:04:06.050 --> 01:04:08.511
[Rhiana]
My husband and I
moved back to Chicago,

01:04:09.136 --> 01:04:11.806
because we found out
that I was pregnant.

01:04:13.724 --> 01:04:16.894
[pensive music]

01:04:21.816 --> 01:04:26.153
My worst fear
is that even after all this

01:04:26.153 --> 01:04:31.325
people won't be able to
imagine a different world.

01:04:33.870 --> 01:04:35.621
They're talking
about deficit now,

01:04:35.621 --> 01:04:37.415
we can't spend
that much money.

01:04:38.416 --> 01:04:42.003
But the cost of not doing
something is not nothing.

01:04:43.421 --> 01:04:47.425
When a coast erodes
because of sea level rise,

01:04:47.425 --> 01:04:49.677
that's just economic
activity that's just gone.

01:04:51.596 --> 01:04:54.807
And once a child lives
through poverty

01:04:54.807 --> 01:04:56.267
that happened.

01:04:58.603 --> 01:05:01.397
Once a person dies,
that's over.

01:05:01.397 --> 01:05:03.941
That is a real cost.

01:05:06.444 --> 01:05:08.154
Why are you fine with

01:05:08.154 --> 01:05:12.074
people dying so that we don't
have a bigger deficit, why?

01:05:14.368 --> 01:05:17.538
Because are you fine if that
person was your grandmother?

01:05:18.789 --> 01:05:22.335
Or are you fine if that
person was my grandmother?

01:05:27.757 --> 01:05:28.925
[exciting music]

01:05:28.925 --> 01:05:31.385
[man]
President Biden announcing
he has reached a deal

01:05:31.385 --> 01:05:33.095
with a bipartisan group
of Senators

01:05:33.095 --> 01:05:35.514
on a massive
infrastructure package

01:05:35.640 --> 01:05:37.266
It's a tremendous
opportunity for us

01:05:37.266 --> 01:05:39.644
to show the rest of the
world that we can still

01:05:39.644 --> 01:05:42.104
get big things done
in a bipartisan way.

01:05:42.104 --> 01:05:43.814
None of us got what–
all that we wanted

01:05:44.649 --> 01:05:46.400
I clearly didn't get
all I wanted.

01:05:47.610 --> 01:05:49.362
[woman]
The framework does
not include money

01:05:49.362 --> 01:05:51.405
for so called
"human infrastructure"

01:05:51.405 --> 01:05:53.950
from climate change
to anti poverty efforts.

01:05:54.450 --> 01:05:57.912
Progressives are demanding
that those items be addressed

01:05:57.912 --> 01:06:01.207
simultaneously through a budget
process known as reconciliation.

01:06:01.666 --> 01:06:04.377
If the Senate does not pass
the reconciliation bill,

01:06:04.377 --> 01:06:06.087
we will uphold
our end of the bargain

01:06:06.087 --> 01:06:07.672
and not pass
the bipartisan bill

01:06:07.672 --> 01:06:09.674
until we get all of these
investments in.

01:06:09.674 --> 01:06:11.842
Can you guarantee
to AOC

01:06:11.842 --> 01:06:14.720
that a reconciliation package
will pass the Senate?

01:06:14.720 --> 01:06:16.722
I can't really guarantee
anybody, you know

01:06:16.722 --> 01:06:18.891
and I have not
guaranteed anybody on

01:06:18.891 --> 01:06:21.018
any of these pieces of legislation
Would you like to do more?

01:06:21.018 --> 01:06:22.478
Yeah, you can do
what you can pay for.

01:06:22.561 --> 01:06:25.272
[AOC]
This Bipartisan deal alone

01:06:25.272 --> 01:06:27.525
is not just "a little is
better than nothing."

01:06:27.525 --> 01:06:29.485
It is an active disservice.

01:06:29.485 --> 01:06:31.153
What little they did
on climate

01:06:31.153 --> 01:06:33.030
they stripped even
from that,

01:06:33.030 --> 01:06:34.907
because ExxonMobil
is out here bragging

01:06:34.907 --> 01:06:36.742
about how much influence
they have over them,

01:06:36.742 --> 01:06:38.160
and so, no.

01:06:38.160 --> 01:06:40.454
And you'd say
there are enough people

01:06:40.454 --> 01:06:42.623
–who are with you on this?
–Absolutely.

01:06:42.623 --> 01:06:44.417
And Pelosi said that she's not
gonna do it without reconciliation

01:06:44.417 --> 01:06:46.210
–I mean she's been pretty clear.
–And she counts the votes.

01:06:46.210 --> 01:06:47.503
And she knows.

01:06:48.087 --> 01:06:50.756
[AOC]
Conservative Democrats
and Republicans

01:06:50.756 --> 01:06:55.761
are not used to the progressive
flank having any power.

01:06:57.138 --> 01:07:01.267
They have been
thrown for a loop.

01:07:01.267 --> 01:07:05.021
Because we are
making some moves.

01:07:05.813 --> 01:07:07.314
You're not going
to trick us.

01:07:07.314 --> 01:07:09.358
"I promise I'll vote for
reconciliation down the line.

01:07:09.358 --> 01:07:11.235
Just pass this first."

01:07:11.235 --> 01:07:14.447
Hell no. You can't trust
any of these people

01:07:14.447 --> 01:07:15.656
further than
you can throw them.

01:07:16.991 --> 01:07:20.327
We will tank your little
bipartisan piece

01:07:20.327 --> 01:07:22.955
if we don't act on climate.

01:07:23.080 --> 01:07:24.040
[man] Do you expect
to hold the line?

01:07:24.040 --> 01:07:26.125
Absolutely, absolutely.

01:07:26.125 --> 01:07:29.211
3.5 is already too low, so–
Thank you.

01:07:30.546 --> 01:07:33.674
[Jayapal]
If Joe Manchin wants
to have the infrastructure bill

01:07:33.674 --> 01:07:36.343
then we need to come
to a quick agreement

01:07:36.343 --> 01:07:38.804
on the Build Back Better
reconciliation package,

01:07:38.804 --> 01:07:40.181
the two have to
move together.

01:07:40.181 --> 01:07:41.849
[woman]
But Congresswoman,
wouldn't it be a shame

01:07:42.099 --> 01:07:45.394
after all of the, you know,
blood, sweat and tears

01:07:45.394 --> 01:07:48.230
that apparently have gone
into this bipartisan deal?

01:07:48.230 --> 01:07:49.732
Ten Republicans,
ten Democrats

01:07:49.732 --> 01:07:52.193
they’ve worked hours and hours
late into the evening

01:07:52.193 --> 01:07:53.944
for that not to
go anywhere?

01:07:53.944 --> 01:07:55.446
I mean, don't you
want to take a win

01:07:55.446 --> 01:07:56.238
where you get it?

01:07:56.238 --> 01:07:58.574
[Jayapal]
The American people
are not going to get a win

01:07:58.574 --> 01:08:00.743
if we simply invest in
roads and bridges,

01:08:00.743 --> 01:08:03.037
but don't take on
climate change.

01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:06.248
[man]
Let's turn to another topic

01:08:06.248 --> 01:08:08.042
I get angry enough already
reading the news.

01:08:08.042 --> 01:08:10.211
But watching
the news-o-tainment

01:08:10.211 --> 01:08:12.129
it just pisses me off
so much

01:08:12.129 --> 01:08:13.672
You're going to watch the
reactions when I'm like,

01:08:13.672 --> 01:08:16.509
let's be clear about what just
happened, this bill is shit

01:08:21.639 --> 01:08:24.308
Yeah the topics are–

01:08:26.393 --> 01:08:29.105
But like, this is the story.

01:08:29.105 --> 01:08:30.314
This is what you guys are–

01:08:30.314 --> 01:08:31.524
[Amira]
So nothing on
infrastructure?

01:08:31.524 --> 01:08:33.317
[Alexandra]
I think maybe I just
call them and say,

01:08:33.317 --> 01:08:35.986
sorry, I can't talk about
these topics.

01:08:40.032 --> 01:08:42.535
This is Alexandra,
I'm okay.

01:08:42.535 --> 01:08:45.788
I just saw the topics
that came back.

01:08:45.788 --> 01:08:48.833
I'm not going to lie,
I don't feel comfortable.

01:08:48.833 --> 01:08:49.792
I thought this was
going to be

01:08:49.792 --> 01:08:52.294
on infrastructure and
the progressive angle.

01:08:52.294 --> 01:08:55.047
Is there any possibility that
we would be talking about

01:08:55.047 --> 01:08:58.801
the current infrastructure fight,
or what was just showing

01:08:58.801 --> 01:09:02.930
President Biden's
most recent speech?

01:09:03.848 --> 01:09:06.058
Absolutely, all right.
Bye bye.

01:09:06.725 --> 01:09:08.227
They stood me down.

01:09:09.145 --> 01:09:12.773
They said we're going to keep
the topics, we'll stand down.

01:09:16.152 --> 01:09:19.196
It's hard to know when
you have leverage

01:09:19.196 --> 01:09:21.407
and when you
don't have leverage.

01:09:21.407 --> 01:09:24.827
When do you have power and
how do you best use it?

01:09:25.661 --> 01:09:30.749
That is a really tough thing
to figure out in real time.

01:09:35.546 --> 01:09:38.174
[rousing music]

01:09:46.015 --> 01:09:53.689
Hey, I'm Ema, and I walked
266 miles to get here.

01:09:56.192 --> 01:09:59.570
I saw hills that had been
burned, I saw the drought.

01:10:02.114 --> 01:10:06.327
We are here for the long
run, we are here to win.

01:10:11.832 --> 01:10:14.126
[Hope]
when the storms come,
FEMA isn't there.

01:10:14.126 --> 01:10:17.630
When the storms come, the
politicians aren't there.

01:10:17.630 --> 01:10:20.257
I was in the
Texas winter freeze.

01:10:21.008 --> 01:10:24.803
I have friends who died,
this is for them.

01:10:25.054 --> 01:10:26.722
[cheering]

01:10:27.973 --> 01:10:29.642
[Varshini]
We cannot let Biden walk away

01:10:29.642 --> 01:10:31.810
from his commitments
to our movement.

01:10:31.810 --> 01:10:34.146
What has his action been?

01:10:34.146 --> 01:10:38.484
Five months of negotiating
with climate deniers.

01:10:39.652 --> 01:10:41.487
If Biden and Congress
do not pass

01:10:41.487 --> 01:10:44.615
trillions of dollars
in climate investments.

01:10:44.615 --> 01:10:47.284
We will use the
full force of our movement

01:10:47.284 --> 01:10:50.162
in the streets and
in Congress to reject

01:10:50.162 --> 01:10:56.335
any bullshit deal that propels
us into climate catastrophe.

01:10:57.044 --> 01:10:59.421
[Bowman]
We’re bringing the hood
with us to this fight.

01:10:59.421 --> 01:11:03.217
Because when the New Deal
was implemented,

01:11:03.217 --> 01:11:08.389
and we rebuilt America,
we kept out care workers.

01:11:08.389 --> 01:11:11.100
We kept out
farm workers

01:11:11.100 --> 01:11:14.478
and we redlined
black communities.

01:11:14.478 --> 01:11:19.233
They occupy our streets,
they mass incarcerate us, but

01:11:19.233 --> 01:11:22.403
they leave us food insecure
in transportation deserts

01:11:22.403 --> 01:11:26.615
and our buildings and schools
falling apart. Fuck that.

01:11:27.283 --> 01:11:30.035
We want to show our
children's children

01:11:30.035 --> 01:11:33.622
that we stood for them, that
we believe in a better world

01:11:33.622 --> 01:11:36.792
and we didn't just believe
by tweeting it out.

01:11:36.959 --> 01:11:39.795
Because sometimes
you got to show up.

01:11:40.587 --> 01:11:43.299
They want you to think
that we’re not winning.

01:11:43.299 --> 01:11:45.175
So you throw up
your hands

01:11:45.175 --> 01:11:46.468
you’re right before
the finish line.

01:11:46.468 --> 01:11:47.845
That’s the whole game.

01:11:47.845 --> 01:11:50.139
When you’re one step away
from success

01:11:50.139 --> 01:11:52.266
That’s when they want you
to think you’re the furthest.

01:11:52.266 --> 01:11:57.354
But you are close.
You are close.

01:12:08.490 --> 01:12:12.703
[brooding music]

01:12:20.252 --> 01:12:23.255
[Varshini]
The same week that
it's 118 degrees in the Arctic.

01:12:24.631 --> 01:12:28.052
And there are
wildfires in Siberia.

01:12:29.928 --> 01:12:34.141
600 young people from across
the country came to DC

01:12:34.141 --> 01:12:38.354
and shut down every entrance
of the White House

01:12:39.396 --> 01:12:41.648
for three hours.

01:12:43.609 --> 01:12:46.612
[girls chant]
We’re gonna work, work, work
to build a better day

01:12:46.612 --> 01:12:49.907
build a better day...
build a better day...

01:12:49.907 --> 01:12:53.285
We’re gonna work, work, work
to build a better day

01:12:53.285 --> 01:12:56.789
build a better day...
build a better day...

01:12:58.332 --> 01:13:02.795
[Varshini]
The mainstream media
failed to make the connection.

01:13:04.296 --> 01:13:07.299
[protesters singing]

01:13:16.266 --> 01:13:20.854
[girl]
Whoa! Papa!

01:13:25.484 --> 01:13:30.072
[intense, eerie music]

01:13:36.578 --> 01:13:40.416
[shouting in foreign language]

01:13:46.213 --> 01:13:49.049
[intense musical buildup]

01:13:49.174 --> 01:13:50.384
[gavel pounding]

01:13:50.384 --> 01:13:52.302
The committee will
come to order.

01:13:52.845 --> 01:13:56.765
For the first time top
fossil fuel executives

01:13:56.765 --> 01:14:00.477
are testifying together
before Congress, under oath.

01:14:02.771 --> 01:14:04.773
ExxonMobil has
long recognized

01:14:04.773 --> 01:14:06.442
that climate change is real.

01:14:06.442 --> 01:14:08.527
So has Chevron,
we believe

01:14:08.527 --> 01:14:10.821
the future of energy
is lower carbon.

01:14:10.821 --> 01:14:13.740
Shell has long advocated
for governmental policies

01:14:13.740 --> 01:14:15.909
that will reduce
fossil fuel demand

01:14:15.909 --> 01:14:20.122
by 2007, BP publicly
supported carbon pricing.

01:14:20.914 --> 01:14:21.999
Okay, let me ask this.

01:14:21.999 --> 01:14:25.252
All of you raise your hand if
you think the climate crisis

01:14:25.252 --> 01:14:28.797
is one of the most important
crises that humanity faces?

01:14:28.797 --> 01:14:31.175
Just raise your hand
I think all of you do.

01:14:31.175 --> 01:14:32.426
Here's what's
so frustrating,

01:14:32.426 --> 01:14:35.304
because I really don't think

01:14:35.304 --> 01:14:37.556
you’re as bad as
the CEOs of the past.

01:14:37.556 --> 01:14:39.850
I don't, I don't believe
you purposely

01:14:39.850 --> 01:14:42.519
want to be out there spreading
climate disinformation.

01:14:42.519 --> 01:14:44.813
But you're funding
these groups.

01:14:44.813 --> 01:14:46.315
And they're really
having an impact.

01:14:46.315 --> 01:14:49.943
You know, they're spending
millions of dollars in Congress.

01:14:49.943 --> 01:14:51.653
On this panel with you is
Mr. Sommers,

01:14:51.653 --> 01:14:54.656
the head of API, would any
of you take the opportunity

01:14:54.656 --> 01:14:57.951
to look at API and
say, “stop it.”

01:14:57.951 --> 01:15:00.913
[BP CEO]
Mr. Khanna, we've been
in active communications

01:15:00.913 --> 01:15:04.124
with API now from
the time I joined.

01:15:04.124 --> 01:15:05.334
[Khanna]
He’s sitting right
next to you

01:15:05.334 --> 01:15:06.835
on the virtual screen,
just say,

01:15:06.835 --> 01:15:10.589
“Stop. Stop the advertising
against electric vehicles.”

01:15:11.965 --> 01:15:14.092
So I'd like to speak
on behalf of Shell

01:15:14.092 --> 01:15:16.595
Here at Shell
we very much believe

01:15:16.595 --> 01:15:18.805
electric vehicles are part of
the future, which is why–

01:15:18.805 --> 01:15:21.225
If you would tell them to
stop it would be really helpful.

01:15:21.225 --> 01:15:22.893
Will any of you commit
to leaving them

01:15:22.893 --> 01:15:25.187
if they're lobbying
against electric vehicles?

01:15:26.396 --> 01:15:28.190
[soft suspenseful music]

01:15:28.190 --> 01:15:32.069
[Higgins] My, my, my!
Good Lord, help us

01:15:32.069 --> 01:15:35.072
to be protected from
this threat from within.

01:15:35.072 --> 01:15:39.952
American patriots are
so done with career politicians

01:15:39.952 --> 01:15:43.539
and Democrat Party
socialist insanity.

01:15:43.539 --> 01:15:48.418
It's insane, what my
colleagues across the aisle

01:15:48.418 --> 01:15:49.711
are putting these
good American

01:15:49.711 --> 01:15:50.837
men and women
through.

01:15:50.837 --> 01:15:54.299
It is disgusting, it
is absolutely disgusting.

01:15:54.299 --> 01:15:56.510
I apologize to
our witnesses.

01:15:56.510 --> 01:15:58.136
These folks would
regulate you

01:15:58.136 --> 01:16:00.347
right out of business
tomorrow if they could.

01:16:00.347 --> 01:16:03.392
Why are we subsidizing
green new everything?

01:16:03.392 --> 01:16:06.019
Why are we pushing
out the only industry

01:16:06.019 --> 01:16:08.272
that is reliable,
affordable?

01:16:08.272 --> 01:16:09.398
Reliable and affordable.

01:16:09.398 --> 01:16:10.440
Affordable and reliable.

01:16:10.440 --> 01:16:12.067
Affordable, reliable.

01:16:12.067 --> 01:16:15.654
Affordable, reliable,
and abundant energy.

01:16:17.990 --> 01:16:21.994
[AOC]
Mr. Woods, um, as a
CEO of ExxonMobil

01:16:21.994 --> 01:16:24.121
have you participated
in any calls

01:16:24.121 --> 01:16:25.581
with members of
Congress throughout

01:16:25.581 --> 01:16:28.959
this process of reconciliation
and infrastructure?

01:16:29.543 --> 01:16:30.419
I have.

01:16:30.419 --> 01:16:33.255
You have. I think one thing

01:16:33.255 --> 01:16:35.882
that often gets lost in
these conversations is

01:16:35.882 --> 01:16:42.306
that some of us have to
actually live the future

01:16:42.681 --> 01:16:44.683
that you all
are setting on fire.

01:17:00.407 --> 01:17:01.783
[man]
We didn't come
to the decision

01:17:01.783 --> 01:17:03.368
to do a hunger
strike lightly.

01:17:05.203 --> 01:17:08.040
We've hosted town halls,
we've hosted actions,

01:17:08.040 --> 01:17:10.250
we've blockaded the
White House, we’ve canvassed

01:17:10.250 --> 01:17:15.130
we’ve phonebanked, we felt like
we needed to do all that we could

01:17:16.131 --> 01:17:17.841
Today, the doctors
were telling me

01:17:17.841 --> 01:17:20.677
that my pulse is starting
to get really low,

01:17:20.677 --> 01:17:22.387
and they're pretty concerned.

01:17:26.725 --> 01:17:30.646
[Varshini]
Ema and Paul and Abby
and Kidus and Julie,

01:17:32.481 --> 01:17:35.817
it really hurts me
to see you this way.

01:17:41.239 --> 01:17:45.494
Julie, I walked for miles
with you in the Gulf South.

01:17:46.411 --> 01:17:47.788
And it's really hard
to see you not be able

01:17:47.788 --> 01:17:51.333
to walk or have
energy right now.

01:17:52.918 --> 01:17:57.047
Ema, you're just like,
just this fierce light.

01:17:57.047 --> 01:18:00.050
And I saw you on the
treks just like causing

01:18:00.050 --> 01:18:04.805
and raising hell
and it's really hard

01:18:04.805 --> 01:18:06.556
to hear your voice waver

01:18:06.556 --> 01:18:09.810
because you're struggling
with the strength.

01:18:11.269 --> 01:18:12.938
I'm scared for you.

01:18:14.481 --> 01:18:16.692
And I'm scared
for all of us.

01:18:19.027 --> 01:18:20.779
And it feels really real.

01:18:20.779 --> 01:18:23.949
Being here in front
of this place.

01:18:23.949 --> 01:18:26.493
That if we don't
act this year,

01:18:27.244 --> 01:18:30.747
we may never get
this exact chance again.

01:18:39.673 --> 01:18:41.842
[phone ringing]

01:18:43.844 --> 01:18:45.679
[exciting music]

01:18:45.679 --> 01:18:48.265
[woman]
After another chaotic
day on Capitol Hill,

01:18:48.265 --> 01:18:49.975
the House is now
hoping to vote

01:18:49.975 --> 01:18:53.061
on the president's Bipartisan
Infrastructure Bill tonight.

01:18:53.061 --> 01:18:56.148
[man]
the latest announcement
after months of negotiations

01:18:56.148 --> 01:18:58.400
infighting, delays
and growing pressure

01:18:58.567 --> 01:19:01.778
[woman]
the president is asking
House Democrats to trust him

01:19:01.778 --> 01:19:03.989
that if they vote for
the infrastructure bill

01:19:03.989 --> 01:19:06.825
he will garner the support
needed to also deliver

01:19:06.825 --> 01:19:09.077
the Build Back Better Bill,
the more sweeping

01:19:09.077 --> 01:19:11.246
climate and
social programs bill.

01:19:11.246 --> 01:19:12.622
[woman 2]
Progressives
have made it clear

01:19:12.622 --> 01:19:14.875
they do not want to lose
their leverage.

01:19:15.584 --> 01:19:16.460
[man]
I'm being told that

01:19:16.460 --> 01:19:17.961
a couple of Democrats

01:19:17.961 --> 01:19:21.298
have gone over to vote
against the bill

01:19:21.298 --> 01:19:26.178
AOC among them, but the
infrastructure bill has passed.

01:19:30.474 --> 01:19:32.601
[AOC]
What people don’t
understand

01:19:32.601 --> 01:19:34.561
is that lobbyists here

01:19:34.561 --> 01:19:36.980
and the conservatives
that work with them

01:19:37.647 --> 01:19:39.232
are ruthless.

01:19:40.776 --> 01:19:42.903
the goal here
is not just to weaken

01:19:42.903 --> 01:19:45.906
Build Back Better,
the goal here is to kill it.

01:19:50.702 --> 01:19:53.747
And when you decouple
both of these bills.

01:19:53.747 --> 01:19:55.916
You risk giving away

01:19:56.541 --> 01:19:59.461
 the United State's
biggest chance

01:19:59.461 --> 01:20:02.589
to significantly reduce
U.S. climate emissions.

01:20:06.635 --> 01:20:09.095
[man]
over the next few hours
we expect the House will pass

01:20:09.387 --> 01:20:11.264
the Build Back Better
agenda

01:20:11.306 --> 01:20:13.183
what about
the Senate?

01:20:13.266 --> 01:20:15.435
[woman]
is it a little bit just calling
Joe Manchin’s bluff

01:20:15.435 --> 01:20:17.020
putting it at his feet
and saying

01:20:17.020 --> 01:20:19.272
now it’s up to you
to vote against this?

01:20:20.482 --> 01:20:24.736
All President Biden
had to do was nothing.

01:20:25.654 --> 01:20:28.698
Nobody elected
Joe Biden to be FDR.

01:20:31.868 --> 01:20:34.913
[Pelosi]
The Build Back Better Bill
is passed.

01:20:40.961 --> 01:20:42.462
What happens when
this goes to the Senate,

01:20:42.462 --> 01:20:44.089
there's going to
be changes.

01:20:44.089 --> 01:20:46.508
It was quite a process
to get to this vote.

01:20:46.675 --> 01:20:50.053
[Rep. Bowman]
I'm hopeful because the
president gave us his word

01:20:50.053 --> 01:20:52.097
that he's going to do
everything he can

01:20:52.097 --> 01:20:53.974
to make sure the bill
stays where it is.

01:20:53.974 --> 01:20:56.434
[AOC]
I think it would be
very, very difficult

01:20:56.434 --> 01:21:00.856
for any Democrat
of any background

01:21:00.856 --> 01:21:03.775
to be the sole
no vote

01:21:03.775 --> 01:21:05.485
to tank this for
the entire country.

01:21:07.112 --> 01:21:10.115
[dark, suspenseful music]

01:21:10.323 --> 01:21:13.326
[bell ringing]

01:21:14.786 --> 01:21:18.582
[man]
The Build Back Better Bill
is not coming up in the Senate,

01:21:18.582 --> 01:21:20.375
largely because of
your reservations.

01:21:20.375 --> 01:21:23.503
Without you, the leadership
doesn't have the votes it needs.

01:21:23.503 --> 01:21:27.299
So today, right now,
what's the state of play?

01:21:27.299 --> 01:21:30.969
I cannot vote to continue
with this piece of legislation.

01:21:30.969 --> 01:21:34.139
I just can't. I've tried
everything humanly possible.

01:21:34.139 --> 01:21:35.515
I can't get there.

01:21:35.515 --> 01:21:38.643
- You're done. This is a no.

01:21:40.562 --> 01:21:42.522
This is a no.

01:21:44.649 --> 01:21:46.359
There's a lot of
criticism that says

01:21:46.359 --> 01:21:49.279
that you're doing this about the
environment and climate change,

01:21:49.279 --> 01:21:51.531
and that you personally
profit from investments

01:21:51.531 --> 01:21:54.034
in a family coal brokerage
that you founded

01:21:54.034 --> 01:21:55.493
what's your
response to that?

01:21:56.578 --> 01:21:57.913
No, I've heard
all those things.

01:21:57.913 --> 01:21:59.372
And I understand where
they're coming from.

01:21:59.372 --> 01:22:00.415
And basically, they're trying

01:22:00.415 --> 01:22:02.918
to get an agenda
they wish to have.

01:22:02.918 --> 01:22:06.171
The main thing that we need
is dependability, reliability

01:22:06.171 --> 01:22:07.881
and affordability

01:22:08.882 --> 01:22:11.551
[pensive music]

01:22:19.184 --> 01:22:23.939
[Guido]
The Green New Deal
was simple, actually.

01:22:26.441 --> 01:22:28.109
It was like

01:22:28.109 --> 01:22:28.944
[Amira]
It is simple.

01:22:28.944 --> 01:22:30.737
It's like we are going

01:22:30.737 --> 01:22:34.074
to make everything run
on renewable energy.

01:22:34.074 --> 01:22:36.284
We're going to
all do it together.

01:22:36.284 --> 01:22:39.621
You know, we live in a society,
the planet is heating up.

01:22:39.621 --> 01:22:43.124
Just build solar, wind
and geothermal everywhere

01:22:43.124 --> 01:22:45.627
and give people jobs
and do full employment.

01:22:45.835 --> 01:22:50.674
I feel like I have to
move on and plan

01:22:50.674 --> 01:22:52.550
for the planet to
keep warming

01:22:52.550 --> 01:22:55.720
and plan for how this can
go differently in

01:22:55.720 --> 01:22:58.014
four years, eight years,
12 years.

01:23:00.100 --> 01:23:02.102
[Amira]
Politics is about
who shows up.

01:23:02.102 --> 01:23:05.647
So if you don't show
up, the worst people are

01:23:05.647 --> 01:23:08.316
I promise you,
they're showing up

01:23:08.316 --> 01:23:10.694
and they're going to set
the terms of all of this so.

01:23:10.694 --> 01:23:15.699
Might not be inspiring,but
that's what motivates me.

01:23:15.782 --> 01:23:17.617
Pettiness.
I will destroy them.

01:23:17.617 --> 01:23:21.413
—Yes, yes that's good.
—Pettiness.

01:23:21.663 --> 01:23:25.041
[Alexandra]
I think the unfortunate is like
the brutality of the conditions

01:23:25.041 --> 01:23:28.128
that we're headed towards
I think guarantees some,

01:23:28.128 --> 01:23:31.715
like some sort of mass
response at some point.

01:23:32.340 --> 01:23:35.051
I think it's on us to create
the conditions for that if

01:23:35.051 --> 01:23:38.346
that should happen to be
as successful as possible.

01:23:44.519 --> 01:23:51.901
[group chants]
We want to live...
we want to live...

01:23:52.569 --> 01:23:56.489
[Kidus]
Sen. Manchin fight for us.
Don’t be evil Sen. Manchin

01:23:56.489 --> 01:23:59.993
Fight for our lives Sen. Manchin.
Please Sen. Manchin–

01:24:01.453 --> 01:24:08.835
[group chanting and shouting]
We want to live!

01:24:14.924 --> 01:24:22.307
[dark music]

01:24:23.725 --> 01:24:31.107
[chant] fossil fuels, greedy liar
Manchin set our house on fire

01:24:38.031 --> 01:24:42.786
[Kidus]
Joe Manchin fight for me.
Joe Manchin my life matters.

01:24:42.786 --> 01:24:44.913
Joe Manchin,
your kid’s lives matter.

01:24:44.913 --> 01:24:48.666
Joe Manchin, the children
of West Virginia matter

01:24:48.958 --> 01:24:51.544
They matter more than
your coal money.

01:24:51.544 --> 01:24:54.130
They matter so much more
than your expensive car.

01:24:54.130 --> 01:24:57.217
They matter so much more than
the clothes you're wearing.

01:24:57.217 --> 01:24:59.844
Joe Manchin, why won't you
fight for me?

01:24:59.844 --> 01:25:02.055
[beeping]

01:25:02.055 --> 01:25:05.016
Joe Manchin, is it worth it?
Is the money worth it?

01:25:05.391 --> 01:25:08.186
Joe Manchin, is the money
better than our lives?

01:25:08.520 --> 01:25:11.189
Is it better than
my life?

01:25:16.277 --> 01:25:18.947
[squealing tires]

01:25:41.386 --> 01:25:45.140
[man]
Democratic senators Joe Manchin and
Chuck Schumer announcing a deal

01:25:45.140 --> 01:25:47.392
on a bill that was
all but dead.

01:25:47.392 --> 01:25:49.227
[man 2]
the Inflation Reduction Act

01:25:49.227 --> 01:25:51.771
It’s a slimmed down version
of the more ambitious

01:25:51.771 --> 01:25:55.191
Build Back Better bill that stalled
in the Senate earlier this year

01:25:55.191 --> 01:25:58.361
but it is nonetheless
a massive, historic package

01:25:58.361 --> 01:25:59.904
[man 3]
This is pretty remarkable
when you think about it

01:25:59.904 --> 01:26:03.199
After trying to pass
climate change legislation for years

01:26:03.199 --> 01:26:05.160
Senate Democrats
finally got it done.

01:26:08.746 --> 01:26:10.540
— There you go.
—It’s now law.

01:26:12.125 --> 01:26:14.961
[woman]
This bill will pour
hundreds of billions of dollars

01:26:14.961 --> 01:26:17.005
 into renewable
energy programs.

01:26:17.005 --> 01:26:20.133
But it also includes provisions
to help the fossil fuel industry

01:26:20.133 --> 01:26:22.093
allowing for new
offshore drilling

01:26:22.093 --> 01:26:24.554
and other benefits for
oil and gas companies.

01:26:25.138 --> 01:26:27.557
It is understood
these were included

01:26:27.557 --> 01:26:30.018
to win the support of
Senator Joe Manchin

01:26:30.018 --> 01:26:31.019
of West Virginia.

01:26:42.614 --> 01:26:44.741
[Varshini]
I mean, thought it was
dead in the water.

01:26:49.621 --> 01:26:53.082
When I found out that
the zombie bill was alive again

01:26:54.000 --> 01:26:57.587
I think there was a sense of
immense hope and relief

01:26:57.587 --> 01:27:01.049
that my generation would have
even a fighting chance.

01:27:06.971 --> 01:27:09.849
Everything that is
good in this bill

01:27:09.849 --> 01:27:12.936
is because movements
fought for it.

01:27:14.187 --> 01:27:17.065
Everything that is
bad in this bill

01:27:17.065 --> 01:27:18.358
is because the
fossil fuel industry

01:27:18.358 --> 01:27:22.445
continues to have oversized
influence in our politics.

01:27:29.118 --> 01:27:30.828
Winning is never
black and white.

01:27:32.664 --> 01:27:35.625
But this would have been
impossible to imagine

01:27:35.625 --> 01:27:37.210
even five years ago.

01:27:41.965 --> 01:27:44.050
We needed the fight
for the Green New Deal

01:27:44.717 --> 01:27:47.011
To get to this moment.

01:27:53.518 --> 01:27:55.520
[baby sounds]

01:28:03.861 --> 01:28:08.366
[Rhiana]
The bill contains some like
deeply beneficial investments.

01:28:10.118 --> 01:28:14.330
But those investments come
at a price that’s not a small one.

01:28:22.797 --> 01:28:26.884
Fossil fuels get to stay
in the game in a real way

01:28:26.884 --> 01:28:28.886
In the same places
that they’ve been

01:28:28.886 --> 01:28:31.723
exploiting the same people
for decades.

01:28:38.396 --> 01:28:42.191
And so I’m not giving up
because the fight isn’t over.

01:28:46.446 --> 01:28:48.781
I’ll just be damned if
any of these fuckers

01:28:48.781 --> 01:28:50.825
have the last say
on my life

01:28:50.825 --> 01:28:53.369
or the world that
I’m leaving for my kid.

01:29:17.518 --> 01:29:19.187
[AOC]
Our future is not written.

01:29:21.689 --> 01:29:25.693
Political conditions develop
in wildly unpredictable ways

01:29:25.693 --> 01:29:29.697
And all of the sudden, when
you thought all hope was lost

01:29:30.573 --> 01:29:32.700
everything has changed.

01:29:38.706 --> 01:29:43.086
This bill, I think it’s a major win
for the climate movement.

01:29:43.086 --> 01:29:45.505
and just the world.

01:29:56.140 --> 01:29:57.767
It's very easy
to say, you know

01:29:57.767 --> 01:29:59.018
“It's too late.”

01:30:00.269 --> 01:30:04.357
But there’s no such thing as
too late when it comes to climate.

01:30:08.236 --> 01:30:11.197
Because this isn't an
on-off switch.

01:30:12.448 --> 01:30:14.909
The future is about a
spectrum of possibility.

01:30:17.703 --> 01:30:20.665
Our job is

01:30:21.874 --> 01:30:23.918
where are we
steering the ship?

01:30:48.067 --> 01:30:53.364
[Sleater-Kinney’s
“One Beat” plays]

01:31:05.084 --> 01:31:10.965
♪ I'm a bubble in a sound wave
A sonic push for energy ♪

01:31:10.965 --> 01:31:16.679
♪ Exploding like the sun
A flash of clean light hope ♪

01:31:16.679 --> 01:31:19.724
♪ All you scientists
can hold your breath ♪

01:31:19.724 --> 01:31:24.020
♪ Can I decide to
show myself, oh oh ♪

01:31:24.020 --> 01:31:25.980
♪ Take me to the
source of chaos ♪

01:31:25.980 --> 01:31:27.982
♪ let me be the
butterfly ♪

01:31:28.107 --> 01:31:31.319
♪ oh my, imperfect
symmetry ♪

01:31:31.319 --> 01:31:34.197
♪ has underlying
poetry in rhyme  ♪

01:31:34.197 --> 01:31:36.991
♪ If you think like
Thomas Edison ♪

01:31:36.991 --> 01:31:39.785
♪ Could you invent
a world for me ♪

01:31:39.869 --> 01:31:42.872
♪ Now all that's
on the surface ♪

01:31:42.872 --> 01:31:45.750
♪ Are bloody arms
and oil fields ♪

01:31:45.750 --> 01:31:48.628
♪ Could I turn this place
all upside down ♪

01:31:48.628 --> 01:31:52.965
♪ And shake you and
your fossils out, oh oh ♪

01:31:53.257 --> 01:31:57.595
♪ You can't predict everything
with Newton like certainty, why ♪

01:31:57.887 --> 01:32:00.598
♪ Oh my, cause it
floats around all we see ♪

01:32:00.598 --> 01:32:03.893
♪  with oscillating
energy on high ♪

01:32:03.893 --> 01:32:09.357
♪  And you soothe yourself
with the sounds you know ♪

01:32:09.357 --> 01:32:15.613
♪ You tune out out out
the hypnotic drone ♪

01:32:15.613 --> 01:32:20.743
♪ Perfect hexagon
of the honeycomb ♪

01:32:20.743 --> 01:32:26.374
♪ And you soothe your soul
with the shapes you know ♪

01:32:26.374 --> 01:32:29.001
♪ Should I come outside
and run your cars ♪

01:32:29.001 --> 01:32:32.213
♪ Should I run your
rockets to the stars ♪

01:32:32.213 --> 01:32:34.882
♪ Could you invent
a world for me ♪

01:32:34.882 --> 01:32:37.593
♪ I need to hear
a symphony ♪

01:32:37.593 --> 01:32:40.513
♪ If I'm to run
the future ♪

01:32:40.513 --> 01:32:44.767
♪ You've got to let
the old world go, oh oh ♪

01:32:44.809 --> 01:32:46.769
♪ Take me to the
source of chaos ♪

01:32:46.769 --> 01:32:48.771
♪ let me be the
butterfly ♪

01:32:48.896 --> 01:32:52.108
♪ oh my, imperfect
symmetry ♪

01:32:52.108 --> 01:32:54.986
♪ has underlying
poetry in rhyme  ♪

01:32:54.986 --> 01:33:00.449
♪  And you soothe yourself
with the sounds you know ♪

01:33:00.449 --> 01:33:06.706
♪ You tune out out out
the hypnotic drone ♪

01:33:06.706 --> 01:33:11.836
♪ Perfect hexagon
of the honeycomb ♪

01:33:11.836 --> 01:33:17.466
♪ And you soothe your soul
with the shapes you know ♪

01:33:17.800 --> 01:33:20.845
♪ Your word for me
is fusion ♪

01:33:20.845 --> 01:33:23.598
♪ But is real change
an illusion ♪

01:33:23.598 --> 01:33:26.475
♪ Could I turn this place
all upside down ♪

01:33:26.475 --> 01:33:29.353
♪ And shake you and
your fossils out ♪

01:33:29.353 --> 01:33:32.273
♪ If I'm to run
the future ♪

01:33:32.273 --> 01:33:35.151
♪ You've got to let
the old world go, oh oh ♪

01:33:35.151 --> 01:33:37.820
♪ Could you invent
a world for me ♪

01:33:37.820 --> 01:33:41.907
♪ I need to hear
a symphony, oh oh ♪

01:33:41.907 --> 01:33:47.371
♪ You can't predict everything
with Newton like certainty, why ♪

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♪ Oh my, cause it
floats around all we see ♪

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♪ with oscillating
energy on high ♪