>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, VICE
PRESIDENT PENCE.
ONCE AGAIN, YOU PROVIDED EDD EDD
PERFECT SEGUE TO A NEW TOPIC
WHICH IS CLIMATE CHANGE.
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE, I’D LIKE
TO POSE THE FIRST QUESTION TO
YOU.
THIS YEAR WE’VE SEEN
RECORD-SETTING HURRICANES IN THE
SOUTH.
ANOTHER ONE, HURRICANE DELTA, IS
NOW THREATENING THE GULF.
AND WE HAVE SEEN RECORD-SETTING
WILDFIRES IN THE WEST.
DO YOU BELIEVE, AS THE
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY HAS
CONCLUDED, THAT MANMADE CLIMATE
CHANGE HAS MADE WILDFIRES
BIGGER, HOTTER, AND MORE DEADLY?
AND HAVE MADE HURRICANES WETTER,
SLOWER, AND MORE DAMAGING?
YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES
UNINTERRUPTED.
>> THANK YOU, SUSAN.
FIRST, I’M VERY PROUD OF OUR
RECORD ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND ON
CONSERVATION.
ACCORDING TO ALL OF THE BEST
ESTIMATES, OUR AIR AND LAND ARE
CLEANER THAN ANY TIME EVER
RECORDED.
OUR WATER IS AMONG THE CLEANEST
IN THE WORLD.
IN JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO, THE
PRESIDENT SIGNED THE OUTDOORS
ACT.
IT’S THE LARGEST INVESTMENT IN
OUR PUBLIC LANDS AND PUBLIC
PARKS IN 100 YEARS.
SO, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS MADE A
COMMITMENT TO CONSERVATION AND
TO THE ENVIRONMENT.
NOW, WITH REGARD TO CLIMATE
CHANGE, THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING.
THE ISSUE IS WHAT’S THE CAUSE
AND WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS MADE IT
CLEAR WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO
LISTEN TO THE SCIENCE.
NOW, JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS
WOULD PUT US BACK IN THE PARIS
CLIMATE ACCORD.
THEY’D IMPOSE THE GREEN NEW DEAL
WHICH WOULD CRUSH AMERICAN
ENERGY, WOULD INCREASE THE
ENERGY COST OF AMERICAN FAMILIES
IN THEIR HOMES, AND LITERALLY
WOULD CRUSH AMERICAN JOBS.
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I BELIEVE
THAT THE PROGRESS THAT WE HAVE
MADE IN A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT
HAS BEEN HAPPENING PRECISELY
BECAUSE WE HAVE A STRONG FREE
MARKET ECONOMY.
YOU KNOW, WHAT’S REMARKABLE IS
THE UNITED STATES HAS REDUCED
CO2 MORE THAN THE COUNTRIES THAT
ARE STILL IN THE PARIS CLIMATE
ACCORD, BUT WE’VE DONE IT
THROUGH INNOVATION.
AND WE’VE DONE IT THROUGH
NATURAL GAS AND FRACKING, WHICH,
SENATOR, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN
GO LOOK AT THE RECORD.
I -- I KNOW JOE BIDEN SAYS
OTHERWISE NOW, AS YOU DO, BUT
THE BOTH OF YOU REPEATEDLY
COMMITTED TO ABOLISHING FOSSIL
FUEL AND BANNING FRACKING.
AND SO BY CREATING THE KIND OF
AMERICAN INNOVATION, WE’RE
ACTUALLY STEERING TOWARD A
STRONGER AND BETTER ENVIRONMENT.
WITH REGARD TO WILDFIRES,
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I BELIEVE
THAT FOREST MANAGEMENT HAS TO BE
FRONT AND CENTER AND EVEN
GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM FROM YOUR
STATE HAS AGREED WE’VE GOT TO
WORK ON FOREST MANAGEMENT.
AND WITH REGARD TO HURRICANES,
THE NATIONAL OCEANIC
ADMINISTRATION TELLS US THAT
ACTUALLY AS DIFFICULT --
>> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, VICE
PRESIDENT.
>> -- AS THEY ARE, THERE ARE NO
MORE HURRICANES TODAY THAN THERE
WERE 100 YEARS AGO.
>> THANK YOU.
>> BUT MANY OF THE CLIMATE
ALARMISTS USE HURRICANES --
>> YOUR TIME IS UP.
>> -- AND WILDFIRES TO TRY TO
SELL THIS --
>> THANK YOU, VICE PRESIDENT.
>> -- TO TRY TO SELL THE GOODS
OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL.
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I ARE GOING
TO PUT AMERICAN JOBS AND
AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST.
>> SENATOR HARRIS, THE VICE
PRESIDENT MENTIONED YOU CO-SPOB
CO-SPONSORED THE GREEN NEW DEAL.
BIDEN SAID IN LAST WEEK’S DEBATE
HE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE GREEN
NEW DEAL.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE BIDEN/HARRIS
WEBSITE, IT DESCRIBES THE GREEN
NEW DEAL AS A CRUCIAL FRAMEWORK.
WHAT EXACTLY WOULD BE THE STANCE
OF A BIDEN/HARRIS ADMINISTRATION
TOWARD THE GREEN NEW DEAL?
YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES
UNINTERRUPTED.
>> SURE.
SO FIRST OF ALL, I WILL REPEAT
AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW
THAT JOE BIDEN WILL NOT BAN
FRACKING.
THAT IS A FACT.
I WILL REPEAT THAT JOE BIDEN HAS
BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT HE THINKS
ABOUT GROWING JOBS, WHICH IS WHY
HE WILL NOT INCREASE TAXES FOR
ANYONE WHO MAKES LESS THAN
$400,000 A YEAR.
JOE BIDEN’S ECONOMIC PLAN,
MOODY’S, WHICH IS A REPUTABLE
WALL STREET FIRM, SAID WILL
CREATE 7 MILLION MORE JOBS THAN
DONALD TRUMP’S.
AND PART OF THOSE JOBS THAT WILL
BE CREATED BY JOE BIDEN ARE
GOING TO BE ABOUT CLEAN ENERGY
AND RENEWABLE ENERGY.
BECAUSE, YOU SEE, JOE
UNDERSTANDS THAT THE WEST COAST
OF OUR COUNTRY IS BURNING,
INCLUDING MY HOME STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
JOE SEES WHAT IS HAPPENING ON
THE GULF STATES, WHICH ARE BEING
BATTERED BY STORMS.
JOE HAS SEEN AND TALKED WITH THE
FARMERS IN IOWA WHOSE ENTIRE
CROPS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED
BECAUSE OF FLOODS.
AND SO JOE BELIEVES, AGAIN, IN
SCIENCE -- I’LL TELL YOU
SOMETHING, SUSAN, I SERVED, WHEN
I FIRST GOT TO THE SENATE, ON
THE COMMITTEE THAT’S RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
DO YOU KNOW THIS ADMINISTRATION
TOOK THE WORD, SCIENCE, OFF THE
WEBSITE?
AND THEN TOOK THE PHRASE,
CLIMATE CHANGE, OFF THE WEBSITE.
THIS -- WE HAVE SEEN A PATTERN
WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION, WHICH
IS THEY DON’T BELIEVE IN
SCIENCE.
AND JOE’S PLAN IS ABOUT SAYING,
WE’RE GOING TO DEAL WITH IT BUT
WE’RE ALSO GOING TO CREATE JOBS.
DONALD TRUMP WHEN ASKED ABOUT
THE WILDFIRES IN CALIFORNIA AND
THE QUESTION WAS, YOU KNOW, THE
SCIENCE IS TELLING US THIS, YOU
KNOW WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAID?
SCIENCE DOESN’T KNOW.
SO, LET’S TALK ABOUT WHO IS
PREPARED TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY
OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FOUR
YEARS ON WHAT IS AN EXISTENTIAL
THREAT TO US AS HUMAN BEINGS,
JOE IS ABOUT SAYING WE’RE GOING
TO INVEST THAT IN RENEWABLE
ENERGY, IT’S GOING TO BE ABOUT
THE CREATION OF MILLIONS OF
JOBS.
WE WILL ACHIEVE NET ZERO
EMISSIONS BY 2050.
CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2035.
JOE HAS A PLAN.
THIS HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK FROM
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND