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Global Commission on the Economy and Climate
Senior Advisor to the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and key author of the Commission's "New Climate Economy" Report
PROFILE
Michael Jacobs
Guest
FROM Michael Jacobs
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Combating Climate Change: Activism and the Call for Actual Action Hundreds of thousands of protestors flooded the streets of Manhattan yesterday to demand action from heads of state at tomorrow’s Climate Summit at the United Nations. Today on Wall Street, protesters focused on the role of financial institutions.
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Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
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White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
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The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.