White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders mocked the recent statement by the Democratic Republic of New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that the world will end in 12 years of climate change in an exclusive and diverse interview Tuesday night with "Hannity" of Fox News
Sanders also criticized what she called the "shameful" media coverage of the previous week, which included a discredited report of BuzzFeed News about the investigation in Russia a harassing campaign on social networks directed against pro-Trump Catholic high school students – based largely on incomplete and selectively edited videos of their encounter with a Native American and others activists shouting homophobic insults.
"I do not think we will listen [Ocasio-Cortez] about a lot of things – especially not about issues that we will leave at the hands of a much higher authority – and certainly not listen to Sanders said to the first congressman that the world was going to finish, "said Sanders.
At an event commemorating the Martin Luther King Day on Monday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that climate change was "our second world war" and added, "Millennia and People, you know, the generation Z and all those people who will come after us look up and say, "The world will end in 12 years if we do not deal with climate change and your biggest problem is how are we going to pay for it?" [19659005] Protestant Conducts Native American Prayer with a Traditional Drum Outside the Covington Catholic Diocese Tuesday, January 22, 2019, in Covington, Kentucky, the Diocese of Kentucky apologizes for the broadcast of videos showing students from Covington Catholic High School mocking Native Americans in front of the Lincoln Memorial Friday after a rally in Washington. (AP Photo / John Minchillo) “/>
A protestor conducts a Native American prayer with a traditional drum outside the Catholic Diocese of Covington on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, in Covington, Kentucky. The diocese of Kentucky is excused after the broadcast of videos. Students from Covington Catholic High School mocking Native Americans in front of the Lincoln Memorial Friday after a rally in Washington. (AP Photo / John Minchillo)
A United Nations report on climate change warned late last year that the world would be facing many of the consequences of climate change – extreme drought, food shortages and deadly floods – unless there were more than 25 years to go. an "unprecedented" effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Then, in November, the Trump administration issued a federal report stating that the effects of climate change are felt throughout the country and that "extreme and climate-related weather events will worsen in the years to come – – with a significant impact on the economy by the end of the century
Some conservative commentators have argued that most of the proposed solutions would do more harm than good and have also accused climate activists of crying wolf. In 2006, a NASA scientist and a leading researcher on global warming said the world was only 10 years old to avoid a climate catastrophe. In the meantime, President Trump has repeatedly questioned the risks posed by global warming, despite his administration's report.
"Extensive areas of the country are suffering from huge amounts of snow and a record cold," Trump said on Twitter. Sunday. "Amazing the size of this system.It would not hurt to have some of that good old global warming right now!"
In 2012, Trump wrote famously: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese to manufacture the US market
Sanders added that attention should be focused on urgent issues such as the partial closure underway by the federal government Trump's proposed border wall funding.
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"We are focused on what is happening in the world right now," Sanders told host Sean Hannity. "We hope that Democrats like her engage in this conversation, help us to solve some of the current problems we know and work with us to get things done – especially at the border, by repairing the national crisis and humanitarian." 19659003] Sanders added, apparently making reference to God: "It's the kind of things we focus on, not things we're going to leave in the hands of something and somebody much more powerful that any of us. " [19659016] A man places a sign showing his support for the students at Covington Catholic Catholic High School in front of Covington Catholic Diocese in Covington, Kentucky on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. (AP Photo / Bryan Woolston) “/>
a sign showing his support for students at Covington Catholic Catholic High School in front of Covington Catholic Diocese in Covington, Kentucky on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. (AP Photo / Bryan Woolston)
The president himself seems to have little patience for Ocasio-Cortez. Asked last week in front of the White House for his response to Ocasio-Cortez's claim that there is no doubt that he is racist, Trump simply replied, "Who's who?" do you care? "
Separately, Sanders said it was "a sad day in America" when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Preemptively rejected Trump's compromise proposal to to end the partial closure of the federal government. The White House has offered the Democrats various concessions related to immigration in exchange for funding the border wall.
"Republicans have been on the same footing as the president, because we really believe in the need to do something," said Sanders. "[Democrats] is not trying to solve problems, but is simply trying to reverse the situation."
THE SUPERIOR KENTUCKY SCHOOL CLOSED AFTER DEATH, THREATS VIRUSED DIRECTIONS [19659003] Sanders added: "The president is a leader and Nancy Pelosi is none other than an obstructionist ".
The White House press secretary said Pelosi's security concerns over the upcoming State of the Union address were unfounded, and that the White House was "making progress" by anticipating his speech to the Congress.
"I do not know if there would be a place where all these members could attend, but the president's main purpose is to speak to the American
The leader of the parliamentary majority, Steny Hoyer, told Fox News Tuesday "Your world with Neil Cavuto" that he would not oppose Trump delivering a speech on the state of the Union in the House of Commons. representatives, despite repeated threats from Pelosi the traditional spe ech be delay.
"Of course," replied Hoyer, D-Md., when asked if he would be open to what Trump s "In person expresses in the House of Representatives of the State of the Union." When asked if Pelosi would agree, he added, "I do not know what discussions were conducted."
"What happened to BuzzFeed is a great lesson for the media. Stop being the first, and start trying to be "
Sanders concluded by criticizing BuzzFeed News, author of a bomb report alleging that Trump would have ordered his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie in Congress – report that the team's special advocate Robert Mueller dismissed as inaccurate.As Donald Trump Jr. Monday, Sanders said the episode resembled the media coverage of A pro-life trip for Catholic high school student in Washington this weekend
A police car is sitting at the entrance to the high school Covington Catholic in Park Hills, Kentucky on Saturday, January 19, 2019. A diocese of Kentucky apologized Saturday after videos showing students from the Catholic school appeared. Boys' High School mocking Native Americans in front of the Lincoln Memorial Friday after a rally in Washington. (AP Photo / Bryan Woolston)
Covington High School students stood near the Lincoln Memorial as activists identified as Black-Hebrew Israelites shouted homophobic slurs, and a Native American approached them to tap drum. The first videos of the episode suggested that students were harassing the man.
Many liberal and conservative commentators have criticized the students – and in some cases have called for their personal harassment and closure of their school – on the basis of Incomplete Videos, to return only in their comments, after a Fuller video, showed that the students themselves had been harassed and that they did not seem to have ever approached the Native American man or the activists.
"I've never been" We've seen so many people so happy to destroy a child's life, "said Sanders, referring to the social media response to this episode, which involved multiple Death threats and verbal intimidation directed against students.
Covington High School Principal's announcement, Robert Rowe Tuesday, the school was closed for the day for security reasons. [19659003] Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News contributed to this report.
