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In the led segment of CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, host Bill Whitaker narrated a piece praising the work of California Governor Jerry Brown in standing up to President Trump on climate change. “Our country is divided between red states and blue states, a division that has intensified since the election of President Donald Trump,” he began, noting how the blue states were part of the resistance. “Most prominently, California, the country's bluest and most populous state, led by Governor Jerry Brown.”
Whitaker highlighted how Brown was taking the Trump administration to court “over health care, immigration, and air quality.” “But nothing raises more righteous passion in Jerry brown than the issue of climate change. He castigates the President for denying the science and aggravating a problem Governor Brown says is causing California to burn,” he pontificated.
The segment included clips of Brown fusing his climate change alarmism with religious undertones. “If he sounds like a Jesuit seminarian, it's because he was one, years ago,” Whitaker noted. “Now, he's a climate missionary, traveling the world, preaching the gospel of renewable energy. At the Vatican; in China, where President Xi Jinping discussed collaborating with California on cutting greenhouse gases.”
He also touted how Brown and Michael Bloomberg were undermining U.S. leadership by going to foreign climate summits claiming to represent the parts of the U.S. who say the Trump administration doesn’t speak for them. An act that would probably result in calls for hearings if it was done during a Democratic administration.
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