00:00I hope if there's nothing else I can communicate today, Donald Trump is temporary.
00:06He'll be gone in three years.
00:09California is a stable and reliable partner in this space, and it's important for folks
00:15to understand the temporary nature of this current administration in relationship to
00:21the issue of climate change and climate policy.
00:24So am I.
00:26There's probably not a politician in the United States, you know, man, I'm under assault
00:29attack by this guy every single day.
00:31Here's the president of the United States.
00:32He's 80 years old, and he's calling me a nickname that an eight-year-old called me, new scum.
00:37The president of the United States.
00:39You saw the racist tropes he put out.
00:42The president, this is the president of the United States of America, call this guy out.
00:49Stop this timidity.
00:51Made some pretty aggressive comments in Davos.
00:55I think I handed out knee pads on stage for, you know, corporate leaders sold out, universities,
01:05you know, law firms in my country that are selling out.
01:08You just got to call this stuff out.
01:10Look, the polluted heart of the climate crisis is big oil, period, full stop.
01:13That's what this is all about.
01:15I mean, that's where the politics, that's where the timidity comes from.
01:17You talk about the tech stack.
01:19You can't get in one of these modern new vehicles and ever want to go back to the old gas
01:23guzzler.
01:24I mean, the technology, and we can talk in terms of just energy efficiency and how we bring down costs,
01:30and we've got to address those cost issues.
01:32But the biggest problem is the deceit and the denial that's happening because of these special interests.
01:38And so you just have to have the courage to call it out.
01:41And I agree with you.
01:43It's infuriating what I hear privately, but it's not expressed publicly.
01:46And so we have to call people out.
01:49They'll be held to account.
01:50They will be judged and ultimately judge themselves.
01:55And I think this is a moral moment across the board.
01:58Simultaneous crisis, not just climate, but democracy, all this stacking of stress.
02:04And we all have a relationship to it.
02:06Society becomes how we behave.
02:09We are our behaviors.
02:12And so all of us have a role to play.
02:15All of us have agency.
02:17We can shape this conversation.
02:19But we have, we have to stand up with more clarity, conviction, and we have to be more consistent.
02:27People don't speak up because they're afraid of retaliation.
02:34Well, you know, buck up.
02:37So am I.
02:39There's probably not a politician in the United States.
02:41You know, man, I'm under assault attack by this guy every single day.
02:43Here's the President of the United States.
02:44He's 80 years old, and he's calling me a nickname that an eight-year-old called me.
02:48New scum.
02:49The President of the United States.
02:52You saw the racist tropes he put out.
02:55This is the President of the United States of America.
02:58Call this guy out.
03:01Stop this timidity.
03:03When I was in Belém, we signed 22 MOUs with 22 states in Brazil.
03:09And the MOUs are not pieces of paper.
03:12They're commitments from the state of California to provide technical assistance and to provide
03:17resources and a resourceful mindset, meaning an openness, to engage in problem solving.
03:22Let me give you a specific example.
03:24The modern environmental movement in the United States, again, started in California under Ronald Reagan.
03:28Not because Ronald Reagan was a fierce champion of clean air and clean water, until he had to be.
03:34Los Angeles was so smoggy that businesses were complaining to the governor saying,
03:40we can't do business here.
03:42So he decided to do something about it with tailpipe.
03:44That's exactly why Donald Trump just said, pollute the hell out of the United States.
03:50That's called deficit spending.
03:52Pollution is an act of theft in the health of a nation and the cleanup costs.
04:00You saw this just in the United States of America alone.
04:04Twenty-three weather-related events last year that cost the taxpayers over a billion dollars.
04:11We are, again, as dumb as we want to be.
04:13Don't tell me this is about saving money.
04:15Quite the contrary.
04:16But it was interesting, and this is the point, the folks in China paid some attention.
04:22We established relationships with China.
04:24They sent technical teams, and literally some of their low-carbon green growth specific to their cap and trade programs
04:31came from the example of California and the work we did.
04:35And Beijing is proof positive of a lot of that technical assistance and support.
04:39So that's, at scale, the kind of work we do in terms of this relationship nationally, subnationally,
04:46people to people, to actually solve problems despite, again, who's in office in a particular jurisdiction.
04:54Governor, Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers are actually producing high-quality vehicles at lower price than U.S. competitors, right?
05:02Given California's 2035 zero-emission vehicle mandate, do you believe the state can realistically meet those targets without access to
05:11Chinese EVs?
05:13Well, if there's any state that can, it's California.
05:15But, look, my state of mind, let's clarify, 70% of global EVs are coming from China, and it's statecraft
05:23for them.
05:24It's about supply chains.
05:25It's about influence.
05:26It's about dominance.
05:27These guys aren't screwing around.
05:28I say this with admiration.
05:30They're flooding the zone in Europe.
05:32They're flooding the zone in South America.
05:34I mean, what Donald Trump just did yesterday with the endangerment finding,
05:38by basically eliminating any federal regulations, not just on power plants, methane, but also tailpipe emission,
05:45I think, was writing a death sentence to legacy American automobile manufacturers.
05:54You talk about innovation.
05:55It's been California's regulation in this space that's driven manufacturing innovation that allows American automobile manufacturers to be competitive globally.
06:05It's no longer just cheap.
06:07I mean, sure, the BYD Lamborghini Mini, it's $9,700.
06:11They're no longer just doing five-minute chargers.
06:14Fill up your SUV.
06:15It's about five minutes.
06:18It's the tech stack that comes on top of it.
06:21And it's a whole generation of young folks.
06:23Don't bet against young folks.
06:24They bat last.
06:25They bat 1,000.
06:27We know where the market's going.
06:29China gets it.
06:30Look at their GDP growth last year.
06:32Where was their GDP growth disproportionately?
06:35It was in the clean energy space.
06:37This is about economic prosperity and competitiveness.
06:41And that's why I'm so infuriated with what Donald Trump has done.
06:46It's our fiercest competitor moving forward, China, in this space.
06:49So California's it.
06:52It's the only game left in the EV space.
06:55Again, because of the intense investment in R&D.
07:00Remember, Tesla exists for one reason.
07:02California's regulatory market, which created the incentives and the structure and the certainty
07:10that allowed Elon Musk and others to invest and build that capacity.
07:15We are not walking away from that.
07:17In fact, again, we have doubled down and extended our nation-leading efforts through 2045.
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