Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin.

And Mike Prysner. So it's been a couple weeks since we gave you guys a podcast. It's because we've been traveling internationally. We were in Scotland for the Conference of Parties, COP, 26th year of several countries getting together to discuss climate treaties, non-binding, of course.

These are the climate negotiations that have been ongoing for a little less than 30 years now.

With no real tangible action on the ground.

Mike, you know, in light of doing Earth's greatest enemy, we felt like it was imperative

for us to go because this was the biggest negotiation since the Paris Accords in 2015.

And even though these happen every year, this was a really

significant one, especially because Trump had, you know, removed the U.S. from the Paris agreements.

And so this was kind of the first America's back. This is when America got back, baby. This is

back in full swing, back in full force, build back better.

So we felt like we needed to go and be a part of history and make waves. And holy shit, I would say

that we did a pretty good job, Mike, of doing just that. So why don't you talk a little bit more

about about what it was like when we got there

and I guess why you felt like it was important that we went as well. Definitely made some waves,

Abby. Definitely the only journalist there that was asking confrontational questions to people there.

People may have seen Abby's's great question to Nancy Pelosi,

to AOC, to Democratic Party governors who were supposed to be the top leaders in climate change

among the governors. And we're going to talk about all of those incidents as we get into this.

But we just wanted to say from the outset that those are things

that we released because they were just, first of all, cop already broadcast all of their press

conferences. And so other media had access to that video footage, except for the question to AOC that

we released also. But we released those before the film because we just thought they were so important to get out right away.

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