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President Joe Biden on Thursday offered a meeting as he responded to an interruption from a climate activist while giving a speech focused on defending democracy and honoring the late Sen. John McCain.
“I tell you what, if you shush up, I’ll meet with you immediately after this, OK?” the president said.
That came after Biden was interrupted by shouts such as, “Why have you yet to declare a climate emergency?”
Other climate activists have previously called for Biden to declare a climate emergency, citing “a ferocious new phase of global heating with much worse to come.”
“Democracy never is easy, as we just demonstrated,” Biden also said Thursday, after the protestor’s interruption.
