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Princeton fry, hes well positioned as an outsider. but his rise in the polls will put him in the spotlight. iowa voters will have all of january to wonder why cruz is to in response to his cligz. will they still feel the same way about him when they find out? thats a subject for another day. bret? cruz came out and talked about the big climate change deal in paris. your thoughts on all that? >> i saw that, and ive been reading about all this, and i thought, did i miss something? i read through...

America on our own climate action plan that gave us credibility here and the president has been able to do that without some of that enforcement mechanism but by setting policy. here we set policy. 186 countries came together. each submitted their own plan for reductions according to their capacities. we have a mandatory legally binding reporting mechanism, chuck, and that reporting mechanism requires people to retool their plans every five years in order to do more than they might be doing and ...

Also an objective of 1.5 degrees celsius. thats something the island natures are very much in favor of because they stan to dispoor when he talked it being legally binding because we would assume that con would have to have a say in this? >> well, yes. and also that there could be a change in the presidency coming up. there is going to be an election. so prom but wally was here. he said it was going to be legally binding. this was kountd of a tran interest well see what happens as far as the u.s...

Going to be within two or three hours of the release of the document right now being translate into six languages and distributed to the various delegations. well see how it unfolds. there arent -- at this point along the line, theres no possibility for any hiccups. as you said, the fact is its either you like there thing or you dont. >> like you said, we dont have the details of the agreement as of yet. of course, the devil will be in the detail once we get in 25 minutes or so. is there a sense...

All and end all agreement. this is a first step. theyve said from the beginning that theres going to be a review process. one of the last points and argument we understand from the questions that were raised overnight here is exactly when there would be a review of the countrys various target and whether they made the targets. would it come in one year or five years and how frequently the document would be reviewed. hopefully the target will be raised each time. you did this in 2015, what are yo...

Emissions across the board. world leaders say the deal may help and should help keep our planet safe for our children, our grandchildren. critics say, not so fast. they argue the deal doesnt really have teeth. the main goal, the big headline here, is it would limit warning to 2 degrees celcius, 3.6 degrees farenheit, over pre-industrial averages. that is the goal. they are also aiming to limit it to 1.5 degrees celcius, so to do better. how, nearly 200 countries must cut carbon emissions. part o...

Theyre supposed to come back here in about two and a half hours and then begin the voting process. well see how that goes. but in any case, there are some details outlined by laurent fabius. he made a speech about it a little earlier. he said this is a just agreement, it has differentiation. its going to be legally binding, that but that could be to make sure theyre living up to their emission-cold targets and the most applause came when he said that the target would be 2 degrees of global warmi...

Lot of different complicated meanings in the context of international agreements. but theres concern that anything truly binding would have to be ratified by a united states senate that clearly will never in at least the near future provide the two-thirds margin necessary to ratify it. >> even when you sign a treaty like i think nixon did, the antiballistic missile treaty, george w. bush reneged on it. he got out of it. so any treaty can be withdrawn from. and so what we need is durable commitme...

Before the tragedy in san bernardino, governor brown told me what he expects from the international community at the climate talks. >> if you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel. that is individualism and oil. now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. thats going to take dec...

There is no binding agreement as of yet and that word can have a lot of different complicated meanings in the context of international agreements. but theres concern that anything truly binding would have to be ratified by a united states senate that clearly will never in at least the near future provide the two-thirds margin necessary to ratify it. >> even when you sign a treaty like i think nixon did, the antiballistic missile treaty, george w. bush reneged on it. he got out of it. so any trea...