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So right now you are looking at live pictures on the left of your screen from the unite nations and a high profile opening day session set for today on the climate crisis. a whole bunch of world leaders will be there, but apparently not president trump. instead, in less than an hour, hes heading to the u.n. to host a session on religious persecution. the biggest headline is iran. theres no meeting planned with the iranian leader but there is one with the leader of ukraine. talk about timing. let...

Because his meetings with german chancellor angela merkel and the indian prime minister ran late. hmmm. odd, since both merkel and modi attended the climate session. interesting. when he was asked later about climate change, the president veered way off course. >> i feel that the united states has tremendous wealth. the wealth is under its feet. ive made that wealth come alive. and im not going to lose that wealth. im not going to lose it on dreams. on windmills. which photographfrankly, are no ...

For you? i guess we shouldnt be surprised. after all, sources tell cnn that the president tried to skip the g7 entirely. he dropped out of the paris climate accord. you probably remember he once described climate change as i hoax cooked up by the chinese. listen to what he said when he was asked if he attended the meeting today. listen. >> mr. president, were you able to attend the working session on climate and oceans earlier? >> were having it in a little while. >> he said that after the meeti...

Important climate session. and then the second thing is every president comes in -- most presidents come in novice and they might not understand things like the g-7 or the world organizations. but they get better by their third year. and they make some mistakes and gaffes the first year, this happened with obama and bush, but by a few years into it, when theyre representing the country, they kind of get it. and they become better diplomats. i dont think you could say the same yet about trump whe...

Narendo modi attended the climate session. the worlds largest tropical forest has been ravaged. brazils national institute warrants of the amazon of every minute it is burning. joining me jake le shrivinelevi. this is an administration that down plays the climate crisis. when you look at the presidents comment regarding of climate and how he did not attend the climate change meeting. what message did it send to the communit

Deal with negotiations and have a climate session next month. what do you make of this? >> i make of it its at least a massive distraction. it means that jared kushner just to be prudent, probably if he hasnt already needs to be very mindful of the rules of engagement for what he can say and not, now that this is under scrutiny. certainly, his attorney, jamie gorelick, is a seasoned washington hand, a democrat who is actually is a savvier and has more experience in this realm of investigations t...