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Prestigious firms, top-notch lawyers. they were all approached by the white house about representing the president on this. and all of them turned the white house down, which is pretty extraordinary. now, there were a number of factors cited. in some cases, they had existing commitments, upcoming trials. they had clients who had gotten subpoenas already as part of this investigation. so they were conflicted out. but the continuing theme was would the president listen to their advice? would he do...

>> thats a much smaller thing to win, but i appreciate it. let me ask you first of all about -- i think the kind of scope of the impact of what youre reporting, when you look at this historically, lots of presidents have had a need for outside counsel for scandals large and small. presidents have engaged outside lawyers. it seems to me looking at this historically of whether the scandals are a big deal from administration to administration, law firms and big-name lawyers usually see it as quite ...

That has very good reason to be playing different sides of the field, as well. they share a large natural gas field with iran, that does make it a little more delicate. as president trump has wisely decided to move away from president obamas policy favoring iran to the sunni regions, that its going to naturally cause a conflict with those countries that do have good relations with iran. it is really in americas interest that is all be worked out peacefully. i think you heard that with what rex t...

Some of these countries. qatar is one of the countries that has very good reason to be playing different sides of the field, as well. they share a large natural gas field with iran, that does make it a little more delicate. as president trump has wisely decided to move away from president obamas policy favoring iran to the sunni regions, that its going to naturally cause a conflict with those countries that do have good relations with iran. it is really in americas interest that is all be worked...

Decision, were seeing governors like jerry brown and andrew cuomo, lots of others, mayors, michael bloomberg is doing a terrific job organizing mayors in this country and around the world. were seeing businesses like apple and google and facebook and general electric trick, you can go right down the list. there is now a determination on the part of the american people to meet or commitments under the paris agreement no matter what the white house says. we have seen our missions go down because t...

There are a lot of demands on his schedule particularly given the fact there is not a communications director. this is part of my job as well and when needed i will step in. >> one of the major things from washington suggest that, in fact, in brussels the president was given a draft of his speech to the nato partners suggesting that eldhe would invoke or at lt respect the article 5 commitments. the senior official told us flatly that the president himself did not take the article of that referen...

At the time at the invitation of ivanka trump. last month at cannes film festival you said -- >> well i kept the details of my conversations with him confidential. it seems like the right thing to do. none of it would surprise you. i did think there was a chance he would come to his senses and not make the decision that he announced this past week. >> why did you think that? >> well, it made sense for the country. all he had to do under the terms of the paris agreement was change the commitments...

Commitments, the paris agreement has all the flexibility to, for example, reduce the targets. i wouldnt advocate that, of course, but thats a much more practical approach, certainly, than arguing that the whole deal could be redone. i might add its particularly sad, in my view, in the sense that the agreement accomplished exactly what was called for over many years, getting the emerging economies to have commitments, to have flexibility, so obviously this action by the president is a major step ...

Gear america for the 21st century. president trumps decision was unfortunate. it undermined our countrys stat chur. here is the good news, with the leadership governs like jerry browne and andrew cuomo and others and mayor mike bloomberg is doing a great job. were seeing civic leadership, apple, google, general electric. you can go down the list. were going to see continued reductions in emissions in the u.s. were going to meet the commitments under the climate pac in paris, regardless of what p...

Were seeing a sustainability revolution that is a start. it has the magnitude of the industrial revolution, but the speed of the digital revolution. and rather than trying to recreate the 19th century and paint a picture of a past that is gone, we need leadership to gear america for the 21st century. president trumps decision was unfortunate. it undermined our countrys stature. here is the good news, with the leadership governors like jerry browne and andrew cuomo, and others and mayors like mik...