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To us all. >> scott pruitt said theres nothing to be apologetic about, the u.s. is still a leader when it comes to reducing carbon emissions and investing in clean energy investment. what say you? >> some of this has to do with the clean power plants, obamas policies. coal is going out. were not going to go back to whale oil either. this is a natural evolution that is occurring. frac and natural gas is cheaper. it has less carbon. renewables are taking hold. market forces are in place here and t...

Capitals of europe laugh at us. they mock us because we make bad deals. its a much more cynical world view that we have been taken advantage of by these people and we have gone up above and over our commitment. this is to steves point. weve gone above our commitments. they have not. were being rooked in a fundamental way and i will not have it anymore. i wouldnt say you have to agree or disagree. you should read it because its really important to sort of understand how he views the world and how...

Climate change for those countries that remain. 194 countries that remain in the original paris agreement. why is that? china is the biggest green house gas emitting country in the world and china is the largest country, the largest economy that remains in the agreement and because of that china has the biggest ability to effect the most amount of change. in other countries, smaller countries will be watching what china does here. if china sticks to its commitments and if they are the biggest gr...

Constant drip, drip, drip, of conversation about russia and potential collusion does have a softening impact among the soft group of trump supporters. >> >> j.d., the president promised coal miners, youre going to go back to work. you were born in kentucky, grew up in ohio. you know these towns, you know these people. weve seen it on the ground. are these people en masse going to go back to work because the president pulled out of the paris climate agreement? >> well, no, because the paris clima...

It reinforced, i think, the lack of confidence in our allies and friends of our reliability. and when you combine his statement yesterday with his budget proposal, it undercuts the innovation agenda that is actually the real issue in terms of jobs in the united states. so, i think, and ive said, i think history will look very, very poorly on this decision. i will add, however, a silver lining here is that we do see already, not only other countries stepping forward with leadership, but most impo...

Countries to help them achieve their targets. that was simply not an option and that money would have to be found. theres a sense of wanting to fight back and move ahead faster prehap with the rest of the world in light of what the united states has announced this morning. paris mayor held a press conference very much in that vain saying that the paris deal will live. >> all right. thank you for that. >> china is vowing to stick to its commitments to fight climate change promising to be a respon...

I wanted to address something david said. yes, of course we produce one-third of the carbon. thats because were the richest country in the world. you get rich by using energy. the idea that all of these countries in the world should use less energy, you talk about poor countries, my goodness what poor countries need, they need to use energy. its not just wind and solar power, they nude need to use coal and solar and gas. to say they shouldnt have access to cheap and abundant energy, i think is i...

Back your obligations, your commitments? is it, frankly, solely political for him, period? >> i actually may be alone on this panel with this opinion. i thought yesterday was the best day hes had as president. he was an american president. he stood up for american jobs, the american economy. katy, this is why he ran. >> what jobs is he saving on this? >> potentially avoiding the loss of millions of jobs and trillions of dollars to the economy. >> is he looking at new technology jobs, allowing ch...

Country. >> what do you make of the claim? >> it is kind of disjointing, hallie. you end up having a talk about a non-binding agreement that has these type of draconian impositions. the truth of the matter is that the paris climate deal is non-binding. it allowed countries to set their own targets, as well as abilities to meet their own goals. critics say the president administration could have stayed in the paris accord and made its own kind of commitments, as well as how to achieve them on its...

About the withdraw of the paris climate agreement. just to read this to you, it says, the paris accord, and this is according to the white house, is a bad deal for the americans and the presidents action today is keeping his campaign promise to put american workers first. the accord was negotiated poorly. this is the words of the white house. by the obama administration and signed out of desperation. it front-load costs on the american people to the detriment of our economy and job growth while ...