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Change, or are they making a case for it not being as bad as it seems? >> reporter: theyre making a case. and i have to say that some of the environmental leaders and groups i talked to out and out called him a hypocrite for deciding to go ahead with the shell lease which started in the bush administration, to be fair. then to come here and say that this is the defining issue of our time, that climate change and what we do about it is going to determine the future of this century, a defining mom...

Find a major environmentalist or major environmental group who doesnt look at the presidents statement and he felt so strongly about it. he knew the push back was so great. he made a video that he put online before he came here that those groups arent terribly disappointed and are watching closely to what happens next. >> because youre traveling with the president, i do have to ask you about another topic thats not directly about his alaska trip but a big ripple of news today when the president ...

Climate change affecting the state, but what can we do to try to address this issue? >> go ahead, im sorry. >> what youre going to hear from the president today is that to take on climate change in a fulsome way, we need a global response. the united states is doing to lead. the global community needs to come in line. the good news is there are extraordinary opportunities to address climate change and move toward clean energy in ways that are good for our economy and for local economies in alask...

Who stood up for 40 years as the population of california doubled saying, you cannot build a new reservoir and you cannot build a water conveyance system. so 70% of the rainfall has washed out to sea. thats pretty dumb if you know you have droughts every three years. >> the other day i asked jerry brown to responsibility to that exact criticism you made. i said, do you blame liberal environmentalist on dams and reser voirs. >> ive never heard of such utter ignorance. building i dam wont do a dam...

Politicians, liberal politicians who stood up for 40 years as the population of california doubled saying, you cannot build a new reservoir and you cannot build a water conveyance system. so 70% of the rainfall has washed out to sea. thats pretty dumb if you know you have droughts every three years. >> the other day i asked jerry brown to responsibility to that exact criticism you made. i said, do you blame liberal environmentalist on dams and reser voirs. >> ive never heard of such utter ignora...

>> the other day i asked jerry brown to respond to that exact criticism you made. i said, do you blame liberal environmentalist on dams and reservoirs. this is how he responded. >> ive never heard of such utter ignorance. building a dam wont do a damn thing about fires or climate change or the absence of moisture in the ground and vegetation in california. i think these people if they want to run for president, better do kind of eighth grade science before they make any more utterances. >> thats...

People wont want to be around you. >> i do shower, but like i said you have to do it quick. thats my problem. you gals taking 40 minutes. you are done five minutes and you are done. >> and i agree with that. i like to consider myself alt bit of an -- a little bit of an environmentalist. i like to take it down a notch. it is not just working in an office. i used to work if an investment bank, on the floor of the investment bank. some of those guys smelled like animals. they werent doing anything,...

They think because there is not a woman on our currency somehow we dont have equal "opportunity in america" and that is a sad state of affairs they have it all opportunity to learn to these people are. john: our producer brought pitchers of the women on your web site that got more than 1,000 votes. >> rachel carson what about that? >> i dont know spanish u.s. and environmentalist. >> i dont know her. >> wilma mankiller. john: she was fourth and most people dont know who she is. >> chief of the c...

Last five years before this action, right? >> yes, yes, even before the black lives matter thing became kind of moved to the national forefront, i was also organizing around the issue of voting rights because we had a series of very retro grade policies going on and feels like were going backwards one thing after the other and then the attack on the black church was one more thing that feels like we are 50 years, 100 years back from where we were. >> you plan this action and decide screw it, wel...

>> no. >> i volunteered to do it. i knew that would require two days of training, so there was a lot of environmentalist activist that had done that before, really awesome people and so they taught me how to climb a pole. >> a cross issue training session. >> it was. >> environmental activist who had done climbing, this is how you throw a rig. >> a coalition. >> thats fascinating. >> a group of activists from random places coming together. >> the morning it happens, get there at 5:30 in the morn...