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>> kimberly: he saying he doesnt own his own private jet. >> dana: but he borrows them to fly them. >> kimberly: he flies private. has he been on commercial? hes not hurting, okay? to the extent possible, he lives a carbon free life, whatever. im sorry, your predictions were way off. >> greg: and hes telling you how to live. >> kimberly: im still wondering if he did really create the internet. >> dana: does al gore bear any responsibility -- for questioning the science or the outcome? >> juan: n...

Hyperbole, excessive, offensive at times. i will say this -- >> jesse: people are dying from terrorism. nobody is dying from climate change. >> juan: we see the pentagon saying that maybe this causes war and instability in our nations. >> greg: why isnt there more in california with the drought? there has been a drought in california forever. where are the ices cults in california? >> juan: the fact that we are having droughts and have had five or six years in the highest temperatures -- >> greg...

Now put america last. he has made us an environmental paragra pariah in the world and one of the most self destructive moves ive ever seen by any president in my lifetime. >> i want to underline, andrea, what i said at the top of the show. there was hyperbole on both sides. people were saying that the polarized caps were going to melt in the next 15 minutes because of what happened yesterday, that the world was coming to an end, that florida was going to be under water in three weeks. it was ins...

Emissions. thats the first thing. the second thing is, the suggestion that this was going to hurt the united states economy is just another lie. its just -- its voluntary. theres a reason why gary cohn on the inside, the guy that ran goldman sachs said lets stay in, theres a reason ge said lets stay in, a reason why ceos from exxon said lets stay in, a reason why most of the leaders of silicon valley said lets stay in. its not bad in the long run for the economy, its good in the long run. >> llo...

Were all shaking their heads. they had a look of a mixture of horror and disgust on their face, as pertains to trump and everything. >> lets put it in perspective. a lot of people may disagree with me. there was so much hyperbole flying around yesterday on the right, on the far right, on donald trump in trump land, the hyperbole that it was taking away our sovereignty. its voluntary. we set the goals for ourself. it was a device to try to get countries like china and india who are now developing...

No. this is hyperbole. if you want to understand what hyperbole that is, you see what some of the most progressive thought leaders were saying about the paris accords when they were first passed, that theyre toothless, that theyre not going to make a difference, its symbolism more than anything else. the person -- willie geist talks about this all the time, a friend of his one of the foremost climate scientists who came up with the theory of greenhouse gases. i remember him showing me the e-mail...

It took out all the irony. it took out any context. in satire, you use things like hyperbole, and it was pretty ugly. so that was an ugly campaign. i won by 312 votes, and i got to the senate. i wanted to prove to the people of minnesota that i was going to do their work and i was serious about it. i think i managed to do that, and i got reelected by a very comfortable margin. so ive loosened up a little bit, and part of that is this book. >> this book, by the way, i thought that scary part abou...

Is that -- do you see the choices that stark? >> no, i dont. actually i agree with all the commentary that this is nonbinding. so i kind of wonder why theres all this hyperbole over this agreement. i think it is more symbolic, where people felt like all -- >> matt, thats the point. if it was symbolic, why pull out? if its symbolic -- >> because its so -- >> all this guy did was stick his name on buildings. why not just leave our name on an accord that makes us look good? thats my point. >> why? ...

Out and being very trumpian in the way they talk about their boss. >> it does seem to me the way to his heart is to talk -- the thing they think he will like the most is speak like him. he has a particular cadence, like lots of hyperbole particularly. >> the word "historic" was used six times in the nine minute monologue sean spir gave t other day about the presidents trip overseas. there are successes in that trip the white house could be rallying around and promoting and talking about. instead...

Ive been flipping around where a lot of people are saying, this is regrettable, this is bad, donald trump is missing the bigger picture here. its a big world. hes retreating on that its one thing to recent being a globalist but youre recenting the globe. what do you think? >> theres a basic narrative here. that is that trump inherited a deal he didnt like and now he wants to renegotiate it. its that simple. instead, im seeing headlines like from cnn, u.s. is retiring from world leadership. mad l...