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Was speaking to some of the folks who worked on this accord during the obama administration and as they describe it, one point is interesting, the ability for the president to withdraw if he is to make that decision because this force as its described went into effect on november 4th of 2016, then by the articles of this agreement it takes three years from that point as the soonest point in which you can make the decision as a country youre going to withdraw and one year from that date leave tha...

Topics to the other major news of the day, which is whether or not donald trump and the president is going to stay in or get out of the paris climate accord. peter alexander, why would the white house want to get out of this agreement? >> well, i think four simple words, make america great again. may be the biggest clue we have about the presidents thinking. he has, obviously, tried to punctuate the point standing by the promises he made over the course of the campaign this is a promise he made ...

Thompson our chief environmental affairs correspondent, bill neeley chief global correspondent, eddie glaude an msnbc contributor and professor at princeton and david jolly a former congressman from florida. peter, start with you, the president has the right to try to invoke executive privilege. a lot of argument about whether or not this would apply in this situation, but are you hearing from the white house that they might try to do that? >> thats a good question. we havent heard that from thi...

An aerial tour of the massive oil slick. good weather today should allow crews to lay more of that protective boom to guard against the slick. weather permitting it will have a positive impact. correspondent mike taibbi live in biloxi, mississippi with the latest on this. these booms seem to be miles long. when the weather was bad they did almost nothing to stop the oil from moving past. >> reporter: thats absolutely right, peter. so far 40 miles laid out along the most vulnerable parts of the g...

>> david, you know, thats -- thats a point that a lot of democrats want to make, its a point thats frankly true right now, the story is staying front and center, but are you concerned about the legs that this story seems to have? are you concerned that the white house doesnt have enough control over the president in order to maintain a disciplined message on this story? >> of course. listen, if this ends up eventually getting to a point where the president or his associates are under oath that l...