Instead of rallying the whole world, rallying a coalition, maybe getting us back in the Transpacific Partnership where we could have a coalition of countries that could deal with china he has done it all by himself and america has paid a big big price for that, youve got to bring the world together to fight china. You sign tpp, what do you do . Absolutely would rejoin tpp in a heartbeat. During the Campaign Candidate trump said we cant join the Transpacific Partnership because it would be dominated by china. He is so incurious and so ignorant about Foreign Affairs that he didnt know china is not a member of tpp. The whole idea was that we would have a consortium of 12 pacific nations, some in asia and some in the americas without china at the table. It would be our beachhead in asia. All the treaties he has ripped up, even a treaty with iran he is scrounging around trying to get back to where he was at square one before he ripped up the 2015 deal with iran. I think the relationship with china has to be a complex one, we had two biggest players out there. 11 jinping i had hopes for, but he has the state owned enterprises we are getting our brains beating around the world on intellectual property, they are complete we will return to this. We are going to take a question for our online audience about automation. According to a recent brookings report accorded us jobs could be disrupted by automation, nearly every occupation could be affected. I will go to you first. What would you do proactively to deal with automation and the jobs that will be lost due to it . No one in washington least of all donald trump is doing the slightest thing about this and i agree we are going to lose 15 25 of our jobs in the next 10 years owing to artificial intelligence, drones, robotics and driverless vehicles which is going to take care of longhaul truckers but there is good news also, there will be replacement jobs with Technical Skills which will be higher wage jobs than those that are lost. We have to plan how to get the Technical Skills necessary into the hands of those workers. Iran the numbers here. It would be childs play, one third of 1 of the states budget to make those workers get Free Community college or Postsecondary Education to acquire those skills. To govern is to choose and i chose as a governor, even without federal help the states could take care of that like a mini g. I. Bill. It wouldnt be free for everybody like Bernie Sanders is, just for the displaced workers and you would get them having higher wages and a happy ending in a more affluent society. Artificial intelligence is going to create enormous wealth in the United States, making everything more efficient but federal government should take charge of harnessing that wealth for the benefit of the citizens. I tried to be a member of congress. It didnt work. I would love to be a governor. Governor wells is right, the governor has to play a role. On so many issues i believe in American Ingenuity and american innovation. You are not stopping automation. Its not stopping and as the governor said, its a good thing. It is making the American Economy more efficient and more productive. Our Manufacturing Sector is a hell of a lot more productive and efficient now with fewer workers. What does government need to do . Help retrain those workers. You cant stop the market, you have to keep the market going, you have to keep the market changing. It will lead to good things the government has to play a role as the American Economy goes through the seminal moment where we move from one industry to another. Did you buy with governor saying, that it wont cost that much, we will take care of it . States can take care of it but the government has to play a role. This is a major transformation in our economy, this automation thing, artificial intelligence, the federal government along with state governments have got to devote resources to train all of these thank you, congressman. Half of republicans believe human activity is affecting the worlds climate. Younger republicans are increasingly concerned about the environment. You just called yourself an environmentalist, what is your plan to win over the republicans who deny established climate science. To state what needs to be done which is to meet the outcome necessary to avoid catastrophic Climate Change and that is to prevent Global Temperatures from rising more than 1. 5c between now and 2050. That the injunction from the un framework in the paris accorded it is very simple. We have to put a price on carbon upstream as the wellhead for oil companies, at the loading dock, even agriculture has to pay a bit. You put a price on, written carbonate has to be either a congressional statute or it is such a National Emergency this might be the rare proper exercise of emergency powers. Will that win over Republican Voters . It is so clearly the right thing. The other thing i say is the democrats are offbase because like with the budget they are doing input. My plan will cost 16 trillion with sanders, 1. 6 trillion with biden and they talked how much they were going to spend, they dont talk about putting a price on carbon which will allow the market to lower the carbon in the atmosphere. Is climate a concern of yours . The Republican Party had better get on board or they are done. This is the issue that concerns most young americans. I dont want to sound way too basic here but the party has got to acknowledge the fact that it exists and too often republicans, this is an issue where i have moved on acknowledge that it is real, acknowledge on this for a halfbillionyearold planet, the Climate Changes and we have been on this planet how long and clearly we are impacting this environment. Just to get the Republican Party, seems that the baby step but just to get the Republican Party to acknowledge the obvious is a big step and if we dont, if we dont do this, this train is going we wont even be at the table and i dont want i have all the respect in the world for congresswoman aoc but i dont want to Green New Deal. I dont want the democrats coming in and revolutionizing the American Economy to heavy hand of government but if republicans dont sit at the table and acknowledge it is a problem thats going to happen. I would like you to answer a simple yes or no question. Would you rejoin the Paris Climate Accord . Know. Immediately. You want to explain . Protecting call industry jobs was a major part of Donald Trumps 2016 campaign. Lets take a listen. We have entered the war on clean beautiful call and we are putting and you see it better than almost anybody our call minors are all back to work and they are going back to work. Clean coal. Cold does produce a third of American Energy but is a major contributor of Greenhouse Gases and according to the bureau of labor statistics or and wind are americas Fastest Growing occupations. Under your administration with the future of energy be call, or Something Else . It wouldnt be much. That is donald trump saying im going to build a wall and mexico is going to pay for it would when donald trump says stuff like that he knew and he knows the coal industry is dying in this country and it should be dying in this country because it is being replaced by cleaner forms of energy, natural gas and nuclear. We lost 15 of our call output two years ago under donald trump. We are on track to lose 20 of our call output this year. It is a good thing. It should be replaced. It is dirty but it is at all of the above thing. We talk about a balance with every issue. Balance our use of fossil fuels knowing that the future is renewable. Governor, what is your there is no room for a or oil i with a light heart, it will be exhilarating not to be dependent on foreign oil. No room for coal or oil in our energy next. Where i get off the Green New Deal buses a couple things. One, although aoc had nuclear in her first draft, they made her take it out because it has waste. Therefore, it is dirty, therefore we are not going to embrace it. You have to embrace nuclear power, so does the union of concerned science, so do most responsible environmentalists, it should be 25 of our base. Ive been to around a lot of unpopulated counties that would love to have nukes already, another nuclear plant. A big employer, a great neighbor and im not talking about building a enormous plant on a barrier reef which is what they did at fukushima. Im talking about best pocket Nuclear Plants and they are the wave of the future. It has been done in europe with great impacts. That is point number one on the Green New Deal. The other one out of time, we are back, apologize for the technical difficulties particularly to congressman walsh. Lets get back into it. A drone attack regionally crippled saudi arabias Oil Production facilities, donald trump responded by deploying us troops to the kingdom and there are concerns of a hot war between iran and saudi arabia. How would you deal with the increasingly complicated us Saudi Arabian relationship. I would be honest with the saudis. Because republican democrat after democrat republican president after democrat president through the years have not been. Iran is the biggest threat in the least, saudi arabia is not a great guy either so i worry about with these troops us getting further involved in a region we shouldnt get involved in. Our men and women not to be home from afghanistan by now. We support israel and we have got to do what we can to encourage that part of the world to move toward a democracy but i dont like us placing resources in there, especially placing american troops. One final point, the trump administration, we are in this weird place where we dont believe what our own president says. Think about that. We dont believe what iran tells us, we dont believe what saudi arabia tells us that the rest of the world doesnt believe what a United States president says. That is troubling. How would you handle u. S. Army relationship . One thing that concerns me as he claims to be a noninterventionist but he is awful quick on sending those troops was a couple months ago he said after discussion with his National Security adviser im sending 5000 more troops to the middle east immediately. They never got there, mustve had a Second Thought or a third thought but never said what it was for. Im not clear why we are sending troops to saudi arabia to defend their oil supplies. Dont they have any troops to do i know they have a lot of weapons because we sold them all to saudi arabia. Maybe we should make sure they know how to fly those planes and fire those missiles. I dont get it. Boots on the ground to another country for regime change or to correct something we see in the other country that we dont like is the height of the Lesson Learned from the iraq war, we shouldnt do that. I agree with the congressman, our troops should have been home from afghanistan a long time ago. We been there 18 years, people say we cant bring them home now. It begs the question when . Does never work for you because that is what they mean. I would like to take a question from our online audience. The Supreme Court made samesex marriage legal in all 50 states but according to the Public Religion Research institute almost half of republicans oppose samesex marriage. You signed one of the earliest laws legalizing samesex partnerships at the state level. What do you say to members of your own party who are still hostile to it . You got to get with it. You just have to wrap your mind around that and i am so sorry, i cannot for lgbt q rights before anyone else did. I was by myself or 20 years on that. I appointed the woman who wrote the Opinion Holding samesex marriage is constitutionally required under the equal protection clause and the due process clause. It became part of the foundation for the us Supreme Court decision. I appointed a slew of lesbian judges, gays and lesbians to my cabinet, preside over the marriage of two gay members of my cabinet. Im all in on this issue. One of the first things i did was appoint a commission on gay and lesbian youth, had a rash of suicides in Central Massachusetts as a result of bullying in our high schools. A record is clear but how will you reach Republican Voters . I will tell them the story about the gay suicides and relate stories of people including mayor pete who i have gotten to know and like on the campaign trail. Is quick to say does the most important thing in his life, decided by a 54 vote in the Supreme Court. Last month the Advocacy Group glad sit you use the power of your public profile to attack the Lgbt Community. How the response . On your first question samesex marriages the law of the land and how are we going to get Republican Voters to eventually embrace it . This is one of those issues where it is going to take time and we have to let time play itself out and the answer for most Republican Voters eventually is the family. Over the next number of years seeing samesex parents parent their kids. Republican voters, conservatives i have spoken to for years on the radio value the family, the nuclear family, a together family more than anything. I think as the months and the years go by and they see that loving children can be raised by samesex parents this is one of those issues that will eventually move republican opinion. Respond briefly to the question of you used the power of your public profile to attack lgbt q community. I disagree with that. I use the power of my public profile to go after the issue and talk about the issue and try to find Common Ground on the issue. Im a big supporter of anybody, gay, lesbian, straight or transgender serving in the military. This is one of those issues, when youve got strongminded people on one side or another side pushing it too hard for the American People, instead of trying to find an area of compromise, for instance, being able to use whatever washroom facilities are shower facilities according to the sex that you identify as, fine, people in america should have that freedom to be able to do that but weve got to think about people in high school situations, other students, 17 and 18yearolds who may be uncomfortable with that. Finding Common Ground. I would like to ask both of you this question but a significant number of donald Trump Supporters back him because of his willingness to say outrageous and offensive things. Interview trump is a necessary reaction to an overly sensitive culture of physical correctness. Do you agree with that perspective . I am done. Yes. Look. It is a great time to be alive and we are divided. I have been in the business of trying to break down Political Correctness for years because i want honest dialogue. I do a podcast back home called Uncomfortable Conversations with a black radio host from chicago. He is the black guy, i am the white guy. We sit down for an hour and talk about uncomfortable issues like race and racism. How come black and white people look at the police different, how come black people dont like the Republican Party . We have these conversations because i abhor americans who dont want us talking about sensitive issues. I still believe in freespeech and i get really worked up when we tried to shut down speech we dont agree with. This Political Correctness, the cancel culture, you Say Something 5 years ago and cant get a job now . We are too centered on that stuff. Do you agree with the perspective of many Trump Supporters that he is a necessary reaction to an overly sensitive culture of Political Correctness . That is spot on for how he got elected. s most powerful line was im going to drain the swamp. Like the congressman i have always been known as politically incorrect. I spoke truth to power before it was fashionable. I felt the same way about bureaucracy in washington, used to drive me crazy. My diatribe about the budget, dont get me started about bureaucracy. That is what the current president then candidate was talking about when he said he wanted to drain the swamp. That is different from pushing back on Political Correctness. I found it very refreshing how unbelievably correct he was and generally going i remember thinking he was the most refreshing of the candidates, at least he didnt stand around on 1 foot and crane his neck about un