administration officials the america first slogan is not just empty. and this notion that the u.s. is going to forge its own path on the world scale, it's going to forge alliances where it is in the u.s. interests but not elsewhere, that seems to be what we're seeing as a foreign policy directive from the white house. >> i want to reiterate for everybody what this u.s. pledge was that we think we're going to be pulling out from, lower greenhouse gas emissions, then contribute up to $3 billion to help the poorer countries tackle climate change, a $100 billion fund for some of the poorer countries to be able to afford, frankly, upgrading. this is what we would be bailing out of. germany and china standing in front of the cameras in berlin meeting and vowing to work more closely together, vowing to work together specifically on this. the kremlin saying it would be more difficult to keep the climate change agreement