Off in berlin this is the day. I donald john from who thought of me swear. John trump do solemnly swear that obamacare is a disaster its dead. They will be met with fire and fury. Like the world has never seen. You solemnly swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god no collision no obstruction. The truth. That tomorrow they will say donald trump branson raves at the press im not ranting and raving im just telling youre going to dishonest people but i could not believe the media criticism get a feel for how the media did this i dont know come on ok. Also coming up tonight is lebanon about to become the battlefield in a war between saudi arabia and iran today the Lebanese Foreign minister warned that there will be no winners not on it at all in the can or has said on the and so on but it is the i hate to say that we are all loses in the current events. We will all cooperate in order to get out of this state that were in now the lebanese people are worried about tomorrow yes a lot of that. Over we begin the day one year into the air of triumph and a check up for the rest of the world donald trump was elected the forty fifth president of the United States on november eighth of last year he unlike Hillary Clinton did not win the popular vote but he did win the Electoral College and with that the keys to the white house of since that initial shock the world has witnessed one unprecedented moment after another trump says that by putting America First he is doing what past president s have failed to do its what his voter base likes to hear well tonight well see if that equation really computes and what about the rest of the world does make America Great again translate into make america lonely from now on well discuss that and more in just a moments but go back to a year ago with me right now the first tuesday after the first monday in november thats election day in the u. S. As the ballot counting progressed many around the world present company included realize that the most unexpected of outcomes was indeed coming true. So you know its the world is holding its breath as americans elect a new president in driving this point and im both a Hillary Clintons Campaign Party in new york where history could happen trump has already changed the rules of politics but will it be enough to make him come on tree and change trump and clinton are the most unpopular candidates ever the campaign seems to be cautiously optimistic and i think for good reasons i did not initially favor trial but this is my choice and i have faith in my Republican Party nack and next forty nine percent for clinton this could still go either way and when he was really pushed on the truth for example during the debates and that doesnt bother you. Well if it bothered me i wouldnt support me theyre going to i mean this has been you know the most lying candidate that many personalities indorsing him as well also a lot of black mike tyson when you name them mike tyson Hillary Clinton actually lied to the f. B. I. A lot while the polls had been good enough to classify the definite red the definite blue all of those are right but when it comes to the toss ups one can see there was a systematic overestimation of Hillary Clinton has hit on one trend that does point to why there is this disconnect which is the kind of establishment non establishment or if you will anti establishment sentiment in wisconsin you know hampshire New Hampshire attending red. So shes not going to win this issue and theres been a large shift towards the republican vote in the whitest of counties in the United States who youre going to complain to nobody nobody cares nobody wants to hear and i think that reflects something that weve heard a lot also in the campaign trail are we looking at the beginning of what will be a two term penance presidency. Joining me at the big table tonight are two people who were with us on that eventful night last year Richard Walker to my right here head of news here at the w. He was our washington correspondent at the time and boris foreman is a us policy politics analyst from bard college here in early for us was with us through what all of the primaries all of the Party Conventions hes the author of a new book the crisis of democracy which fits really well with what were talking about tonight both of you jim its good to have you on the show richard take us back to that evening in new york full disclosure most of us expected Hillary Clinton to win the get thats right and i mean ive actually going through the polls through the course of twenty sixteen just to look how the polling went because i just want to kind of get back into you know what we were looking at on that night and no wonder we thought Hillary Clinton was going to win because for the entire course of the year she led in the polls apart from really just a few days during the course of the entirety of twenty sixteen on the night before Election Night she led by three Percentage Points and of course actually on Election Night she won by two Percentage Points as you just mentioned the popular vote she won the popular vote but of course with the vagaries of the u. S. Electoral system she still lost the election so kind of no wonder people didnt expect her to win. And that was the mood on Election Night at the hilton midtown this hotel i can present position was just outside it but we would keep going back in to see what the mood was like at the beginning of the night all of people filing into that posse they were totally dejected they thought you know this is going to be a funeral that were going to and will go home tonight we have president clinton and then there was one point in the evening where we went back in and they were running around with their smartphones and they have the New York Times app on it which was projecting eighty percent chance of a Trump Victory and they were saying to me well positioned the liberal pinko left his New York Times says eighty percent from victory weve won. Yeah and. You know we say its been one year since the trump shock is the world still in a state of shock well its time to wake up now i think i mean weve seen a couple of elections since weve also remember two week or so after we went through the. Initial trauma of that brets it was quite similar people went to bed woke up the next morning realized the election went to the totally different direction part of the explanation of course is that yes there might have been some kind of a surge on the right with White Working Class people thats something we identified also on that night that something we saw also in. Another part of the explanation is of course that many many people stayed home and i think thats an important thing to realize you know in the state of young writers stayed home those who supported sanders in the in the primaries minority voters stayed home and yet as you said i mean the popular vote went to went to clip but we should remind ourselves that its not a sudden rematch of the zation thats epidemic and you know sort of spreading across the world but there are some structural issues at stake which i think its important to point out which and you were in the u. S. During the campaign you know during all these events that led up to the election kind of if you would compare the u. S. Would after a year of the era of trump with the way it was during the campaign and has he lived up to that title of being a great divider. Well i mean trump strategy was to divide and to be aggressive all along from the moment in twenty fifteen when he famously came down the escalator in trump tower he gave this long rambling speech that all of us was kind of a dog thinking is this serious it was highly aggressive highly divisive and obviously that actually through the course of the primaries that what you know because you had a very fragmented republican field and that got him the nomination then of course the question was what can he actually win a general election on that well he won forty six percent and it was enough with the Electoral College to get him in but i think whats interesting again looking at the numbers at the moment he won with forty six percent of the vote now his Approval Rating is under thirty nine percent you know so hes lost seven percent is the lowest in history its a historically low level so this aggressive divisive strategy which works in campaigning it may not really be working in government because im sure boris has hundreds of theories about why that might be the case but i think up there has to be that is one thing to be aggressive and full of bombast but if your supporters dont actually see you achieving things in congress and with a favorable Republican Congress then they might be thinking well what was the point of all of that thats a good point if youre going to talk the talk you have to walk the walk what about trump in the world wars is he dividing the world or does he have that affect the way those with the u. S. Peter early to tell i mean if you look at the you it seems like history taking very different positions depending on who is talking to divide and conquer does seem to be his strategy of choice some people have been interpreted as a Business Strategy that is also using. That he was using when he put Steven Bennett on one side and Reince Priebus on the other so it really could you know foetid out amongst themselves and its true weve. With his speech made oh weve seen the different places if thats actually going to be successful over the long run is something that so that remains to be seen i want us to remember the first meeting that trump had with the german chancellor Angela Merkel and you remember it made headlines because she reportedly refused to shake her hand in the Oval Office Take a look. As far as. Wiretapping i guess by you know this past administration at least we have something in common perhaps. I mean that look of course was prices there from the german chancellor you know what are you talking about. That i would pick up again there on this great divider has the world been put into two camps youve got the americal mccrone western liberal democracy here and then youve got maybe the strong arm leaders of the world and i would say that strong maybe putin maybe do territory in the philippines do we have these two camps emerging can we talk about that i mean is that something that you see. If you put it that way i do but i think i mean the move of trumps to the outside world is something something quite surprising during the campaign during the primaries he didnt talk about Exterior Affairs at all in the first half of the of his first year he talked about infrastructure just a little bit didnt really go into any detail and it sort of dropped off the table talked about some social policies inside the u. S. Some to mess the policies and it seems like when he was cornered when obamacare failed and what the repeal of obamacare failed and other domestic policies failed that he was turning ports the exterior and realizing that he could get statements like appearance from from. Speaking to other president s and chancellors and it looks like hes enjoying that position and it seems like a way out of his domestic product and i have to ask you richard before we run out of time. And were looking at another watergate in the making now with the special counsel mr moeller and the indictments that weve seen we hear there are more indictments coming when i see it weve seen the first indictments coming out but you know theyve been partly at low level people in the shape of poll model for what. Is former Campaign Manager relating to things that happened before he was involved in the campaign i mean the question is going to be you know does this special prosecutor have anything thats going to really aim at trump himself for instance the firing of James James Comey we saw james comey in the clips. Is that something that is going to be turned into a charge of attempted obstruction of justice but even if it does get to that kind of level the politics are just as important as the legal masses because you know in order to impeach a president you need a very strong body in congress over the current. A cup of congress a republican controlled is not looking like that now the midterm elections next year thats right if if massively self is that and that could change the picture that bit but even then you need a two thirds majority in the senate to have a successful impeachment and even that is looking quite unlikely even if its a massive landslide for the democrats may well what will talk again im sure well talk before another year passes but it will be interesting to see what we are talking about this Time Next YearRichard Walker or foreman both of you gentlemen thank you very much thats when the war torn syria has said that it is ready to sign up to the Paris Climate Accord the leaving you guessed it the United States as the only un member not to do so the decision comes as experts and activists meet to bolster the twenty fifteen agreement at the u. N. Climate conference in the german city of vonne a surprise move by syria comes after nicaragua also signaled its intention to join the pact to cut Carbon Emissions heres what the syrian representative had to say today at the conference. Id like to assure you that studio supports implementation of the paris accords and also the principles of justice and joint responsibilities assigned to each signatory. Im joined now by david bosco he is International Climate director with World Resources institute at the talks in bonn is good to have you on the show syria we here will join the paris climate agreement that leaves the u. S. As the only u. N. Member that has not promised to do so is that what everyone is talking about at the conference in bonn. Well its certainly one of the things that is on many delegates minds here just to clarify the u. S. Is party to the agreement right now but as i think your viewers know President Trump announced very clearly in june that he intends for the United States to withdraw so that would leave the u. S. On the outside and really quite isolated and frankly the u. S. Is already quite isolated we saw at the g. Seven talks several months ago a group of six countries g six if you will say that theyre committed to the Paris Agreement and then later you had the nineteen at the g. Twenty say that theyre quite committed to paris now you have one hundred ninety six parties saying that they are committed to paris and President Trump once again alone not expressing his commitment the u. S. Delegation there in boston we hear is telling coal and oil as part of the answer for a world in need of energy in the future anyone there listening the bat. Well i think what we need to listen to is whats happening around the world on those issues and what we see is a tremendous surge toward Renewable Energy and toward a clean approach to to Climate Change in addition to all of the countries that i mentioned we also have literally hundreds of cities and and states and set National Governments as well as businesses making clear their commitment to the Paris Agreement and their commitment to acting and much of that has to do with economic realities that we see the price of Renewable Energy dropping rapidly we see electrical electric vehicles becoming increasingly popular many governments now moving forward with policies india for example. Beginning to put in place a policy for twenty thirty to have on new vehicles electric vehicles thats the kind of wave that i think is very much permeating not only the economy out there but also frankly the discussions here and you know climate right david wasco International Climate director with World ResourcesInstitute David we appreciate your insights tonight on the day thank you very much well Scientists Say alaskas ice fields are melting rapidly proof of Global Warming but pushback from local Business Leaders have shown that even in the face of facts and evidence climate skeptics wield power in the u. S. Alaskas Juneau Ice Field spans nearly four thousand square kilometers of glacial wilderness. Its alan gordons favorite place on earth. He heads here whenever he can. Spectacular views await those who scale to the top but the ice is vanishing over time. And when i first came out here a long time ago. The ice is a couple hundred feet higher and it was just flat across i could ski to or crossed