President youre fighting for the forgotten men and women across this country. You are a champion for the hard working citizens across this land who just want a government that listens to them and represents their interests. You have promised to put America First in all that you do. And youve done that in any number of ways, from a trade to National Security, protecting our border, to right sizing washington, d. C. And today you put America First with regard to International Agreements and the environment. This is an historic rfrtation of american admission and one that about benefit working people of all stripes. With this action you declared the peoples are rulers of this country once again. And it should be noted we as a nation do it better than anyone in the world in strig striking the balance between growing the economy growing jobs while being a good steward of our environment. We peo no apologies to other nations for environmental stewardship. After all, before the paris accord was ever signed america had reduced its co2s footprint from levels to the early 19 the 90s backup 2000 and 2014 at United States reduced cashen emissionless by 18 plus . This was accomplished not through government mandate but through innovation and technology of American Private sector. For that reason mr. President you have corrected a view paramount in pars thathouse the United States shouldmennize ritz own economy. Be apology iks lead with our chin while the left of the world does little. Other nations talk a good game. We lead with action. Not words. [ applause ] our efforts mr. President as you know should be on exporting our technology, innovation to nations who seek to reduce their co2 footprint to learn from us thp. That should be the focus versus agreeing to unachievable targets that harm the economy and the American People. Mr. President , it takes courage, it takes commitment to say no to the applaud its of men while doing white right by the American People. You have that courage. And the American People can take comfort because you have their backs. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you. President trump in the rose garden of the white house after just announcing a decision that was many months in coming, that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, 194 countries have signed on to the agreement. The United States now joins nicaragua and syria in not being part of the environmental agreement to try to reduce the cashen footprint and also to help countries that are dealing with the effects of Climate Change. Before President Trump finished his statement former president obama released a statement of his own on the decision to withdraw from the paris deal. It reads in part quote the nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits and jobs and industries created. I believe the United States of america should be at the front of the pack. But even in the absence of american leadership, even as this administration joins a small handle fdful nations im confident our states cities and businesses will step up and do more to lead the way and help protect for future generation attention the one planet weve got. Lets talk about the speech with our panel. And dana, i know a lynn that the president said that struck a lot of us when he cast the Paris Agreement as quota massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries. Right. Because the whole theme against president obama during both of the elections against him was that he was a democrat who wants to redistribute wealth. That is a buzz word, a signal to conservatives that we got your back and were going to make sure sore sort of the bid bad democrats who want to socialize and globalize and do everything that hurt you and your jobs wont happen. And there were a series of those buzz words. It was almost like mad lips for conservatives, the speech. And it was a long one. The one of the things that struck me was after all the reporting weve done about the discussions, debates, the pressure that he got from his daughter, from his ivanka from his soninlaw jared, from his secretary of state Rex Tillerson. There wasnt an olive branch in here. Those people were walledoff in the writing of this speech and clearly written by the steve bannon and steven millers of the world. And there wasnt really anything that i heard that was even remotely aside from the idea he might try to redo this deal and renegotiate this deal if he can. But there wasnt it wasnt serious if we renegotiate, fine if we dont, great. Lets go to cnn senior White House Correspondent jim acosta at the white house. Jim, this was full nationalist, America First, damn the rest of the world President Trump im putting the interests of tforgo man and women woman first according to how i see them. Thats right, jake it steefd to come out of of the sfeef bannon play book its a little early for a Rose Garden Campaign to begin. But when you heard the president use words like i represent the represent are people of pittsburgh not paris. Obviously he is representing the citizens of pittsburgh but he is the leader of the free world. And thats why youre is he seeing statements from president obama and others condemning the decision because they are saying that he is really abdicating that role as leader of the free world. But jake you heard time and again throughout the remarks from the president that he is trying to frame in as an economic decision. Here is a bit of what he had to say. Not only does this deal subject our citizens to harsh economic restrictions, it fails to live up to our environmental ideals. And someone who cares deeply about the environment, which i do, i cannot in good conscious support a deal that punishes the United States, which is what it does. The worlds leader in Environmental Protection, while imposing no meaningful obligations on the worlds leading polluters. Now we were just mentioning steve bannon the president s chief strategist as few moments ago probabilitily standing outside after the president s remarks steve bannon apparently taking a victory lab after the president s replarks here in the rose garden. One absence we should take note of. We have not perhaps im wrong about this. We scoured the rose garden for any sign or sight of the president s daughter ivanka. We did not see her. Obviously she was pushing the president to come out and say he was going to stay in the paris accord. We dont see either ivanka or her husband . The rose guard zbloon jim thanks so much. I believe ivanka and jared are observing orthodox shoes its a holiday for jewish. The mayor of pittsburgh who wrote wrote ai can assure you we will follow the Paris Agreement for our people and. Even though President Trump is factual factuallily correct. Pittsburgh is a city voting 5 a for hilt in the president ial race. Obviouslies it is easy to focused on the climates and the stats ifd he had fied by the debate. If you take not you guys just generally if you go big picture here, this is Donald Trumps fundamental rebel steve bannon or whatever this is the fundamentally different vision at odds with george w. Bush. Certainly bill clinton, certainly president obama por what the u. S. s role in the world can and should be. This is what he ran on. Interests trumpism. This is to the stent trumpism cases this is it, which is we are going to do things in our best interests economically. The paris the paris versus pittsburgh line obviously is a little you could have picked up another one with two same first that you actually won because as you point out he lost. But thats the point. Thats trumpism. Im here forever he is globalist. Weve elected the people tried to make us popular in european salens. I was to parallel in the beer hall thats the theater of the case nap. Thats what he ran on he. Sorry. And if theres not a global community, right . And really there is a global competition and america should be dominant, right American Workers should be dponlt. Americas should be sovereignty. He talked about sovereignty not wanting to weaken sovereignty and be part of in agreement would do that. I think too often we talk about ivanka trump orp ivanka versus bannon. But this was all donald trump wrb be right thp vintage donald trump. In some ways i think sort of the kind of debate in all that have part of the sort of cubeky theater. At some point im making an agreement on paris all the people are in my ear the reality is he made up his mind long oohing ago. This isnt just a depart forfeiture barack obama. S in a departure from republican and democratic administrations, the last four who have been working towards paris and and environmental on environmental issues. And the second point is there was a lot of discussion on the environment here. This was jobs. This was jobs. And it was i mean the line that struck me was when the president said at what point, you know, does does america dsh dosh people start laughing at us . At what point does america get demeaned . At what point does america get demeaned . At what point do any start laughing at us. S in trumpism. Its exactly it. Were stupid. Sorry. Beyond the politics of it lets talk about the policy and what the decision actually means because there was an article on the Weather Channel i readier earlier says the United States withdrawing means a mar rapped rapid sclerlgs of Climate Change. Because we are a hurj contributor. I want to back up a couple of things. First of all he wants the United States to be able to outcompete the world on the wrong basis. We want to be able to compete by being able to outpollute everybody. The we want to be the most pollution as opposed to the best solutions. He is already he is already wrong in terms how he wants us to show up. Then endoesnt look at his own krep. Look at california. California already has a more carbon constraint set of policies than anything in paris. Andia is now the sixth largest economy in the world growing better than anything in the United States. Look at your own country. Where the Economic Performance . Its when you actually have strong Environmental Performance youre seeing strong Economic Performance. Facts dont matter the country doesnt mar where the industries is dont matter growth is happening doesnt marry. You want to play the game of throwing something to the base. The base doesnt need sound bites they cant eat sound bites he the base needs jobs and the jobs come from the growing sectors the president just threw under the bus. Steven. Well look i agree entirely this is trump. Trumpism. And i would say its trump at his best. I did travel a lot with him during the campaign and i went to a lot of the midwestern industrial states i got to tell you when he talked about pulling out of the paris accord it was met with thund rouse oef innovation from trump voters. They do believe i happen to agree with them this puts america lass, puts american jobs and coal mining and transportation and Steel Industry in jeopardy. And i would say this. Yeah, california does have the most stringent environmental laws right now. And factories nobody is building new californias in. Tesla im so sorry. Companies are Building Products to compete in california and they he will the products in california. Car companies are following californias lead because they want to sell their products. I want to speaking of corporations weve been talking about how many u. S. Corporations are behind the paris accord. Not manufacturing sectors corporations but others. The ceo of both tesla and space x threatened to quit as a. President ial adviser if President Trump took the action that he it seems he was going to take moments and elon musk made good with a quote i mean gapting president ial counsels climb change is real leaving paris is not good for america or the world. From jeff immelt, the ceo of jenn electric. Disappointed withed the edition and Paris Agreement. Climate change is reel. Industry must lead and not depend on government. Elon musk has a huge financial selfin solar power petition he runs. What about jeff immelt. Elon musk gets shh 5 billion a year in federal subsids. What about bch, exon what about every or industry in here is the thing. I think we have a big problem guys. We are now starting to get in a situation where even the the fop titans industry speaking up for American Workers was american industry, innovation, they are hearing from this white house thp. Now. A wrng white house. You dont want to listen to van jones. I get that. But youre telling the fop Industry Leaders in the United States and our planet earth that theyre wrong. Because, van, the whole notion of trumpism is they are part theyre the man. Theyre the institution that is these people voted against. The bosses, the ceos, the washington institutions, elites. And so you youre right and you said this that democrats have done a poor job of messaging what you were just saying. And it is and i was at some of the trump rallies. I didnt get to ride on the plane. But i was at the rallies as well where you saw people eating up, soaking in the arguments that, im going to help you, whether or not it is fair or accurate that you know that it is the global treaties and global agreements that hurt coal jabs or natural gas with, because that is the competition that they have doesnt matter. They were hearing things they wanted to hear. The challenge is for you know for your party and for republicans who disagree with the president on this is to create an argument that will penetrate. And that any will actually listen to. Its this whole conspiratorial theory we heard the president talk about. The same countries in in treaty are the same countries that dont. Narcissus a great line. Dont pay to nato. Which would be europe, i guess, that he was linking all of these things together which is what pennsylvania. What he was saying. Why should believer the other countries we are going to comply we we. Fie goose i have i have to interrupt. They wont signed on the agreement. Im sorry we have with us the epa administrator scott pruitt who we heard talking talking after President Trump spoke in the rose garden. Administrator pruitt nangs for joining us we appreciate if. Jake good good afternoon. You said today the President Trump was representing the interests of the American People with this decision. Is it in americas interest to do more to fight Climate Change or not. We have since pre1994 levels with the co2 footprint right now in fact by the time the paris accord was signed we reduced cash o Carbon Emissions. To do more. We are leading the world with respect to innovation and technologied reducing co2 footprint. This agreement was putting america second or last not about learning from what america is doing. It was about putting constraints on the economy as the president talked about. This is not an fwreemt or a decision with respect to engagement on co2. The merng is going to continue engage on co2. Export innovation and technology. Continue our seat petition table and negotiates with the nations across the globe but with the attitude of putting our interests first making sure we dont penalize our. Mcis the world leading emitter of carbon polluteants. The United States is in second place. Its not as as though the u. S. When you talk about u. S. The leading the world. The u. S. Is second when it comes to creating the polluteants. Under this agreement jake as you know china took know steps to reduce emissions until 2030. The rest of the nation applauded what we did in paris because it puts at economic disadvantage while the rest of the world continued the status quo. And caused us to have to focus on a reduction of 26 to 28 whats not known is the 26 to 28 reduction we greed to an in paris every action taken by the Obama Administration we still fell 40 shove the targets. And so it was a failing agreement to begin with but yet constrained the economy while the rest of the world skated snaes ha bad deal for this country. Tell me President Trump talked about the possibility of maybe renegotiating trying to get a better deal. If you could create that deal right now to do something about Climate Change what would that deal look like . Obviously china would have to do more. What would the u. S. Be willing to do. It should be with a focus and Attitude Toward Technology and innovation to ensure energy is used to generate electricity in this world that we do so in an efficient and emission levels. And we have clean coal technology. We have high dral you go fracturing and horizontalle drilling and that natural gas to we need to export that to the world so they can follow our lead. President trump said the paris accord would ham string u. S. Economies 25 major u. S.