Across the globe. The now, the question is, whether the president will make good on that Campaign Promise here or could he change his mind like he changed his mind on nafta, not repudiating more like fixing it, a few moments ago saying he doesnt want to reestablish the israel in jerusalem, more like the present location in tel aviv. He is open to being flexible on this subject. And the devil is in the details. Whether he will find a middle ground on all of this. He is being pressured on both sides. Well devote next two hours on what is at stake. There is a twigs within the administration, the president is known to string people along, make them think one way, boom go the other way, like varney with the citizenship thing but that is another story. We have former Goldman Sachs senior partner, peter keirnen and democratic gift david bernstein. Lets pick what we have here. Right now the president could opt to say im out of this. Ive been promising during the campaign. It is damaging u. S. Jobs. Im not a big believer in the whole campaign. During the campaign he said it is chinese hoax. Stepped back and said the science is still spotty. What if he finds a middle ground here, Rex Tillerson secretary of state, said maybe staying inc this aagreement you can exert more pressure and leverage on other members. What do you think . That is path of least resistance for him. If he stays in the accord he should absolutely negotiate better terms for the United States. Its a very lopsided deal where the greatest burdens placed on the United States with respect to reducing emissions aggressively. It is costly. It will saddle our business and Energy Sector with enormous regulations that kills job while china, india, two of the Worlds Largest polluters, including russia, by and large get a free pass. The way the accord stands right now it is not a good deal for america. If President Trump decides to make that middle path, i strongly encourage him to renegotiate the better terms for the United States. Neil peter, as far as i understand, even if the president formally opts to leave this, you have to wait three years from the point which to be committed, 2016, then another year that would carry you past the next president ial election by one day. So that, if he left today, opted to leave today. I like the analysis that was ju mentioned. I think stay and renegotiate is better, do i stay or do i go . Resolves itself in bunch of caveats. There are reasons apart from the environmental to really worry about this we produce now, we are a major player in the production of oil. We produce multiple of the gas that saudi arabia does. As producer we should care what goes on in that room. Secondly, china has already cemented its lead as player in alternative energy. They spent hundreds of billions of dollars every couple years. Neil but theyre the biggest emissions violator of thea planet. Perfect example. They are addicted to coal. They spend so much on coal. They are the number one trading partner with saudi arabia. They said the greatest new innovation, new opportunity for jobs and profits a lot of things republicans likelies at feet of alternative energy. Well spend 130 billion a year to try to chase it both in their own country and abroad. They spent 30 billion last year on alternative Energy Projects abroad. China is the one to watch here. Neil david, say you have the position, say you have the position, not that you do, go ahead, mr. President , leave, you could argue that the downward trend in emissions that has been spearheaded by cheaper natural gas, clean energy in this country would continue regardless. And our emission levels which are down already 15 from when this went into effect from those 2005 levels, you could argue, well it is doing the trick or, were well on that way without a worldwide edict. Well, sure you could certainly make that remarkment. Neil i just did. Right but i think that the question here is, is peter point out, about simply more than just the environment here. So regardless of what is actually happening with emissions there are lots of reasons why we want to be at negotiating table in this room. Opting out of this agreement as i think people rightly pointed out leaves us with a group like nicaragua and syria. Neil you have a problem with nicaragua . Is not a group United States is used to be in. Make as statement where were saying we want to put our priorities. Neil we share disproportionate share of burden financialwise, that goes with being richest country i understand that. Yeah. Neil china not so much. Many years out. To peters point. They can preach yet not have to deal with the dirty little detail of exercising. Trump has talked a great deal wanting to put more pressure on china. We havent seen a tremendous amount of results on opportunity to do that. Opting out of agreement doesnt give us the opportunity to do that. Neil maybe peter is really right to talk about the leverage issue,eing in this, i come back to Global Market forces themselves. Certainly internally in the United States, whether youre talking cleaner, more environmentally friendly fracking procedures, what is going on with natural gas, belonging to a club, agreement, whatever you want to call it, there could be very little rationale behind it. I understand others are part of it, youre not, you want in, but in for what . What leverage when you are trying to get what it is happening already and were doing it already, even if we opt out what do you think. Youre absolutely right. Neil really . I literally just made that up. Im kidding. But what i want to say, i know, you know, people are saying oh, do you want to join nicaragua and syria only two countries not participating, but reality if the United States pulls out, the thing may very well fall apart. Well have many more countries also exiting the agreement. Im not so concerned who were keeping company with. I do want to say that donald trump, when he campaigned he made promises to the American People he would be a jobs president. He was going to cut regulation that is throwing wet blanket off economic recovery and by injecting ourselves, by sticking in this accord, you know, itc s undoubt he hadly going to be hurting us economically with gives big economic advantage to china. It is no wonder wants the United States to remain in the accord gives them advantage. Neil not that im pro or con. I dont think the president can make a bad decision on this certainly fears raised, i agree with david in that respect, but, peter, one of the things i see here the trend is actually the president s friend here. Play out the possibility he says no, im sorry, france is going to im not going to do this. I dont see any valid reason to do so. Im more interested in american jobs. I think it was even gary cohn his Economic Advisor if the president had to choose a Clean Environment and jobs he would pick jobs every time. Maybe that is what it comes down to. If it boils down to something that simple, of course he will go with jobs. Look how this thing was formulated t was done in final closing weeks of Obama Administration. This is not ratified by the senate. This is not broadly approved by the American People. It was neil like the iran deal. Very like the iran deal. Done in a small group. The difficulty is, what i think the president doesnt want to do is get painted in a corner by obama. What he could do is go renegotiate the terms. Those terms, were not going to meet them. We cant do coal. We want do some of the things with natural gas and fracking and meet those terms. Neil he could play with the goal numbers. How would you feel about that, lets say he does that . That come up recently like a middle ground. I will stay like he did with nafta, i will he renegotiate the whole thing but how would his supporters look at that . How would the rest of the world look at that. I guess they would be pissed he is changing what we agreed to but he is at least is not opting out . In terms of selling things to Donald Trumps supporters he has pretty good ability to sell what he wants to sell to his own supporters. Regardless whether he stays in or not, im sure he more than cape ab, one thing he is very good making argument going on. The important thing when it comes to jobs though, look at number of ceos across the country who are responsible for huge pieces of american job growth who said this was important thing to do. Look at Rex Tillerson, who probably knows more about the state of oil in this country i would argue vast majority of people says its a good idea. Neil exxon ceos two out of three make this a part of your thinking. Important to look at, not just as simple there is regulation here, is that neil look at all the u. S. Manufacturers are not keen on this and think it will hurt them, right . A lot of unions who represent those jobs. But also we know that big parts of the future job growth are not necessarily going to come from those industries despite what trump is saying and promising, right . Important to look at totality of the American Business community who come to the consensus this is important thing for the future of america. Neil real quickly then,ow do you think, your opinions notwithstanding will weigh in on this . I think he ultimately decides to pull out with the deal. Out with a lot of caveats hanging on. That will be disappointing for everybody. That is what he is going to do. Neil adriana . He will pull out and honor his promises to the American People. Neil since, i dont think he pulls out, find as middle ground and surprises folks. I will destroy this tape if im wrong. I hope. Neil thank you very much. European countries and others are fume something that a bad thing . So Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee senator james inhofe. Senator, always good having you. Senator my own views, i could merely be wrong and parrot the wisdom of my guests, call it my own, one of the things the president proven on couple crucial matters he is pretty good reversing himself but not making it look so obvious. Nafta, renegotiating it. Even on tel aviv versus jerusalem thing for israel, well keep our embassy. That was very big deal and he campaigned almost throughout saying, jerusalem is where it should be. So, what im seeing from that disparate examples both, that he will change on a dime. What do you think . I dont think that is quite fair. I never, dont recall ever having a big disagreement with you neil that is okay. This is your last visit anyway but go ahead. Says, he still wants to move the embassy to jerusalem but isnt ready to do it right now. Neil now isnt the time. I would suggest that you start looking at some of the things hes done. If you want to go to my website you can see, inhofe. Senate. Gov, we listed all the regulations, 47 he has been able to undo that were very damaging to america. But on this thing that is coming up, i was listening to your previous segment and i think he is going to pull out. I think he made that commitment. I think he will do it. Neil he can say, senator, you mentioned those regulations and things he overturned, many are environmental, that were underpinnings of Barack Obamas accord in this climate keel deal. He can say, staying in it i have taken onerous teeth out, by executive action taking away those burdens on business and claim that its ac winwin . Well, neil, first of all i think he is going to pull out. Neil okay. I sent a letter signed by 22 senators last weaken couraging him to do it. I believe he is going to do the. I think that neil you dont agree with Rex Tillerson, secretary of state and others, ivanka trump in there too, hey, you lose a lot of leverage when you do that with these guys . Iont agree with them. I talked to them about it. That seat at the table they keep talking about, that was established in 1992. That was called the, United NationsFramework Convention on climate change. Now every year they have this big party, the United Nations does, the last one of course was the Paris Agreement, where the paris party. Now they, what did the president say, commit on behalf of the United States at that time . You and i talked about this two months ago, the clean power plant. And that was, we will reduce our emissions co2 emissions by between 26 and 28 by 2025. Now there are two problems with that neil. First of all, it cant be done. His own epa at that time said this is impossible. We cant do it. The second thing he would have to have concurrence of congress. 192 countries meet every december are not aware of our form of government. They assume president says well do something were going to do it. Were not going to do it. We cant do it. Around it is not going to happen. Neil you could argue the emission levels were already down 15 . Sure they are. Neil justifying that, for the accord. Im saying the Market Forces at play in this country, cheaper, cleaner alternative fuels, natural gas among them, has already had the desired effect whether youre part of this agreement or not, even if the president were to reject it to your point t trnd might continue. Could he use that, not trying to politicize it here, could he use that as a reminder, if he pulls out, that look, cleaner air is still on the way, whatever . Well, i think you got to keep in mind in this country right now, this, the president , previous president , obama, has had a war on fossil fuels, that is coal, oil and gas, in addition he didnt like nuclear either. Our countries is dependent on coal, oil, gas, nuclear, for 89 of the power we generate. How did you run this machine called america if you pull that out . The answer is you cant. Your previous guest was talking about china. Let me tell you, we know what the president said our commitment is even though something we cant do, but china is being honest in saying you know, were going to continue cranking out one new power plant every 10 days for the next, until about 2025. Then well consider reducing our co2 emissions. What kind of deal is that, neil. Neil for them very good deal. Very little call to do anything. Then you talk about india, another one of our, big polluters out there, if they want to call that pollution. They want 2 trillion. Everyone comes to the table thinking they can go to the meeting, big party every december, somehow, i have talked to people in africa go there just for the purpose of trying to get in line to get all this money that has been promised by the previous administration. Neil will be trillions of dollars, youre right. Who gets it what they do with it is anyones guest. James inhofe, you argue your point so well, well have you back. Read my book, greatest hopes you find out. Neil very good seeing you, senator inhofe. News on james comey. He is is set to testify a week from today. Indication he will implicate the president of the United States, donald trump tried to force him to go slow on investigation of general flynn, whole russian collusion thing. Could be some fireworks a week from today, after this. Think again. This is the new new york. We are building new airports all across the state. New roads and bridges. New mass transit. New business friendly environment. New lower taxes. And new University Partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. Learn more at esd. Ny. Gov neil this has makings of a payperview event. Former fbi chief james comey is expected to testify and confirm what is long been rumored in memos that leaked out allegedly not from mr. Comey were told but those close to mr. Comey, other republicans say from mr. Comey that donald trump asked the fbi head to simply back off the Michael Flynn probe and let the whole thing go away. Blake burman with the latest from the white house. Reporter neil, mustsee tv indeed. We have a time and place. The Senate Intelligence committee making a few minutes ago incomes thursday, 10 00 a. M. , before that committee, the former fbi head, jim comey will testify. A couple of notes on this. 10 00, that will be the public testimony. Meaning it will be before the camera, live, comey sworn in, for the entire country to see. After that, 1 00, is when he goes behind closed doors with more intimate session with those senators. Former fbi head cant detail everything out in the open public. That is when he goes behind closed doors. When you look at timing, appears this will be on camera, out to the public to see for at least several hours. The hadline or the title of this hearing is quote, russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 u. S. Elections. What we believe will dominate, whether comey felt freshsured by President Trump to drop the investigation against former security advisor Michael Flynn. The president said no, no, tried to brush off the topic to the reporter who asked him, next question. The memos comey apparently detailed suggested indeed the president tried to have comey sort of back down on this investigation. We will hear from the former fbi director himself one week from today. As for this white house, neil, they are not commenting on anything at this point related to jim comey. The White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer asked about comey yesterday and he said at this point all questions relating to comey and russia need to go to the president s personal attorney, that being Mark Kasowitz officially brought on board within the last week. The president did send out one russiarelated tweet on this day. It came earlier this morning in which he said, quo