Lit up in green in protest. Supporters of trump this morning the fallout over one of the president s most controversial yet. Tiger woods in foggy state of mind and taking a breathalyzer test after his dui arrest. And queen of the bee. A 12yearold california crowned the National Spelling bee champion and shes good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a very busy friday morning. Thanks for joining us. Hoda is off. Weve got a breaking story to get right to. The soaring death toll in the attack on a casino in manila. Reporter police at first suspected this might be a terrorist attack. That turns out not to be the case but the death toll still very high. Its not clear yet if americans were among the hurt. Victims are still being identified this morning but we do know that both employees and guests of resorts world manila are among the dead after this casino into a death trap. Lone gunman stormed in after midnight. This morning showing the new video this morning showing gunman opening fire in a the panic in manila. Casino. You guys, i can hear a lone gunman opening fire in a casino. Isabel watched from her apartment. Gunshots. Isabel watching from her this man running for his life. Apartment. This man got he got out. Out. 36 others did not. They 36 others did not. Died not fro, but from they died not from the gunshots. A fire engulfing part of the but from smoke inhalation. Building. A hotel mall and a fire engulfing part of a sino. Smoke still rising from the roof building, a hotel mall and casino. Morning. Police said the gunman seen on Security Police said the gunman scene on anyone. Security cameras didnt shoot t instead, firing at a tv screen, anyone, instead firing at a tv stealing 2 million in screen, stealing 2 million in chips, and tragically pouring poker chips and practically y gasoline on casino tables and setting them on pouring gasoline on casino re. Survivors confused and tables and setting them on fire in black soot from the intense smoke. Survivors confused and covered n ladders from second floor windows but werent able to save anyone. In black soot from the intense e smoke. Found in the casino. There was only we reiterate there was only involved in this one gunman involved in this sen senseless attack. R senseless, senseless attack. Ort hurt. Most of them injured in the stampede to get out. More than 20 were hurt, most of them injured in the stampede police say the gunman was found dead early this morning in a hotel next to the casino of an apparent suicide. To get out. They have not yet identified him. The man died early this morningn in an apparent suicide. On him, but they police have not identified him yet. Do say he does not appear to have any they say he does not appear to terrorist groups. In their words, this have any terrorist ties. As a criminal act by a d in their words, this was a turb. Matt, hoda . A senseless act and terrible st criminal act by a disturbed man. Kelly, thank you very much. Also this morning, the world is reacting to is reacting to President Trumps decision to decision to pull out of the ou Paris Climate Accord. It is s Paris Climate Accord. Parking pr home and overseas, it is sparking protest here at supporters say the move was a necessary home and overseas but supporter. We do have complete coverage on the fallout and in say the move was necessary. We have complete coverage on the fallout. First, peter accelexander is ate white house with more. Reporter the president s decision definitively unifying his critics overseas and here at home. 30 mayors, at least three governors and more than 100 businesses partnering to negotiate directly with the united nations. Among those leading the way, michael bloomberg. Protesters turning up the heat on President Trump. After his announced withdrawal from the paris climb agreement. The president letting a landmark u. S. Commitment go up in smoke, arguing it put american businesses at a competitive disadvantage. Well see if we can make a deal thats fair and if we cant, thats great. Mr. Trump speaking with four key allies, including the new french president rewriting trumps favorite phrase. Make our planet great again. I was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. President obama calling on states, cities and businesses to help protect for future generations the one planet weve got. Already california is launching its own Global Coalition. The u. S. , the worlds second largest polluter had pledged to cut emissions by more than a quarter. So tesla founder elon musk and disneys bob ikert walked away from the president s council. The paris accord would undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty. Reporter the move an apparent. Appe appeal to President Trumps base. These big American Brands and four large Oil Companies all backed the Climate Change. The paris accord would cost the u. S. 3 trillion in lost Economic Activity and 6. 5 million industrial jobs. But experts say that study has been widely debunked for making incorrect assumptions. Also this morning within the last hour Vladimir Putin is weighing in, joking that any bad weather on the planet can be blamed on putin says he wouldnt judge President Trump for pulling out of the paris deal, insisting theres still time to reach an agreement. Putin telling the audience,. Matt . All right. Peter alexander. Thank you ver dont worry, be happy. Y much. Were joined now by the secretary of were joined now by the commi secretary of commerce. Ur ross. Mr. Secretary, its good t its good to see you. His mornin. Thanks thanks for joining us. Good. Good to be on with you. Be before you joined the presid president s cabinet, you were a business guy. Siness guy. You made a name for yours you made a name for yourself and a fortune in the business world. What do you say to your former a fortune in the business worldi what do you say to your former m colleagues in business . Ajor companies . What do you say to people like what do you say to people like elon musk and bob elon musk who have now pulled ee now pulledff off the president s business p Business Advisory council in Advisory Council in protest of this . This . Wh why are they wrong . Wrong . I think theyre wrong, because what the well, i think theyre wrong s because what the president is not doing is saying hes not not doing is saying hes not going to try to improve climate. What going to try to improve climate what he is saying is this s par appeal, was particular agreement does not Economic Growth going out appeal, was destructive of u. S. The Economic Growth going out into. The future. I think theyre confusing t i think theyre confusing the withdrawal fro withdrawal from the agreement with the idea that hes against with the idea that hes against helping the climate. That is not the case. But when you talk about the impact on the economy, you talk about the loss of jobs, youre echoing what the president said in the rose garden yesterday, and i believe youre both helping the climate. E. Quoting fs i believe youve both quoting conducted back in 2005 thats from a survey thats been ru been roundry criticized. It took numbers and plugged them in in the worst Case Scenario in about every aspect of the paris accord and came up with a kind of doomsday scenario. You wouldnt use that kind of survey in the world of business. Would you . You should know what your down side is. Thats an important thing, and particularly when youre trying to forecast roundly criticized. Events many out into the many years out into the futt future. s very, very difficult to be accurate. So its very very difficult to be accurate. There may be people wo while there may be people who sr say that this particular case is the d the downside case, that doesntt mean that its wrong, and it doesnt mesnt mean that direct it isnt right. Let me ask you this, secretary ross. Many members of the president s inner circle, im thinking of secretary tillerson and mattis, who argued for staying in the paris accord and one of the reasons they came up with, is that fighting Climate Change is a matter of National Security. So by pulling out of the paris mean that its wrong. Accords, have we damaged our national have we damaged our National Security . Ty . Absolutely not. There absolutely not. S nothing tha theres nothing that the withdrawal requires us to withdrawal requires us to do d that we dont want that we dont want to do. To do. The country the country has actually reduced its its emissions quite a little bit, largely due to the advents bit, largely due to of natural gas as a replacement pollute of fossil fuels. So the president hasn for high eer pollutive fossil fuels. The president hasnt changed an of that. Environmentalist. Ive known him for a he is an environmentalist. Long. Hes very proenvironment. Ive known him for a long time. N hes very pro environment. Environmentalist, when hes rolled back many initiatives of the Obama Administration how can you say hes an environmentalist . Basically tak hes basically taken a 180 180 degree turn from what the obamar administration did in signing n signing this paris accord . This paris accord. Well, youre well, youre taking as the given that the given that the obama Obama Administration administration was right and any other action was other action was wrong. Wrong. What about 195 other what about 195 other countries around the world . Countries around the world . Yeah. Those are t yeah, those are the countrie arent front ending burdens the frontending burdens the way we way that we were asked to do. We. This agreement, this agreement, as i understand it, would hav it, would have allowed china to keep increasing its keep increasing its emissions all the way out until all the way out until 2030. 30. Thats hardly climate control. Thats hardly climate controlled. We were giving money we were giving money up front. Theyre able theyre able to continue to co increasing their emissions increasing their emissions through 2030. 2030. Is that a balanced deal is that a balanced deal . I dont think so. I dont think so. No question about it. It was weighted in different theres no question about it ways for different countries, it was weighted in different but ways for different countries. Reducing their emissions by about but the chinese had committed tr reducing their emissions by 20. Ill leave it on that. Weve got about 60 after 2030. A lot of ill leave it at that. Could get. Secretary, i appreciate secretary ross, i really you joining me. Thank you. Thank you for appreciate you joining me this morning. Well talk more with host of lets talk more about this with mountain nbc deadline white house and our political Nicole Wallace and josh earnest. Analyst. Start with you, because you were you were there in the obama oba administration when this Accord Administration when this accord was written and signed was written and signed and in one speech yesterday the one speech yesterday the presik that president took that 180 degree turn from your boss. Boss . Yes. Listen, matt i was there in december of december of 2015 2015 in paris where president president obama travelled to paris to mee paris to meet with other World Leaders to try leaders to to finalize this agreement. Ry t agreement. Even in the final weeks before even in t it was signed, president obama signed, preside was meeting with the prime oba meeting with minister of india and other of india and other World Leaders to try to g World Leaders to try to get the lo details locked. Cked and there wa there was a palpable sense thate sense history was being made history was being made at this this confer conference not because global not because global warning would come to warming was going to come to an agreement was signed end when the agreement was bute the world was finally signed but because the world wa same page to take finally on the same page to tak specific action, concrete specific action all a together to fight Climate Change. Limate change, and now the United States is stepping away from that. Nicole, put yourself into those sitting watches the news nicole, put your shoyourself. What josh was talking about. The shoes of these World Leaders. Think they were feeling from President Trump was i think it was deja vu all over again. Speaking . Deja vu all they went through this a week. They went through this in nato. Gleefully he t ago at nato where he gleefully almost seemed to relish in thumbing what was a decision when it took the stage and seemed to c allies. I think he seems to relish in blowing up the kinds blowing up the kinds of agreements that knit u of agreements that have knit usr with our longest and oldest together with our longest and allies. Oldest allies. He missed opportu the missed opportunity today wa you covered with secretary ros that everything you covered wit could have been secretary ross could have been amended. Amended. What would have didnt its a voluntary agreement. Im he could have said im going to make the Paris Climate Accord great again. Forced him to stich there was nothing that forced obamas target. He could have put his him to stick with obamas targets. In place. The agreement is wri he could have put his own targets in place. Be renegotiated to try to convince people to increase its renegotiated every five years. Ambitions when fighting c he could have put his own brand and his own stamp on it. It was a missed opportunity. Pollution. He could have put his own brand and stamp on it. A missed opportunity. Seems to see these agreements through the prism of he seems to see some of thes. Everythings about economics with agreements through the prism of economics. Is. Its a false choice to say the people of pittsburgh i think its cynical to say , stay under the peo you have to either stand with of and the whole the people of pittsburgh or the alliances a people of paris. Re that the peof pittsburgh alongs the whole nature of our ide t alliances is the people of peo of paris. Was this about politics pure pittsburgh fight alongside the . It is reported that steve bannon people of paris if one of our r countries was threatened. Board. On his written every C Steve Bannon has in the whit promise donald trump made during the campaign and he house that white board with hec off. Every Campaign Promise and theya check them off. Nd the ones they havent. Is this about was this about checking the box mere the paris accord and wha near the paris accord . T is it about who has the this is 100 politics pure the president in the west and simple, full stop. Wing . Politics pure and this is all about donald trump. This is all about donald trump trying to change the narrative trying to change the narrative of this presidency of this presidency to send a o signal to his supporters signal to his supporters across the country. Im fulfilling my promise to s im fulfilling my promise to u and shake up the shake up washington, to shake u. Facts be dammed in the global order, facts be man. Beca dammed in many ways. Use when it economy, the truth is when it comes to the economy, last eight years we had the truth is over the last eighd years we have succeeded in in 10 million jobs creating more than 10 million n at the same time we jobs in our economy at the same doubledigit time we have made double digit reductions in climate pollution. We can do both. Carb ca real quickly, knowing what. We can do both. Real quickly. You know now, what you saw and what you saw in the rose g yesterday in the rose garden, n back when president obama signed the paris accord, sho this paris accord, should she e gone through congress as have gone through congress as od to doing it with an opposed to doing it with an ex executive order . Unfortunately,o unfortunately there are too y republicans many republicans in congress that are also playing politics on this. In would it have made this cons harder to do . S that are playing politics on this. Would it it ideally in an ideal world o . In an where members of congress in l e washington, d. C. Are focused on members of congress are focused on facts then, yes. A bipartisa facts, yes, a bipartisan n cons consensus around this as exists preferable. But, in 195 other countries around the world would have been unfory politics being preferable. Clate right now in unfortunately there are far too and t many politics being played with. Josh, thank yo climate in a way that poses a nicole, thank you very much, guys. Also this threat to our economy and our planet. New also there is new ied to the controversy tied to the russia investigation as fired fbi director james comey gets investigation as fired fbi seto testify on capitol hill a director james comey gets set t today we testify on capitol hill. Were hearing directly from another big name in all of this, russian president Vladimir Putin. Reporter Vladimir Putin within the last hour telling nbcs megyn kelly that russia did not disrupt the u. S. Election, even as former fbi director james comeys testimony has now been scheduled for next thursday, his first appearance since President Trump fired him. This morning russias president Vladimir Putin flatly denying allegations his country interfered in the u. S. Election, answering questions from nbcs may begegayn kelly. Russia interfered with the u. S. Election. I read those reports. Even in those reports, there is no specific evidence, no facts. Just assumptions, allegations. Putin said the reports are harmful gossip, adding there are no russian fingerprints and he says internet addresses can be faked. Earlier putin after months of denial acknowledged what he called patriotically minded