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Interview is california governor jerry brown. governor, thanks for joining us on this busy day for you. how are you going to combat this move from president trump? >> stay the course. california has a very aggressive and imaginative climate action policy. we have a goal of 50% renewable electricity by 2030. we're already about 27% now. and we'll even go beyond that. we have zero emission mandates for automobiles. we have energy and appliance regulatory standards. we also have a cap and trade program. we're all in decarbonizing our economy. and of course i have to admit we've got a long, long w...

We are harmonizing our standards with china. china has a very powerful mandate for zero emission cars. they are developing their own cap and trade program. california is refining our cap and trade program. there are areas of collaboration. california right now has as much clean tech capital investment entrepreneurial venture capital investment as china and the rest of europe combined. so we're doing a lot. we're going to do more with china, and we're going to link closely together. it used to be china and the united states as the pillar. now china is that pillar and california is very much goi...

The chinese president is going to announce this new cap and trade program. you'll recall that president obama has tried mightily to get our congress to pass a cap and trade program for the united states. those efforts failed in part because of objections that the chinese weren't doing more about their carbon pollution, so why should we get ahead of them. now if the "new york times" is right and china is about to take this big step, that is huge for the climate. it's also potentially huge for american policy on this subject. again, "the new york times" reporting tonight that the chinese preside...

Some other program to limit carbon in the u.s. the congressional resistance has been in large part because china wasn't doing enough and so therefore why should we. now if china is forging ahead here in dealing with climate change using a u.s.-designed policy to do so, this could change everything in the political climate around the climate climate. again, "new york times" first reporting this. nbc news now confirming the announcement tomorrow that there will be a cap and trade program in china. it is due to start, to go into effect in 2017. so it's on a short time frame. this is huge news for...

Being reported by the "new york times." nbc news has not confirmed this. but "the new york times" is reporting tonight that china is about to announce a massive new cap and trade program to limit greenhouse gases in that country. if this is true, this is kind of the big kahuna in terms of global policy to address climate change. the chinese president of course arrived on the west coast earlier this week. he arrived in d.c. this afternoon. tonight he's having a private dinner with president obama. he's due to have a state dinner with all the trappings tomorrow. but before that dinner "the new y...