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Air. of course that. but he also is concerned about the national security implications, things like famine and the contacts impacts of climate change and what this does to local economies in the united states. >> president trump said we're pulling out of the accord but going back and try to renegotiate something. it made it sound like that might be a very easy thing. this -- in negotiation took a long time for in accord. >> well, look, many of the european leaders issued a statement very quickly after that. and said absolutely not. we are not going back. we are not going to renegotiate. now an...

President is saying why do so many american cans exxonmobil bp and chevron support the accord. >> i think they were be good the citizens and putting out the right sound bites. i want to address something in the presentation where you said that -- that this was -- you had you read the obama quote saying this would save the planet i think you said early year on this was the kind of climate deal ha that could stop the rise of the oceans one of the things that hasn't been talked a lot about let's say we went all in on the climate change deal and all of the countries rmts kept all the promises they...

Economic point i think is interesting one what douse to van to hayes it's the fastest grow sector and the future more than coal. >> it's not oil and gas is growing much faster becausive a smal oil and gas rufrls going on in the country. by the way anderson it's interesting all the europeans have been very violent in opposition to what trump did. pu -- but the european countries ten years ago went all in for the kind of green energy that van is august. ment all in are sole ara wind and so on their electricity prices today are double and sometimes three times higher than ours are. they want us t...

>> do you think -- do you think president obama sees it in that same -- in that same kind of perspective. >> he is a long-term thinker. i think he understands the steps he took on climate change set things in motion that are hard to turn back. you can see a burgeoning clean energy industry in this country that began with the recovery act back in 2009 and some of the steps the epa took while he was president, steps hard to unwind and will lead to long court battles. and he understands that he encouraged other countries to take steps forward that are going to be hard to turn back. in fact some c...

Shale gas rufrlgs which crashed our prices here. that is true. but at the same time the price for clean energy has been going down down don you don't actually have the same kind of shale opportunities that you have in europe. i think part of the thing that you see with the republicans who are trying to defend trump on this is that they just want to look away from what's actually happening in our own country. california has the most stringent environmental and carbon constraits in the country and they have the strongest economy it turns out when you have good environmental policy with the new t...