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White house press corps right now. let's welcome jemile smith, senior national koerpent for mtv news. notely an msnbc veteran back in the day. and sima rhetta, political writer for the los angeles times. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> sima, let's start with the politics of it. well several people in the last 24 hours have said maybe he's just going to become a 40% president. >> he is clearly speaking to his base. this isn't really any surprise because at campaign rally after campaign rally last year he was very clear about what he felt about the paris agreement and that he planned to ge...

Make the wrong decision. >> jemile, the other thing you are reading is that it's -- everything is so retro about it, down to, but notably including, a return to coal mining and people keep asking, where are those jobs going to come from? coal-fired plants are coming off line. the momentum of the nation has been going in the other direction. >> yeah. unless they are going to fire the machines that are doing the mountain top removal or, you know, the people who are doing all the fracking that is competing and driving coal out of business. frankly, that's the target if you really want to save coa...

Promote different kinds of alternative energy. so he is actually shooting at the wrong target if in fact which i don't believe he he wants to actually make some progress in this regard. >> and sima, there is the visual that was also reported last night, ivanka trump was calling ceos as an end around, could you please call my dad. rex tillerson who used to run exxon, now secretary of state, arguing we should stay in paris. there is a huge dichotomy with the president saying this is what's good for american businesses with a lot of businesses saying we were on the other side of this. >> there ar...

>> you know, i did answer the question because i said the discussions the president and i have had over the last several weeks have been focused on one key issue s paris good or bad for this country. >> you are the epa administrator, shouldn't you be able to tell the american people whether or not the president still believes the climate change is a hoax. where does he stand? >> i answed the question a couple of times. where does the president stand on climate change. does he believe it is a hoax. >> i have not had the opportunity to have that discussion. >> would it be possible to have that c...