despite all this russia stuff donald trump remains interested in providing a fig leaf to russia. it s not a fig leaf. it s that other thing. what s the thing where you re offering them up something i mean they haven t changed their behavior on ukraine. what are we getting in return? on olive branch. go ahead. they haven t changed their behavior. there s no real foreign policy case. they re not cooperating with us in syria or anywhere. why is he making nice? why does he keep doing these nice things? he believes fervently, i m told, that this will be a good thing for the united states. why doesn t he come out and say, that s why i ve been talking to these guys since last year? why doesn t he say, i m trying to crack this stupid cold war thing? it s baffling because it is such an outlier to everything else is america first. we watched him walk away from a climate change accord today that 190 nations signed on to. last week at nato he was thumbing his nose at all thes
are fair to the united states and its workers, or to negotiate a new deal that protects our country and its taxpayers. [ applause ] so if the obstructionists want to get together with me, let make them non-obstructionists. now, again, the contradiction, he says he doesn t believe in climate change although two white house staffers were asked today and they wouldn t answer the question. but if he does believe in it, the science of it, then what s to negotiate? that s the number one question. but i think the idea that the white house won t say whether or not he doesn t agree with climate change, of course it s something that has been proven by scientists, but if you have to have that conversation, then there s nothing to negotiate. if you don t believe that the world is changing who is he talking to? he s talking to his supporters who want to think that the climate isn t changing because they want their coal-mile-per-houring jcoal
been treated worse than he has. wasn t that pathetic? that builds men and women of greatness, doesn t it? let s all be victims together. by the way, congratulations on being officers. but this sense that america is getting over on the little guy, that s a message that resonates with his supporters, and i think that s what he was trying to speak to in framing the speech today. 195 countries, maybe minus one, us, they re out to get us? that was his message. what stuck with me about this message was the fact he was really contrasting. he said paris or pittsburgh. this idea was that these two cities are now somehow at war and that if we care about climate change and we think about the climate and we think about how we re going to lower our carbon emissions, that that s somehow taking away american values. so to me, it obviously is persuasive to his supporters but as david gregory used to say, unpack that. i know exactly what it means, but i want to tell me, what does the word p
because number one, he s talking about renegotiating. if he doesn t believe in the climate change situation, what s to negotiate? i mean the whole argument about climate change has already been debated. it s over. the rest of the world except one country and it s basically as we know because of politics. now, the more critical issue is why do all corporations in this country support the paris agreement? why do even fossil fuel companies support the paris agreement? because they understand where the economy of the world is going, and it s not going to stop because we re not going to be a part. not the koch brothers. well, but the rest. but tillerson is. the secretary of state believes in it. that s different. so does shell and other major corporations. but the question is if we re not going to be a part of the future and the economics of the world, then we re just guaranteeing it s going to happen in germany
govern. he just went all campaign here. let s get to the problems here. jeff, he s pulling one of these repeal and replace numbers because he knows he s hearing from ivanka and some of the more smart people around him, this is going to look bad, dad. you look like a troglodyte here. what s he going to replace it with if he doesn t believe in climate change? this is about a four-year long process. as a matter of fact, it takes so long that the exit of this actually ends the day after the 2020 election. oh, really? yeah, but i was so the new president, if it s a new president, he or she can stop it? this is absolutely going to be coming up in the trump, as i said, also challenged democrats to join him in renegotiating a new deal on climate change. let s watch this because i don t think it makes sense if you don t believe in climate change. i m willing to immediately work with democratic leaders to either negotiate our way back into paris under the terms that