blue to red. the president is thinking about the domestic political map that he believes was the key to his getting elected. the international fallout from this was immediate and overwhelming from beijing to berlin, leaders labeled the decision reckless and irresponsible, said it was another sign the united states was abdicating its global leadership. listen here while traveling in asia, jams mattis sounded almost apologetic. to quote british observer of us from some years ago, bear with us. once we ve exhausted all possible alternatives, the americans will do the right thing, so we will still be there, and we will be there with you. you listen to secretary mattis there, i m not sure what the point he was trying to make but in this climate decision, and it is reinforced i think today by the president s response to the london terror attack in his tweets this is in my view, please jump in if i m wrong, the president going to back to basics.
to be a new deal. reporter: that s right. the epa administrator told reporters that the president is open to starting negotiations on a new paris climate deal. we have heard over the last 24 hours in response to the president s announcement, world leaders, including key u.s. allies who say simply, that s not happening. anderson. jim acosta, thanks. more now with a little known organization that had a big influence on the president s climate decision. drew griffin has the low down on who they are. he tried to find out who is financing them. take a look. reporter: located in a non-discript office in wauds, the competitive enterprise institute and the director of energy, may have helped change the political and environmental direction of a nation. it has been a big win for you, correct? this is kind of a coup for your group. it s a small organization. we have been very persistent. we haven t given up. i think we have to a large extent finally prevailed through
i did answer the question s because i said the discussions the president and i had over the last several weeks have been focused on one key issue. is paris good or bad for this country. shouldn t we be able to tell the american people whether or not the president still believes climate change is a hoax. where does he stand? as i indicated several times in the process, there s enough to deal with, with respect to the paris agreement and making an informed decision about this important issue. that s what our focus has been the last several weeks. i ve answered the question a couple of times. does the president share the epa s administrator s thoughts on this topic and why is the administration backed away from using the words climate change. i have not had an opportunity to specifically talk to the president about that. there s a little known organization that apparently had a big influence on the president s climate decision. drew griffin tells us who the organization is a
kellyanne conway, she said that they would not the administration would not rule out the president invoking executive privilege to stop james comey from testifying. well, we ll be watching with the rest of the world when director comey testifies. the last time he testified under oath, the fbi had to scurry to correct that testimony. he was off by hundreds of thousands in his count. his sworn testimony count of the number of information, the number of e-mails that huma abedin allegedly sent to her husband, anthony weiner. he said there were hundreds of thousands. turns out that was off by hundreds of thousands invoking executive privilege? the president will make that decision. reporter: so it remains to be seen what the administration will do. will the trump administration, in fact, try to block comey s testimony? the testimony itself scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on thursday, first in a public session and then in a closed-door session at 1:00 p.m. now, of course, there are li
inquiries from individual members of congress. oversight committees, subpoenas, that s a different ball game, but when it comes to individual inquiries or requests, even from ranking minority members, they are under no legal obligation to respond to those. you can imagine that democrats on capitol hill did not take kindly at all. the top ranking democrat elijah cummings said to me in a statement this is not what democracy looks like and says, look, how are we supposed to do our oversight job? how are we supposed to report back to our constituents if we can t even get basic information so real causing a lot of backlash here in d.c., wolf. and that department of justice decision affects all of the executive branch. all right. everybody stand by. there s much more coming up, including vladimir putin now opening up about president trump, hillary clinton and more. up next though, why he s telling people, quote, and speaking in english even, don t worry, be happy. there s nothing traditi