fight climate change on his own. in december of 2009, at a climate conference in copenhagen, obama displayed his determination to play a major role on this issue on the global stage. good morning. as hillary clinton later explained in a democratic primary debate president obama and i were hunting for the chinese. she and president obama found themselves chasing beijing s delegation at that conference. why? we knew we had to get them to agree to something because there will be no effective efforts against climate change unless china and india join with the rest of the world. when the american delegation found out about a secret meeting between china, india and other developing nations, they sent out a search party, found the meeting, and the president and
now america has arrived at a crossroads. his stimulus bill included lots of money for clean energy. van jones was the obama white house s green jobs guru. it s impossible to overstate how important climate change was to the obama administration in the first year. but obama s bold agenda was soon stymied by a recalcitrant congress. by a chorus of climate change deniers. and by the fact that americans just did not care about climate change. it was ranked the 11th most important issue during the 2008 election out of 12 options. so the president decided to fight climate change on his own. in december of 2009, at a climate conference in copenhagen, obama displayed his
deniers. and by the fact that americans just did not care about climate change. it was ranked the 11th most important issue during the 2008 election out of 12 options. so the president decided to fight climate change on his own. in december of 2009, at a climate conference in copenhagen, obama displayed his determination to play a major role on this issue on the global stage. good morning. as hillary clinton later explained in a democratic primary debate president obama and i were hunting for the chinese. she and president obama found themselves chasing beijing s delegation at that conference. why? we knew we had to get them to
house s green jobs guru. it s impossible to overstate how important climate change was to obama in the first year. but his bold agenda was stymied by a recalcitrant congress. by a chorus of climate change deniers. and by the fact that americans just did not care about climate change. it was ranked the 11th-most important issue during the 2008 election. out 1206 options. so the president decided to fight climate change on his own. in december of 2009 at a climate conference in copenhagen obama displayed his determination to play a major role on this issue
refused to call radical islamic terrorism what it is. he s downplayed it. remember going back to the christmas day of december 2009, we had a confession in december of 2009 to the fbi he had been involved in al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and the president suggested he was an isolated extremist. you can t have that but shouldn t jump to conclusions either. i want to ask about the idea that donald trump gets in, president-elect gets in, his secretary of state pick has happened. not confirmed yet. he hasn t taken office, we don t know what his policies will look like. is this maybe an indication he had his hand on the pulse of things that people didn t know. that was a quick response. and we ll have to see if the facts bear it out. i think that the donald trump s victory was a rejection of the weakness of president obama. if you remember president obama and his first 100 days he had apologized to three separate continents.