Than mediation. At the end of the day we have constant exchanges with President Trump. I share his goals, hell say he doesnt agree with methods, but i want to get there, i want to have an agreement. And i think theres been a true change. This morning president rohani showed himself to be opening to this meeting happening and President Trump has been saying for weeks hes been demanding and being tough and putting forward sanctions but im ready to have a meeting to make a deal. I think were making progress. I want this meeting to happen and i want there to be an agreement between the United States and iran and france will play the role that its meant to play together with the United Kingdom, with germany and all of the other Signatory Powers and the permanent members of the security council. Iran is a country thats not the same country it was two and a half years ago when i came into office. Iran was the number one state of terror throughout the world. There were 18 sites of confliction
talks according to the white house press secretary, the president had scheduled meetings with germany and india, however, photos of that meeting show the leaders of both germany and india at that meeting while trump s chair remains empty. later he was asked about his past comments on the impact of climate change. there was a significant talk about climate change. i know in the past you ve proffered some skepticism of the science of climate change. what do you think the world should be doing and do you still harbor that skepticism? i feel that the united states has tremendous wealth. the wealth is under its feet. i ve made that wealth come alive. i m not going to lose that wealth. i m not going to lose it on dreams, on windmills, which frankly aren t working too well. and along with all of that, there was this from trump about the first lady and north korea s dictator.
soon it will be by far with a couple of pipelines that have not been able to get approved for many, many years. it will have a huge impact. i was able to get anwar in alaska, the largest site in the world for oil and gas. ronald reagan wasn t able to do it. nobody was able to do it. trying to do it since before ronald reagan. i got it approved. we re the number one energy producer in the world. soon it will be by far the number one. it s tremendous wealth. and lng is being sought after all over europe and all over the world and we have more of it than anybody else. i m not going to lose that wealth, i m not going to lose it on dreams, on windmills, which frankly aren t working too well. i m not going to lose it. so josh, in a nutshell i want the cleanest water on earth. i want the cleanest air on earth. and that s what we re doing. and i m an environmentalist.
chris, let me get your thoughts on climate change and the president. this is one of the big issues of the summit, macron trying to make it front and center. listen to what the president had to say about this. the united states has tremendous wealth. the wealth is under its feet. i have made that wealth come alive. i m not going to lose that wealth, i m not going to lose it on dreams, on windmills, which frankly aren t working too well. i m an environmentalist. a lot of people don t understand that. i think i know more about the environment than most people. i want clean air, clean water, i want a wealthy country, i want a spectacular country with jobs, with pensions, so many things. we can t let that wealth be taken away. clean air, clean water. thank you very much, everybody. i appreciate it. thank you. that was the president s explanation while he didn t attend climate change meeting among the leaders. what do you make of what president macron was trying to
which frankly aren t working too well. i m not going to lose t josh, in a nutshell, i want the cleanest water on earth. i want the cleanest air on earth. that s what we re doing. i m an environmentalist. the president did not even attend g7 meeting on climate. they did not have a communique and similarly in osaka they took climate out of the communique this summer at the insistence of the u.s. he didn t attend and didn t have a communique here. if the president were an environmentalist, i would think the environment would disagree. on the most pressing and global environmental issue that faces us today, climate change. there is no g7. it s a g6.