John Kerry compares Trump to OJ Simpson

Tillerson: US will continue to reduce greenhouse emissions
Trump withdraws from climate pact, world leaders push back
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05 June, 2017

"I do think the refusal to acknowledge climate change as a serious problem facing the United States and the world, as well as the reckless decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement, does risk alienating moderate Republicans and Independents", Konisky told CNBC in an email.

The president added: "We are getting out, but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that is fair". "That's like O.J. Simpson saying he's going to go out and find the real killer", Kerry said during an exclusive interview on NBC's "Meet The Press".

When asked whether he knows what the president believes, Pruitt told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that the question is "off the point".

And that, to answer Chuck's original question, is why the Democrats' message is not being heard in rural America.

Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, joining Syria and Nicaragua as the only non-signatories to the agreement. The decision was a reversal of the Obama administration's announcement past year that the US would enter the agreement, and most of the rest of the world has also signed on.

"I mean, what does Donald Trump know that Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobile, doesn't know?" he asked.

On Thursday, Trump announced he'd be pulling the USA out of the Paris pact - a decision that sparked intense condemnation from world leaders, business executives across the US and lawmakers on virtually every level of government. "When Paris was executed by this country, they criticized the agreement, said that it did not hold China and India accountable". Pruitt asked. "Why did India condition their CO2 [carbon dioxide] reductions upon receiving $2.5 trillion of aid in the agreement?" We were going to take steps, front loading our costs while the rest of the world waited to reduce their Carbon dioxide footprint.

His decision to turn his back on science and global cooperation dealt a huge blow to the worldwide hopes of fighting climate change and left the U.S.as the only major country that won't be part of the 195-country global accord - and just one of three worldwide.


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