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was going to do it and today president trump announced america will withdraw from the paris climate accord. >> but he also announced he wants to renegotiate a new deal to reenter the agreement. it's what we're talking about tonight at 6:30. >> the united states will withdraw. [applause] from the paris climate accord but begin negotiations to reenter either paris accord or an entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the united states, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers. >> by the way it's worth noting several allies have already said that's a nonstarter. you can't reenter the deal once you pull out of it in the first place. the president claims the climate agreement is a job killer and a
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punishes the united states. supporters say it's a worldwide effort to curb global warming. >> lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and you heard jim talk about reaction from overseas has been critical. it now puts the u.s. at odds with nearly every other nation in on this deal. only nicaragua and syria respect not part of this agreement. >> so that's it. nicaragua syria and the united states. timothy first things first. people want to know what is the paris climate deal in the first place. >> yeah, so the paris climate agreement reached in 2015 nearly every country, almost 200 countries are participating in this. it's really just the sum of contributions that every country participating determined on their own. so, every
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whatever emission cuts they thought they could do. for the united states it was a 26 to 28 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. the agreement is all of those together with -- and all of the emissions limits are nonbinding on -- in international law. >> timothy the president said this was a job killer not a good thing for big business when he spoke today he said this paris accord is less about climate and more about other nations gaining finncial advantage over the u.s. what did he mean by that. >> this is one of these international deals that president trump campaigned on saying [inaudible] you know, similar to, say, the trans-pacific partnership. he campaigned on his ability to make better deals for the united states and get the united states out of bad deals. so, he thinks this is one of those bad deals. as you said before, a lot of other countries and a lot of industries disagree with him on that. >> all right
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timothy we appreciate it. want to point out something that was interesting before i let you go, the ceo of goldman sachs joined twitter today and the first tweet was saying this was a bad move on the president's part so i thought that was quite curious. >> yeah, yeah, a lot of business leaders [inaudible] >> timothy camera reporter for the hill.com. thank for coming. i wanted to also share that former president barack obama who negotiated that deal released a statement and it's sort of unusual, a lot of former presidents don't come out and talk about this. >> they stay out of it. >> he issued a statement that said countries that stay in this deal will reap the benefits of jobs created. the u.s. should be at the front of the pack. he continued by saying trump's decision reflects the absence of american leadership. so, that there from the former president who negotiated this deal. we want to know what you guys think about the president's decision to pull out of the climate accord. >> ronica cleary is at a rally at the white house and obviously ronica we know why they're rallying. they don't support
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president's decision here. >> reporter: right. yes, jim and shawn we love to give you the pulse of the people. to be clear this is obviously a group of people who are opposed to the president's decision but we still want to hear from them. the rally just wrapped up. i'm glad we're early in the show so we can still bring you a few voices. ladies, what are your name. >> laura. >> isabelle. >> reporter: were you surprised by today's announcement. > well, if you're a human, if you're a parent, it's just astounding that he would do this. >> reporter: what do you think about the talk of still being willing to maybe respect nerenegotiate the deal. >> what's the point of coming back and renegotiating when every country in the world except for syria and nicaragua signed on. even north korea signed on. i think it's ridiculous. >> reporter: ladies, thank you so much. let's bring you back here. i think we still have a couple other people who said they would chat with us today. gentlemen, i'm going to interrupt your conversation really quickly. what's your
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>> evan. >> reporter: evan and. >> cameron. >> reporter: evan and cameron do you think that a deal will be renegotiated. >> i don't know what exactly he thinks that we should be renegotiating. if anything we need to make it more stringent. i think, you know, it's -- it's unclear to me that this president would renegotiate anything. >> reporter: and you said no, not surprised. >> well, i think it's pretty obvious by looking at trump's business history that a lot of negotiations that he does and business deals that he tries to strong arm people, you know, and by pulling out of an agreement like this, he's trying to strong arm the rest of the i guess world into making this a more fair deal for america. where though a deal is not about america. the deal is about the future of the world. and it's a responsibility that we have to basically bring the world up to the right levels in terms of climate change and in terms of the steps we're taking to combat it. so, no, i'm not surprised that he would try and say that it's a -- you know, he's going to renegotiate because that's what he does every single time he tries to start som
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you so much i'm want to introduce you to a speaker that we have from today. what is your name and who did you speak on behalf of today. >> my name's judith howell i'm security officer with local 32bj of the servic employees international union. >> reporter: and quickly, we only have about 30 seconds left, what was your message to the people today. >> that working class families, families of color and immigrant communities are most impacted by climate change first but it's going to impact everybody. and this affects the united states standing as a foreign policy setter and power. this is an abomination what trump has done today and we must reverse it and we must go to green jobs and green fuels. we must. >> reporter: thank you very much. so, there you have it. the pulse of the people, the people who are frustrated with today's decision. back to you jim and shawn. >> thank you ronica. want to point out too as mentioned before emmanuel macron the newly elected president of france called president trump and said there's know renegotiating here. >> you're out you're out. >> the america
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clean coal electricity one of the groups supporting the decision. they think fossil -- the president made a big deal about that get coalmines opened again and they oppose at the paris accord. >> he mentioned pennsylvania critical during the election he went after people who had been working in the coalmines and steel mills basically saying he is working for the people of pennsylvania, not the people of paris. >> he said the people of pittsburgh. >> pittsburgh i'm sorry. >> and the mayor of pittsburgh came out and said well, hillary clinton won pittsburgh by 75 percent and -- by 25 percent and pittsburgh if you have been there obviously i'm from there, steel mills aren't really a thing any more, it's more biotech and more medical. >> absolutely. we're going to move on and talk about the latest on the russia probe. former fbi director james comey will testify in an open hearing before the senate intel committee next thursday. >> meantime the house intelligence committee issued seven subpoenaes for its investigation into possible links between the trump campaign and the united
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the committee subpoenaed former national security adviser michael flynn as well as his personal attorney michael cohen. you see him in the center. that's energy secretary rick perry on the right. flynn agreed to turn over documents to the committee and cohen agreed to testify. let's get you to tom fitzgerald. hey, fitz. >> reporter: hey, good evening, jim and shawn. you know, at this point right now, folks, we have got four, count them, four investigations going on into the russia case. you've got the senate intelligence committee, you have got the senate judiciary committee, you have the house intelligence committee and then you have the house oversight committee on top of all of that now, we've got this special council robert muller. now, what this means is you need to circle your calendar for next thursday. because next thursday is going to be a very big deal. we learn today that jim comey fired by president trump is
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going to testify in two sessions, one is going to be public, one is going to be behind closed doors because of some of the classified nature of the intelligence they are going to talk about but he is going to be the first to hear directly from jim comey since he was fired by the white house and since all of these questions have come up. in the wake of all of this about exactly what these conversations were between director comey and president trump before comey was fired. now, as we know, comey is said to have kept very detailed notes about those meetings and of course senators are going fob wanting to ask those questions. in a way, this is a very big victory for the senate intelligence committee because all four of these groups have been trying to get jim comey to come talk to them to. senator grassley was not very happy about the fact that comey spurned their invitation and decided to go with intelligence. what we're told comey went to robert mueller the independent
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to go ahead and give this testimony. jim and shawn, next thursday, this might be one of the most hotly anticipated pieces of testimony we have seen in a generation in this city and they're going to be looking into not only the circumstances of comey's firing but what jim comey knows and what the status of the investigation was into the russian interference in the 2016 election. if there's a connection between those two things, comey's firing and this investigation, that could spell very big trouble for this white house. >> no joke fitz i've heard people talking about having watch parties with popcorn just to watch this. >> reporter: you know, i am just old enough to remember the watergate hearings, shawn and i can tell you back in its day, there was no c-span, there was no 24-hour cable. pbs was one of the main networks that would play that over and over again, i have quite clear memories of our entire family sitting down and watching all of this and if there are watch parties,
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don't doubt that that is going to happen because all ears and eyes are going to be on jim comey next thursday because this nagging question has gone on since his dismissal. why was he fired? what was he working on? and what did president trump say to him before this firing took place? that question is going to be put to him not only by democrats but he can also expect some tough grilling from republicans as well. keep in mind, there is a lot of upset on capitol hill about the leaks that have gone on in this case. >> yeah. >> reporter: and if these are leaks that have come out of the fbi and come under jim comey republicans are going to want to know why that is and why all this information seems to be getting out to the media and not to the investigators on capitol hill. >> thank you fitz. >> meantime a man arrested at the trump hotel in d.c. was in court today. >> police arrested bryan moles after finding an assault style rifle handgun and a.m. mission in his vehicle in the hotel's garage. mole
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voicemails saying he wanted to stay in d.c. until he met the president. federal authorities are waiting to hear if the judge will keep moles overnight for a hearing tomorrow. even though hillary clinton lost her bid to be president, her pl political presence is strong. >> is she blocking the way for others in the democratic party. we'll talk about that when we come back.
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>> even though she lost her presidential bid hillary clinton is still a political force. but is she what democrats need right now. >> could she be blocking the future leaders. former florida state senator and marie simpson president of the young democrats are here to break this down. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> maurice, hillary clinton her election loss still making headlines it seems almost daily. certainly as a public servant as a political figure she has a right to still be here but is her presence blocking the
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leaders. >> first and foremost it's definitely her right to be engaged at this level. she -- she's been a go get her entire life and truly has broken a glass ceiling for many of us in this country. i think it's important she's here and uses her resources to hope doors for more young people in the process. we see that with her onward together organization where she's funding organizations from the ground up to train and prepare the next generation of leaders so i think she has a good place currently particularly fighting back against her challenger. she could have went away forever but she took some time off and got back in the game. >> jeremy they went back to this in the early going that of course hillary clinton won the popular vote which in the end didn't mean anything when it came to election dale but was this air of inevitably that after barack obama was wasre-elected it was going to be hillary
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>> it was supposed to be her time the first time around when barack obama won. it was supposed to be her time the second time around. bernie sanders gave her a challenge. she still won the nomination and everyone expected even when i -- even donald trump expected she was going to win until the last day so, she was anointed and i don't -- anointed didn't seem to work at all. if appointed worked we would have president hillary clinton ending her first term t-we would probably have president jeb bush. anointed didn't seem to work. >> yesterday during the interview she gave we're seeing right now on screen she was critical of the dnc saying they didn't give her anything, there wasn't enough money there to support her moving forward. is she, you know, what the party needs or does she need to step aside a little bit and let some of the new names that quite frankly i mean the democrats need to rebuild if they'r going to put somebody up against the president come 2020. >> i think that. >> sure. >> i think you make a
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point there. >> let me jump in. >> yeah. >> number one, is she -- she's absurd i think to blame the dnc 'cause at the end of the day the campaign is the driver and it's always about the campaign win or losers of action. >> i don't think that was blaming the dnc. >> we're in june of 2017. for 2020 election there's plenty of time for lots of democrats to emerge and they will emerge and i assure our whatever happens in 20 -- june of 2017 will have no bearing in november of 2020. >> maurice go for it. >> no, i don't think she was blaming the dnc per se. i think she was explaining how much of ooh a resource she's been not dnc over the years unlike the other democrat candidate in the race she's given her entire fundraising list over to the dnc so they can continue to raise money. she's always been about building upstate parties, fundraising at the party level at the state level so, you know, so she was just drawing the line and saying,is
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yes, support from even establishment democrts when the time came all of the resources that i have worked to put into this apparatus over the years did not return to me directly. >> you know, we've heard so much about the republicans who could be coming up. real quick, we have a couple seconds here, maurice first you, then jeremy, you answer. does the democratic party have a bench. >> i think we do see a bench. i think part of what we have to do is have young people in our party. i think the young democrats are doing that is training up a young people and preparing them to run for state offices and local offices so that we build a pipeline. >> jeremy. >> we are doing that. >> jeremy. >> yeah, i lost you for a moment so i think the question was is there a bench. >> yes. >> people like cory booker i think would be fantastic. even bill clinton. no one heard of him until the very end when he kind of came out of nowhere. we'll have a bench. we'll be fine t and as i said before, whatever june of 2017 will have no bearing on
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you heard it right here on 5 at 6:30. thank you gentlemen. jeremy ring and maurice simpson thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> coming up what makes a good leader. >> a retired u.s. army general is here to share his thoughts on the current climate here in washington. introducing fios gigabit connection.
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>> ♪ >> welcome back. from the president to congress to our nation's military history showing the importance of good leadership. what makes a good leader. >> retired u.s. army major michael diamond is here to share some of his 45 years of expertise as a military leader. he has a brand new book out called the diamond process. thanks for being here. >> glad to be here with y'all. >> let me ask you, you have a lot of experience, you led what, how many 30,000. >> 27,000. >> 27,000 troops. what is your assessment of the current leadership in washington right now? are they doing a good job what grade would you give? let's start at the white house. >> i see some positive things
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one of the main things is as i've highlighted in my book you have to establish the organization you're leading and go through and get to it where it's functional and we know the dysfunction that's been taking place for many, many years here and so that's an effort that i see the current administration doing which i think is very positive. >> let me ask you though this is -- we're talking about a president who wasn't a politician before. he was used to running his business. how is different and is that difference the reason we may be seeing some of these stumbles do you think. >> he's trying to use the skills that made him successful with trump, with the federal government. >> sure. >> and i was discussing this business your director earlier. it is -- and what he came into being for is to drain the swamp. well, the swamp is just something totally different that he hasn't had to contend with. so, what that means is you've got a lot of partners and stakeholders that are not part of the federal government but impact and influence the federal government. those are what i feel like he's had many,
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with that have slowed down the process that he's trying to make. >> you know, we have a three prong government here. we have the white house, we have congress. you know, how much of leadership involves collaboration and listening to others? >> i'd say all of it does but again, it goes back to the processes that they have to mesh together so that it coastal it canfunction properly. what don't have have that right now. >> they're very separate. how does a good leader bring them together. >> well, you got to find common ground and it's a big challenge today because look at society. we're as polarized as we've ever been. >> sure. >> not just politics, yeah, it's all over. >> it's politics, it's society, it's -- look at the world. >> right. >> i mean its a very difficult challenge. it's growing to take a monumental leadership job from not only the person that's in the leaderhip spot but all theea
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leader. >> uh-huh. >> for folks who want to know about your book where can they find it? tell us a little bit more about it. >> our web site. >> which is. >> www.diamond strategy group.com. >> uh-huh. >> and inside they will learn all those tips to -- >> everything. >> how to lead with an organization that functions correctly and you have to have the leadership -- i mean the organization has to function properly before you can use all the people skills that that people have learned. >> hopefully you sent this to congress and to the white house. >> i've sent books to some that are here in washington, yes. >> thank you. >> thank you general diamond. >> glad to be here. >> thanks for coming in. >> the supreme court justices welcome their newest memo today. their new class photo coming up next on the 5 at 6:30. >> ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90.
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raise wages, eliminate the burden of student debt and protect our climate. together we really can build a virginia that works for everyone. >> ♪ >> remember class photo back in the day. >> it was fun. >> you would line up in the library. they had the box of plastic combs to make sure your hair was just right. >> i remember that. >> well, supreme court justices are no different. they took time out of
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final month of the term to pose for a photo with their new member. >> and neil gorsuch is the newest supreme court justice took his place alongside the other justices. the newly appointed justice stood in the back row there. the court is expected to tackle outstanding cases dealing with religious liberty and immigration and an appeal of president trump's travel ban may make its way before the court before this term ends. neil gorsuch there. >> i always enjoy the picture though because there's so many different expressions. sonia sotomayor is smiling. >> kind of like a half smile. >> samuel alito he's not one that likes to force the smile. there's elena kagan. >> someone behind the camera just like you were talking about when you were getting your school photos talking to them. >> did you notice ruth baeder ginsberg doesn't have the color on. she went with the chunky necklace. >> new fashion trend. it was fun for them i'm
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yearly class photo and i'm sure they didn't think about the things we're thinking about. anyway. thanks for joining us tonight at 6:30 everybody. >> we'll see you tonight at 10:00, 10:30 and 11:00 have a great night. >> ♪ millions of you are online right now, searching one topic. that will generate over 600 million results. and if you've been diagnosed with cancer, searching for answers like where to treat, can feel even more overwhelming. so start your search with a specialist at cancer treatment centers of america.
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harvey: so mary kay letourneau's separated husband, vili, he was out and about with his daughter. she's 18! >> which is crazy because mary kay was pregnant with her while she went back for her seven-year sentence. >> she had the baby in a cell? harvey: she did. >> that kid's got some street cred, man. i was born in the prison! i was born in jail. >> tyler shields, the photographer behind the kathy griffin photo, the camera guy asked him if he would do it again. >> if you make art, you're going to stand by it. that's it. >> you think tyler shields gets this? >> not at all. harvey: nobody criticized him. they called her. he was probably the master mind. >> she was just the model. harvey: she's the model. >> yeah, a beheaded model. >> tiger woods, there were some reports he was hanging out with this instagram model laci kay
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