running for president 2008, he said that under his plan lecture city rates would necessarily hen nancy pelosioulad 60 democrats in the united states and that he could not get it passed because there was so much opposition to what he has done with regulations. there was so much legislative opposition from his own party that he was not able to get it passed even when he had these overwhelming numbers on his side. there is great opposition because people know how it continues to hurt the economy. emissions have been going down over the last 15 years, but they have been going up everywhere else around the world. you could shut off the united states, turn it off tomorrow, and emissions worldwide would continue to increase. look at what is happening in russia, you think putin is going to follow the president's leadership on this? he will not follow him on anything else, he won't sure not do it on carbon emissions. not just accept it if f -- is what they provo what the proof of science is? your economic argument was still stand. >> the economic argument is the strong one to make. it was interesting whe