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00:00GROUP. KUSHNICE TO HAVE YOU HERE. THE REACTION SOON FOLLOWED AND IT WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATE. COULD THE PRESIDENT RENEGING FROM THE PARIS. ACTUALLY BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE? -- THE PARIS DEAL ACTUALLY BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE? CHRISTIANA: I THINK SO. IT HAS BEEN MET WITH AN OPPOSITE BUT GREATER POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FORCE AS WE HEARD FROM TIM COOK. CERTAINLY FROM PRIVATE COMPANIES ALSO FROM SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, CITY GOVERNMENTS, STATE GOVERNMENTS, AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS. WE HEARD FROM 125 GOVERNMENTS THAT THEY REMAIN COMMITTED AND IN FACT, NOT JUST COMMITTED TO THEIR TARGETS IN PARIS, BUT EVEN MORE. I THINK IN THE END, WE WILL BE WRITING A THANK YOU LETTER TO MR. TRUMP. > > YOUR INITIAL REACTION TO HIM WITHDRAWING FROM THE STEEL, WHAT WAS IT? CHRISTIANA: SADNESS. SADNESS FOR THE U.S. IT IS REALLY SAD WHEN IT IS SOMETHING LIKE WHAT WE SAW IN THE ROSE GARDEN. IT ERODES POLITICAL CREDIBILITY FOR THE HEAD OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THAT WAS VERY SAD. I THINK POLITICAL CREDIBILITY HAS BEEN ERODED NOT JUST ON THIS TOPIC, BUT COULD HAVE KNOCK ON EFFECTS TO OTHER TOPICS, WHERE IT WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR OTHER HEADS OF STATE TO TAKE THIS MR. TRUMP SERIOUSLY. ANCHOR: CHRISTIANA, YOU ARE HERE IN CHINA. JERRY BROWN HEADING TO CHINA TO SPEAK ABOUT THIS AS A GLOBAL COMMITMENT. I WILL THROW UP A CHART FOR OUR VIEWERS TO SEE, WHERE WE STAND GLOBALLY ON THIS CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION ON SOLAR ENERGY IN PARTICULAR TO CHINA DOES RANK THE TOP OF THE LIST, MAKING UP 27%. THE U.S. IS 12.5% RIGHT NOW. WHAT IS THE MESSAGE THE GOVERNOR CAN BRING TO CHINA? DOES IT TAKE OUT THE STEAM FROM THIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE U.S. ON THE PARIS DEAL? CHRISTIANA: YES AND NO. IT DOES TAKE OUT THE STING IN THE SENSE THAT THERE IS SUCH AN OPPOSITE AND STRONGER REACTION THAT MOST OF US DO NOT HAVE ANY CONCERNS ABOUT THE PARIS AGREEMENT MARCHING FORWARD AND ACTUALLY MEETING THE TARGETS THAT ARE PUT INTO THE PARIS ACCORD, BUT I DO NOT THINK THAT ANYONE ACTUALLY WILL JUST OVERSEE THE PRONOUNCEMENTS FROM THE HEAD OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH THAT DIPLOMATICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. BETTY: CHRISTIANA, I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT SOME NEWS THAT BROKE EARLIER TODAY ABOUT THE TOP DIPLOMAT IN CHINA, DAVID RANK, QUITTING HIS POST. IT IS NOT CLEAR HE IS DOING SO BECAUSE OF TRUMP ' S DECISION TO LEAVE THE PARIS AGREEMENT, BUT THAT IS A WIDE SPECULATION. I AM CURIOUS IF YOU THINK OTHERS MIGHT FOLLOW SUIT OR IF THEY MAY ESSENTIALLY LAUNCH A SILENT PROTEST LIKE THAT? CHRISTIANA: AS YOU SAY, IT IS NOT A TACKLE CLEAR, THE MOTIVATION, BUT IF I PUT MYSELF IN THE SHOES OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF THE UNITED STATES, OF THOSE IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT, IT IS A RATHER DIFFICULT POSITION TO DEFEND, VIS-A-VIS THE GOVERNMENT WHERE YOU ARE POSTED, SO I WOULD NOT PUT IT COMPLETELY PASSED HIM -- PAST HIM THAT THOSE ARE THE REASONS. HE MIGHT BE FOR OTHERS IN THE DIPLOMATIC ARENA, AS HAS ELON MUSK, ACTUALLY, SPOKEN FOR THOSE IN THE CORPORATE FIELD. HIM RESIGNING TO THE ADVISORY COUNCIL. BETTY: BEFORE WE GO, CHRISTIANA, DO YOU BELIEVE AT ALL THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS GOING TO RENEGOTIATE THE PARTICIPATION OF THE U.S. IN THE PARIS AGREEMENT OR IS THAT ALL BUT DEAD? CHRISTIANA: NO, I ' M SORRY, THAT IS ONE MORE OF THE FACTUALLY INCORRECT STATEMENTS THAT WE HEARD FROM THE ROSE GARDEN LAST WEEK. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A RENEGOTIATION. THIS IS A MULTILATERAL TREATY. IT CANNOT BE RENEGOTIATED BY A SINGLE COUNTRY. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO LEGAL BASIS FOR THAT. AND AS WE HAVE HEARD FROM MANY STATES, THERE IS NO POLITICAL WILLINGNESS TO EVEN BEGIN TO

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