From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

Today, the president says he's putting Pittsburgh ahead of Paris and withdraws the United States

from the global climate agreement. The months leading up to that remarkable decision

and what happens now. It's Friday, June 2nd.

And admiration for his unwavering commitment to the American people it is now my high honor

and distinct privilege to introduce to all of you the president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump.

On Thursday afternoon, standing in the Sunlit Rose Garden behind the White House,

President Trump prepared to announce a decision that the international community had anxiously been waiting to hear.

For months, the president had been promising to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.

But whether or not he actually would was a question up until the moment he began to speak.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

So Mike, we are talking before this announcement in the Rose Garden.

So we are in a, I at least, and in a bit of suspense here trying to understand exactly what the president will do

about the Paris Climate Agreement from what you can tell. When do we first hear Donald Trump talk about the Paris Climate Accord?

Well, I think the most memorable moment is sort of the fall of 2015.

Michael Sheer is a White House reporter. He's interviewed on Morning Joe.

Donald, the fewer president right now and you were over in Paris. What is it you would be trying to do on climate change?

And goes into a long kind of rambling answer. Well, first of all, I think one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard in politics in the history of politics as I know it,

which is pretty good. Was Obama's statement that our number one problem is global warming.

That exposes his real frustration with President Obama at the time and President Obama's position on climate.

I think that his statement the other day that we're going to show them when we meet that we mean business for the future and global warming and climate change or whatever the new term is because now they have extreme weather.

You know, they have so many new terms because the old ones don't work very well. You know, it used to be global warming and then they had a problem where they had some very cool areas and that wasn't working.

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