Chris Collins on Paris Deal: ‘President Obama Flunked Negotiation 101’

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COLLINS: "First of all, Chris, this was not agreement about the science behind global warming. This was a bad deal for the United States. We had a hard pledge to reduce our CO2 emissions by 26 or 28 percent by the year 2025. That is in eight years where China, Pakistan and India made a pledge of sorts that they would do their best to see what might happen. This was a one-sided bad deal for the United States which was going to cost us a lot of jobs. The other countries — there was no teeth in the agreement. This agreement reminds me of the Iran agreement, the Syrian agreement and also the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Obama flunked Negotiation 101. This was just another really bad agreement from the U.S. This was not about global warming. This was not about the science behind it. This was just a job killing bad deal."