Chris Cillizza: I Don’t Know If Trump Knows the Difference Between Climate and Weather

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HARLOW: "Chris, we couldn't let you go home. The president has called climate change a hoax before but tonight making light of extreme temperatures and nonsensical argument about it."
CILLIZZA: "You're right poppy. I shoveled my parents' driveway in Connecticut and it's freezing, I can confirm. What trump is doing is conflating weather with climate. Weather is the weather. It is cold, it's going to be cold for a lot of the country the next week or so. Climate is the long view, it's not next week or next month, it's long view. This is again going to be warmest year on record. Whether he's doing that purposefully or he doesn't know the difference, I can't say. But this logic led Oklahoma senator in 2015, a skeptic or denier, to bring a snowball into the Senate floor late February as evidence that it's so cold, there are snowballs, therefore global warming or climate change isn't real. That's like saying it was really hot this past summer, therefore climate change is real. That's weather. Climate is much longer term and more accurate frankly reflection of the science here."