John Kerry: “Is it fair to say that sometimes the competing interests actually prevented things from getting done?”

What we are trying to achieve now is really to establish some stability if we can, in the relationship, without conceding anything.

No, that's not acceptable. And I believe it was an algorithm that kicked that out kind of crazily.

you cannot just sit there anywhere and wish that things are going to be as they have been historically.

We do not trade any component of any of those other issues for what we are trying to do on the climate front.