Sheldon Whitehouse: “Let me ask you specifically: Of the three elements of this proposal, one is that somebody has to show up in the court…”

The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.

We need more clarity on that, and when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.

Most of the dealbreaker humps we’re over, but now it’s refining the language, taking raw agreements into legislative texts and figuring out what schedule for voting succeeds.

This is a hugely important milestone but there are two big pieces of work in front of us.