US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told CNN's Jake Tapper that President Donald Trump believes "the climate is changing" during an interview that will air on Sunday.
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Nikki Haley admits that Trump believes the 'climate is changing'
Haley was asked to address whether Trump still believed climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese.
Tapper initially asked Haley to confirm whether or not Trump still believed his famous 2013 claim that global warming was a hoax "invented by and for the Chinese" in order to hurt US manufacturing.
"What I will tell you is the regulations from the Paris Agreement were [a disadvantage to] our companies. We know that," Haley said. "I knew that as a governor, we know that now. The jobs were not attainable as long as we had to live under those regulations."
She added that the US would continue to be a leader on environmental protection. "The rest of the world wanted to tell us how to do it. We're saying, 'We will do it, but we'll do it under our terms,'" Haley said.
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Tapper replied and said that the standards Haley was referring to were set by the US and not by other countries.
"No, the standards were set by President Obama and not passed through the Senate because the standards couldn't have been achieved," Haley interjected.
"Yeah, but my point is, you said the world was imposing standards on the United States," Tapper replied. "
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