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Portion of the american people on the proposition you will bring back coal jobs. a lot of people will wait for that. >> we need jobs. we dont want an argument of how many jobs we will lose. we need the country to grow jobs. we need to grow gdp 3%. >> you think you can bring back coal jobs? you will have a big boom in fossil fuels and coal? >> i think we will see a boom in natural gas with hydro fracking. i agree we will not see a boom in coal. that is a base load of 30% of energy. we need to kee...

Oil and natural gas. thats causing harm and deaths right now. so when ralph kind of constructs these very scary-sounding scenarios designed to scare people, you can evaluate that against 40 years of a track record here where we know that nuclear provides the safest base load power source there is. >> let me ask you just for a second. i cant resist. in terms of scary scenarios, literally from my grandmothers house you can see three mile island. and in the film "three mile island" the second react...

The country about investing in upgrading our power grid and making it a smart grid. are we actually set up everywhere in the country to be able to sell power back, or do we need to invest in upgrades? >> no, were not equipped, both from a physical standpoint and regulatory standpoint. not every state has whats called net metering, allows you to sell energy to the grid. so there is not an all-50-state solution to this. but you do have about 40-plus states that have it. thats pretty good to start....

Try to bring some balance to that. weve got to be able to come together and im all in on the bowles-simpson approach temple weve talked about and been working on. also the environmental and energy policy. i want a balance between the economy and environment and ive spoken loud and clear. use all the resources in our great country and the most the mix. thatssial, natural gas, developing your solar and your wind and your renewables and fuels of the future. you cant disregard one thats a tremendous...

Republican from california is proposing a road map for americas energy future. and this is not just some legislation coming from one congressman that may never get acted on. it has some 50 plus sponsors of this legislation, not to mention the chairman of the house budget committee paul ryan. its got a lot of backing. it calls for 200 new nuclear power plants across the country. and i asked him earlier this week if hes still comfortable with that number. >> 200 nuclear power plants is going to so...

Future. then the energy -- the safe energy resource are at our fingerprints. we need to tap them. for example, by improving efficiency over the course of the next 20 years or so, we could free up as much electricity as generated in 100 nuclear power plants in this country. and then just look at the vast safe energy resources that exist in this country. we have offshore wind potential off of the coast of virginia. theres enough wind that blows across the great plains to power the entire united st...

The entire united states. and the sun is constantly shining on vast portions of arizona -- >> do we have the base load capacity to do that? can we load up that capacity? can we get the wind and hold. >> its >> no. >> stoirt. thats our problem. let me go back to -- i understand your advocacy. let me go to ann. looking at this objectively, is there any way to see an alternative down in the near term to nuclear in this country? >> theres no immediate alternative, chris. especially if were going to ...

That to the table. not artificially raise the prices to make it more difficult to created jobs, get jobs back. >> you know a lot of states that depend on coal and certainly west virginia would be one of those are very suspicious when it comes to any proposaling on cap and trade legislation whereby companies can trade what they save on their emissions and trade them with other -- companies or sell them. that kind of thing. whats your stand on instituting that kind of cap and trade legislation? >>...