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Half a million construction workers who endorsed obama twice is speaking out against this vociferously. >> this is no example of profiles in courage. its clear the administration needs to grow a set of antlers or perhaps take a lesson from popeye and eat some spinach. its not just the 2,000 hard hat jobs and also thousands more about the construction of the pipeline, but canada has about 1,000 suppliers who would be working here in the u.s. if the pipeline went through. >> the way it was express...

Farm land and helps sustain the country for food in ground zero in a battle between environmentalist and whether or not the farmers in the central valley have water. ladies and gentlemen, this is a dus bowl and we came here tonight with a message for washington and president barack obama, please for the sake of the farmers where unemployment is near 40%, please turn this water on now. took a long time, which brings me to my next point. this is government gone wild. not limited to cliven bundy or...

Progressives who are worried about the flood of dark money on the conservative side is, well, where are our guys, right? >> right. >> and tom steyer who is a big environmentalist said hes planning on spending as much as $100 million on the subject of climate change. tell me if im wrong here, it feels like liberals and progressive donors are more willing to give money to causes that do not benefit the economic interests compared to folks like the koch brothers. >> well, i think its a mix. i dont ...

The pipeline. and those whom make less than 50,000 a year who are less likely to vote this fall support the pipeline 54- 34. the president is making a political calculation. he would like the granola eater environmentalist than worrying approximate the turn out with less affluent voters. >> and carl, ten seconds, dow think it will be president? >> they are delaying until after the midterms. >> it makes so much economic accepts for the united states. economy of energy, security and jobs and long-...

Products. so it is passing through. there is a lot of misinformation around this. but again the science -- let the scientists deal with that. i want to know -- lets say im an environmentalist and im concerned about the amount of herbicide. its half a billion since 1996 of increased herbicides. a half million pounds. so if i care about that i want to know that my dollars arent going to support that. >> let me ask you one question on the environmental front. true environmentalists support gmos bec...

Happen. and the red states democrats like mark pryor and begic can say the white house is wrong and i can run an ad on it. >> you can argue it round or square. the other side of the coin might be, to be caught in this pinser for anotheric cycle risk alienating somebody. if you think turning out the base is important to ultimately winning your election, the more youre out there railing against the administration, against the democratic president and railing for the keystone pipeline, the more you...

Risk to appease the environmentalist. and i am for alternative energy we have to live in the real world. and we need oil to generate not only gas linbut electricity and it is not as though the oil will sit in capped cand sands until we decide to do. it will go to china. we can be almost energy independent as soimon said or completely independent and a exporter and that would help weep western youve. there is no down side to this. and whether the debate is over 42,000 or 45 permanent jobs. it is ...

Like mark pryor and begic can say the white house is wrong and i can run an ad on it. >> you can argue it round or square. the other side of the coin might be, to be caught in this pinser for another ii iic cycle risk alienating somebody. if you think turning out the base is important to ultimately winning your election, the more youre out there railing against the administration, against the democratic president and railing for the keystone pipeline, the more youre probably alienating the envir...

We are paying 60 billion for the privilege of having those panels. you guys are making about a hundred billion dollars on fracking. thats a much better deal. >> but our government pushing stuff like electric cars. even if we did reach the goal of a million electric cars by 2015. >> not going to happen. >> that will cost $7 billion. how much would that delay global warming? >> it would be infy at the scene mall. >> by one hour according to the environmentalist calculation. >> fundamentally what t...

Politics. one person, tom stier. the environmentalist in san francisco spending $100 million to fight the pipeline, and candidates, including democrats, who support it. democrats are really pretty simple. this is all about electoral politics. >> yep. >> angela? >> i totally agree with doug. and its really a travesty. first of all, i want to say bravo to the 11 democrats who were brave enough to go against this president on policy. but doug can agree with me that if they fight this pipeline, it c...