traditional jobs, kimberly s point you aren t going to replace them. the big solar projects under president obama in california and elsewhere. i would read 2 or 3 billion being sunk into the projects that would have permanent jobs, 10, 15, mind bugling stuff. so if you want to put mirrors over the entire country and see if that can do the work of fossil fuels you won t have a lot of people manning them at the end of the day. it is a real tough one. again we get back to the voters saying do i really want to give this up? it s a major part of our economy. we re now finally energy independent. we produce more oil than any nation in the world. is now the time to get rid of it? natural gas, the abundance of natural gas we have makes us a supplier around the world. so the idea of getting rid of this right now just as we re peaking is nuts. heather: it didn t work for hillary clinton when she talked about doing away with coal jobs. that s in west virginia. heather: she admits it was a
of the country potentially behind it. welcome to thursday. it is meet the press daily. democrats today are kicking off the party s three-day summer meeting and we begin tonight with a big question that s got to be on everyone s minds out there at the dnc. how do democrats win against president trump in 2020? some democrats look at what is happening in the white house, particularly this week. the president being unpredictable, unpresidental and arguably unamerican behavior. they think why are we talking about anything other than getting trump out of office? this campaign has to be about running against trump, these democrats argue. but other democrats look at what is happening in the white house. the president s economic policies, his health care policies, immigration policies, his environmental policies and things standing against something isn t enough, that they have to be for something in order to win. is part of why he s in office they would argue. didn t work for republicans i