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To clean up their acts and make good on environmental pledges. aviva investors said it would vote to try to get directors kicked out of firms that are not becoming more sustainable fast enough. it also wants bosses' pay to be linked to detailed green goals. our business correspondent ramzan karmali joins me now. this is not the first time we have heard this sort of stuff. aha, this is not the first time we have heard this sort of stuff.— heard this sort of stuff. a lot of financial institutions _ heard this sort of stuff. a lot of financial institutions have - heard this sort of stuff. a lot...

3.5 trillion seconds is 111,000 years. that's the difference. >> sandra: it does not matter, because that $3.5 trillion number, "the wall street journal" says and sodas larry kudlow is a phony number. this is the piece this morning, budget tricks disguise the vast entitlement plan. >> if you score this thing, well, this entitlement, it will be five years, this will be seven, this will put a cost share with the states, it's nonsense. when the ceo does get around to doing this, and they were very good at scoring, it's going to be very close to $5 trillion. so here's my point, the official scorek...

Be a major concern. pulled up some rain gauges. river gauges i should say. 186 rivers across texas. portions of arkansas. into oklahoma. experiencing at or above flooding stage at this point. any amount of water, 1 to 2 inches will do damage. look at perspective. officials out in harris county. by the way the county. city of houston is in. third largest county in the united states, by population. average 5.3% of rainfall monday night. you do the math with the land area. that is 1262 billion gallons of water. how much water released in six hours over texas. 600 billion, 600 billion liters of wa...

>> i hear you. >> that's the most important point. >> doesn't the fact that congress has not been able to achieve anything on this, many would argue that's incentivizing some of this. doesn't some of this lay at the feet of congress for not passing reform. >> i would say the senate immigration bill created additional incentives. part of the senate bill, one of the reasons i voted against it, it included in that bill was $262 billion of welfare benefits for non-u.s. citizens. that's an inducement, that's incentive to get in the country under the deferred action for childhood arrivals. you're no...

Medicare. defense spending a lot of it is unaccountable. some of it goes into pet projects, what you might call pork, alternative energy. our government spends, spends, spends. bill: and keeps on going. let me give our viewers a sense, put this on the screen. this is some of the annual spending you'll get every year. this is 770 billion on social security. medicare is 560 billion. medicaid $262 billion, and then you've got other manned stor manned story spendinmandatory spending. defense spending $680 billion. that cannot be sustained. >> reporter: we are spending a trillion dollars a year to ...