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Too big a number for them to digest. and i have been saying for several weeks now, that i think that it would be good sometimes if we would calculate the cost over the next ten years of not doing something than to calculate the cost of doing it. so i think that people are beginning to see now that the so-called bipartisan infrastructure deal, 1.1 trillion, that lays the foundation upon which to build something. for instance, if you're to take broadband, we know from all the studies that a comprehensive broad band program for the entire country would be around 95, $96 billion. but what they did...

Goes into this, a better number, a more realistic number is from brown university. $2.2 trillion. here's the catch. 296 billion spent on veterans care. you know, once they come back from the war. how about this number? 530 billion spent on the interest on the interest on the money that we have had to borrow to fight this war. 530 billion. $300 million a day. i want people to put all of this into focus. now, think about the images we saw this he can would. a plane loads, plane loads, cargo planes full of men, able-bodied men who left their women behind, their children behind, listen, i think we...

Through a few recessions, this one is going to end the same way a whole bunch of people do coming out richer and a bunch of people with circumstances coming out a lot worse. >> it is a different wealth gap. it is the wealth gap of people who could have worked the way we tend to work that could do this. there is a technological solution to a physical conundrum that allowed a set of people, the driver of this, a $96 billion company now than a $16 billion company 14 months ago and you can go down the list on that. >> the question is going to be if you benefited massively from the pandemic which s...

A previously unschedule third day, let's look at the core issues many u.s. administrations have faced involving china. a long time complaint is forced transfer and theft of intellectual property from western companies that are doing business in china. to chinese businesses allowing for technological developments and a booming counterfeit consumer goods industry. a top motivation cited by the president, china's steel exports were declining since hitting a high in 2015. while they declined further in 2018, the rate of decline does not seem to have increased due to the tariff. then there's the tr...

Question do to reduce spending f. there are things that don't reduce benefits that reduce spending. we have to address that. >> we're really going to go with the mitch mcconnell argument, let's cut corporate tax in half and go after entitlements. that's the answer? >> this is like the slow pitch over the plate. you could see this coming for the past two years. they come up with a massive tax cut that goes to the upper 1% of the american peep and argue the only way to solve it is medicare, medicaid and social security. no. this is not a spending problem. it's a revenue problem. we cut taxes dur...