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Any members of congress after this call? if there was any sort of concensus colling out from them? >> no. in fact i stayed on the call for an hour and 15 minutes. i missed the last 15 minutes. most of the responses were very similar to mind but they didn't take a position in opposition to it. i know that is not a very popular thing to do but moist of them, many of them, are not aware of what has happened to our military. right now taking the projected budget of the president obama, that would take $487 billion out of the military and that's not with sequestration. so we just don't have the ass...

Known that by simply watching american television. most military staff have been ordered to stay home in syria for the next few days expecting a strike, jon. jon: and in this age of sequester at the pentagon, what about the cost of all this? >> reporter: well, that's a real issue that no one is really talking about. each tomahawk costs up to $1.5 million apiece to fire. during the libyan conflict, some 211 tomahawks were fired from the sea. at this point it looks like any action would be limited to a naval strike, but it is still going to be billions of dollars to act. the top republican on th...

Bill: why not? >> i think, first of all, this rattling of sabers in syria takes our eye off iran. i think iran is loving the fact that we're focusing on syria. secondly, i think that nobody can guarantee this is going to be just a two-day conflict as the president's talked about. we could be locked in for years in a conflict in syria. i think our military's been stretched too thin by this administration. they've cut $587 billion out of national defense, and then on top of sequestration, i think it's the wrong course of action for us right now. bill: he talked yesterday, the president did, abou...

Are installed in hundred thousand projects at a time. hundred thousand dollar projects at a time doing $87 billion of work last year. that's a lot of hundred thousand dollar projects on the rooftops of wal-mart. on the rooftops of your relatives. commercial buildings. on churches. on schools where they are used. that's the big fight is that transmission is fantastic if you can build it. but there's a lot of land owners who don't want a transmission line to go through their land and many of the land owners have enough money to take projects and delay them through the courts. so that's where peo...

Shift their power to load centers like cities. whereas in the solar industry, the vast majority of our panels are installed in a hundred thousand -- $100,000 projects at a time, doing $87 billion of work last year. so that's a lot of $100,000 projects. on the rooftops of walmart, on the rooftops of your relatives, on, you know, commercial buildings, on churches, on schools, where they're actually used. so that's the big fight. is that transmission is fantastic if you can build it. but there's a lot of land owners who don't want a transmission line to go through their land and many of those lan...