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The food we picked up earlier made its way to this pantry and charity's home. >> spaghetti, which is a typical family maeal to us. >> if you would have stepped back and thought about how many people you've likely helped feed now? >> i haven't, but i don't feel like it's been enough yet. how ever i can help, as long as i can help do it. >> sanjay, you said by some account, 40% of food is wasted in this country. it's an incredibly high figure. how does the problem get solved? >> part of it, there's not the respect for food whether it's in the crops, stores or people's homes. we all tend to waste...

>> tonight it's spagethetti, whh is a typical family meal for us. >> i saw your scientist test today. that was good. >> have you ever stepped back and thought about how many people you've fed now? >> i haven't, but i don't think it's enough now. so however i can help, as long as i can do it, i will. >> sanjay, you said 40% of food is wasted in this country. it's an incredibly high figure. it's shocking. how does the problem get solved? >> part of it, there's not the respect for food at all these different levels, whether it's in the kroppecrops, whether it' the stores, whether it's in people's...

Gas, we could eliminate the role of opec, we could eliminate the volatility in oil price that is we face every few years by using natural gas as a transportation fuel and it only takes them regulatory changes to make it happen. leland: that has happened in other countries, i know, especially in israel they use gas in a number of automobiles, before we get to that, from a consumer standpoint, gas prices tend to lag oil prices a little bit and as you point out, what's producing the united states is it necessarily the best very gasoline, especially some of the stuff coming out of ohio and pennsyl...

>> that's the argument they will make. it costs billions of dollars to buy wireless spectrum through government auctions or acquiring other companies that own this spectrum. you look at the market caps, you can see, they are much smaller. a pretty good argument. really up to regulators to see at today's world or tomorrow's world and in order to determine if this deal makes sense from a consumer standpoint. >> john ledger made the point just there, and we've heard him make it for years that he's always going to be about price cutting. he loves competition. he's the guy who called at&t and veriz...

Do in a bill, in a measure that's this big that impacts people to the degree it does is rush something through. i've had six town hall meetings the last three weekends at home and i've heard from a lot of people. once health care is vital, it's in some cases life and death, it's something people feel very, very strongly about. so, i think that from a consumer standpoint, hearing directly from people is part of the equation and from a policy standpoint, fully vetting the bill in terms of what it cost, implications, i think it was equally important and that takes time. >> congressman, so, be hon...