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Administration in this country based on the tennessee valley authority and others and basically you propose essentially a federal takeover of the whole thing, that essentially a tennessee valley authority extension for the whole country, am i understanding that correctly. >> you're in the ballpark, that's right. the tva has tonedone a lot of g work. it produces electricity from hydro power and other sources. we need to have an aggressive federal government saying we are going to produce a massive amount of electricity from solar and from wind and from other sustainable energies, and we will se...

Way, we're going to make money doing that. but you can't nibble around the edges anymore. we need to transform our energy system. that means a massive increase in sustainable energy. >> so i think people that watch the program know that i am not a deficit hawk. you know, america's a very wealthy country. it can afford a lot of big investments, but this is really large. the amount of money we're talking about, you're talking about in the plan replacing every old diesel school bus, replacing old mobile homes in the country, right. it's big and comprehensive. when people say to you, how do you pa...

>> you it's not hypocritical. it's simply adjusting to the washington, d.c. that we live in. i will always be a deficit hawk. i am today, i was yesterday, and will be tomorrow. because i do think that spending a bunch of money that we reason the is wrong. i'm just telling you that this is the cards that we've been dealt as the administration. >> the cards we've been dealt. when something happens to you out of your control, those are the cards. make do with what you can't control. he wasn't dealt these cards. he ran for office, won a seat, resigned to take this job. so when you get into this le...

>> there is not a single deficit hawk left in washington. >> i would like to consider myself semi responsible on this issue. >> you are a lone man on an island. >> a trillion dollars a year deficit of money we're borrowing from china and other countries. we saw yesterday ceos got a 940% increase in their pay since 1978. the worker got a 12% increase in pay. so, yes we are going to ask those people to pay a little bit more in taxes. but the reality is they are destroying the economy because the average person is living paycheck to paycheck. >> the deadline to make the next debate stage is next ...

And also i certainly agree with him, yes, i may disagree with the majority of elizabeth warren's positions, certainly the ones that she's outspoken on. i may as a deficit hawk and as a small government conservative not support bernie sanders' economic policies. and think that they're utopian. but at the same time, i -- my concerns with donald trump have to do with as tom said constitutional order. the breaching daily of political norms that we have -- this country, american democracy has built up over 240 years. societal instability that donald trump seems to be promoting now. with words that ...