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Solar panels recently laid off 66 workers in california. the past 18 months, seven solar manufacturers in the u.s. have shut down or cut back their production yet china shipped $1.6 billion of solar panels to the u.s. in the first eight months of the year. >> that is the thing of shipping it here because we incentivize that. but to your point of what happens to u.s. manufacturer, we don't make a lot of tv sets here. we don't grow a lot of avocados here anymore. a lot of industries don't exist anymore. the answer is to open up our borders and stop incentivizing green energy. >> arthel: ed? >> i...

I was really disappointed to hear david go back to the classical class warfare, divide and conquer strategy of the democrats that doesn't serve our country well. we all need to come together. we need towering together. we don't need to be dividing people between classes and between income levels. >> arthel: justin -- >> you're absolutely right. >> arthel: i have to leave it there. justin gets the last word. david, i will see you on the internet. justin, when are you coming on? >> have a good weekend to you and your viewers. >> arthel: take care. thank you very much. >> rick: when we come back,...

And turn around and tell them in the united states for a lot less. there is a precedent. in 2009, the steel industry was facing the same thing from china and guess what happened? they won the lawsuit. i think that's what we're seeing right now. >> arthel: jonathan, how do you see it. >> there is no objective crime of dumping. if china wants to soviet union dies low cost panels, the only reason they're doing it is because we're subsidizing them at home. the only reason the solar energy industry exists is because not of china's currency manipulations, but our own energy policy in this country, w...

Energy that leads to mal investment and situations like this where you have money poured down the drain for no objective purpose. the answer is free trade and getting government out of the energy business all together. >> jonathan, i agree with free trade. you and i agree and i agree with a lot of what you say. i watch you and i think you're fantastic. but not everything is black and white. this is gray. i agree, we put money into this and we put money into green energy without any question. but this is different. what's different here is what are we going to have, a race to manipulate currenc...

Farmers could not hire people because they'd go to prison with this new law and the penalties are astronomical. so what the farm will do is shut down. >> this has already passed a congressional committee. next it will move to the republican-controlled house for further consideration. we'll keep you posted. >> rick: thank you. casey stegall in los angeles. >> arthel: coming up, a dramatic rescue at sea. emergency teams racing to save 13 divers trapped underwater. new details coming up. >> rick: plus, iraq and libya reached decisive moments this week. exposed two very different ways of waging wa...