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Our democracy. if that doesn't happen, no other legislation infrastructure or anything else is possible because mitch mcconnell and the republicans said if they gain anything back in '22 it's over for the democrats and over for democracy. >> if you can't get the voting part right, i don't know that the infrastructure part matters. right, if you can't get a democracy that we can all believe in, what's the point of all of this and black voters were critical in winning the white house for joe biden and the senate majority with the two wins in the special election in georgia. voting rights are ess...

I don't know. >> i've never met the guy. i'm not that interested. i congratulate you for not being interested there are some things i like about trump. i like the fact no more stupid wars although he is out trying to start a war with iran again. i like the infrastructure part. i look the railroad we travel and it's so rickety and old. >> i agree with you. >> it's not what we as americans should have. when are we going to see something done, just the railroads? >> i was hoping we could site by now. you combine railroads, roads and bridges, rural. >> when? >> electricity grid as well. well, we'r...

Many houses and think about the streets. when they start pulling out debris and those big trucks start running down those streets and the highways and the foundation of these highways and streets are going to be weak, it's going -- the infrastructure part of it is going to be really tough. and they of got sewer lines and waterlines and treatment plants and so, you know, it's going the take some time. it's not financigoing to just h quickly. >> james lee witt, former director of fema. mr. witt, thanks for your time this afternoon. >> thanks. >> gadi schwartz is still in baytown, texas. baytown ...

Kind of revenue that actually goes back to th investors. most of our roads aren't funded that way. again, he has an interesting idea. but it just doesn't seem like the infrastructure part is going to apply to very many projects. it's unlikely that every place where we have road construction suddenly there will be new tolls. i don't think voters will go for that either. a lot of unanswered questions on that. >> you touched on this for a bit. i want to look at the numbers. trump wants to create 25 million jobs over the course of ten years. that's about 2.5 million jobs per year. is that a stretc...

>> absolutely. two quick points. i think the repeal bill is going to be a real big issue and on the infrastructure part, we could get into details and squabble over this for an hour. eric cantor and john boehner did a tremendous job in 2009 in holding republicans against an infrastructure spending bill that was the stimulus package. i think they'll see a lot of those members still around. the contours of that package might look the same. you're going to have the same problem. republicans are going to be very skeptical of dumping a trillion dollars into roads and bridges -- >> jake, what i woul...