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Infrastructure in place. >> we have a huge cost problem. there's the infrastructure problem. >> especially when you have as you say these politically active and money spending oil companies supporting their interests in washington and politicly telling one to kick it down the road than barring it off the bat. >> there is this investment problem, right? i mean, the fossil fuel companies, that is their -- they need investment constantly to -- that's the fuel that they run on. >> but you're not -- what you don't want to try to do is recreate what happened with the tobacco industry where you shunn...

I guarantee after this winter if you look at the potholes that are all across big chunks of the united states that people would like to see an infrastructure built. >> from busted up roads to just going bust. the president acknowledges that we have an infrastructure problem. here's the dilemma. the highway trust fund will be dried up by august. that's just fine. let it go. explain your flip side. >> well, i think we need more private ownership of growth. we could do things a lot faster. there was a great example a few years ago where indiana sold $3 billion worth of indiana highways to some br...

President can do on this matter. >> urgent versus important is the question. >> $41 billion, i think you get it, $41 billion weather events in 2013 around the world. 41, that was an all-time record. it's not just podesta that believes that. a lot of people say okay, let's not debate who's right, manmade or just nature that's happening. the fact of the matter it's happening. and i wonder if there's too much -- i know some environmentalists are frustrated with that portion of the debate. but maybe you steer away from it and say it doesn't matter. we have to tackle this infrastructure problem and...

>> urgent versus important is the question. >> $41 billion, i think you get it, $41 billion weather events in 2013 around the world. 41, that was an all-time record. it's not just podesta that believes that. a lot of people say okay, let's not debate who's right, manmade or just nature that's happening. the fact of the matter it's happening. and i wonder if there's too much -- i know some environmentalists are frustrated with that portion of the debate. but maybe you steer away from it and say it doesn't matter. we have to tackle this infrastructure problem and build higher seawalls in some pl...

We have yet to win, despite spending trillions. you look callous if you dare ask any politician still starving for funds. they're starving because they're controlling, and they're wasting, and they're stealing, and they're hiding, and they're saying that those who dare question their good intentions haven't any good in them at all. it's not callous to ask where all of this dough is going. it is callous not to, because this isn't about paying for another bridge to nowhere. this is about digging an even deeper hole that never leads us anywhere. i want you to focus on this, my friends, something ...