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The relationship is attend. i don't blame them. i blame our past leaders. no reason this should happen. no reason we should have big trade deficits with every country in the world. i've gone beyond the g7. there is no reason for this was the fault of the people who preceded me. i'm not -- going back a long way. going back 50 years. it got worse and worse. we used to be a nation that was unbelievably cash flow oriented. had no debt of any consequence and build a highway system, the interstate system virtually out of cash flow, it was a lot different. we have a good relationship and i don't thes...

Is it needed? >> well, certainly it's needed. america's one big pothole. i'm back here in my hometown of peoria, and i can tell you this brutal winter has absolutely devastated and decimated the roads and bridges not only in central illinois but all across america. we need a transportation bill, but more than anything else, we need the money to pay for it. and the idea that the money is going to come from the states are local governments, they're broke, they don't have any money. and what i've been promoting is the idea that the white house and the president promote an increase in the gas tax,...

To give money to people to socialize the risk that they take and i don't want to socialize the risk. there are things you can do to build bridges, to build tunnels, to build things using private capital that are good. we see the top-down model of investment here in new york city in the subway. that ain't working too well here. i would also point out in 2009 in the stimulus, we threw $105 billion at infrastructure. barack obama described it at the time as the largest investment in infrastructure since eisenhower built the interstate system. what did we build out of that? we need to have creativ...

From their situations in homes in low-lying areas there and on the i-80 the big thorough fare that takes you from northern california around the sierra nevada, it's a huge interstate system, a massive rock slide the size of a football field was in place there. the bad part about all this, again, is that more rain is on the way. it will start in earnest once again tonight, 100% solid precipitation which could spell more disaster for people especially after that first big punch that we had last night. peter? >> steve patterson in an area i know well, grew up not far from there and the flip to al...

What if you can get the tax off of that? safe bonds, good way to pay for it. when i was governor we rebuilt our interstate system under budget and ahead of schedule. and you see that in another way. >> another way. that is a great way to view it as well.