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Going to handle this. >> what would happen to this country if we stopped mining coal? >> well, we obviously can't go cold turkey from coal right now. we get half of our electricity from coal. no one is suggesting we stop burning coal immediately. but, you know, it is very clear in the big picture the sort of era of fossil fuels is over. we are moving away from coal in general. more importantly, this is happening in west virginia anyway. it is not because of environmentalists or something like that. it is because they have been mining coal for 200 years there. they have mined out all the good c...

Prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter? what is the best way to change this the most quickly? >> the best way to change this is to stop mining and burning coal. i think that is the only way you are going to eliminate mining deaths. mining in these deep underground mines especially is simply a dangerous thing to do. and certainly tougher enforcement would help during the bush administration, the federal mine safety and health administration, the agency that is in charge of overseeing mine safety was sort of notoriously gutted and weakened. now under the obama administration president obama get...

It's an an obama thing. but everybody kind of miss represents this to the average american. we always say we'll put up the necessary trade barriers to do that. in the end the american worker and the american consumer, although they are the same person, have different end goals. >> absolutely. and if you -- let's say you close the economy completely and global trade goes away, well, you either run into an inflation problem, trade war and actually put people out of work. so there are more intelligent ways to deal with thisish on, particularly education and retraining. that hout of work coal mino...

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