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About energy policy. i know oil is huge in north dakota, no doubt. what about the pipeline? would you support it? the keystone? >> i've always supported the keystone pipeline. i think the president's going to approve it. but that's just one part of a good energy policy. the problem we have, ed, is you have people on the right who say it's all about fossil fuels. and there are people on the left who say, it's all about renewables. but if we were going to have energy independence and really grow our economy, we need to use both and we need to figure out how we're going to transport that energy f...

Want to be naive, this is a wonderful place and we need as many cradles as we can possibly get but if we do not have substantive development in what i call the pillars of american industry, in manufacturing, in energy, walk me through what you would identify as the pillars. >> well, look at energy. i mean, we've got to transform our energy grid. we can move forward to smart grids. we've got coal plants that have to be replaced by gas plants or have to be replaced by nuclear. right now we can't get there. it costs twice as much to build the nuclear plant in the u.s. as in europe because it take...

who serve and god bless the united states of america. semper fi. [ applause ] >> the president of the united states and the name of the congress takes pleasure in presenting the medal of honor to corporal meyer for conspicuous gallantry at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with marine embedded training team 2-8. command 3-7 in kunar province. corporal meyer maintained security at a patrol rally point while other members of his team moved on foot with two platoons of afghan national army and border police into the village for a predawn meeting with v...

Power over wasteful lines without carbon, then nuclear's an answer. if you want to talk about how you're going to power the communities of the future, it's going to be local, solar, wind, locally done with smart grids, and with a lot more efficiency, so we're only using, say, half or less of the energy we're using. >> what's the barrier to something like that happening. there's a lot of talk about local food in this country. i've been hearing more and more talk about local energy. is that just a concept right now? >> actually it's a real possibility. this is something we work at on rocky mount...

And that includes many manufacturing jobs so this is great news for america's workers. i expressed to president hu that trade has to be fair. i welcomed his commitment that american companies will not be discriminated against when they compete for chinese government procurement contracts. i appreciate his willingness to take new steps to combat the theft of intellectual property. we are renewing our long runs cooperation in science and technology. we are moving ahead with our u.s. sls china clean energy research center, smart grids and cleaner coal. i believe dthat the united stats and china h...