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All processes, everything uses energy and all of our energy is directly or indirectly linked to hydrocarbons. 85% directly and the other 15%, making windmills, making solar arrays, you use hydrocarbons to make them, to operate them, to manufacture all goods. we use hydrocarbons. it's a tax on everything. paul: that would -- this tax would filter out in through the whole economy, the amount you pay for gasoline, the amount you pay for electricity, the amount you pay for anything that is made with with carbon energy power. okay. so you don't like the idea. look, there are a lot of economists, fr...

She is the one who said the wall is immoral. she is the one who will not talk about, have a conversation where the wall is involved. meanwhile, you've got the president going through all of this activity, trying to figure out whether there's a way out, national emergency maybe, negotiating with the democrats, and i think the democrats have gotten to the point where they are beginning to look as though they simply will not do politics with the president, whether he calls it a wall or some other or euphimism, slats or something like that. paul: as i look at the polls, looks to me like the presid...

He's showing flexibility in how we achieve that. it's time to find common ground here. this can't be that hard. and reopen the government as we do it. paul: if the democrats decide we're not giving him a dime for anything called a border -- steel barrier, a wall or whatever, and the president insists on it, then what's the way out of this impasse? >> i hope it doesn't come to an executive order dealing with the national security but that may have to be the case. i still think there's a better solution going forward here and i'm hopeful as this -- again, i don't think this government shutdown h...

That calls for taxes carbon emissions and returning the revenue as a dividend to americans. could this be the year that congress enacts a carbon tax? is it a good idea. let's ask mark mill, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and a partner in an energy tech venture fund. mr. mills, good to have you here. you wrote for the wall street journal this week a piece that did not really support a carbon tax. i want to ask you for regular viewers out there, when people talk about a carbon tax, what do they mean? >> that's actually the critical question, isn't it? everything in our society, every...

Workers many i think people are generally frustrated with the lack of a solution here. paul: let's talk about this. you've been down there. when you say a crisis, what is the problem? it seems to me that the big problem is right now, is asylum policy, people coming into the united states from central america, more than mexico, and coming in and saying sorry, i'm persecuted, give me asylum and then they get in the system where we as the president said, we can't send them back. >> the asylum law is a mess. it creates insense testify is i. i think you've got a huge incentive for economic migrants...