many american businesses agree, but our government does not. why is our president so committed to bringing back coal. i have to say i don t know, but he sure is. the location for president trump s present rally was hardly a surprise, investigawest virgi joining him on stage, the democrat and coal mag nate. i tell you west virginia ans, i can t help you any more that is a democratic government. it was a state he visited early and often, it was a place where everyone knows coal is king. i like hard hats. let s see if it s a hard hat. it s a hard hat. it was coal country that was
trade deals and now we don t have the allies. i have heard you speak in the past why it s a mistake to bring back coal in terms of the economy and environment. should technology be the industry that the administration thinks more about? sfl i think the first thing is that the government shouldn t think about who the winners and losers are. coal is going away for two substantive reasons. the one i care about is that coal kills. it s polluting the atmosphere and hurting the climate. but more importantly for reducing coal jobs and output, it s not competitive anymore. today natural gas frack is much cheaper to use and solar and wind are cheaper still. and those coal jobs are not coming back. there s in ways anybody is going to go and buy more coal where if they put a solar panel out they could have a better deal or put a windmill out or use frack
does need to deliver on the promise he s made. there are lot of people in this country that feel left out and left behind. most of p venture capital has gone to the coast as a result, a lot of people s jobs have been lost in the middle of the country. that s why he won, how do you make sure you re creating jobs for people in the middle of the country and that should be the focus, not these side issues, this battle with fake news and thing like that. steve, the explicit promise to pap latan an latch ya, kentu virginia, is i m bringing back coal and that s not really viable. my hope is he ll try to focus on the jobs of the future and not the jobs of the past. i met with them last week, gary cohn, bill wur ross, secretary of commerce and a lot of the focus was on sprentrepreneurshi the national immigration rule, prosecutorial gets put in lace july 17th. hopefully they ll keep that in
it s a trop priority with roads, bridges and runways needing some serious help. we traveled to west virginia where the state s two major road projects have come to a screeching halt. west virginia voted hely fhe for trump, as much as his vow to invest in infrastructure and his promise to bring back coal. the main reed to coal country is a two lane swih backs and drops and blind curves. it s dangerous and bad for business. this mobile home business went under when the homes got wider. too wide for ruth 52. we don t have the jobs we need. we don t have the infrastructure. we re feeling like things are passing us by and we re left without. the hope here, help rebuild west virginia s economy by replacing route 52 with a high
climate change would destroy the economy or that you can bring back coal as the answer to america s economic needs? there is no truth to that. the fact of the matter is and american business is fighting to get this message out, that the cost lines have crossed and renewables in storage are cheaper than fossil fuels. from here on out, regardless of what the administration says, we re moving to a clean energy economy. the question is how fast and how do we take care of workers who are displaced by thehange in technology? that is somethin tha very important. but the fact of the matter is progress is moving on. we re going to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and we re going to create jobs as we do it. we have to rebuild america in a clean way. we will continue this conversation. thank you both for being here. coming up in our next hour, singer ariana grande stands with london and stands up to terrorism while donald trump circles the wagons.