humanity in exploring what is available to humanity in space. listen to what jeff bezos said yesterday to our anderson cooper. we need to build a road to space, build infrastructure, reusable space vehicles and so on so that the next generations can build the future. it s really about moving heavy industry i know this sounds fantastical, and it is fantastical. remember, if you went back to the kitty hawk area, they would think that s fantastical. we have to move heavy industry and polluting industry off earth. nuclear power plants, coal plants. everything. they need to beam the energy down to earth. really dr. proctor? is that feasible? is that going to be feasible? i think so. when we think about the future of how humanity, how amazing we are as a species and the things we re able to create, what we imagine we turn into reality. this is one of the things we
bridge. it spans from cincinnati to northern kentucky. president obama planned to fix it. president trump planned to fix it. their transportation and infrastructure plans always fizzled. look for questions to be asked on that specific bridge and the broader infrastructure plan again here tonight. jim and poppy? it will be a great one. thank you, jeff. appreciate your reporting. be sure to watch it tonight. our presidential town hall live 8:00 eastern moderated by our friend don lemon. it is less than one week until the first hearing of the january 6 select committee. cnn is learning more about the gop strategy to stand in the way of it. we are also moments away from the opening bell here on wall street. futures a bit mixed this morning. stocks did rally yesterday, rebounding from a miserable start to the week. this volatile stretch of train trading sparked by, of course, concerns about the delta variant. investors enjoying some comfort on a strong surge earning season.
might have been in the vehicle with you. he would have. there was a long line of people trying to stow away in that vehicle this morning including our dad. yeah, we had to check you called blue origin the most important thing you will do in your entire career. i mean you built amazon. that s pretty huge. you employed half a million people. how can blue origin be bigger or more important? yeah. i think one way to think of this is, you know, we need to build a road to space. i mean build infrastructure, reusable space vehicles and so on so that the next generations can build a future. you talk about the infrastructure you already had in place when you started doing amazon. you had the postal service exactly. so when i started amazon i was a young guy, and this is 27, almost 30 years ago. and i didn t have to build a package delivery system. it existed. it was called the postal service
we ll see. you wrote about that, you know, in your op-ed just earlier this week, making exactly that same point. i do want to ask you about voting, because the focus first on covid relief, now very much on infrastructure. you know that there are members of your party who say, listen, the real threat to this country is not bipartisan agreement on infrastructure. it s protecting the vote. and you have laws already being passed, not just about voter access, but the key is about even certification of votes, right, allowing partisans to just say, hey, i don t like these results. forget about it. what s the urgency, and should there be more urgency from the president and democrats to act on voting? jim, we ve got a number of urgent and important issues right in front of us. one of them, as you are pointing out, is that if you look back at the 2020 election, we came very, very close to having election results overturned through partisan interference.
you ve called this the most you ve called blue origin the most important thing you will do in your entire career. i mean, you built amazon. that s pretty huge. you employ half a million people. how could blue origin be bigger or more important? yeah. one of the things about this is, you know, we need to build a road to space. i mean, build infrastructure, reusable space vehicles and so on so that the next generations can build the future. you talked about the infrastructure you already had in place when you started doing amazon. you had the postal service. exactly. when i started amazon, i was a young guy, 27, almost 30 years ago. and i didn t have to build a package delivery system. it existed. it was called the postal service and ups and royal mail and deutsche post and so on. that would have been hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expense to build.