hakeem jeffries. he is from new york, a personal friend, incredible talented. he is a hope for the future of the party. we have other races going on today where a lot of young people are involved in the future. we are going to see katherine clark is going to be the vice chair of the democratic party. another young, vibrant person in our party. we are seeing a lot of up-and-coming leaders. ben ray lujan is going to be the assistant majority leader. we will see other races related to the d triple c -- more vibrant faces. host: the votes for nancy pelosi -- you think that indicates further problems, come january, and cohesiveness? guest: i think she will be the next speaker and will have support. the democrats will come together to lead this country, working together and working across party lines, to solve the problems our country faces. host: tomwe will take those cals

throughout the course of this program today. , a formers representative from south carolina. guest: good to be with you. host: a little about your organization? republickeye in.org. we're talking about free undersized -- free enterprise solutions to climate change. we hear a lot about government regulation. we have not heard the have the free enterprise system can solve it. host: when it comes to your personal believes, what are they and how did they evolve? guest: for six years i said climate change was nonsense. i did not know anything about it except al gore was for it. since i represented a very red

district, at the end of the inquiry. i admit that is fairly ignorant today to do it that way. i had not looked into it at all. i just knew that al gore was for it and i was against it. either doing commercial real estate login, and then i ran for congress again in 2004. my sun came to me -- son came to me. he said, dad, i will vote for you but you will have to clean up your act on the environment. his mother agreed, agreed in a new constituency was born. that was the first of a three-step metamorphosis. the second was going to the antarctic and seeing the evidence in the ice core drillings. the third was i was inspired by aussieth of an

climate scientists who cares about the creation. the cut carbon act of 2009, a carbon tax. host: what was the reaction from other members? guest:one of the republican cosponsor, senator jeff flake, who was a house member, and a democrat dan lipinski from chicago. the reactions at home was not so good. i lost my reelection in a republican primary in the midst of the darkest days of the great recession. it is exciting to see some carbon tax bills being introduced. it is completely different than it was back then. back and they were the darkest days of the great recession. now the economy is better. we have all had more experience

with climate change, and there are more organizations like ours o-right, a palestinian firemen to left. we can talk about -- a balance to the environmental left. we can balance it with the free market. host: the think republicans have a hard time dealing with this issue and wine? why? mr. ingliss? former member of congress and also republicen executive director talking about his experience when it comes to the climate change issue. we will get him back and continue our conversation. arizona, steve, hello. caller: how are you?

i was just listening to mr. ingl iss. here is a book he has probably already read. ne forest." this should be required reading. the thing about climate change is the are accelerating the rate. natural rates are all well and good, but you can look back in time, say 55 million years ago. that was a time when we exceeded 400 parts per million by a longshot. that led to essentially incredible changes in the climate. kobach 700,000 years with -- we can go back 700,000 years with ta to see howda things have changed. we have been clearing large areas.

starting to burn a lot of coal. we caused this problem. it is extremely rapid. you cannot cool the planet at the rate we can heat it up. there is a big price to pay for this. how far it is going to go? i don't know. to theempts to hold onto old things, these are natural and humans. we have got to go ahead and do as much as we can in photovoltaics. we have to have nuclear somewhere to give us enough power to keep us going until we have enough with photovoltaics and wind power. host: stephen arizona giving his thoughts. , i was asking about the republicans in congress. for those who have issues with the topic of climate change, why

do you think that is? guest: mostly because they have not heard a solution that fits with their values yet. is a big have heard government solution of regulations. when we don't think we have a solution that fits with their values, we doubt the existence of a problem. that sounds irrational until i for your back problem, we will take your head off, work on your spine and then put her head back on. you will say thanks, i'm feeling a lot better. i don't have a back problem. you will not take my hat off. for conservatives so far have heard is a nutty solution. that will regulate your very breath. i must not have a problem then. what we live to do at republicen.org is show there

is an exciting free enterprise solution. you should basically tax pollution. on the phil donahue show, dr. father ofthe modern -- he says you tax it. be tax pollution. -- you tax pollution. host: in canada they are passing a proposal and not putting taxes into play. in france they are marching in the streets because of a proposed tax. how do you think that will play out in the united states? guest: it really is quite an educational effort. ant is why we are educational outlet. the alternatives are regulatory. that was a clean power plan. another alternative is thecap

-- is the cap in trade. or there is the pricing at of the negative effects of burning. -- fx of bring burning fossil fuels and bringing accountability to all of us. climate change is the havoc that comes of the lack of accountability. we are used to this idea of paying for what we take, aren't we? if you're a trash haul are going to the city dump, they will charge you for the space you take up in the city dump. you will back the charge up to all of your customers on your route where you pick up their trash. is that appropriate? otherwise the trash hauler and the customers are taking up

space in the city dump. the city has to use tax money to build a new dump. charge them. make them accountable. we have a trash dump in the sky. there is only so much space. we need to charge for the space we use. if we do, accountability will result in blessings. host: when it comes to the recently released report by the white house, with you think the value of these reports are? guest: the report shows what we have been seeing. terms this will happen sooner than we thought. when i was talking about this in the great recession, i got tossed out of a republican primary. it seemed a long way away. now we are experiencing climate

change. that is with the fourth assessment really shows. it is right here and right now. about the white house's reaction, i think president trump is becoming a caricature of climate disputation. all, all experiencing it it is silly to have somebody saying we are not. us could stand on the top of my roof in a single file line and divide into who believes in gravity and who doesn't. have some of those who don't to >> "washington journal" live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. always available at c-span.org. we'll leave the last few moments of this. the u.s. house coming in next. outgoing house speaker paul ryan will deliver his farewell speech on the floor in just a bit. later today the chamber begins debate on the rule for republican tax package. also on