ezra klein. i messaged him before this and i said i'm supposed to talk about your article, what would you say? he said, i would say that this article is a depiction of all the things the left wants that will fail. and i actually think that's a fair assessment of what he said. i think what is putting out there will fail. it will absolutely fill. >> laura: five states! >> it's a lunacy. from my perspective it means, who is really being serious in this conversation? is it the left, that wants to put solar found the mic panels multiple states? are is it people who look at the different problems in their area when it comes to energy distribution and say we should be in vesting more nuclear, in the kind of power that will actually lead to people's homes as opposed to being dependent on minerals and things we need from the chinese communists in order to further our attempt at being energy and dependent. biden administration has set us back enormously, that's a simple fact. >> laura: i love fracking. i l

now, courtesy of influential liberal columnist ezra klein,mnz we have the zainy blueprint forw how they hope to radically t change the way you and your family live. the d strategy,rbonizely liv he wrote in the new york times,n at its core, is simply this. e right now, 60% of electricity comes from fossil fuels. we nee d to rebuild our electrical grid around clean sources and then we need to triple or quadruple the total amount of electricity we generatthen triple e and almt unimaginably large buildup of wind and solar power. he's right about that.e. it's unimaginable, let alone obscenely expensive. and how much of the american landscape, pray tell, will be eaten up by this so-calledn clean revolution? he writes to put some numbers to that, a plausible path to decarbonized modeledes by researchers at princeton, sees wind and solar using or visually affecting up tor five hundred and ninety thousand square kilometers, which is roughly equal to the landmass of connecticut. my home state, illinois, indiana, kentucky, massachusetts, ohio, rhode island and tennessee, put together, you know, ju

i talked with ezra klein has been on -- as your client who has been on c-span.at you meant at the founding at what it meant after the civil war. host: i think that is all of the time we have got on our calls. so nice to talk to you. there is a much more to talk about. happy constitution day. guest: and also to you. host: that is akhil reed amar, yale university professor of political science. that is all the time we have for today. happy constitution day to all of you. thank you for calling. we will be back tomorrow morning on "washington journal." in the meantime, have a great saturday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> c-span's washington journal. every day we take your calls on the news of the day. we discussed policy issues that impact you. sunday morning we look at abortion policy on the 2022 campaign with storm parker, president of the center for urban renewal and education. and david corn shares

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