max baucus says energy needs do exceed 40 produces though. that's because his family have 2 electric cars that need to be recharged. all germany's approved for use to generate solar power. they cover the country's energy needs it's a company that builds solar parks across europe. and solar systems are important, but they won't cover our energy needs on their own. you have to set priorities. 1st, you have to figure out which roofs are technically suitable. and then you have to figure out which ones of those are financially viable. solar energy is expected to see significant growth in germany. by the time the last coal fired power station is switched off and 2038, there would have to be 5 times as many rooftop solar systems on parks as there are now to cover energy needs. solar energy would then account for a quarter of the country's power output. the number of orders for new solar parks is growing fast. what's behind the boom? in the last decade, solar modules have decreased in price to around a 10th of what they were originally. we can now pr

max baucus, ambassador to china. american universities representative about the record number of women who will be serving in the 117th u.s. congress in our statement, just ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: before any races were even decided, women made history in the u.s. election. a record number of female candidates ran for office in 2020 and we know now that at least 131 of them will serve in the next congress. we are joined by the director of the american university of women in politics institute, betsy fisher martin. give us your take on how big or how much roberts we have made here and how much more is left to go. betsy: when you run an institute on women in politics, this is a good news story for us. woman,, the year of the more women were elected, record numbers were elected after the 2018 midterm. we are building on that success. what is different about this election cycle is that a lot of the gains we are now seeing for women in congress are coming from republican women. that was not the case two years ag

joining sus max baucus the former u.s. ambassador as well to china mr.r, welcome. >> thank you >> what do you make of how this is unfolding >> well, i'm surprised, frankly. i expected vice president to do quite a bit better than he seems to be doing tonight. frankly, i think it's partly a mentality of the east coast. it's somewhat similar to the mentality in the hillary clinton campaign that is not really fully realizing the sufficiently sensitive to working class americans, she in the mid-west and other parts of the country and i have been surprised at this result. i think the vice president will still win, but he's going to chastise him >> i think one of the positions of the vice president that's been criticized is what his relationship would be with china, which you obviously know well as the former ba ed there what would it look like, relative to what it is now >> you mean with chosen? >> yeah. >> is that -- okay well, i've none joe for a long time i served with joe in the senate for 36 years and knew him when i was over in china representing the uni