and i think mr. conte of missed the boat, because he says that he would rather live, you know, he would lose 10 to 15 years more. i've been on the deathbed of many, many patients and many people have said, i'm glad i did my job and i'm okay with dying at the age of 50. because the harvard study showed the average age of a football player, the average death of a football player is at age 50 to 55. >> tarrance, how should the nfl be reacting to conte's assertion or at all? >> there is absolutely nothing the national football league could do about this. because there's two things going on here. there's the short thing or the smaller thing, which is the money thing. there's so much money to be made in the national football league nowadays, these guys want to keep playing because of that. the bigger thing that's been around forever, these quits are addicted to adrenaline. i'll give you a quick story here. a good friend of mine, a former nfl player. he's in his late 40s. and we talked right before we gt on the a

cont couldn't evaluatet the prediction then but now we can. in the states with the most coal, rates actually fell. big coal's war on the truth has a long history. mr. president, i recently had the opportunity to visit west virginia with senator manchin to learn about what coal means to the mountain state economy. i get it. we need to care about the mine miners, the truckers, the power plant workers, the engineers and others who make their living in this industry. it would be wrong to ignore their plight. just as it's wrong when the coal industry tries to ignore the effects of its carbon pollution. i think we need a carbon fee to correct the market and to slow climate change. i'm sure i'll hear, "that's a war on coal." it's not. it's simple fairness. it's simply paying for the mess you caused. that's not war. it's not even punishment. it's just fair accounting, taking both sides of the ledger into account. when people do that, economists and scientists, they calculate the cost of carbon pollution as what they call the social cost of carbon. the administration estimates the social cost of carbon at arounder 40 per ton of carbon pollution. $40 per to