up next, rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse talks about the role in the gas be a fair the american revolution. this is 13 minutes. >> i'm here to celebrate a significant event. every student of american history knows the story of the boston tea party. we learned about samuel adams and the sons of liberty dumping chests of tea into boston harbor to protest british taxation without representation. what many students don't know is down in rhode island more than a year earlier a group of rhode island patriots made an even harsher challenge to the british empire. one dark night in june of 1772. i'm here to tell their story. the episode began amid growing tensions with columnists. into rhode island's bank. the gas be -- the gaspee was known for destroying fishing vessels, seizing cargo, and flagging down ships only to harass, humiliate, and interrogate the colonials. as nick bunker, author of the book empire on the edge, wrote. "this harassment did not sit well with rhode islanders, who had grown accustomed to personal freedom unique in that time. even by american standards rhode island

work with a guy like sheldon whitehouse who's a liberal democrat from rhode island who knows as muchyber security as anybody. incentivize the private sector to harden their infrastructure against a cyber attack. give them liability protection that's they do. the chinese and the russians are a symptom of a greater problem. china's building islands over resource-rich waters that other nations claim because they think we're weak. they're intimidating their neighbors. and the only way we're going to reset world order is to get back in the game. >> you mentioned russia. vladimir putin said this weekend everything we do is just a response to threats emerging against us. there is no need to fear rush russia. tell people to the people who oppose him inside of russia. it's hard to buy a life insurance policy if you're an o'potent of putin inside russia. it is a totalitarian dictatorship. tell that to the ukrainian people. who are being invaded by russian proxies. nobody believes that. russia is trampling over ukraine in violation of international law. here's the concern i have. we signed an a

up next, rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse talks about the role in the gas be a fair the americanution. this is 13 minutes. >> i'm here to celebrate a significant event. every student of american history knows the story of the boston tea party.

for example my colleague from rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse he has proposed a plan to place a carbon fee or a dollar fee per ton of carbon emissions and then use that money to lower everybody's tax rate both corporate as well as individual. let it be revenue-neutral. it's a fee on putting carbon which the marketplace would then kick in, making it less desirable to put those greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. those particularly being carbon dioxide. and in the last congress, senator boxer proposed a similar idea of setting a carbon pollution fee. her bill would have directed that the new revenue towards helping communities adopt climate resiliency measures as well as providing a monthly rebate to u.s. households. well maybe we don't have the magic formula yet but we ought to be able to agree that lowering tax rates for businesses and individuals would be a good thing. but if you're going to do that, you have to have the revenue to pay for it. in other words, you have to have the revenue to replace the revenue that's there now if you lower the tax rates. if you set a price