host: william millar, the president in milwaukee. your reaction. guest: we were very pleased with the president's announcement. we have been urging for more than a year for that we need to develop a new transit and wrote authorization program that would cover the investment over the next six years. we were very pleased with the president's announcement. it aids code joining us from the republican line. -- the joining us from the republican line. los angeles. caller: how realistic, william, is a high-speed rail from los granted to las vegas, bu the city's debts around los angeles, we do have interstate 15. how realistic is that idea? secondly i think and would like to call on the transportation secretary to really take a look at the wasteful spending when it comes to repairs, building new roads. if you look back at "falling down" the film, where they had been working on a freeway for months. i see it all the time. don't you think things are taking a little too long and they are spending a little too much money? thank you. guest: let me comment on bo

host: william millar, the president in milwaukee. your reaction. we were very pleased with the president's announcement. we have been urging for more than a year for that we need to develop a new transit and wrote authorization program that would cover the investment over the next six years. we were very pleased with the president's announcement. it aids code joining us from the republican line. -- the joining us from the republican line. los angeles. caller: how realistic, william, is a high-speed rail from los granted to las vegas, bu the city's debts around los angeles, we do have interstate 15. how realistic is that idea? secondly i think and would like to call on the transportation secretary to really take a look at the wasteful spending when it comes to repairs, building new roads. if you look back at "falling down" the film, where they had been working on a freeway for months. i see it all the time. don't you think things are taking a little too long and they are spending a little too much money? thank you. guest: let me comment on both. fir

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