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STEWART: “They wanted -- they didn't want to just build it, Ezra, they wanted it back better.”
KLEIN: “Wow! Man, that's a -- there's something about throwing me back to that moment that hurts, at this moment, right? Like the optimism, it was a simpler time.”
STEWART: “It was a simpler time. But you make the point in the book, which I think is really interesting, that that moment of optimism actually crystallized in some ways, the failure.”
KLEIN: “Yes.”
STEWART: “And you make it very stark in terms of, you know, for instance, the chargers, you know, which I think is a great example.”
KLEIN: “Yeah. So, right, so liberals pass $7.5 billion for a nationwide network of electric vehicle chargers. We also get $42 billion, and this is a big thing they tout a lot, to do rural broadband. There's a lot of parts of this country that are not hooked up to broadband. And in both cases, and these were passed early in the administration, particularly the rural broadband money, by the end of the administration, by the election, by the time I'm fact-checking the book, they just have not happened. And you look into why -- and we did look into why -- and what you get are these incredibly baroque internal processes. I'll focus on rural broadband for a minute here, because that one was a good idea.”
