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The president does virtually nothing. im very familiar with the buy american act when i served on active duty in the air force i worked on some of these issues. the executive order says its going to be the policy of the executive branch to have a preference for american products. thats the law. congress passed law in 1933 saying exactly that. so basically the executive order says follow the law. yeah, but really does nothing. its just show, no substance. >> we already know that the keystone pipe...

More choices, to empower people so that they now will control their health care instead of this washington mentality of we know whats best and were going to tell you what you need. so this is a historic week and this is very exciting, particularly for someone who practiced in health care for over 30 years. >> so you made the point that your state, georgia, did not expand medicaid. that is true. first of all, ill answer that question for you that i asked. there are 111,640 people currently uninsu...

This table has seen of a young black boy who set there and the president has to lean over and he reached up and touched his head and told his parents that his hair feels like mine. that is an example. that is what people vote for. and yes we had gains and we lad a lot of gains because what he came in with after the bush presidency? you cannot talk about the desperation and despair. and where we are now. we want to build on those gains. we want people to talk about criminal justice reform. i love...

Is absolutely immoral. >> making such an important point. ive want to build on it. what you are referring to. when people are not covered the they can end uppen the er. times picayune in louisiana talked about this. they say the states own analysis found as you mention medicaid expansion would save louisiana between 13.9 and $78 million. they go on to explain why. jonathan, you have been in and out of this game for a long time. walk us through the basic concept you can save money and cbo numbers...

>> making such an important point. ive want to build on it. what you are referring to. when people are not covered the they can end uppen the er. times picayune in louisiana talked about this. they say the states own analysis found as you mention medicaid expansion would save louisiana between 13.9 and $78 million. they go on to explain why. jonathan, you have been in and out of this game for a long time. walk us through the basic concept you can save money and cbo numbers reflecting save more t...

Im not al e loan in the viewpoints. in fact, the vast majority of asian americans share this viewpoint, and they support affirmative action, and this is part of the democratic process. >> i want to look back at some of the numbers in california where ward was the architect of the affirmative action policies, and the banning thereof. if you look at the california i minority population here on the left-hand column, and it is 6.6%, and 38.2%, and then 13.9%. and when you look at that, ward, it is s...

Year since we thought. the unemployment rate was 4.5% before this recession. we still have a lot of work to do. one big problem, many of the jobs coming back are low-wage jobs. largest gains in april were service jobs, retail trade, health care, leisure and hospitality. every job in america is important, but some of these jobs arent the kinds of jobs you can send your kids to college on. the quality of the jobs we lost higher than the quality of jobs coming back. the real unemployment rate is 13...

Year than we initially thought. put that in perspective, the unemployment rate was 4.5% before this recession. we still have a lot of work to do. one big problem many of the jobs coming back are low-wage jobs. largest gains in april were service jobs, retail trade, health care, leisure and hospitality. im telling you, every job in america is important but some of these jobs arent the jobs you can send your kids to college on. the quality of the jobs we lost higher than the quality of jobs coming...

Before you go take the big exam. it doesnt make any sense. >> lets go back to christine. what are we hearing? >> futures moving higher. and retail hiring in there as well. i told you, a lot of those were service sector jobs. we want to be careful of the quality of shows jobs. average hourly earnings up. people getting more in the paycheck. something called the real unemployment rate, u-6 or real unemployment rate. 13.9%. people unemployed who would like to be working full time but working part t...

Number one, architecture. the architecture degrees from georgetown university, 13.9% unemployment rate. is this not related to the housing rate? >> of course. >> something to do with the state of the current economy. >> of course. >> however, if you move on, there are some other soft degrees. >> philosophy. >> fine arts, for example. 12.6% unemployment. and information systems. i dont believe at all. >> the problem though -- >> i want to do this. this is what i want to do with this. any young pe...