reporter: robo calls from mitt romney may have given a boost. i m calling on behalf of john kasich for america. rubio in florida looking ahead. florida as well as ohio will be among five states of for grabs next tuesday. megan hughes, abc news, detroit. joel: a huge crowd turning out for senator ted cruz. he is the only person still in the race who can beat donald trump. andrea blanford live now. reporter: ted cruz did not waste time going after donald trump at his campaign stop. it was standing room only inside calvary baptist church where they participated in a town hall applause greeted everyone of his promises. he is traveling donald trump in delegates but is a close number 2. he says our state will have a decisive impact on the primary. he made an appeal to voters throwing their weight behind one of the many candidates who are no longer running and those who still plan to vote for marco rubio or john kasich. none of them have a path to beating donald trump. if you do
i m going to resist the temptation to come to new and minimum-wage debate. [laughter] please do. i m happy to have one off-line after we are done but just to be responsive to the question about millennials, you know i think one very concrete tangible reality that many people in your age cohort are facing in student debt and i think we are ripe as a country for a cross party cross ideological conversation about how to reform our student debt system and it s not simply a matter of using the terms of debt. it s also thinking about to what extent has the presence and expansion of loans contributed to the escalation of the cost of college. we have to have an honest crosscutting look at this but it s got to be one that is led actually by those of you in the millennial generation whose citizens are experiencing the pain and i think if you can get an issue like that would be a tangible way to get started in the country. let s get some more questions please. good morning. my n
campaign 2014 has one outstanding race yet to be decided. louisiana senate. democratic incumbent mary landrieu is up against republican bill cassidy. that s live at 8:00 p.m. eastern on our companion network, c-span2. congress is in recess for the thanksgiving holiday. when they return, lawmakers will work on extending government funding past december 11th when the current spending deal runs out. in the house, members will consider how to proceed on immigration after the president s executive action. in the in the senate, votes are scheduled on nominees beards to argentina and hungary. and work on a spending deal to continue funding the government. live coverage when congress returns monday at 2:00 p.m. eastern, the house on c-span and the senate on c-span2. this thanksgiving week, c-span is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. watch thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. i was elected in 1980, came in in 81. if you look at my newsletters from 81 to 84, ther
the biggest thing it had to do with the project was where would the interstate go. the engineers worked with the possibility for a long time of running the interstate over the top of the dam. that would have required a larger dam, of course. but all of this is con verveg at the same time. the interstate planners are making their plans for which path the interstate is going to ta take. the decision to run it through summit county the final decision wasn t made until 1960. by that time, denver s engineering of the dam had moved on. so they ended up running it along the base of the dam rather than on it. it did have some affect. like i said, by the time the interstate was designated, it was no longer really an issue. it was essentially a water project. yes. i think we have time for one more question. which one of you wants to ask the question? flip a coin. i wanted to know your guesstimate on vacation land of the huge traffic jams we see now on 70. how is that goin
now, i m not going to let my government colleagues off the hook, because we also used to see a lot of senior government officials on the government coordinating council side of the house engaged frequently in that business. i ve seen a diminishment of senior level engagement over the last decade. we need to fix that problem in two ways. ceos and coos need to get supportive of this, so do senior government officials. we need tough decisions and risk outcomes to be decided and that s not going to happen at the gs 14, 15 level. it s got to be higher than that. if we re going to solve some of the nation s most critical problems, like aging infrastructure, and the impacts of climate change, that s not going to be done at the level we currently are structured to deal with those kind of things. it s got to be a high order type thing. i also want to say, that at the state, local, and federal level, tremendous difference in terms of private sector engagement in emergency operation cen