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Recession or fundamental shift in funged mental view of immigration? >> thats a very astute point. i do agree with you. i cant explain it. i agree with it none the less, that is true. you are seeing more of that put aside the low skilled side and i would argue you are going to have need for that as well particularly in the agricultural areas and hospital tattle areas. hospitality side, we need more high skilled immigrants those in the stem field i dont understand. >> just to follow up on preside...

We had a demand for more or less 120,000 people with computer science degrees. and in the aggregate, we were only producing 40,000. if thats true, why in gods name wouldnt you keep everybody here who wants to stay who got an undergraduate or graduate degree and why wouldnt you have a visa program that wasnt a bureaucratic nightmare to fill the gap? while were trying to increase more young people in the stem field. one of the things we did include the clinton global initiative when president obam...

Imagination of the american people, what would it be? >> it wouldnt be one project. you double or triple nasas budget and say, take me anywhere you want to go in the solar system. the scientists can go to mars and maybe there are some tourists who want to go to the moon and the miners want to go to the asteroid and every one of the tracks will have a frontier associated with it and the engineers will have to inovate. you need the biologists looking for life and the structural engineers and mecha...

>> well, soledad, as soon as mitt romney landed here in london for his overseas trip he found the controversy surrounding basically what has been hoped by his campaign as what theyre calling a listen and learn tour. it has been sort of who said what in the last 24 hours as you mentioned that quote that appeared in an article in the london daily telegraph apparently or allegedly we might even want to say from an unnamed romney advisor and even though the international press could not in...

>> i was recently speaking to a middle school class, and i said to the kids, what do you want to be when you grow up? a few said journalist. >> congratulations. >> one kid said hedge fund manager, another kid said investment banker. nobody said astronaut. when i was a kid, it was about becoming an astronaut, right? i was born in 1967. it was all about that. what youre saying is its the aspiration of culture and innovation that is key to getting us into this new world. >> the world needs journali...

president and cleave employment analysts at randstad and ellen gordon reeves is author of "can i wear my nose ring to the interview." well get to that great title in a moment. but joannie, where are the jobs available? i know the statistic, there are more than 3 million open jobs in america. where are they? health care? >> everybody is looking. they want to know where the jobs are at. there are a lot of sectors hiring. health care is a lot sector, engineering, information technology, a...

Put together about $20 million to start, to try to help meet the goal the president says we should meet. we need 100,000 more teachers in sign technology, engineering, and mathematics in the stem field. >> i just called it s.t.e.p. its stem, of course. >> they believe theyll be able to recruit, train, and report 10, 20,000 of that 1,000. so that well meet 20% of the nations goals from this single commitment, if we get it done. and im excited about it. its really important. because we know that w...

Applies to where they go to school and, you know, the last kid you showed us, that was a very rich school district. he had all these courses offered. but the kid from middle-class america, he didnt have the chance to take those courses. >> yeah, its really interesting. and most american students actually wont take calculus and physics. even if offered, they opt out. most industrialized nations dont let you opt out. in the united states, students are allowed to choose. and usually they choose not...

the killing of osama bin laden, new details. we have correspondents covering all angles. theyll join us at the top of the hour. but first politics. ron paul wants president obamas job. he announced his intentions earlier today and plans a news conference at the top of the hour. the republican congressman joins newt gingrich in the gop race for the white house. a long time political observer, broadcaster and businessman has a new book, fail up, lessons from building successes from fai...

President obamas 2012 budget calls for $4.3 billion for recruiting and training teachers and principals and a portion of that will go toward recruiting teachers in the so-called stem field, science, technology, engineering, and math. the goal is to get 100,000 new stem teachers in schools over the next decade but that could be easier said than done. >> you really think she is right? yeah. she is. >> reporter: after 31 years as an engineer gary is starting a new career -- math teacher at faith ch...