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Border security, preparations toward the construction of a wall which is to say we dont feed need to bill this wall on this bill. there was money for border security for surveillancehat gets us ready to build aall later. if thats what the president wants to say, thats a fine thing to do. in terms of saying i ran on it and you have to pay for it, if hes going to get in that fight with congress, hes going to lose. >> its not just democrats who 0 peas t oppose the wall. all of the republicans along...

S.t.e.m. i think, you know, part of what is so troubling about the proposals by the trump administration with the kitszcu nih and epa are cuts to reservel dget. weeeto get more people in the s.t.e.m. fields. >> when we think about what that means and moving forward, are you at all hopeful with the fact the trump administration did in february sign on for more funding? do you think its enough in whats needed for you reap what you sew mentality. >> i think we need to be thinking lock-term about in...

Sean spicer the white house briefing begins. lets watch. >> to set up for this afternoons major event. im excited to announce that next monday on april 24th at 10:00 a.m. eastern time, the president will speak via video conference with the commander of the international space station peg a whitson and her fellow astronaut jack fisher. in 2008, dr. whitson became the first woman to command the international space station. and on monday, she will break the record for the most time spent in space o...

Jonathan. here is sean spicer. >> thank you, we want today make sure the pool could set up for this afternoons major event. the president will speak via video conference with the commander of the international space station and her fellow as t -- she will be the most time spent in face of any american ast astronaut. they are looking to pursue a career in stem fields. as youre all aware in addition to signing the nasa transition

Skilled foreign workers. some business owners are worried about how it could help the bottom line. its already having an impact in silicon valley. good to see you again. >> great to see you. the three-year, h1b cevisa was created in 1990 to bring specialized workers to the united states. the visa was designed to fill jobs in stem fields with the engineers and scientists from abroad. when an american worker couldnt be found for the same role. since then, the program has allegedly been taking amer...

Force. and especially in s.t.e.m. fields, for example, we are seeing that the students are not ready and able and prepared for higher education in a lot of cases or to enter the work force in a meaningful way. so education is very core. the second area we are looking at is the role of vocational education, in particular apprenticeships. we actually just had a very robust discussion with the chancellor of germany when she was in town, just a few weeks ago, because the germans have really led the ...

>> kimberly, save it. >> here is where i stretch. [laughter] >> there should be a whole segment of your stretching. perfect. highly acclaimed. in other stretching news, for womens history month, the iconic brawny man, right? the sky ! its going to be replaced by this lady. not me. there you go. so they are going to do this as a special promotion. a woman is going to be wearing plaid. we look for them today, but couldnt find them. >> they are sold out. >> i know! >> why do they have to take anoth...

Explain more than hes explained. if he doesnt want to explain, then i think further action has to be taken. if the explanation isnt good enough, further action has to be taken. it has to be done by a special prosecutor. the question of whether or not he should recuse himself is a simple question. he has to recuse himself. he should have recused himself a while ago. he was involved in the campaign. and now we know he talked to the russians. so any investigation is going to necessarily involve him...

I love my kids public school teachers. the question is how do we attract the best and the brightest to be our public school teachers? is there a way to change the way we value teachers in this country. >> absolutely great question. i think we need to modernize our school system and everything about it. i think thats what betsy will bring to the job. i have a daughter thats a special ed teacher. my father and grandparents were public school teachers. betsys father was a public school teacher. we ...

White house to participate in the youth leadership and policy hack athon and i travelled with four fellows of wake forest university. they joined 80 other young leaders from across the country and spent the day tackling tough issues like campus sexual assault, the school to prison pipeline and increasing diversity in stem fields along with developing their the leadership skills they had a chance to make recommendations about federal policies and present them to senior members of the obama admini...