the controversial keystone xl pipeline cleared a major hurdle with the new state department report that put increased pressure on obama to approve it. in a new interview today, new jersey governor bobby jindal weighed in. the president, he s been ambiguous on fracking, they ve sent mixed messages on that. i know he takes credit for the domestic energy boom, but the reality is a lot of that s happening on private lands, not federal lands. this decision should have been made a long time ago. the canadians are going to get this oil. the question is whether they sell it to us or chinese. i d rather it come here to america. joining me now, democratic congressman jim hines. representative hines, welcome, good to see you. thanks for having me. so governor jindal is calling this one a no-brainer. should the pipeline be approved? well, it s not a no-brainer. anybody who s thoughtful on these issues knows that this is very, very dirty, carbon
out if that pipe came from a plane. to politics, and new today, the white house chief of staff is revealing new details about the president s year of action, including an upcoming announcement from the president. later this week, you ll hear the president talk about connect ed. this is an opportunity where several private american companies are going to commit over a half billion dollars to ensure that our schools across the country have the kind of technology so our kids can compete in this kind of economy. fcc says it s going to wire 15,000 schools, get 20 million kids online. also today, new reaction from republican congressman paul ryan to the president and his executive order powers. we have an increasingly lawless presidency where he is actually doing the job of congress, writing new policies and new laws without going through congress. presidents don t write laws. congress does. and when he does things like he did in health care, delaying mandates that the law said was s
well, i ll tell you, if you think about the things he laid out on the table this week, $10.10 an hour minimum wage is not going to be small for the hundreds of thousands of people who benefit from that. when you think about long-term employment, the president bringing in 300 of the country s biggest employers to say to them, hey, let s resolve this issue that s dogging our economy and when those guys get a fair shot at a job, and in fact, a new job at some point, that s not going to be small to them. later this week, you ll hear the president talk about connect ed, an opportunity where several private american companies will commit over a half billion dollars to insure our schools across the country have the kind of technology so that our kids can compete in this economy. this builds on a story in the times today. fcc says it s going to wire 50,000 schools, get 20 million kids online in the kind of learning not the way you and i grew up, david, which is you had a computer science l
in syria, and where you have very bad, very extremist people learning to use weaponry, it s of profound concern to the united states. also of concern, with just a few days to go now until the start of the olympics in sochi, we know the president said last week that sochi is safe. however, security experts that i ve spoken with, people on the ground, they themselves say they wouldn t even go. so what does the intelligence you re seeing indicate? well, you know, you very rarely get intelligence on a specific attack before that attack happens. and, of course, you know, both the russians and of course there s been a lot of international cooperation, have really done their best to lock down sochi, to install all sorts of security measures just as is happening as we speak for the super bowl. i have no reason to believe that those measures aren t quite solid. but again, it s always as they say. it s the bullet you don t see that kills you. there are people, whether out of check nia or dag
hopefully we re not building major pipelines that are there to last for a very long time because they do or don t create a lot or a few jobs. you build the pipeline because you have to or you don t. if we re going to talk about jobs, we should be talking about things like education. and by the way, infrastructure. those jobs that unquestionably get created when you rebuild a bridge or a highway or anything like that. bottom line on keystone, shame on us for not as a country being in a place where we don t still need to use very, very heavy and dirty carbon. the reality is that we are. and so, you know, i think for those i ve got a very good record with the league of conservation voters, but i recognize if this stuff is going to get burned one way or another, better that it gets used here and creates jobs in the united states than creating jobs elsewhere. do you have any sense which way the president is leaning and what kind of a tough position he s in on this? no sense at all w