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Washington, d.c. is more about the donors than meaningful policy or signs. and secondary, i would also say as we make this transition -- in montana, weve doubled our wind, quadrupled our solar and i fought back on 80 efforts to end renewable energy standards. we also have to recognize we cant leave communities behind. you have people that have spent their whole life powering this nation and democrats sound like theyre part of the problem. so we need to make a transition. we cant wait another 35 ...

Important, in exchange, state and local governments promised $4 billion in tax create, road projects, utility costs, worker training, coming out to a cost of more than $315,000 per expected job. critics call itd a coed it a c give away that would never result in the manufacturing jobs. the when and if they would see benefits from the deal, an analysis from the project says they would not generate profit for the state until 2042 at the ear earliest. according to the verge, the stay may not recoup...

Credits, road projects, utility costs, worker training, and other costs. but foxconn wont get any payouts until it follows through with construction and hiring. this is important for a reason i will mention later. walker says the potential $10 million investment will bring up to 13,000 jobs to the state. president trump said 15,000. its 13,000. the top democrat in the state assembly says the project could cost the state nearly $4.5 million, nearly 50% more than the $3 million cited by walker. th...

>> thats a pretty good strategic outline of what the country needs. elizabeth elizabeth okay. i didnt want to interrupt you because you laid out three bullet points. the first one you said was taking a cut to entitlements, and i assume youre saying thats when critics say, look, hes going to be taking a knife to domestic programs that we need that includes science, social welfare programs, research programs, you have to pacify people who depend on those programs, so how do lawmakers going forward...

Meeting of their minds there was and whether this president will go ahead and continue the strengthening of nato. i think theres a lot of questions out there. the one thing i like was perhaps overlap, this issue of worker training. the german apprenticeship programs. this might be an interesting way not just to finesse the trading debate but how do we make sure the workers can cope with the pressure of robotics and driverless vehicles. this is something germany and the united states could take t...

Threshold but also beginning to export this fuel to china and to places all over the world so its going to continue to grow and continue to support jobs here at home. and its going to continue to reduce our reliance on foreign oil. i would rather have our farmers get the benefit and our workers get the benefit rather than folks in the middle east. >> i want to ask you about your poverty initiatives because as agriculture secretary, you have been, as long as i have known you, really concerned abo...

>> reporter: good morning, carol. jpmorgan, the wall street giant announcing theyre investing $100 million in detroit to help with the bankrupt citys recovery. about 40% will be investment, meaning they expect so make some money back. 60% is philanthropic, basically in the forms of grants. $50 million, half going to community developers trying to turn around struggling neighborhoods in detroit. one of the biggest problems in detroit is all those abandoned homes. $25 million will go toward tackli...

Switzerland, sweden, theres a whole group of them. doesnt it raise the question, to your point, which is instead of fighting politically over the minimum wage we ought to be maximizing apprenticeships, worker training, opportunities to invest to actually get people above the minimum wage by having a buoyant economy not slowing it down. >> as i said, i support increasing the minimum wage. thats not my long-term economic plan. thats to make sure that everybody lives up to their god-given potential...

We just passed several months ago a skills act which says, yes, we need to enhance, we need to make our worker training programs efficient and we need results. all he has to do is pick up the phone and call his democratic colleagues in the united states senate and let him pick up that bill. its something he talked about. hes off there talking about college tuition costs. the house has acted on student loan issue. in fact, we did something that was very close to what he actually proposed, and yet...

We just passed several months ago a skills act which says, yes, we need to enhance, we need to make our worker training programs efficient and we need results. all he has to do is pick up the phone and call his democratic colleagues in the united states senate and let him pick up that bill. its something he talked about. hes off there talking about college tuition costs. the house has acted on student loan issue. in fact, we did something that was very close to what he actually proposed, and yet...