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With all of that going for you, can you say at this point you will not be definitively a candidate for president in 2020? >> youre the third person to ask me today. i keep saying, i have almost two years to be governor and i want to focus on that. im not forming a pac, im not recruiting people. im not going to say definitively anything. im trying to keep the focus on, you know, what were trying to do in colorado and really -- you know, some of these things are on workforce training, education, s...

Better-paying jobs because it will take a higher skill set, and for the president tot what he wants to do, he will have to be a dynamic thinker, and he will have to be a macro economic policy. >> every government decision impacts a manufacturing firm or any other firm that is in that kind of global competition. so tax policy matters, how low the rate is and what are the incentives to invest in america, and trade policy matters. this is where i do agree somewhat with donald trump and the criticis...

50s. >> you have said for the president to do what he wants to do he has to be a macrothinker. its great to see any jobs coming back or staying here, but what macroeconomic policy does he need? >> every government decision impacts a manufacturing firm or any other firm thats in that kind of global competition, so tax policy matters, how low the rate s what are the incentives to invest in america. trade policy matters, and this is where i do agree somewhat with donald trump and the criticism, i t...

So whose responsibility is that? does that fall in your lap to make sure a historic city like this is not forgotten, that there are opportunities that people can feel good about this place and that it really has progressed since 1965? >> it does fall in my lap. you know im the governor of the state, and my primary emphasis since ive been governor is to educate children of this state, to educate our people to create skilled work force training in alabama and to bring jobs into alabama. in fact th...

Me, double what it is in the white community for african-americans and latinos. and so you have to really look at all of the issues around work. first of all, we havent created enough jobs. secondly, we havent created enough training programs, workforce training. thirdly, we havent passed legislation, for example, such as legislation that would call for affordable child care, pay equity, you know, pay equal pay for equal work for women. we have not paid past legislation that would really allow f...

People dont have jobs because we havent invested in job creation, and the republican tea party refuses to invest in job creation. people dont invest in jobs because we have fallen short on workforce training, education, and investing, targeting resources in communities that are hardest hit, not everyone has benefited from this recession. you know, this recovery. excuse me, but you know, some are, others arent, we want to make sure that everyone benefits from a recovery effort, and that means we ...

Supervision growing up. >> these types are outrageous, people dont have jobs because we havent invested in job creation, and the republican tea party refuses to invest in job creation. people dont invest in jobs because we have fallen short on workforce training, education, and investing, targeting resources in communities that are hardest hit, not everyone has benefited from this recession. you know, this recovery. excuse me, but you know, some are, others arent, we want to make sure that every...

Workforce training, education, and investing, targeting resources in communities that are hardest hit, not everyone has benefited from this recession. you know, this recovery. excuse me, but you know, some are, others arent, we want to make sure that everyone benefits from a recovery effort, and that means we must target resources to those who have been marginalized and those who need investments in job creation, workforce training and move on. everyone deserves the american dream, these stereot...

Cut taxes for small business, killed the death tax and have common sense regulations and engaged in workforce training. all of these things coupled with certainty here in ohio is what allowed job creators to feel comfortable and to invest in our state. almost a quarter of a million more people now working and were deeply grateful but we have a long way to go. >> the national economy is also in the midst of a recovery. have president obamas policies been part of the solution? >> look, i think the...

Cut taxes for small business, killed the death tax and have common sense regulations and engaged in workforce training. all of these things coupled with certainty here in ohio is what allowed job creators to feel comfortable and to invest in our state. almost a quarter of a million more people now working and were deeply grateful but we have a long way to go. >> the national economy is also in the midst of a recovery. have president obamas policies been part of the solution? >> look, i think the...