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The i hope you can interpret whether or not that means you better do this and how to phrase it, but if he had said at the end of the day, your job is to do your job, i don't think we would be having this discussion today. i have never seen another presidency do that. in clinton white house when april and i were covering that white house, they walled off the lewinsky investigation from the policy side. >> david, you wanted to get in. >> i would say, your latter point, second point, i'm in favor, i believe they should wall off this investigation and never speak about it again and talk infrastruc...

The president and ivanka trump heading to wisconsin today to promote apprenticeship programs. the white house says such programs can help close the skills gap. anxiety over factory jobs is high in whaakasha, wisconsin. general electric is moving to canada and many people are losing their jobs. many of the workers voted for president trump, hoping he would save their jobs. all right, those wisconsin employees from ge join a growing list of unemployed factory workers in the state. more than 125,000 since the year 2000. what's so interesting to me, these factory workers we talked to, because of a...

Again that sort of the point. -- not exactly harvard, but that sort of the point. sometimes what they need is an apprenticeship. that leads to jobs. take a look at the numbers. numbers of jobs that go wanting in the u.s., skilled construction jobs skilled jobs in manufacturing. those are where they jobs are and you get them by going through an apprenticeship program. if you look at the starting salaries for folks that come through apprenticeship programs compared to four-year college educations, while that is the apprenticeship program yields higher salaries. if you drill down further, you see...

College or when students are looking at apprenticeship programs in the building trades or four-year institutions, when they leave they have the skills necessary to enter the workforc workforce. >> reporter: and the president's budget, congress was talking about some new welfare reform. could this sort of integrate into that at all? >> certainly the dash one of the important aspects of this is the portability of credentials. when someone earns a skill, when someone learns a skill it is important to signal to other employers that this person knows a certain set of skills. the emphasis is on high...

To the wednesday announcement. yes, ma'am? >> is there sort of a region or group of people you're trying to focus in on with these apprenticeships even as the president is saying that the unemployment rate is doing well under his administration, there's still groups of people, be it region or by race, by jender, thjen gender when it >> you are correct. so the unemployment rate, i believe, is 4.3%. the broader rate that is the rate is at 8.4%. and as we have had discussions with ceos that are looking at these apprenticeship programs. one of the items of discussion is a way to work with communit...