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>> mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure and privilege to be here today in the white house together with president donald trump and have a first personal one-on-one meeting one meeting and exchange of views. in the period leading up to this visit, i've always said it is much, much better to talk one delete back to one another and not about one another, and i think our conversation proves this. we talked about the international situation. we talked also about apprenticeship programs when we met with ceos and apprentices around a round table and regarding the shared interes...

>> translator: [ speaking german ] >> in the situation we talked about also apprenticeship programs, when we met with ceos and apprentices at a roundtable as regards to the shared interests that we have. now, let me look back into the past. we the germans owe a lot to the united states of america, particularly as regards the economic rise of germany.

And education and training and transition assistance. >> that's all boring. what people like to hear is that it's somebody else's fault, foreigners -- >> it's much easier to blame a foreigner than to say we need better domestic policies at home. there are a lot of countries who do this better than we do. when it's singapore, korea, scandinavia, germany with its apprenticeship programs. we don't have to reinvent the wheel. there's good experience at the state level and foreign countries that we could draw from and have a greater social compact with the american worker. >> a pleasure having you ...

Improvement on social and cultural issues, improvement on civil rights with decreasing economic opportunity. those things are not simple. you can have economic growth and make advances in other areas. i think the future of the party is going to rely on our ability to communicate both. >> how are they going to find a way to reach out to rural parts of the america, white working man that went en masse to donald trump but appealing to the minority community? they struggled on both fronts during this election. >> i think bernie sanders and hillary clinton did talk a lot about these issues during t...

Which was hard fought -- and i was proud of that primary, it was about issues. senator sanders and i got together, came up with a plan to make public colleges and universities tuition free for any families making less than $125,000 a year. [ cheers and applause ] that's the vast majority of families and if you're over that we're going to make it debt free, so pay what you can afford, but i don't want to see young people and their families going into debt. i view this as an investment, and that's why we'll make it easier for you to afford to pay back your college debt. pay it down and pay it of...