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Premise? >> the numbers in the journal story that people are not promoting from within are very compelling. as for apprenticeship programs, we have a different system in europe where they basically take students at the age of 14 and sidetrack them into blue collar professions or send them on to college. i think the community colleges, though, we could do a lot better job with, community colleges exist to give people practical skills at a much lower tuition than regular universities and i also think of course if we can't get the skilled workers, especially in engineering and technical fields, t...

>> how does one do this revitalization of manufacturing? if you look at germany, germany has been able to maintain a manufacturing base though they have very high wages, a pretty complex regulatory system, but they have focused on technically trained apprenticeship programs, things like that. is that what's missing in america? >> we have to do all of that, but it's not going to happen overnight. we need to start somewhere. the first step is to create a blueprint for the country. get the right people to lay out a blueprint for the country. i don't know if in the history of our country if we hav...

A little bit about ukraine, so we don't know how much of a meeting of minds there was. and this president for example is going to go ahead and continue the strengthening of nato. so i actually think there's a lot of questions out there. the one thing i like is perhaps some overlap, this issue of worker training, the german apprenticeship programs, this might be an interesting way to finesse the largest trade debate, of how do we make sure that workers can cope with new technology. and perhaps this can be a centerpiece of the g-20, which as you know the germans host this year. >> what did strik...

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Revitalization of manufacturing? if you look at germany, germany has been able to maintain a manufacturing base though they have very high wages, a pretty complex regulatory system but they have focused on technically trained apprenticeship programs, things like that. is that what's missing in america? >> we have to do all of that, but it's not going to happen overnight. we need to start somewhere. the first step is to create a blueprint for the country. get the right people to lay out a blueprint for the country. i don't know if in the history of our country if we have created a 50, 100-year ...