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Proposal or something else to bring democrats on the table, not really a lot that would give democrats information to cooperate with the white house or deeply unpopular president. >> sara murray in a sunny warm west palm beach florida. thank you. i want to talk about the nation's crumbling roads. joining me now is author of the "too big to fail," failing infrastructure and the way forward. and casey senior managing director for society of civil engineers. casey, the white house says the opening number, you heard sarah repeat it there as well, about $200 billion. is that enough? >> that's ove...

In a country where the estimated infrastructure gap is in the trillions, does it do enough, are we getting far enough in solving our problem? >> let me tell you that i would much prefer to see a larger bill, but i'm also a pragmatist. i have to find the sweet spot. we can't pass a democrat only bill it won't happen in the senate. we must reach across the aisle and we did it and what we did is we kept the current level of spending, alleged inflation, but here is the great news, we also took a program called transportation infrastructure financing, and greatly increased that and the republicans ...

1.8 million construction workers are holding their breath. and i think your set-up piece, i couldn't have said it better it's now in the lap of speaker boehner and leader eric cantor and i checked today, just before i came on the show, our bill will save 55,000 jobs in ohio. in john boehner's state. it will save 40,000 jobs in eric cantor's state. so, here you have those two leaders there, i would hope that they would not want to see more layoffs in these recessionary times we're finally getting out of slowly and painfully and should take up our bill and pass it. >> your bill, let's talk about...