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Peaceful protests. we had an outbreak of criminal activity on the periphery of the protests that resulted in the shooting of a young man because he was shooting at police. by and large, this has been a peaceful protest and by the way, we have made some progress in ferguson. we have a long way to go. we have elected more african-americans in sdonl swrechl a african-american leading the police department, reformed the municipal court, job training programs and housing programs going on. we are trying as a community to come together and get past this narrative of it's the police versus the protes...

Adults are able to work transition from government dependance to true independence we help more people live that piece of the american dream. we have a program right here in wisconsin that requires people to be signed up for one of our employ ability training programs one of our job training programs before they can get a welfare check. and now as of the budget i just signed we make the same requirement to make sure people can pass a drug test before they get a welfare check. that's right. now, you can only imagine what the defenders of the status quo thought when i proposed these reforms. the...

Is now embedded in the system. as that becomes the reality of the land i sure hope more governors put down their ideology and take this medicaid expansion. >> governor you know the president ticked off a number of agenda items today taking action on overtime pay which he's doing, rebuilding infrastructure criminal justice reform, job training programs and two years of free community college. how much of this can he realistically get done? >> well he can get a lot of it done. some of what he can get done as you reported rev, without congress like the overtime pay, some of it will be hard. there...

Building trust. now, nobody is suggesting that the job is done. this is still a work in progress. please chief would be the first one to say it. so would the mayor. camden and its people still face big challenges but this city is on to something. you've made real progress in just two years. that's why i'm here today, because i want to focus on fact that other cities across america can make similar progress. everything we've done over the past six years, whether it's rescuing the economy or reforming our schools or retooling our job training programs has been in pursuit of one goal. and that's ...

That tensions rise? >> we've got to think about the opportunity for so many people that are coming up in baltimore. sir, from your spot, from your vantage point, how do you do that moving forward? how can this be a catalyst for a better framework? >> when you look at job training, it has to be jobs at the end of the training. we have job training programs but there's no job at the end. so what we need to really focus on when we have city contracts and contracts that are government funded, we need to make sure that those contracts benefit the people who live in these communities and in the city...