Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150305:14:54:00
Community leaders that were business-elected officials, nonprofit leaders, that looked at over 300 applications that we did in conjunction with the haystack and macarthur foundation and another layer of individuals basically identifying how do you -- how do you whittle it down to ten and of the ten we identified seven, but it was difficult. richard wolf from msnbc.com was one of the judges. he was a tough judge. we started calling him simon, but it was -- he was -- he was asking all the right questions. >> and what's the goal of this competition? >> the goal is to provide people with the oppor...