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Recession or fundamental shift in funged mental view of immigration? >> that's a very astute point. i do agree with you. i can't explain it. i agree with it none the less, that is true. you are seeing more of that put aside the low skilled side and i would argue you are going to have need for that as well particularly in the agricultural areas and hospital tattle areas. hospitality side, we need more high skilled immigrants those in the stem field i don't understand. >> just to follow up on president obama's sort of indifference, almost it seems to what is going on down there. do you think his...

We had a demand for more or less 120,000 people with computer science degrees. and in the aggregate, we were only producing 40,000. if that's true, why in god's name wouldn't you keep everybody here who wants to stay who got an undergraduate or graduate degree and why wouldn't you have a visa program that wasn't a bureaucratic nightmare to fill the gap? while we're trying to increase more young people in the stem field. one of the things we did include the clinton global initiative when president obama said we need another one him,000 stem teachers, we knew the government wasn't going to have ...

Imagination of the american people, what would it be? >> it wouldn't be one project. you double or triple nasa's budget and say, take me anywhere you want to go in the solar system. the scientists can go to mars and maybe there are some tourists who want to go to the moon and the miners want to go to the asteroid and every one of the tracks will have a frontier associated with it and the engineers will have to inovate. you need the biologists looking for life and the structural engineers and mechanical engineers and all the stem field that everyone is whaling about trying to improve here back ...

>> well, soledad, as soon as mitt romney landed here in london for his overseas trip he found the controversy surrounding basically what has been hoped by his campaign as what they're calling a listen and learn tour. it has been sort of who said what in the last 24 hours as you mentioned that quote that appeared in an article in the london daily telegraph apparently or allegedly we might even want to say from an unnamed romney advisor and even though the international press could not independently verify whether or not that advisor even uttered those comments, the vice president and ...

>> i was recently speaking to a middle school class, and i said to the kids, what do you want to be when you grow up? a few said journalist. >> congratulations. >> one kid said hedge fund manager, another kid said investment banker. nobody said astronaut. when i was a kid, it was about becoming an astronaut, right? i was born in 1967. it was all about that. what you're saying is it's the aspiration of culture and innovation that is key to getting us into this new world. >> the world needs journalists and probably needs investment bankers but not to the exclusion of who in vents tomorrow. the i...