Great to be with you and with a great speech. To endorse donald trump and 26 teams are to be active in the campaign and now one year into the presidency he gave me factbased speech about the economy and how it is booming. Its also an inspirational speech. As he talked about, the things we have yet to achieve for those in the country still struggling and living in poverty we need to find them, get them skills so i thought that this was a great speech and my only disappointment is the partisan divide on the floor where time after time standing ovation by the republicans and i think with the exception of joe manchin from West Virginia who stood with us and said that the rest of the democrats sat on their hands and i will just use the word it was disappointing. The president did say we should set aside differences and find a common ground. How was that possible at this point . Certainly it should always be possible when we fund our military. We did see the democrats standing up on that as
Good evening, this is continuing live coverage of seats spent to President Trumps first state of the union address. You might recognize wherever standing and camped out with other media outlets. This is National Statuary hall, not far from where the president spoke. Speak, tradition for them to come out talk to reporters. Well do this for an hour so as we line up members of both sides of the aisle. The first member is congressman Chris Collins of western new york. Good evening. Its great to be with you. Proud to have been the first member of congress to endorse President Trump for congress. Active in the campaign and now he gave a factbased speech about our economy, how its booming, the stock markets and the great work we did on the tax reform. It was an inspirational speech, a call for america to be better, to be great. He talked about the things we have yet to achieve. For some of those still struggling living in poverty, we need to find them and get them skills and jobs. It was a gr
And i am proud of you. I know you are currently residing in florida but you are a true puerto rican. I know you are fighting for equality, and that is the solution. The democratic thing to do the right thing to do economically and financially for puerto rico insofar as the immediate crisis is concerned. Congress could give puerto rico a tool that is not available in puerto rico, and that is chapter nine of the bankruptcy code. It allows companies to reorganize themselves under the protection of the bankruptcy court, so that they can meet their payment obligations. It allows them to restructure in an organized and legal way. That is why i am fighting for that in congress. But the permanent solution would be to allow puerto rico to join the union. Pay federal taxes. But at the same time, get the same benefits from the federal government. Then puerto rico would prosper with that kind of profit status. There would be a transition, but we would have no Political Risk and we would drive the
Isnt that just racism . On what basis, what argument can the process be made where its okay for certain people to be overrepresented and not others. Its a complicated question and im glad that i am not on the committee at harvard. [laughter] im Maria Costigan i work for the council on foreign relations. I was wondering if either of you had noticed a difference in awareness to what the other country is doing education wise in the United States. If you look at where they are insecure, its education. If you look at the president of china, he doesnt seem insecure about anything but their sending teachers over to the uk, to the netherlands, to australia to learn and they are not surprisingly, they are not looking at how were teaching, theyre looking at how we get students interested in learning. Theyre bringingsome of that back. So what i do worry about is its not coming the other way. Theres not a lot of resistance to americans, education, learning from other circles. Theyre talking about
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