can t we agree on that? get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question do you believe our bridges are in bad shape? or is president obama doing a photo op? text a for bridges in bad shape. text b to a photo op. go to our blog, msnbc.com. the results later in show. let me bring in the second of transportation from the obama administration, mr. anthony fox. mr. fox good to have you on the ed show for the first time. appreciate your time tonight. great to be with you, ed. why is this such a political heavy lift? this has a lot of americans perplexed that we just all of a sudden have stopped building stuff in america? well, first of all, your observation about the lack of construction in a big point, because we re still just days away from the highway trust fund running short, and going into insolvency and slowing or
if we give it away, if we don t pay attention to the dotted is and crossed ts, we re going to be in the toilet economically. this is a great move. it s moving forward. so we ve agreed on this. no one in congress is yelling that we shouldn t have done this. so who in congress is willing to stand up and say, we can t build new bridges and new roads. give us the american people a reason. is it the president? is it the money? no, it s not the money. we got plenty of money. we go wherever we have to do on the globe to make things right. now it s time to make things right at home. that s really what the american people want. and even though we re 3 1/2 months oos way from making another 0 political decision in this country it would seem to me we as americans would be able to put enough pressure on elected officials to do something and do what we ve always done, and that s build it, because that s who we are. we re americans. this is a positive thing.
opens his mouth reminds us george w. bush s greatest achievement, not dying in office. terrific for the democratic party the more dick cheney comes out and mouths off. this is coming two weeks after trying to blame current sectarian strife on iraq in obama. like blaming daniel craig because octopusy is a bab james bond film. it happened before him. the more her talks, better it is. glinda the good witch of the neocons. great to see mary cheney, a job at state invented for her who has alienated the gop so much with her attacks on mike enzi, this is them trying to salvage their reputation among their own friends. speaking of out of step, and that s exactly where i believe the cheneys are right now. not focused on where americans are right now.
good to have you with us. thanks for watching. back from vacation, always good to get a little fresh air and do what you like to do. i m fortunate enough to be able to do that. and it s good to be back with you here tonight in new york. you know, you re out of the news. i m out of the news. okay? i haven t been doing a whole lot, just paying attention to nothing but having recreation. so coming back tonight, i thought, what can we agree on? let s start with something that we can really agree on. because americans, we re just agreeable people. i was at a golf tournament yesterday in sheboygan, wisconsin. the green bay packer hall of fame golf tournament. americans are basically happy people. we love tradition. we love to build friendships, relationships. we love to build traditions. we love to be around things that are positive. so tonight i think we have a story right in front of us, a topic that i think every american should be able to agree
this means over 2 million miles of american roads need to be rebuilt or repaired. think about that number. that s an awful lot of mileage. 25% of the bridges require significant repair. that s what the engineering society tells us. roughly, 150,000 bridges americans drive over every day need work. why aren t we doing something about this? isn t this something that maybe you and your neighbor ralph who s a tea partier could agree on? america has fallen from seventh to 18th over the past decade when it comes to investments in road roads. that doesn t sound like us. heck, we re going in the rock direction. we re used to going forward. number one. americans like to be number one. we love winners. we celebrate the good. well, president obama, who half