you have international students come to the united states for four years of college and sent right back home. here we are, it is graduation season. right. the united states needs great minds, entrepreneurial minds, we are saying to those great brains, take our fantastic college education system and head on home. you mentioned japan, japan had serious problems, it couldn t bump its economic growth up. it didn t have the work force. it had two problems. it didn t bring women into the work force and it didn t have any immigration. so now japan is trying to lure immigrants. it doesn t have a culture acclimatized to that. we do. this is a culture that is finally tuned to immigration. there is a fundamental and deep seated respect for immigration in this country. but the idea that the country is full is just mathematically not true. it s incorrect. as the president pushes his hard line on immigration at rallies,
shared to pay workers what they deserve, and also our college education system, which is letting people graduate with debt and no diploma and deal with student debt on a minimum wage job, it s really something the president can address and make those links. heather mcghee, jonathan alter, thank you very much. checking the news feed, after pleading guilty to cocaine possession, trey radel will resign this morning. when the news first broke, many republicans, governor rick scott asked him to step down, but he vowed to stay. this was radel s first term in office. january is shaping up to be the coldest month this century, and another blast of arctic air is descending on the lower 48. in chicago, public schools are closed because it s so cold. 40 below with the wind chill. in the southeast, a major winter storm is taking shape from texas to the carolinas. they expect about a half an inch of ice and then more than a foot
education. she wants a job. ann wants a job. i heard her say she wants a job and to be able to support her family. i think she also said she needs education in order to get the job and if you don t have any money, it s hard to get education. but in america we have higher education, we ve got a great educational system. she needs access to that. excuse me. in america you have a college education system where costs are soaring, where kids leaving school 25, $50,000 in debt and hundreds and thousands of young people have given up college. and it s an american policy when it comes to college education. if you look at the correlation, the federal government has increased the cost of education and now there s a trillion dollars of debt outstanding from american kids. you ve got it a little bit backwards and i think the idea that solving the very serious problem of declining middle class and the growing gap