Below 25000 and 2027488001 for all others. James, you are next from massachusetts. Hello . Caller mi actually on tv . Host you are, go ahead. Caller i had no idea. Im site i was not prepared. I am an individual who spend a lot of time in school. I have a lot of education yet i found myself making basically welfare wages. Im curious what you would say about this middle class. I have 200,000 in student loans. I make about 25,00030,000 dollars a year. I have no idea where this is going, frankly. Guest it is a very good question and something we have been tracking at the Pew Research Center for a while. Looking at the ways americans exceed themselves and rather not they see themselves as part of the middle class and to what it takes to be part of the middle class. Perhaps one of the most interesting Public Opinion results we have had is that we take a look at you asked americans, do you expect or chip in to have a better standard of living than you do now . You start to see Many Americans
And since today also marks five years since i signed historic wall street reform into law, let me say i will not accept any efforts to roll back this law or its strong protections for our economy and the american people, including our military families. And were going to keep helping our newest veterans transition to civilian life. All 50 states have now taken steps to recognize the skills of our veterans when issuing civilian credentials and licenses. So weve got to make sure these laws are working so our veterans actually get those credentials. Well keep helping our veterans and their families choose the school thats right for them under the post9 11 g. I. And that now includes the surviving spouses of our fallen heroes. [applause] in 43 states, veterans now pay instate tuition. Were working to make sure that happens in all 50 states. I dont know what the other seven states think theyre doing we got to go ahead and make that happen. [applause] well keep partnering with communities th
and running for president. he made the announcement in front of a few thousand people in the ohio state university. the testing is what makes you stronger and the challenges is what makes you better. i live through them and become stronger for them and america is stronger for them. here is how we have done it, by staying together. not by dividing each other but staying together with the eyes on the horizon about the future. i am here to ask you for your prayers, for your support and efforts because i have decided to run for president of the united states. it s taking the band of brothers that i work with everyday, and we re going take the lessons of the heartland and straighten out washington dc and fix our country. there are a lot of candidates this year. all 16 of them and among all of them he does stand out. at least on paper. he is the two term governor and maybe the key swing state of ohio. it s a state that s going in every president election since 1960. they re
bring us up to date with the latest on the ground. good afternoon, thomas. investigators worked through the night. they ve been here all day trying to answer some of these key questions. now, right now the police chief tells me that yesterday was both his proudest and his saddest day in his career. he praised law enforcement s row respons in the face of danger. they rushed to the scene. they rushed to look for this terrible assailant from across the city. they found him. they engaged him. officers responded from everywhere, from my police head yours from officer s homes to make sure few community members were harmed as possible. reporter: as for that chattanooga police officer who was shot in the leg, the police chief says he is in relatively good spirits although he is in a lot of pain. he is surrounded right now by his family and fellow officers. the community meanwhile are coming out to support the victims, their families and law enforcement, leaving american flags a
abdulazeez. it s being treated as a terrorism investigation. at this time we have no indication he was inspired by or directed by anyone other than himself. here s what former deputy cia director and former new york city mayor say about the attack. this is the wave of the future. this is not surprising to me. people have been warning about this for months. the lone wolf has become a pack of wolves. the pack of wolves have a common ideology. it s called muslim extremist terrorism. that organizes them and motivates them and if you don t recognize that ideology and you create political correctness as a barrier, you find it really hard to find them. what did he say? people are ticked off. enough is enough. these stories are coming fast and furious. we keep wondering how is this recruitment process performed and how do people become radicalized? i keep going back to the fact that we don t have a countermessage to jihad. with he don t have our own message, our own propa