Seek the democratic nomination. He spoke to reporters about his Campaign Agenda from capital here capitol hill. Sen. Sanders let me make a brief comment, and i will take a few questions. We dont have an endless amount of time. Let me say that, this country in my view has more serious crises than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s. For most americans, their reality is that theyre working longer hours for lower wages and inflationadjusted income, theyre earning less money than they used to years ago despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. So all over this country ive been talking to people. They say, how does it happen . Im producing more, working longer hours for low wages. My kid cant afford to go to college. Im having a hard time affording health care. How does that happen . At exactly the same time, 99 of all new income generated in this country is going to the top 1 . How does it happen that the top 1 owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . My
, all of growth that does set a slower, more sustainable trajectory is in the u. S. Interest, and i say that for several reasons. One is i do agree with the fundamental assessment that the current strategy has played itself out. The implications for social and political stability, and stability in the domestic context is certainly in our interest. I think also they are projecting that the vision includes a more integrated china with the world economy. I think certainly that is an americas longterm interest. So i think bottom line is we have a national interesting, ber interests, the leadershipses is assessment that they need to change that ever economic model. Now, chris had reverended some new considerations with respect to xi zhengping and the current leadership. I think one very significant change, structurally in the decisionmaking process is been the reemerge ends, not that it was ever dormant, but the party under xi, as he projects it will play a much larger role than it has in t
Families. Cspan2 will have live coverage of his comments. After tonights remarks, the president leaves for a weeklong asian trip stopping in japan, the philippines, malaysia, and south korea. Those visits were originally planned for last october, but canceled due to the government shutdown. Back in washington, governor Chris Christie speaks at the new Jersey Chamber of commerce congressional dinner tonight. Our live coverage starts at 7 15 p. M. And at 8 00 p. M. , three prominent whistle blowers, daniel heburg, who broke the pentagon paper story, thomas drake, a former National Security Agency Senior executive who was prosecuted as a spy, and a former Justice Department ethics whistleblower all talk about challenges they face exposing wrongdoing. Heres a brief portion of tonights program. Snoweden snowden, i believe, looked at these examples, looked at chelsea manning, look at aage and realized he had to be out of the country if he was going to put out this amount of information and b
Its not clintons term. It is not george w. Bushs term. This is a different environment and i blame leadership for not trying to rein in that kind of behavior. But im not really sure what leadership is going to do in the way of discipline or aggression. But what do you do with that political environment that is so poisoned that you have actuallyls that would turn down an invitation to go meet with the president and go to the white house . It gets back to valuing, compromise and valuing compromise and consensus. You are on one side or the other. They dont want any of the gray areas and sorting through the issues because it doesnt generate a lot of ratings. Also hasis what happened, whether its through Cable Networks or any other form of media. The point is people want to know if you are on one side or the other. At the end of the day, we will all have differences. The question is how are you going to get over those differences and solve the problem . That is not what is happening today f
Cost is always going to be an issue. It is pretty straightforward and pretty simple. Dollars how many of you all in journalism say follow the money. It is about the money, and people are going to make choices and make decisions about whether or not to do things the cousin of how it affects their bottom line. E need to understand that we need to also understand that sometimes it is going to cost them money if they do not make these changes, and sometimes they can make changes that improve safety and improved efficiency. It is all about having a dialogue and making sure people understand that. It does not have to be an eitheror, that people will be driven by money. Our own government is driven by costbenefit analysis. There are a lot of recommendations we have issued that have not gone anywhere because the costand if it does benefit doesost not support them. It does come down to money. With respect to the relationship, we have to have a balance of people who understand the industry, who