twenty years. he spent millions on that.r tht, of course, they re all over the country. the lyndon johnson freeway in dallas, the famous edmundridg pettus bridge in alabama. edmund pettus was a politician in nineteen forty. now, some of these are usefuly r projects. it s nice theye to have bridgesi why are they named for politicians? this is money. it was appropriated for the infrastructure of our country not to build temples to the sleazeballs who run it.the sleeze how is this legal? apparently, no one has asked that question, so it is continued apace. the people in charge of the money are spending it to build temples to themselves. septembin september of 2018, tn governor of new york , andrew cuomooverno, changed thee of the tappan zee bridge. h do you think you did?ily. 20 family in 2017, cuomo pushed his legislators to name the bridge for his father. mario cuomo.xplici and at the bridge opening, andrew cuomo made explicit t politics. watch thihis brids bridge ist for my fat
he was probably fired. but in the modern republican party, when you lose, it s fine. they like losers now. in fact, after their failure to take the senate in the midterms, the republican national committee set up a group of advisers to work out and guess who they put on it? blake masters, the far-right 2020 election denier who lost his own very winnable senate race in arizona to democratic incumbent mark kelly, and lost by five percentage points. come on down, blake, give us your election losing wisdom! then, there s the head of the rnc itself, chief ronna mcdaniel, who s overseen republican failures she s a serial loser. and yet, she still running for a fourth term to oversee the party. maybe lee zeldin might challenge her for the chair. but leads austin is a loser to. he just lost his race to the gop governor of new york. and, then of course, we have donald j trump, who despite losing the presidency, house,
the republican party is a post policy party. you have to defend the shut down. the shut down was magnificent. run beautifully. do you think the republican majority in the house is in jeopardy. republicans are walking into a trap. which republican is going to stand up and say, mr. president, we are one country we want to make this work. awe stwe need to delay the mande tax. this has got to be delayed. there its no way to fix the monstrosity. nobody. in 1985, the democrating governor of new york, mario cuomo attacked economic policies of ronald reagan in a speech he delivered at yale. governor cuomo said the reagan re-election campaign was filled with oversimplification and reagan policies if enacted would be areharsher. that led governor cuomo to say perhaps the most memorable line
we want to kel come our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer you re in the situation room . ment obama sounding an urgent note about the u.s. economy and the new risks it faces from europe s growing cries. he warns that so-called head winds from europe can setback the recover in the united states. he says the u.s. businesses are improving and creating jobs but he s pressing congress to take action on the public sector. the big challenge we have in our economy right now is state and local government hiring has been going in the wrong direction. you ve seen teacher layoffs, police officers, cops, firefighters being laid off. the other sector that s still weak has been the construction industry. those two areas we ve directly addressed with our jobs plan. the problem is that it requires congress to take action and we re going to keep pushing them to see if they can move in that direction. the truth of the matter is as i said we ve created 4.3 mi
deteriorating. how much of a threat is that causing to citizens in the state you were once a governor of, new mexico, california, texas? first of all, we are providering any assistance we can to the calderone administration to fight this violence in mexico. are they good partners? they are being good partners. the other thing we have done is to really bolster our own presence at the southwest border, more border patrol, more technology, more of everything. so in fact, the communities on our side of the border, el paso, san diego, among the safest communities in the united states. all right. thank you so much for being with us. thanks for having me. you bet. we thank you for this color really, so much easier now. it just confused us. so much simpler. right. changes april 26th. thanks so much. coming up next, ford motor companies invested billions in fuel efficiency during the economic downturn and mark