infrastructure deficiencies. its 2017 report card graded america s infrastructure a d plus. among the list of issues, the report said one out of every five miles of highway pay. is in poor conditions. water mains break each year. 56,000 bryns were structurally defish in 2015. joining me, the u.s. secretary of transportation under president barack obama. he is now the co-chair of the building america s educational future fund. good to have you with us. every president wants infrastructure. we seem to need $1 trillion of infrastructure. we don t keep up on our infrastructure spending but it doesn t get through congress. congress doesn t like to approve spending for thing that people can t sort of see. we all expect the lights to go on, the water to work and the road and bryns not to collapse. there is a lot going on, there is no will to get infrastructure
she will be in charge of ten separate campuses and it is a big job for the university of california system. it is safe to say that this is been in the works for a while probably a soft landing type of thing. highway pay and high profile and important job and probably takes time to put together. in this town, when the president is your boss and in a democratic state like california, there is a way to make things happen fast. chris, i continue is earlier, but who do you think will replace her? you expect somebody not highway profile. george bush had motorcycle motorcycle chertoff. and a lawyer and you might expect to so the same and somebody who talks a lot and takes a liberal line on immigration. chris, thank you so much.