families so that you have more money in your paychecks next year. if you ve got more money in your paychecks next year, you re more likely to spend it, and that means small businesses, medium-sized businesses and large businesses will have more customers, and they ll be in a position to hire. i want to give more opportunities to all those construction workers out there who lost their jobs when the housing bubble went bust. we could put them to work giving loans to private companies that want to repair our roads and bridges and airports, rebuilding our infrastructure, putting americans to work doing the work that needs to be done. we have workers in need of a job, and a country that s in need of rebuilding. and if we put those two things together, we can make real progress. i want to cut red tape that stops too many inventers and entrepreneurs from turning new ideas into thriving businesses. i want to, i want congress to send me a set of trade deals that would allow our businesses
been done with the private-public partnership, and it takes some imagineer to set a seemingly impossible goal way up there, then it takes the tinkerers and the inventers to achieve that. that s what jean did with star trek and many people involved with nasa were inspired to go into it. we need to talk about the next chapter, miles, i want to bring you into the conversation, because you re a brilliant journalist, our space savant, i think it s safe to say that. nice to share tv time with an old friend. give us an idea, what s the best guess of the future of the american space program. it s been so part of our american narrative, is the private sector really the answer now? well, let s talk about the
everyday on the show, we do a segment called the big i about big news ideas and innovations and solutions to big problems and in today s big i we want to talk to a group of johns hopkins graduates who are hoping to save millions of lives every year. they invented this basically a $1 pen that could screen up to 400 pregnant women for postnatal disease. according to the population fund everyday more than 1,000 women die of pregnancy-related complications and thousands more suffer from debilitating situations. here to tell us about it are two of the inventers from baltimore, maryland. shaurn, will you give us a little bit more idea of how the invention works and how a pen or
where she ll stop until she s been there. she turned up this morning at the national archives in her words highlighting america s foundation and contemplating a run for president in 2012. yesterday palin hit the streets with rolling thunder, the motorcycle rally honoring america s m.i.a.s and p.o.w.s. but we think she ll be in gettysburg, pennsylvania later today. jim acosta, she s used the word foundation a lot this morning. is she laying the foundation for a presidential run? reporter: well, you know, we re not hearing a whole lot, to be quite honest, because that is the game they are playing right now inside the palin staff. it is sort of a game of catch me if you can, follow the bouncing bus. some are calling this the palin mystery bus tour. i think some of that is by design. they want to generate some buzz and media attention obviously. and the former alaska governor is doing a lot of that on this memorial day, hitting the national archives this morning, then h
of the potential world problems that need solving. right. and you create a prize. talk about that. they did it for the spaceship, the first spaceship to go commercially manned spaceship to go into space, you got $10 million to invent that. costs way more than $10 million to do it. historically, that incentive works. charles lundberg across the atlantic. a $25,000 prize to do that. the concept is innocent vise problems to solve problems. gives birth to the industries and start-ups and these companies these inventers come up with. so far you ve raised $1.5 million. $1 million on saturday night to carry on the mission. they ll keep on raising money. you ll gather back again in about six months. six months to raise some more money. it s a great organization. great organization. thank for bringing that to us. top stories are coming your way after the break. [ woman ] bathing suits!