instead of engaging in dialogue the president engaged in political demagoguery and criticized the plan. we can t let him get away with that we ll be throughout to hold people accountable. sean: i m especially outraged, he says republicans are telling old people to fend for themselves. kids with down syndrome, autism, then he says the collapse of the minneapolis bridge is the cause of infrastructure problems when it was a design flaw. that s right. we borrowed 818 billion dollars to try to deal with infrastructure and didn t get results one of the reasons we had the debt. when congressman ryan came out with his plan is not worthy of a grade b political candidate let alone the president of the united states. we need the president to engage intelligently with the house republicans with the senate and try to solve this problem now. we haven t seen that. we did this last year with obama care we it was rammed
dialogue the president engaged in political demagoguery and criticized the plan. we can t let him get away with that we ll be throughout to hold people accountable. sean: i m especially outraged, he says republicans are telling old people to fend for themselves. kids with down syndrome, autism, then he says the collapse of the minneapolis bridge is the cause of infrastructure problems when it was a design flaw. that s right. we borrowed 818 billion dollars to try to deal with infrastructure and didn t get results one of the reasons we had the debt. when congressman ryan came out with his plan is not worthy of a grade b political candidate let alone the president of the united states. we need the president to engage intelligently with the house republicans with the senate and try to solve this problem now. we haven t seen that. we did this last year with obama care we it was rammed
this crazy rule that was instituted by the department of health in new york state where if a camp had at least two of these risky sports like dodge ball and capture the flag, they would have to pay the fee and stuff like that. well, after the national ridicule, according to the new york daily news editorial page today, the health department said this is stupid. let s not do it. so, perhaps, chalk up a little victory for common sense. i think it was actually governor cuomo who came to his senses. he said he grew up in queens and these are the kinds of games that he played in the streets so he s the one who kind of had some sense about the whole deal. anyway, we continue to discuss that throughout the show. here s what s coming up. but you won, people! that s right. you can play red rover, red rover. wow! should we cut a deal with the dems or another bridge could collapse? that was the president s message yesterday blaming budget holdout for the collapse of the minneapolis br
many old pipelines are out there and how often they re involved in accidents. josh levs has been looking into this for us this morning. we were talking about the minneapolis bridge that was, you know, taken down by something like this. it s interesting to talk about that because it s another example of infrastructure concerns inside the united states, things that need to be updated. you are hearing about things that are decades-old. a great many of them in this country are. look at this. this is a map of the u.s. and these are the gas pipelines, specifically natural gas pipelines in the u.s. the blue all over the country of the interstate pipelines. the red is intrastate. you can see a lot of states have pipelines that operate within the states. to show you how many we are talking about in this country, 2.5 million miles of gas pipelines in this country, enough to circle the earth 100 times. you have a lot of them carrying