foreign reels, adds some meat to those bones on the embarrassment, united states pays 2% every year on infrastructure. china %. india 8%. we were ranked fifth ten years ago in infrastructure. now we are ranked 24th behind countries like barbados malaysia and oman and of course this morning we are talking about safety. we are talking about people who lost their lives because of our third world infrastructure but there also has a lot to do with money. $4 billion wasted with people stuck in traffic. and we just saw a report from richard haase that in the next few years, we will lose up to 1% of america s gross domestic product based on our shortcomeings and infrastructure. this is aest safety issue. this is a money issue, too. it s a safety issue. it s economic competitiveness issue. there is no question joe, we re
kentucky can beat themselves if they don t play to their level. if they play to their potential, the beauty of college basketball when you think about it it s not four out of seven. can you imagine if this was four out of seven like the nba? nobody would have a shot against kentucky. one bad night, team make a three. you make a great question joe, who can beat them? right now you look, notre dame in their region is a threat. the reason the irish would be a threat is they re a ability to shoot the basketball. any team, any team that can beat duke and north carolina in 24 hours and we re not talking football with the irish, they beat them in basketball. they re capable of beating anyone. gonzaga poses a threat, wisconsin, arizona. i would think those teams jump at me as teams that have size. you better have some size to negate their great size and you better have some people that can
that both candidates feel a little bit hemmed in, right. obviously obama has to make this argument that he d be more natural maybe making the argument i m going to help the middle class, help people that don t have much money, but having been in office already he has to make sort of the opposite argument, things aren t that bad he has to say. things are sort of getting better. that s an argument that kind of cuts against who he is a little bit as a politician. right. but okay, go ahead, john heilemann. i just want to think about i mean, to go back to this, the question joe was getting at a second ago, do you think that this debate we had over you didn t build that and whether it was in context or not in context, does seem joe s right, it does illustrate something deeper. does that seem right now? sure. it certainly there s a sense that the two emphasize different things. they re both saying what i consider to be truisms, yes, of course, enterprise and individual innovatio
pakistanis said never come here again. we did. and, of course, if you listen if you read war, if you talk to any soldiers or marines over in afghanistan, they ll tell you they re not fighting the afghanistan taliban. they re fight pakistan. there s just i mean the i don t know if frenemies is a term of art now, but that s some kind of frenemy. joe and mika had been talking about the front. i ll be asking if you think we should continue it in july. the bigger question joe was raising did you spun port going in and getting bin laden and if you say yes should they continue without pakistani s permission? is this something you advise.