says about us as a society. okay. that doesn t mean i think he will definitely collapse. let s not pretend we don t have a big problem if people can t get off the cain train. they re off the cain train. welcome back. joining the table, former governor of vermont, and former chairman of the democratic national committee howard dean and from washington pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. guys, thanks for being with us. the washington post calls this herman cain s oops moment. i say, i call it his dazed and confused moment. take a listen to herman cain during an interview with the editorial board of the milwaukee journal sentinel. yeah. then tell us whether you think this is the end of the line. this is not snl. this is what happened. we ll see if this is the end. so you agreed with president obama on libya or not? okay.
company. yeah. it s a great point. there were a lot of things that had to come together. we believe that we are going to be the number one green electronics company in the world by 2018. and you can t do that if you don t have great mass transportation. you can t have a thousand people driving to work. in addition to that we wanted to build a sustainable state-of-the-art building. and then the governor and the mayor showed us that we could do all of that right in new jersey. and i think the topping point, i didn t want to move out of state. i didn t want to lose a thousand employees. so i think it was really a win-win-win all around. mr. mayor, take us inside the pitch. because we know that you probably could have saved some money by going elsewhere. you said this wasn t a bottom line decision by panasonic. what did you say to convince them? i think joe knows the biggest challenge we have in newark is people have a perception of our city that stopped 20, 30, 40 years ago. you rea
yeah. he visited illinois. we had 3200 national guard from our state in afghanistan. wow. right then. so let me ask you on something that illinois is doing. you guys are actually moving forward with high speed rail. there s been a debate for 25 years in florida about getting high speed rail. but you guys are actually moving forward and you ve had a line so if chicago cub fans want to go see the cardinals, or vice versa, that line is going to be completed when? 2014. we re the first in the nation to break ground for high speed rail. chicago to st. louis. it goes all through our state. and the trains go 110 miles an hour. yeah. we d like to go 220 on another line. we re looking at chicago to champaign and then maybe to st. louis from there. then 220 miles an hour is because of new track? yeah. new track and also we re building rail cars. we had a company come from wisconsin to illinois because wisconsin kind of gave up on high speed rail. this company nippon shiro is
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