to the black sea as part of a routine rotation. sending a few fighter jets into the baltic states doesn t send a message that mr. putin can understand. the only message he understands is oh, and the only legitimate power that he fears on the borders of ukraine is some form of ground presence in poland or the baltic states. reporter: yet for a second day on capitol hill the u.s. defense secretary and joint chiefs chairman took questions about deep budget cuts from sequestration and reducing the size of the army. the white house fact sheets make it clear that defense is not a priority in this budget. this is not the military the president nor i want. it isn t the military that this committee or this congress wants for america s future, but it is the path we are on unless congress does something to change the law. we re et eating away at nation s readiness for conflict which does reduce our deterrent capability. reporter: in addition to the u.s. defense cuts, it s not lost
address. joining me to talk about what we can expect tonight, robert reich, former secretary of labor in the clinton administration. he s the author of aftershock: the next economy in america s future. the documentary inequality for all is available on itunes. i was talking to sherrod brown, axelrod at the top of the show. there s a huge debate in the party about progressive populism, about a more pro worker, pro labor agenda combatting inequality head. on. sometimes i feel like that s where the president is and then i hear david axelrod talking about job training and skills mismatch. and i throw up my hands and feel like we re back in the 1990s all over again. well, there is a tension there, chris. obviously you ve got some democrats that only want to talk about education, but obviously it s much larger than that. we re talking, and they, democrats really do need to talk about the undermining of our democracy. when you got so much money at the top, inevitably, you ve got a democ
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and i talked at that time about the building blocks that we needed to put into place, the foundation, the cornerstones that we needed to make sure that the american dream is alive and well. joining me now, former labor secretary robert reich, now a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley. he is the author of aftershock: the next economy and america s future. professor reich, you just happen to have written a book that is exactly about what the president wants to talk about tomorrow. what would you advise him to say? well, clearly, lawrence, he s going to try to pivot away from nsa controversies and the deficits, and he also understands that in the fall it s all going to be about lifting the debt ceiling and back to business as usual in terms of gridlock over the economy. so i think he wants to change the parameters of the economic debate. i have not seen the speech. but i understand that he wants to talk about inequality not in terms of unfairness s
it s the place where i gave my first big speech after i d been elected to the u.s. senate. and this is back in 2005. and i talked at that time about the building blocks that we needed to put into place, the foundation, the cornerstones that we needed to make sure that the american dream is alive and well. joining me now, former labor secretary robert reich, now a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley. he is the author of aftershock: the next economy and america s future. professor reich, you just happen to have written a book that is exactly about what the president wants to talk about tomorrow. what would you advise him to say? well, clearly, lawrence, he s going to try to pivot away from nsa controversies and the deficits, and he also understands that in the fall it s all going to be about lifting the debt ceiling and back to business as usual in terms of gridlock over the economy. so i think he wants to change the parameters of the economic deb