Happy childhood there whichicize you know is the most important thing a mother can hear. but i feel in terms of what they want to hear in detroit my experience whether in detroit or iowa or south carolina or california, new york, nevada or anyplace else, i m having an american conversation. and i don t care whether you re in this group or that group, this religion or that ridgeb, this sexuality or this geographical region, i m interested in a deeper conversation where america is. in terms of where we have been, what we owe to our unborn great grandchildren, and so to me what i have found in detroit as with any other place in this country people are ready for a deeper conversation in this country that goes way beyond than just our own individual concerns. great to have you with us. good luck on the campaign trail and don t miss the two nights of the big democratic presidential debates live from detroit july 30th and 31th only on cnn. we ll be right back. y on a lega?
Apology towards african-americans as a presidential candidate? no. that was in a completely different context of a spiritual support group, spiritual act of reconciliation. i think as a presidential candidate i m interested in a program of reppererations. i m interested in a program of amends. you know, it is a spiritual theme whether it has to do with catholics going to confession or jews on the day of yom kippur, the day of atonement. it s a very important spiritual principle. i know you lived in detroi. that s where the next democratic debates here on cnn. you ll be debating on that first night july 30th. having had experience living in detroit, what do you think the people there want to hear? you know, detroit is a wonderful city. i raised my daughter there. my daughter says, mommy, i had a
Since john boehner, house republicans have struggled to pass something controversial, something where their members were divided. they just don t have the arm twisting ability. the top three republicans, this is a big day for them. take outside health care. this is a big day for them to get passed. panel, thank you very much for breaking it all done for us. great to talk to you. we have society breaks news to get to. prince phillip is retiring from public life. the royal couple is attending a church service at this hour in london and we are live at bucking ham palace with all the detroi details. he s turning 96. he s had a pretty good run. he s not going to be carrying out the same sort of engagements he s done for so many years. he s about to mark 70 years of
Vision for what is probably going to be a new stimulus? what are the industry areas where there s going to be support from the private sector to be able to expand job opportunities. but, alex, what we saw at the local level and the job fairs was either really entry-level folks, some that are skill labors, some service workers, people that may not be at higher levels within companies or opportunities but who want to work, that s what the real challenge, i think, is going to be, not just the president and the cbc, but for the local economies that can t just create jobs out of thin air. when you spoke to these folks at the job fairs, what did they say about the president s efforts on the economy? well i think people are frustrated, and you know, there was a lot of publicity around detroit and congressional black caucus vis-a-vis maxine waters saying, unleash on the president to talk about some of these things. i think people, for the most part are in support of the
Talking about a continuing removal of jobs. and we are talking about detroit in particular, that has that 50% number that not only job seekers but the mayor has admitted to being a real number of unemployment in the city of detroit. we talked about the national unemployment rate as being 9.1%. but, jeff, unemployment rate for the african-american community shot up to 16.7% this month. that is up from 15.9%. there was a stat, worst it s been in 27 years. i mean what can the cbc and the president do to stop this slide? well, i think, one, it s going to be unrealistic to think that the president or the cbc have a magic wand because they want this to stop that it can. i think the real question as the president begins to have his remarks this week is, what is he going to say about 99ers and provide continuing support to those out of work two and sometimes three years. and then where is what is the