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notwithstanding the amount, which is huge, of course? well, look, it s $4.4 billion, but a lot of it is also deferred maintenance, whether it s our roads, whether our parks and recreation centers and all of it libraries so it s important what we re doing to make sure that we can focus on our infrastructure. but there are also other aspects. you know, there s one thing, which is maintenance and cleaning up the skin. it s also to exfoliate to sort of grow and generate new skin, which is the, you know do we have any stake in robotics, advanced manufacturing? do we have any stake in any other future economy machine learning, et cetera? which we don t. and if we don t if we have our feet grounded firmly in the wet cement of history and preservation of today, eventually that cement hardens. and you have to also think about the future, use the foundation as a jumping board for the future. and i don t think we are doing that right now. it s not the mayor s fault, it ....
congressman, good to see you. thanks for joining us. brian, good to be with you and your listeners. happy easter to you. likewise. let us sort of start with the tone in washington. so much news over the last several days about the strike in syria a week ago, the dropping of a bomb in eastern afghanistan, sabre-rattling on both sides with respect to north korea certainly the united states and north korea involved in that china and russia. sir, are we headed toward an inevitable military showdown of some kind on a large scale? well, you raised the point that we really moved away from local issues, national issues, to the international stage quite quickly with the syrian use of the chemical weapons. so we begin with the question of putin s responsibility and role in that. maybe not directly responsible, but how s he gonna act with respect to assad? you have iran working in partnership with russia with regard to that, and then the question simultaneously with chin ....
and trump s campaign manager here live. in this unpredictable campaign. anything can happen in an election. be careful with your votes and watch your votes. are there more surprises still to come? from abc news, it s this week. here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. what a wild 48 hours it has been. perhaps the biggest october surprise yet. this one aimed right at hillary clinton. there she is on stage with j-lo last night in miami shaking off the shocking news from fbi director james comey that his investigators found e-mails that could be connected to clinton s previously closed case. clinton also shaking off the latest poll which shows the tightest race in weeks. has her ahead by one point. 46-45. an 11 point drop. from last sunday. the poll is a rolling four day average so it doesn t capture them less likely to support clinton. most are republicans but early sign that news can energize clinton opponents to press potential supporters. has the race be ....
convicted of, will that impact the next attorney general? in other words, are people in the state of pennsylvania so disheartened by the continuing corruption issues that they will vote one way or the other based on running against corruption? what do you think? well, i think certainly it s an issue. and i think but neither of the two candidates were touched at all by the scandal. and so i don t see a direct connection between her and the two candidates who are running. so i don t think that that s going to be an issue. i do, though, want to just mention the idea that she was sentenced to jail time. i think a lot of people believe that she needed to be punished. but i m still on the side of, you know, nonviolent crimes, for people going to jail for that, it s still a tough decision to make. she was an interesting figure, a rising star, nelson. four years ago, really an unheard-of person outside the political realm, who was able to get a mainstream job, and many th ....
and, you know, we want to be relevant to the moment, to the time that we re in, where the country is, and what kinds of tools we have. we have tools now, in terms of technology, that we didn t have in 08. people think differently now than they did just eight years ago. so all of that will be reflected in the moment. mostly, we want to be a reflection of what s happening now so that people can see themselves in the podium, the show, and what s represented on television. for people who say, oh, conventions are boring. politics are boring, why should they pay attention to your show? well, because, a, it s not boring. and, b, what you ll see, especially now that the conventions are back to back, you ll be able to see a real contrast in what we plan to offer the nation as a vision forward and what the republicans plan to offer as a vision going backward. and so everything on our program, from the folks who are gonna entertain, the folks who are gonna speak, will b ....