legitimately owe as taxes. >> i know you feel strongly and confident the democrats will retain control of the senate, but nevertheless, i would like to ask, how would things change for the house democrats if the republicans were to gain control of the senate, and how would things change for president obama if the republicans were to gain control of the senate? >> well, i think we would see exactly what the american public abhor. more gridlock, confrontation and partisanship. they all indicate they do not want any of that. so that my urging to the

american people would be, elect people who are going to work with, cooperate with the president of the united states. that does not mean agree on every issue. we are a separate and coequal branch of the government of the united states. we need to reflect thoughtful consideration of the president's proposals and propose to the president. we are the article one branch of government that poses policy. he executive carries out policy. that is the context in which we ought to operate. having said that, i think the american people made it clear they think the obstructionism is largely the responsibility of the republican party. thomas mann and norm ornstein, along with the brookings institution, american enterprise institute wrote a book. essentially the theme of the book was there is gridlock on the confrontation, refusal to compromise, and while they say they have come together to criticize in the past, at this

point in time there -- they're only conclusion is the responsibility of the republicans vote in the house and senate which have led to the confrontation. refusing to compromise. ayn rand said compromising or the middle is evil. if you believe that, if you simply believe it is my way or the highway or my way or no way, then you look at the gridlock and competition the american people hate. my proposition to the american people in this speech, if you do not like what is going on, a -- elect a party that will work with the president in order to create a better economy and more secure country. >> congressman hoyer, i thought it would be too partisan if we were to exchange mementos representing our respective universities. so i chose a more professional

neutral approach for the traditional national press club mug. we thank you for being here. [applause] >> thank you. >> good luck on saturday. >> thanks a lot. you wished me good luck on saturday -- [indiscernible] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> next, today's cdc briefing on the ebola outbreak, vice president biden on job opportunities for youth, and a conversation with retired supreme court justice john paul stevens.

today, c-span's campaign 2014 coverage continues in arkansas where former president bill clinton attends a rally for senator mark pryor. the senator is running for reelection in a race listed as a tossup. live today at 1:30 eastern on c-span. >> officials from the centers for disease control in atlanta held a briefing sunday to update reporters on the latest information concerning the dallas ebola case diagnosed here in the united states. among the speakers, cdc director dr. tom friedman. this is just under an hour. >> good afternoon. you are joining cdc's daily update on the ebola response. i am barbara reynolds, director of public affairs at cdc. you will be hearing from three speakers and we will take

questions. our first speaker is cdc director dr. tom friedman. dr. friedman. >> hello, everyone. it is exactly one week since the first patient with ebola in this country was diagnosed in dallas, texas. it is a good time to look back on what has happened in that week. diagnosed onwas tuesday. within about two hours, we announced that. we had to staff on the ground helping the terrific staff in dallas to respond to this case. we have no doubt we will stop it in its tracks in texas. it's worth stepping back and seeing how ebola spreads. it only spreads by direct contact with someone who is sick

or with their body fluids. the core of control is identifying everyone who may have had contact with them and making sure they are monitored 21 days and immediately isolating them to break the chain of transmission. there is no doubt we can stop ebola. i want to talk about what has happened in dallas and turn to my colleagues. then about what is happening in the u.s. more broadly and finally where we are in the epidemic in west africa. in terms of dallas, the work there by the staff of local and state health departments has been terrific. they have been able to assess all 114 individuals make possibly have had contact. they ruled out 66 did not have contact. 10 appeared to have contact with the individual when he might possibly have been infections.

of those 10, seven are health care workers and three were family or community contacts. there are about 38 other people whom we cannot rule out had contact. all of those people will be tracked for 21 days to term and -- to determine whether they had fever. they will immediately be isolated, tested, and if they have ebola they will -- they will determine if there were any additional contacts. that is how we have stopped every outbreak of ebola in the world until this one in africa. that is how we will stop it in texas. going on to the u.s. situation, we see a lot of understandable concern. we're really hoping for the

recovery of the patient in dallas. we understand his situation has taken a turn for the worse. we know this is a serious disease and we are hoping for his recovery. people are scared and it is normal to be scared. for health-care workers that are caring for people with ebola, we want them to be scared. have a healthy risk of any lapse in procedure. we want them to channel that fear into being incredibly meticulous about infection control. many people have pointed out that the individual was not diagnosed. we will be doing a lot more in the coming days and weeks to inform and empower not just doctors but nurses, health care professionals of all kinds, to think about ebola and anybody who was been in guinea, syria,

liberia, toone, make sure that our index of suspicion is such that if that happens we rapidly isolate them, assess them, and test them for ebola. the cdc has already reached hundreds of thousands of health care professionals with alerts, information, materials, tools, a webinar, and we will ramp that up, working closely with medical associations, groups of doctors, nurses, and others. this basic issue that making sure at this time ebola remains top of mind is something that we will continue to focus on. we have seen the level of interest increase. we were getting about 50 calls or e-mails per day before the initial patient was diagnosed. it is about to 800 calls or

e-mails today. we understand the levels of concern. we also understand people would like to do everything possible to keep ebola out of the u.s. our top priority is to protect americans from threats. we work 24/seven to do that. we are doing that by many different ways. one of them is working to stop the outbreak at its source. as long as cases continue there, there is a possibly someone will affect someone else and possibly have another case of ebola. as long as the outbreak is continuing in africa, there is a risk in other places. an outbreak anywhere is potentially a threat everywhere. that doesn't mean we can't do anything. one of the things we cannot do is making sure everyone leaving those countries is being

screened, being observed to see if they appear to be ill. that screening has removed 77 people who would have boarded planes to leave those three countries and didn't. i can assure you the leadership of each of those countries wants to make sure that screening is as good as it can be because they need the airlines to keep flying. otherwise they won't be able to keep society moving and we won't be able to stop the outbreak there. in addition, we work with health care workers and there is rapid identification of cases. we are now looking at the issue of entry screening. there have been suggestions from people in congress, the public, the media. we will look at those and see what works to protect americans and make sure what we do does not unintentionally increase our risk. those of the criteria we are

using. there are many agencies focused on this. we are committed to doing whatever we can to further increase the safety of americans. the situation remains very fluid. when i speak with the cdc leaders who are there and we sent 135 of our top disease detectives in each of the three countries, one of the things that is striking is the diversity of the experience. each of the individual countries has its own patterns of disease spread. in some of them, there are districts that have not had a case of ebola. in some of them there are only a handful of cases.

we are working across these three countries to see what can be done to call this forest fire. will we have seen real progress in the response over the last two weeks. the department of defense has made a big difference. they are moving out and helping with operations. increaseden usaid support for families that want to respectfully and safely bury people who have died. it reduces the spread of ebola. while we are still not ahead of it we are good and further along than where we were before. i'm looking forward to briefing president obama on the situation in west africa tomorrow and to further ensuring the president's direction that we move rapidly to do as much as we can to stop this and what we are not only

doing in cdc but globally. we are seeing a tremendous global coalition committed to doing this. that is where we are in dallas and globally. before i turn it over to my colleague in texas, one thing that did not get much notice this past week, we published a report on what happened in nigeria. when they had a single case and they didn't do any infection control, they ended up with 19 secondary cases, additional cases. because of a rapid response effectively tracking 900 contacts, they apparently have been able to stop the outbreak in nigeria. it does look like the outbreak is over there. anywhere we apply the fundamental principles of infection control and public health follow-up, we can stop

ebola. >> thank you. next speaker is dr. david lakey, the commissioner of the department of state health services. >> good afternoon. i want to thank dr. friedman for the support of the cdc as we are working on this effort right now. as i start off i want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with the patient right now. but also with the family and the contacts that have been identified. indeed the hospital workers are caring for that patient right now. we're doing our work with the partnership with the cdc.

a lot of important hard work is taking place right here in texas to ensure that the people of dallas are safe. the good news is we have not had more cases. no one has reported any symptoms. we are still very cautious to make sure we can continue to care for individuals, monitor the situation it needs to be done. our focus is to monitor every contact and to identify -- our priority is to keep tracking those individuals. we want to make sure we arm of closely monitoring them. also, as we identify needs that they may have, we are working to make sure those issues are addressed. making sure food issues are identified or if electricity was

turned off during the storm, that those issues are resolved. neighbors have had concerns and we have tried to have health educators address those issues in the community. our focus is to make sure you are informed and understand how the public health system works. it works to prevent and contain these risks. a lot of people are listening right now. i want to reemphasize ebola is not spread through the air. people are not contagious unless they have symptoms. i think it needs to be reassuring to the individuals that are listening today. there are hospitals across the state of texas and the nation. they are on the lookout for any additional cases. we want them on high alert and

to identify individuals with a travel history that is consistent with ebola. these individuals can be identified quickly and health care workers can be protected. they are going to call on us and that is how we want the system to work. we are on high alert right now. we continue to plan for contingencies and a lot of of work has taken place to make sure that whatever happens we are as prepared as we need to be to address those issues. i want to thank you for the partnership between the cdc and the state of texas and dallas. thank you. >> thank you, dr. lakey. clay lewis jenkins is our final speaker.

>> good morning. happy sunday to everyone on the call. i want to start off by thanking all of the people currently being monitored and their families. i realize that when you are being monitored, even with a low risk for ebola, it is a very unsettling and terrifying process to worry about. i am praying for all of you and many others are as well. this morning i had the opportunity to participate in half of a mass. it was amassed by the bishop of the archdiocese of dallas, the catholic church where 1.2 million catholics are under his leadership. the sermon was on ebola and remaining calm and showing

compassion and our duties to our fellow man. that is a message being preached throughout synagogues, churches, and mosques in the dallas county area. i want to thank the fate community for stepping up, for the faith leader who found him, for the hope for louise and they have stepped up as they always do in times of crisis. i want the public to remember we have the same sort of concerns as some people have the same types of panic when we had the west nile virus outbreak in 2012. i'm speaking to you from our eu c sitting next to me as david in dallas county. lakey from the state of texas, our public health commissioner

and highest authority on public health. these are the two men in my offices and were at my side when we stopped the west nile virus outbreak in 2012. we will contain this ebola situation as well. as the news reports have come out -- i will answer the first question ahead of time. we are working to find a low risk individual who has been identified as a contact. we have our dallas county sheriff's department and dallas police department teams on the ground now. they have been there since last night. we are working to locate the individual and get him to a comfortable compassionate place where we can monitor him and care for his every need during

the full monitoring period. this person has not committed a crime. they are a low risk individual. we are doing this as a precautionary measure. again i want to thank everyone, the staff of homeland security and emergency management and dallas county health and human services. as well as my executive staff for all of their hours and hours of work on very little sleep. the individual was seen yesterday, the low risk individual was seen yesterday, was monitored, and asymptomatic low exposure of individual. remember what we talked about.

asymptomatic people have zero chance of contracting the ebola virus from and asymptomatic individual. we need to locate this individual and we could use your help and letting them know they are not in trouble. we want to move than from a comfortable and compassionate place while we monitor then throughout the monitoring period. we will turn it over for questions. >> for parties on the phone, star one and record your name clearly. >> can you talk about this patient in dallas to take a turn for the worse? are they getting the same

treatment those patients we saw in atlanta and nebraska -- is there a different treatment? >> ebola is a serious infection and can be fatal in many people who get the infection. some patients received an experimental treatment. it is three specific anti-bodies but there are a very small number of those in the world. they are all gone. takes a long time to make more of that medicine so it will not be available anytime soon. there is a second experimental medicine. we don't know if they work or not. in animalre promising models. the second medicine can actually make it sicker like they did.

the doctors would be the deciding factor, but if they they wanted to they have access to it. >> i have two questions. the first one has to ask about protection for health care workers. health care workers wear a safe mask. there are some experts in respiratory protection that argued the cautionary principle says in the absence of absolute certainty in terms of the mode of transmission that higher levels of protection should be used. certainly the other patients in the united states were treated in high containment settings. what is your recommendation? what are health care workers using in terms of respiratory protection? >> the key with the bullet is to

is to make sure that barrier and other creek cautions are stripped the following. where we have seen lapses in infection and control have resulted in spread, it often has been a problem putting on or taking off protective equipment. if you don't do it carefully you might contaminate yourself by mistake. it is very clear from everything we have seen in a west africa, everything we have seen with this virus, the spread is nowhere near as contagious as measles or tv or the common cold. there is an interesting clue here. although we haven't had any ebola patients, we have had five patients in the u.s.. none of those five patients were initially diagnosed.

there were no secondary infections in any of those cases. the standard precautions work but they have to be applied. if you want to have additional safeguards, that is entirely up to then. we have for many years and decades care for patients in africa. the control procedures -- it is not a question of being highly infectious. it is because the precautions that are taken are strictly and meticulously adhered to. >> you mentioned seven health care workers are among those being monitored. when the patient first appeared at the hospital, routine bloodwork was taken.

did this include the people in the laboratory who were handling those specimens? >> we look at all potential exposures within the hospital context. >> our first question is with elizabeth cohen from cnn. >> could you tell us, does he receive any other medicine? >> i didn't hear the specifics of the question. >> as far as we understand experimental medicine is not being used. the medication can be quite difficult for patients to take and may worsen their conditions. it may come up to his family what treatment to take.

supportive care, managing fluids, supporting the patient's vital functions, these are all critical issues to address. >> our next question is with script news. >> i had a question about the difference between why you had the physician that was exposed being monitored as opposed to the duncan family and friends and why they were kept under guard in an apartment complex, why are they not being monitored in a medical facility when you have another person being monitored at the national institutes of health clinical center? also when will the cdc make

public the state of the doctor at the nih and had he been tested for ebola? >> you have to consult the treating facility. they would consult the family. the situation is a clinical research center where clinical research is done. in terms of the contacts i will make a brief comment and turn it over to dr. leahy. the concern is not that they may in fact other people. judge jenkins said it exactly right. the only thing we need to ensure is that their temperature is monitored. if they develop a fever that they are immediately assessed, isolated and appropriately cared for. the authorities in texas determined the only way to ensure that for certain

individuals that temperature is monitored daily was to take the actions they took. >> thank you. i think that is correct. we put in a control order to ensure we can protect the public health and safety. we do everything we can to monitor it compassionately and care for their needs. we feel very comfortable where the individuals are at this time. there are challenges getting into that location. things are going well with some now. we have individuals that are working with m daley, them daily.th taking temperature, and we feel comfortable they are in a safe environment. you transported him to the house, anything you would like to add to that? >> if you were in the hospital

and this were your family, you'd want him to be in the place this family is in. their medical monitoring is excellent and we are doing everything that needs to be done that can be done in a hospital, which consists of checking their temperature and vitals twice a day. without getting into the specifics of the individuals, we have a young man who is enjoying playing basketball now. you can't do that in a hospital. even though the science is clear, ebola was discovered in 1976 and experts who are working on this with us are the same experts who may be working on it -- working on it in the past 40 years.

if i put this family in a hospital there are going to be people who are afraid to go to the hospital. i need our citizens to know that presbyterians and every other hospital in dallas county is safe and if you need medical care you need to go to the hospital. i am more concerned about bad outcomes if we overcrowded emergency rooms with panic. or people stop using hospital,an, a great then i am about the chance of this disease spreading. that was the thought process in moving them to a location away from other individuals and more appropriate place for young people.

>> i was wondering if you could tell us about this individual you are looking for. is he or she one of the 50 you are monitoring and what kind of contact did he or she have? have you had other people who have gone missing like him or her in the past few days? >> i will outline the overall and then turn to dr. lakey. the individual being sought was monitored yesterday. he had not yet missed a day of monitoring. though he has gone missing, i am confident the folks in texas found him before and can find him again. the nature of his contact was considered low risk. there were two groups. one in a group of 10 who definitely appeared to have contact.

the other was a group of 38. he was in a group who might have had contact. have all been monitored each day. none of them have symptoms, none of them have fever. the kind described that as a higher or definite -- this is not a special infected fluid. this is someone who might have touched the patient. risk, but high definite contact. dr. lakey? this is a low contact individual. he did not have fever yesterday. worklieve that we need to

to locate him to make sure his being to the monitored compassionately. we know that he is homeless. we are working hard to address that issue so we have control of the environment. every need is his met gearing this time. if he is listening right now, we want to make sure we address his needs and monitor him compassionately and that it is a very low risk situation and we want to be careful and compassionate as we care for him. thank you. >> let me add something to that if he is listening to this. i am the person who took that family in my personal car to where they are now. it is a great place. we have a great place to monitor you as well. you have my word that your every need will be taken care of

during that monitoring period. we want to help you and help the public to know you are being monitored. we need your help in coming to us were going to an officer and letting him know who you are. they will contact me and we will come to you and work out your every need. >> we have another question in the room. >> johnny clark with the associated press. you mentioned unfortunately the patient in texas had taken a turn for the worse. can you give us any details for what we are experiencing? >> i would have to refer you to the hospital for that. we know that ebola is a deadly disease. it can affect many parts of the body. it can be challenging to support the vital functions while the patient's natural immune system

is trying to fight it off. next question on the phone. >> your line is open. >> just a follow-up on the person you are trying to locate, can you tell us what you are to do to locate this person. >> this is judge jenkins. we are the boots on the ground locating him. we have law enforcement and other responders, agencies, going to places where we are using the same sort of data points that we use to find anyone we are looking for and we will make that a top tier effort. i want to stress because he is not committed any kind of crime

or is in any sort of trouble but because we have a great place for him to stay and we are going to tend to his every need and we need the individual to help us by coming forward and being a hero for his community by letting us help him. >> next question on the phone. >> next question comes from the new york times. >> i was hoping you could give us some detail on what happened at newark airport yesterday. i'm curious how you are able to so quickly ruled out ebola. was bloodwork done? are the tests speeding up if so? >> once that patients detailed history and clinical examination was done it became clear that the symptoms the individual had were not consistent with ebola. they were consistent with another minor illness from which he was recovering. as i said yesterday there will be more rumors and more possible

cases. we will ensure we respond rapidly in each case. if someone has traveled to one of the three countries that continues to have the spread of ebola. and has symptoms the key is to them immediately, get testing done, and take appropriate action. we testified another obvious source. he was better and went on his way. we will go to the next question. >> thanks for being available today. just a quick housekeeping question for myself and other journalists.

i know you have a briefing with president obama tomorrow. to the best of your knowledge are there any congressional hearings or big meetings for people to keep an eye on? >> we will take that one day at a time. we look forward to continuing to work collaboratively. i have been encouraged by the commitment and support. people understand we are all in this together and there are clear things we all have to do. it is hard. a long, hard road. working together we can stop ebola. we can stop it here. we can control it in africa. next question in the room. >> is there anything you can learn from -- really the experience about the screening process. as we look to other facilities

when it is based on the ness of that person and their travel history when they may not be so forthcoming. >> it is clear we need to increase the confidence of the system and the reliability about finding out about travel history and rapidly isolating people who may have traveled to anyone of these three countries. we learned from the past and recognized that we cannot always be perfect. we learned from that experience to say, what can be better next time. we are informing everyone in the health-care care system who could have contact coming in to think about ebola and keep it in top of mind. we have had some challenges dealing with medical waste. we thought that issue had been resolved the previous week. just before this patient was diagnosed there was a glitch in the removal of medical waste. that has now been resolved. every time we have a new

situation we learn from it. >> next question on the phone. >> next question is from washington post. >> i wanted to ask whether the doctors who were treating the patient for ebola in dallas were considering giving him blood transfusions from any of the survivors who have been treated successfully. >> you have to refer that question to the hospital. and lest dr. lakey, you have any comment? >> i do not have any comments. >> next question is denver with time magazine. >> i wanted to clarify. the fellow you are looking for, the low risk potential contact, does he know you are looking for him? have you been in touch with him before? >> david? >> the answer is yes he does.

we were able to bring him in yesterday and monitor him, check his temperature, evaluate him, told him to stay there and we followed him. and he left. that is why we escalated this to make sure we can most that we can closely monitor him. >> i think that answer the question. >> thank you. >> next question. caroline with bloomberg news. line is open. >> thank you for taking my call. i was wondering if you can clarify what happened at the hospital when the patient first walked in. they sent out a new statement saying there was no follow-up to the system. it is not clear to me what happened, whether it was human error, could you clarify. >> do you want to address that?

>> i think the hospital needs to answer that question about what occurred on that today. >> they have said they are not going to give further explanation at this time. we have two separate statements that are conflicting at this time. >> the care of patients is complex and you have to recognize that lots of people come into the emergency department every day. that is why we provided checklists and algorithms. that is why we are working with emergency departments, physicians and nursing groups to ensure we can do everything we can to do whenever someone comes in a travel history is taken and symptoms are immediately isolated and treated.

>> your line is open. >> could you elaborate on your comment not limiting travel and how that would exacerbate the epidemic if we let people out or the concern that we will not be allowing health care workers in? >> there are a series of things that have to happen. if we don't control the outbreak there is a real risk it could , spread to countries in africa and be an ongoing risk. it was really important not just africa but to u.s. and the world. to stop the outbreak, we need regulated travel and we need countries not being completely isolated from the world. i understand there have been calls to shut off all flights. this would be very damaging to the countries, to the abilities to get health in, for the people to get help. when i was in liberia the force from the african union was coming.

they have already sent dozens of workers. they want to send dozens more. they are very helpful. but, their response was delayed by about a week. because senegal stopped flights. that delayed the response and ironically that probably increased the risk that they will have imported cases in the future. we are committed to protecting americans. we have to ensure that whatever we do doesn't inadvertently increase that risk by making it harder to stop the outbreak in africa. >> our final question is with amanda from the huffington post. >> thank you for taking my questions. first i just wanted to clarify the patient he said were high risk. three were community workers and seven were health care workers.

from my understanding relatives are being quarantined. wouldn't they be for relatives? markur relatives question how long do symptoms have to sit you to test for ebola? >> you cannot spread ebola unless you have symptoms and you cannot test for it accurately. until there are symptoms. on, thela first comes amount of -- amount of virus that a person excretes or sheds is located the test may be negative for someone with an initial fever. as someone gets more sick they get more infectious because there are more and more virus in their body. in terms of household and community contacts, we identified people who either did have definite touch and individuals who may have had that contact. you can figure out that not all of those who were identified as

having been in the household definitely had contact. we end with a question in the room. >> i had a question about the >> i had a question about the seven workers. are they being quarantined in the same fashion? are they being required to stay in their home? what other -- is there law enforcement presence? what about their interaction with their family members and so forth? >> it's really important to emphasize here that the only thing we need to ensure with contacts is that their temperature is measured every day. and the only reason texas took the step that it did with those four individuals is that they couldn't ensure that their temperatures were measured every day. there were no risk to others as the judge outlined very clearly. in terms of the health care

workers it's really up to the hospital, what to do and how to do that. do you want to comment on that or i could add some detail. >> i can add a little detail. the individuals obviously have been contacted. they're being monitored. there's no problems there. the hospital has allowed them to stay home with pay so they're not interacting with any patients. but there's no problem. we have had no difficulty in monitoring them in their current situation. >> judge, do you have any final words before we close this press availability? >> i guess in closing i would say thank you to the members of the media who are helping to get out the accurate information about how this disease is spread and what people should be concerned about and what they should not be concerned about. it's very important that we

follow the science and don't overreact in this situation. and your work on that is helping tremendously. so thank you. >> anything to add? >> again, i want to thank the c.d.c. for our partnership. i do want to thank the media. it's very important that we get information out and accurate information out related to the real risk. and what are not risks. and so your partnership in this is important. and again, to the family members and the contacts, our thoughts and prayers are with you as we work through this current situation. thank you. >> thank you both very much. and thanks also to the team in texas is doing such a terrific job here. the bottom line is that we're stopping eeb la in its tracks in dallas. we're working throughout the u.s. to increase the level of

tracking for any possible cases so that if other patients come in they can be promptly isolated. and we're continuing to surge the response in africa to stop ebola at the source so that we don't have to deal with it in the coming years. thank you all so much for covering this. >> one thing that we forgot to say or i'm not sure that we said if you all are still on. please let everyone that is being monitored know that our faith community here across ideologies and sects, our faith community here is making the day a day of prayer for you in their houses of worship if you're being monitored you're in the thoughts and prayers of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people today. >> thank you very much. >> tonight on the communicators, jeremy grant whose agency promotes internet

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introduce vice president biden. jonathan hill is a 2012 alum of urban alliance and a sophomore at moorehouse college. jonathan represents urban alliance young people. he has a relentless drive, an exceptional talent. and like many youth came looking for a platform to be able to succeed. with guidance from urban alliance and support from his mentors, jonathan, like urban alliance alum and inturns are able to showcase their talents and able to thrive as young professionals. youth similar to my 17-year-old self-, were hungry and are hungry for opportunities to showcase their abilities. they are willing to fight against challenges and overcome obstacles in order to create and establish a better life for themselves. but they can't do it alone. with all of the potential that our young people have, they

need opportunities, coupled with support. and that comes from companies like yours and organizations and programs like urban alliance. when the two come together, the result is something amazing. it is a generation of young people with limitless potential and a commitment to community. jonathan represents such a generation. we are honored to have offered him experiences and encouragement to support his professional trajectory. it is my pleasure to introduce a young man that we should all take note of. mr. jonathan hill. [applause] >> good morning. i have a stool up here. i'm kind of small. but i hope you can hear me. i would first like to thank you

for all the support you have done for me. and it is going to be an amazing opportunity to introduce the vice president today. ane duncan traveled to atlanta for his annual bus tour. he and the first lady came and talked to the students and empowered us. they empowered us. but the day before i toured the atlanta civil rights museum where i found one of the most profound speeches by dr. martin luther king. in this speech he defined himself. he defined how he wanted others to define him. at the end of the day, he just wanted everyone to know he live add life of servitude. just hearing him and seeing the video reminded me. it illuminated in my mind what i wanted myself to be. i wanted others to think of me as jonathan hill, the man living the life of servitude,

and the guy who did his homework, the guy who put in the hard work not just for himself but others as well. around that's what urban alliance has done to me. so i stress to all current and future employers to make the crucial impact on the individual's life. we ask for you to be our supervisors and mentors as well. yes, the paycheck is a pivotal piece of the process and yes we need support from a great organization. but there's something in between. there's a moment that we need you all to connect with us. service relationships are not enough any more. interns do not refer to you all as super visors. we really need that bond, that relationship between one another. by doing so you create that passion. you push us forward. you empower us to not only pursue a higher education but just to become a better person. so let me just say what that

looks like. i've become a better worker because of my mentors and you. i feel supportd in my field of study. and i've gained more from the holistic experience in those eight hours that i serve at work than i would anywhere else. as i leave you here today as an alum, it is only right for me to leave you with four notes. continue to have these critical conversations bringing the youth into the workforce, pursue healthy relationships with your interns, not just as supervisors but as mentors. we need you all. be the change agent we need and empowers us to pursue a higher education. and lastly, create an experience that will enhance our passion in the field of study. so ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce to you the united states vice president joe biden. [applause]

>> how are you? good morning. please, sit down. thank you. thank you very much. well, back stage jonathan was telling me he's a moorehouse man. and i told him that i've been to moorehouse and when i was in high school and college i worked in the east side of wilmington. an awful lot of my friends -- and i got so tired of hearing the debates between what's better, moorehouse or morgan state from spencer henry and my buddies that i tell you, i've got to tell you, jauntsen, i think delaware state university is the best. but i tell you what. jonathan, keep me in mind

because i don't know what i'm going to be doing in two years but i may be looking for a job. so remember me. just remember me. when they tell you joe biden is at the door, don't say joe who? ok? that's the only thing i ask you. tom, it's good to see you, pal. and jock, thank you for greeting me and the chamber for hosting this. there have been alliance leaders, nantsdznal and shawna and the whole -- and my good friend tom. i told tom, i said come home, tom, we need you at the state department. but by the way, there's something tom i noticed. everybody leaves the administration looks a heck of a lot better. they dress better, everything seems to be working. they don't have any stress on their face. i don't know what the story is. but -- and i want to thank andrew and mary and amy for the

great job that you've done in urban alliance which i've only recent by become acquainted with in terms of this chapter. you're focusing on one of the most critical jumpingturs for ung people at age 16-24, 18-24. if you're out of work and out of school, it doesn't bode well statsically for you when you're going to be 35 and 45. so this new jobs report out this morning hopefully is going to provide a lot more opportunities. there's some good news. through the grit and determination of the american people and the ingenuity and imagination of american business, more than 10 million private sector jobs have now been created, 55 straight months continues the longest streak in american history in 248,000 jobs this month. also i'm told the last two months have been estimated up

from what they were. unemployment rate below 6%, 5.9%. it was 10% -- that's a good thing. you can clap for that. make the way, i want to clear, we're not taking credit for all this. i meant when i said about the ingenuity of the marketplace. i meant what i said about the way in which the american people have shown such incredible grit and determination. but combine that with the fact at we've reduced the federal deficit share of g.d.p. by 50% the fastest rate since world war ii and the economy is recovering. so there's all reasons to celebrate. the recovery is on a mark economic sense. but below the surface is a lot of discontent still. middle class is not moving like it should. middle class is taking it hard

not just the last eight, ten years, but it's been somewhat in decline since the mid 80's. we've got to do something about it. we need to do everything we can to get folks back on the pathway of the middle class. if you look at the average middle class wage since 2002 to today it's gone up 14 cents. so there's a reason there's disconat the present time out there. with all this good news and all where the stock market is and total wealth of a nation of over $87 trillion, et cetera, people are still hurting. you say well joe what does that have to do with what we're all here today? i think it has a whole hell of a lot to do with it. it has to do with setting down pathways to get to the middle class so people are in a position to have a shot. in order to lead the world economically in my view in the 21st century we have to do two

things, we're not doing enough of. and there's bipartisan consensus by the vast majority of democrats and republicans to do it. we just can't get out of this sort of rut we're in in terms of the dysfunction of this town. one is we need to invest significantly more in infrastructure. i know the chamber's been pushing that and leading that effort. but businesses go where productivity rests and productivity is related to infrastructure. as the society of engineers points out we need over $3 trillion in infrastructure improvements just by the year 2020. so there's a lot to do and a tremendous opportunity if we grab hold of it. but the second thing we have to do is we have to have the most skilled workforce in the world. tom, you and i talked about this. as a matter of fact, you talked about it before most people did. you know, america is -- i don't

know how many discussions have probably taken place in this room. i had one a while ago with you. you're kind enough to invite me. where we talked about basically is china going to lead the world in the 21st century economically. and i remember ten years ago, are we going to be able to compete with the euro zone. raise your hand in here if anybody thinks we're going to have trouble competing with either in the next 10-12 years. folks, we won. it's very important that the euro zone succeed. it's very important that china succeed. it's in our interest to do that. but in terms of who is best positioned to lead the world economically, it's not close. north america is and will continue to be the remainder of the first half of this century the epicenter of energy in the world, not epicenter of energy in the hemisphere but in the world. we find ourselves in the

position we still have the most imaginative venture capitalists in the world. we have the greatest research universities in the world. we have the most productive workers in the world. american workers by every reputable study shows they're three times productive as for example workers in china. and we find ourselves in a position where if we put these last two pieces together people are going to continue to be coming home. we don't hear -- when is the last time you heard the word outsourcing? we went through a whole generation where all we talked about was outsourcing and we had great political fights about whether or not we should interfere. legitimate fill soffic disagreements. now, we're going to be fighting aninsourcing. what do we do about it? because folks are coming home. at carney report largest i

think it's 500 industrialists they do worldwide, america is the best place to invest in the world by a margin larger than any time since they have kept from cs in every category manufacturing -- every single category. boston consulting group is not the only one but does a survey every year of those investing into china. companies invested in china the manufacturing facilities, 54% this year when asked the same question every year what are your plans for next year? we're considering coming home. so folks, there's going to be great opportunity if we're smart. but we've got to do two things. we've got -- and again, they shouldn't be difficult except anywhere in the world but this town. and that is, infrastructure and have the most highly skilled workforce in the world.

and that's where the urban alliance comes in. your private sector partners are key to the second point. building a skilled workforce. even when the economy is doing well in the 90s, you understood, the urban alliance, that young people were still twice as likely to be unployed s the overall, young black and young hispanics were more unlikely to be unemployed. then along came that god-awful recession that decimated opportunities for everybody but particularly for young people. the unemployment rate among young people increased nearly 0% from 2007-2009 it went from 16-28.6%. during that same period the up employment rate for young people 20-24 increased 80%. and even as the economy recovers it's estimated that

6.7 young people ages 16-24 are not going to be able to obtain the skills and work experience they need to succeed because they're neither in school nor in a job. to use that old expression, this isn't rocket science. it's the foundation you have surely impacts disproportionately the prospects you have. and so when you're in a situation where you are neither in school nor have a job at that critical moment in your life, it's -- it doesn't bode well for your prospects. but you've never taken your eye off the ball. you're fixing a broken pipeline, that pipeline between 16-24. you've been working on it since 79. you fixed it. you're fixing it and you're equipping young people as you just saw with jonathan with the skills they need to climb the

ladder to a good-paying middle class job. take the internship and partnerships that you've created with business and with government. it's been a huge success. my numbers i'm told that since 96, 1,500 young people have gone through the internship program. 100% graduated from high school. 75% enrolled in college. and 80% of these students have stayed in college. today, a very critical statistic not just enrolling but staying. you have built strong eye lumni network. so students like jonathan don't graduate from a program. they instead invest back in by donating their time and becoming mentors themselves. because the other thing we know from experience in a whole range of subjects that the people who most influence young people are young people. their peers.

your graduates are going to tell you and you heard it today -- i know you know it -- i'm not telling you anything, that they've obtained better jobs and wages than their peers who haven't had the same opportunity. everyone from the office of personal management led by katherine -- are you here? i can't see out there. there you go. you're doing a great job for us by the way. led by katherine to the world bank and companies large and small have benefited from the urban alliance interns. and every single one of those interns learned skills that are going to last them a lifetime. how to work well with others, how to pay attention to detail, how to communicate in a professional environment. they are being exposed. they're being exposed to in demand fields such as information technology and business. and to people in those fields who show them how to pursue the future, they once thought was

out of reach, i thought jonathan -- he said don't just mentor me. help me out. be my friend, give me a little confidence. that's basically what you were saying as i read it. but it's true. and you know how it works. it works that way with every one of your colleagues whether or not when they come into your operation, whether or not they e coming out of a deprived circumstance or are graduating from a great university with prive lincoln. it's the same thing. -- privilege. it's the same thing. it's hard but it's not that hard. and what you've done is teach them -- i had an old friend who was a great basketball player, plays with reareden and walker. he was a great ball player. pete mclalk lynn. pete passed away a young man at 50. but pete wasn't the sharpest academic candle on the table but he was a smart guy.

and pete used to have an expression that i think is appropriate. jonathan you might want to use it. he played at providence college. you can go to moorehouse but he used to say you got to know how to know. let me say it again. ou've got to know how to know. now, those of us who come from backgrounds where our parents gave us real opportunities, we learned how to know without knowing we were learning. it was just part of the fabric of what we did. mean you have to walk into -- if you walk into the library of congress, unless you know how to walk to the computer and find what you need, it doesn't matter. you've got to know what you know what you need. that's what the urban alliance is doing. so when i was asked to put together a program on workforce

traininging so we would end up in the coming years the best trained workforce in the world, i literally took a look at your program. and we looked all over. we went to every initiative that was going on in the country to try to get a sense of what worked and what didn't work. guys, n we looked at you we made -- it became pretty ear that you had the basic ingredients to how to help people in this cadre that i've described, had the best shot. the kind of partnerships the urban alliance builds are the kind we need all across the country between businesses, unions, nonprofits, education systems. look, you know that six out of every ten jobs in the next ten years are going to require something beyond a high school

diploma. it can be a certificate at a community college, it can be a two year associates degree or four year degree or phd. but they need something beyond, something beyond high school. just consider the following. in the study we did. information technology, we're going to need 1.4 million jobs are needed over the next 10 years in it. from software developers average salary $68,000 a year, typically needs a bachelor's degree. computer network specialist average salary $59,000 a year. do not need a college degree but a two-year degree. i was out at ust global. i was out -- i went all around the country to take a look at some of the programs going on and i went to detroit, which is just getting off its knees.

i mean, detroit has been battered. there's an outfit -- there's a national outfit called ufrpbl st global. in a sense they do more but they're a placement operation for large i.t. and small i.t. officials. i think you know them. so they asked me to come by, this program they had going on at a community college at inner city in detroit. i walked in and there was i think it was didn't dolede don't hold any, i think it was a 15 week program a group of women from the neighborhood or from the hood. every one of these women, their youngest was 24 i believe and the oldest was 58, and they were about two dozen of them and they had two more weeks to go. what they were learning is they were learning computer programming. these are people with high school degrees coming out of the most hard scrapple neighborhoods every one of them

in detroit. , the lowest a job starting salary $58,000, the highest $81, because in detroit there's an immediate need now for 1,000 programmers in the city now, every one of those omen has a job average job $65,000 a year. health care. we need 64,000 dental higenists in the near term. average salary $70,000 a year. median salary i should say. can be trained by community colleges. registered nurses we're short over 638,000 registered nurses in america. average salary 65 to delshes 75,000 a year.

psychiatric nurses, 300,000 women and men coming home from afghanistan and iraq with post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury. salaries, $85,000 a year. and it can be an internship on the job while you are working as a registered nurse. advanced manufacturing. you guys at the commerce -- at the chamber know this better than anybody. the need for 100,000 jobs going unfilled right now -- right this minute in the united states of america, the companies that have returned or have never left and are expanding. in high-skilled manufacturing. some require bachelor's degree, very few, some two-year degrees, but most just require training that somewhere between three months and six months.

dow cocompany needed 1,000 employees found out they couldn't find people with photo volume tick technology to operate their machines doing things having to do with solar shingles. so with a federal grant teamed up with local community college, brought in their managers, their machines, off the factory floor into the community college, and created a conveyor belt. average salary, starting, $54,000 a year if memory soist me. the point is there are incredible opportunities for workers but also for business -- for business and for young people. but we need to build partnerships that figure out what local employers are looking for and find ways to equip people with the skills. there's this need out here not just in i.t. but -- i'm not

going to bore you with the rest of the report but there's this enormous need that business has looking for skilled employees. there's this enormous pool of americans who want to work. the one thing i do not agree with is my friends in the congress and other places suggest the american people don't work. they didn't come from the neighborhood i come from. i don't know anybody who doesn't want to work given a fair shot. and there is this gap between the skills needed and the workers knowing what skills needed and how to figure out how to get those skills, where to get them and how to pay to get them. and that's what working with the chamber and the federal government and local governments and community colleges were beginning to do. that's why early this week i announced a $a 450 million invest in the in competitive grants to 71 partnerships between community colleges and businesses all over the united

states of america. including partners like organized labor. the partnerships provide a seamless transition so folks can move from the classroom directly to a job that they can raise a family on. we have a big fight i know about minimum wage. i won't get into that with you all here but i think you all are dead wrong about minimum wage but that's a different deal. i got it. but these aren't minimum wage jobs. these are jobs you can actually maybe own a home and not rent. live in a neighborhood maybe you can send your kids to the park where you don't have to worry about them getting beat up. send their kid to a school that if they did well they got a shot to get to college. to get to college you have to figure out a way to get them there and maybe in the meantime touf take care of your mom or dad because o one of your parents have died and hope maybe you won't have to have your children take care of you. that's middle class. that's all it is.

but that's everything it is. that's everything it is. so i don't look at what you all are doing in urban alliance just as getting kids sort of off the street, off the corner. that's important. you're getting them on a pathway where they may be able to live that life. i know i'm referred to as middle class joe because i talk about the middle class so much. but -- and i know in this town it's not a compliment to say you're middle class means you're not sophisticated. but middle class is what built this country and it's the social glue that holds the country together. so we've got to figure more ways to find pathways for people to get there. think of the employers and employees who feel they're in a dead-end job or those partnerships provide better

jobs. think of the workers just getting started and hungry to learn a new skill and move up a ladder. those partner ships you're providing help them get there. i'll give you a couple more examples. monroe college in rochester new york -- i used to go to syracuse university. a lot of my friends are from rochester. when i was growing up, rochester was a vibrant middle class city. t had code yak which had about 35,000 employees i think. nobody at a minimum wage job. all realy good-paying jobs. a lot of engineers, a lot of people making a good salary. had barb and loam, it had a number of other operations. well, it fell on some hard times and kodak stopped making brownies, stopped making film. and i think they're down to well under 10,000 employees. boush and loam the same way.

so the optic industry in the meantime has changed radically as well. that's why they're in trouble. they didn't adapt. and so what happened was this monroe community college on their own initiative went out and surveyed businesses, i think 200 businesses in the two-county area. many of them still engaged in optics. for example, the lens in the mars rover is made by one of the small companies in that city. what they found out was that hese businesses needed employees. so they partnered with a bunch with e businesses and the community college and they set up apprenticeship programs. the jobs paying $60,000 a year, all high school graduates. no one with any advanced

degrees. and they're transforming the community. consider the preant tipship which thatford created gave you a chance to earn while you learn. they earn about $6,000 a year and upwards up to $100,000 a year with overtime. partnerships are good for workers and business and they're good for the economy. and we need more and we're looking at all of you in the private sector to get more engaged and build more of these partnerships because here's what i know for certain. the american people they want to work. they want a fair chance. they don't want any guarantees. my dad would say i don't want the government to give me anything, i just want them to at least understand my problem. well, you all understand your needs.

and i'm preaching to the choir. you're in here. you understand the problem. given a fair chance, the american people have never ever, ever let their country down. they're the reason why it's never a good idea, as i think you reminded me, tom, my saying they're thinking about how america will come back. said never, never, a good bet to bet against america. never, never. and so folks, because of what the urban alliance is doing and a lot of other alliances like it all across the nation, and what i consider -- i come from what used to facetiously be referred to when i got elected as age 29-72 the state of dupe on the. i come from the corporate state of america. i have dealt with and had

alliances with major business my entire career. and i think there's a lot of things going on here. one of the things going on is businesses beginning to figure out how to deal with the new realities of the 21st century in a way that, as it becomes more apparent, they see the possibilities of partnering like you're doing right here with the urban alliance. it's ultimately about growing that pie, growing that pie. so every does well. i compliment the chamber for their involvement, i compliment the alliance, and i compliment you all for taking so much time to be engaged. thank you. [applause]

>> ladies and gentlemen, this is a fascinating place, and we have political and economic discussions and debates here morning, noon, and night. we come together today with all of the people the vice president complimented and with his encouragement and leadership to do something we all agree on, and that's put americans to work. and so mr. vice president, i want to thank you for your leadership on this. i want to continue to invite you to come back for the debates we like to have, and i will start looking around for hat you might do in two years.

thank you. [applause] > thanks, everybody. >> each year on the sunday before the opening day of the new term for the u.s. supreme court, justices attend the annual red mass service at the cathedral of st. matthew the apostle in washington, d.c. the event brings together members of the supreme court, congressional leaders, and other public officials. the name red mass comes from the red color worn by clergy. the purpose is to bless those responsible for the administration of justice. among those attending chief justice john roberts, associate justices clarence thomas, kennedy, scalia, brier and kagen and white house chief of staff dennis mcdone hue. here's a look at some of those leaving after the service.

>> on "washington journal" we talked with the reporter about what to expect in the new term for the supreme court which egins later today. >> joining us on the phone is adam who is following the court for the "new york times." the headline this morning the supreme court's robust new session could define the legacy of the chief justice. thanks very much for being with us. >> it's great to be here. >> as you watch them arrive, let me ask you first about this mass, this tradition, and what transpires. >> it's a longstanding tradition where several of them typically five or six of them gather for a blessings and encouragement at the start of the new term. it's a longstanding catholic tradition to bless those responsible for the administration of justice. they're -- there are not a few people who think it's an odd

juxtaposition to see this kind of tension between church and the state which some people might thing you would want to keep separate. >> in fact, religious freedom and the status of jerusalem among the cases at the high court the cases expected to take up. >> it's whether the congress can tell the executive branch that children born in jerusalem if their parents wanted them to can have the word israel put in the pass ports. and the status of jeruselem is a hotly contested question. so it's a clash between the two branches of government that congress or the president get to decide how to talk about the status of jeruselem. >> the first amendment, freedom of speech, another issue. especially in this digital age. specially, what is the court taking up? >> the court is looking at whether an estranged husband who in the persona of a rap star puts up really violent rap lyrics seeming to threaten his

wife, whether that's protect bid the first amendment or not. so this is going to require the justices, who are not articular savvy about either culture or that to be focused on rap lyrics. >> this could be defining for john roberts. how so? >> the court hasn't yet decided to accept a case on same sex marriage but it's very likely to do so and to decide it this term. and if the court upholds the right to same sex marriage as is -- as most people think it may well, that's going to define the legacy of the roberts court, some say in the same way that the warren court was defined by its decisions in a different civil rights issue, the rights of african americans. and then lurking behind that is the second serious challenge to the affordable care act, chief justice roberts cast the

decisive vote to uphold that law, president obama's signature legislative achievement a couple years ago, and now we'll see whether he press paired to do so again should the court take that second case on the affordable care act. >> we saw the arrile just a moment ago of justice breyer. often hard to tell who some of these are. but before that is justice kennedy appointed by president ronald reagan and he copts to play a key role in this court. -- continues to play a key role. >> he very often cast it is decisive vote. he was in the majority in every single 5-4 case last term. and if history is any guide, he will more often side with his conservative colleagues than his liberal ones. >> so what are the other big cases that you think we should keep an eye on this year? >> there's a follow-on case on religious liberty in a sense. you remember last term ended with the lobby lobby case saying that some closely-held family religious corporationses

could deny contraceptive coverage to female workers. now the question is what about prisonners? do prisonners have religious liberty rights behind bars? and the question for the court is whether an arkansas inmate who is muslim and wants to grow a beard can have a beard or whether security concerns override that religious liberty. >> let me ask you about ruth bader ginsberg because the speculation continues as to whether she will ultimately step down. how is her health? and what is she telling you and what has she been telling her colleagues? >> she has been telling everybody all summer long that she is not going anywhere. her health seems to be good. she is in tip-top mental shape. she loves the job. and she thinks two things. one, that it's unlikely that the president could get someone confirmed to replace her who would be in a similar place on

the ideological spectrum that he can't get in her words someone as good as her. second, she seems to think that a democrat, hillary clinton, i suppose, will win in 2016 and get to appoint whom ever she wants. all of that political judgment on her part is open to question. her legal acmen is beyond dispute. it's not as clear that her political instincts will turn out to be correct. >> adam, the headline this morning, the legacy of chief justice john roberts. final question for you before we let you gow. what is his interaction with his colleagues? >> he is well liked. he is said to be a fair administrator. like his predecessor chief justice rehnquist. but unlike his predecessor chief justice berger he seems to do the part of the jobs presenting cases at their private conferences fairly, making assignments fairly. and although there are deep disagreements on the court

about how to come out on given cases, the part of the chief justice's job that's distinctively his he seems to do to the satisfaction of his colleagues. >> adam lip tach of the "new york times," thank you for being with us. >> on today's "washington journal," daniel wice of the league of conservation voters 25 million mid $ term election and how they decide that spending. chris cox, and former clerk for justice brire who clerked for justice thomas preview the cases the supreme court takes up in its new term. as always we take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> next, a conversation with retired supreme court