communicators," tech journalist walt mossberg talks about the future of technology and why he quit using facebook. >> i think they're in trouble because i think because of their policies and their actions they have turned off a lot of people and lost the trust of a lot of people. not all of those people not even most of those people have left facebook but i believe it is fair to say there is a lot of people who have cut back their use of facebook even if they haven't left it. >> watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 eastern on espn2. >> now newly sworn in governor j.b. pritzker of illinois delivers his inaugural address in springfield. it's 25 minutes. [applause]

>> are you excited? >> here. come right up by your mom. ok. place your right hand and repeat after me. i, state your name. >> i j.b. pritzker. >> do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> that i will support the constitution of the united states. gov. pritzker: that i will support the constitution of the united states >> and the constitution of the state of illinois. >> and the constitution of the state of illinois. >> and that i will faithfully exercise. >> and that i will faithfully exercise. >> the duties of officer of governor of illinois. >> the duties of officer of illinois. >> according to the best of my ability >> according to the best of my ability. >> congratulations. gov. pritzker: thank you. [applause and cheering]

>> you did it. gov. pritzker: thank you all very much. thank you. [cheering] i want to begin today by thanking my family. first, my partner, my best friend, the love of my life, and now the first lady of

illinois, m.k. pritzker. applause and cheering] my wonderful children teddy and donny, i love you more than life itself. my parents sue and don pritzker who departed this world too soon, more than three decades ago, but who left behind a set of values around honor and decency that will endure as long as there are good people n the world. please join me in giving an ovation for my partner and your lieutenant governor the incomparable juliana stratton! cheering and applause]

i want to acknowledge the other guests today. leader bill brady, leader jim durkin, attorney general-elect rawle, secretary of state jesse white. controller suzanna mendoza. treasurer, members of the general assembly, members of the congressional delegation, governor pat quin, governor bruce rauner and national guard adjutant general richard hays to all of you on behalf of the people of illinois i thank you for your service. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, for 200 years, illinois has proudly stood as the beating heart of our republic. a place whose people have high hope and clear vision. this is where lincoln found the

metal to grip a warring nation in both hands and hold us together. this is where obama came to organize and witness the courage that runs deep in our communities in whom he found the fortitude to launch his bid to make history. this is where the 13th and 19th amendments to the u.s. constitution were first ratified. ending slavery and guaranteeing a woman's right to vote. this is where on the sunday morning after the great chicago fire reverend robert collier pastor of the first unitarian church, immigrant, anti-slavery abolitionist and women's

suffrage advocate stood among the broken ruins of his once grand church and brought hope and vision to his devastated congregation. his parishioners gathered around him, the sun peeking through gutted walls and splintered beams, an overturned column serving as his pulpit. his words that morning have survived the 148 years since. a testament to their power and truth. what is lost, he asked? first our homes. second our businesses. these are temporary. what we have not lost is our geography. nature called the lakes, the forests, the prairies together in convention long before we were born and they decided that on this spot a great city would be built. we have not lost hope. the fire makes no difference to me. if you'll stay here, i will. we'll work together and help ach other out of our troubles.

since reverend collier's time americans have often had to gather in broken cathedrals some of stone and glass, some f aspirations, and promises. to reaffirm our faith to one another. we find ourselves at such a moment now. we contend every day with an economy that gives too little and takes too much. that allows passion and work ethic to be overwhelmed by student loans, unexpected health emergencies, and the rising cost of living. we want strong families but we have yet to embrace more robust policies supporting paid parental leave and affordable childcare that will sustain hem. we watch hundred-year storms that now come every year and yet we don't allow the science

of climate change to guide our decision making. we fail to hold accountable leaders who sacrifice truth for personal gain, who substitute pageantry for patriotism. we are a nation founded on fearless ideas and yet we move away from those drawn to that vision. we want better roads, better wages, better schools, but we vilify anyone who dares suggest a workable path to those things. we allow schools and movie theaters and hospitals and neighborhoods to become battle fields. legally accessible by the weapons of war. our abdication of responsibility must end. [applause] just a few weeks ago i went to

mercy hospital to attend a vigil honoring the victims of the murderous shootings there, to honor the police officer who ran into gunfire and not away from it. to honor the university of illinois doctor who raised money for disadvantaged kids and led her church choir. to honor a pharmacist who went into medicine because she struggled with health problems herself. these are the very best of illinois. as a public servant, it's hard to bear witness to violence such as this. but this job also exposes you to people who stitch us together time and again. to the illinoisans who remind us what amazing capacity we have to change. at the mercy hospital vigil sister barbara center read a franciscan prayer that speaks to who we are in illinois. she said, may god bless us with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection,

hunger, and war, so we may reach out our hands to comfort them and turn their pain into joy. and may god bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in this world so that we can do what others claim cannot be done, to bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor. at 200 years old, illinois is still a young promise. our time here has been but a blink. in 2019 we must begin a new century with a new maturity. and enough foolishness to believe we can make a difference in this world. [applause] that starts with leadership that abandons single minded, arrogant motions. no. [applause] no, everything is not broken. our history is a story of leaps

forward and occasional stumbles backward and a promise renewed with each generation that we will try harder. that we will do better. that big breakthroughs are built of centuries of selfless effort by unheralded heroes. that big change rides on what we can do together, not on what one person attempts alone. [applause] neighbors working side by side in tailorville lost their homes and worldly possessions in the recent tornadoes. they know that what reverend collier said right after the great chicago fire was right. we work together to help each other out of our troubles. so today, with all of the challenges illinois faces, democrats and republicans will work together and we must begin with our most basic esponsibilities.

[applause] we will propose, debate, and pass a balanced budget this year. [cheering] it won't be easy but let's confront this challenge with honesty. our obligations as a state out match our resources. our fiscal situation right now is challenging. and the solution requires a collective commitment to embracing hard choices. we need to bring efficiencies to state government. our information technology systems are out dated and they cost more to maintain than they do to replace. inexpensive health care prevention programs were decimated causing higher spending to treat diseases that could have been cured. balancing the budget means lowering the cost of government while tchiffering the high

quality services that illinoisans deserve. balancing the budget means lowering the cost of government while delivering the high quality services that illinoisans deserve. but be clear i won't balance the budget on the backs of the starving, the sick, and the suffering. applause and cheering] and i won't hollow out the functions of government to achieve an ideological agenda. i won't make government the enemy and government employees the scapegoat. [cheering] responsible fiscal management is a marriage of numbers and values which is why it is time to start the ernestt work of

creating a fair tax system here in illinois. our regressive tax system including property and sales taxes currently has the middle class paying nearly double the rate the wealthy pay. that is not fair tan doesn't pay our bills. today our state's fiscal instability affects every single person who lives and works in illinois whether you earn millions or the minimum wage. it means that our government wastes tens of millions of dollars paying higher interest rates than almost any other state. and we scare businesses and families away because they fear our uncertain future. the current tax system is simply unsustainable. others have lied to you about this fact. i won't.

the future of illinois depends on the passage of a fair income tax which will bring us into the 21st century like most of our midwestern neighbors and like the vast majority of the united states. now, i'm not naive about what will -- what it will take to do this. all who enter discussions about our budget and tax system in good faith will be welcome to the table. but if you lead with partisanship and scare tactics you will be met with considerable political will. it's time to update and repair our state's aging infrastructure. railways, roads, bridges, and fresh water arteries are on the verge of collapse. crumbling bridges mean people's lives are in danger. deteriorating rail systems means goods and services take longer to deliver and they cost

more. we are the nation's supply hain hub, and we must be built like it. let's remember, too, that an aging highway system is not just concrete and steel. it's a longer commute home. it's missing the golden hours between dinner and bedtime when your kids are young where you spend a few minutes reading a book together and talking about their day. the seemingly dry acts of government really do affect the richness and joy of our lives. we must treat the decisions we make together, decisions of our elected officials to champion a cause and of our citizens to embrace or reject those efforts with an eye to the pursuit of happiness. as we enter illinois's third century, we must bring a renaissance to downstate illinois which has been deprived of some basic

resources for education and business building. that are taken for granted elsewhere in our state. to begin with, we will work to deliver high speed, broadband internet coverage to everyone .n every corner of illinois today every new job and every student is dependent on con ectimbt and no part of our state -- today every new job and every student is dependent on con ectivity and no part of our state must be left out. we must have a broad vision of environmental protection or decisions will be forced on us in ways that offer little control and catastrophic outcomes for our children. i believe in science. and to that end as one of my first acts as governor -- [applause] -- as one of my first acts as governor, illinois will become a member of the u.s. climate alliance upholding the goals and ideals of the paris climate

ccord. working men and women deserve to have a governor and department of labor that will enforce laws protecting workers' wages and workers' ights. and they deserve a $15 minimum wage. it's good for the working families of illinois and good for our economy. as your governor i will be committed to helping us become the fastest growing big state economy in the nation. i'll be our state's best chief marketing officer. to attract jobs and businesses to illinois. we'll bring capital assistance and mentorship to help illinoisans across our state to start and build new businesses and new jobs. our economic success depends

upon that. in the interests of keeping the public safe from harm, safe from harm and in the interests of expanding true justice in our criminal justice system and advancing economic inclusion, i will work with the legislature to legalize tax and regulate the sale of recreational annabis in illinois. we will approach education with a holistic mindset recognizing that students do their best in communities' schools where teachers are paid well. [applause] and where kids start learning at the earliest ages. and our economy grows when vocational training, community colleges and universities are

trong. and we will do all of this with the most diverse set of voices and perspectives illinois has ever seen. i have built a cabinet of people who will bring with them experiences that i don't share from communities i did not come from with expertise i don't have because to lead well all of illinois must be represented in the decision making. [applause] furthermore i want all of the children of illinois to see someone who looks like them in ur government. high hope and clear vision are what have built this state despite all of the turmoil in this world illinoisans continue to build, innovate, create, and dream.

our agriculture sector is built on the most fertile soil in the world and is expanding employing more than 700,000 people in every part of this state. we have nearly 13,000 manufacturing firms in illinois that employ more than 580,000 people, most of them proud union workers with the best training in the world. 1-10 computer science degrees in the nation comes from illinois's colleges and universities. our entrepreneurs continue to be tireless dreamers whether it's the creation of a software incubator in galesburg, reating glass in peoria.

lena kim creating custom jewelry in evanston or leif anderson still using his grandfather's original recipes to make and sell candy in ichmond. that is the illinois i see, one of possibilities. when your faith in our future flags i urge you to remember reverend collier and his ruined church. how he was the vessel for his parishioners' burnt hopes. how he saw the natural beauty of illinois and knew that nothing could steal that from them. i see the natural beauty of illinois in our people. more than anything else, i see it in our capacity to be kind. consider the story a few weeks and f casey handel -- who e who feehlau to

moved and proudly flew a rainbow flag behind their home. someone snuck in and stole it and replaced it with the american flag. the thief didn't understand that you rob the american flag of meaning when you steal a person's symbol of self-expression. [applause] now, that could have been the end of that story but casey and zedette's neighbor kim wouldn't let it be. she paut pride flag in her yard in solidarity. then she kept buying them because her neighbors kept asking for them, too. soon there were pride flags everywhere. a place that hate had tried to fill was conquered by love instead. and kim noted, frankly, i've grown weary of this, of all this hate. and i got to say it just seemed like there was one thing i could do that i had control of.

remember that our ability to grow weary of hate fuels our enormous capacity to be kind. the bright moments of our past, the north stars of our future, are all lit not by ambition, partisanship, or greed, but by kindness. a willingness to be kind is a virtue often overlooked in life. a commitment to be kind in politics can change the world. over a century ago, public policy grounded by kindness offered a penniless immigrant to illinois a bed to sleep in, a public school education, and the opportunity to succeed. and the 130 years later, his great grandson just took the oath of office to become the overnor of this great state. [applause] [chanting]

so thank you, illinois. thank you for your faith in me. i promise to live up to it every day. together, let's go into this new century with enough faith to help each other out of our troubles, with enough each other out of our troubles, with enough bullishness to believe we can make a difference in this world and enough kindness to make change. thank you. god bless the state of illinois and god bless the united dates f america. [applause] ♪ [ cheers an >> this is day 30 of the government shutdown. the longest in u.s. history.

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he plans to bring bill to the floor this week with a plan to end the shutdown. so far no democrat has announced upport for it. the senator from alaska said she will study it. they plan to vote on separate bills to fund government. both the house and senate are in session on tuesday. the senate begins at 1:00 p.m. live on c-span 2. >> for the first time in the state's history, iowa voters elected women to the u.s. house last november. oth are democrats and defeated incumbents. cindy worked in a few state agencies under three iowa

governors. she and her husband curmently own a design firm. the third district elected abby. now the youngest member of congress. illinois elected three new members to the house, all democrats, two defeated republican incumbents. sean cast represents the sixth district. he was the c.e.o. of two clean energy firms. lauren underwood was a senior advisor at the u.s. department of health and human services during obama administration and has masters degrees in nursing. and jesus garcia has had a long career in state and local politics going back to the mid 1980's and previously served as