entrepreneurial because no private entity has the must all or the scale to do it and because for the country every dollar we put in in this investment is going to generate two or three or ten dollars over a turn alternately we have to remember that government has always played a role in infrastructure developing united states article one section eight of the us constitution congress was ordered to construct all the postal roads which was you know the seven hundred ninety persion of the internet it wasn't left up to the free market it was put into the u.s. constitution because it was seen as such a central government function for a new nation seven hundred ninety one george washington asked alexander hamilton to come up with a plan to make america prosperous and came up with his plan an eleven point plan manufacturers and one part of it was tariffs and things like that you know to protect a massive manufacturing other part was incentives but another part was infrastructure and he said you know we've got to build a national infrastructure to be able to to facilitate

a manufacturing economy and so from the literally from the george washington and then a straight into the ronald reagan administration everybody understood this. what they could do is they could build maglev trains or cross the united states they could build a new road structure where so be said by the elites who control our society with greed and wealth the one percent that they build these fantastic buildings in new york but you don't have the roads to get decently to these buildings the government's a tool you can use it for good or you can use it for bad we've used it for both but what you're talking about sean is to reinvigorate the economic strength that we have in this country towards a peaceful end. fascinators up as always thank you sean from los angeles always good to talk to today all right everybody as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows at r t v dot com coming up top of wallace brings us an in-depth look at the society for civil engineers twenty seven thousand report on

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for two decades the american society of civil engineers has urged congress to address the issue of our decaying out of date infrastructure and response congress politicians presidents across america through time have been just kick the can down the road they've hurled it and the cost is being paid passed on to taxpayers the twenty seven thousand report card by the american society of civil engineers isn't just bad it's really really bad and overall grade of d. plus barely passing was given to our american infrastructure what is a d. plus i mean well grade of d. means that the infrastructure is in fair to poor condition and mostly below standard with many elements approaching the end of their service life a large portion of the system exhibits significant deterioration condition and

capacity are of serious concern with strong risk of failure oddly enough rail is the only sector to receive a great above sea prated it be the federal railroad administration the office of safety analysis found that in twenty sixteen there were two thousand and twenty five train collision seven hundred ninety eight injuries and two hundred sixty five fatalities related to train crossing collisions and that over the last decade amtrak has seen a thirty one derailment per year with no signs of stopping in addition aviation our airports got a d. roads dams levies public transportation and even our drinking water. d.'s are below so now the plan has always been to fix these problems nobody is denying that but fixing them takes money that congress and various administrations have simply refused to allocate citing the expense to repair and upgrade as more than we can

afford of course while they spend trillions on war the american people pay the price the civil engineers found that the cost of these infrastructure failures is hitting families in the pocketbook our failing infrastructure will eventually by two thousand and twenty five cause three point nine trillion in losses to the us g.d.p. again by twenty twenty five seven trillion in lost business sales and two point five million lost american jobs by two thousand and twenty five but the most disturbing numbers show that american families will lose over thirty four hundred dollars in disposable income per year or about nine dollars a day in two thousand and fifteen it was estimated that the deficiencies and america's surface transportation systems cost households and businesses nearly one hundred forty seven billion dollars with close to one hundred billion in vehicle operating costs thirty six billion travel time delays and one point four billion in safety costs oh and the point seven billion and environmental costs and yet

congress still won't close the funding gaps which are enormous how exactly do we fund the ten year two trillion dollar funding gap how do we pay for the upgrades we need in order to be globally competitive where is the plan to fix the more than fifty five thousand u.s. bridges that need to be repaired or replaced but most importantly how do we devise a plan to avoid this kind of major economic problem from happening again well joining us now to discuss just that is the host of artes financial news show boom bust and former u.s. official chilton or you for joining us pleasure to be with hugo so it's always a pleasure talking to you and i want to start work the structure is sexy you know we've heard that sort of time but what is sexy in us society whether we like it or not is modi. but we're not making money without proper infrastructure you can't do that both are tied together but you know explained to the viewers of us you know how our how is infrastructure and money and the making of money and all that tied

together like why does that you know why is one so dependent on the whole lot of it what to have us with just reporting its about the interrelationship between how we get from our homes to our businesses and how businesses transport products from one place to another and we've got a pretty decent blueprint for our transportation structure but as you're reporting it's all faltering and it's not just a a nicety that we should improve it will make our the economic engine of our democracy much better if we do these things we will be more efficient we will be more effective will be more competitive while the greater gross domestic product the president talked about doing better and better you can't do that if you don't have the tools and we've got a good blueprint but bad tools and so it really not does need to be done there are ways to fund it this is not just it's easy to say whether it's got to figure it out i've been there done that nih know how to get it done but unfortunately congress

has not showed up with the political fortitude to do so and we've seen that since you know the obama administration was promising they were making big promises about light rail about high speed trains about these things and we saw none of it through eight years of an administration and this is as you said i said ten twenty years of them saying we have to do something now you had a couple you know today to sort of look over trump's new plan does the the trumpet ministrations infrastructure play on actually solve the issues of cost to citizens or costs to small businesses. is there an answer in there that the sight of someone is ours points out well we take a half a step back before i get to a top of the so. when the recession happened in two thousand and eight what was called for and by republican democrat economist was an injection of funds and so there were as this was a stimulus then the republicans were controlling congress said no it can't be too

much money so there was initial him put into some roads under obama administration but it wasn't anywhere near your kook you correctly report of what they said now does this plan deal with it and i swear i really wanted to be positive i really it's it's a fifty three page document i read through a really wanted to say great thing but it is pretty much just a developer's dream but if you said give it to a bunch of developers and they think well we do away with the environmental water you know safety regulations so we can just build this stuff and we're going to require that all these other copy outs on the federal money which would only be twenty percent of the the funds for a project but we're going to require all these these things we're going to allow workers to come from one state to another to work on a project regardless whether or not they qualify in that state for their protections states have i mean it's weird because. republicans have generally been

for states' rights and here you have an administration was saying no the states do not have a right to say who's going to work on what transportation projects in their states and all sorts of other things which are just really not not great is going to allow for toll route toll roads to be privatized right when we talk about a little bit and earlier in the show you know things like rest stops things like toll roads how would a private business be better at that. well i'm not sure they would be but i guess you know maybe they could offer i don't slot machines are. right for the kids they will not be there here is that but the president has our back though because you will not have to pay for restroom or water so you've got that going for you well let me ask you one simple question as sort of a follow up to that if there's enough money if there's enough profitability that private developers and private investors want to put the money and why should we give away those profits why should the u.s.

government invest in that and keep the profits it's like you know there was a summer when i was in college and i wasn't to use my apartment so i gave it to a friend of a friend to use and you know when i came back and he sold all my good stuff and that's sort of what the president's proposing here let's sell off the george washington parkway for god's sake that was built by lady bird johnson part of the beautification projects are we loves those things going to sell off washington d.c. national bunch other dulles airport i mean selling off all our good stuff while we're gone i mean it's just really crazy get privatized these things sell off our good stuff it just it's a shame and i wish i could say other things because it's so important that we get this done i don't want to make it a political thing i really just want to get it done we do need it we do need to know what's really interesting to me is that when we talk about the selling off of things you know are we as a going to be like other things we're not going to be able to sell to foreign companies or even foreign countries for that matter because we seem to be doing

that a lot in the private sector where a lot of things are getting bought up by whatever. china suddenly decides to buy the george washington bridge you know ben a china says well maybe we're not going to let you drive on this there's all sorts of pitfalls of this but one thing that's interesting is you worked out of trying to transportation bill that actually passed in the senate so with your experience you know how do we get something that's so controversial and so hard to pass like infrastructure spending how do we get that the pass really two components there's the the it what it is you're doing whether or not it's road rail transportation and different states have different needs and then there's the funding problem so let me take them one at a time so the good thing about transportation is like why i like working on it in the senate is that it's really not about republicans or democrats it's really about whether or not you have lots of highways but not a lot of people to pay for the upkeep of the highway where the not you're you know in the east coast corridor be a cell a corridor and you have transit it's about what transportation modes get the

funding but that's based upon the states not a base not based upon politics so i like that you can work that out as just a compromise right getting everybody to yes was what we had to say on the money it's more difficult particularly in since we just spent we as the government just spent one point five trillion dollars on this corporate tax cuts and individual tax cuts but those expires the corporate boys are there for. here's the way to do it in my view and it's not popular but this is i think the best way we pay right now i think it's eighteen point five it's eight hundred points sent eighteen point something cents per gallon every time you get a gallon of gasoline up that a nickel you take care of all this now gas prices are relatively low right now i don't know two thirty nine a gallon or something for regular i mean back two thousand and ten they were four dollars and ten cents or so and nickel right now i mean that's pretty much the difference between buying it here in washington or buying it you know fifteen miles away people i think could accept that now they're not going to like it and it to.

congress to do that but a gas tax is the easy thing it's fair in that it goes all across the board will some things be more expensive transportation will your amazon in your fedex deliveries be a little bit more expensive will get a pass through yeah but a nickel a gallon to take care of all this stuff rather than have to sell off all our good stuff in a developer's dream that would be the way i go about it i think that's ultimately is the hardest thing with infrastructure is i think that it's hard for people to see look you've got to take a little bit of a short term here because the long term is going to pay off so spectacularly and as we talked about earlier when my father was working and giving a light rail in minnesota the hardest thing he ran into was the party politics the governor volved with you know if i run it through this section of town that's predominantly democrat wally and democrats support it but if i want to do this section of town that's probably republican when the republicans support it but neither one wants to give the other side the bridgeman cutting at the end of the

day they don't want to do that so politics also plays a role in that we need him back here in d.c. . but george i'm always a pleasure to have you on thank you so much i always always value your insight into these rather complicated but necessary issues facing are going to do with you guys thank you thank you very much. the real world has bucked many of our futuristic. but certainly not when it comes to the dominance of robots from a replacing personal assistants and sex robots threatening their revolution is the adult entertainment industry well now these robots may not only be out for our jobs but out for their freedom as well in a stunning and somewhat alarming demonstration engineers of boston dynamics showcase their newest robot dog lovingly named spot mini who is now not only capable of running a warehouse looking for intruders or carrying objects but is apparently so skilled and coordinated that even opening a tricky closed door and letting the whole pack of canine droids out of the room.

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one of the deadliest campus shootings in u.s. history seventeen people are dead on a run to. a high school in florida we've spoken to a student who was in the school as the tragedy. just like. friends are lost it's like i don't know what they were like so like. i just don't think that but i'm just going to be like the same after what. the u.s. secretary of state is meeting turkey's president tells america begins to reach its rhetoric in the conflict between the kurds in syria. and american intelligence chiefs urged people to avoid chinese made smartphone

despite claims u.s. organizations. from moscow every hour of the day international my names you know neil welcome to the program another must occur in the united states this time at a high school in florida seventeen people have been killed and at least a dozen others. are reported injured video emerged online which seems to be from one of the classrooms while the attack was under way please be warned it contains upset taking scenes. well the shots rang out inside the school in the city of parkland panicked students were seen running to safety this video was taken while the gunman was still. it's

understood the killer set off a fire alarm to draw people into the open to cause as many injuries as possible armed officers rapidly swarmed the campus before leaving pupils and stuff to safety . or we spoke to polina elaine ikku all of the students in the school at the time of the shooting in parkland. world around blake about to leave school as opposed to years before the bell rang supposed to ring. but the file out of and started so loud but down right the school the door the bullets. and high because it's not a fire drill it was called brad and it's first like everybody still thought it's

going to feel like the they do in the schools but then we just there are the people second talking about life. is short you know like in the next village and. i'm still stunned already got killed and this is serious. world as i told us still be on the floor like so nobody can see us and all that stuff like not to be on our phones and. it's an amp like morse who when they realized this for real and they were just like are you waiting and sample and they came in and they told us like like thirty minutes later they told us like everything was clear around but like we are not going to let you out like right now because we know it will break you know the school everybody was just trying to reach out to their friends and their family. world a much harm i just like feel very kind of lost because like i don't know what so

rigid so will i call it sort of like it's all stuff because like it's just never happened so me and i just don't think they're going to school is going to be like the same up there with fun because i felt like knowledgeable claassen the view of the shooting was. yes pictures from the scene there showing the distress of those touched by the tragedy here's how the deadly incident unfolded. in bed on either on the floor and do i know it on the floors how many people like five on the third floor. it looked like students there was one teacher and four students. so to do pull the fire drill we want to side boom boom boom boom there's gunshots at those firecrackers but after lash out like oh i'm out.

so i could come in being like i'm going to shoot at school you like started taking a family i love you never know i could he get shot or killed was. i want to start out by saying this is catastrophic. and on the way to be catastrophic again broward county history it's devastating i'm sick to my stomach. when the deadly shooting took place at marjorie stoneman douglas high school in parkland ironically that city was named the safest in florida last year and one of the safest in the u.s. . well this is video of the florida shooting suspect arriving kunti

geo police have identified the suspect as nicholas cruz a nineteen year old former student of the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons police said he was armed with a semi automatic rifle and had multiple magazines on indeed some new details about the suspect have emerged linking him to a white nationalist group but nicholas cruz has been charged with seventeen counts of premeditated murder students after school described the suspect troubled partly teachers were warned about him some time ago given his enthusiasm for firearms in his free time with us a long history of school shootings there have been two hundred seventy five incidents since twenty thirteen that's an average of nearly one a week eighteen shootings have been reported in school so far this year you're to

look at some of the most serious cases in the last decade. so over three hundred million guns is enough for every person in the united states to have a gun it's insane and you know we license cars you can't just get in a car and drive it but you can get a gun and shoot it you don't need any training you don't need any licensing. and

a lot of states now you can carry them. undercover illegally there's a lot of nutty miss in this country about how guns make you safer. and they evidence is all to the contrary. the u.s. secretary of state is set to finish his relations building tour of the middle east in turkey rex tillerson husband arrived there for a much anticipated meeting following a souring enticing with a threat to nato allies being at odds over kurdish forces in syria but washington's rhetoric seems to be contradicting itself parties caleb maupin joins us live now in the program to shed some lights on all this hi callup what's been happening tell us in the buildup to this final leg of rex tillerson strip. yes now in the lead up to tillerson xah visit we heard a number of words from u.s.

officials indicating support for the turkish government which is a member of nato and saying that their security concerns are legitimate this is what we've heard from u.s. leaders. nato has only one nation one of our allies. and insurgency inside its own borders and nato and america stand with turkey on a good image should curity concern we have never given heavy arms to the wife e.g. so there's none to take back. now at this point the turkish military is in syria fighting against kurdish forces kurdish forces that have been armed by the united states now it turns out a number of the forces in the ass d. ath have actually relocated they've essentially gone to a wall from their position elsewhere in the country and gone to northern syria to fight against the turkish military this is taking place now in syria and from what

we understand the turkish government is not happy about it at this point turkey is demanding that kurdish forces be expelled from the anti islamic state fighting force led by the united states in syria however in the past we've heard u.s. leaders quite adamant about their support for the kurds this is u.s. leaders on their support for kurdish forces. in the coalition as we can jointly with the syrian democratic food system stop motion train the new syrian border security force the approximately two hundred individuals training in the be a safe snow group close with the goal of a funnel for the sons of approximate thirty thousand. now the turkish government considers these kurdish forces operating in syria to be terrorists and feels quite threatened by them and has been a long outspoken in demanding that the united states and its support for these

forces this is what we've heard.