>> tom kean from wiggan. in my constituency of wiggan, 1 in 5 children live in poverty. so they don't need an education system that's some sort of upper middle-class fantasy where apparently learning every detail about sedimentary rock is absolutely vital for your existence. i mean, i can't remember a single thing i did in gtse. i can't even remember the names of most of the stuff. and that is because i didn't need it. somewhere in this country currently there is a great musician sitting at a job at a piper, an amazing scientist writing about a view from a bridge. it's not eve than gon that good. but we need to step in. we've already started doing some good work. i know everyone in this room has started putting some good work in. and we all need to finish it. we all need to complete that good work because we can't let this system that just perpetuates all the things that are wrong with our society, we cannot let that system continue to weight on us. we need to keep pushing. we can't set it aside now after all we've done. thank you. >> thank you. now -- thank you very muc

. >> -- tom kean and john i congratulate you on having the support and confidence of your caucuses i look forward to working with you and all members in your respective houses in true partnership to accomplish great things for our state and its people. in particular -- >> we will have much more on new jersey's new governor later did on "eyewitness news" starting at 5:00. >>> in other news the doctor who oversaw president trump's first formal physical will reveal the results in a news conference at the white house later this afternoon. the president was scammed last week at walter reed medical center in maryland. a brief statement after conducting the physical white house physician dr. ronnie jackson said that the 71-year-old commander in chief was in quote excellent health. once the details of the president's scam are released we'll have them later today on "eyewitness news" and on cbsphilly.com. >>> former white house steve strategist back on capitol hill being interviewed by the house intelligence committee over the slaw investigation. new york times now reporting bannon was subpoe

was sustained by my republican colleagues in the legislature, through the leadership of senator tom kean, jr., the late alex deporch and john bremni crunch k. [applause] >> the bee leaguered taxpayers of new jersey were protected for the first anytime a decade from tax increases. so i want to say, to tom, to john, to betty lou, on behalf of her late husband, and to all the republicans who stood up and thad mose difficult votes. on behalf of the people and the businesses of new jersey who have much more of their own money in their pocket because of their leadership, thank you very much. [applause] >> you has led to seven consecutive years of private sector job growth. now, that is a very consequence shall accomplishment. cons consequential for all the people of number. at the inherited a budget that was bloated, out of balance and riddled with gimmicks2. billion in deficit in a fiscal year that was five months from ending. a projected $11 billion deficit in the coming fiscal year, total of $13 billion of projected deficits over the first 18 months. too many public employees doing too litt

in an interview with huff post, former new jersey governor and chairman of the 9/11 commission tom kean is also troubled with pruitt's obsession by secrecy. i think this "new york times" op-ed makes his opinion clear. he writes, to see his penchant for secrecy, pruitt is installing, at a cost of nearly $25,000 to taxpayers, a secure phone booth in his washington office to keep people, including staff members, in the dark. imagine that. while demanding massive cuts to e.p.a.'s budget, pruitt is spending thousands of dollars to build himself, like maxwell smart, a cone of silence. he doesn't run the c.i.a. he doesn't run the f.b.i. he doesn't even run the state department. what possible purpose could this very expensive, secure phone booth have at the environmental protection agency? governor kean believes that pruitt is doing this to keep his own staff members in the dark, which begs the question what does pruitt have to hide from his own staff? it sounds like a question that my republican colleagues on e.p.w. should ask him tomorrow. pruitt's wasteful spending isn't just limited to his