as has been said by the american society of civil engineers has defined our deficit and infrastructure in the trillions of dollars. when the president proposes a $200 billion proposal over 10 years, $20 billion a year, what could he be thinking? mr. defazio mentioned president eisenhower. when he proposed the interstate highway system, it was a national defense issue , connecting america. connecting america. as a matter of fact, al gore's father was the author of the bill in the senate at the time. in any case, this is about our national security. it's about job creation. 16 million jobs will spring from this proposal. it's about quality of life for the american people, the time they spend in their cars, what it means to result in air pollution and the rest and people being in their cars, mass transit opportunities will get them out of their cars. but even when they are in their cars, to have them go from place to place in a much more reasonable and expeditious time. it's about moving products to market, especially if it is perishable. time means everything in that regard. it is about

infrastructure ranks behind singapore and united emirates and in a recent report by the american society of civil engineers, one out of five miles of highway pavement is in terrible condition and that is 56,000 of american bridges are structurally deficient. but the american people already know about the conditions of our roads, bridges, rail systems, schools and airports. they experience it every day, stuck in traffic, delayed at airports, disrupted in rail travel, paying high energy costs and worrying about safe water and children in schools that are unsafe. democrats are announcing a bold comprehensive plan to address this urgent issue and make it a national priority. he deterioration is impeding our opportunity for economic growth and raising costs on families and creating unfit conditions for some americans. the federal government is a necessary partner in this effort to rebuild our country. it's not enough to punt it to the private sector. rebuilding our country will require a serious smart investment of real federal resources to get this done. this means specifically repairing roads and bridges to r

in a recent report by the american society of civil engineers, one of every five miles of highway pavement in our country is in poor condition. 56,000 of america's bridges are structurally deficient. the american people don't need reports to tell them what they already know about the conditions of our roads, bridges, rail systems, schools, and airports. day,experience it every stuck in traffic, disrupted in rail travel, paying high energy costs, worrying about unsafe water, and kids being forced into schools that are crumbling and unsafe. today, democrats are announcing a bold, comprehensive land to address this urgent issue and to make it a national priority. the deteriorating condition of our infrastructure is impeding our opportunities for economic growth, raising costs, and crating unsafe conditions for some americans, and the federal government is a necessary partner in this effort to rebuild our country. it is not enough to punt for this to the president wants. rebuilding our country will require a serious, smart investment of federal resources. a better deal means repairing roads an

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. me it's that the infrastructure is in fair to poor condition and mostly below standard with many elements approaching the end of their service life it large portion of the system exhibits significant deterioration condition and capacity are of so. serious concern with strong risk of failure oddly enough rail is the only sector to receive a great above seat 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 to d. roads dams levies public transportation and even ou

joining us, senior managing director of the american society of civil engineers, casey dingess. you heard what stephanie just said. you can agree we need a infrastructure plan. what's your initial view, notwithstanding the fact we don't know the money is there to do this, of the way the white house is putting forward this plan? >> well, it's excellent to see presidential leadership on this issue. that can be incredibly helpful. this is a complex issue, it's taken us years to get into this, it will take years to get out. there are some good aspects we can see in the president's proposal. certainly expediting permitting and project decision-making is a good idea. there is some already going on at the regulatory phase from previous bills. that should go forward. there's probably some more improvements we can still make there. having a single lead agency on certain aspects of infrastructure, whether that's the department of transportation on transportation-type projects or the corps of engineers on inland waterway type projects, also a good idea. some of his work force issues in tra

infrastructure earns a d plus according to the american society of civil engineers. at least $2 trillion is needed over the next decade to keep pace. >> also time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. >> president trump is calling for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package that would likely redirect $200 billion in existing funds from amtrak and transit programs calling for hundreds of billions more from cities, states and the private sector. but private investment requires projects that make money like toll roads, which are typically in urban areas. >> to think we can dupe this with $200 billion over ten years from the federal government, is just not addressing the issue. >> reporter: 15 states don't allow such private invest. in projects. in tennessee, toll road are illegal. also the state doesn't borrow money to build infrastructure. the trump plan is to favor loans which has officials here concerned. state transportation commissioner. >> since they're looking at public/private partnerships and leveraging federal dollars, we won't be a player in that. >> report

infrastructure ranks behind singa important and united emirates and in a recent report by the american society of civil engineers, one out of five miles of highway pafment is in more condition and that is 56,000 of american bridges are structurally deficient. but the american people already know about the conditions of our roads, bridges, rail systems, schools and airports. they experience it every day, stuck in traffic, delayed at airports, disrupted in rail travel, paying high energy costs and worrying about safe water and children in schools that are unsafe. democrats are announcing a bold comprehensive plan to address this urgent issue and make it a national priority. the deterioration is impeding our opportunity for economic deproth and raising costs on families and creating unfit conditions for some americans. the federal government is a necessary partner in this effort to rebuild our country. it's not enough to punt it to the private sector. rebuilding our country will require a serious smart investment of real federal resources to get this done. this means specifically repairing roads and bridges to redu

you end up reducing productivity in economic unama growth and so you mentioned the american society of civil engineers they're right a d. plus is about the right grade because again we have a lot of directions we need to go highways bridges electrical grid and broadband. friedel thank you very much and you know budgets are kind of this abstract thing that everyone doesn't think budget language thank you very much thank you very much . let's return to one of our top stories now the damage caused by a tropical cyclone on the tiny pacific kingdom of tonga for more on that we're joined on the phone by a barber tree for she's pacific correspondent for television new zealand in is in tonga so tell us what it is barbara that you have experienced you were there as this storm caused all the damage what did you experience. it was are absolutely appalling to be on a side be silly little side calling buddies a sleazy uses things a little turn the closest i can this is my father where's the whole concrete structure os is so hard to tell with actually here you can and you can be a bit because leto and lose. a huge

infrastructure earns a d-plus according to the american society of civil engineers.trillion is needed over the next decade to keep pace. >> it's also time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. >> reporter: president trump is calling for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package while calling for hundreds of billions more from cities, states, and the private sector, but private investment requires projects that make money like toll roads, which are typically in urban areas. >> to think we can do this with just $200 billion over the next ten years by the federal government is just not an issue. >> reporter: in tennessee toll roads are illegal. also the state doesn't borrow money for infrastructure. the trump plan is expected to favor loans, which has officials here concerned. state transportation commissioner john schroer. >> since they're looking at public/private partnerships and leveraging federal dollar, won't be a player in that. >> reporter: tennessee is one of six states that has raised its gas tax in the last few years to pay for infrastructure projects like th

it is craz se joined byre, i'm thor managing director at the american society of civil engineers.hanksor coming in. donald says this is a crazy situation. just how bad is it? >> he is correct, anit is good that they are shining a light on this issue. the report card on ameritr's infrture in 2017 looked at several critical casegories of inucture and gave the nation an overall grade of d+ we're looking at an annual funding gap in this country of $200 billion a year, $2 trillion over 10 years. jane: is this money going to be enough? that may not be enough. the idea for leveraging money from the private sector and doing more public-private partnerships, as we have seen in europe and other par of the world, not a bad idea, but there are questions on capitol hill and other observers weather $ed0 billion inal money over 10 $200 billion a year that is needed from all sectors of government and the priv e jane: a lot of countries looking at america saying this is america, the richest country in the world. how could it possibly have allowed the infrastructure to get so bad? >> considering ho

the american society of civil engineers rates the country's infrastructure a dplus and says $2 trillion is needed to fix it. >> the nation's infrastructure fails to meet our needs. >> reporter: the white house called for congress to come up with a plan, but so far pledged just $200 billion in federal money or 10% of the estimate. residents hope the crisis serves as a warning to maintain old structures while building new ones. >> there is hope this whole situation brings about some much needed change. >> reporter: a wakeup call she hopes is loud enough to prevent another panic from happening again. steve patterson, nbc news, orville, california. >>> back in a moment with a story of a young woman who beat the odds in a long journey to these olympic games. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. it can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. so i talked to my doctor. she said... symbicort could help you breathe better, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler fo

as you put up there, the american society of civil engineers gives us a failing grade on america's infrastructure. an estimated 56,000 of america's bridges are structurally deficient. one out of every five miles of highway pavement in our country is in poor condition. of course we don't need those report cards. we don't need these reports to tell us. the american people experience it every day. being stuck in traffic. having disruptions in their rail service. having repairs to their cars. our constituents feel it every day. that's why it's so disappointing that the president has been unwilling to work with democrats in a bipartisan way to craft an infrastructure plan that will rebuild the country career ate good-paying jobs, make us the envy of the world again and instead he puts forth this sort of bait and switch. first of all, it's a $200 billion investment. our plan is five times that. and then he says, well, it's really $1.7 billion. why? his friends will privatize public infrastructure and create tolls and higher costs for users. that's not what infrastructure is. infrastructure is a public

infrastructure earns a d-plus, according to the american society of civil engineers.least $2 trillion is needed over the next decade to keep pace. >> it's also time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. ( applause ) >> reporter: president trump is calling for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package that would likely redirect $200 billion in existing funds from amtrak and transit programs, while calling for hundreds of billions more from cities, states, and the private sector. but private investment requires tsojects that make money, like toll roads, which are typically in urban areas. $ to think we can do this with just $200 billion over 10 years from the federal government is just not addressing the issue. >> reporter: 15 states don't allow such private investment in projects, and in tennessee, toll roads are illegal. boso, the state doesn't borrow urney to build infrastructure, s d the trump plan is expected to favor loans, which has cialcials here concerned. state transportation commissioner john schroer. >> since they're look at public- private partnerships and

because they'll want projects that will give returns in two thousand and seventeen the american society of civil engineers annual infrastructure report card has given the united states of america a d. plus d. plus the infrastructure problems within the united states are becoming quite legendary especially for a country with such a great history of infrastructure marvels from the railroad empires of the eighteen hundreds to the construction of the hoover dam but you see this is what happens when a country puts the military industrial complex on a financial pedestal and its politicians make decisions based on short term cheap applause rather than long term hard honest vision it's time for the big ideas and the big risks once again it is time to start watching the hawks. but if you think that that's. what they like you know that i got. it. we think so. well as we're on the watch of the harks i am tired robot and on top of the wallace joining us from los angeles is the one and only sean stone always a pleasure sean. so i want to first let me just quickly go over this and say look the bedroom government accord

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the american society of civil engineers says we need to spend $2 trillion just to maintain what we havet including what we need to add to move goods and people and deal with sanitation and water systems and all of that. >> trish: where are you going to get that money? >> we're not going to get it from the trump administration. the $200 billion is repurposed. >> trish: it's seed money. yes, it is. >> you've taken existing programs and you've put a new name on it. there's no new money. it's existing money that we presently have in water, transportation and the fact. that's a fact. >> trish: so they're taking $200 billion and you're going to get rid of the red tape that makes it so impossible for businesses to be in that business because they don't want to spend ten years working on permits and so you can increase the speed at which you can get the permits done. then you have more private companies willing to get into the act. >> private companies will get into the act if they can make a return on their investment. what is the cost when you take the return on equity, north of 15%, as oppos

because they'll want projects that will give returns in two thousand and seventeen the american society of civil engineers annual infrastructure report card has given the united states of america a d. plus d. plus the infrastructure problems within the united states are becoming quite legendary especially for a country with such a great history of infrastructure marvels from the railroad empires of the eight hundred hundreds to the construction of the hoover dam but you see this is what happens when a country puts the military industrial complex on a financial pedestal and its politicians make decisions based on short term cheap applause rather than long term hard honest vision it's time for the big ideas and the big risks once again it is time to start watching the hawks. if that's. what they like you know that i got. it. this. week so. well we're on the watch of the harks i am tired robot and on top of the wallace joining us from los angeles is the one and only sean stone always a pleasure sean. so i want to like first let me just quickly go over this and say look the bedroom government according to tru

shows signs of age and decay and are in need of regular and spectrum last year the american society of civil engineers gave us in france structure at a deep plus great the group estimates the u.s. government will need to spend two trillion dollars over the next ten years and order to keep american and some structure from falling apart the group says over the last ten years there has been a two trillion dollar gap and which roads and bridges and mass transit transit systems were neglected at from one point five trillion dollars plan would include congress re directing two hundred billion dollars of federal funds to amtrak and transit programs over the next ten years all calling for millions of dollars to come from cities states and the private sector but downside is that public private partnerships usually work in urban areas but require projects that generate money like toll roads and airports now only thirty five states allow that democratic congressman and ranking member on the house transportation committee peter de fazio believes trump and some structure plan will fall apart if there isn't any sub

but show signs of age and decay and are in need of regular and spectrum was here the american society of civil engineers gave us and from structure and a deep plus great the group estimates the u.s. government will need to spend two trillion dollars over the next ten years and in order to keep american and some structure from falling apart the group says over the last ten years there has been a two trillion dollar gap and which roads and bridges and mass transit transit systems were neglect at from one point five trillion dollars plan would include congress three directing two hundred billion dollars of federal funds to amtrak and transit programs over the next ten years while calling for millions of dollars to come from cities states and the private sector but downside is that public private partnerships usually work an urban areas but require projects that generate money like toll roads and airports now only thirty five states allow that democratic congressman and ranking member on the house transportation committee peter de fazio believe trump and some structure plan will fall apart if there isn't an

has long been a source of discontent for many americans despite being the world's richest country the us scored a mere d. plus in last year's american society of civil engineers report card brown rebel is a senior fellow in budget cuts and economics at the manhattan institute he says state of u.s. infrastructure is costing the economy trillions. we're a big country we have three hundred million people and we're out we have a large geography and so when you have that much land and that many people you not only need the classic infrastructure highways bridges airports electrical grid but you also need the new infrastructure of things like broadband and we are falling behind in these areas and so but at a certain point something's got to give because what happens is you end up reducing productivity and economic anomic growth there is a difference in approach is right now the republican approach is very very focused on leveraging the private sector in state and local governments democratic party is more focused on washington taking the lead on that and so you kind of see a philosophical approach right now we're seeing this a lot with airlines an air traffic contr

but here it is from the american society of civil engineers, aviation, we're ranked as a d. bridges, a c. dams, a d. inkingater, d. parks and recreation, d. ports of s -- ports, a c. rail we're doing ok. roads a d. we see that every day. school systems. and we want to talk about safe schools. lots of talk as a result of the tragic shooting in florida about making schools safe. well, schools really rank in the d category, whether they are safe or not. they're ranking is -- they're ranking as d's. transit is a d and declining. waste water is a d. we're familiar with places around the nation. oh, this bridge, about six years ago this was a bridge that connected the united states to canada. this was the interstate 5 bridge, a road, an interstate highway from vancouver, british columbia, toity hanna, mexico -- to tijuana, mexico. infrastructure. the bridge collapsed. on the water on the water side of life, most of us would be familiar that one year ago, the spillway at the highest dam in the united states, quite possibly in the world, spillway gave way during the heavy rains of th

some groups including the american society of civil engineers say the investment is too small, claimingtrillion is needed to fix america's crumbling infrastructure. >>> a new report says the trump administration is poised to cut off funding to the international space station. according to "the washington post," an internal document says the white house plans to stop direct federal support for the orbiting laboratory in 2025. the document says it's possible the iss would transition into a commercial venture run by a private industry. the u.s. won't have the only say in this, however. the space station is a cooperative program between the united states, europe, russia, canada, and japan. >>> president trump's daughter-in-law was taken to the hospital after she opened an envelope that contained white powder. new york city police say the substance was deemed to be nonhazardous. vanessa trump called 911 this morning after opening a letter addressed to her husband, donald trump jr. police say she was coughing and felt nauseous. the substance is now being analyzed at a lab. donald trump jr. tw

read the american society of civil engineers report. the united states gets. >> it's bad news. heidi, good to see you. >>> the rob porter controversy has pushed the normally behind the scenes white house communications director into the spotlight. hope hicks and port are reportedly have been deaating a she may be receiving dissatisfaction from her boss in the role she played in the controversy. vanity fair reports the crisis raising questions about hope hicks' decision making and whether her romantic relationship with porter clouded her judgment, according to a source. hicks did not get a sign off from the president for the white house's initial statement defending porter in which kelly was quoted calling porter a man of true integrity. "the washington post" has been reporting on hicks' role in the white house. he's joining us. i'm struck that she is the communications director and really you never hear from hope hicks. she's been a behind the scenes character. but having covered this white house, she is always right there at the presid

the american society of civil engineers gives america's infrastructure a poor grade. one out of every five miles of highway pavement is in bad condition. as chairman of the environment and public works committee, i'm committed to improving this situation by working with the president and with members of both parties. we need a fix, and we need to fix a lot of our aging infrastructure. to do that, we need a robust, fiscally responsible infrastructure plan that makes it easier to start and to finish these projects more quickly. now, i was chairman of the transportation committee in the wyoming state senate. i saw how we could make projects less costly and more efficient if we could just speed up and streamline the permit process and the approval process for the projects to get done. madam president, we have a project back home to rebuild a highway interchange in the northern part of sheridan county in sheridan, wyoming. it took 14 years to develop to get the approval and planning and permitting for this interchange that needed to be built for safety purposes. the actual

groups in washington the chamber of commerce, the business roundtable and american investment council all coming out in support of the plan the american society of civil engineersthat it was a solid first step the plan did get a sharp rebuke from senate democrats, chuck schumer saying the federal government should shoulder more of the final payment >> trump infrastructure plan relies on private parties or state and localities to put up the lion's share of the money. in turn, those entities would either have to charge local taxpayers new tolls or raise taxes and other fees to pay for the new infrastructure >> reporter: schumer has called for a $1 trillion total federal investment in infrastructure that, too, would be dead on arrival. democratic participation will be needed here. this will have to be a bipartisan effort. there will be 11 committees involved in this effort. much more complicated as a legislative haul than tax reform was. even so, cohn put out a note saying while this package is probably going nowhere on capitol hill, the piecemeal infrastructure efforts taken as a whole are incredibly important for the market writing in a note today saying, hoover

i'm a member of the american society of civil engineers, and in 2015 they did a study of the infrastructure0 bridges of which over 50% are 75 years or older -- stuart: well, is that -- why is that bad for business if the bridges are still functioning? i mean -- >> they're barely functioning. so here's what happens, your bridges start to go, your roadways start to go, they're in disrepair. all of what we do, all right, we build buildings. or i have products -- i have products and deliveries of materials each and every day. if i can't get my materials and can't get my workers to my job sites, my jobs start to go longer, and we don't get the job done when we need to get it done. stuart: does that actually happen? i mean, do you have projects that are delayed because you can't get your workers there on time and you can't get deliveries on time? is that actually happening? >> absolutely. we constantly deal with having to lay out our directions and roads that we're traveling to get deliveries. for example, one of the projects that we're doing we were getting products from poland. those were being

even if you were able to get that $200 billion, if you talk to the american society of civil engineersance, that will get us nowhere near the kind of money we need for the big capital investments to bring us up to par with countries in europe, with japan for example in terms of building the transformative projects like high speed rail like the gateway project in new york to accommodate for population growth. for instance, the states are skeptical as well. how are they going to come up with this money. it's putting burden on to the states for projects that historically have been mostly funded by the federal government. fact here, the interstate highway system when we built that back in the late 1950s, that was up to 80% and 90% funded by the federal governm t government. so the funding won't materialize out of nowhere. the president himself is pretty skeptical of it, republicans are in no mood to put extra money into a big program like this. >> and they're not going because, steve rattner, they basically understand they're out of money. they come up with a plan to keep the federal gover

if you look at the american civil engineers society, for 20 years they've been saying most of our infrastructure has a grade of d. they're failing and we've known this. we got to invest in the infrastructure. we haven't had a major investment in america since eisenhower or kennedy. we got to invest in america. we're living off investments that were made 50 years ago. the question is where the investment in america for the next 50 years and we've got to start with the infrastructure. there's ways to pay for this that we can that are outside of the box. we got three bills that we're introducing to help just that. we need to do that, that's jobs, economy and trade. if we don't do that, we'll fall further behind. >> i'm going to ask you to watch something for me. the house speaker has problems after the spending deal, watch. >> does he have problems? >> yes. >> is there time for a change? >> we'll have the debate at the appropriate time. >> we got sent up there for fiscal responsibility. this is not physically responsible. we sent a bill over to the senate hoping it would get better and it got worse