senators are joining me now, senator amy klobuchar of minnesota and susan collins of maine. let me go to senator klobuchar, tell us what we know about it, what the limits are, what we can do, and perhaps what the real potential is to get these girls saved. senator klobuchar? >> chris, we know the 276 girls taken by gunpoint, kidnapped by boko haram, which literally means "western education is sinful." what we know is some of the girls have escaped, so we have some information, but most of them are still in captivity. the leader of boko haram has said, in fact, he is selling these girls into sex slavery, some for $12 a person. we do not know if that's true, and so what we have asked for, senator collins, the women of the senate, have come together and said, first of all, the u.n. has to declare boko haram as a terrorist organization. our government already has, and then we need to bring together international resources, which we are sending over now today we've learned france, great britain is, counterterrorism, we have to send over counterintelligence, we have to get people i

antitrust.we look at amy klobuchar is the chair of the antitrust subcommittee. she is a former prosecutor, very good, very knowledgeable lawyer. butnot an attorney, lawyer, this experience in this business has helped me. to the fcc's new rules, they are not set in stone. we have a common period for four months. how important will it be for citizens to speak of in these coming days? >> very important. chairman wheeler reacted to the pushback from the leak of his .olemic very proposal i think it is very important that we use skeptics and ruling,s of this express themselves, use this comment period, it is very important. u.s. was the one that developed the internet, it scores ofbelow countries for internet speed and access. the world economic forum ranked u.s. 35th out of 140 countries in internet and with. other studies rank it from 14th to 31st in average connection speed. why are we so slow in the u.s.? is we did not categorize it as telecommunications. that would've helped. minnesota, we have a lot of rural areas that .re underserved actually, in the last budge

and when amy klobuchar saw that they wanted to take pizza out of school calf tier az, the company thates 70% of the nation's pizza for schools is located in her state. she wanted to protect those jobs, understandably, and yet, you know, i think there's always this dichotomy between you want to feed our kids well, but these schools get big paybacks from fast food restaurants and you know, 50% of the schools' cafeteria in this country actually serve fast food to their students. one of our experts dr. brin nel i thought said it so well. he said schools have turned into 7-elevens with books. >> that's a great line. michelle obama starts the let's move campaign and starts growing carrots in the white house garden. so big food had an interesting choice. they could push back or sort of -- >> they cooperated with her in the process. she's trying to do the right thing and speaking out and declaring this an issue and motivating americans to pay attention. and a lot of things that have been part improving nutrition in schools all great. she got caught by the food industry saying let's partner wit

now amy klobuchar joins me now. thank you so much for taking the time. >> thank you. >> are you satisfied with the president's response? he is doing the interviews on climate change. he was asked in each of them about the situation, and he says he is paying attention to it. he talked about his own daughters. he says he is doing something. are you satisfied? >> well, i think it's a start. but i really believe the whole world has to come together on this. we've had no u.n. resolution. i've asked with senator kirk have asked the u.n. -- the president to request such a resolution. and certainly the letter the 20 of us put together where we asked that the u.n. designate boko haram as a terrorist organization is key. we've already done that in our country. but this is an organization in very name, and i'm sure you know this, erin, but it means western education is sinful. that is the name of this group. and they have not just done this in one incident. they have shut down 200 schools in nigeria. they have hacked young boy

klobuchar said as a staffer here on the hill. and as she said, he died last week in his sleep. i think amyold me -- senator klobuchar told me that the family said that he wasn't 99%, he was 100%. so this came as a shock to all of us who knew jim, and obviously deeply saddened us all. i announced for the u.s. senate in february of 2007. a few days later, i had my first public event where i took questions from folks, and this is at a coffee shop in st. james, minnesota, in the southwest corner of our state in the first district. the first question i got was from a woman asking if i believe there should be term limits, and from the way she asked it, i knew she thought there should be term limits. i thought great, my very first question and i don't agree with the person who is asking it. so i said no, i don't believe in term limits, and let me tell you why. jim oberstar. jim has been a congressman from the eighth district for 33 years now, and he is chairman of the house transportation committee, and he knows more about transportation than anybody else in the country. and everybody in the coff

david cohen, you stated following your response to a question, my counterpart in the senate, amy klobuchar we have independent networks because we're focus on the consumer. if you have compelling content and can make the case that our consumer wants to watch the content we will carry it. first, i would ask you if you stand by that statement. secondly, i would caution you, what may be a consumer in philadelphia, what may be a consumer in alabama, an agricultural county in colorado, is a totally different consumer. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i do stand by that statement and i completely acknowledge the second part of what you are saying, we try to assess what customers want in individual local markets so whereas we do centralize negotiation of content deals out of our headquarters in philadelphia there is enormous input from local systems as to what channels and what programming their customers might want to see. to put flesh on the bones of this we think we are if not the most, one of the most independent programmer friendly distributors in the industry. we kerri 160 independent programmin

it was difficult to come up with the tuition room and board for amy klobuchar young 18-year-old student then. but they were able to do it. i look back at my wife who graduated from college 30-plus years ago the daughter of a maintenance worker at a power plant, union member, 35 years in the union. she is the oldest of four. her parents absolutely had a commitment to send her to college but couldn't really afford it. her mother took a job as a home care worker after connie was -- as connie was approaching college age. she is the oldest. she went tpo a -- she went to a state university, kent state university, one of the finest state universities in our state. she graduated in 1979 with only about $1,200 in student lone debt. she worked part of that time but schools were so much less then. at state universities and colleges now it is so far out of reach for so many families. and the students' approach that day and have these discussions with their parents it's important to try to think through how these students who don't necessarily have a lot of sophistication yet in finances, how they l

. >> senator amy klobuchar, thank you for taking the lead on this and coming on "new day." >> of courseght, more bloody battles between ukrainian troops and pro-russian rebels. five rebels were killed overnight. now nato is getting involved even though ukraine is not a member. this after russia's foreign minister end kaindicated moscow challenge the upcoming elections. nick paton walsh is joining us from ukraine with the latest. what do you make of this, nick? >> well, chris, i'm talking to you from inside slaviansk, the hotbed of the unrest here where pro-russian militants have been defending the barricades about the military who have been trying to move in. we've hearing from their spokesperson shooting on the outskirts of town about an hour ago now. in the center of this city which has been galvanized by the moves of the ukrainian forces against the civilians caught in that cross fire. today, somber scenes of funerals here. ten killed in fighting in past 48 hours. a number of civilians as well. people are angry. a lot of anti-american sentiment, too, we hear amongst that crowd. there

she's now taking questions from the vice chair, senator, amy klobuchar.rce. it's unusually high relative to the unemployment rate. we've really never seen a situation where long-term unemployment is so large, so large a fraction of total unemployment, around 35%. that's very unusual. other things are happening that we really in evaluating how much slack is there in the labor market. labor force participation rate has fallen a lot. now, there's some structural reasons for that, demographics, baby boomers are aging and getting into the years when they retire and their labor force participation naturally declines. so the decline we've seen, it's not entirely because of a weak economy, but i think some of it is because of a weak economy, and in a sense it's hard to give you a precise number for how much of that decline is cyclical. but to the extent there is a cyclical decline, that's more slack, and that's what we're looking at in trying to judge. we're also looking at wage developments and the level of payroll employment creation. >> okay, let me follow up

klobuchar said as a staffer here on the hill. and as she said, he died last week in his sleep. i think amy told me -- senator klobuchar told me that the family said that he wasn't 99%, he was 100%. so this came as a shock to all of us who knew jim, and obviously deeply saddened us all. i announced for the u.s. senate in february of 2007. a few days later, i had my first public event where i took questions from folks, and this is at a coffee shop in st. james, minnesota, in the southwest corner of our state in the first district. the first question i got was from a woman asking if i believe there should be term limits, and from the way she asked it, i knew she thought there should be term limits. i thought great, my very first question and i don't agree with the person who is asking it. so i said no, i don't believe in term limits, and let me tell you why. jim oberstar. jim has been a congressman from the eighth district for 33 years now, and he is chairman of the house transportation committee, and he knows more about transportation than anybody else in the country. and everybody in the co