hand, want to raise her mayor cornett, m, introduce yourself here >> madam secretary , i am mike cornett. you mentioned some advancement in childhood obesity rates. could you expand on that? >> i think last year we saw for the first time in about 15 or a teen communities in actual reduction in childhood obesity in some of the major urban areas in the country that have been tracked for well over two decades. i think that is the first dent in what had been just an increasing trajectory. having said that, we have a lot of work to do. i think the combination of changing the school administration rules, changing che rules around what wi program supplies, services for nursing mothers has helped. mayor, your city is the perfect example, the effort you have going on in that city in terms of health and wellness, i think mayors have really led the way engaged this a community- , involved effort. it makes a huge difference. i think it is pretty dramatic after a couple of years we are finally seeing some real progress. my hope is that we can take the practices that seem to be working and really acce

and mick cornett from oklahoma city. let me start with you, mayor cornett. what did you make of the president's state of the union? >> well, he's told a lot of people what they were looking to hear. i still think this president doesn't continued the huge deficit that this nation is facing. when he took office, the nation had a $10 trillion deficit. it's now 17. and today he said that he had cut the deficit in half. and that seems like some sort of crazy maghtd to me. he introduced a lot of new programs tonight that got a lot of applause but i don't see how that will reduce the debt. his policies have been in place now for five years, and for the most part they're not worsening. inequality is a big problem in this country and as he said tonight, inequality has only deepened. i did like his approach to infrastructure. we do need to spend money on infrastructure in this country. i think that's an investment the president and i can get together on that. >> ifill: mayor strickland, i wonder what your first response was, not only what the president had to say but