you don't have to go back to march 3 in detroit detroit michigan where the president-elect candidate trump said these words, we are going to get rid of it, epa, in almost every form. we will have tidbits left, but we will take a tremendous amount out. that's what he said during the republican primary. but these after the election, november 10, fox news, he said what they do is a disgrace. every day may come out with new regulations. who is going to protect the environment? he said will be fine with the environment. we will be fine with the environment. we are concerned we won't be fine with the environment. sometimes words do matter. one of the concerns i have is you would be his epa administrator, all the things that he sat in the campaign, do they just go away? here he's put somebody in place was actually defunded or that the defunding of the protection unit within your own agency and yet you joined in a dozen or more lawsuits over the past six years, ever since you've been attorney general in going after the epa. that's why they have the kind of concern you're witnessing here toda

and as far as i can tell, detroit and michigan to a degree has followed exactly the opposite path. according to one analysis, the detroit public schools -- by the way, it's not easy to figure this out because there's so little accountability in michigan. the detroit public schools average 9%, 9% of the kids are proficient. the charter schools do a little better at 14% of the kids are proficie proficient. i'll stipulate that the charter schools are doing better, but that's a horrible outcome for everybody involved. according to an education trust report 2013, the majority of charter schools in michigan perform worse than the detroit -- in michigan perform worse than the detroit public schools when it came to african-american students in eighth grade math. nearly half of charter schools in michigan ranked in the bottom quarter of all schools statewide. so my question is this -- not a false choice about whether we should have choice or shouldn't. we should have choice. but what you've learned of the last 20 years of this work in michigan that has changed your mind about what it is that kids need in america in the 21st cent

as far as i can tell detroit and michigan followed the opposite path. according to one analysis, the detroit public schools -- it's not easy to figure this out because there is so little accountability in michigan. 9% of the kids are proficient. the charter schools do better. 14% of the kids are proficient. i'll step up the charter schools are doing better. but that's horrible outcome for everybody involved. according to an education trust report the majority of charter schools in michigan performed worse than the detroit public schools when it came to 8th sphrim students math. nearly half ranked in the bottom square of tall schools statewide. we should have choice. but what you have learned in the last 20 years of this work in michigan that changed your find about what it is that kids need in america in the 21st century. too senator, thank you for that question. i look forward to correcting some of the record regarding detroit. i think it's important to put detroit in context. in 1950 there were 1.8 million people living in the city of detroit. today there is 765,000 roughly. anyone with an

michigan. we have been reporting that detroit went bust a couple of yea rs that detroit went bust a couple of yearsbuild. that's what trump is trying to do. but it could be the beginning of the end of nafta, which donald trump wants. because the things americans are losing jobs to mexicans, not to canada unnecessarily, but he doesn't wa nt canada unnecessarily, but he doesn't want either either way. what i would like to know, and if someone on the ground can do the reporting on behalf of my question, is how many of these jobs are automated? 700 jobs created, but he keeps saying he wa nts to jobs created, but he keeps saying he wants to bring jobs back to the us. a lot of those jobs haven't gone abroad, they are being done by robots. i just abroad, they are being done by robots. ijust don't abroad, they are being done by robots. i just don't think the costs are going to be nearly as cheap, even with all of the tax breaks. ultimately i think things will become more expensive. now, is russia on the verge of a shale revolution, as the times would imply a? but it is an interesting story. shale and russi

detroit with the vice president of communications. and one of the -- jerry lundy said if you're going to put this story in the "detroit free press" or "the detroit news," you've got to put it in the michiganonicle, which was the best newspaper at the time. so the vice president, nbd, yeah, national bank of detroit, said why? don't black people read "the detroit news" and the "detroit free press"? and jerry lundy said yeah, they do, of course they do, but when they see it is a michigan chronicle, they know it's for them. does that still apply today? >> yes, it does. it does. you know, it's one of the things, anyone who's inside will tell you there's always this natural intention to figure out how to show the president time. and such little time a lot of people don't realize that. and so the thing is when we do outreach to you guys, outreach directly, outreach to joe, outreach to the papers, outreach to the magazines, we are saying that this is a message we want to make sure african-americans get. that's why, i'm talking to you guys, valve is talking to you guys, someone within the administration is talking to you guys. broderick, or talking to you guys. because we know it's important to ma

he says he was stationed out in detroit, working at a bank in detroit, michigan. there was a small army base. chilton used to come in all the time to develop deposits. he says i know his handwriting. he looks at the handwriting, since i'm sure that's authentic. so mcclellan clutches this and says with this paper, if i don't beat bobby lee, it's time to go home. the battle of antietam follows. the invasion of the north is stopped. lincoln gets his sign and tells the cabinet, and to cabinet members write it down. i have received the sign i have been waiting for. and now he will free the slaves. the emancipation proclamation follows. there is not the possibility of believing that this is random chance. and this is the basic argument in the book. yes, you can say one thing or another saying this thing or that thing or these various stores or the fact that gold was discovered in california come in the same week that united states of america got title to california which we did only because there was a clerk in te state department named nicolas dressed who defied presid

as far as i can tell, detroit and michigan to a degree, has followed exactly the opposite path. according to one analysis, detroitd by the way it is not easy to figure this out because there so little accountability and michigan. the detroit public schools averaged nine percent. nine percent of the kids are proficient. the charter schools are little better at 14 percent. 14 percent of the kids were proficient. i will stipulate that the charter schools are doing better but that is a horrible outcome for everybody involved. and according into an education trust report in 2013 majority of charter schools in michigan performed worse than the detroit public Ãin michigan, performed worse than the detroit public school and it came to african-american students in eighth grade math. nearly half of charter schools in michigan ranked in the bottom quarter of all schools statewide. so my question is this, that a false choice about whether we should have choice or not. we should have choice. but we have learned that 20 years of this work in michigan, has changed your mind about what it is that kids need in america in the 21st

he says he was stationed out in detroit, he was working at a bank in detroit, michigan. there was a small army base. chilton used to come in all the time to fill out deposits help said, i know his hand writhing. he looks at the hand writing and says i'm sure that authentic. so mcclelland says with this paper if i don't beat bobby lee it's time to go home. them battle of anteed dumb follows. >>> the invasion of the north is stopped. lincoln gets his soon and tells the cabinet and two cabineten ts members write it down: i received the sign i've been waiting for and now he will free the slaves. aing for the emancipation proclamation follows. there is not the possibility of believing that this is random chance, and this is the basic argument in the book. yes, you can say one thing or another thing or this thing or that thing or these various stories or the fact that goal was discovered in california in the same week that the united states of america got title tohe california, which we did only because there was a clerk in the state department named niklas tryst who defied pr

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detroit. it's the soul of the auto industry, which president obama helped save during the great recession. here's what voters in motor city told van. ♪ >> detroit, michigan, with over 80% of its residents, african-american, it's the blackest big city in the country, and those voters usually come out big and strong for the democrats. in fact, they helped make michigan a blue state going all the way back to 1992 when hillary clinton's husband bill clinton first ran for president, but in 2016, that blue wall came crashing down, hillary lost the state by just 10,000 votes. if she had gotten anywhere near obama-like numbers, just in detroite would have won michigan. so, what happened? i begin my search for answers here at church. all four of these mothers lost their sons to violence. why didn't detroit, with all the pain and suffering here, with all obama did for the auto industry, why didn't detroit come out for hillary clinton? >> maybe because people thought it would just be a landslide. you know, especially after watching the debate. it's like, hillary, she, she won the debate, and it's like, well, why do it? you know, she's going to went anyway, so i think it was a little complacency. >> and i think trump accomplished her credibility enough to make you even question it. like, it questioned me. i wrote in a candidate. >> i think the party failed us, period. i think the democratic party failed us, because they were so sure that trump could not become the president, that they didn't do, they didn't put in the work. >> do you think that the clinton campaign saying over and over and over again he can't win, he can't win,

detroit. it's the soul of the auto industry, which president obama helped save during the great recession. here's what voters in motor city told van. ♪ >> detroit, michigan, with over 80% of its residents, african-american, it's the blackest big city in the country, and those voters usually come out big and strong for the democrats. in fact, they helped make michigan a blue state going all the way back to 1992 when hillary clinton's husband bill clinton first ran for president, but in 2016, that blue wall came crashing down, hillary lost the state by just 10,000 votes. if she had gotten anywhere near obama-like numbers, just in detroituld have won michigan. so, what happened? i begin my search for answers here at church. all four of these mothers lost their sons to violence. why didn't detroit, with all the pain and suffering here, with all obama did for the auto industry, why didn't detroit come out for hillary clinton? >> maybe because people thought it would just be a landslide. you know, especially after watching the debate. it's like, hillary, she, she won the debate, and it's like, well, why do it? you know, she's going to went anyway, so i think it was a little complacency. >> and i think trump accomplished her credibility enough to make you even question it. like, it questioned me. i wrote in a candidate. >> i think the party failed us, period. i think the democratic party failed us, because they were so sure that trump could not become the president, that they didn't do, they didn't put in the work. >> do you think that the clinton campaign saying over and over and over again he can't went,in can't win, do

as far as i can tell, detroit and michigan, to a degree, has followed the opposite path. according to one analysis, detroit public schools -- and by the way, it is not easy to figure this out because there is so little accountability in michigan -- detroit public schools averaged 9%, 9% of the kids are proficient. charter schools were a little better, 14% of the kids were proficient. i will stipulate that charter schools are doing better, but that is a horrible outcome for everybody involved. according to education trust for 2013, the majority of charter schools in michigan performed worse than the detroit public schools when it came to african american students in eighth grade math. nearly half of charter schools in michigan ranked in the bottom quarter of all schools statewide. my question is this, not a false choice about whether we should or should not have choice. we should have choice. but what you have learned in the last 20 years in your work in michigan that has changed your mind about what it is that kids need in america in the 21st century? ms. devos: thank you for that question. first of all, i

michigan is that 75% of the public schools do better than charter schools. and the charters in detroit are abyss mall, 84% of the kids in the charters in detroit do not meet standard standards. and the same is true in terms of english. and why -- and what has happened in michigan on the same test that you just talked about, they went from the middle of the pack in 2003 to the bottom, to 41 out of 50. that's not success. that's actually going backwards. and we need to actually build on what we all did in essa, the new federal law from last year, and have collective voice of parents and teachers. make sure that the neighborhood public school is a viable choice s a safe choice for all kids. and ultimately, that's what the secretary of education is for, strengthening and improving the public schools that 90% of kids go to. you want to have alternatives, that's fine to have parents pay for vouchers or do those kinds of things. but the public dollar has to be accountable and has to go for making sure schools are safe and welcoming for kids. >> randy wine gar ten president of the american federation of teachers. always nice to have you, thanks so much. >>> right now on c

detroit are in charters. some studies show they out perform public schools, michigan, overall, still ranks among the worst of the nation's schools on standardsized tests. in hospital of detroit charter school, 16-year-old sierra cooper mom says her grades improved. >> she's back getting as and bs. i think she does better in charter school versus a public school. >> reporter: she believes charter schools and their champions should be given a chance. many disagree. the nation's largest teachers union says one million opposition e-mails have been sent to senators. the trump administration called the acquisition is that she plaj rised. >>> nbc news is learning details about a covert operation gone back in yemen in which a member of seal team six and an 8-year-old girl, the daughter of a u.s. born al qaeda leader was killed. a lot of questions about what happened. our pentagon k correspond dent has more. >> reporter: an authorization from their new president but nbc news has learn fr ed from a senior milita military official that the pre-dawn ambush went wrong from the beginning. the operation, months in preparation but the squad from seal team 6 encountered arms fire. four were

detroit? david: they believe it really can revive detroit and all southeastern michigan. you just stutched on the two sides. on the one hand they want to turn this into a silicon valley in michigan because of the autonomous vehicles. on the other hand, you have the trump tweet about the chrysler fiat investment. you'll notice the big cars, the s.u.v.'s and trucks are being made here, the small ones in next cow. jon: more coming up from david and the auto show over in detroitboard. negative three on the s&p 5 hufpblet they open up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ jon: moments away from the opening bell. we closed on friday. smp 500, a slightly softer session for futures. rolling towards the session lows, negative three on the s&p 500. you can hear the opening bell rang in new york city. by over aown percentage point. curb splattered down five basis points on a 10 year. crude rolling over, 52.84. we did close at a record for the s&p and nasdaq. the nasdaq is poised to continue that run. we see the dow and s&p pullback to some extent. i want to start off by looking at the losers we are looking at. if we get $16 billion in deals announced today, not enough to boost stocks. what are some declines we are watching? a german company that trades in the united states under scrutiny by the u.s. it has gotten a subpoena on possible overcharges. an interesting call on coca-cola and procter & gamble. have beenle stocks under pressure since the election. goldman sachs is cutt

michigan. and in detroit we see that 80% of the schools, the charter schools in detroit, are failing.e day, we don't want to replicate that in the united states of america and we want to make sure that her record is clearly out there. we need a secretary of education who's going to lift up public education, who's going to help all kids succeed, not one who has a hostility to civil rights, as my colleague wade has just said about senator sessions, or someone who has an antipathy towards anything that is public, in terms of public education. you can't be about profit, you have to be about children and we have seen no evidence that she is about children in public education. >> very quickly i want to ask each of you. do you anticipate there being something on the order of civil disobedience to push democrats to be tough on these nominees? is there a particular nominee that civil rights groups for you, wade henderson, are focused on? >> i can't predict what the civil disobedience will be involved. but, yes, it is very clear that opposition to the sessions nomination is building. we have 12

michigan. and in detroit we see that 80% of the schools, the charter schools in detroit, are failing.end of the day, we don't want to replicate that in the united states of america and we want to make sure that her record is clearly out there. we need a secretary of education who's going to lift up public education, who's going to help all kids succeed, not one who has a hostility to civil rights, as my colleague wade has just said about senator sessions, or someone who has an antipathy towards anything that is public, in terms of public education. you can't be about profit, you have to be about children and we have seen no evidence that she is about children in public education. >> very quickly i want to ask each of you. do you anticipate there being something on the order of civil disobedience to push democrats to be tough on these nominees? is there a particular nominee that civil rights groups for you, wade henderson, are focused on? >> i can't predict what the civil disobedience will be involved. but, yes, it is very clear that opposition to the sessions nomination is building. w

michigan. and in detroit we see that 80% of the schools, the charter schools in detroit, are failing.end of the day, we don't want to replicate that in the united states of america and we want to make sure that her record is clearly out there. we need a secretary of education who's going to lift up public education, who's going to help all kids succeed, not one who has a hostility to civil rights, as my colleague wade has just said about senator sessions, or someone who has an antipathy towards anything that is public, in terms of public education. you can't be about profit, you have to be about children and we have seen no evidence that she is about children in public education. >> very quickly i want to ask each of you. do you anticipate there being something on the order of civil disobedience to push democrats to be tough on these nominees? is there a particular nominee that civil rights groups for you, wade henderson, are focused on? >> i can't predict what the civil disobedience will be involved. but, yes, it is very clear that opposition to the sessions nomination is building. w

michigan. you want to look at the detroit public schools, who do you think is in charge of the detroit public schoolsrs unions have more than their face they are saying and how those schools are run. as is true in urban schools all over the country. by the way, if you pull people in those urban schools and centers and ask them what they think of school choice of charter schools, which are public schools, by the way, you will find out a 75% are latino citizens, 75% of black citizens want more school choice. >> martha: that despite charter schools have these long wait schools -- long wait to get into them. what about what randi just said about betsy devos and the fact that she was not interested in saving good public schools? that was her contention. >> she has no problem with good public schools. she likes good public schools, as do i. the point is, the education of the public. we do have some public schools, which are not educating students, i remember when i was secretary of education, there was a school in baltimore, that called itself a school, not one child was reading at grade level. that is not

detroit's the city of champions. the whole world knows that detroit is the american city whose products have revolutionized our way of living. and only in michigan will you find the men and women whose talent made us the arsenal of democracy in wartime and the economic pacesetter in peacetime. ♪ ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha-la-la-la ♪ sha-la-la-la ♪ sha-la-la-la ♪ sha-la-la-la >>> it's where nearly everything american and great came from. the things the whole world wanted, made here. the heart, the soul, the beat of an industrial cultural super power. a magnet for everyone with a dream of a better future. from eastern europe to the deep south. american dream? you came here. >> the one straight ahead with the green roof? >> the rococo building, completely empty. >> unbelievable. >> the white one is being rehabbed. there's money coming in. the one on the right is completely empty. the great pyramid with the spire on top sold for $5 million. >> $5 million for that? you can't buy a garage in the hamptons for that. >> $5 million for a skyscraper. >> it is post-apocalyptic. i mean, it's like a science fiction film. what the hell happened here? >> well, it is post-apocalyptic. except for the fact there are several hundred thousand people living here. >>> 2 used to be 2 million people. that was rubber. that guy was steel. that guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for them. so there's little pockets of feral hippies, older black folks, a couple of white folks and arabs. but this is 14 square miles. you're going to get tall grass. it's back to the wild. >> it is one of the most beautiful cities in america. it speaks of those industrial-age dreams of an endlessly glorious future. the people who built these structures, they were thinking big. >> they were. >> they were looking at a new rome and they built it, actually. it's awesome here. ♪ ♪ >> maybe the worm started to turn here. the packard automotive plant. opened in 1903, it was considered the most advanced facility of its kind anywhere in the world. huge. epically proportioned. i mean 3.5 million square feet. now, one man lives here. al hill. >> my name's alan hill. welcome to my home. this room here is the forge room. it was a former packard motor car company. i started living here about seven years ago. at that time, semi-apprehensive about the place and the goings-on around here. turned out it's about peaceful as the north woods. not having a credit card or a mortgage payment or a car payment is a real blessing. there's still nails here. >> yep. >> what's happened here in detroit, it's a sign of the times. we find out that not only does it take a village to raise an individual, it takes an entire world to support one city. one city's suffering or one community's suffering, the entire world should pitch in and help elevate it instead of sit there and stare at it. people lost a lot of faith in a lot of things. probably had to do with the faith they had in detroit. it was once the industrial city of the entire world. >> it's enormous. >> yeah, it is. it's about a mile long. maybe a quarter mile wide. got a pretty good view from up here. >> yep. how many people worked here at its peak? >> well, during the war there was like 33,000 people working here. it went out of business in '56. they brought studebaker in as a partner and studebaker pulled them down. >> this has been abandoned since the '50s? >> well, actually, what happened, in 1956 they rented out to various entrepreneurs. shoe warehouse, trucking companies, guys restoring cars. >> how long has it been like

detroit and today there's less than 700,675,000 grassley. anyone with any means has basically left the city. when i asked about that you have been so involved with with michigan. >> you were referring specifically to the detroit schools and the reality today is eight out of ten students in detroit are living in poverty. nobody accepts that the results in detroit overall are acceptable. there is room for a lot more improvement. more than half -- >> i'm not going to get a second round of questions. what have you learned about the failures of the public schools in the detroit charter schools but has informed your decision-making as the secretary of education, what went wrong that's going to go right in the cities in america as a result of your philosophy how we ought to move the country forward? >> i believe there is a lot that has gone right detroit and michigan with regards to the charter schools and the notion that there hasn't been accountability is just wrong if it is false news. the reality is that charter schools in michigan have been accountable to the bodies and the state. >> why are there so many failing in michigan? >> 122 have been closed since they came into existence. the reality today is that the students attending charters close in detroit are getting three months

detroit's the city of champions. the whole world knows that detroit is the american city whose products have revolutionized our way of living. and only in michiganalent made us the arsenal of democracy in wartime and the economic pacesetter in peacetime. ♪

detroit and he worked in detroit city proper. those are the facts. >> whatever they did -- >> he would go to the public schools there. >> whatever he did come he took michigan't he? >> he didn't take black voters. he didn't win black voters and he didn't win latino voters. what donald trump needs to do if he wants to fix american enter cities, he needs to go and have a conversation of the people live here. >> what donald trump needs to do is -- >> martha: this isn't helping to start on this kind of phot with all of these people abandoning ship before he takes office. >> they understand that the guy has issues. >> because they don't care about our youth. they care about living off the backs of the people. if they did, they would get with our president-elect. >> they don't care about the youth? >> we gotta go. thank you, guys. to count on fox news for complete coverage of the inauguration of donald trump. we will cover it from 11:00 to 5:00 eastern. we will be live from washington that night. we look forward to it. in the meantime, i had, president-elect donald trump suggesting that john brennan may be trying to undercut his incoming administration. an inclus

detroit sit out the election? i went to michigan that hillary clinton only lost by a half of 1%. i asked four mothers about the situation. what they said surprised me. listen to this. >> detroit, michigan. with over 80% of residents african-american, it's the blackest big city in the country. hillary lost the state by just 10,000 votes. so what happened? i begin my search for answers here at church. all four of these mothers lost theirs to violence. why didn't detroitith all the pain and suffering here, with all obama did for the auto industry, why didn't detroit come out for hillary clinton? >> maybe because people thought it would just be a landslide. especially after watching the debate. it's like hillary, she won the debate and it's like why do it? she is going to win anyway. i think it was complacency. >> i think the party failed us, period. the democratic party failed us because they were so sure that trump could not become the they didn't put in the work. >> trump did come to detroit. many people stood up and said i care about black people after all. what have you got to lose? >> arrogance. >> ignorance. >> no compassion. >> it's true. the truth hurts. it's like a sword. what do we have to lose. we have been democrat for 40 years. has anything really changed? what do we have to lose? what we are born with is not working. it's obvious. it's not working. >> but you didn't vote for him? >> i was relating to his campaign. >> when he said what th

detroit and has a look at exactly what is at stake. scott? >> reporter: brian, it's easy to forget that michigan is very much an international state, detroit an international city. that's the ambassador bridge to canada behind me. 1.5 million trucks a year. it's also a state of immigrants, which helps explain the big protests last night in detroit california took in more seyrian refugees than michigan did last year. so people turned out big time at the airport last night. >> i'm here to tell mr. trump we need to come to a solution. you are the white house not the hate house. >> reporter: then there's trade. no state has more on the line as far as the north american free trade agreement than michigan does. that is with both canada and mexico, which is a key part of the modern day auto industry supply chain. donald trump won here by campaign i campaigning against nafta, pushing the idea that nafta costs jobs. one economists says the whole situation is a lot more complicated. >> what you need to do is change fundamentals so that american manufacturing companies are more productive so that it becomes profitable and even more profitable to produce in michigan than it does in other countries. >> this is still, though, a very competitive state. a far cry from year's past. michigan climbed to seventh in our annual top states for busine

michigan to schools. let me repeat that. most of which have recorded test scores in reading and math that are well below the state average. recently the "detroit free press" explained why families in detroit have the choice, few of these choices actually offer quality education. mr. per, i am concerned that betsy has used donations to legislators from investigating whether they are providing a comprehensive education that will prep them for the futurement i'm alarmed at the system allowing for-profit corporations to operate charter schools, realigned those resources for school children into the pockets of share holders. ince 1959, the devos has operated a.m.way and cheating working families and we cannot allow her to expand the same basic principles to effect our education system. investors.ealthy it's not a solution. it is a problem. and with that, my colleagues, i thank you for giving me the time. i i hope the america cap people are watching closely because it is a travesty. mrs. watson coleman: i thank you, my colleague. more important than any partisan we are at a juncture where we will experience a president-elect who has ignorance about the powers of government. and as identified th

great congresswoman of not only the state michigan but more specifically from the great state of detroit, where she has been a strong voice for the people of detroit, a strong voice for even the surrounding areas, your work on flint, michigan, and its water crisis and other areas. people who are in the inner city that need support in so many areas, thank you so much for that and i yield time to you to speak on those issues that are the topic for today. mrs. lawrence: i want to thank the congresswoman, my colleague, and thank you for your leadership. mr. speaker, the congressional black caucus, the conscience of the congress, stands strong to promote unity and fight against the divisive rhetoric. trump's inaugural speech included a lot of pledges and promises. pledges, and i quote, allegiance to all americans. promises to the american people saying, and i quote, i will never let you down. even quoted -- he even quoted the bible. how good and pleasant it is when god's people live together in unity. but pledges and promises fall at when tweets, speeches and now actions are followed by reckless executive orders, thoughtless nominations for our nation'