donna christensen, who represents the united states virgin islands. give her a round of applause, please. [applause] >> thank you, joanne. good evening, everyone. i bring greetings on behalf of our chair, emmanuel cleaver and, who could not be here this evening. we have called this the jobs initiative for the people. we thank everyone of you that came out today. not only do we thank you from the cbc, but we thank you from all of the people across this country because today, you have sent a powerful message to washington, to wall street, and to corporations across this country. far more effectively than we ever could come on a matter how hard we try. if we stay on the floor of the house every day, all day. and you have sent it on behalf of not only yourselves here in atlanta, but on behalf of all those across this country who are unemployed and are hurting and want and need decent jobs. yourself a round of applause. [applause] 90% and higher and african american chronic unemployment have always been cnbc's highest priorities. we have introduced over 40

the speakers at this event include jon lewis and donna christensen. from the atlantic technical college, this is one hour, 50 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> this is an exciting day for us. i want to thank the congressional black college for sharing this event with atlanta attack college. i am pleased they decided to bring this type of event to an atlanta particularly in light of the unemployment with the numbers that came out just today about unemployment. all was not lost and all is not demand gloom because we have a lot of employers here today waiting to hire people and we have atlanta technical college. it is my pleasure to introduce the moderators for this evening, joann r. reed and jeff johnson. she is a columnist for "the miami herald" newspaper. he is chief correspondent for creole.com. join me in welcoming them. [applause] >> thank you so much and good evening. [applause] one more time, good evening. >> [audience repeat] good evening. >> we want to ma

donna christensen, who represents the united states virgin islands. give her a round of applause, please. [applause] >> thank you, joanne. good evening, everyone. i bring greetings on behalf of our chair, emmanuel cleaver and, who could not be here this evening. we have called this the jobs initiative for the people. we thank everyone of you that came out today. not only do we thank you from the cbc, but we thank you from all of the people across this country because today, you have sent a powerful message to washington, to wall street, and to corporations across this country. far more effectively than we ever could come on a matter how hard we try. if we stay on the floor of the house every day, all day. and you have sent it on behalf of not only yourselves here in atlanta, but on behalf of all those across this country who are unemployed and are hurting and want and need decent jobs. yourself a round of applause. [applause] 90% and higher and african american chronic unemployment have always been cnbc's highest priorities. we have introduced over 40

donna christensen, who represents the united states virgin islands. give her a round of applause, please. [applause] >> thank you, joanne. good evening, everyone. i bring greetings on behalf of our chair, emmanuel cleaver and, who could not be here this evening. we have called this the jobs initiative for the people. we thank everyone of you that came out today. not only do we thank you from the cbc, but we thank you from all of the people across this country because today, you have sent a powerful message to washington, to wall street, and to corporations across this country. far more effectively than we ever could come on a matter how hard we try. if we stay on the floor of the house every day, all day. and you have sent it on behalf of not only yourselves here in atlanta, but on behalf of all those across this country who are unemployed and are hurting and want and need decent jobs. yourself a round of applause. [applause] 90% and higher and african american chronic unemployment have always been cnbc's highest priorities. we have introduced over 40

donna christensen, who represents the united states virgin islands.r a round of applause, please. [applause] >> thank you, joanne. good evening, everyone. i bring greetings on behalf of our chair, emmanuel cleaver and, who could not be here this evening. we have called this the jobs initiative for the people. we thank everyone of you that came out today. not only do we thank you from the cbc, but we thank you from all of the people across this country because today, you have sent a powerful message to washington, to wall street, and to corporations across this country. far more effectively than we ever could come on a matter how hard we try. if we stay on the floor of the house every day, all day. and you have sent it on behalf of not only yourselves here in atlanta, but on behalf of all those across this country who are unemployed and are hurting and want and need decent jobs. yourself a round of applause. [applause] 90% and higher and african american chronic unemployment have always been cnbc's highest priorities. we have introduced over 40 pieces

representative john lewis, hank johnson, maxine waters, al green, donna christensen, and others. at the atlanta technical college. go to c-span.org to find out when we are going to be airing those and when you can watch them. back to your phone calls after the ames straw poll on saturday. rick perry leads the pack. the gop. what do you make of the first pole? caller: it looks like it will be an interesting c conversation. michele bachmann, the front runner. tim pawlenty, a close second. it is what you will make of the entire outcome, that is still a tossup for anyone. host: granger, indiana, what do you think, bob? caller: i think michele bachmann and rick perry would be good. i kind of resent the way you are using politico so much now. it is a radical left organization along the lines of msnbc. you're starting to feel like msnbc on c-span. host: we use a lot of publications that cover congress and the white house, not just politico. vice-president joe biden is visiting china, trying to seek a window on the vice presidency in that country. as president, -- vice-president joe bide