and then senator ron i don't knowson and congressman elliott engel join us on the choices for the obama administration. >>> with the u.s. creating more jobs than at any time in two years. >> these are all good middle class jobs. >> translating those numbers for main street with economists mark scannedie and steven moore and "new york times" reporter annie lowery. plus -- >> i was banning mr. sterling for life. >> race in america and renewed questions about benghazi. >> how many more taxpayer dollars are we going to spend trying to proof a political point? >> anna navarro, gren eiffel and dan in a brazile. this is "state of the union." good morning from washington. i'm candy crowley. ukraine remains on edge today with increased violence in the eastern part of the country. i'll get to ambassador geoffery pyatt in kiev shortly. first, two people who have recently been to ukraine, congressman elliott engel, ranking democrat on the house foreign affairs committee and senator ron johnson, heads the european affairs committee on the senate side. i want to start out what the president said, he

joining me now to discuss the democrats' options new york congressman elliott engel, the ranking democrat in the house foreign affairs committee who says democrats should sit on the benghazi committee. thank you for being here, sir. i want to start by sort of quoting nancy pelosi who called it a stunt. if it's a stunt, this select committee, why on earth would democrats be a part of it? >> well, let me say, first of all, it is a stunt. it's absolutely being done by the republicans to play to their base, to try to fundraise off it. you know, it's really interesting. we had an iraq war which was fed to us on a lie by the bush administration 4,000 americans were killed. the republicans not once asked for any kind of an investigation on that. on benghazi, i guess they want to beat the record of the affordable health care act where we have voted to repeal at 40 or 50 times. i think they want to just keep doing it again. many of us are concerned if we -- there's a good feeling that maybe we should, but my personal feeling is that if we boycott, we leave the stage just to the republicans. i thin

governor cuomo, thanks to your outstanding congressional delegation led by nina low i and including elliott engelick maloney and jerry mad letter, all of whom are here today. stand up, congressional delegation. we're proud of you. [ applause ] >> thanks to their outstanding efforts, workers are building a replacement. the first new bridge in new york in 50 years. it's called the new new york bridge, which is fine as a name. for your next bridge, should come up with something a little more fresh. [ laughter ] here's the thing. this never happens. you are building this bridge ahead of schedule. three years ago i took action on my own to fast track the permitting process for major projects like this one. normally it would have taken three to five years to permit this bridge. we did it in a year and a half. in a year and a half. [ applause ] that meant we were creating thousands of jobs faster while doing right by workers and tending to the environment. and vice presidents in cleveland today at another project we fast tracked, a rapid transit station that will make life easier for a lot of residents