fmr. prime minister lamothe: manufacturing, for example.are one of the top 5 t-shirt manufacturers. i do not know if you knew that. we have over 1000 construction sites around the country. over 70% is hiring local workers. in terms of tourism attraction, we see attractions with large investors coming in. the marriott will open its doors. stephanie: the marriott hotel is being funded by an irish billionaire who calls himself haiti's number one salesperson. denis o'brien: well, we are investing $45 million. we will probably lose money for the first six to nine months and then we will turn a profit. so, we will get a good return on investment here. no problem. stephanie: the marriott is in downtown port-au-prince, right next door to denis o'brien's company headquarters. digicel, haiti's major mobile carrier. digicel operates in 33 countries. but haiti is its largest market, accounting for roughly 1/3 of its 12.8 million customers. stephanie: when you got here in 2006, what made you think this would be a good place to invest? o'brien: well, we

fmr. prime minister lamothe: five years ago, we lived one of the worst moments in our history. the public administration was knocked down. we had over 200,000 people that passed away. it was an armageddon-like situation. stephanie: the haitian government was unprepared and unable to do much but ask for international help. lamothe: after the earthquake, it was mostly humanitarian emergency relief. it was a question of getting to the victims and providing them with water, shelter, blankets. once that was taken care of, now we have to go to the nationbuilding. ♪ stephanie: half a decade has passed. the rubble has been cleared. most of the aid agencies have gone home. haiti has a democratically-elected president. and the country has a new slogan. "haiti is open for business." lamothe: why do we say the country is open for business? because a lot of investors are looking around the caribbean to invest. stephanie: laurent lamothe was appointed prime minister in 2012. a former telecommunications ceo, lamothe set out to transform haiti's image. from a poor, aid-dependent country to a l

fmr. prime minister lamothe: five years ago, we lived one of the worst moments in our history. the public administration was knocked down. we had over 200,000 people that passed away. it was an armageddon-like situation. stephanie: the haitian government was unprepared and unable to do much but ask for international help. lamothe: after the earthquake, it was mostly humanitarian emergency relief. it was a question of getting to the victims and providing them with water, shelter, blankets. once that was taken care of, now we have to go to the nationbuilding. ♪ stephanie: half a decade has passed. the rubble has been cleared. most of the aid agencies have gone home. haiti has a democratically-elected president. and the country has a new slogan. "haiti is open for business." lamothe: why do we say the country is open for business? because a lot of investors are looking around the caribbean to invest. stephanie: laurent lamothe was appointed prime minister in 2012. a former telecommunications ceo, lamothe set out to transform haiti's image. from a poor, aid-dependent country to a l

fmr. sec. of state clinton:i join with lee and thanking you for joining us together on this. i think you, lee, as well as apne for motivated this conversation. i did represent new york for eight years. not only new york city, but rochester, albany, and a lot of other places that had very different challenges. they all fell under the category of how do we make sure our cities are good places for people to live and work. that has become even more important as we have watched how cities are driving economic prosperity. it used to be that jobs were moving out of cities into suburbs and rural areas. that trend is reversing. people want to live in cities. there are all kinds of reasons. there is research that i'm sure we will hear from ruse about millennial's money to live and work in the same place. cities have always been entered a prosperity. now, what we're seeing is unless we pay attention and come up with some very creative, and i would argue, affected solution -- effective solutions, we will not see our cities doing what they do best. it goes to leave point -- lees point. a