joining us now is heidi heitkamp, former u.s. senator from north dakota and a cnbc contributor.ly with us except by the phone but we're glad to have you nonetheless. you make some interesting points in your article about how being financially literate is not just important on its face so that you can manage your own budget more prudently and better but that it really does ripple up through the economy in ways we really don't usually think of it explain what you were talking about. >> i mean actually in two ways first off, we're all voters. we have to decide who's got the best economic plan, the plan that most agrees with my principles and my economic values if you don't understand your own personal budget, it's hard to understand how you can balance the federal budget, how you can be concerned about that deficit and why you should be a voter that's concerned about that deficit. that's one side of the coin. the other side of the coin is the more ffinancially literate and financially independent americans can be, the less we have to rely on government people won't make bad choices

former house speaker paul ryan and former senator heidi heitkamp joined the discussion on the state of american democracy hosted by purdue university. >>>> good evening, and welcome to the latest in what someone else is labeled purdue university's presidential lecture series. over the last few years, our series has welcomed great scientists, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders, renowned journalist, and a number of esteemed public officials past and present, but rarely deaths more significant than those joining us tonight for a topic more timely and crucial to our national future. tonight special for a second reason. i have a cosponsor for this program, a unique, two-year-old organization named the palooka discourse club. among the more than 1000 student organizations at purdue, this one stands out for its mission of bringing together people of disparate viewpoints to discuss and debate the conflicting ideas . our profound thanks for proposing and helping conceive and arrange tonight's program. we are joined tonight by two of america's most admired and consequential public officia

. >> former house speaker paul ryan and former senator heidi heitkamp join a discussion on the state of american democracy hosted by purdue university. >> good evening and welcome to the latest in purdue university is a presidential lecture series. we have welcomed scientists and other business leaders, renowned journalists and a number of esteemed public officials, but rarely have we hosted guests more significant than those joining us for -- tonight for a topic timely to our future. i have a cosponsor for this program, a unique two-year-old organization called the political discourse club. among the thousands of student organizations at purdue, this one stands out for collecting people to discuss their ideas in an atmosphere of mutual stability. my thanks to the political discourse club for proposing and helping to conceive tonight's program. we are joined tonight by two of america's most admired and consequential public officials, paul ryan and heidi heitkamp, who served north dakota in multiple capacities, culminating in a role as a u.s. senator. these two were known for performi

let's talk about it in our round table with chris christie, former republican of new jersey, heidi heitkamp, republican strategist sara fagen, and our former director of the black caucus, angela rye. he'll be giving that speech, and our new poll out this morning that shows where he stands coming into the 100-day mark. 52% approval. about ten points better than president trump, but below every other former president in the modern era basically. what does that tell you? >> it's reflective of two things. i think first it's just a very, very divided country. it has been for a long time. >> presidents have ceilings now, don't they? >> i don't know if they do, but i think they do when they act in concert with the divided times and president biden's problem is he spoke and we listened to him on inauguration day about bringing people together and he has governed as a far left president. erli propo's put habeo peasthe faleft of his 'seallbeco artof f >> what he said on covid is broadly popular though given that approval. >> given the fact he has shown compassion regarding covid which president trump

his infrastructure plan and tax increase to pay for it a lot more on that and quite a debate heidi heitkampe with us. >>> look at airline stocks delta airlines and united and southwest all up this morning. alaska air slightly down we're back after this. >> announcer: executive edge is sponsored by at&t business our people and network will help keep you connected let's take care of business. oh, we can help with that. okay, imagine this... your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we cut to downtown, your sales rep lisa has to send some files, asap! so basically i can pick the right plan for each employee... yeah i should've just led with that... with at&t business... you can pick the best plan for each employee and only pay for the features they need. >>> welcome back to "squawk box. president biden will address congress this week to try to convince lawmakers to raise taxes on the rich to pay for infrastructure and education joining us to talk about the president's tax plan is former senator heidi heitkamp also with us is former senator judd gregg the former

former house speaker paul ryan and former senator heidi heitkamp joined the discussion on the state of american democracy hosted by purdue university. >>>> good evening, and welcome to the latest in what someone else is labeled purdue university's presidential lecture series. over the last few years, our series has welcomed great scientists, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders, renowned journalist, and a number of esteemed public officials past and present, but rarely deaths more significant than those joining us tonight for a topic more timely and crucial to our national future. tonight special for a second reason. i have a cosponsor for this program, a unique, two-year-old organization named the palooka discourse club. among the more

i want to start, yamiche, where former democratic senator heidi heitkamp did a pretty good job on npr to the size of this package. she said you get a bridge, you get a bridge and you get a hospital. it's the oprah of infrastructure. this is a very, very big bill. there hasn't been anything like it in our lifetime. >> that's right. the biden administration is really banking on the idea that this big, bold plan that is not just about roads and bridges, but also about the way american society has functioned and the societal ills that have been allowed to happen, that this bill really focusing on americ people and allow them to continue to use what is their redefined idea of bipartisanship which is, as pete buttigieg just told you, the american people supporting that the republicans in washington may not. when we think about this bill, think about the money. some $400 billion for in-home health care. that's about women of color who are working in people's homes. it's about also helping societies and communities torn apart by highways, african-american communities. they're betting on the i

senator heidi heitkamp. founder of the one company founder. re. heidi, what is your estimate of the chance of this bill in this amount to actually pass and become law >> i think it is going to be very difficult for the president to deliver exactly what he has in this proposal the good thing about this president is he used to be a senator. he understands that's not everything that -- when you propose something as president, you should expect it will change there's a lot of opinions on that finance committee in the senate on how we should tax international income you will see a lot of those finding their way into this bill remember this, the progressive community is really disappointed they would have liked something twice as big he is getting pressure from both sides. >> senator greg, you're okay double that amount is what the progressive side wants i take it you have trouble with both sides the amount of spending and how it is paid for why don't you take those one by one? >> the infrastructure part of the bill, legitimate infrastructure spendin

. >> former house speaker paul ryan and former senator heidi heitkamp join a discussion on the state democracy hosted by purdue university. >> good evening and welcome to the latest in purdue university is a presidential lecture series. we have welcomed scientists and other business leaders, renowned journalists and a number of esteemed public officials, but rarely have we hosted guests more significant than those joining us for -- tonight for a topic timely to our future. i have a cosponsor for this program, a