[applause] >> governor hickenlooper, this is your chance. you have here a room full of silicon valley executives. what do you say to them to get them to expand or move to colorado? >> can governor brown leave the room for a minute? >> i am a great believer that luring companies from one state to the other does not help the country. i think it is a race to the bottom. as the governor would say. it is useful for us to be as relentlessly pro-business as we can. we're very focused on education and we want to be the no. 1 state for solving this riddle that this country has become from being the no. 1 public education nation to one in the bottom half. we know the things -- at risk kids are coming from difficult neighborhoods and often broken families, they need a longer school day. that is nothing new there. there's another way to do that without spending a bunch of money. you can get your teachers union to agree to stagger the school day. some teachers come in early and you have study hall, some come in later and you have sports after school. the

next up is governor hickel lipper -- hickenlooper. he is the serieaal a entreprener each of you have in your respective parts. he became very successful in the brew pub business. he never had a single election not even for stink -- a student council. governor? [applause] in keeping with the discussion, he is keen on innovation and things of that nature. i know that will come out. thank you, governor. >> are we all set? i am from the "mercury news," and we're here because we live in a global cloueconomy. it has altered local economies because so many manufacturing and technology jobs are moving, whether it is a matter of costs for going where the trained work force is. we're fortunate to have to governors here to talk about how that change affects their jobs and what they're doing to jump- start their economies which compete with one another. this could be fun. let me start with our guest. governor hickenlooper. i knew that was going to happen. most of us here are pretty much aware of california's budget crisis. can you give us a quick

several mayors whether its bloomberg or john hickenlooper in denver or any other mayor.d up working with a thousand mayors and county executives around the country. >> gavin: what distinguished your tenure and distinguished the efforts during those years is we decided to get more--and i know people immediately recoiled being business-like. in this respect data driven, not anecdotal. we look at homelessness to expand humanitarianism you brought a pragmatic approach. >> we looked at homelessness through a social service lens. of course you wonder how can we services them. we rolled up our sleeves and we serviced homeless people the best we could. we shifted that lens. we shifted from a social service lens to a business lens. when you look through the business lens you say how can i solve that problem. just bringing together basic principles, you need to have a baseline to understand the magnitude of the problem. benchmarks that remedy what the baselines reveal. best practices you want to know what the best practices are. why should something that is working in philadelphia

what does the hickenloopers field do? it makes the universe messier. it breaks the symmetry between tho particles and makes the universe merrier placeses than it otherwise would be. this goes with my theory that the universe is infinitely a mediocre mess. science is very good at explaining how a universe like ourselves arose from almost nothing. i mean, you can-- i talked to one guy, a brilliant physicist named andrei linda, and he said it's very possible our universe was made by a hacker physicist in another universe. you just need one-thousandth of a graham of matter -- >> rose: which came from something else? >> the reason our universe is so crummy and mediocre is because it was made by an incompetent physicist hacker in another universe. the interesting thing about that scenario, if our universe were made by an intelligent being in another world the being would not be able to send a message says, "remember, i made you." as our universe blow -- >> rose: one of the things you cois describe how these people live and work. you have a really interesting

. >> people are talking about hickenlooper as a possible democratic presidential candidate in 2016.g to see how this affects that. >> that is a very interesting way of dealing with it in such a public way, right? at such a private moment. >>> the university of california davis police lieutenant who pepper sprayed campus protesters, remember that, last fall, is no longer employed by the school. this comes to us from the san francisco chronicle. lieutenant john pike was vilified last year after being caught on tape as you're seeing there dousing demonstrators with pepper stray. the students were protesting at the time rising tuition. the school will only confirm that pike's employment there ended yesterday. they will not say if he was fired. since last november's incident, pike has received more than 17,000 angry or threatening e-mails. 10,000 text messages. no, it is not good. and hundreds of letters. police also say he's been forced to live in various locations for his own safety. i found this interesting. this is according to a data base of state worker salaries. he earned $110,243

the state governor there, john hickenlooper, the former mayor of denver who had a business career beforet, he is a democrat. well, that is a state that mitt romney is visiting today. mike emanuel is live in basalt, colorado. it's a town i know a little bit about, it's a great spot for fishing and, well, i guess the governor's going to be fishing for votes there, huh, mike? >> reporter: we expect governor mitt romney to try to return to offense as he returns to the campaign trail hitting the economy. his campaign is emphasizing what governor romney would try to do to help middle class americans, things like improving education, energy independence, job training, increasing trade and helping small businesses. romney and his surrogates will hold some 24 events across 13 states emphasizing what he would do to help the middle class. the governor will do an event in golden, colorado, about an hour from now. a key county in colorado, jefferson county, and so the way that county goes may determine who wins this battleground state. then he'll be here in basalt holding a rally in the high school g