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joining me now is congresswoman jan schakowsky, democrat of illinois, and "washington post's" jonathon capehart. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you, reverend al. >> congresswoman, i ask benghazi, do they care more about creating scandals than creating jobs? >> i think what it really shows is that now democrats are really on offense and the republicans have nowhere really to go, because as you say, they are simply unable and unwilling to deal with the real issues that the american people care about. so they are concocting these kinds of scandals, and reverend al, i am the ranking democrat on the oversight committee of the intelligence committee, and i can tell you, there is no there there when it comes to the so-called benghazi scandal, it's just made up, so now they've taken to turning off microphones, to silencing people who want to make a point of order, embarrassing is the word, but it's also really dangerous. when they start saying someone who invokes the fifth amendment, like lois lerner did is now in contempt of congress, these are constitutional rights they are

quarterback cain coulter and a former ucla player met earlier today with congressman george miller, jan schakowskye calling it off es fence sieve move against the -- offensive move against the ncaa. national labor relations board ruled last week that the football players are employees and can found a union. they worry the ncaa will lobby congress to prohibit college athletes to organize. the college players union commissioned a study with drexel university's sports management department which found college football players lose 715,000 bucks over their four-year careers and college basketball players lose $1.5 million because they can't make money off of their college game. northwestern university has one week left to appeal the nlrb ruling but colter and huma are not waiting. congressman miller is the lead democrat on house labor education committee. schakowsky whose district includes northwestern is on their side. she issued a statement that football players have the right to organize at northwestern, and she hopes that will happen across the country. the nlrb ruling only applies to private univ

chairman jan schakowsky i don't think was quite as enthused, but i'm hoping that tom wheeler will take this up and push it through intel folks he could real -- and tell folks he could do his best with this. >> one of the things that make say commission valuable and why , the fcc, itsin primary role is to take the legislation that has been passed and make sense of it. oftentimes, i'm sure there are a lot of people here in the audience who would agree with ,e, they have conflicting convoluted provisions to it. the role of the fcc is to make sense out of very difficult issues, to have the expertise to put it on the table. so, it really would be ere ofl if commissioners w the mindset to really work together to come up with solutions. sometimes it's compromise, sometimes it's digging deeper, but really working together to form a solution and not be a junior congress. sometimes it really develops, devolves into a republican and democrat situation, and i think that does not serve the american public very well. certainly when we were on the commission and together, it was a very collaborative

my time is over so i will recognize the is the ranking member, jan schakowsky from illinois. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is a very important hearing on improving sports safety. i look forward to hearing from all of our witnesses on both panels about their perspectives, experiences proposals how to make sports safer for everyone from children to professional athletes. athletes are continually becoming bigger and faster and stronger and despite some efforts to make sports safer much work remains. 100,000 sports-related traumatic brain injuries occur annually in the united states. sports are the second leading cause of traumatic brain injury among people age 15 to 24 years old, second only to motor vehicle accidents. this is a crisis and one, this subcommittee should do everything in its power to address. we're going to hear today from anne heaton a high school senior to suffered a severe head injury during a lacrosse game in his sophomore year. despite his impressive recovery, that hit later identified as his third head injury, left him with a limited ability to enjoy the types of

why doesn't the federal government have a program like the one that congresswoman jan schakowsky proposed you'd have a corps of people hired in different cities around the country to address those problems? people could be put to work. we have, you know, among these millions of people are people with health care skills who could be put to work providing services to communities that don't have any services now. there is plenty of work to do. and we have plenty of skilled people to do it among the unemployed. we just need to find a way to get them back into the economy. host: one chart from "the new york times" showing the long-term unemployment situation. this chart noting short-term unemployment is below prerecession levels that would be on this chart here but medium and especially long-term unemployment are higher for those unemployed 27 weeks are over -- it's up 191% from prerecession levels. that's that final chart on the right there. time for a few more calls. let's go to jesse waiting in darlington, south carolina, on the line for republicans. jesse, good morning. caller: good mornin

progressive caucus and the progressive caucus came out with a budget every year you do last year we had jan schakowskyand you're talking about and i think maybe you you were on it as well. it's a i think it's a fairly brilliant piece that balances the budget within a reasonable period of time it's well you know one of the one of the numbers that jumped out at me was eight point eight million jobs by two thousand and seventeen how do you do that's i think a real key difference and you know we did this last night on the floor we went through some of the key differences we invest in infrastructure we invest in our schools we invest in the roads and bridges in our energy resources by doing that you create jobs and get people back to work and that stimulates the economy so we have an estimate that it's eight point eight million jobs are created by our budget and you contrast that to the paul ryan budget according to the economic policy institute his budget would cost three million jobs we would lose three million jobs in my state and paul ryan state of wisconsin that's like firing every single person who w

i mean we've had you know a couple of its authors here on the show they have mark hold him on jan schakowsky on the by and he also goes on here but by and large it gets no way in the actual i think they're i mean i'm really of two minds about that issue i think part of it has to do with that paul ryan is the chair of the budget committee so whatever he proposes done it does have some semblance of authority whether or not it's extreme or not and it and i think to a degree the progressive caucus is necessary the leadership of the democratic party has to win with caracas and that being said i i'm not disagreeing with you on that issue but i also think ever since paul ryan first came out on the scene in two thousand and ten with his budget proposal the d.c. media has latched on to this guy as being brave and courageous and coming out and telling the truth like it is i think it's really it's a media but the guy they love that he's this budget wonk who you know sits there and pours over so he's the new john mccain he's the guy that the media is a lot i think i think that i think that honestly cont