our guests today include jimmy kemp, the president of the jack kemp foundation. ron moten, the program director for the art of peace and khamis hughes, the owner of ideal visions. her own company. today we are talking about single moms. i have got two kids under the age of 5. my wife is out the door and works insane hours. i can't imagine what that would be like to try to do that alone, by myself. what are some of the challenges that are facing single mothers and how you all working to sort of give them the support they need? >> well, first, i would like to thank the interactivity foundation, open society foundation and helping the community start a dialogue of dealing with the issues and challenges of moms in our community especially places in washington, d.c. where 91% of the 15 to 17-year-olds are raised by single parents most of them mothers. it is very hard. you have peer pressure. you have social media. you have a lot of these mothers living in poverty and there's no -- a lot of conditions they're in. a lot of people expect something to fall out of the sky

to jack kemp's son, jimmy kemp, good to see you. i'm going to try to say this nicely.k perry had his shot, is he seen as an also-ran, texas is struggling with job losses because of the energy sector? >> well, look, it's absolutely way too early to say whether or not anybody is in it or not. the great part of what we have in this republican primary coming up, this competition, and as you know, we've got to have competition in our politics. we have to have competition in the economy. what you all were talking about with what the white house is doing on overtime pay is going to make us as a country less competitive. one of the things candidates have got to focus on is how we're going to create jobs in this country again? how are we going to restore our culture of aspiration as opposed to the culture of expectation which the current administration clearly with policies like the overtime expansion are establishing. so rick perry has a great shot because his record from texas is strong, and we need to think as a country about how we can really create jobs, it certainly doesn

so when jimmy called me, i figured i would have to change my schedule because i acknowledged to him that it's very hard for me to turn down a request from my member of the kemp family. jack was a hero of mine. he was a remarkable figure, an inspiration. a uniter. and he combined skills and visceral strengths. so he was both a man of ideas and a brain and also a person of extraordinary warmth and passion and just made a lot of things happen. i think one of the highest compliments i've ever received he said to me once he considered himself to be a lieberman did the democrat. and i said quite sincerely that therefore, i was finding myself a kemp republican. and i still feel that way. so about my dad, you know, comes from your own experience, i'll start with my grandmother my mother's mother. we were in the house together for the first eight years of my life until my dad made enough to buy our own house and my grandmother came with us. why do i mention my grandmother? she was my link to the old country. we called it the eld country. in her case, it was romania, now ukraine. so all four of my grandparents were immigrants and -- but my grandmother was the one who