sherry lansing will join us. there is a new buy biography about her i can't wait to talk with her on what she'd do today. >> we have mothers' day this weekend, may be a well-timed placism of the book, maybe a good gift. >> i see you're selling the book now okay. >> i just realized that would make sense. >> yeah. >> we'll ask her about that. >>> we do start with retail which is struggling so much. it's jp penny getting hit hard after reporting disappointing numbers this morning. we also have the retail report from the government this week. courtney reagan joins us with more. it's very hard in terms of the department stores. the numbers are down 20% this week. the numbers are bad. >> exactly. i think one of the best performers is kohl's and it's down 9% this week. we know the department stores are in this decline. folks aernts going for destination of shopping whether in store on online in the past. they're closing stores, trying to shrink in order to grow. they're getting better at their management why you saw som

hear about in los angeles are similar to ones that we hear throughout this country in places like lansing or louisville. 4 million live in my city, yes, few are movie stars, but most are small business owners, factory workers. they're firefighters, nurses, bo bookkeepers. in the san fernando valley where i grew up we had car factories that shut down. time and time again we have had to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and face an uncertain future. what's happening in my city is a microcosm of what's happening around the country. for the folks at the top there's never been a more exciting time to live in los angeles. we have a diverse and thriving class. they're innknow vating and collaborating and having a good time. you don't want to find parking zyou can get rideshare. somebody can pick up your dry cleaning with the tap of the finger. we have a ballooning the service class, the people who are cooking the food, doing the dry cleaning and they're just barely hanging on, scraping to stay afloat and hoping one day to get ahead. meanwhile, our middle-class is getting squeezed out. the

code, 748800, (202)748-8201 for those of the mountain and pacific what's belong with a call from lansing free michigan. >> caller: thank you all veryab much. do you think president trump will have much success. with immigration you might remember it was not officially a state of the union speeches he gave against illegal immigration whose son was murdered by an immigrant and from what i understand, to get negativelybyh affected and for the matter of legal immigration. >> it is an interesting issuegrn because effective immigration ia not as. i don't think it is reflectively a slamdunk issue. the challenge the administration will have is that it runs the risk of two different groups onu against another asking black voters to become comfortable with and accept their rhetoric and social policy that could be understood as being anti-immigrant or anti-latino. i think the way that it is going to happen is linking up through immigration with a specific things going on in the communi community. if it's going to work i don't think just leveraging thee throg network is going to be through another g

the next day, lansing lied. as a former journalist, i am always ready for that. but he did admit that it could be true. he was in a box because he didn't want to say that he had gotten it from the british because that would be a problem. he also didn't want to admit that cable traffic went through washington because nobody knew that they had given germans lines through. he admitted it was true. of course, that didn't cause the war, but it did cause some consternation. the other side of the story is that zimmerman, the next day, had a press conference in berlin. an american reporter, who is very supportive of the germans, thinking this couldn't possibly be true that they would have done anything this stupid, said, of course you didn't do this. he said, we did this. we sent this. it then contributed to this image of the germans having been very artless and the way they did their propaganda. i tell that story because i think it shows how much was going on at the time to try to persuade americans. how much propaganda and intelligence work were co-mingled. the rise of

let's go to tony in lansing, illinois. caller: good morning.any of the items that i'm going to discuss have already been discussed. -- at want to emphasize couple of things. the first lady that came on, she was blaming mexicans, muslims, intercity people about the funding that was going that way as opposed to rural america. educationted to say, is state and locally funded for the most part. caller said,ious when you lower taxes means there is less money for schools. that goes hand in hand. add to that the fact that manufacturing jobs of today now they require a higher skill level, which requires education. the fact that younger people, they are leaving so these areas are aging. therefore the caller you had just prior to me was discussing the drug problem that's coming in that comes from to some degree of inactivity, and the change in attitude towards work that comes from frustration of not being able to obtain jobs. it's like that cycle. i kind of believe that some of these people do need support. and training. it would require the federal gove

at kent county jail in grand rapids, michigan, lansing hodges spent most of his stay in segregation, locked in a one-man cell 23 hours per day. >> i've been in administration segregation unit for four months now. there's not much to do, write, read, do a couple of push-ups and sleep most of the day. i sleep probably for like ten hours of the day, you know. these are my flip-flops on the floor. people throwing feces and stuff. i would rather not put my hands on the floor. >> hodges was serving time on convictions for domestic violence and for pushing his pregnant girlfriend to the ground and threatening her with a knife. within days of his arrival. he was removed from general population and placed in disciplinary segregation for two back-to-back incidents, in which he was deemed a threat to himself and to others. >> i'm in seg because i got into a fight and i have a violent history. and i can't, i can't leave because i got, had suicide watch because i threw myself down the stairs when i first came. >> then he went into the story about how he threw himself down the stairs. and the way

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. >> are factories going to open up in east lansing, michigan, again or is this the factory of the future? this isn't a lot of space. >> we believe that manufacturing is becoming digital. it's going to look more like software and to have machines running off of digital files. >> in the past 20 years, u.s. industry has shed 4.9 million manufacturing jobs. in part because of increased automation. by 2025, operational industrial robots are expected to perform 25% of day-to-day manufacturing tasks. that's compared to a 10% global average in 2015. >> this is our lab. >> jim allen is the director of manufacturing at voodoo. with more than two decades of traditional factory experience under his belt, he says today's manufacturing is about collaboration with innovation. >> doing what you're doing, what's going to happen to the rust belt of america? >> i think they're going to adapt. there is examples of companies, tool & dye, automotive and other industries where they're using robotics. this is what they call a collaborative robot. unlike the robotics of 10, 15 years ago where you had to have a c

went toerman ambassador the secretary of state, robert lansing, and told him that this decision that the german resume on had made to the uber warfare, he walked away with tears in his eyes. he knew they would lose the war. >> the die was cast. >> and the first three ships that went down, a german u-boat was surfaced, gave warning, the cruise off onto the votes, no casualties of any time that any kind. this was driving teddy roosevelt crazy. dishonored the united states, behind the skirts death we are hiding behind the skirts of the british navy. you can make a case for the ship, it used to be british, it wasn't carrying timbers to italy or more materials. think still trying -- i he also knew shipping was kind of a puny excuse to get involved in the biggest war in the history of mankind. >> the question is, why didn't he go to war sooner? -- part of the peace coalition was art of the democrat party. remember his secretary of state, lillian jennings bryan -- william jennings bryan, very popular, had resigned earlier because he knew even with wilson saying that he thought wilson was to

it seems to me that the president was free lansing.> melissa: that is what makes so many in the media and a lot in the public uncomfortable. the idea that he was freelancing. that he didn't know where the information came from. that's their argument. they feel the more they heard today bolsters that argument. >> i cannot defend if indeed that's what happened, i cannot defend it. the president it seems to me, and i love him. he's a friend of mine. i want him to succeed. but far too often he is impetuous, spontaneous. i volunteered to work for free to be his tweet editor. i think he creates a lot of these problems that he doesen need. he really needs a restart. i don't know if there's a shake-up and sean spicer will be demoted and sarah huckabee will take his place. i don't know anything. >> melissa: or someone else. >> or someone else. i don't know anything about that. i do know he has to tell the american people that i'm sorry. some of these things the timing of the comey firing and so forth, he's creating too many of his own problems.

hear about in los angeles are similar to the ones we hear throughout this country in places like lansing or louisville. four million people live in my city. some of them are movie stars, even if a few of them are kardashians, but most are small business owners, factory workers, firefighters and nurses and bookkeepers and bus drivers not much different from people in coal country. in the san fernando valley where i grew up, we had car factories that shut down. they know what it is like to watch an assembly line grinds to a halt and a company pack up and leave town. time and time again we have had to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and face an uncertain future. what is happening in my city is in many ways a microcosm of what is happening around the country. for folks at the top, there has never been a more exciting time to live in los angeles. we have a diverse and thriving creative class innovating and collaborating and having a great time doing it. and why not? you can go on your smartphone and find any kind of food you want, have it delivered to your home. you don't want to find

. >>> speaking of changes in contents, we sat down with sherry lansing from binge, former head of two and subject of a new biography leading ladies. we asked her about the current golden age of television. >> there is sometimes like i'm rushing through dinner to get home to watch the episode. and thank god for tivo because i can watch it later. i have to say i think my ipad is my best friend now except for my husband. but i probably spend equal time with my ipad which is pretty dangerous. so in many ways i think it has never been a better time for somebody who wants to make content. because if you're producer or a director or an actor and you want to make something, you can do it. when i was growing up, the only way that i could make a movie or a television show was to get somebody to give meet money. today you take your iphone and you can shoot anything you want and then you can put it on youtube or wherever you want and you can be discovered. >> so where does that leave the studio business? >> they will be fine. >> by making franchise after franchise? >> well, yes. and as we all kno

january 31st, 1917, robert lansing, secretary of state, received a note from the german ambassador togo every trade not agreeable to the powers, or too limited according to their arbitrary decrees. from february 1st, 1917, sea traffic will be stopped with every available weapon and without further notice." >> this message from the german ambassador directly contravened the german guarantee to wilson that ended unrestricted warfare after the sinking of the lucitania in 1915. germany's renewed aggression decisively changed american's attitudes about the war. on february 3rd, 1917, the united states formally ended diplomatic relations with imperial germany. on february 25th, 1917, the canard line ship laconia was struck by german torpedoes. the chicago tribune was on board and lived to describe the scene. >> at 10:30 p.m. there was a muffled noise. five sharp blasts, a signal to abandon. we walked hurriedly down the corridor to the lounge which was amid ships. we moved fast, but there was no crowding and no panic. we looked down the slanting side of the ship and noticed her water line wa

wolcott from lansing, michigan. when states are putting these plans together how can they ensure that the impact of poverty, you know, that poverty doesn't have a significant impact on achievement so that like michael said, districts that serve large populations of students in poverty aren't all just marked as failing. >> one thing i think that is you think about your metrics. i think it's really important to balance the access metrics with the student achievement metrics. so if you prioritize only student achievement on a standardized assessment score you will see the biases that come up in some of these metrics. so if you are simply just recreating your no child left behind plan you will see some of the same problems and mike is completely correct if all your high poverty schools in the state are ranked low that would be a sign to me that you are -- you would have to do some serious investigating about what's going on in the schools. maybe they're all failing but i think there's at least one school that could be s

i hear about in las vegas are similar to ones that we hear throughout this country in places like lansing or louisville. four million people live in my city. yes, some of them are movie stars, even a few of them car da -- kardashians. in the san fernando valley, we had car factors that shut down. angelinos know what it's like for a company to pack up and leave town. time and again we've had to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and face an uncertain future. so what's happening in my city is in many ways a microdozen m for what's happening around the country. los angeles has a diverse and driving creative class. they're innovating, collaborating and having a great time doing it. why not? you can go on your smart phone and have whatever food you want delivered to your home. you can get ride share. you can get somebody to pick up your dry-cleaning with a tap of the finger. we have a ballooning service class, people cooking food and doing the dry-cleaning. they're scrapping to stay afloat and hoping one day to get ahead. meanwhile, our middle class is getting squeezed out. the paycheck for