mitch daniels is a former governor of indiana, currently the president of purdue university. >> glado be here. >> when you start off life with a whole lot of debt it makes it harder to do anything. what's your greatest concern? >> it's a long list, melissa. we already know it's hurting consumer purchases. today's young people have lower incomes than their predecessors, not higher as we've always experienced. we know it's weighing on housing. they're postponing marriage, child bearing, and home purchases, and now we discover that it is pretty evidently limits the percentage of young people who start a business or try to do something entrepreneurial, and that's maybe as big a long-term worry as any because we've counted on american inventiveness and innovation to cover over a lot of the other economic problems we've enflikted on ourselves. >> so there's a generational impact here. in terms of the economy, there's also the impact potentially of these loans being in default. there's some pretty staggering statistics. student loan 90 plus day delinquent rates are at historic levels. this

bachmann giving the first tea party response, she struggled looking at the wrong camera. 2012, mitch danielse's now out of politics. 2013, senator -- excuse me marco rubio, who was, of course, hurt by the famous drinking water incident. last year congresswoman cathy mcmorris rogers gave the response and an exception to the rule. but joni ernst, this is from state senator and southwest iowa two years ago -- >> i would have won the office pool on this. she was my pick because i thought republicans won't want to put a finger on the scale and pick a 2016er. but with her, you get iowa. there is 2016. she's first female combat veteran in the senate, with she can speak to the foreign policy issues. >> she gave us the easy transition to go from iowa senator to presidential politics. that's all for today. i'll be back with brian williams and the team, including kelly on our live state of the union coverage on tuesday night here on nbc. we'll be back next week. because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." >>> good morning. right now on "first look," dangerous freezing weather causes hundreds of acci

. >> i do this is such an important dog whistle, because mitch daniels a republican governor, the factking this on his that he is slowly forcing the party in that direction. this is a serious problem that in one way or another needs to be recognized. >> i spoke with the chairman of the board of purdue and he said this is clearly a headache. like how big of a burden is student debt? >> it is a shifting of a debt from one pocket to another. right after the crisis we saw a buildup in auto finance and then subprime auto finance. that led to very good numbers in the auto industry. we have the educational infrastructure affected, and household as well, shifting from saving for school to financing school. when you add it all up household debt has not fallen phenomenally by anything more than 4% since the crisis. yet, as a percentage of be it is lower, and as a percentage of household income it is lower but as a practical matter, it's still there. >> does financial assistance for student debt contribute to the problem or fix the problem? >> it introduced the problem insofar as any third-party

mitch daniels is the president of purdue university. to be comfortable in the academic standing. i think the caller is right in the sense that it is not just enough for a nominee to be electable. this is how mitt romney was sold in 2012, and he was not, ultimately. he did not win. the party is, at this point, demoralized about what happened in 2012, excited about what happened in 2010 and 2014 in those midterm elections, and is hungry for winning, but they are also skeptical of folks who say this is the guy you have to pick to win. i think primary voters will want to see what everybody has to offer. i think i go back to what the rnc is trying to do -- primary season it seems like it is the wrong direction for the party wants to go and ought to the. daniels -- we had a great cover story about him and his final years at the governor's mansion and he seemed uninterested in running for president and ultimately did not. mike pence has been a successful governor. i think we will hear a lot more about mike pence. host: the current cover story

of the skills out there, i asked purdue, lane grant college where i did my undergraduate work, mitch daniels, the president of purdue university now who used to be omb director here, governor of indiana, had a major study that they conducted with the national academy of sciences, i believe. and skilled workers, plumbers, pipe fitters, making more than his college graduates long-term. all i'm suggesting and here is getting into student loans is that while i agree that those who want to go to college should go to college, need to go to college, there -- we shouldn't by creating certain incentives through a student loan program that makes it -- creates that debt on you out there, we shouldn't be incentivizing the creation of additional debt, which means that we shouldn't have -- should have other opportunities besides a four-year graduate degree and i'm not taking anything away from what you do and what you're being good students that you are, but just recognize they're out there, there are other people that do not need to go to college and what we should be focusing on from a long-term perspec

. >> there was a time they let mitch daniels do it and he did it from a bat cave.t this one tonight from joni ernst, very earnest, very folksy. >> better than jindal's. >> yes. no awkward walk down a long staircase. >> senator, thank you. the focus of that speech was about one thing, keystone. obviously she thinks that's one place they'll get a majority vote in the senate. where are you on keystone? >> i've always supported keystone, it's just a matter how to move the oil safely in a way that has the least impact on the environment. barges and trains and trucks are a much more dangerous way to move it. but i thought the line that the president had in his speech tonight was so good. we can do better than one pipeline when it comes to our infrastructure. he hit that point very hard. it's some place we can find agreement, and that is dealing with the fact that we are being far outpaced by developed nations in terms of our investment infrastructure. and our children and grandchildren are going to pay a serious price for it. >> i liked her speech, and she talked about t

back then under the leadership of then governor mitch daniels and the the republican state house, indiana passed the most expansive school choice program in the country. indiana has been all the above approach to educational opportunity. in addition to robust charter schools, public school choice, homeschool in online learning programs committee in the industry scholarship program gives voucher scholarships to students from lower middle in some families to attend a private school of their choice. the results have been nothing short of remarkable. in the first year of the program 3900 students enrolled. a little over three years later the program now has almost 30,000 student. based on those market trends alone, we are clearly needed in the period i have seen rallies of thousands of pairs at the indiana statehouse, representing a mosaic of every color and race in our state. chanting support for this program. i've talked to parents in seeing the tears in their eyes as they hug a teacher or principal from their new school in appreciation of their new opportunity for their child. as a fringe

the healthy indiana plan was originally crafted under indiana's former governor mitch daniels who extended health care coverage to lower-income residents who earned too much to qualify for medicaid but too little to afford quality health coverage. the guiding principle of the original plan was simple. individually owned and directed health care coverage has a positive effect for individual citizens and the health care system as a whole. we have proven that giving people a stake in their own health care decisions works. governor daniels put it well in a 2010 "wall street journal" article stating that -- and i quote -- "americans can make sound, thrifty decisions about their own health if national policy trusted and encouraged them to do so, our skyrocket health care costs would decelerate. we have three objectives, individual control taxpayer approximate based on information that enrollment could not grow faster than available funding and disease prevention by incentivizing preventive care. in 2013 governor mike pence announced plans to reform and expand the original indiana healthy plan to

mitch relief (clapping.) andy hanson (clapping) nancy la sar. >> (clapping) betty (clapping) lindsey (clapping.) marcie ryan (clapping.) and denise (clapping.) emily law (clapping) daniel beemer (clapping) (clapping) julie atkin (clapping) curtis chin (clapping) joy wong (clapping) nancy hunk (clapping.) karen lamb (clapping) olivia pope (clapping) daniel wagner (clapping) and after this group of people there will be a special presentation from the zone christie (clapping.) (clapping.) katherine burk anna marie booth (clapping) mia russ (clapping) raymond lee (clapping) tesla joy (clapping) alison wagner (clapping) crystal (clapping.) maria hunt (clapping) and elizabeth making nab (clapping) and that - and i'd like to introduce ms. thompson with a special presentation. >> dr. murase congratulations and wanting mr. haney congratulations and superintendent carranza and congratulations and your first year and on behalf of the strunth we thought we'll acknowledged the 8 teachers from the bayview so could the two principles moore as well as ms. aflac please join me we would like to say congratulations to you (clapping) and we're very proud of the 8 of you first of all if yo

mitch relief (clapping.) andy hanson (clapping) nancy la sar. >> (clapping) betty (clapping) lindsey (clapping.) marcie ryan (clapping.) and denise (clapping.) emily law (clapping) daniel beemer (clapping) (clapping) julie atkin (clapping) curtis chin (clapping) joy wong (clapping) nancy hunk (clapping.) karen lamb (clapping) olivia pope (clapping) daniel wagner (clapping) and after this group of people there will be a special presentation from the zone christie (clapping.) (clapping.) katherine burk anna marie booth (clapping) mia russ (clapping) raymond lee (clapping) tesla joy (clapping) alison wagner (clapping) crystal (clapping.)

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daniel gross. the g.o.p. should stop lying about obama's economy. we're joined by dan are you surprised that mitch mcconnell is trying to claim credit. >> no, this always happens. even if they do it retroactively. they say all the growth during the clinton years was due to reagan and then during the bush years it was due to clinton. they always try to take credit for the good things that happen, and try to convince everyone that when the democrat is in control of the white house there is gloom and doom. >> in your piece you mention a piece written by michael boskin. >> this is right from the beginning. that was march 2009, the dow was at 6,600. we had a series of sharp reversals but the sense that nothing positive could happen in the economy so long as a democrat was in the white house and this particular democrat as well. they come out and say that everything is going to hell. we're going to have a socialist republic. ps the stock market has doubled since then. we see this continued narrative. the idea that obama should be held responsible for anything bad that happens with the economy. good news