mr. hendry, and your principal, so we can all learn together of better to protect ourselves during the next earthquake. are you getting ready? are you ready for the fire drill? >> [all] yes. >> thank you. i want to thank mr. henry for inviting us for this drill. why do we have a fire drill or an earthquake drill? why? that is right. in case the real thing happens. so if we practice what we do, then what happens? >> we get better. >> you get better, exactly. that is what we want to do, get better. and today during the drill, what i want you to think about is if this were to happen while you were at home, what would you do, the same thing? yeah, it would be ducking and covering. cover and -- you practice, too, huh? if you practice, then you will not get nervous when it happens. >> when the alarm is ringing, a practice, and i stayed low. >> the fire alarm goes on when your mother cooks? wow. probably try to tell her not to frighten many things. -- not to fry too many things. [laughter] >> we're going to get the kids back to their tables so they are ready when the drill happens. kids, can you g

mr. hendry has pledged to help jimmy raise the necessary seed money to jump-start this effort. and you are one of many people in this country that is concerned about this. >> well, i think everybody's concerned about a broken political system. i think it's because of your efforts, dylan, that they're going to learn shortly why it's broken. and it's money. there are a myriad number of good ideas. there's a myriad number of women and men who are committed to fixing the system. but until you fix this money in politics issue that you've addressed so eloquently, you're never going to get the results we're after. and we saw it in health care reform, we saw it in finance reform. hundreds of millions of dollars get spent to produce bills that serve the needs of the financial industry on the one hand, the health care community on the other. nobody's spending money on behalf of the middle class. there's no voice out there that is funded closely to what big business has been able to do to turn these issues in their direction. >> why have you made the decision to put your own equity and yo

mr. hendry spent many years in the telecommunications industry. he was ceo of at&t broadband.have another student ready to ask a question. caller: my name is katie. there was a bill for people earning over $1 million. are you in favor of this bill? if so, what are the chances of the success? guest: i am in favor of this bill if it is part of overall tax reform. it is nonsensical to have the smallest amount of reform targeting $1 million and above. is $990,000 not a lot of income? what we have to have is a fundamental fairness all the way through the income strata. i worry that congress is going to say no. this is an election year were almost nobody in congress is willing to approve even the most reasonable proposition put forward. what you can do for us as the thought leaders is to make it clear that you want tax fairness and you want progressive taxation to be the principal through all income strata. host: mr. hendrick also worked in politics. he was an adviser to the john edwards presidential campaign in a trade adviser on the 2008 president obama campaign. pittsburgh, frank

mr. hendry spent many years in the telecommunications industry. he was ceo of at&t broadband. we have another student ready to ask a question. caller: my name is katie. there was a bill for people earning over $1 million. are you in favor of this bill? if so, what are the chances of the success? guest: i am in favor of this bill if it is part of overall tax reform. it is nonsensical to have the smallest amount of reform targeting $1 million and above. is $990,000 not a lot of income? what we have to have is a fundamental fairness all the way through the income strata. i worry that congress is going to say no. this is an election year were almost nobody in congress is willing to approve even the most reasonable proposition put forward. what you can do for us as the thought leaders is to make it clear that you want tax fairness and you want progressive taxation to be the principal through all income strata. host: mr. hendrick also worked in politics. he was an adviser to the john edwards presidential campaign in a trade adviser on the 2008 president obama campaign. pittsburgh, f