we have to change the way we educate kids in rural america, we have to bring the best education and growing a workforce that can live and work in rural communities. agricultureility of and the issues of small stakeholder farmers, we are basically a commodity producing state. but we have a lot of small state farmers. many of the programs we find it in the farm bill have actually allowed smaller farmers to survive on smaller pieces of land. and do it in a more responsible way. we will produce to the market. ,hat is one thing i will preach you can raise your fist and say all those people who want farm to table products, they are just greedy but let's produced to the market and that is what we need to do. we need to understand there is a role for both kinds of our culture in america and encourage smaller farms and sustainability in agriculture. host: do you want to pick up anything else? guest: technology and broadband, in my district, we have iowa state university and a 2017 we graduated 1400 students who can go into the technology field and a year later in 2018 only 258 a.ved in worked in iow

we have to change the way we educate kids in rural america, we have to bring the best education and growing a workforce that can live and work in rural communities. agricultureility of and the issues of small stakeholder farmers, we are basically a commodity producing state. but we have a lot of small state farmers. many of the programs we find it in the farm bill have actually allowed smaller farmers to survive on smaller pieces of land. and do it in a more responsible way. we will produce to the market. ,hat is one thing i will preach you can raise your fist and say all those people who want farm to table products, they are just greedy but let's produced to the market and that is what we need to do. we need to understand there is a role for both kinds of our culture in america and encourage smaller farms and sustainability in agriculture. host: do you want to pick up anything else? guest: technology and broadband, in my district, we have iowa state university and a 2017 we graduated 1400 students who can go into the technology field and a year later in 2018 only 258 a.ved in worked in iow

earmarks on how -- he remarks on how education opportunities are not the same for people in rural america as they are in urban cities. these reports have come out, including from the u.s. department of agriculture, that essentially show how that gap in college attainment has grown between urban environments and rural environments. what you have seen from 2000 to 2015, in rural environments, you have seen a closing of the gap, of people who have high school degrees. you are just as likely to have a degreewhat, the gap has grown iu are thinking about college attainment. from 15% to 19% of people in rural america with college degrees. it is a small increase. but the gap for people who are in urban america has grown more. from 26%-30 3%. that gap is widening. you see places where they have lost the universe -- their rural america's education, options are climbing. declining. the gap between completion of high school degrees has rural,between urban and that the gap between people who finish college is increasing from urban to roll. -- rural. guest: if you are thinking about to your degrees or

it's gone from about 15% to 19% of people in rural america with college degrees. so it's a small increase, but the gap for people who are in urban america has grown more. so you've gone from about 26%. that gap is widens. as you've seen in the university of alaska, they've lost 41% of their budget in one swoop, and in rural america's education options are declining, it's kind of a serious problem. >> let me make sure i understand. what you're saying is that the gap between completion of high school degrees has shrunk between urban and rural, but the gap between people who finished college is increasing from urban to rural. correct? >> yes. and in particular, i should specify we're talking four-year degrees. so if you're thinking about things like two-year degrees or other credentials that gap may look a little bit different. if you're thinking about four-year college degrees, that gap. >> we being americans have always done a lot of moving from rural to urban areas. does that have anything to do with increasing that gap between completion of four-year degrees from

frankly, there is a tremendous opportunity for rural america in terms of climate change, the green dealortunity to create a number of new revenue streams for farmers as they help the country basically reduce emissions and do with a more resilient america to the changes that will occur as a result of the changing climate. david: thank you for being with us, tom vilsack. now the president of the u.s. dairy export council. coming up, it is midsummer's payment of american holiday, july 4. we bring the highlights of the traditional celebration with the boston pops. that is coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television. i'm david westin. night, fireworks lit up the sky all over the country, marking the 243rd anniversary of the day the declaration of independence was signed. here in bloomberg, we were able to bring you the celebration from boston. fireworks blasted off to the traditional -- and the not so traditional. ♪ all culminating in the grand finale, a two written by a russian composer, tchaikovsky's -- eymphony in the minor minor. that is

we have to change the way we educate kids in rural america, we have to bring the best education and growing workforce that can live and work in rural communities. agricultureility of and the issues of small stakeholder farmers, we are basically a commodity producing state. but we have a lot of small state farmers. many of the programs we find it in the farm bill have actually allowed smaller farmers to survive on smaller pieces of land. and do it in a more responsible way. we will produce to the market. ,hat is one thing i will preach you can raise your fist and say all those people who want farm to table products, they are just greedy but let's produced to the market and that is what we need to do. we need to understand there is a role for both kinds of our culture in america and encourage smaller farms and sustainability in agriculture. host: do you want to pick up anything else? guest: technology and broadband, in my district, we have iowa state university and a 2017 we graduated 1400 students who can go into the technology field and a year later in 2018 only 258 a.ved in worked in iow t

we are talking to adam harris of articlentic about his on education deserts in rural america. what made you focus on this issue? guest: the author of this incredible book essentially remarked on how educational opportunities aren't the same for people in rural america as they are for in the cities. that comes back to this research that was done from the department of agriculture that show how the gap in college attainment has grown between urban environments and rural environments. what you see from 2000 to 2015 environments, the closing of the gap of people who have high school degrees. you are about as likely to have a high school degree in world america. that gap has grown if you think about college attainment. 15% to 19%.om it's a small increase. the gap for people in urban america has grown more. you are up to 33%. that is widening. places like the university of alaska where they've lost 41% of their budget and rural american education options are declining. the gap between completion of high school degrees has rural,between urban and that the gap between people who finis

if you are really thinking broadly, there are still opportunities in rural america. people have gotten degrees and lived there. my family was kind of the same way. there are couple of concerning factors here, particularly as states invest in higher education and if you look in montana where will one and three people live more than 60 miles away from the nearest college, you have the outlines of a very serious problem.>> like you, i am a third generation college graduate. so with universities going online, is not going to have an effect on this gap in rural areas? can't they take classes online?>> people do take classes online. but and actually at the university of alaska the governor suggested after they made the 41% cut to the budget, it was about $130 million, he said people could live stream classes if they were in areas far away. but according to a recent report , only about 63% of people in rural areas have broadband access in their homes. that would require going to a library or going somewhere else to do that work. so in terms of this being and ease of access

the president's bare knuckles diplomacy especially his trade war with countries that buy what rural america sells right now i think with the tariffs on the soybeans and stuff in china and mexico i think it kind of scares people that it could get worse i think some of our. relationships with some of the foreign countries is marginal at best you know if it is one to 10 probably 5 to 6 but trump voters are stubborn lot we can't necessarily count on all the support he had in 2016. 0 i think that he's got to he's got a huge base i mean his base still follows him still believes in him and i think that. that will stand true whether enough voters here along route 66 in dallas where remain in that piece or turn left could decide the election for the next u.s. president john hendren al jazeera pontiac illinois. south african singer and n.c. apartheid activist johnny clegg has died at the age of 66. clegg was one of the few white artists who defied segregation laws and openly criticized the apartheid government nicknamed the point zubrin he was feted for blending traditional african rhythms and wester

again this is a major win for rural america and high unemployment areas. and i want to sincerely thank president trump and the people that work in the administration on this rule for making this happen and looking out for the interests of my constituents in iowa and other rural states and for areas of high unemployment. this rule also addresses the minimum investment threshold amounts that are required for the eb-5 projects around the country. this is the very first time the investment threshold has been adjusted since the program was created in 1990, and think of the inflation since that time. for projects that are outside of the targeted employment areas, the threshold will be raised from $1 million to $1.8 million. for projects in targeted employment areas, the threshold will be raised from $500 million to $900 million. the minimum investment amount will be adjusted for inflation every five years. it's ridiculous that our country's major green card program for investors has been operating with investment amounts that haven't been adjusted a single time

america. he went to some rural areas and had rallies there and said i am here to save you. he looks at black america according to michael cohen and looks at the poorest areas that are concentrated by african americans as only the blacks would live by that, like that. explain to me this political strategy on the president's part. let me help poor white america and dismiss poor black america? >> i'm not sure you can call it a strategy, per se. it seems much more an instinct. to the extent it is a valuable extinct, rural america, white america, which has been -- the parts of rural america that are white and have been left behind and perceive themselves not to be satisfied by government policy particularly washington but also in their state capitols they constitute a political force donald trump was able to marshal and got him into office. after 2016 everybody looked at the political strategy he employed and said wow there is a demographic being under served. i don't understand why you can't do both. it is extremely crass and the crass ratio the president engages in is evident t

i spend time in rural america. i was on a farm yesterday. rural america has challenges, too, mr. president. we're dying from opioid abuse, marriages are falling apart, children being born out of wedlock. he does not attack and denigrate rural america. for him to divide us this way is hateful and hurtful but strategic. he's trying to divide those folks so they don't see they have common interests in trying to build a better life together. >> let me splay a sound bite. ten days ago when we were having a conversation about the president's racism, it was after going after four minority congresswomen and he justified it by saying, listen the to the way they speak about our country. here is what the president said earlier this month. >> when people are speaking so badly, when they call our country garbage, think of that, that's worse than deplorable. when they call our country garbage, i don't care about politics. i don't care if it's good or bad about politics. many people say it's good. don't know if it's good or bad. i can tell you this, you can't talk that way about our country. no

my grandfather was a farm foreman appeared i grew up in rural america. i know what struggle looks like there. >> tell us about the struggle for your family. rep. craig: one of the things

in many ways, rule america now d -- rural america now looks a lot like detroit. striking because rural americans don't have anything in common with inner cities. different cultures, political if the pathologies of modern rural america are familiar to anyone who visited baltimore the 1980s, high male unemployment, a terrifying drug epidemic, two different worlds, similar outcomes. how did this happen?g you think our ruling class would be deeply interested in knowing the answer, but mostly they are not. they do not have to be interested. it's too important for forward labor to take advantage of normal americans living behind. but republicans now represent rural voters. they ought to be interested. and here's a big part of the answer: male wages decline. manufacturing, a male dominant in industry, disappeared over the course of a generation. all that remained where the schools and the hospitals, and both of them are traditionalti employers of women. in many areas, women suddenly made more than men. before you applaud that as a victory for feminism, consider some of

there is no more bipartisan idea than rebuilding america's infrastructure. high-speed rail, rural band, new electric grid, more mass transit. and last is green jobs. and we know that if you train young kids in s.t.e.m. and give them the opportunity to be able to be the next workers in wind, solar, geothermal, biopower it's going to be the trends of the future and create economic growth. >> when i went to paradise, california, this is a town of 25 -- 25,000 that just burned right to the ground, it looked like a hollywood apocalypse movie. this is a magic moment for our nation because the public is now understanding. this used to be a graph on a chart, an abstraction. now as people see real neighbors being burned out of their homes. >> what is the one thing you woo -- do on climate if you got in there? >> we would have a whole suite of policies. >> name one. >> 100% clean fuel, clean grid, big investment in energy efficiency, requirements for better building codes, and large research and development. we spent more money developing one kind of jeep years ago than our entire clean ene

and we see rural america. and he was out in small towns a lot. and i'm going to be out in small touges, like i'm here in dallas county right now. we have a major urban area, as you know in minnesota, but we're also one of the top states for agriculture. that's why i go to awful 87 counties every single year that is what i've done and i literal ly have, in some counties i feel like i've met everyone in the county. i remember there was one county near the canadian border where i had visited literally every business and met with most cafes so we finally found -- where can we go visit? there's a new business that won a new business award and it's called insect inferno and i went to see it and it was a bed bug killing operation and all it was was a truck that you went inside and on the side of the truck they put mattresses in is -- it, i -- they drive it around to kill bedbugs and turn it up to 300 degrees. on the side it said we kill bedbugs with heat. they had me go inside and it wenlts ok, we'll just turn it up to 100 degrees. i thought all right,

rural/urbaning that divide means understanding rural america. it's about a strong farm bill -- i'm one of the most senior members of the agriculture committee, i've crafted several bills working with your great senator tom harkin when he was the chair of that committee, and yes it is about having a safety net for farmers and making sure you don't get a bunch of oil granting secret oil waivers to shake run an exxon, ruining the renewable fuel standard. it's about all that but it is also a bout economic development. it's about parks like this and small towns. it's about making sure our school system works not just in the big metro areas but in rural america. it means understanding that a critical access hospital could be more important than a big access hospital. we have a bill that is focused on the emergency rooms in rural areas, to make sure that works. it is about rural broadband. how are we going to bridge the urban/rural divide? kids can't email their grandma right here in this town if you don't have high-speed internet, and it's about rural

highway system grooves through rural america trunk country voted for donald trump there and then november of 2016 president donald trump's leadership skills are unprecedented. maybe unorthodox the route known as america's main street stretches from chicago to los angeles through missouri kansas oklahoma texas new mexico and arizona even in the states that did not vote for donald trump in 2016 this is where many trump voters live did you support him in 2016 oh yes it is the path disaffected oklahoma farmers wiped out in the dust storms of the depression followed to elusive hope in john steinbeck's grapes of wrath i'm here can you not see of my and many rural americans in places like pontiac illinois remain hopeful in the past couple of years i think our economy has been booming especially here in our area where we've got a very vibrant downtown we've got route 66 we've got the interstate here so this community has been growing but even here economic threats on the horizon have deemed that hope were in some tough economic troubles in agriculture and when agriculture is a tough economic trou

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highway system rules through rural america trump country voted for donald trump there and the november 2016 president donald trump's leadership skills are unprecedented. maybe unorthodox the route known as america's main street stretches from chicago to los angeles through missouri kansas oklahoma texas new mexico and arizona even in the states that did not vote for donald trump in 2016 this is where many trump voters live did you support him in 2016 oh yes it is the path disaffected oklahoma farmers wiped out in the dust storms of the depression followed toward elusive hope in john steinbeck's grapes of wrath here can you not find the policy of my time and many rural americans in places like pontiac illinois remain hopeful in the past couple of years i think our economy has been booming especially here in our area where we've got a very vibrant downtown we've got route 66 we've got the interstate here so this community has been growing but even here economic threats on the horizon have deemed that hope or in some tough economic troubles in agriculture and when agriculture is an econom

and i don't think anybody should tell rural america that they have a lower level of safety than urban america, and that their trains are not going to have the kind of technology that the northeast corridor has. that happened at aviation. we had a whole series of accidents, congress changed the law. so, i disagree with that. that the ntsb disagree with that. that's number 1. you have got to bond what has to be funded to operate that railroad safely. and it needs $100 million of investment. we don't have that $100 million. i have an omb and the secretary of transportation that has a different view of my budget than i do. i agree with all of you that we need to invest in a national railroad network. but, we have got to have the funding. we have got to fix on-time performance, because you cannot hope to sustain the service if the southwest chief with the continual deterioration of on-time performance. >> i take that you want to increase and improve the service but there are no hedge words in the paragraph. thank you. >> thank you, senator moran. senator blumenthal. >> thank you, mr. chair

and federal regulators make better informed decisions on how to best support economic growth in rural america. by ensuring that washington listens to the voices of rural small businesses, this legislation will help create jobs in rural iowa and in rural areas across the country. contributing not only to their success but to the economic success of this entire country's g.d.p. i want to thank the chairwoman and my colleagues for the support and working -- support in working on this issue and ask for a yes from the house. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of he time. the gentlewoman from california reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from kentucky is ecognized. mr. barr: the gentleman who is going to speak has experience in the private sector, is an entrepreneur, and knows a lot about rural america and rural america's need for access to capital as an entrepreneur. i yield two minutes to the outstanding new member of the committee, the gentleman from virginia, mr. riggleman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rigglem

how are you approaching rural america? >> i'm from rural america. i'm working with usda because i care about our farmers. >> sure, sure, sure. how are you getting the word out? that's critical. i think you want to do it, i want to do it, the question is how are we doing it? >> we're going to be doing it through our local chambers of commerce, local community banks and through your offices and any other suggestion ys you have. >> i would love to know how many people you're looking for, if it's a regional split because we can help you get some good people there. can i ask on ag exports because you mentioned working on ag exports. were those to china or did i mishear you? >> we are the backstop to u.s. credit corporation where we fill those needed gaps. so we -- >> are you the backstop for commodity corporation. >> they are only allowed to lend up a certain amount and we come in and fill the gap. >> let's touch on that for a s.e.c. if you go away, ccc potentially goes away? >> no. we come in and we help them when we can, when they are not fulfilling th

speaker, the democrats' assault on rural america continues. the congressional budget office estimates if this minimum wage law were enacted, up to 3.7 million jobs in america would vanish. and what areas would lose the most? obviously the areas with the most minimum wage jobs, rural areas. you see, these areas have a much lower cost of living. you can rent an apartment for $500 per month instead of $3,000 per month in san francisco, where nancy pelosi is from. food costs are lower. taxes are lower. utilities are lower. an american family can have a comfortable living on half what it takes than san francisco, seattle, or new york. a $15 minimum wage would cost these poor rural counties thousands of jobs. even blue state oregon recognized this fact when it adopted a tiered minimum wage with one rate for urban areas and another for suburban and another for rural. i represent three poor south carolina counties, marian, dillon, marshalboro. these are majority african-american and suffered stagnation over a lost decade due to the stifling overreach o

but if we go farther out into rural america, there's my concerns. it's about the communities. it's about the farmers that can spend money in those communities that keeps schools, that keeps the medical industry, that keeps infrastructure, even fire departments and things like that, it keeps up roads and bridges. it's just commerce in rural communities, smaller towns, are so vital to our whole demographic and our ability to keep family farmers on farms and keep our cropland from being owned by corporations which, in turn, i feel would turn into foreign investment in farmland and eventually possibly some of the loss of our own food supply or control of our food supply, excuse me. so to answer your question, you know, and put it into numbers, i'm not going to speculate or guess. it's -- when farmers don't have money, they can't spend it in town, and not having the markets that are checkoff dollars and all of our negotiations in the past had negotiated for, we need to get ships tied up to docks in foreign countries. that's just the way it is. and i don't think we can accomplish th

rural america, 90% of the u.s.ng to get 5g so we take the transaction as a whole regardless of the piece parts that you look at it's a real good win for the u.s. >> commissioner, what if somebody tries to buy dish now i mean, they are outfitted with quite a number of impressive asset, not just spectrum but brands all setting them up with supposedly everything they would need to be this fourth competitor are they somehow off limits now from an m & a perspective because of all we've been through? what's your feeling on that. >> there are some restrictions on the ability of dish to immediately turn around and sell the spectrum and -- >> they got to wait three years, right? >> very specific buildout obligations now that frankly are unique in wireless and goes above and beyond the types of commitments buildout obligations that apply to all other competitors in this space. pretty unique commitments designed to encourage them to build out. >> commissioner, finally just talk a little about the risks of this deal not being

i started this to be a voice for energy workers in rural america.al minor or you work in the oil and gas streurbgs people like alexandria ocasio-cortez, michael bloomberg, who has pledged $500 million. they are targeting you. your job, your community, your way of life. why is the opioid epidemic so severe where the coal industry has dried up? no one asks those questions. juan is right. i am not unbiased. i want to fight for energy workers. >> dana: not unbiased but he's questioning your numbers. what about that? >> you can read all the methodology online and see. we're using general information. how many cars exist in the state of alaska? x. great. if we have to turn every one of them into an electric vehicle, because this is what the green new deal mandates, what is that going to cost? that is just math. math is not unbiased. i all wonder why aoc is never forced to explain how we get rid of fossil fuels by 2030. when you ask her that question, she attacks you. >> dana: they say conservatives have no plan. they have no plan for climate change, for c

the lens that we look at at the fcc is how do we make sure that every single community including rural america gets a fair shot and it's by improving this transaction that we get that commitment to build-out to 99% of america meaning outside of those big cities. charlie: that's a great point. the other point i want to make just to follow-up to susan's question is we should point out and i don't mean to politicize this, not saying there's anything wrong with the democrat s but all of the state a g's that sued were democrats. now we could say all of the state ag's that signed off on the consent decree are republicans but brendan, you'd agree you're a republican, there is a political sort of dynamic here, am i missing something, on this suit, that state ag's who are democrat or are looking to block something that the trump adminitration thinks is free market and good for 5g and other issues? >> well we certainly are seeing a little bit of partisan opposition to the transaction but a lot of bipartisan support, so democrat congresswoman from california is reactive on tech and telecom supported form

focus on one in particular -- how important the affordable care act's medicaid expansion is to rural america and how much is at stake for those communities, should the a.c.a. be eliminated. medicaid expansion enables low-income rural residents to get affordable quality health insurance so they can get the care they need. it is often the case that insurance companies do not compete in the same intensity in rural communities because there's just not enough patientsment and so it's common in rural america for somebody wants to buy an insurance policy on the exchange, for example, to maybe only have one option. and so medicaid expansion has turned out to be a huge benefit for many low-income people living in rural america. many of those who are receiving insurance pursuant to medicaid expansion have been previously uninsured, and so for some, it's the first insurance that they've had in their life. a particular impact of medicaid expansion has not just been on individuals receiving that medicaid but on the hospitals that are sort of the health care and even economic pillars in rural communities.

and i think that the health care crisis in rural america is one i hope that the congress would take a serious look at this year. i guess my first thing and i can't resist is perhaps medicaid expansion. >> well, some of us weren't fortunate enough to have a state that expanded medicaid. >> i couldn't resist. you know. that would be one place to go. i mean, the federal government -- >> i would agree with you. >> i bet. the federal government needs to acknowledge that they underpay -- i mean, med pack and others acknowledge this. this isn't just industries talking about ourselves. ama has said the same on the physician side. but i think the federal government and state governments have a responsibility to pay more adequately. the truth of the matter is and we haven't even talked about this is a cost shift. private insurers pay more and insurance companies pay less. that should end. >> ms. thornton, how important are medicaid, bad debt and low payments helping hospitals make up for inadequate reimbursements? >> well, i'm not an expert in medicaid policy, so unfortunately i can't get into

if i could take our time to lock in on agriculture and rural america for a second. as i look at the big picture, transportation creates about 29% of this country's carbon emissio emissions, industry about a fourth, and agriculture about 9%, so we feed this entire country and only produce about 9% of carbon emission, and we're still able to transport another fourth of our products out of the country with that in mind. in my adult lifetime we're doubling the agriculture production. we're using less water but still over the last decade, agriculture's had a smaller carbon footprint, so i'm really proud of that. what is the d.o.e. doing to help promote conservation, promote innovation? so even though we're improving, agriculture wants to keep improving. how can we keep working together? what can we do to put wind beneath your sail? >> i think there's a couple of areas that i would mention just that i've seen, again, in my travels through the national labs and keep in mind, one of my prior jobs in the state of texas would be the agriculture commissioner for eight years, s

hiring people we put up on the website so how are you approaching rural america quick. >> i am working with usda because i care about her former. >> sure. but how are you getting the word out? i thank you want to do and i want to do it but the question is how. >> through the local chambers of commerce and local community banks. >> and any other suggestions. >> i would love to know whether it is a regional split. and ag exports. and with china quick. >> the backstop community corporation. >> is the backstop to the commodity credit organization quick. >> so if you go away ccc potentially goes away? >> know. we help them when we can when they do not fulfill their role. >> i have a bevy of other questions i tend to vote for reauthorization but senator menendez did touch on what is important we don't know that demand if it is at 135,000,150 or 200? we would like to know. >> thank you mister chairman and president reed and those beneficiaries. >> that is a target from the last reauthorization charter. what's the smallest business xm has ever helped quick. >> a pattern company that was pretty

from american companies and want to be able to support our customers who buy our products for the rural america. maria: it's a good point because tub is a qualcomm and intel have seen an impact the stock prices ever since the ban on huawei. although they are using some kind of a walk around to actually get the shipments. what has been the impact they are in terms of not being able to get the supplies from those companies? >> the full impact of it isn't really going to kick in until august 19. when the full limitations go into effect. my concern is the long term. we want to be able to buy the best technology which is american. if we are forced to buy technologies in other parts of the world it will not be a temporary thing, it could hurt america for a long time. maria: if you are getting wet from the suppliers?>> high-end technology. we spent $11 billion, it is serious american jobs. maria: secretary pompeo blazers a national security risk because it and some of the chinese government wants huawei to download data, after the chinese government, they will do so. >> we really have two issues. we h

insignificant, especially to parts of the country like i represent, rural america, where people struggle to make ends meet from payday to payday. whoeak with business owners are growing and expanding their businesses. i talked with investment companies that are investing in the energy-rich, energy development in my region of the country. so i have a lot of reasons to be optimistic, because i know american history. and i know where we started. and i know that at the beginning of the civil war, we had practically no money in the budget. we overcame that. at the beginning of world war i, we struggled. at the end of world war ii, we had some of our highest debt and we recovered. we can do this. we can recover from this. and we can make responsible fiscal decisions, if we sit down and we get politics out of the way and we put the american people first. host: cheryl on our republican line. caller: good morning. yes, i had a question -- is it true that we spend $250 billion a year on issues dealing with the illegal alien publishing? if that is true, does it add to the national debt? i was also

i grew up in rural america. i know what struggle looks like there. about the struggle for your family. rep. craig: one of the things i'm most passionate about is making sure families have access to health care they can afford. my family did not have access themselves for a lot of my childhood. it is probably no secret that i have been working really hard to make sure that we stabilize the affordable care act and work toward how do we structure health care to make sure that every american has access to it. up going did you end from arkansas to minnesota? the st. jude ran medical foundation. a foundation that provided heart treatment for low income women. i'm sure that is no surprise, given my own childhood. saint jude recruited me from another medical technology company in tennessee. i moved from arkansas to tennessee when i was 18 to go to college. 60 miles from home. and i worked two jobs to put myself through college. just like my mom had done all those years before. my family looks like what every opportunity ought to be in america. that is that i

silicon valley with job creation and a new economy to communities left out into communities and rural america in communities of color. right now almost every american is a consumer of technology but if you get to participate in the creation of these news jobs and wealth. we have to do a better job of making sure people from around the country to participate and have access to the jobs of the future. >> host: can you give an example of what you mean by well-crafted? >> guest: for example, an privacy regulation we want to make sure that before people transfer data they get an individual consent but we may not need an individual's consent if a company is just transferring data about a third party verification for a credit card. you probably don't want to have to consent every time an ordinary business practice is done to verify that your credit card is yours. we need a regulation that says yes, let's consent for collection of data but make an exception for ordinary business use cases. that is how, for example, california's privacy law was modeled. >> host: congressman ro khanna joining us at the

>> so a significant increase in the funding, all of this operates in rural america and inner cities. >> before my dad worked at ford and finally got access to healthcare. i went to one of those clinics. in southwest detroit. i remember going in and they do all of those things but it was required for us to get access to school. to do the medical exams. i really believe, the trump administration's refusal to extend the aca threatens to widen the existing healthcare gap and make it harder for americans to access healthcare if they needed. on our road to medicare for all, crossing my fingers, we must continue to close the gap and expand vital care. i represent the third and fourth congressional district in the country and i can tell you, at the front line when i speak to my residence, healthcare is always at the forefront. between taking care of their children, groceries and those everyday issues. thank you again for your panel and thank you mister chairman. >> thank you, mister jordan. >> mister isasi . it looks a lot like a former chairman's name. i think i've counted no less than four

why in rural america do they plunge? the good jobs -- the new jobs that we have been creating are the so-called intellectual growth industries. tech, things like that. health care. those are concentrated in big cities. and secondly, as you know there's been a trend among particularly younger americans to want to be in cities, to be in real cities where a lot of things going on and rural america has been totally left behind and actually totally left behind in the south more so even than the rest of the country. again, democrats play not carry the south, but there are the pockets of voters out there that democrats ought to be able to get. >> gene robinson, even as we have this conversation the president is tweeting. the top line very good numbers on the economy, much potential for growth. he goes on to talk about trade deals being negotiated and how he's changing our relationship with countries that he says have treated us unfairly. he will point to the unemployment rate. he'll point to the stock market. a lot of figures h

community health centers that operate in rural america, inner cities. the most important sources of primary care in this country. >> before my dad worked for motorcoach, we find that access to healthcare thanks to his union. i went to one of those clinics. -- clinic in southwest to try. i remember just going in -- do all those things. air is required for us to be able to even get access to schools, right? to do the medical exams. i mean, think about those kinds of things. i really believe, the trump administration's refusal to defend the aca threatens to widen existing healthcare gaps, and make it even harder for americans to access care if they needed. on a road medicare for all, crossing my fingers. we must continue to work to close our healthcare gaps and expand vital care for all americans, not dismantle it. represent the third, fourth congressional district in the country. and i can tell you, at the front line, when i speak to so many of my residents, healthcare is always at the forefront of them choosing, like miss burton talked about, between, yo