you have heard some of the stories about efforts to build up enormous sicilia fees that will actually not be used. perhaps with the expectation that we would be around. now they're just turning into these enormous warehouse is that will probably fall into disrepair relatively rapidly. is president karzai firmly in control? guest: he has been a contentious leader since his last election in 2009. there areon has been questions about the way he was voted in. a lot of improper uses of polls and so on. a lot of corruption. is he acting logically? given the circumstances that he faces and the fact he has multiple audiences, afghan, regional, the united dates, nato, his own personal interest, it is hard to say that being is not a relatively sane response. try to push them out of power as early as 2009. he believes the obama administration is completely against them. president obama did talk to him the other day. the first time since june. karzai has made it clear that he says of this as something less the interest of and certainlyl serving his political interests and more serving a very narr

third, in addition to the proposals sicilia mentioned, the president puts forward in here on the jobriven skills agenda -- the skills needed to give people the jobs that are open that they need that will be open. the proposals here are based on solid evidence and they have bipartisan support. there is a $4 billion initiative on community college innovation $2 billion on apprenticeship funds, a reemployment plan, $2 billion, for a bridge to work to make sure that while people are unemployed, they can have a chance to connect to a job and still have basic labor protections. third, dislocated workers on long-term unemployment -- we do reform -- the president reforms the trade adjustment program and the existing dislocated worker program into one program that is simple and clear and reformed and accountable. in doing that, he would increase from 530,000 dollars as people for try to find a new job in a form and dollar public fund for the long-term unemployed. finally, initiatives that would give employers subsidies and help if they hire youth that are disadvantaged or people who face high

you have heard some of the stories about efforts to build up enormous sicilia fees that will actuallye used. perhaps with the expectation that we would be around. now they're just turning into these enormous warehouse is that will probably fall into disrepair relatively rapidly. is president karzai firmly in control? guest: he has been a contentious leader since his last election in 2009. there areon has been questions about the way he was voted in. a lot of improper uses of polls and so on. a lot of corruption. is he acting logically? given the circumstances that he faces and the fact he has multiple audiences, afghan, regional, the united dates, nato, his own personal interest, it is hard to say that being is not a relatively sane response. try to push them out of power as early as 2009. he believes the obama administration is completely against them. president obama did talk to him the other day. the first time since june. karzai has made it clear that he says of this as something less the interest of and certainlyl serving his political interests and more serving a very narrow con