eric cantor, mike lee, and tim scott outlined their plans. we want to talk to you about policy solutions for bringing back the middle class and solving problems of poverty that we have seen for 50 years. anniversary ofth the great society speech. that was the beginning of an experiment that remade the way our government interacts with citizens. particularly the citizens who are economically vulnerable. president johnson painted a picture of the great society with the following words. it is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. it is a place where ledger is a welcome chance to reflect. it is a place where the city of man service the needs of the body and the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. those words would be unusual coming from most politicians today and, gives me a minor sense of panic to think of the government worrying about the quality of my leisure time. the government wants to make sure you are never bored. it is a little bit dated. of whatreminder stimulated the modern

i say google tim scott. this is a man who thinks for himself. can you talk a little bit more broadly about what you have learned from the great society program? what have they done well? what have they done poorly and how can we learn from it? >> if you step back for a second, i like to think for myself but i have listened to you for a long time and learned a lot. when the most important lessons is that diet mountain dew tastes almost as good as mountain dew. [laughter] diet mountain dew tastes almost as good as regular mountain dew. i appreciate that, thank you for pointing that out. in addition, when you think about things that fail and things that work, that diet mountain dew really does matter. they wanted to feel good and make a difference. the fact of the matter is to kids like me growing up in houses of francis scott living in the wrong zip code, it did not work very well. when you look at those same zip codes, things are getting worse. that is part of the challenge that we face. we have to try to figure out how to have an education syste

senator tim scott could make history in november. r scott is poised to become the first african-american to win a statewide election since reconstruction. but listen to this. representative clyburn says, if you call congress with a pigmentation that he has, who votes against the interest and aspiration of the people in south carolina, i guess that's progress. joining us, reverend michael fauk ner. nice to see you, sir. >> it's always a pleasure, greta. >> and i'd like to say at the outset, i've never heard tim scout take a swipe back at the representative clyburn and certainly not that vicious. why is congressman clyburn saying this? >> i think it's despicable that congressman clyburn would use the injustices of racism that have happened in our country and may still be happening as political cover to activate their base. they are still doing the same thing. and they are attacking black republicans and honorable people like tim scott in an effort to galvanize their base and take attention away from some of the dysfunction in the admini

i say google tim scott. this is a man who thinks for himself. can you talk a little bit more broadly about what you have learned from the great society program? what have they done well? what have they done poorly and how can we learn from it? a if you step back for second, i like to think for myself but i have listened to you for a long time and learned a lot. when the most important diet mountain dew tastes almost as good as regular mountain dew. i appreciate that, thank you for pointing that out. in addition, when you think about things that fail and things that work, that diet mountain dew really does matter. they wanted to feel good and make a difference. is toct of the matter kids like me growing up in houses of francis scott living in the wrong zip code, it did not work very well. when you look at those same zip codes, things are getting worse. that is part of the challenge that we face. we have to try to figure out how to have an education system that is not driven by zip codes. we have to study the root and not the fruit. we have a conv

a democrat congressman slams senator tim scott for being black and a republican.a fair and balanced debate next. >>> it's one of the most anticipated movies of the season but what do hugh jackman and patrick stewart really think about getting back into their x men roles? they tell us coming up.ç ♪ can you hear it? ♪ fueling the american spirit. ♪ no matter when, ♪ no matter where, ♪ marathon will take you there. ♪ >>> quick headlines *fplt overnight tensions on a hair trigger in the ukraine. [gunshots] >> cameras capture the moment ukrainian soldiers open fire on a crowd hoping to break away from kiev, i guess, if you're going to believe the votes. votes being held in two regions, results overwhelmingly in favor ofç leaving ukraine. in north and south korea in a war of words after racist and sexist comments made by pyongyang's media, south korea saying north korea must disappear soon. >> playing politics with race coming up again. a democratic congressman slamming senator tim scott for being black and a republican. james clyburn blaming to "the washington post"

>> what he said is the bottom line and tim scott is fight for all south carolinians. jobs program, job training bill he just signed with corey booker. he's doing that through education access which is supported by the black community overwhelmingly. >> this is not exactly out of the blue. you hear this stuff all the time, ugly stuff aimed at black conservatives like clarence thomas, who's routinely called horrible names, i won't repeat them here, because he diverges ideologically from the majority of black voters. isn't that a sign of progress that you have a black person who has his own views on things? isn't that what we want? >> i don't think that's what we're arguing against. i have no problem with clarence thomas having his own views or tim scott having their own views. the argument clyburn is traying to make, folks in the civil rights movement are trying to make, within you have a member of congress that votes against protecting people's voting rights or a member of congress that will cut wick programs, cut programs that benefit the african-american, latino, lgt

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there is james clyburn right there, the problems that he has with congressman tim scott of south carolinaems he has are really rooted in the skin color of congressman scott. he says. this. if you call progress electing a person with a pigmentation that he has who votes against the interests and aspirations of 90% of the black people in south carolina, then i guess that's progress. so his problem is, tim scott is black but doesn't vote as he thinks black man should vote. can i tell if you a white republican said something like, this i think probably be in prison. >> reverend michael faulkner was on greta last night saying just how deplorable this type of commentary is. listen. >> greta, we applauded in the 60's, we applauded the success of any black person that we saw that was advancing the cause of democracy, the cause of our people. we applauded those successes. and now it seems that people like representative clyburn are using those -- the suffering and the struggle that we it to get here as a way of exploiting their continued political gain. and that is deplorable to me. >> you won't s

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today, south carolina republican tim scott pressed burwell on whether she'd be an independent voice.secretary of h.h.s., will you in fact be the health and human services secretary for the american people, or will you be as your predecessor has been, the ambassador of obamacare? >> i'm here to serve the american people. i'm part of the president's administration. i'm honored to be appointed. first and foremost i serve the american people. i believe the president and his policies are aligned with that and will work. but i am here to serve the american people. >> reporter: that line of questioning drew a strong rebuke from iowa democrat tom harkin, the chair of the committee. >> it is my opinion, based on the years of work with kathleen sebelius, secretary sebelius, that she performed her job admirably, and that she was a responsible and attentive secretary of health and human services and carried out the law as we wrote it. >> reporter: democrats also touted benefits of the law, and connecticut's chris murphy zeroed in on republican governors who've balked at embracing key provisions,

tim scott, the senator from south carolina, who was the author of the skills version of virginia's bill in the united states senate, chairman harkin deserves a lot of credit, particularly on his focus on those with disabilities and we preserve the programs that make sense for people with disabilities and retraining them and giving them the training they need to have meaningful and skillful employment in the future. but most importantly of all, lamar alexander, the ranking member, kind of steered the ship. he was the rudder in the water that helped guide us to the point we got to today. i am pleased that both the senate and the house republican -- the house and senate republican conferences have all had presentations. the feedback we have gotten to date is extremely favorable. we hope this is going to be one of those rare occasions in 2014 where republicans and democrats come together for the benefit of the american people to address the number-one problem we face in america and that's unemployment and underemployment and empower people through innovation and opportunity for jobs in the

i am talking about the congressman as well as tim scott. they are pretty proud. they are pretty proud of their hometown guy getting this national stage. the democrats are less thrilled about the fact that this has evolved into a select committee, is a conservative area. i would say they are pretty proud. >> what other details do you know about the formation of the committee? we would assume he would be tapped as the chairman. what is the next step? think itne seems to will be this week. i have not heard when there will be a vote. i believe at that point the minority leader would be allowed to make the appointments for the other members of the committee. we don't know if the democrats are going to be able to participate. lot we are going to learn a about the committee -- what their powers are, how long they have to issue their report. the structure it will take. how many hearings they will have. the special channel on benghazi. you can follow her. she is the washington correspondent for the greenville news. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. up our

the upstate congressman as well as tim scott. and since they are pretty proud. but obviously the democrats are less thrilled about the fact that this has evolved into a select committee, but upstate greenville and spartanburg where rep. gowdy is from it is a conservative area and so far they're proud. >> host: what other details to you know about the formation of a committee? it was assumed that rep. gowdy would be tapped as the chairman tsk. in the ante when that resolution may come to the house floor? >> guest: everyone seems to think it will be this week. i have not heard an exact a.m. when there will be a vote. i believe at that point the speaker and the minority leader would be allowed to make the appointments for the other members as a committee. we don't know yet if the democrats will participate. we will learn a lot about the committee. what their powers are, how long may have to issue their report said, you know, the structure that it will take, how many hearings it will have, that kind of thing. >> host: on twitter tweeting earlier about the news, spec

the house majority leader eric cantor and senator mike lee and tim scott outline plans for helping the middle class. that is followed by another panel on conservative solutions to domestic issues. if we don't step up the enforcement side -- the enforcement side brings the media attention. if we are going to say that the toy thing we can rely on is make these universities and colleges do what they should be doing is for them to get a bad story -- that's a lot of victims. that to me would be a depressing conclusion are in we've got to figure out some way to up the up waitings short for another tragedy to hit the front pages .>> the house and i would say less the dollar amount to do the work .onto path that though. i think the changes i have seen institutions start to make is when they are immediately under investigation so we don't know if the finest $35,000 or upwards of one million dollars. i would like to see that investment in a bigger team. >> in all fairness, the fines will be paying for this. have an issue with budget in our government, where does that money come from? doneinstitu

throw in brian sandoval, marco rubio, tim scott. i'm throwing auout all those names.ocrats statewide of people of color. >> you put a woman of color, southerner, either southwest or southeastern, on that republican ticket, someone who's a governor who has a good, strong record. what you don't have with hillary clinton is that capacity to learn something about them because we don't know that much about them. and it is a -- it is game on. am i wrong about that? >> not if they're pro-life, right? i think that does dramatically reshape the national presidential electorate. >> i'm not so sure. >> they're not going to necessarily go for her in that case. >> sarah palin showed us as a classic example that that was an insulting thing. >> clearly we're going to continue to talk about this during the commercial break. when we come back and the tv cameras are on again, i'm actually going to talk about something slightly different. i will say this, though, still to come, the nerdland unofficial kickoff to summer. and an update on the biggest political moment to ever happen on thi

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you are starting your day with scott mcgrew and then later tim mcgraw over at "today" show. >>> a south dakota court could decide to let him depose diane sawyer along other network correspondents following its coverage of a meat product known as pink slime. two years ago beef products inc. sued seeking over $1 billion in damages. abc's coverage led to hundreds of layoffs after consumer were misled into believing the product was unsafe. each news broadcast said the product was safe to eat. >>> a new ntsb report find the government did not properly test lithium batteries which found problems across the world. certified the dreamliner er 78 but they criticized the process the faa used and said the organization should have thought out technical advice from someone other than boeing. the dreamliner is the first commercial jet to rely on the rechargeable batteries, but the batteries caught fire on several planes. >>> keep an eye on shares of san francisco's based gap this morning. in a turn around effort with a new leader in finding and developing fashion. yesterday the company said income wa

. >> scott, what does this say about tim cook?romk what it says the beginning, we have indicated that tim cook will be a more ceo thannal type of steve jobs was. we have seen that in terms of tim cook being willing to allocate capital to a dividend. he has done a number of things on the m&a front. also, i think that he is more open to considerations from ot hers. >> i am listening to "lose your self." >> are we playing that on air? scott, are you factoring this into your members? does this boost their revenue for the year? >> i think it is way too early to incorporate this into our thinking about apple. at this point, it is an unconfirmed report. we will wait to see if apple comes out with a release indicating they are moving forward with this. we do not know what the business model is for beats electronics. >> ra. thank you for joining us. he is the head of tech research at s&p. that brings us to the twitter question of the day. why does apple need dr. dre? tweet us with your theory. >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ >> good

tim cook has to manage that. he didn't manage it with scott forestall.id they get content deals three years from now that they couldn't have gotten otherwise are the key executives still around and has beats found its place with the apple brand in a way that makes both look better than they do today. it's a tall order. we'll see if they do it. >> it's described as an internal advisory role, what they shot down was the idea that jimmy was going to come in and do something interesting like bring on music or push new directions or become a record label. he said he's done with acrecord p -- being a record producer. now he's a technology guy. as of the interview the deal was four hours old so we'll see. >> we just talked -- netflix said his takeaway was the product pipeline was the best he's seen in 25 years. is that sales talk or does he mean it? >> it's sales talks. it's the type of thing tim cook says. what i think is critical because they've done this deal what they say gets scrutinized more than ever. now they can't get away with making the sales talk. p

scott: yeah can you? angie: good job. you're very patriotic. thanks for being on the show. first business continues right after this. tim biggam joins us for chart talk on this friday. good morning, tim and for investors looking for a value play, what are some good old u.s.a. stocks? > > yeah absolutely look at names like coca-cola certainly a warren buffet favorite. this stock is kind of languish, underperforming the s&p over the past couple of years. it's got a nice dividend yield on it approaching 3%. also some solid growth, certainly not that spectacular growth that a lot of people are paying too much for, but a name like coca-cola is about as all-american as you can get both on the yield front and on a solid growth front as well. > > what about another consumer discretionary stock, tim? > > another name would be procter & gamble. the stock has come down as well here. it certainly makes a multitude of household names everyone's familiar with, again combines some pretty steady growth here which i think will probably be rewarded over the next year or so along with the solid dividend yield. so i kind of like that secto

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. >> coming up the last concert on the plaza from tim mcgraw right after these >>> well, good morning, everyone. 8:26. i'm scott-bye to a childhood staple this weekend. san jose skate on blossom hill road in south san jose holds its final events over the next few days. the so long to skate concert series is a farewell. the south bay's last roller skating rink. the closure will leave the silicon valley roller girls, the local roller derby league, without a place to play. san jose skate has been known by many names over the years, including aloe hah, roxies, and golden state roller palace. let's check in with mike. >> also known as that place where i fell and hurt myself. >>> looking over here, everybody, all skates to the bay bridge. toll plaza has a little backup there, crossing to the san francisco area. more slowing and a little confusion as surface street traffic is disturbed. southbound 280 is closed from sixth down towards pennsylvania avenue. 101 is your alternate. and that's because of the retrofit work that's going on there, all the way through 5:00, scheduled tuesday morning for the reopen. there is a

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