. >> a name we have not heard on the hillary veep list is tom vilsack of iowa, former eye eye governorpittsburgh, has rust belt cred there and this say safe, stable pick. if she wants somebody who is not going to sort of cause any controversy, somebody who is sort of reliable person for campaigning and governing, he would be it. as one democrat pointed out to me this week in bringing up vilsack he also would have no impact at all on the senate and if you think about her other options almost all of them would have some impact on control of the senate. even tim cain is being looked at strongly. that seat would be up in the fall 2017. you'd only have a guaranteed democratic seat for one year in virginia. with vilsack no impact at all. >> she'll wait for trump i think before making her decision. >> tim cain has been a city councilman, a mayor, governor and a senator and he speaks fluent spanish, which tom vilsack does not do. i covered him for a long time. i believe you're right. i think he will be on the list. tim kaine has a lot of attributes. he is from a red state and now represents a

i think secretary vilsack has done an excellent job of working across lines, with with the fda or ep. just to give you one example. when you go out into farm country today energy meet with farmers, you mentioned that three letter word, the three \30{l1}s{l0}\'30{l1}s{l0} words to farmers, epa. and invariably people see that as the enemy. they don't see the fda as the enemy. some do but they see the epa as the enemy. a lot of this is political. a lot of this is style. a lot of this is sometimes not the best political judgment be made at the highest point a lot of this is people just don't want to listen out in the countryside. but if the departments were characterized in such a way where it looked like they had a much more leadership role on the items within their jurisdiction, that i think you could probably do a better job politically with some of the other issues, these environmental conservation issues that are coming up. we can talk more about policy judgments by they don't think reorganizing the government for reorganization sake makes a lot of sense. leadership is the main thing

months since kerry launched his search speculation has narrowed including gephardt, iowa governor tom vilsacksenator john edwards. >> three people, nobody knew who john kerry would pick. at 6:00 the night before he announced, right before he announced his choice of who his vp would be, john kerry personally called the airplane decal company that he worked with to tell them he was going to need a new name added to his campaign plane. he told the decal company who his vice presidential choice was so they could make the sticker to put on the plane. he swore the decal company to secrecy. he didn't tell his campaign manager until four hours after he told the decal company. but then ultimately, with nary a leak, they ended up telling the whole world. >> john edwards' phone rang this morning at 7:30. on the other end, john kerry both formalized edwards' rock star status and answered democrats' demands too loud to ignore. the most tightly held secret in politics today unveiled. >> with your help, the next vice president of the united states of america will be senator john edwards from north carolina.

the tim kaine or tom vilsack, maybe that's not enough for a left that wants to see a real progressive on the ticket. >> rose: who would it be other than warren? sharrod brown or something like that? >> sharrod brown is someone i hear from clinton insiders. tom perez, labor secretary, comes out of the left. >> rose: labor and latino. that's right. drawing the parallel with the u.k. as well we see with jeremy corbyn who very much has been now voted down, but we still see rallies and support for him on the street and ignoring the real left. >> rose: opposed to members of the parliament but he had the labor rank and file in his favor. >> exactly. >> rose: where is trump on his own selection process? when somebody said there was a split between trump and family and him, i'm not sure who said the source is, there is a question as to when they would announce a vice president pick. should i read into that they have narrowed the choice and perhaps selected their running mate. >> based on my reporting, trump has not made a final decision but it's a very short list. llewylieu wean douse ski is g

months since kerry launched his search speculation has narrowed including gephardt, iowa governor tom vilsacksenator john edwards. >> three people, nobody knew who john kerry would pick. at 6:00 the night before he announced, right before he announced his choice of who his vp would be, john kerry personally called the airplane decal company that he worked with to tell them he was going to need a new name added to his campaign plane. he told the decal company who his vice presidential choice was so they could make the sticker to put on the plane. he swore the decal company to secrecy. he didn't tell his campaign manager until four hours after he told the decal company. but then ultimately, with nary a leak, they ended up telling the whole world. >> john edwards' phone rang this morning at 7:30. on the other end, john kerry both formalized edwards' rock star status and answered democrats' demands too loud to ignore. the most tightly held secret in politics today unveiled. >> with your help, the next vice president of the united states of america will be senator john edwards from north carolina.

in this case, the only chair has been tom vilsack. the longest serving cabinet member. and what the white house rural council was designed to do was make sure the federal agencies were working together in a way to make the greatest impact in rural place as well as make sure that there's a place within the federal government, within the white house for partnership with external stakeholders with the private sector. rural topportunity investment i a perfect example of that. and the rural council has focused on a number of priorities including job creation and economic recovery. drought response. it's focused on manufacturing in rural places and accessing export markets, more recently child poverty has been a priority. but in the food space, what the white house rural council has done, i'll just mention a couple of things is something, i'll mention one really granular one. u.s. department of agriculture, food and nutrition service, folks who administer the s.n.a.p. program and other programs such as summer meals, one priority in recent years has been making sure rural plac

forward, this president has continued to emphasize, through his rural council, for instance -- tom vilsackding that charge; that we have to expand opportunity to every single zip code. we've got to expand broadband into eastern kentucky, because if we want to build the jobs of tomorrow, we've got to have the broadband infrastructure and things of that nature. >> let's talk about the other presidential candidate for a second, if we can. what impact do you think a donald trump presidency would have on latino citizens? >> well, again, i -- i can't -- because i'm here in my official capacity, i won't comment on any particular candidate. what i will simply say here is that, you know, america is at is best when we marshal the collective power of we. and i remember vividly going down to selma a year and a half or so ago to celebrate -- to mark the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. and that's where the president said the most important word in a democracy is we. and when we come together as a nation, we do great things. when we come together, business and labor, working together, we do great thin

i met with secretary vilsack this week but as i recall the fire budget is basically eating up everything else. >> yeah. typically spend more than half of our budget now just on firefighting. if you add in other fire costs kit go north of that. >> i think he said 15, 20 years ago it was about 20%. >> about one sixth. >> now it's over half >> yes. >> i think the point i'm getting at and i think you confirmed is that to the extent that happens and crowds out spending on other forest management, for example clearing the undergrowth, selective thinning in turn make more fires -- fires more likely? >> that's exactly right. and in states like maine, we're -- you don't have as much federal land. we're working with your state forresters to provide help to them so they can work with private land owners. and the budget funds are less as well. >> madam chair, that's all i have. i think this is a very important issue. i know you recognize that we're in inadvertently making the fires worse. thank you. >> thank you, senator king. and i think that the discussion was -- is important recognizing that when