host: christian weller, your thoughts.st: i think the two questions are nicely dovetailing on each other. the first is should we have socialng outside of security that is to some degree mandatory. we are actually going in that direction. it is not a federal initiative. it is largely state. there are about 28 states looking to establish private options for workers. illinois and california are looking at those options. airport,up the first and part of the paycheck automatically goes into an irony employee, have designated. the california model is little different. every employer has to get the employees to contribute, and enroll them in the state-sponsored program. you then invest in something low cost, low risk, low fees. you always say no. -- you could always say no. that seems to be the model that people are looking at, and the government is encouraging that through new regulations that would make it easier for the state to do it for the private sector worker. i think there is a general groundswell for doing something in

host: christian weller, your thoughts.st: i think the two questions are nicely dovetailing on each other. the first is should we have socialng outside of security that is to some degree mandatory. we are actually going in that direction. it is not a federal initiative. it is largely state. there are about 28 states looking to establish private options for workers. illinois and california are looking at those options. airport,up the first and part of the paycheck automatically goes into an irony employee, have designated. the california model is little different. every employer has to get the employees to contribute, and enroll them in the state-sponsored program. you then invest in something low cost, low risk, low fees. you always say no. -- you could always say no. that seems to be the model that people are looking at, and the government is encouraging that through new regulations that would make it easier for the state to do it for the private sector worker. i think there is a general groundswell for doing something in

stitzel weller whiskey and old country ham.g up in one of those old books that i -- that i study. it's an old-fashioned oyster pie. >> anthony: ooh. >> sean: so just grab your spoon and just dig all the way down. the oysters are in the bottom. >> anthony: how old is this recipe? >> sean: it was well-documented in the 19th century pre-civil war. >> anthony: that's good. >> bill: this is amazing. >> anthony: yes. >> bill: oh god. >> sean: so shrimp and grits is the dish of charleston. i mean, it really is. it's the dish i crave when i leave charleston and come back. this version is one of the older ones where we actually make hominy first by nixtamalizing the corn, so you'll taste a little -- the grits are a little bit different. >> anthony: oh, yes. oh, that's really great-looking. >> sean: and we make a brown gravy, which is the most classic way, and on top crispy pig ears. >> anthony: you get grannies coming and saying, "i haven't tasted this since i was a little kid." >> sean: yeah, exactly, man. >> anthony: wow, that's good.

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host: christian weller is a public policy professor at the university of massachusetts. his book is, "retirement on the rocks." thank you for chatting with us this morning. coming out in next, we will be take your phone calls on your financial situation. we want to know how you and your family are faring in this economy. later on, we will hear from our "newsmakers" guest. that will air sunday at 10:00. it will be senator mark warner. he talks about security and digital encryption legislation in congress. here is a bit of what he had to say. [video clip] >> we need to set the policy. congress needs to do its job. as somebody who spent a career in this field, and then the last from thes digging in intel's side, it is extraordinarily complex. i'm not sure whether there is enough technical expertise in congress at the moment when you have apple taking an absolutist position, the fbi taking an absolutist position. we saw they did not come to pass because there was a different way around the problem. i mentioned the police chief in san bernardino has endorsed the commission as

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. >> thank you to kasie hunt and kristen weller. joining me now is oregon jeff merkley. you for being with us. >> you're welcome. >> you stand alone for supporting your fellow senator? >> you bet. bernie sanders has been a very bold and very determined voice on the biggest issues facing america. whether it has been restructuring our financial system, campaign cash, global warming, these issues and certainly living wage jobs. and so on each of those areas he's been consistent long before he ran for the presidency. he's tapped into the deep frustration of americans with a system that has become highly rigged both politically and economically and he is the right voice, i feel, the most effective voice in terms of taking our country in the direction it needs to go. >> are you at all concerned by the questions that have been raised about his difficulties in answering the editorial board of the new york daily news on some of the signature issues. what would he do? how would you break up the banks? what would happen to the jobs that would be lost? what authority does the fed ha

on speaker phone wherever she is an reading off of a form and out loud and discuss it what she did weller didn't do well so it is important for them to come together even the cupped or the driver to be able to function. >> has the afghanistan will leapfrog kin an area that we were speaking about is that digital technology generally can be instrumental with the other issues with the quality of education and financial inclusion of larry we see significant results in parts of africa on digital finance in afghanistan to benefit from the structure to address the issues of development. >> i think i can think of other examples. as the details come back back, phones are testing to pay them directly. if somebody is trading to look up the internet in another part of a country so it is the tool to get more information and it can become very important so i cannot really talk more about that. >> as we talk about before coming here to be very impressed with your public statements end your commitments and leadership has been extremely inspiring as the first lady of afghanistan and with that i will take

msnbc's casey hunt is in brooklyn and kristen weller is in mid town manhattan.rt with you in brooklyn. surprising news, too. surprising to pick up an endorsement from one of his senate colleagues. also the timing that here we are in mid april and he picks one up. sign of momentum? sign of things to come at all for the sanders campaign? >> well, steve, i think a lot -- in many ways this is simply a sign of jeff merkley's home state. oregon is a place that has been very hospitable to bernie sanders. it was a place that hosted one of those first mega rallies last summer where we started to get a sense that bernie sanders was going to potentially be a more significant challenger to hillary clinton than anyone expected at the outset. so i do think it's still more noteworthy that this is the first of these congressional endorsements. that tells you, of course, a lot about the hillary clinton campaign but also how bernie sanders has interacted with his colleagues over his time at the senate. he's not someone known as having a lot of friends or close friends in the u.s.

jerry weller's crunching the numbers. is that even possible?>> i don't think so. $4 trillion, even if you are going to pay about his spending, $3 trillion a year. you would have to have the annual budget that does not seem possible. there were other problems because guess what, not just $19.2 trillion in debt as it is at this very moment. at the end of eight years it will be $26 trillion, an additional $6.8 trillion because as you know, this expansion expands and expands. a lot of people calling into question whether this can happen or not. most folks say no. a trump advisors said maybe what we can do is sell some of our assets. apparently we only have about $3.2 trillion worth of assets and i am not counting national parks, forests and museums here and guess what, the gao says you can't sell yosemite, can't know national park because by federal law they have to be held by the federal government. this just seems like an idea that's not going to happen. on the other hand he's the only candidate talking about our debt which is terrific. it's a go

and christian weller looks at whether americans are efficiently saving for retirement. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. next, proposals to eliminate federal student aid programs and to replace them with direct federal funding to the state. with higherscussion education leaders and scholars was hosted by new america. this is one hour and a half. >> thank you also much for being here today. we appreciate you taking your time on this cold saturday to enjoy this debate with us. ons is actually not focused the paper we released a few months ago. about as wea came were debating the different topics that formed our paper. that is printed within the lobby for anyone interested in having a shiny copy. actually compared them to the new america proposal. that is also in the lobby. both publications are thought-provoking and this debate is also thought-provoking. so, the proposition of today's dollarss any federal for higher education should go directly to states or institutions rather than student aid. arguing for the proposi

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jodie sweetin sings a country d duet with the lead singer of the roger wellers. parents. when your kids are driving you nuts, driving around in the back of the mini van, the parents are entertained, too. >> thank you for that. sometimes, it's long getting through the books for mom and dad. we were just talking. i have a 6-year-old and this is how they interface with reading. they swipefluidly how to do it. smart play. >> kids are on tablets and that's where they get information. i love when i see kids read. i'm passionate about, you know, doing something for kids. i've been rooted in family programming all these years. i got to see the "full house" kids grow up before my eyes. i've always been entertaining kids. this book will crack kids up. >> you knew bugars was the way to go. >> there is a song called "we love to fart." >> the puns are working. how fun was it coming up with the names? >> it was a world. i wanted to create a world that was fun for kids. come here, you little booger. come over here. that cracks kids up. i wanted to create a world where there was

christian weller, a senior fellow at the center for american progress.k through a little bit about what you think about the candidates. who do you think has the best plan in terms of the country's economy? >> well, i don't think you see much in the way of comprehensive growth strategies out there. on the democratic side there is no vision for growth. it's essentially policies for e redistribution and entitlement expansion. case vp cruz has a fairly standard set of proposals on regulatory relief. emphasis on small business and a big tax cut. but no real plan to balance the budget on the spending side. mr. trump is flatly anti-growth. big tariffs, proposals for tax cuts that don't add up either. i am not overwhelmed by the quality of the economic policy-making that we're seeing on either side of the race. >> i disagree a little bit. >> christian. >> i think what you see on the democratic side, especially secretary clinton, has couched a lot of her policies in terms of economic growth. >> yeah, but they don't create growth. you can say it. it doesn't do it.

today we're reminded as weller those who were lost -- of those who were lost on the e el faro d the loved ones they left behind and they remain in our thoughts and prayers. on a different topic, i wanted to come to the floor today and talk again about the zika virus. once again there was an announcement that it had been -- additional cases identified in florida. just to recap where we stand right now, zika has now spread to over 43 countries. there are over 500 cases in u.s. territory, most of them on the island of puerto rico. in my home state of florida, there are now 93 cases. it is the most of any state. and the peak mosquito season is directly ahead. now, a lot has happened since that time. we've learned more and more about this disease. for example, we're now learning that it has a direct link to another fatal illness striking people infected with it. we're learning in the recent science that it's not just the first trimester of pregnancy but also in potentially in the second trimester where unborn children can be impacted by this and the impacts are devastating. we're learning that