Rahm Emanuel

Without it, there's no middle class in America.

That's the door you got to walk through to open up all the other doors.

And to me, now, one last comment, and then this is also politics, which you and I are, at least the two of us are good at.

I found it fascinating in the Texas special.

The Republicans said, oh, this is a warning, which is true.

Democrats said, look at his background.

What he said was, you listen, I stayed away from all the cultural issues and I focused on education and vocational ed.

You ever hear that before from anybody else?

That's my point.

I've been talking about education because as you said, it may not be one, it doesn't come, quote unquote, under affordability, but it's where people live their lives.

Yeah, so let me two to three things.

Yeah, no, look.

One is, when I was mayor, one of the most, I think, monumental changes we made.

Only school system in the country to do this.

You couldn't get your high school diploma without showing us a letter of acceptance from a college, a community college, a branch of the armed forces, or a vocational school.

The only system in the country was called Learn, Plan, Succeed.

And we hired a ton of college and career counselors.

I mean, it was backed up with, you know, we were the first city ever to do free community college if you earned a B average, et cetera.

But to me, you want to be a plumber?

You want to be an electrician?