on Jonathan K. Parton. Welcome to K-Part. When I say the word, infrastructure. Do your eyes

glaze over? Do you get that feeling you get at a party when you realize you're trapped in a

conversation with the human equivalent of night well? If you answered yes to either of these

questions, then you've never talked about infrastructure with Mitch Landrue, White House

Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator. In this conversation, first recorded for Washington

Post Live on February 9, Landrue talked with passion and energy about infrastructure. The way

the rest of us talked about that last episode of White Lotus. The better America means using

products that have made America. So many of you know this. We basically started kind of letting

folks make stuff for us, you know, and send it back to us and charging us a lot more and

hollowing out small communities, especially in rural America. And we want to bring manufacturing

back as a president succeeding. Thank you for that question. 800,000 new manufacturing jobs,

200,000 more than we had before. So there's great evidence that this idea of using products

that have made America's work. Landrue is also the former mayor of New Orleans who took down

Confederate monuments and speaks openly and honestly about race. If you're still bored by the

infrastructure talk, stick around for Landrue to explain why in America racism is and continues to be

it's Achilles heel. When it comes to infrastructure, we're talking about 1.2 trillion dollars in

spending. You've traveled the country talking to governors, mayors, local officials, city planners.

What are you hearing more often about what infrastructure's improvements they need most in their

communities? They generally say, give me more, more, more everything. They have, as you know,

this is a big piece of change. 1.2 trillion dollars is the most that the federal government has

invested in infrastructure in the last 50 years and people would argue in the history of the country.

And it is an opportunity to completely rebuild the country as we know it

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