BALDWIN: Just into CNN, a senior administration official says President Trump is expected to select a FOX News contributor, Morgan Ortagus, as the new State Department spokesman. She would replace Heather Nauert, who also had previously worked for FOX. Nauert left the position after she was slated to be nominated as the new U.S. ambassador to the U.N., but later withdrew herself from consideration there. The official cautions, while Ortagus is expected to be selected, she has not officially been named. Presidential candidate and Senator Amy Klobuchar did not land in the top five in a new poll on Democratic contenders here, looking ahead to 2020, but she could pull ahead with her monster proposal on a platform that is a favorite with President Trump. I am talking infrastructure. Senator Klobuchar wants to spend a trillion dollars on this, building up roads and railways and airports, rebuilding schools, insuring clean water. And on top of all of it, she wants to connect every house to the Internet by 2022. And the senator explained to CNN's Suzanne Malveaux why it is infrastructure that she's choosing.</s>SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's been so long neglected, and someone has to take the lead on infrastructure. And why not the person that lives a mile away from the bridge that fell down in the middle of the country? And that's my first answer. The second is, of course, health care. I have come out strongly for bringing down pharmaceutical prices and have introduced a number of bills. I'm a leading advocate. You can do two things at once. But this is something where that there's common agreement, and there always has been. You need commitment from Congress to be able to pay for this. And I want to lay this out as a marker.</s>BALDWIN: With me now, CNN political analyst Lisa Lerer, who's also a national political reporter for "The New York Times." And, Lisa, this is -- it's a huge idea. We know that the senator plans to pay for this by increasing in -- the corporate tax rate to 25 percent, closing the tax loopholes.
Amy Klobuchar Announces Infrastructure Plan