deserts, i want to do it completely free market. a vanilla business entity, those communities that are underserved are really thriving with pent up demand. if there's one thing missing in this economy it's demand. i want -- let others sit on the sidelines, i'm going to step up to the plate. >> i appreciate all of your work. the arts, the politics, the culture, the economics all of that, and my daughter would like you to throw something for her, the next mardi gras. >> the next time, i'll make sure she gets something. >> thanks. thanks for coming in tonight. >> wendell pierce, star of hbo's treme. the best new orleans thing in the world today. thanks so much for joining me . good evening americans and welcome to the ed show tonight from new york. jobs in america is the number one issue in this country and

republicans have done nothing about it. today republicans proved they care more about their presidential debate than getting americans back to work. and there's breaking news tonight, michael pap antonio and steve israel on the developments. a leading republican claims the president never understood the meaning of/11. find out who's in the zone tonight. and even chris christie is ripping eric kantor for his ridiculous stance on disaster

relief. >> we don't have time to wait for folks in congress to figure out how they want to offset this stuff with other budget cuts. >> tonight we're going to flood ravaged new jersey to talk to phil pascrall. good to have you with us tonight. interesting developments late in washington. for the first time, a speaker of the house has refused to let the president of the united states address the nation from the people's house. very unusual to say the least. today president obama announced he wanted to unveil his much-anticipated, much talked about jobs package one week from tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern time. the president set the speech for exactly the same date and time, 8:00 p.m. republicans are set to doe bait on this network from the reagan library. conflict, yes? resolution, should be pretty

easy. boehner refused to let the president have the house and the president has caved. an associate historian for the senate told the huffington post tonight, the senate historical office knows of no instance in which congress refused the president permission to speak before a joint session of the congress. boehner and the republicans have been hounding president obama to lay out a jobs plan for months. >> the american people are asking, where are the jobs? where are the jobs? where are the jobs? >> creating jobs. >> it's that simple. >> where are the jobs? where are the jobs, mr. president? >> mr. president, where are the jobs? >> now, the very same people want president obama to keep his powder dry so rick perry can have the spotlight to say stupid stuff like this? >> what's dumb is to oversee an economy that has lost that many millions of jobs to put

unemployment numbers over his four years will stay probably at 9%. to downgrade the credit of this good country. to put fiscal policies is in place, they were a disaster back in the '30s and try them again in the 2000s. that's what i consider to be the definition of dumb. >> michele bachmann mocked the president about the timing of his speech at a stop in des moines, iowa this afternoon. >> how they can destroy the united states of america. it isn't just president obama. senior citizens. my mom's 80, my step dad's 87. thank you. >> you see, the liberals wanted the president to go big on a

jobs package. i mean, real big. moving the date will make liberals furious in some corners of the country. but you know what, this president has nothing to hide. he has a track record. 17 months of private sector jobs being added to the economy. a stimulus package that no republican signed on to. well, a couple in the senate. the automobile industry has been saved. republicans were against that. here are the job numbers when it comes to the automobile industry as well. they add in there. july has the largest jump in demand for cars in eight years. see, all of this is bad numbers for the republicans because it makes the president look good. the president of the united states has made some pretty tough decisions. what to do with the automobile loan. what to do with the stimulus package. what to do with health care. and all along the republicans have fought him. today they're going to fight him on when he's going to give a

jobs speech? you may be sitting at home tonight unemployed. do you really care when the speech is going to be given? no. you care about whether washington is going to get together and work together on a jobs package. but once again this president, i guess you could say has smoked them out. he has proven to the country one more time that he can't even schedule a speech to the joint session of the congress without it being obstructed. that he won more time has proven to the country that the republicans, their number one priority is not in line with the priorities of the american people and that is jobs. their priority is their schedule, their tea time, their debate, their tax cuts, their deregulation. and they don't respect the president of the united states or the office. i started this program tonight saying this is the first time in the history of the country that the speaker of the house has said, nah, we don't want you

coming over. we have some votes to take, we're just back from vacation. we got other business. can't do it. so the president takes the high road and says, okay, i'll move it to thursday night. but i thought jobs was the number one priority. it's not. it's the republican schedule. and once again there, may be people in liberal corners across the country that say, obama caved again. no, he didn't. it's a speech and it's a plan. it's been much anticipated, it's been talked about for weeks. but even when it comes to a joint session of the congress, the republicans want to lower the bar when it comes to class and respect and priorities in this country. now, you tell me, who's on your side tonight, folks. is it boehner? is he on your side? or is he on the side of his cronies in the house who were more concerned about their hectic schedule. fact, they don't care about you

wokking folks in america. and they don't care about creating jobs. and that's why they've just been heckling from the stands. they've never been a player, and they proved it big time again tonight. get your cell phones out i want to know what you think. do republicans care about creating jobs for the unemployed? text a for yes, b for no. you can go to our are blog and comment as well. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now is steve israel of new york. steve, good to have you with us tonight. i find this absolutely amazing. there's going to be some people out there that say president obama caved. i don't see it that way. i think that he has done what every other president has done. i want to come over and talk to the country and i want to talk to the joint session and he's been denied -- >> how do you read this tonight, congressman? >> i don't know why anybody is

surprised is. the republicans have been in the majority of the house of representatives for 239 days. in 239 days they have not lifted a finger to help a single small business create a single job. now, will they not only lift a finger, they're turning a deaf ear to the president's ideas on how to create jobs. the fact of the matter is this, they want to wait a day, unacceptable. we will talk about it, we will fight for jobs for the middle class and working americans, every day, any day, any time. whenever they want to do it, we'll do it, we're fighting for jobs and they are fighting for tax cuts for the richest of the rich. if the president had announced he wanted to give a speech on bigger oil subsidies for oil companies, my guess is, the republicans would have done it tonight. >> why do you think the white house asked for the date they asked for, wednesday september 7th when they knew the presidential republican debate was going to be taking place and it will be the first debate that rick perry will be involved in, he is the front-runner in all of

the polls. why would the white house do that if they know it's a packed night at the office for politics? >> first of all, it's the first night we're back from the august district work period. at the beginning of this showing you showed john boehner, where are the jobs, where are the jobs, where are the jobs? now you have democrats saying, fine, it's our first night back, we'll tell you how we can create those jobs. for the republicans to say, that they will not allow the president to talk about job creation because of a republican presidential debate, it's like saying, we can't work because there's an old three stooges rerun going on. it's not acceptable. you're in the middle class, you're a working family, you lost your job, you're not interested in protocol, partisanship or posturing. you're not interested in the fact that this is another presidential debate. you want people in washington to be working together to develop jobs. not to use excuses, not to talk about jobs. and that's what the republicans are doing. >> are you surprised how this played out today quickly?

>> tragically i'm not surprised that the republicans would find another excuse not to talk about, not to fight for, not to pass any legislation to create jobs. they're all about one thing, it's crystal clear, partisanship, delaying, not job creation, but finding excuses for more partisanship. and the american people have to understand. with the house democratic majority, we would have passed these bills. we tried ten times to create investments in infrastructure, to put people to work building bridges and roads. ten times, and ten tiles the republicans told us where to go. they told the president of the united states where to go. >> good to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. joining me now is michael eric dyson, georgetown university professor. and mike papantonio. mike, the liberal reaction tonight, do you think they'll be mad at president obama for moving this? is this an appearance of caving?

or is this just being a good guy and trying to get along? >> i don't think there's any reason to be upset. look, he's doing what a good president should do. he's doing what we expect from a president. septemberth, it was all about this. this is the unleashing of rick perry on the national front. you have republicans in this full moon frenzy of expectations about rick perry delivering something. he's supposed to show us his debating skills, what an intellect he is. the truth,they've asked boehner to do what he easily does, they order boehner around like they usually do. they moved into this whineny baby mode that they always go into. rather than playing like a playing like a baby, obama acted like an adult. he put aside all that john boehner cry baby stuff and said, look, this is about the american job market. my job as president is to make

this economy better. but you know what, ed, it comes down to this real simple. three years ago, rush limbaugh said this, he summed it up when he said i hope obama fails and behind him came mitch mcconnell, he said basically the same thing. i hope he fails in health care, i hope he fails getting bin ladin. i hope he fails wokking out a budget and solving the deficit ceiling. they're out to make him fail. he did what an adult should do, said i'm going to go forward. >> we can only imagine what the reaction would have been if nancy pelosi pulled this on george bush in 200 when she took the gavel. michael eric dyson, i think the word respect comes into play here. what are your thoughts? >> aretha franklin is right, respect. this is one of the most egregious acts of disrespecting the president. time after time president obama has gone out of his way to

show -- as mike just said -- that he's the president, that he's willing to forgo his own personal inclinations for the benefit of the nation. here again the republicans are not interested in having discourse and dialogue about rebuilding the infrastructure to have an infrastructure bank, to talk about creating jobs, the 2 trillion -- >> professor, i have to ask you, why didn't president obama say no, we're going to do it wednesday night. i don't care when your debate is, jobs are important? does he look weak for not standing his ground? >> i don't think he does. if he does that, he gets into a bullying fight with boehner and another staredown. the last thing the american people want to see is the two sides saying, look, we can't cooperate. it is unprecedented that boehner as speaker of the house has refused the president his request. we know it's unprecedented. we know it's a tactic of bullying, of trying to goad this

president. if he refuses to do so, then he's? an untenable situation by conceding the legitimacy of moving into the next day. it shows he's the grown-up and he's willing to go forward and say, look, i put the jobs of the american people over this, but make no mistake, this is an act of flagrant disrespect that ought to be called out. >> pat, is the president a political winner with the american people on this? >> i think he is. the more he acts like an adult. and he contrasts himself with people like john boohoo boehner who is the voice of the republican party, who stands for -- he's part of that echo chamber. rush limbaugh wants this president to fail. fox news wants the president to fail. mcconnell wants this president to fail. it's not just this president they want to fail. they want the american worker to fail. they want america to fail. and that's the real sad part of this whole thing.

obama says, look, it's not important that i get in a fight with these colicky cry babies, what's important is i deliver what i said i was going to do. i was going to come up with a jobs plan, bring congress back, and we were going to solve this problem. that's what an adult does. >> we take a look now, the president's going to be up against a pretty tough audience. it's the opening night of the nfl with the saints and the packers, the two past winners of the super bowl. i hope the country's going to be paying attention. the debate will be on this network, the speech to follow the next night. thanks for your time tonight. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. i want to know what you think. a major telecommunications merger has been put on hold by the government. labor leaders are braking with the administration on this one. they want the deal. the aftermath of irene is still wreaking havoc on the northeast over 40 dead, hundreds of thousands still without power. will eric kantor blink?

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president obama wants to make sure house republicans won't hold american jobs hostage for a second time this summer. the rose garden speech that he gave today, the president urged congress to extend a transportation bill that funds highways and mass transit projects. >> if we allow the transportation bill to expire, over 4,000 workers will be immediately furloughed without pay. if it's delayed for just ten days, it will lose nearly $1 billion in highway funding. that's money we can never get back. and if it's delayed even longer, almost 1 million workers could lose their jobs over the course of the next year. >> and remember the republicans were willing to put jobs at risk last month when they blocked an extension of the federal aviation administration's budget shutting the agency down for two weeks, those furloughed workers are still owed back pay.

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the justice department's attempt to block the at&t merger with t-mobile is creating a very unusual stand-off. the obama coalition oppose the merger. some of the company's top unions

are saying we're for it. a lawsuit filed in the united states district court today says the merger is anti-competitive. the justice department said the $39 billion merger would be bad for consumers. >> the department filed its lawsuit because we feel the combination of at&t and t-mobil would result in tens of millions of consumers all across the united states facing higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality products for their mobile wireless services. >> at&t claims it will create 100,000 new jobs when it acquires t-mobile by investing a billion dollars into new infrastructure. several top union leaders including the afl-cio and the

communications workers of america they are in agreement. they say it will create a stronger unionized workforce. since at&t is currently the only wireless company with union employees. so it's a stand-off. joining me tonight larry cohen, president of the communication workers of america. and gigi sohn. this is a rather unusual situation that you have got democrats in the senate who are opposing what many labor union members and leaders want to take place. why do you want this deal to go through? what's the up side for workers? >> well, first of all, most democrats, including 97 house democrats support the merger, environmental groups, civil rights groups have broad base support. number one, this is an exercise

in fantasy capitalism. everybody knows that t-mobile is for sale, everyone knows it was a choice of sprint or at&t. the ceo has stated clearly, i don't have $10 billion to build fourth generation wireless. and we all know that without fourth generation, it's only a matter of time that t-mobile fades and fades and fades. on the other side you have at&t realizing it's a condition of the merger, they made enormous commitments. a key goal of the obama administration that has not been met. a key goal of the fcc. gigi and others can pretend that would have happened otherwise. it wouldn't have happened otherwise. we have the jobs issue, committing to keep every call center job in the u.s. and bring back 5,000 jobs from asia. on the other side of this, a

likely sprint deal that will come. where sprint has contracted out and offshored almost every single job. which side are you on? american workers or companies that export jobs and contract every job out. dollar store economy or a decent standard of living for american workers. >> why don't you trust this deal? why don't you trust at&t when they openly state they will create jobs and invest $8 million to create more jobs? >> ed, i love unions as much as any good democrat. but this merger, as the justice department found would not only be bad for consumers resulting in higher prices less choices and less innovation. they said it would lead to less jobs. mergers do not lead to new jobs. the whole point of a mether is to have efficiencies. if you have an at&t store down the street from a t-mobile store, they're not going to keep

both of them. if at&t is desperately making promises now, because they knew that the merger was in bad shape. >> what about that, larry? >> that's what regulation is all about. you get commitments with the fcc and justice department. they committed in writing, no call centers close. as for stores they committed in writing that the employees. why do we care about the store? we care about the number of employees, it's about the number of customers. just as they've done in all other mergers, the employees kept their job, went to the nearby store and worked there. >> this is what james cole had to say about the impact of jobs. >> through innovation and competition we create jobs, and we look at these kinds of innovations and this kind of industry as where there is competition, where there is innovation, there are more jobs created. the general experience with mergers is that there is what's called efficiencies, which is

redundancies when the two companies come together. which usually reduces jobs. >> gigi what about the stability of t-mobile? many people think they weren't going to make it anyway? >> that's not exactly true. and first of all, i need to rebut what larry said about the only two purchases for t-mobile were sprint and some hedge fund manager. there are a lot of cable companies, including comcast that would be very interested in t-mobile if it were to leave the u.s. market. i need to make a point. t-mobile employees, 20,000 of them were already being served is with severance papers as we speak today. at&t has a long history, in the past nine years, they have gotten rid of 100,000 jobs. in the past year and a half, they got rid of 30,000 jobs. the fact that at&t is going to be some kind of job creator is

belied by their history. a history where they gobbled up three different cell phone companies. the idea that a merger is going to lead to more jobs is a fantasy. larry's numbers come from a self-serving report that they did for themselves. at&t told wall street it was going to invest $10 billion less money, where larry's report found it was $8 billion more. so don't believe the hype. this might be a good merger for unions, but for americans or -- or this particular union. for american work hes overall, it's terrible. and it's bads for mens generally. >> larry cohen, gigi -- >> every single union supports this merger, as does most environmental and civil rights groups. >> well, i respectfully disagree with you, larry. >> you're trying to say you have a consumer argument, but that's a single minded argumentp. don't say you love unions and

then at every turn -- >> the justice department -- >> at every turn you go against union workers. at every turn. >> we will have more coverage of this obviously. >> every turn, gigi. >> obviously this affects millions of americans. thank you for joining us tonight. obviously a very hot issue. tea partiers want nothing to do with mitt romney and sarah palin wants nothing to do with christine o'donnell. the latest drama in the tea party world is next. george pataki takes a page out of the giuliani playbook. he thinks he has a monopoly on september 11th. pataki said the obama administration doesn't understand 9/11? he's going to the zone, stay with us. [ ticking ]

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welcome back to the ed show. thanks for watching tonight. when he was the republican front-runner, mitt romney was able to successfully just ignore the tea party. then along came rick perry and everything changed. now romney's campaign has announced the father of five will be sucking up to tea party types this weekend. freedom works, they don't like that one bit. in fact the group plans on protesting romney's appearance. a freedom works spokesman said in a statement, we have to defend ourselves, our brand

against poseurs. really? i thought the tea party didn't even like the french. whatever, and speaking of poseurs, try to follow me on this one. sarah palin was slated to attend the tea party of america's rally in iowa this weekend. that is until christine i'm not a witch owe donner got an invite. palin then put her appearance on hold. a source tells the wall street journal that palin was upset over the continual lying of the event organizers. so christine o'donnell got uninvited. now back to palin. she's back in and it looks like o'donnell is out of luck. so it goes. no disaster relief unless there are spending cuts. that's been eric cantor's mantra over the past several days. well, today, cantor slightly changed his tune. you'll never guess which republican is hitting back at him. july, a fabulous month for

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the word has been no disaster relief unless there are spending cuts. it in the storm. unfortunately not everyone agrees with the gentleman from virginia. virginia's newly elected

governor bob mcdowell is telling virginians, my concern is that we help people in need. for the fema money that's going to flow, it's up to them on how they get it. i don't think it's the time to get into that deficit debate. today the majority leader backed off ever so slightly, telling reporters, i believe there's an appropriate federal role and the monies will be there. that's a 180. no mention of the offsets this time around. but for thousands of folks along the eastern seaboard, the damage has already been done. record flooding in vermont and new jersey is destroying entire towns. people left those towns with nothing. people seeking refuge at this shelter in paramus, new jersey now they have to pack up and move to another one. >> i want to cry, but i can't cry. so i got to keep strong for my kids. everything i worked for is gone. >> with large sections of his

state under water, chris christie hit back at cantor's shameless politicking. >> we don't have time to wait for folks in congress to figure out how they want to offset this stuff with budget cuts. our people are suffering now. you want to figure out budget cuts, that's fine. you want to turn it into a fiasco like that debt limit thing. and you expect the citizens of my state to wait, they're not gonna wait. >> joining me now from the flood ravaged patterson, new jersey area. what do you make of governor christie's comments? he's talking like a democrat, talking like a guy who has some compassion for people. what's your take on it? >> well, when you get your boots on the ground as you well know, you come to reality. this is not a democrat or republican storm, this is a

storm that hit everybody. we need to do what we did with the tornados in the midwest, the floods in missouri, the forest fires and the plains fires in the west. we come together. we don't say, if we cut from this pile we'll be able to deal with this. we tried to deal -- these people are hurting. this is a personal thing to the american people, when catastrophe happens. this is not a river behind me, this is a river that's overflowing. we've had evacuations throughout the metropolitan area, we need to come together. i have to give the governor credit. he's brought the agencies of the state together, we need to bring the agencies of the federal government together. napolitano was here, the administrate he for fema was here today, i think they're doing a great job as well. this was well planned, well organized, we're going to find the money, ed. >> do you think eric cantor has finally gotten the message to

back off, or do you think he's going to go down this vicious road? >> he is really definitely eating some mothballs, there's no question about it. he's backed off already as you said. i'm ready to duke it out. first, let's take care of the people. let's not have the same kind of battle we had four weeks ago on something that should have never happened. which was a natural thing -- and we dealt with the debt of this nation. we need to pay our bills, but we need to take care of folks. that's what the federal government is all about, we have a history of this in america, this separates us from all the other countries. we come together in a time of need. this is the american way, i don't know what country cantor lives in. >> inspections are occurring tonight of the dams in new jersey. how concerned are you about the integrity of these dams and more

infrastructure being compromised? >> i'm very concerned. no difference than when the bridge collapsed in minneapolis a few years ago. i hope the president makes this one of the mantras when he talks to the country in september. we can't put people to work, this is not make work, this is something that needs to be done to keep the country together. whether it's roads, dams, any kind of device that keeps the water back. there is no silver bullet to end flooding in many areas of this country, including right here in patterson, new jersey. there's no silver bullet. we need to prevent things from happening. it costs money, you can't just wish it away. it's not going to work. we need to stop throwing money after money three or four times when people have flooded out. if this is going to continue to happen. we need to say enough already, buy them out. raise the structure, do something constructively, instead of coming back and having the same tv shows over

and over again. >> and congressman, quickly, when zhou think people are going to be able to get back into their homes. the waters are receding tonight, that's the good news. the rivers have crested. when do you think they'll be able to get back in their homes? >> the mighty passaic river was the last river to crest in new jersey. the river's gone down a little bit. we expect by tomorrow evening we'll have a lot -- most of our bridges, hopefully some of them will be open. we only have one bridge open in patterson. the third largest city in the state of new jersey. that's unacceptable. for our first responders out, to get from one side of the city to at side of the city. this is a serious business, lives are in jeopardy. we evacuated 4 to 5,000 people. the president will be here on sunday, we welcome the president here as do all the people in the metropolitan area. it's not democrat or republican time, it's time to step up to the plate.

maybe mr. cantor doesn't understand that. >> good to have you with us tonight. >> i'm a big follower of yours, keep doing what you're doing. you put your money where your mouth is. >> i will. >> i support everything you try to do. george pataki was on the short list to be george w. bush's running make. now he thinks the administration that took out osama bin ladin doesn't understand 9/11? psycho talk is next.

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and in psycho talk tonight,

former new york governor george pataki is struggling to remain relevant after saying he's not running for president. he's upset about a set of guidelines the white house gave government employees about commemorating the tenth anniversary of 9/11. the guidelines include honoring those who died. thanking the military and law enforcement. and encouraging people to remain united and resilient to prevent new attacks. america isn't the only country affected by terrorism. and they encourage american diplomats to praise our foreign allies. the last part led pataki to this conclusion. >> at a fundamental level, this administration has never understood the meaning of september 11th. we have been attacked time and time again. this administration refusing to call terrorists terrorists. minimize al qaeda and mention other terrorist incidents just doesn't understand. our president needs to understand that the

fundamental -- the most important role of government, our government is to protect our people. >> so pataki wants to play word games. well, really? the president who orders the mission to take out osama bin ladin, the world's number one terrorist doesn't understand the meaning of september 11th? this administration just isn't talking about minimizing al qaeda and playing word games, they're actually doing it. and they didn't stop with bin ladin's death. just last week u.s. officials announced al qaeda's brand new second in command was killed in pack scan. so for george pataki to say president obama doesn't understand the meaning of september 11th is pathetic. psycho talk. american manufacturing got yet another boost in july. and auto companies are leading the way. the president of the united autoworkers bob king joins me next. stay with us, the numbers are awesome.

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prosecute me war crimes publicity tour continues. and his latest gem puts him in good standing with the tea party. he claims he opposed president bush's decision to provide gm a $13 billion loan and he still believes the government should not have gotten involved in helping the automobile industry. he's a real tea party patriot, isn't he? the actual vice president dick cheney didn't always act in a way that matched his words. even with a congressional record of opposing an auto rescue package back in 1979 cheney became president getting republican support for the 200 auto loan. as the los angeles times reported back then, cheney rounded up skeptical republicans and told them if we don't do this, we will be known as the party of herbert hoover forever. you might think dick cheney was for the auto loan before he was

against it. even though his i'd yo logically opposed. vice president dick cheney knew that failure to act would be catastrophic for the u.s. economy. well, guess what, dick cheney. you don't have to hide from your past actions. the auto bailout worked. the auto loan worked. and there are new numbers to prove it. if the vice president is watching tonight, i hope he sticks around to find out just what they are. [ male announcer ] this is coach parker...

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and finally tonight, make sure you're sitting down republicans. the american automobile industry is back. u.s. factory orders surged in the month of july thanks to a 9.8% increase in demand for motor vehicles and parts, is is the biggest leap since january of 2003. and manufacturing is strong across the board. commercial airplane orders are also up. overall factory orders increased by 2.4% in july. the largest jump since march. and the associated press reports economists are predicting the manufacturing sector will continue to grow. for those righties out there hammering president obama for making the economy worse, the automobile industry and the manufacturing sector as a hole tell a totally different story. joining me now is the united autoworker's president bob king. good to have you with us tonight. i think americans want to know.

what does 9.8% increase mean? how big a deal is that? >> it's a tremendous deal. before the 9.8% increase, there's 75,000 new jobs created through the revit ilization and the turnaround of the american auto industry, it's a great story, the u.s. auto industry, because of president obama's support, because of nancy pelosi and harry reid's support, we're the biggest job creator in middle america right now. we're very proud of it. >> within the span of three years you're the biggest job creator in the country. that's quite a statement. and the republicans were against it. are you optimistic this trend is going to continue? >> yeah, i really am. and the company's restructuring with 9 help of our membership. they're all structured to be profitable at 10 million. people get more disposable

income. if we get more people back to work, we could see the economy grow tremendously more. >> what about the overseas market? will we see more american cars being purchased overseas? >> yes. it's really exciting, chrysler just announced they're going to build the maserati right here in detroit michigan for skport around the world. the ford explorer is going to be exported around the world. the chevy volt, both those chevy volts can be sold in europe. we're making vehicles for export. >> how wrong were the republicans who opposed it. >> well, it was crazy. it's just -- they don't care about american workers. they don't care about the middle class, they just want to get more tax breaks to the wealthiest corporations. president obama and the democrats against all the polls, they stood up to the american worker. they stood up to the american companies and look at the succe success. they were right.

let's stay with them. let's support them and do right for america. creating more jobs for america. >> you're in negotiation right now for a new contract. will your union be with you if you make a deal with the big three? >> you know, they're complicated issues. there are always major hurdles in negotiations. we've worked through much tougher issues, much tougher times with these companies. we have good management in all three companies. i'm upbeat and positive. it won't be easy, but we'll find a way to do it. >> what do you want to hear president obama say on september 8th? should he go big, bold, when it cops to a jobs package? >> yeah, i think he should really challenge the republicans, he should use the bully pulpit, he stood behind us, he's got to stand behind every person that wants a job in america today. i hope he has a bold