hc the editor of the new york times magazine. we are waiting for the president to speak at a jobs forum, we will bring that to you in just a bit. romney has a huge target on his back are his rivals too divided to beat him. >> other campaigns were firing at me aggressively in the last few days leading up to the vote but that was rejected and is people gave me their support. it's a good boost going into south carolina where i face an up hill climb. >> joining us from manchester, new hampshire, senior political analyst, mark halprine. happy campaign day. >> look, nobody is pulling out and given the win that romney had in new hampshire, is he in any way stoppable in south

carolina, especially with the new fundraising numbers that we have this morning? >> it would take a big amount of factors to stop him. i think he will be the nominee before the state of the union address. it's not just the money. you'll see a lot of people endorsing him in the coming days because they don't want a weakened nominee. and the attacks from bain capital from gingrich will push rush limbaugh into mitt romney's arms. and he is set up in south carolina and florida with a divided field. with ron paul getting his percentage and huntsman getting some percentage of the vote. he doesn't need a to win in south carolina, the only thing hard to see, is what will the hundreds of thousands of dollars in negative ads will change the dynamics here. >> a nasty laboratory, it's

true, mitt romney has not fwn subject of the great republican pile on yet. let's talk about the break down of the numbers. it shocked me that romney won tea partiyers and evangelicals, and you add those two up, the issue that mattered the most to them was the economy by 61%, to me, it says it ain't religion, it ain't social issues and that is good news for him. >> because of the bain capital, the negative ads, did not move the dial at all. and what you saw on the economic lines, he did well along economic lines. the people at $50,000 and below stayed with him. >> i would not disagree, everything that romney wanted to happen happened. including no challenger emerged yet again. i would not overlook the fact

that when you are talking about new hampshire and you are talking about the demographic groups, the sort of home state, next door neighbor factor,teres every town close to boston voted for mitt romney. some of the border towns, this is where there's a lot of population, salem, it's a lot of massachusetts peop massachuset massachusetts residents. >> interesting that the economy was one of the key things for them. their unemployment rate is far below the national average but south carolina they are hitting hard times so that will be a factor here. i was with huckabee in '08 and we saw a contrast of what the voters were looking for in new

hampshire, but you get to south carolina is, they are the god and guns people, so the focus will shift over the next ten days and that is where romney will face a challenge, these social conservatives will amp up their game and hold his feet to the fire. >> with that assistance from newt gingrich. >> what are they going to do? play the mormon card, whatever that means. faith is a difficult attack point. >> i think to a certain degree, the mormon subsequent not playing at all like it did when he ran last time. that's a general acceptance that this country was founded on freedom of religion and it's not being used skewar against him as much. we all remember not but a week ago when mitt romney was in iowa giving an awkward speech siting iran sanctions, it was like hash tag, question mark, question

mark, question mark, he had his, tet -- >> they chose not to give a big agenda speech. we were all watching but most americans were not. this speech he came out really early, shortly being projected as the winner, he knew he would have a big audience on a big stage and he gave one of the best speeches. if he can perform the way he did last night he will be a big challenger to the president. >> let's play a little bit of the sound, because there were notable quotables last night specially regarding europe. >> i want you to remember when our white house reflected the best of who we are not what the worst of what europe has become. >> the best of who we are and not what europe has become.

does the european socialist line stick? is this something that he can work through the rest of the year? >> i doubt it. i think that the less that americans hear about europe, the better they feel. who can understand the debt crisis there and every day it's a different solution, this one will fall short and this one will fall short. it's something that americans do not want to hear about. >> this is how mitt romney gets the nominee strategy. everyone is you calling him the candidate at this point. now you want to show the republican voters that he is going to be the guy in the fall, yeah, this is what he will look like and this is what we want to hear. >> the take a way quotables from that was that he was not looking at his republican primary opponents, it was all about obama, strictly about that. and he made mention of the fact that you know, the bain capital,

he could understand being attacked by democrats but not from the gop hitting him for what is essentially a free market economy. >> it will be interesting to see how it plays in south carolina, everything that we heard from gingrich's campaign is that it will be anti-romney instead of pro gingrich. we will see how south carolina reacts to that. the senator demint coming out as a big conservative saying that he thinks that mitt romney's inevitable as the nominee. >> gingrich the kamikaze pilot. jon huntsman was on stage last night, "beautiful day" was playing, and yet it was a third place finish. he is going on to south carolina, it was said is he is waiting for a check from daddy. do you think that jon huntsman, senior looks at that finish last

night and cuts a check? >> not how it's gone so far. he was looking for a good return on his investment and his son could win. the super pac did not run a particularly good campaign, he got better at the end and that accounted for a bit of a surge, it's hard to see with a third place showing here, a state where he invested so much and the state was best matched up with his strengths, it's hard to see that he comes out of south carolina stronger than new hampshire. >> you do not think there's a chance that he gives mitt romney a run for his money? >> he could steal from mitt romney if there's a way that romney can stub his toe or lose south carolina, it will ininvolve hunt hsman taking tha away from him. without a sense of national

momentum, i do not see him winning over. south carolina, yes, it's more social he will conservative than new hampshire, and the tea party is bigger there, but they have voted for the establishment candidate. there's one person in that category right now in this race and that is mitt romney. >> mitt romney whose name we are putting into punn and saying rominee, just saying. we will take a break and then we will show the weak showings in new hampshire last night and question whether it's time for the ricks to pull the rip cord on their campaigns. next on "now." [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents: the cold truth. i have a cold. and i took nyquil but i'm still stubbed up. [ male announcer ] sorry, buddy. truth is, nyquil doesn't un-stuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. really? [ male announcer ] you need a more complete cold formula,

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cross roads for this country. we have to nominate someone capable of standing up and telling the truth against barack obama because you'll not beat a billion dollar machine of dishonesty with someone who is confused or doesn't know what they stand for. >> that was newt gingrich delivering what he in his campaign billed as a defining speech in south carolina this morning. it comes after gingrich failed to crack the top three in new hampshire last night. what has happened to the one-time front-runner. what happened to newt gingrich, he did make a play for the state. >> it's what everyone thought was going to happen. everyone in the political establishment, you know, when newt was having his moment, he will be finished by mid january, i was like, really? is it going to happen? and it happened. >> his past has come back to

haunt him, it's not his past, it's the thing that he did politically that did tnot set well with people. the fact is, his past record when it comes to being the grandfather of the independent mandate, healthcare, i want came back to haunt him. and lobbies, insurance peddler in with a, that has hurt him. >> do you think it's that, theb thing that sticks out to me is the meanness, self defense posture, certainly his record could be a reason that voters departed. >> you know, i used to work for newt for years and we all, look, he was dethroned by the people he helped elect. it was about this class of people he brought to power, they started to see not getting on the virginia ballot and comparing it to pearl harbor.

you know, you cannot get to the point of comparing himself to these major moment office histos -- moments of history and going so negative on romney, i think people were saying there's no there there. >> that was the most interesting thing that happened since december, it was the people that were around in remember newt gingrich in the '90s. and remembered what a disaster he was as a speaker. you start charting this stuff and you see all of these voices to right in the republican party started to pile on anything that they could find. it was not the issues they were discovering we remember this guy, and let's stop him. it was a campaign to bring him down. >> newt gingrich has agency in this. isn't he kind of run ago weird campaign. i was in new hampshire this

weekend and saw him at a mexican town hall at a mexican restaurant, will there was no diversity, he was saying things about swedish policy and here he is furnishing where he is, fourth place in new hampshire, going on to south carolina, talking about obama's dollar machine and making his own nasty ad war on the air. >> why do you have a thing for the orthodox, alex? >> you know me, that is the name of my show. go ahead sorry. >> it's a good sub title for the show, if you ever decide to go with a sub title. the dirty secret to this is there's one person running a real campaign and it's the guy on path to be the nominee. it's easy for people to say newt is not trying win, i think he is trying to win and he still is.

rick perry has made a lot of mistakes in his campaign, rick santorum gave a great speech on the night of the iowa caucuses and then did not come here as strongly. that is more bizarre than anything newt gingrich has done. and i say it advisedly. it's easy to pick on gingrich. nobody else has planned events with an eye to over take mitt romney. it's would srked to romney's advantage. >> i want to talk about this, your candidate left the race and it was presumed that rick perry would leave the race too and if you look at what the folks are saying in the chattering classes -- are you surprised that rick perry is still in the race? >> he is looking at every candidate has to be strategic, not everyone has a billion dollars like obama has, everyone has to be strategic on where

their strengths lye, hedrek dir there will be momentum that the candidates are getting out of new hampshire, he tdoes not hav the money. he will have to work hard to shore up the social conservative base and we will see how it works out. but santorum has great momentum there and he has offices there. he has had over 100 events there. both of them will have to work. they are fighting for the same vote. they are fighting for the anti-romney vote and they are going up against a lot of money. >> the santorum question is interesting. it's a battle for the least damaged goods at this point. if you look at rick perry, and we will show the twitter photo of this in the spandex, it looks

like he is so broken, you wonder if he is in it to save face and be able to go back to texas and say, hey, i tried. >> and then we run the risk of having the problem we had in '08. we had great social conservatives, fred thompson stayed in there and peeled away some of our votes and that boosted the other candidates. that is what we are having, instead of having one unifiedgé social conservative vote, we are split right now. >> 37% romney and 19% santorum, and 18% -- it's they finished tied in new hampshire. so it's difficult to see the difference right now. >> you give them a call and say, you guys just join in, kum-ba-yah. >> good look with that. >> is a salon.com robo calls.

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. last night, vice president joe biden addressed obama's spaur supporters and said that romney feels it's more important for the venture capital guys to do well than for those employees to be part of the bargain. >> where did i hear that before? >> was he quoting newt gingrich? >> on the campaign trail. >> we talk about obama being able to connect to the american voters they are positions biden to be their attack dog, will it work? >> it never z the most impact that a vice president has had was sarah palin who may have

cost mccain points. think of quayle, it never works to the benefit of the president. >> you think they could buy a better attack dog with a billion dollars. >> but isn't there something to be said, he needs someone to connect with that section of the american public, certainly isly the national dialog is favoring it. >> running against mitt romney if that is in fact what happens, i do not think he needs a ambassador to the working class, that has been done for him. we have been celebrating mitt romney's great campaign and how it was run, look at what is happening, the economy is improving, 200,000 jobs last month, and you have the republican party attacking him from the left. i mean, what is the, what is the private equity guys' case against the white house, that

they are -- it's a hard case to make if the economy continues to improve, it's a nightmare situation. >> well, the president's approval rating is historically low. >> and the numbers match head to head with romney. >> think of more growth for the next nine months? short of some kind of european blow up, there's a few things that could happen, but the economy has momentum, not tremendous amount, but the likely scenario, short of something we don't know happening, is economic growth. >> bill clinton had the same story. when the economy turned around in '95, he cruised to re-election and the white working class came back. >> i think they are keeping the vice president out there so they

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the president has run out of ideas. now he is running out of excuses. this president has enacted job killing regulations, i'll limb name them. he lost his triple a credit rating. >> you almost expect him to end that with fired up, ready to go. mitt romney slamming the

president to economy in his speech last night. this morning the president talked to business leaders about thousand bring jobs back to american shores. we were leading, there was a beautiful sag way to this conversation, we were talking about the jobs numbers and economic picture and i'll put up on screen, the jobs chart which i showed in the break. i don't think that, in my mind, the white house has not done a very good job of messaging. obama took office in that vertical line that you see. the economy was diving. if obama creates 1.6 million jobs, it will be a net negative job loss. >> not bad. not bad. >> not bad at all. >> net neutral. >> not net negative. there's too many not's in there. >> that said, net neutral is not

necessarily where the country wants to be. but how can they better sort of trumpet the success that there has been economically. >> granted it's great that the unemployment rate is going in the right direction, he promised us with the stimulus that it would not go over 8%. he is bragging now about 8.5%. but it's going in the right direction. >> to be fair, i do not think he is bragging. >> alex is bragging. . >> i'm bragging. that is a fair point, i think the white house is aware of the fact that when we talk about unemployment numbers, even if good times the numbers go up because they are going back into the work force. given the timing, maybe summer will see an increase in the unemployment numbers which would be bad if they started bragging now. >> i don't think that it's exactly a numbers game.

it's really an issue of momentum and people feeling like things are generally improving. i think up tick of.1% is not huge. it's more are people less worried about the things that could derail the economy. at the moment it's fragile but it looks reasonably good. >> there's a strong correlation between certain economic caters and then how an incumbant will do, a critical thing to watch is it's almost the middle months of the year, not the final two months or so, it's the middle months, that is where the mood cements itself. the example i think of is george bush, sr., got the best economic news of his presidency a week before the election. >> a narrative had been created and he did not have enough time to undo it. timing is everything in these

campaigns. the other historic number that we all know, there's never been a president re-elected with anything over 7%. >> and the s&p 500 found grade was an effect. still on the campaign trail, we are speaking with business owners and there's tremendous uncertainty with business owner sk s and people trying to buy a home or a car, until something comes along and creates a feeling of, okay, i can hire people and invest in my business, he will not be re-elected. >> the attack is difficult even for romney. the specifics are pretty weak and the left attacks obama all the time for doing too much deregulation and being too easy to bafrpnks. the country is more on the left

on this, and a housing policy which doesn't exist on this, it not like, mitt romney will have some plan, here is how the federal government will fix the housing market because it's against everything that he is standing for. on the other hand, there's nothing to attack on the president's side either. >> i think it's also important to talk about the way in which this is framed. romney, you know, we talk about the class warfare thing. let's listen to romney. >> it's been envy and class warfare, when you have a president encouraging an idea of dividing the country. you have opened up a new wave in this country entirely not consistent with one nation under god.

>> i don't know, i don't know. i don't agree that obama is creating class warfare here, i think he is talking about income equality. i think it's difficult to get a message about class inequality from mitt romney. we saw how uncomfortable he was over the bain stuff and this seems like, not quick sand, but dangerous territory. >> i disagree with your first assertion, when this president and people that work for him come out with their ways to balance the budget they go straight to economic policies and tax policies and use the language of class warfare to get it done. >> what is it? >> i'll never forget about the speech to tax the rich, they made enough money, they don't need anymore. as though that is supposed to be the basis of our tax process. >> why is so many people

offended by that. j.p. morgan was upset over being called a fat cat. who kacares? >> i care very much. and businesses invest and we have not seen a lot of that. >> what the president is doing is channelling the genuine anger that is out there. some gental name calling seems to not be that big of a deal. they are not saying let's go repossess the hamptons. that is class warfare. >> that is why the approval numbers are slow. he is president of the united states, he should not be doing that. >> but, suzanne, i disagree, i think the charge that he is a european style socialist, if you talk about the rhetoric, the rhetoric coming from the right, the language being lobbied at someone that said, if we are going to reform entitlement programs and programs that are the bed rom of the social safety

net, let's look at -- >> sorry. >> that is different. but making and having a fairer tax code, when you look at historically where we are in terms of taxes on the ultra, ultra rich. and now income differences are at a level it's not been at since the great depression. in that way there's a rational case. >> except where the loopholes that are out there that people like ge take advantage of. >> and people like newt are fighting for in washington. >> we will be talking more about this after the break, we are as i said before, making for the president to make remarks on the job in the east wing of the white house, we will bring it to you live when it comes. when you have tough pain, do you want fast relief? try bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles so it enters the bloodstream fast

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ron paul wants to know why known is talking about him even though he finished second in new hampshire. in his defense, i have been talking about him at every break. >> why do you love ron paul so much? >> i find him fascinating. first of all, being in new hampshire and steve i want to hear your thoughts on this, seeing his supporters, they are an interesting mix, young families and people with dread locks and not your typical conservative voter. we were talking about this, it's new life blood for the republican party and he owns it. >> he does, and they are excited often times more than he is. they are very organized. they know exactly what they are doing in iowa and new hampshire and in south carolina, they have the phone banks down and and

messaging down, they are organized. they have meetings at the appropriate time and place, bracketing. >> they sign disclosures? >> of course. and ron paul volunteers. >> it's line a -- if and when he tropical drops out is that the next candidate has to tap into that vote. >> that is why you certainly see a lot of republican candidates in there, they are kind of ignoring him because they don't want to talk about the negatives that are out there, because they want to get some of his supporters when he drops out. i am curious when you think he will drop out. >> he has the money. >> i donwhy would he drop out? >> so to the convention? >> and beyond. >> the best sort of historical

example, several of them, pat robertson, jessie jackson, they are really causes, not thinking strategically about winning this primary and nomination, it's about something much bigger. >> this is better organized. >> i look at jessie q there was a moment in 1988 because jessie jackson won the michigan caucuses and i was wondering if that moment would arrive with ron paul. but i don't think so. you look at him and it's a significant story for what he represents. it's a big funky coalition, and you want to figure out how they fit in the future, but he is not a significant sfoer if you are trying figure out who is republican nominee in 2012. his force is just as much a force inside the republican party as it is outside the republican party. >> when you look at the positions on immigration and reaching out to minority voters, they need new young voters but it's impossible for me to image

mitt romney to build a house for ron paul supporters. >> but he has to, ron paul will have some role at the convent n convention. he cannot be a third party candidate, that would be a nightmare. >> there ace in the hole is rand paul. you don't have any of that news letter baggage, he is younger and won a tastate-wide election. if you are ron paul and you think the party has mistreated you, you can go to the libertarian party and get 4% or say rand take it over from here. >> that is absolutely right. >> speaking with the different followers of mr. paul, they are one or two issue followers. one being legalization of marijuana and l

marijua marijuana and liberty issue. >> and the war issue. >> right. and when he got hammered by michele bachmann, they stood by him. it's up to the gop nominee to lure them and find a way to get their support. >> your point is the point that allows republicans to sleep at night is that ron paul will not throw a total bomb into the convention and run as a third party. there's people that think with an appropriate campaign we can take back the senate. does he want to go back to the senate and live that? it's clear there a paul is setting up his son. which i'm i'll for i'm all for it. it provides a level of comfort there that he will be a little more responsible when it comes to not helping elect a democrat approximate president. >> it will be how well the

republicans look. if it's looking like a cratering ship, you know, maybe it's worth it to ron paul to run. maybe it's worth getting the 4% or whatever it is and making a principaled stand. >> it's all about principals. i think the romney campaign wishes newt gingrich has had a son that he had to protect the field, so that he could not go -- >> that was a scary idea. maybe he is a gingrich son. >> gingrich has a sort of k-street career that you have to worry about. maybe that is more important to worry about than a son. >> he still has a k-street? >> it will be interesting to see, if this race ends up becoming newt gingrich, ron paul, and mitt romney, having those crazy people in the race, pushing romney one way or the other in terms of coalescing the republican kind of convention.

>> you see the most interesting thing this morning was romney saying gingrich is attacking capitalism, who defends him? ron p paul. >> i don't think it's been on purpose, but they have been the ones that have been going after gingrich, ron paul has been more aggressive about going after gingrich in his ads so they have been doing a dance already. >> now going to the man that is actually president. we will go to the white house, tell us what the president will be speaking about. we know it's an insourcing event, what does that mean. >> reporter: that is right, hi, there, insourcing is really the word of the day here at the white house. insourcing meaning, investing in american jobs and bringing jobs to american companies. president obama just wrapping up a meeting with senior

administration officials as well as about 14 different ceos and presidents of different american companies. companies like ford, intel, siemans and they were talking about ways to increase jobs in the united states. in the coming weeks, we expect the president to announce new tax proposals that will benefit or reward companies that are not successful at bringing new jobs to the united states and take away tax benefits from companies that send jobs overseas. so that is what we expect him to talk about today when he takes the podium. the timing of this is so interesting. after last night -- just last night the new hampshire primaries both events allow the president to distance himselfdfo

remain above the fray. there's been things said that the president is in campaign mode t white house is saying that the president will not shift to campaign mode until there's in fact a republican nominee, but, alex he is not sitting on the sideline. vice president biden held a conference with supporters through new hampshire, this is a president that knows he is facing a tough re-election. >> the word insourcing panel seems questionable. i was there for recovery customer which was one of the worst named seasons ever. insourcing is not going to stick and let's talk about obama as campaigner in chief and how much

the american people say this is legitimate and it's not posturing to win re-election. >> i found it funny them saying we are not shifting into campaign mode. when you look at this administration, there's a more specific point where they really shifted full into campaign mode and that was the end of the summer with the debt ceiling fight, i think they reached a conclusion that compromise in the obama tea party era was going to be impossible. it was a public relations disaster. they said we will not be able to compromise and get re-elected so we have to go after them and beat them and that is in next year-1 and a half. and that is what this is. we will now go to the white house and president speaking on jobs. >> thank you, thank you, everyone have a seat. welcome to the white house everyone. and tim, thank you for that

introduction. i could not have enjoyed more the meeting i had this morning, because what these companies represent is a sense of enormous potential for the future of america. what they have in common is that they are part of a hopeful trend. they are bringing jobs back to america. you've heard of out sourcing, well these companies are insourcing. these companies are choosing to invest in the one country with the most productive workers, the best universities and the most creative and inovative businesses in the world and that is the united states of america. that is worth applauding. [ applause ] that is exact it will kind of commitment to country that we

need, especially right now when we are in a make a break moment for those in the middle class and those trying to get in the middle class in the country. i meet folks that grew up that hard work paid off in america and it was rewarded and anybody could make it if they tried. no matter where you came from or what you looked like no matter how you started out. those are the values that my grandparents, my mother taught me, those were the values that built the best products in the strongest middle class that the world has known. i think we understand that over the last few decades that that bargain has changed. the economy has changed rapidly and for many that change was painful. factories packed up and went overseas where labor costs were cheaper. at the same time we live in a global economy, as other

countries grow and develop middle classes of their own, global companies will pursue those markets and employee workers and make investedments all over the world. but right now we are at a point where we have the opportunity for those jobs to come back and the business leaders in the room, they are ahead of the curve, they recognize it. after sheddi inding jobs for mo than a decade, american manufacturers have added jobs for two years in a row. that is why i pushed congress to extend the payroll tax cut this year so 160 million americans were not hit with a tax hike. now is the time to extend the middle class tax cut for all of this year.

it's the right thing to do and we need to get that done. but we are going to have to do more. that is why in the next few weeks we will put forward new tax proposals that will reward companies that choose to bring jobs home and invest in the america and eliminate tax cuts for companies moving jobs overseas, because there's an opportunity to be had right here and right now. there are workers ready to work right now. that is why i set a goal of doubling our exports of goods and services. we are a head of schedule on meeting that goal. with the help of our out standing ustr i was able to sign trade agreements, so businesses can sell more goods to more markets. that is why i fought for investments in schools and colleges so our workers remain the best that you'll find

anywhere. so your businesses have more opportunity to take root and grow. i don't want america to be a nation that's primarily known for financial speculation and racking up debt buying stuff from other nations. i want our nation to be known for being stamped with three proud words "made in america" and we can make that happen. [ applause ] i don't want the next generation of manufacturing jobs taking root in other countries, i want them taking root in places like ohio and north carolina, and that is a race that america can win. that's the race businesses like these will help us win. these are ceos that take pride in hiring people here in america, not just because it's increasingly the right thing to do for their bottom line, but

it's the right thing to do for their workers and communities and our country. and they are leading by example. i'm proud of that as an american but as president i want to make sure they get credit for it. just three years ago we almost lost the american auto industry, today the big three auto companies are making a profit and manufacturing the next generation of fuel efficient cars that the rest of the world wants to buy. and ford motor company that is represented by workers and management on this stage has committed to investing $16 billion in the united states by 2015. $16 billion. and that includes bringing back about 2, 000 jobs.

master lock. iconic company. when master lock looked at their numbers they saw that union workers in america could do the same job at competitive costs as nonunion workers in china. in fact, master lock is now exporting their products from the united states to china and europe. and today for the first time in 15 years, today for the first time in 15 years master lock's milwaukee complex is running at full capacity. but you don't have to be a big manufacturer to insource jobs. bruce cochran's family manufactured furniture for five generations but in 1996 as jobs shifted to asia, the family sold their business and bruce spent time in china and vietnam as a

consultant for those american businesses that shifted their production, he in tnoticed someg he did not expect, the customers wanted to buy things in america. so he came home and started a new company, lincolnton furniture that operates out of the old family factories that were shut down and he has rehired some of the former workers from his family business. you also do not have to be an american worker to insource job. you just heard tim, ceo of a it company called galaxy solutions, they have hired 150 workers with their out source to detroit program and they plan on hiring up to 500 and he said there were talented people in detroit and we are putting them back to work. whether you are a small businessso