something that mitt romney is calling a tir dirty trick. but it is rhetoric lie like this with the republican insiders running scared. >> i want reporters to say, oh, there's santorum talking about social issues again. people with no faith have no role in the public square, you bet that makes you throw up. he wants everybody in america to go to college. what a snob. >> the political correspondent jeff zob is live in washington for us this morning. santorum is hoping that democrats are the secret weapon today. here's the latest robo call going out to voters in michigan. take a listen. >> romney's supporting the bailouts for his wall street bill for a buddies but oppose the auto bailouts. on tuesday join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts' mitt romney by

voting for rick santorum for president. >> jeff, just so we have a clear response to everybody, mitt romney did give a response to this. take a look at this. >> you are making calls to republicans today. this is a good thing, all right? yeah. yeah. the santorum campaign is making calls to democrats today, all right? so we want to make sure we get republicans out to vote. we want this to be a process where republicans choose a republican nominee. we don't want the democrats to choose who they think is the easiest person to run against. >> just talk of the stakes that are taking place in michigan today. we'll get back to our conversation with jeff zell in a second but first we'll go live to chardon, ohio, where they are holding a press briefing to tell us what had happened yet at chardon, ohio, let's listen in. >> the ems and law enforcement

were well prepared, well planned and executed. they carried out the plan. now we move to another important phase. and while the investigation continues, we still look for the why and what and who. we now deal with a community looking to heal. my 5-year-old grandson last night wanted to call my niece, a chardon high school student. he asked her, are you okay? simple words from a 5-year-old. are you okay? and she said, yes, and started to cry.

we have a community asking, are you okay? we need to get that message out. chardon, geauga county, northeast ohio is rallying like nothing we have ever seen before. the outpouring of concern, hope and encouragement has been unbelievable. people calling just to say thank you. we need your help as we move forward to get the correct information out, the accurate information out. and we thank you for what you've done. we thank you for your patience. we have a community that would demand nothing less from us. at this time i would like to

introduce the chardon school superintendent joe brigant to talk about the school upcoming schedule. thank you. >> good morning. joe brigant, the superintendent of a proud chardon local schools. today my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, especially the two family who is or have lost their children through the ordeal. and we keep our prayers going for the three children who hopefully have a speedy recovery. we also have more victims of the staff, teachers and authorities. in reopening school tomorrow, we have come up with a little abbreviated plan and would like to share that with you tonight so you can communicate that, not only to our local people, but this may help other people in need around the country. as part of the healing process for our students, parents,

faculty and staff, chardon schools will reopen the school pa silties accord on the following schedule. wednesday, february 29th, the high school, faculty and staff are asked to gather at the high school at 9:00 in the morning. counselors will be available. all kindergarten through eighth grade faculty and staff are asked to gather at munson elementary school at 9:00. again, counselors will be available. thursday, march 1st, parents and students will be invited to return to the high school together. parents and students will be invited to come to the high school together. parents and studented are invited to return to their respective buildings on that day. counselors will be available. on friday, march 2nd, all the schools will be open for business, certainly not as usual, but certainly we have plans in place. i would like to echo the sheriff's comments about how the media has been respectful.

thank you. just so you know, we have instructed our employees and our personnel not to have specific conversations. and i ask in response to this horrific scene that you honor that. we try to keep one focus, one mission. as you know, this is a close-knit community. we open our arms to your help. i would especially like to thank the media people that have been with us. some of you my whole career, thank you for your support and thank you for not tearing us apart through this ordeal. it is important that i do thank you for that. and i do want to reiterate we have grief counselors on hand. and they are available at the middle school. we also have them available this evening from 4:00 to 9:00 tonight across the street at st. mary's parish, which will have our vigil this evening at 7:00. again, without the entire support of our community, and it

has been an outpouring support, we are certainly blessed to have the various social agencies from united way to the menial health agencies to the very community members that are stepping forward. and we are embracing them because we want them to be a part of the healing that needs to take place on our campuses. many of these people have children here in our schools, many of the law enforcement people that were on campus yesterday will be continuing to have a presence in our district, have children in these schools. and i want to assure parents, i want to assure our faculty, and most importantly our students, that you'll be safe when reentering our program. as i said yesterday, and i mean it from my heart, hug your kids. kids, hug your parents. you news media, when you get the chance to get home, do the same.

we are not just any old place, chardon, this is every place. as you have seen in the past, this can happen anywhere. proof of what we had yesterday. again, i thank the law enforcement, i thank my good friend, dan mclellan, our police chief, tim mckenna, and everyone else that works with them. people are too numerous to actually talk about right now, and to be honest, i can't remember a lot of their names right now, but as i said, and police take this home with you, talk to your children. don't text them, don't facebook them, talk to them. this is a wake-up call for all of us. many of you parents that have cameras in front of you, please take it to heart. i mean it from my heart. now i would like to introduce

tim mckenna. thank you. >> good morning. my name is tim mckenna, the police chief here in chardon. i wrote down bullet points because i wanted to make this clear as possible. the update with our investigation, multiple agencies, both federal, state and local worked late into the evening and early hours this morning trying to tie up all the loose ends. it is sad to say at this point i am going to announce the second student, russell king, has passed. at 4:49 this morning the medical exam her's office contacted me advise me of that. and i feel sorry not only for that family but all the families that are affected by this. the prosecutor's office was brought up to speed last evening and is preparing for a 3:30 hearing this afternoon in the juvenile court in geauga county upon the courthouse. for legal reasons i will not discuss nor release the name of

the person that's been brought in front of the judge this afternoon. once that's taken place we'll be able to talk more about it. at this time i can not provide you a motive for this. i'm hoping that after the hearing this afternoon that the prosecutor david joyce will address you at the 4:30 news conference that will be held here at the board office. both the sheriff's office and chardon police department are preparing the 911 tapes as we speak. i've asked john hitchcock to get a head count on that. currently i have 50 made up and i believe his office is doing the same. and the next scheduled press conference will be here at 4:30, shortly thereafter the hearing in the juvenile court. and my last thought is not only with the families, but i have said this because i'm a hometown boy as well. as many people are, chardon will take care of chardon. and i thank you.

>> that's going to conclude this press update. we have a handout that gives the outline. get your copy of it. that shows what the school will be doing. we'll be back here again at 4:30. again, we want to thank you for your patience and helping us get through this tough thing. we'll do it. thank you. >> we've been listening to a briefing from authorities there in chardon, ohio, where just over 24 hours ago it was still a matter of chaos and panic for a lot of parents trying to figure out what happened. but now we do have more details about what took place yesterday morning when the suspected shooter, t.j. laip, opened fire right after 7:30 a.m. that's video of lane being apprehended yesterday. two students have died. three other students remain being treated for their injuries after being shot yesterday in that school.

russell king jr., 17 years old, was pronounced brain dead at 12:42 a.m. at the ohio medical center. that's the other student that's been lost in the tragedy. the other student who died yesterday, we were briefed of that at high noon, learning of the los of student danielle parmertor. today we are learning about the loss of 17-year-old russell king. again, allegedly at the hands of the suspected shooter, t.j. lane, a 17-year-old student at the school as well. we are hearing lane will be arraigned later today, his first court appearance coming up this afternoon. this is an image of t.j. lane taken from his facebook page. we have also learned there were ear remessages put out by him prior to the shooting using social media. joining me this morning is a student from chardon, a student i spoke to yesterday as all of this was unfolding. jonathan, we appreciate you taking time to be with us once again. we know as we continue to get

these updates how hard and confusing this has to be for you and your classmates. as you have had now a little over 24 hours to think about all this, how are you doing? >> well, a lot of the emotion that i had yesterday has kind of died down, but i think that's just a coping mechanism. this is something you can't -- it's hard to subconsciously accept. i consciously accepted -- it is hard to just fast fathom that. i'm not sure i can put it into words. >>on thank, i know has a young man you are thrust into foreign territory with what's taking place at your school with the community being rocked by these

tremendous losses of two of your classmates. when we talk about what happened yesterday, it's my understanding that you saw the suspected gunman, your classmate, j.t. laor t.j. lane yesterday morning. what do you remember happening? >> well, i didn't know that i had known the shooter until i went on his facebook and looked at his picture. i just knew his name was t.j. he rides my bus. rode my bus, rather. i just noticed that morning that it seemed to me that he had a very grim look on his face, but that was really nothing new. he was a very quiet kid. i had spoken to him possibly one time. he wasn't unkind. and he seemed very docile. it's just hard to fathom he

would do such a thing. what i was trying to deal with yesterday, that morning i was sitting on a bus with a boy who had the intent to kill people, and that's just frightening. >> jonathan, when we think about, as you pointed out, you had no idea what was about to come in the early morning hours of the first period yesterday, and as you talk about seeing t.j., what's been revealed now is this young man has a pretty troubled family life. his father has been arrested several times. there's also questions about whether or not that he was bullied by students within chardon high school that may be a motive for why he opened fire in school yesterday. when we talk about the losses of 17-year-old russell king jr. as well as the other classmate, daniel parmertor, do you know of the relationship lane had with these students? >> i do not. i really don't. i can't make a comment on it

because anything is merely speculation. any opinions i have on him, i really did not know the boy that well. >> jonathan, we heard from school officials this morning, from your superintendent of schools there, that on wednesday faculty has been invited back to be briefed on how to handle students returning to school. parents and students are invited to return to the campus on thursday and then school and students to resume in session by friday. to you think that you're ready to go back to school this week, or for you, personally, you'll need more time before you feel like you want to go back and engage in the campus community there? >> well, the other thing about it, it is going to be hard to go back into the building because i was terrified, but being around my friends, i would say by the end of this week, maybe. being around my friends would be some comfort. we all have each other.

and if you'll notice, i'm wearing my chardon day. it is wear red day where we are coming together as a community. and i think even if i'm not ready to go back to the facility itself, i need to be with my friend and need to be with the community and we need to help each other as best we can. so i would say i'm ready to go back to school possibly later this week. >> chardon high school senior jonathan sylik, we send our best to you and other families there in chardon. you are in our country's thoughts and prayers. thank you. we want to return now to politics as we were talking about this at the top of the hour. talking about what's taking place at this hour for super tuesday in michigan as well as arizona, but in michigan it really is a must-win for romney. recent polls showing that it's going to be a real fight to the finish. a real horse race here with the candidates, rick santorum, mitt romney are neck and neck. i want to go back to "the new

york times" national political correspondent, jeff, thank you for sticking by. we wanted to get the important briefing in from chardon, ohio. we want to shift gears now to focus on what's taking place in super tuesday contests, taking place in michigan and arizona. as we started off the top of the show explaining the robo calls taking place throughout michigan right now, basically santorum's camp trying to push democrats to go to the polls today because they are allowed to, but go to the polls today to vote for him. mitt romney is saying this is a dirty trick. is this just typical politics, has modern day allowed them to become this or is this something else? >> i think, first of all, we should note michigan has an open primary. there's not party registration here in michigan, so you walk into a polling place and request a republican ballot. so -- it's a bit of a mischief, but if mitt romney becomes the nominee, he'll be trying to win over democrats and independent voters as well.

so the romney campaign is just trying to draw as much attention to this as possible. they are trying to get out their own base of supporters with a rallying cry saying, hey, we need your help because the other side is getting democrats here. but the santorum campaign is actually employing some things that any growing campaign, any big real campaign would do. they are trying to press their advantage, but this is a small amount of voters we are talking about. santorum is going after social conservatives on the right side of this party, more importantly. >> jeff with "the new york times." thank you for sticking around. sorry we have a shortened conversation this morning. but again, thank you as we move on to our next guest, a senior strategist at a media consulting firm for the santorum campaign. great to have you with us this morning. i want to get straight to it because we have a lot to talk about with what's taking place this morning in michigan. michael moore from michigan has come out about the campaign tactics that are taking place there in the state currently. this is what he had to say on rachel maddow last night.

take a listen. >> a lot of my democratic fans are going to vote for santorum tomorrow in something they are calling operation hilarity. >> so now mitt romney, john, is accusing your campaign of teaming one the unions here, also saying that reaching out this way is kind of a dirty trick. are you counting, truly counting on democrats to help push you guys over and win michigan, to take it away from mitt rom snooe rom knee? >> well, the way we look at it is for rick santorum to be successful against barack obama, he needs republicans, democrats and partly conservative democrats in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, ohio, what's known as reagan democrats. and so, frankly, every republican or every democrat rather that we can get to vote for rick santorum today is a bad day for barack obama. just like in 1992 when mitt romney ended up voting for the democrat in the democratic primary for president, that was a good day for the democrats.

they had taken a republican and made him into a democrat. so we are very much welcoming the people who have the same conservative values of rick santorum believe in his manufacturing plan to bring jobs from overseas here. and the final thing is we are trying to unify america. republicans, independents and democrats to win in the poll against barack obama. >> john, i want to talk to you about what rick santorum has said, calling the president, barack obama, a snob for wanting everyone in america to go to college. the president gave a response to that criticism yesterday. take a listen. >> when i speak about higher education, we are not just talking about a four-year degree. we are talking about somebody going to a community college and getting trained for that manufacturing job that now is requiring somebody walking through the door handling a million-dollar piece of equipment. and they can't go in there unless they've got some basic training beyond what they

received in high school. >> so, john, a lot of people are wondering why rick santorum would go there, especially given that santorum has more degrees than the president. why draw up this distinction trying to label the president as a snob for wanting to encourage americans for seeking higher education? >> he wasn't calling him a snob for seeking people to get higher education, he was calling him a snobby implying that's the only route that people should go. people need to have the freedom in this country to say, hey, if i want to go to college, we want to help them. in fact, a lot of people feel that's not the right route for them, and we want to make sure they have the opportunity to succeed. other people want to go into the military. we want to make sure that they succeed. so it's another example of this president sitting there in washington thinking he knows best. he did it on health care and wants to do it on your career path. what rick santorum is saying, regardless what you choose, college, no college, military, we need to make sure there's an opportunity for you, not just those who go to college.

>> so when we're talking about college, rick santorum has also been out there saying that if you go to college, it is a liberal mill, saying if you go to college you'll end up being a democrat. is there a distinction being drawn there? >> i think what he was saying is his concern is that this could be part of the motivation on the side of the president. is that, look, there is a lot of belief that there are a lot of liberal colleges and they try to train kids in their identity logical thinking that matches the president. we know better. again, the senator has been very encouraging on helping people go to college. he thinks that's a great thing for families that decide that's the best thing to do. and frankly his economic plan, which triples the per child tax deduction, will make it easier for a lot of people to go to college who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it. and so rick santorum wants to help people along the entire spectrum and to give them the freedom of choices and barack

obama sits there and feels he knows what's bet best for you and that's not the american way, that's taking away freedom. >> do you predict a big day for rick santorum or a photo finish? >> the polls are saying the photo finish. here's the way i look at it. i'm sure mitt romney figured he didn't have to go to michigan. it's his home state and should win it in a landslide. now he's spending millions and millions of dollars, which he can no longer spend on super tuesday. he's here spending all this time in his home state where as a poll came out this week to show rick santorum up 30 points in his home state. so i think it is already a win by the fact that we are this competitive with mitt romney in his home state. i think it is already a victory for rick santorum. >> thank you for taking time out for us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you, i appreciate you giving me the time. >> absolutely. i'm concerned with romney because he seems a little

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welcome back. as promised this morning the president's live remarks, he's in washington, d.c., expected to talk to union the united auto workers conference in a minute, but talking about income inquality and trying to preserve the middle class. the union whereons are rallying to get the president re-elected. the president is going to be talking, and it seems like timing is everything, about the bailout. the auto bailout. and this is a big day in michigan. a lot of eyes on what the president has to say. especially targeted to what he's unveiling today later talking about enacting a fair trade policy worldwide and also putting china in his sights to see if he can get that country to an act of fair trade policies with the united states. we'll go ahead and listen to president obama speaking this morning. >> how is it going, uaw? [ cheers and applause ]

>> it is good to be with some auto workers today. all right. everybody have a seat. get comfortable. go ahead and get comfortable. we are going to talk for a little bit. first of all, i want to say thank you to one of the finest leaders that we have in labor, bob king, give it up for bob. [ cheers and applause ] >> i want to thank the international executive board and all of you for having me here today. it is a great honor. i brought along somebody who is proving to be one of the finest secretaries of transportation in our history, ray lahood. he's in the house. give ray a big round of applause. it is always an honor to spend time with folks who represent the working men and women of

ameri america. it is unions like yours that fought for jobs and opportunity for generations of american workers. it's unions like yours that help build the arsenal of democracy, the defeated fascism and won world war ii. it is unions like yours that forged the american middle class. that great engine of prosperity, the greatest that the world has ever known. so you guys helped to write the american story. but today you're busy writing a proud new chapter. you are reminding us that no matter how tough times get, americans are tougher. no matter how many punches we take, we don't give up. we get up, we fight back, we move forward, we come out on the

other side stronger than before. that's what you have shown us. you're showing us what's possible in america. so i'm here to tell you one thing today. you make me proud. you make me proud. take a minute and think about what you and the workers and the families that you represent have fought through. just a few years ago, nearly one in five auto workers were handed a pink slip. one in five. 400,000 jobs across this industry vanished the year before i took office. and then as the financial crisis hit with its full force, america faced a hard and once unageable

realities. that two of the big three automakers, gm and chrysler, were on the bring of liquidation. the heartbeat of american manufacturing was flat lining. and we had to make a choice. with the chi economy in complete free-fall, there were no private investors or companies out there willing to take a chance on the auto industry. nobody was lining up to give you guys loans. anyone in the financial sector can tell you that. so we could have kept giving billions of dollars in taxpayer dollars to auto workers without demanding real changes and accountable that was needed. that was one option, but that wouldn't have solved anything in the long-term. sooner than later we would have reason out of money. we could have just kicked the problem down the road.

the other option was to do absolutely nothing and let these companies fail. and you will recall there were some politicians who said we should do that. some even said we should let detroit go bankrupt. you remember that. you know him. think about what that choice would have meant for this country. if we had turned our backs on you, if america had thrown in the towel, if gm and chrysler had gone under. the suppliers, the distributors that get their business from these companies, they would have died off. then even ford could have gone down as well. production, shut down, factories, shut, once-proud companies chopped up and sold

off for scraps. and all of you, the men and women who built these companies with your own hands, would have been hung out to dry. more than 1 million americans across the country would have lost their jobs in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the great depression. in communities across the midwest, it would have been another great depression. and then think about all of the people who depend on you. not just your families but the schoolteachers, the small business owners, the server and the diner who knows your order, the bartender whose waiting for you to get off. that's right. their livelihoods were at stake as well. and you know what else is at stake? how many of you who have worked the assembly line had a father

or a grandfather or a mother who worked on that same line? [ applause ] >> how many of you have sons or daughters who said, you know, mom, dad, i would like to work at the plant, too. these jobs are worth more than just a paycheck. they are a sense of pride. they are a ticket to a middle-class life. they make it possible for you to own a home and raise kids and maybe send them, yes, to coll e college, giving you a chance to retire with dignity and some respect. these companies are worth more than just the cars they build. they are a symbol of american innovation and know-how. they are the source of the manufacturing might. if that's not worth fighting for, then what's worth fighting

for? so, no, we were not going to take a knee and not do nothing. we were not going to give up on your jobs and your families and your communities. so in exchange for help, we demanded responsibility and said to the auto industry, you're going to have to truly change, not just pretend like you're changing. and thanks to outstanding leadership like bob king, we were able the industry to retu and restructure. and everybody involved it wasn'. and it wasn't what i ran for president to do, that wasn't originally what i thought i was going to be doing as president. but you know what? i did run to make the tough calls and do the right things. no matter what the politics

were. [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah. and i want you to know, you know why i knew this rescue would succeed? you want to snow in it wasn't because of anything the government did, it wasn't just because of anything management did, it was because i believed in you! i placed my bet on the american [ cheers and applause ] >> and now -- three years later, three years later that bet is

paying off. not just paying off for you, but it's paying off for automaker i. [ cheers and applause ] >> highest profits in the 100-year history. chrysler is growing fastener america than any other car company. ford is investing billions in american plants,merican factories. ack to america. thousands of

all told the entire industry has added more than 200,000 new jobs over the past 2 1/2 years. 200,000 new jobs. and here's the best part, you're not just building cars again, you're building better cars. after three decades of inaction, we are gradually putting in place the toughest fuel economy standards in history for our cars and pickups. that means the cars you build will average nearly 55 miles per gallon by the middle of the next decade, almost double what they get today. that importless oil while we are selling more cars all around the world.

thanks to the bipartisan trade agreement i signed into law, with you in mind, working with you, there will soon be new cars in the streets of south korea imported from detroit and from toledo and from chicago. [ cheers and applause ] >> and today i talked about the state of the union, we are doing it today, i'm creating a trade enforcement unit that will bring the full resources of the federal government to bear on investigations, and we are going to encounter any unfair trade pack 'tises around the world, including countries like china. america has the best workers in

the world when the playing field is leveled. nobody will beat us and we'll make sure the playing field is level. [ cheers and applause ] >> because america always wins when the playing field is leveled. and because everyone came together and worked together. the most high-tech fuel-efficient, good-looking cars in the world are once again designed and engineered and formed and built, not in europe, not in asia, right here in the united states of america. i've seen them myself. i've seen them myself. i've seen it at chrysler's jefferson north plant in detroit. where a new shift of more than 1,000 workers came on two years ago. another 1,000 slated to come on

next year. i've seen in my hometown at the ford chicago assembly where workers are building a new explorer and selling it to dozens of countries around the world. i have seen it at gm's plant in ohio where workers got their jobs back to build the chevy cobalt. and gm's plant in detroit, where i got to get inside a brand new chevy volt fresh off the line, even though secret service wouldn't let me drive it, but i liked sitting in it. it was nice. i bet it drive

>> yeah. that's right. all right. i know our bet was a good one because i had seen it pay off firsthand. but here's the thing, you don't have to take my word for it. ask the crisis le workers near kokomo, who were brought on to make sure the newest high-tech transmissions and fuel-efficient

engines are made in america. or ask the gm workers in spring hill, tennessee, whose jobs were saved from being sent abroad. ask the ford workers in kansas city coming on to make the f-150 america's best selling truck, a more fuel-efficient truck. and you ask all the supplier who is are expanding and highering in the communities that rely on them if america's investment in you was a good bet. they'll tell you the right answer. and who knows, maybe the nay sayers would come around and say standing by america's workers was the right thing to do. i have to admit, it's been funny to watch some of these folks completely try to rewrite history now that you back on your feet. the same folks who said if we went for it with our plan to

rescue detroit, you can kiss the american auto it's motive industry good-bye. now they are saying we were right all along. or you've got folks saying, well, the real problem is what we really disagreed with was the workers, they all made out like bandits. that saving the auto industry was just about paying back the unions. really? i mean, even by the standards of this town that's a load of you know what. you know, you -- about 700,000 retireees had to make sacrifices on their health care benefits they had earned. a lot of you saw hours reduced or pay or wages scaled back. you gave up some of your rights as workers. promises were made to you over

the years that you gave up for the sake and survival of this industry. it's workers, their families, you want to talk about sacrifice? you made sacrifices. this was not an easy thing to do. let me tell you, i keep on hearing the same folks talk about values all the time. you want to talk about values? hard work, that's a value. look it up and looking out for one another is another value. that i'm my brother and sister's keeper, that's a value. >> they are out there. they are out there talking about you like you're some special interest that needs to be beaten

down. since when are hard-working men and women, who are putting in a hard day's work every day, since when are they special interests? since when is the idea that we look out for one another a bad thing? i remember my old friend, ted kennedy, he used to say, what is it about working men and women they find so offensive? this notion that we should have let the auto industry die, that we should pursue anti-worker policies in the hopes that unions like yours will buckle and unravel, that's part of that same old you are on your own philosophy that says we should just leave everybody to fend for themselves. let the most powerful do whatever they please. they think the best way the boost the economy is to roll

back the reforms we put into place to prevent another crisis, to let wall street write the rules again. they think the best way to help families afford health care is to roll back the reforms we passed that are already lowering costs for millions of americans. they want to go back to the days when insurance companies could deny your coverage or jack up your rates, whatever and however they please. they think we should keep cutting taxes, promote those to the very top, for people like me. even though we don't need it. just so they can keep paying lower tax rates than their secretaries. well, let me tell you something, not to put too fine a point on it, they're wrong. they are wrong. that's the philosophy that got us into this mess. we can't afford to go back to it, not now, we've got a lot of

work to do. we've got a long way to go before everybody who wants a good job can get a good job. we have a long way to go before middle class americans fully regain that sense of security that has been slipping away since long before this recession hit. but you know what? we have got something to show. all of you show what and possible when we pull together. over the last two years our businesses have added about 3.7 million new jobs and manufacturering is coming back for the first time since the 1990s and companies are bringing jobs back from overseas and the economy is getting stronger and the recovery is speeding up, now is the time to keep the foot on the gas and not put to breaks and i'm not going to settle for a country where just a few do really well and everyone else is struggling to get by. [ cheers and applause ]

we are fighting for an economy where everybody gets a fair shot. where everybody does their fair share. where everybody plays by the same set of rules. we are not going to go back to an economy that is all about outsourcing and bad debt and phony profits. we are fight forgive an economy that is built to last, that is built on things like education and energy and manufacturing. making things. not just buying things, makes things that the rest of the world wants to buy and restoring the values that made this country great. hard work and fair play, the chance to make it if you really try. the responsibility to reach back

and help someone else make it too, not just you. that is who we are. that is what we believe in. you know, i was telling you i visited chrysler's jefferson north plant in detroit a year and a half ago. the day i visited some of the employees had won the lottery. not kidding. they had won the lottery. now, you might think that actually that they would be kicking back and retiring. and no one would fault them for that. building cars is tough work. but that is not what they did. the guy who bought -- funny you ask.

the guy who bought the winning ticket, he was a proud uaw member that worked on the line. so he used some of his winnings to buy his wife the car that he builds, because he is proud of his work. [ applause ] then he bought brand new american flags for his hometown, because is he proud of his country. [ applause ] and he and the other winners are still clock engine at that plant today. because they are proud of the part they and their coworkers play in america's come back. see that is what america is about. you know, america is not just looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about you know, trying to

climb to the very top and keep everyone else down, when our assembly lines grind to a halt, we work together and get them going again. when somebody else falters we try to give them a hand up, because we know we are all in it together. i got my start standing with working folk who is had lost their jobs. folks who had lost their hope because the steel plants are closed down. i didn't like the idea that they did not have anybody fighting for them. same reason i got into this business is the same reason i'm here today. i'm driven by that same belief. that everybody, everybody should deserve a chance. so i promise you this, as long as you have got an ounce of fight left in you, i'll have a ton of fight left in me. we are going to keep on fighting, to make our economy

stronger, to put our friends and neighbors back to work faster, to give our children even more opportunity, to make sure that the united states of america remains the greatest nation on earth. thank you, uaw. i love you! god bless you! god bless the work you do! god bless the united states of america! >> the president wrapping up his speech in d.c., i have my panel assembled. lady, we have a short time left, suzanne, i want to start with you, president obama making a speech on a pivotal day in michigan, your thoughts? >> i think that romney will win. >> i will just point to the guy at the podium. enough said. >> had you at hello. >> meagan mccain, romney's to lose? >> yes, romney will win. >> all right. we will continue to watch this, again, a big day for the super

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