these. laws are made in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. deadly tornadoes tore through the midwest killing over one hundred people so is this yet another warning about global warming plus the nation's manufacturing jobs are on a steady down slope and the few jobs that are reappearing are at a much lower wage minimum wage to be exact and much of this is been driven by insane changes in our trade policies that obviously are shipping our jobs overseas so that did this happen in a nation how did this happen in

a nation built by the working class and eleven he done to bring back our manufacturing jobs. there was more free whether in the midwest over the weekend yesterday a massive tornado gashed across southwest missouri leveling the city of joplin to a pile of rubble or some pictures of the devastation. last week on the part of. the planet you want to take. care not get charged.

currently the death toll stands at one hundred sixteen people but authorities are worried that's likely to rise as the search for the missing continues in just the last month we've seen historic flooding events and historic tornado outbreaks ruin the lives of countless americans across the midwest sadly this could just be the beginning of permanent chaotic weather as the result of global warming instead of the science on this thing it's pretty straightforward if we look at the long at the short term science just from from one hundred fifty five or one hundred sixty hereabouts until today this is this is global atmospheric carbon dioxide and we've historically actually we were around to seventy to eighty to ninety parts per million but actually fifty five the dust revolution was going along pretty well we were up to three hundred ten parts per billion and. pushiness almost four hundred parts per million will probably hit the next couple years the red line at three fifty which we passed around one thousand nine hundred five the red line at three

fifty is here because three hundred fifty parts per million is the level of carbon dioxide the atmosphere below which. james hansen the famous scientist at nasa pointed out you know here of you article in the journal science the official journal of the american association for the advancement of science probably the top science journal in the world james hansen pointed out that human life is adapted to carbon dioxide levels below three fifty and at carbon dioxide dioxide levels of twelve three fifty we in all probability will be in a climate to which we were not after radical changes are going to have to take place in the way that we live this is the short term picture here's a long term graph of carbon dioxide and shows two thousand years rather than just the last fifty years and from a thousand years ago until today we see carbon we're looking at three different gases here carbon dioxide methane and nitrous oxide are all three greenhouse gases

all three the product the byproduct of industry although methane is more the product of industrial farming factory farming but nonetheless they're all the products of industry and what you see is that all three of these in particular carbon dioxide have exploded since the industrial revolution in the hundreds and then in the one nine hundred hundreds here in one thousand nine hundred nine hundred fifty two thousand and as we go into two thousand and one two thousand and two two thousand and three we see these numbers just going right off the chart heading up toward the four hundred part per million number this is this you know is a pretty clear indication hey something is wrong here this long term problem you know we have to ask yourself the question nine point two eight billion trick tons. almost ten billion metric tons of carbon dioxide are being produced are being put into our atmosphere every year that had been safely stored underground for millions

of years for three hundred million years since the carboniferous period as coal as natural gas and as oil and now they're being taken out nine ten ten billion detrich tons every year dumped into the outer surprise surprise there it is so those c o two had enough c o two have an effect you know of course it produces extreme weather it produces rising sea levels it produces humanitarian economic chaos as we're seen as we've seen with you know whole variety of things they say you know with the republican talking probably one of the main ones is america is an exceptional nation we are in many ways actually in my mind the way that we're most exceptional is that we were one of the very first nations and it is for the world to say that people can govern themselves or from governments really quite remarkable but somehow american exceptionalism in that context has been shifted into a works optional that we don't how we're immune to the laws of nature. are the only

nation whose politicians deny global warming literally we are with every every single freshman republican in the house of representatives denies it will warming exists without exception. now this might be because all oil oligarchy like the koch brothers who own the largest privately owned oil company in the united states and other oil all of our giant oil companies are funding phony science they're rewriting the internet literally you have you can find ads you can get a job in blogs talking about how there's no such thing as climate change yet editing with a pedia whatever there's this is being done you can see the evidence all over the place by and politicians are say the wholly owned republican party and increasing lay a chunk of the democratic party and with the t.v. networks you know hey we've got extreme weather events we've got floods or get tornadoes we've got hurricanes let's make sure nobody mentions the role of fossil fuels in this so let's throw a few million bucks at the t.v.

networks there's a couple spots you're fragments of spots that are running on two different networks right now. america's natural gas and here's what we did today in homes all across america we created the electricity to power the alarm clocks and brew the coffee with the bathwater and gave you a cleaner ride to school tomorrow you can do even more work cleaner in the mystic already were america's natural guess the smarter power today now germany holland japan japan just announced they had a fifty percent goal of nuclear power they abandoned that they said ok if you present renewables by twenty twenty nine years from now fifty percent. holland denmark china they're all preparing for global warming for the changes that are

coming with global warming and in today's new york times the front page story at the day's new york times was about how chicago is preparing for global warming and this is really pretty amazing the climate change planet chicago they banned plant he white oak trees which by the way of the state tree because white oak trees won't be able to survive in an in a climate that's more like baton rouge and chicago and the prediction is within twenty to thirty if it maybe fifty years at the most chicago will have a climate of baton rouge so they've done that they're starting to plant trees instead in addition to that they're repaving the roads with water permeable material why they have us here a nice five percent more moisture in it than it had just fifty years ago they have your rains they are stripping pavement from soon to be hot spots because pavement absorbs heat replace it instead with grass and vegetation new plants or vegetation to replace all this pavement just who'll things down chicago is building new sewage systems for increased flooding what a surprise it's increased bloody as

a result of this thing and they're installing for the first time ever they're installing air conditioning and school building it's charter schools never had air conditioning before i mean you know the air commission's been around for about fifteen years chicago didn't have them so bottom line the other consequences they're preparing for twelve hundred deaths a year billions of dollars in damage even termites we need to be not just chicago but every place every city in america we need to be planning for global warming and we need to be doing something about that chart you saw all that carbon dioxide it's going to the atmosphere and we need to be talking back to the oil oligarchy and their shills who are saying oh nothing to worry about we need to do it now. it. is time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question this weekend's deadly tornadoes storms in missouri just more proof of global warming and choices are yes we're seeing historic flooding as well or no one

with drugs you had the headline sorry al tornadoes whipped up by wind not climate change so far over eighty percent of you voted yes well again it's on arbonne dot com let us know what you think the poll be open until tomorrow morning. it's time for the good the bad of the very aggressive play by play oddly good job pay an evasion is learning lessons about nuclear power the hard way and though it hasn't handled the situation of the fukushima power plant very well they are looking ahead and doing the right thing when it comes to future energy sources japanese government is now considering a new energy policy that will require fitting all new buildings with solar panels plan will be unveiled the next g. eight summit other nations are doing their part to get mad global warming and develop non-carbon non-nuclear based energy sources time for the u.s.

to step up to and hopefully before we learn the tough lessons that your pants. the bad herman cain over the weekend the republican presidential candidate held a rally in which he advised everyone to reread the constitution. to get the part about my dividend up state of happiness oh stop right there keep me go back what is theirs by then if the government because destructive. it is the right of the people opt out is it. i think that. except for the fact the constitution says no such thing as the declaration of independence kane is talking about which was written more than a decade earlier and is not a document with any current force of law. but isn't a requirement for being in the tea party candidate having a complete lack of knowledge about the constitution. and the very very ugly mike

huckabee over the weekend on fox so-called news huckabee ripped into president obama in last week's middle east policy speech. what were your thoughts about the president asking for the borders to return when they were forty four years it was like a god. punch i could not believe that the president and his states betrayed israel i'm going to be strong and tell you he betrayed them this is not i guess huckaby's trying to i guess trying to fix it and i guess trying to find a reasonable and workable solution to stop the bloodshed in the middle east the most betrayal that's even though nearly every nation in the world supports returning to the sixty seven borders as a starting point for negotiations even sixty percent of israelis support the idea it's like the whole no compromise by republicans extends to foreign policy too and that's very wary of. coming up manufacturing rebounds or is it a myth after the break i'll explain why even though new factory jobs are surfacing there's still an overall decline in american industry.

for. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm time her welcome to the big picture.

screwed workers in manufacturing where are the manufacturing jobs since the beginning of two thousand and ten year and a half ago our nations created twenty five thousand new factory jobs good news right well not exactly it's only about thirteen percent of the total manufacturing jobs lost during the bush great recession of two thousand and eight we still have a long way to go back into in two thousand and two thousand and nine fifteen of the nation's biggest manufacturing sectors have seen declines in input textiles have seen a forty three percent decline in metal production a twenty seven percent decline cars an eighteen percent decline. and machinery a fourteen percent decline just to name a few the point is eighty percent of the u.s. manufacturing economy is performing worse today than it was a decade ago but it's not just our economy is screwed so are our workers it's true

that two hundred fifty thousand manufacturing jobs have been created since two thousand and ten but they're all pain much lower than where they were before the recession for example over appliances reopening a factory in ohio that was initially shipped off to china two thousand and seven before two thousand and seven american were american workers at that plant made twenty bucks an hour but today with the factory reopening those workers can expect an easily seven dollars and fifty cents an hour most of them if they have families will now qualify for food stamps so given this how can we possibly expect to have a true job recovery without manufacturing and good paid well paid manufacturing joining me now is robert ball executive director of the industrial union council at the f l c.e.o. robert welcome back it's nice to be here great to have you with us many are saying that american manufacturing is rebounding is that true or not really i mean i we've seen the headlines the renaissance of manufacturing and it's not really

a renaissance we've seen a bump here in the last six months we created two hundred fifty thousand manufacturing jobs it's the first increase since one thousand nine hundred ninety seven that's how long it has been we lost six million jobs we got two hundred fifty thousand back that's about five percent of the jobs have been lost so it's all in your theory in this work in your this is a depression in manufacturing we've been in for quite a while so the fact that we've gotten some back we're glad we have obviously but to say this is a renaissance that everything's hunky dory and it's going to be great it's really misleading the public and doesn't really address sort of the crisis in the depth of the crisis we've been in the things we need to do about it going forward in seventeen ninety one. president washington who had to. son henry knox's friend all the way to connecticut to the one tailor in america who made american made clothes in order to get a suit to be inaugurated in as the british have made available for us to manufacture here right in seventy nine he won he asked alexander hamilton to come

up with a plan to build manufacturing in america hamilton presented that to congress and seventy seventy nine he won it was by and large accepted in seventy three in a variety of from you know executive orders to congressional policies and it was an eleven point plan you can find on the web if you read it and one of the and the cornerstone of it was tariffs imports taxes on imported goods. were so much a part that the entire federal government was paid for the entire the bill for every senator representative president all fit the entire federal budget from the founding of public george washington until the civil war one hundred percent was tariffs that was the income from the civil war into world war one two thirds of it was tariffs from world war one to world war two huge expansion of government a third of it was paid for with tariffs the average tariff in the united states for most of the twentieth century was between twenty five and thirty four percent now the average tariff in the united states is two point one percent is the time for us to say hey you know if it costs a buck or the labor to make

a pair of shoes in it in connecticut and you can make it in china for forty cents we're going to put an eighty cent or sixty cent tax on it you can make it in mexico for fifty cents what if it was that tax i think that's part of the puzzle of how you equalize the cost differential maybe out there but the real deal is think of it this way we say have a strategy as a nation about having ready for an economy right was a major presidency where you want to feel really good right right and all of a sudden you say well if we don't need it anymore and look what's happened i mean that's what i'm talking about what's really happened in the last fifteen years in particular has been a disaster for workers for communities for the country and that's the danger in this and we live in a world in which every other country basically actually has a strategy and it isn't just china it's germany it's the netherlands it's around the world. people think about this stuff and want to manufacturing and what do we need to do as a country to have it and this is something we walk away from and saying it's a lot of really you know i think there's a couple of things obviously a lot of tariff yeah you know i think tariffs are part of the puzzle but i think

actually first got inside you want it but you want the jobs you want the prosperity that comes with other countries do we don't we argue that the consumers are better off not having jobs and prosperity because they can buy cheap they can buy if you have a so you need to have a first the idea that we should do something about it and want to strategy and we have goals and objectives to have manufacturing is the centerpiece of this economy the second thing you do is that you are sure manufacturing in the one nine hundred fifty sixty seventy s. and eighty's was thirty to thirty five percent of total g.d.p. right now it's eleven percent that's right and i don't know of any industrialized countries that have dropped a lot twenty percent and not had basically their economies for more you know if you look at these other advanced economies in the world the germans in the japans and what's happened in them the last ten or fifteen years they've held steady and they've actually grown i mean that's what people don't get is that the once they have policies meeting well they have midi they have trade and they have technology policies and say we want to target these things we want to grow these things and we'll do what needs to be done what do we do we argue whether we should have

a guy america a lot of back up and support the development of manufacturing with the public colleges we're going to spend they're not having these quibbles in debates they're actually going forward and saying we want manufacturing here's how we do our trade tax policies through this here's how we line up our education and training policies to support employment based strategies china for example at the same time we put a hundred billion dollars in a similar sort of china you know it will eight hundred billion dollars but there is required that one hundred percent of that money be spent on chinese made products but democrats propose that in the house of representatives the republicans stripped the american made art out of it you know this in the stimulus we actually did succeed in getting the buy america language applied we did it now universally the other law and the other thing we didn't do is i would. invest a lot more in infrastructure and real things we did tax rebates we did a whole bunch of other stuff through it it wasn't as productive investment that would create jobs directly which we've argued all the way through put the money into things that employ people and now that that money is pretty much rapidly

vanishing there's no more buy america anywhere no well we have it in some of our deal with the law and our department of defense laws and our transportation appropriations money the things are going to have some buy american coverage did needs to be strengthened there's things you can do to make it better but our our even our coverage under these laws is less than the countries that complain about us having them they have even broader to mess take preference clauses that they're allowed to under international law or we're not proposing stuff that isn't covered by international trade law or they do things like gimbal that acts as a way of reverse tariff on carrier as you know bob thanks so much for being with us the always great to see again you've got. so so that we know that there is no may a great manufacturing underway in america is no time to change policies in washington that allowed corporations to ship factories by the thousands and jobs by the millions overseas after all this is the first time our nation has succumbed to a major recession without having

a strong manufacturing base to get us back on our feet again so is it time to dump so-called free trade and start taxing corporations that ship jobs overseas brian reilly is and thinks so he's a senior policy analyst and trade policy at the conservative heritage foundation brian joins me now to offer his take hey brian thanks for having me tonight thank you for joining us i'm guessing that that conversation was an answer i set up for it and i think there's certainly room for intelligent people to disagree i was the other day reading through the list of top ten cars that consumer reports just identified for two thousand and eleven and most of those cars were made in the united states now there was a ford dealer and it was. they were made by american workers and american factories of what percentage of the stuff in those cars is made. states you know for several days probably shutting other summerize right now because they can't get parts from japan oh that's a problem having the internet international supply lines working smoothly. probably having your most expensive and you know we don't have much of

a tool and die industry in this country and we don't do precision tools as like we used to so you know japan is supplying that stuff to our auto industry oh i'd say i don't know that i'm sure if that is the only dad were. sure but i don't think japan is the example of the economy we want to emulate you know back in the eighty's they were going great but since then they've been awfully sad that i think they've actually been you see they've been stagnant with the average japanese workers had a spate fairly stable paycheck they all have health insurance they were good social safety net they had good retirements. other than their nuclear power plants melting down you know until that happened they they weren't a crisis ready certainly weren't really the worst at last like we were in the united states and so we had the recession a couple of years ago it was growing. it's a problem if jobs are decreasing because we can't compete but it's because we're becoming more competitive as we were in the farm sector and throughout the eight hundred that's not necessarily a bad thing and i think if you look at the u.s. industries overall we've got winners we've got losers textile industries lost

a lot of jobs but if you're a single mom who wants some of that cheap crap at wal-mart or some shoes for your kids that that's a big benefit i would much rather you know i'm old enough to remember and i suspect you are too when sam walton rolled out wal-mart and when he was still alive and the banner across the top of the wal-mart remember the one that opened in atlanta georgia the very first one back in the early one nine hundred eighty s. banner said one hundred percent made in the usa and the prices in that wal-mart were not that different than they are today ok they might have been ten percent higher i would gladly pay ten percent more for that crap at wal-mart and know that twenty or thirty people living around me have twenty dollars an hour manufacturing jobs then then have stuff is ten percent cheaper a wal-mart and have all those people have. where it's you want fries with that but my question is who makes that decision do you make the decision i'm not sure what i want to do on be here or bomb and i know there are like the officials i'd rather make that decision myself oh come on are you serious you don't believe in democracy

i believe that the money in my wallet is mine disappeared and if somebody thinks that i shouldn't be able to buy the cheap shoes that were marked you don't feel that our nation should that we should elect representatives to to put together the rules of the game of trade in a way that benefits our nation first they should create rules that allow u.s. companies to compete pay should encourage opportunities for u.s. exports to grow overseas that's one of the reasons i think trade agreements are so important when we allow foreign but you're a player to my question ok let me give give me another shot your question i'll. try to do a better job this time i don't think either one of us want to go to a baseball game where one team could buy off the umpires and change the number of hits a big and strikes that they can write you with you know they're so we want rules we want umpires and we want to work for the benefit of the players and the fans ok in the united states it's labor and consumers the players and the fans why shouldn't

congress be passing laws that work to benefit americans rather than transnational corporations g.e. made more of its money outside the united states leisure than inside the united states hewlett packard is making computers in asia that they used to make here apple is making stuff in china but they used to make here all these companies there's no textiles left in the united states manufactured levis shut down the last fact in this country six years ago all because congress changed our trade laws they represent us shouldn't they be passing laws that are protectionist to protect our jobs i think we need more trade not less trade you look at the textile industry about half the tariffs we collect today are to protect that one small industry and i don't think that's right i think when somebody. sides i want some clothes for my family if the seven percent of all international trade the united states this non oil is companies trading within themselves it's h.p. america buy from h.p. china it's apple america buy from apple trend that's not trade that's arbitrage of

labor sometimes when we get money from that be illegal we know absolutely not we need to do whatever we can to help u.s. companies compete with the world's biggest magnify it with foreign direct investments compete worldwide to create jobs here we are the world's largest magnet for foreign direct investment know why it creates jobs here in the united states and that's because of our trade deficit all these other countries always of the companies in these other countries are accumulating always u.s. dollars the only place they can spend them is by coming to america and buying our companies do we really want on our workers or chrysler our workers at the toyota factories to be manufacturing things where one hundred percent of the profit is going to either germany or japan and they shouldn't go to american kinds of open trade policies that i believe in. conservative heritage foundation is actually how i was introduced i think these are really progressive policies if you go back to woodrow wilson and franklin roosevelt the idea that we should make poor little terrorist like tax thirty five percent real so they went up to forty six percent under a under under roosevelt and

a book both works to lower those those tariffs and should move towards a model would go wilson's fourteen points included let's have free trade let's not have regressive taxes that hurt poor americans so that's that's the situation that as i see it the last thing we need to do is create new barriers to commerce we need more trade and more freedom and the rule of law if you will as it was officials is to protect those freedoms thought thank you for being here thanks don't appreciate it. the sad reality is fifty sixty years ago manufacturing used to make up more than a quarter of our entire economy almost thirty percent of the wealth in america was created by workers building things and factories across the country but today thanks to so-called free trade and an over reliance on financial markets which now account for about thirty thirty five percent of financial activity it's manufactures a fraction of what it used to be making up just one percent of our economy and as long as we are building anything in any in america anymore don't expect our economy to ever be as strong as it once was. after the break politicians gone wild from

illegitimate children to sex tapes to alleged sexual assaults why does it seem there's an increasing number of men in power jumping into outrageous sex scandals it's just that reporting is better women are speaking out now and it's always been this way. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime in the us. i think. beatable one well. we have the government says they're pretty convinced.