for more on this, let's turn to california congressman john garamendi. have you with us tonight. >> always good. >> you bet. everyone knows affiliates of bain outsourced jobs to china when romney was there. what do you make of romney attacking the president for being weak, allegedly weak on china. is this his defense mechanism knowing he's got a terrible record of shipping jobs over there? >> no doubt about it. this is right out of karl rove's play book. if you're week, you attack the opponent for that same weakness and that's what he's doing. however, this opponent, president obama, is not at all weak on this issue. he's very, very strong on this issue. also the republicans in the house of representatives are atrocious on dealing with china. and there are example after example. boehner and the republicans refused to take up the currency issue. we passed when the democrats controlled the house, we passed a chinese currency bill that would penalize china. boehner refuses to take it up, even though it's passed the senate and is sitting in the house now. th

california congressman john garamendi joins me now from california. hello again. because it would get the jobs report on friday. he won 85 percent of all federally funded projects to be american made materials is that correct? >> that is correct. certainly the transportation sector. buses, trains, planes that we are using. our tax money buys. i'm simply saying, if it's our tax money, let's spend it on american equipment. 80 percent of the train must be built in america, and it can be done right here in sacramento. building locomotives 100 percent american made. okay. cheryl: were sitting on 16 trillion in national debt right now and the taxpayer is just to the max and concerned about that. if we are going to be fine spending american tax dollars on a new bridge, near wrote, fair enough, but soon we get the best deal for american taxpayers? >> it depends on whether you want a deal for china or america. if you want american workers to up be employed, if you want american businesses to have those opportunities, then you should be spending our tax dollars on american

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john, good to see you again. you heard the attacks on the original romney plan in 2006 and not the plan from 2012. he came up with a bipartisan proposal that changed what mr. garamendias talking about. and the proposal of ryan keeps traditional medicare on the table as an option for everybody. so to say that the aarp is against it, that's an older plan, it changes medicare as we know it, that's an older plan. in business, we choose what we fight against. the democrats and now mr. garamendi are attacking something that is no longer on the table. that's unfortunate. we need to have the debate. i agree with paul in tamp awe have to have a real debate about this. we welcome t. we can't sit here and fight at strawmen and argue about proposals that were made 4 and 5 years ago. >> shannon: congressman garamendi, what do you make of the fact that there was something out there, is that something you would be willing to look at. >> senator widen has moved away from the proposal that came before the house of representative. i was the insurance commissionener california for 8 years. i can actual, once you begin to divide future beneficiaries from the existing beneficiaries, the