also this week henry ford may be best known for his car company but he's also the man who gave the world the 2 day weekend but could the pandemic be assuring in the 4 day working week. and environmental racism opposition grows to a pipeline that could put at risk the drinking water of black low income residents . in march more than $200.00 chinese fishing vessels occupied a reef in the philippines exclusive economic zone only the fishing vessels were manned by fisherman but by beijing's maritime militia which have been deployed in the south china sea to protect its quotes and says stroll sees china claims the whitsun reef as its own to the north in the spratly islands beijing has built military installations and artificial islands as china contest islands from japan to malaysia the united states is deploying more warships to the region right now in just the size of fleets washington has fallen behind so this is what the picture looks like china has 360 naval vessels compared to 298 for the united states beijing's maritime militia is estimated at 3000 ships these are not benign but some a

however, there was a guy named henry ford who came up with a process using an assembly line to build n henry figured that out, and the model-t. was built up in detroit any of the manufacturing hubs in automobile shifted basically from indianapolis or cleveland or you name it to detroit. the first event of any kind, any kind of sporting or competitive event was a balloon race, took place in 1909. they launched out of the infield just a few feet from where we are right now. and one of the balloons made it all the way to tennessee and was the winner. the second event to take place here was in early august of 1909 and that was a motorcycle race, and so you had the two-wheelers here before the racecars. and they had a very hard time with the surface, which was the original surface, crushed tar and rock. that did not suit motorcycles at all, and so unfortunately that event was cut short because of some accidents. and then the following week, august 21st, 1909, thafrs the first time there was automobiles racing here. that was more successful, and the track started to break up by the third da

he's kind of like the mish-mash between a thomas edison, henry ford and a rocket scientist all rolledinto one and the guy isn't afraid to crack jokes, have a quirky sense of humor. i think that adds a little bit of color. >> he certainly has a personality. >> he does. >> yeah. >> it is huge. miley cyrus will join musk as the musical guest. two interesting personalities. you can watch the show on nbc bay area at 8:30 and again at 11:30. >>> rob ng us. >> fire started late in last october. that's the driest time of the year. as the drought monitor update, conditions are obviously much worse. now in may usually see the drought conditions recede a little bit, but that's certainly not the case this year. that extreme drought expanded down into monterey. what we're seeing outside are the field moisture. we talk about that a lot that are right about here. that red line is all time max dry or ready to ignite. we're on that line of all-time dry and levels that on average we don't reach until june or july. so with that as the backdrop, when you see the temperatures at 91 degrees, 10% humidity a

what happens is we developed a very henry ford like assembly line. send me into the library of congress with the national archives and i would probably come out with what i was looking for. he was born to be a researcher and i cannot compare. if we are writing books about people that are still alive, i'm good at interviewing them. what tom will point me in the right direction and give me the research i will start to write, i'm not going to say i will write a chapter and send it back but at home a chunk with a million questions. i will send it back to tom and if he's as good an editor as he is a researcher we kind of have this assembly line going back and forth. so far it's worked for us. one of the things that is very compelling is the descriptions of the landscape it's also nice to get a birds eye view. so you've created this map in the book and they are so helpful. did you decide, did you know -- >> since we started collaborating we both sensed that the kind of books we write, people want to see where it happens. they were attacking a couple hundre

record concept for making records was really sort of borrowed by the assembly line concept that henry fordld be recording at hitsville usa 24 hours a day. >> berry us looking for a studio in detroit at that time. he saw this house that had a garage that attached to the back of it who became a studio. >> the studio was about 55 feet long and about 47 feet wide. small place. we were all in one room. and we can see each other's face. it was something about that magic of looking at a person's eyes when he's doing a pick up. >> we had the funk brothers. who were some of the best musicians ever. >> i was a mecca. everybody in detroit could sing. i never seen anything like it. >> the competition level was super high. he very easily could have not hit. he was a decent drummer and musician, he might have ended up being a studio musician. >> he started to be my drummer with the "miracles in me," going on the road playing drums. he started writing some and he was singing frank sinatra, one of those kinlds of ways. that's when he became marvin gaye. >> you have a love and reverence and connection that

. >> the motown concept for making records was borrowed by that assembly line concept that henry forddy sort of emulated that concept. they would be recording at hitsville usa 24 hours of the day. barry was looking for a studio in detroit at that time. and he saw this house that had a garage attached to the back of it, which became the studio. >> the studio was about 55 feet long and about 47 feet wide. small place. and we were all in one room. and we could see each other's face. it was something about that magic of looking in a person's eyes when he's doing a pick up. >> we had the funk brothers were some of the best musicians ever. >> it was a mecca. everybody in detroit could sing. i never seen anything like it. >> the competition level was super high. he very easily could have not hit. he was a decent drummer, musician. >> he started to be my drummer with the miracles and me going on the road playing drums. he started writing some kind of fella and he was saying it frank sinatra, one of those kind of ways. that was when he became marvin gaye. you have a love and connection to marv

[laughter] >> henry ford, none of these guys could say -- that's a narrow lane to swim in if you think about it so when you replace someone famous like i wanted to run the company differently and i actually thought they were things we didn't do well and that we needed to do better and i wanted the company to be more technical and a one the company to be more global and i wanted the company to be more customer oriented and the company to be more diverse. i do very clear set of things that i wanted to change but i never say i will do this because you just have to try to change quietly when you replace somebody famous. i would add to that end to the audience and for anybody that wants to be a leader that even when you replace somebody that's not as famous as jack, trashing the past has a short shelf life. in other words, you know, i watch president biden and everyone wants him to do well but no one really careso how trump is anymore and they all want to know what is next and it doesn't matter but the president of the united states and your no one gives a damn about what happened last. the

but what happens is we developed a very henry ford like assembly line.om you could send me into the library of congress, and the national archives and i would probably commit with what i was looking for. you might have to send a party with minors hats to find me, but tom is so adept. he was born to be a researcher. born to be. and i cannot compare that, when it comes to lineman draper it was all tom. i'm good interviewing them, but what tom will point me in the right direction, and he'll do the research, and also to write i'm not clear serrated chapter and send it back to him but i will get a hunk or chunk, with 1 million questions in it. i need this i need this, how do i expand on, this is too much of this. i'll send it back to tom, and he's as good and editor as he is a researcher. so we have this assembly line thing going back and forth. so far, it's work for us. >> there's probably a lot of trust there. >> i don't trust tom at all. >> no no never turn our back on each other. [laughs] . i'm >> so one of the things, that is very compelling as all these

henry ford said back in the day it was the only museum worth visiting in america, and he did his own version of it in detroit. he was kind of independently wealthy, but in the end it was a very famous tile maker. he has a wild mansion right next to the tile works. susan: the next parapet to in the footsteps of george washington. valley forge. neil: the fascinating thing, i went to valley forge. replica of places that the troops stated that winter. and has become an iconic place, 1976, 1977. the troops are wintering their, there is not a battle there. i wanted to go there to understand how and when we decided to care about valley forge. i met a great historian, and she has written about when we decided to care about valley forge. it took about a century before we cared about the place, and started to memorialize it and expand it. now it is a major attraction. that kind of layering of when we care, how we recognize events that occurred there is i think really interesting to look out. new hope. new hope was actually -- this is standing on the bridge across the delaware. washington's cro

this bob mcnamara then secretary of defense was twirling around the room christine ford wife of henry ford. it was a beautiful actually gorgeous woman low-cut white gown and and as he was twirling her around she had a wardrobe malfunction and people oh, but you know corrected it right quickly, but you can imagine that was a bitter of the evening. later dinner. i was not seated at the table with the president, but she wasn't of course and there was kurt douglas and happy rockefeller, but the summary answer was none of that portrayed in the crown was accurate. well, let me just add that. quite a few of the social aids dancing with mrs. ford and it's all i saved her. i pulled, you know help with up so but i mean it has been a story over 50 years every time the social aids get together we talk about what were you doing? and what did you say? in every room to class i was there she she corrected herself. i'm sure back mcnamara was trying to figure out how he did and maybe some things that was their fantasy, but talk about actually there was a press secretary from mrs. johnson who was known for h

henry ford says look, you're not going to do this and i'm not going to contribute. you're going to need federal funding to do this so they don't raise enough money, they get some subscribers including woodrow wilson, i think he gave $5 or something and it terribly underfinanced and doesn't happen until eisenhower becomes president 1956, interstate highway act and creates the largest network of highways on the planet, 40000 miles plus. i tried inflation adjusted for today's dollars, it would have been at least $600 billion project. now we face at least $6 trillioo in repairs, of course there is a proposal for the 2 trillion-dollar american jobs plan by president biden and we are looking at that now so with a lot of my stories, this is like my fifth book on infrastructure history, finance, telling stories about the people behind these ideas and the principal here is very powerful you do need to make these investments, this is how we link our cities and towns and farm fields from coast to coast and there's a lot of things we need to do and i'd be happy to take question

but we didn't become like that, probably because roosevelt was president not henry ford. so we elected someone who does not believe in american norms, who has strong autocratic tendencies and what we have discovered is what we used to study in civics, and when you say that it is okay to embrace the worst part of yourself, the self a doesn't want to admit that the other side one, this is the only road to autocracy. democracy doesn't work when your for democracy when you win and you're not fort when you lose. that is a different system of government. that is a threat out there. >> i'm glad you're raising that because something i think that has gone on remarked on, the landing part of that monologue is that something really dangerous, aside from the violent insurrection happening, was introducing the notion of essentially a congressional veto on the peoples vote for president. this idea that you have this big thing on january six which was seen as proforma, they were there to move the papers around to make it official, the idea that maybe you will lose the presidential elect

other product he's the biggest sales person for it i don't know quite how he's very different from henry ford. back in the day they were active, edison active around light bulbs. he puts on those cyber trucks shows. remember threw the thing against the window and it broke, or whatever the heck happened. always doing stunts like this and sort of doing the tony stark thing. right? who he kind of, we kind of link him with from "iron man" even though it's a funcictional figu. when you're in the public eye you suffer the arrows of that, too, when it goes south certainly. i think his cove ed stuff was terrible and i told him so and we talked about it at some point being well-known is nob is is not a problem selling cars. he's got to distinguish himself to keep tesla going. with the other stuff, the spacex stuff, you kind of want to have an exciting personality behind going to mars. incite and inspire people. you can like him or dislike him but i think this was a huge success for him. no matter how you slice it one issue when he said to the pl moon about dogecoin, whether speculative and pushing it

. >> remember the legacy henry ford this man can do it he's more of a legacy of henry ford not the kindf whacky id dology and david, i think he gets it, he's sick of it, he doesn't like that market cap differential and he's not going to let it stand anymore. he's mad as hell >> he's that great combination of chris farley and howard beel. >> there's the opening bell at the big board, celebrating a direct listing, zip recruiter an online employment marketplace, the ceo will join us on tech check this morning, at the nasdaq, another ipo, fly wire, a global payments company and by the way, happy 125th birthday to the dow jones. 1896 today and risen an average of 7.69% a year >> and when you go back and read who was in there, the story, it's interesting, as far as like an international harvester, so you got a deere survivor, there are many companies that were the backbone of american engineering and industry that have since been moved to taiwan and china it's kind of embarrassing. the auto representation is minimal now. >> it is and by the way exxonmobil which i was just speaking about, join

and this has really a big history, built in 1917, when the undersecretary of the navy, fdr, asked henry fordo build boats in world war i, now we are, fast forward more than a century later, building f-150 lightning. that is the big, all-electric truck going to be unveiled here tomorrow, america's best-selling vehicle, so the president coming on the eve of that. he said he even got a glimpse of it, he took a ride in it. this is a highly kept secret, what this truck is going to look like, but he said he also wanted to take it out for a spin and he asked the secret service if he could. bit of a lighthearted ending there but certainly a serious message for his jobs plan here in dearborn, michigan. >> yeah, the president there juggle ago lot. jeff zeleny for us in dearborn. thank you. >>> now to the other big news. kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader, says he will not support the creation of an independent commission to investigate the violent january 6th capitol riots. mccarthy rejected the deal, brokered by one of his own house republican colleagues and a house democrat. only days ago, th

if you go back to henry ford, he increased the pay for his workers to $5 a day, so that they could afford the cars that they produced. well, today, we're increasing the pay for people who aren't working and not producing anything, so they can buy things that they don't produce, and what this does is it creates shortages, it creates higher prices, and the whole thing is just a really vicious cycle that we have to get rid of these unemployment benefits to get back to normal. charles: right, and i got to tell you, it feels like every member of the administration has been out today in front of a camera trying to, you know, explain this whole thing. meanwhile, the u.s. chamber of commerce is now calling for the federal government to stop, stop these $300 extra monthly benefit boosts. i mean listen, there was a time not long ago, we needed them but do you think this be the right move? >> yeah, i'm going to, i wish we would have never shutdown, but we did, and once you take people's jobs, you won't let them open their businesses, the government really has only one choice, and that is to pay them

i write the next but what happens is we've developed a very henry ford like assembly line tom is it you could send me into the library of congress of the national archives and i probably come out with what i was looking for. you might have to sending out my party with minors hats and lights to find me but tom is so. adept he was born to be a researcher born to be and i cannot compare like when it comes to lyman draper it was all tom. i'm good if we're writing books about people are still alive. i'm good at interviewing them. but so what tom will will point me in the right direction and give me the research. i'll start to write i'm not going to say i write a chapter and send it back to him right two chapters, but i'll write a hunk a chunk. remember the million questions in it. need this need this. how do we expand on this too much of this? i'll send it back to tom and he's as good an editor as he is a researcher and he'll get it back to me. so we kind of have this assembly line thing going back and forth. and so far it's worked for us. it's probably. i don't trust tom at all. no, no, i w

irng about henry ford -- i think about henry ford and the automobile. innovation is so much part of our d.n.a. that i don't think we sometimes absorb the littler things that we might not know about. people probably don't know about nay thon -- nathan stone stubblefield who in 1902 developed the first method of communication using magnets. in 1902 a kentucky inventor basically helped turn the page on a new generation of technology. or that a louisiana professor jay lawrence smith invented in 1850 the microscope. when you think about how much that led to the important discussions of science and health care for us as a nation. or that in indiana, a state police officer invented the breathalyzer test, a gentleman named robert borkstein who basically said we don't know what's happening here and he introduced and created the betting -- breathalyzer test. that is what america is. america is the spirit of know-how and getting things done. in fact, a report said, quote, americans prioritize being a world leader in scientific achievements more than other global c

committee, including those from the american hospital association, michigan hospital association, henry ford health system, munson healthcare, sparrow health system and premier to be entered without objection into the record and the following statements will be entered into the record. i understand my ranking member is being delayed on the floor. he will be here shortly. he can present his opening remarks at that time. so we'll move forward with witness testimony at this point. it is the practice of the homeland security and governmental affairs committee to swear in witnesses. so if you will stand and raise your right hand and the witness online, if you could raise -- at least raise your hand, if not stand it would be great, do you swear that the testimony you will give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> i do. >> you may be seated. our first witness today is dr. sharief alnuhala, is that correct? >> elnahal. the president chief executive officer of new jersey. i will give a more complete opening to you before your

committee, including those from the american hospital association, michigan hospital association, henry ford health system, sparrow health system, trinity health and premier to be entered into the record and without objection, the following statements will be entered into the record. i understand my ranking member being delayed on the floor, he will be here shortly. he can present his opening remarks at that time and we will move forward with witness testimony. it's the practice of the homeland security and governmental affairs committee to swearing this is so if you stand and raise your right hand and witness online, raise your hand. stand, would be great. you swear the testimony he will give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> you may be seated. >> first witness today, doctor sherry, is that correct? -- the executive officer of the university hospital network new jersey, i will give a more complete opening to you for your testimony but i am pleased we've been joined by ranking member from his duties on the floor of senate t

i think it was henry ford who said if you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. but einstein said in adversity lies opportunity. the postal service has faced considerable adversity over the last decade or two. this has been perhaps one of the most difficult stretches in his long and storied history. the postal service was actually not an idea that somebody dreamed up 30, 40, 60 years ago. it's in our constitution. the first postmaster general was a guy named ben franklin. after that storied history, we have an opportunity facing the adversity the postal service faces today, an opportunity to confirm three well-qualified postal board of governors, public servants at their heart who will be ready on day one, not a month from now, not a year from now, but day one to ensure that this invaluable institution is able to meet its vital mission. i'm proud to support them, proud to say i know them, and i urge my colleagues to support them as well. later today -- two of them later today. another one probably later this -- this month. mr. president, with that, i yield the fl

one, it was henry ford who doubled wages, a capitalist in the early 20th century and he created the middleody else failed. so he created new plants by doubling wages people didn't want to go to dead end jobs or where it's too risky. it's almost like a duplicate copy of what's going on here kevin, i love you, this hyperbole, airlines are dead, stimulus money is going to kill them the can was kicking me in the knee in the airline getting a seat they're over sold. the airlines are back zooming again. so much for we don't need airlines again we need a business plan that includes all of us, joe. 70% of this economy is consumer spending so like my rich friends need my poor friends to do better if only to stay rich including me and kevin let me remind you it was the fed window that kept my friend kevin and us in a nice cool place on wall street. it was the fed window that kept wall street with access rolling. come on, we need all of us now to battle the real battle, which is a war that -- in the u.s. trying to take our seat not us arguing over this silly stuff. >> nothing silly about this, john >

ford made governor or vice president rockefeller the head of the domestic council. and vice president rockefeller thought that if he was head of the domestic council, he would be too domestic affairs what henrysinger was to foreign policy. but there were all sorts of problems. the domestic cabinet officials didn't want to report to the president through the vice president. chief of staff donald rumsfeld thought that if henry kissinger was running foreign policy and nelson rockefeller was running domestic policy, what did that leave for the president. and there were other problems in terms of this staff of the domestic council that had to report through the regular channels and not just through the vice president. and so the whole experiment of having the vice president running the domestic council didn't work. vice president rockefeller notwithstanding the good relationship between president ford and vice president rockefeller, he wasn't consulted on many important matters and ultimately he was dropped from the ticket in 1976 and the last time that a vice president hasn't been asked to run for re-election or election with the president. well, it is worth pausing to think about what -- why di

they had become nearly ubiquitous in american life, thanks to the insistence of entrepreneurs like henry ford on making the automobile affordable for the majority of americans. the democratization of the automobile rather than the invention of the automobile itself is, in my opinion, one of the most remarkable and uniquely american success stories. automobiles allowed americans to capitalize on the economic dynamism of the roaring 20's and helped americans move and adapt during the great depression. they contributed greatly to the american industrial base and the know-how needed to fight and win the second world war and helped propel the united states to its current status as a preeminent global, economic, and military power. visionary investments like interstate highway system made cars a stereotypal in american economic and cultural life, and cars certainly made it a lot easier to get to and from rural america. in a place like rural south dakota with limited public transportation, the automobile, often a president trump or -- often a pickup or an s.u.v., is typically the only way to get aro