imagine you have the detroit river going like this and detroit on top of that. ribbon farms stretched out on either end in long, thin sections. this allowed each family and farmer to have a little bit of land near the river, near the water. this would be used for watering your plants but also critically important for transport as well. the detroit location itself is a very attractive spot for the french because of the detroit river, it's a very narrow river that leads from lake erie to lake huron. this is important because of commerce, getting goods from the upper region in michigan and the rest of the great lakes, but also a strategic position. at this point, detroit was on both sides of the river. because of this, they controlled the entire span leading up to the rest of the great lakes. important from both a strategic aspect and in terms of controlling trade. following the french and indian war, new france became british. it was all seated to the british in 1763. right now you are looking at a really great model of detroit. this is how it maybe would've looke

which separates east detroit from west detroit. anybody i -- everybody identifies themselves as east detroit or west detroit. go down a mile and there is motown. this row, series of houses that is now a museum. i did most of the research. going there, interview, doing a lot of archival research. all my books i say they have four legs to a table. one leg is the observation of being there, understanding the cultural geography of a place. archivald leg is the research, find a contemporaneous documents. the third leg is the interviews. and i found as many of the people that i could from that era. i had to travel other places as well. barry gordy is in a mansion in bel air in los angeles. i went to see him and a lot of other people around the country. the fourth leg is looking for what is not there. there is always a conventional wisdom about something, trying to find other ways to explore the reality. >> interesting interview that you had to you mentioned very gor -- barry gordy. what did you learn? probably 80 83, four by now. he was

detroit to canada. traveling across the abbasid or bridge is nearly 10,000 cars a day plus another 2000 semitruck's. the main transport for semi trucks leaving america and going into canada through michigan. we see everything on those trucks. from gerber baby food through kellogg's cereal made in michigan. anything and everything that has to be traded. as the two biggest international trading partners in the world you can imagine the depth and scope of what is traveling the bridge. in 1929, when the detroit windsor ambassador bridge opens and again in 1930 when the heraldedens, they are as engineering marvels. great engineering feats of the world and put detroit on the map not only architecturally but through heralded as engineering prosperity, beine to bring in the tobacco that makes our cigar manufacturing flourish at the turn-of-the-century, bringing in stovew iron to make our industry and later automotive industry flourish. when the bridge opens in 1930 we are at the height of prohibition. it quickl

they do not know what detroit is.hey do not know that detroit is the home of rosa parks, the woman who sat down so a movement could stand up. detroit is where martin luther king first gave his "i have a dream" speech. right here in this city. detroit is the place where the first radio broadcast, the first road was built. we put the world on wheels. we made a soundtrack for a generation with motown in the city. right here in this city. this is the city of detroit. where the battle of the overpass took place. where the five dollar workday took place. where we led slaves north to liberation. right here in the city of detroit. after all that, you think we are going to be beat by some governor, by a man who thinks we have gotten lazy? no no no, mr. kevynn orr, the people of detroit are not dumb and lazy -- they are overworked and underpaid. brian: do you remember that? kevyn: i do remember that. quite voluble. brian: what was he doing there? what difference does it make that rosa parks was there, that martin luther king ga

they do not know what detroit is. they do not know detroit is home of rosa parks.etroit is where martin luther king first gave his "i have a dream" speech. detroit is the place where the first radio broadcast, the first road was built. we made a soundtrack for a generation with motown in the city. this is the city of detroit. where the battle of the overpass to place. where the five dollar work lace -- day took place. right here in the city of detroit. after all that, you think we are going to be beat by some governor, by a man who thinks we have gotten lazy? the people of detroit are not dumb and lazy -- they are overworked and underpaid. brian: do you remember that? kevyn: i remember that. brian: what was he doing? what difference does it make the rosa parks was there, that martin luther king gave a speech? kevyn: everything he said was true. moved to detroit after receiving death rets -- threats in the south. i honor and respect my forefathers, including my grandparents and my father, so i just want to be sure everyone understands -- i am aware of the trajectory

to detroit? get >> i believed in the labor market, and i learned differently by being in detroit and being married to jimmy boggs. >> tell me about jimmy boggs. wherewas born in alabama there were more pigs than people, but people in the south and theyderstanding, survive. he became a writer because people could write. he knew had to take advantage of a bad situation and turn it into a good one. how did you become partners? >> i chased after him. were you chasing jimmy? >> he would laugh and say, grace has got me. i understood there was something very fresh and very new here. i lived in new york city. i came from the big apple. i had a lot of abstract ideas, and here was somebody who was very much alive in his and to whom people .ould look for leadership it was an extraordinary experience. about theant to ask causes you have worked on in your lifetime. let me start by asking why you got involved in labor work and what do you make of the labor movement today. i was working for $10 a week in chicag

didn't screw news we go to detroit michigan or governor rick snyder and his little dictator cabin or obese. sleeping happily tonight that's because a federal court has ok detroit's bankruptcy plan and in all likelihood sent the city down the path toward more economic misery thanks to the course decision the hard earned benefit packages of detroit's twenty thousand retired public sector workers that police firefighters like that are now on the chopping block retirees will have to compete with wealthy bankers and investors over what remains of detroit's finances and let's face it in today's america that's typically the major uphill battle deep cuts to pension cuts are now pretty much inevitable joining us for more on this from detroit about today's ruling as well as what it means for the future of the motor city is the pastor d. alexander bullock founder and national spokesperson for the change agent consortium . change c a c or. action see actions that thank you action cac thank you thank you so much so what's the mood like in detroit those are it's a somber mood you know we've been w

good news we got to detroit michigan or governor rick snyder and his little dictator kevin or will be sleeping happily tonight that's because a federal court has ok detroit's bankruptcy plan and in all likelihood sent the city down the path toward more economic misery thanks to the course decision the hard earned benefit packages of detroit's twenty thousand retired public sector workers police firefighters like that are now on the chopping block retirees will have to compete with wealthy bankers and investors over what remains of detroit's finances and let's face it in today's america that's typically the major uphill battle deep cuts to pension cuts are now pretty much inevitable joining us for more on this probably trite about today's ruling as well as what it means for the future of the motor city is the pastor d. alexander bullock founder and national spokesperson for the change agent consortium . change. or past of all. should see actions that action see thank you thank you so much so what's the mood like in detroit to this or is a somber mood you know we've been watching this n

we rescue detroit by leaving more money in detroit. what we've devised a plan that would dramatically lower taxes in detroit, bring the corporate income tax down to five percent, the personal income tax down to five percent, make the capital gains tax zero, take the payroll tax and bring it down for the employee and the employer. without bringing any new money to detroit, just leaving money in detroit is over a billion dollars that would stimulate detroit's economy. >> basically a flat tax but flat nonetheless. >> absolutely. flat and very low. we also look at regulations and try to get rid of the owner's regulations that's making it expensive for city government and for businesses to locate in detroit. we think if you combine all of this, that it would be the model for how you would rescue cities across the country but any impoverished area. we have impoverished areas in eastern kentucky. we think this same plan would rescue them and parts of louisville and other major cities. >> maybe the country while you're at it. we have had five

. >> stephen: speaking of institutions that have outlived their usefulness-- detroit. >> now detroit has fallen on such hard times the city is filing for bankruptcy, becoming the largest u.s. city to do so >> move is unprecedented. the biggest municipal bankruptcy in american history. a major u.s. city officially declaring it cannot pay its debt estimated at $18 billion. >> stephen: $18 billion! and detroit borrowed those billions from some pretty serious people. if they don't get paid, they've thrented to cut off michigan's thumb. ( laughter ) now, it turns out, robo cop was an optimistic view of detroit's future because the numbers tell the story. the city's population has dwibdle twd 2 million to 700,000. detroit has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, and at 73,000 abandoned buildings. knowing how far the city has fallen would have henry ford rolling over in his grave and somehow blaming the jews for it. notice, there are a lot of theories out there, about what caused detroit's decline-- manufacturing jobs going overseas. corrupt politicians. but the easiest explanation

not recognizing in detroit the workforce came right out of high school, detroit shops were fantastic and i got in with a good teacher, i grew in that, but two years, the last two years in detroit used to have apprenticeship program, out of shop, sensible and shop teacher, compete for a football game, they machine, how well can you do it? you are stuck. in mind, these guys, that had been reached as apprentices in the paper. you got an apprenticeship, dodge maine and tourism and plymouth, packard, believe it or not, my shot came back and my shop teacher and my principal had been, called me in because i wanted to know what was going on and got in a room, they made a decision, and verifying i was a good technician and never should be adjudicated. a shop in unions at that time made the decision that no black person would be admitted to an apprenticeship program at that time. this was probably in the mid-40s, 46-47. you just didn't get in. when that happened, i remember not wanting to do anything else, let me hang around the shop all the time. that was my first real experience, discriminat

detroit puts the world on wheels. in one generation, these and other names greeted america's number one industry, birthplace of the production line and the unheard-of idea everyone can rise. that's detroit. >> ♪ well you know the motor city baby ♪ >> ♪ we are about to go on seven mile where marvin gaye lives i've got impeccable timing ♪ >> c-span cities tour is on the road, exploring the american story. >> in downtown detroit there is a lot of development, businesses opening up, restaurants and stores. >> 90% of detroit is outside downtown. i don't think johannesburg is a good model for development. >> with the help of our comcast cable partners, this weekend we take you to detroit. >> the city of detroit itself was founded by different -- by the french. >> in 1922, detroit river was the busiest freshwater shipping channel in the world, and still is today. >> watch our special feature on detroit on c-span2's book tv. later that day at 6 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. the c-span cities tour, exploring the amer

policies which allowed whites to leave detroit and prevented blacks from leaving detroit is really a major component of the foundation for. nation of the crisis that we're in i'll give you an example of that opening county is one of the counties that as a michigander you know joins and abuts and shares some borders with the droid is the fourth richest county in the united states of america with a population of more than a million but oakland county has been exposed to some of the very same macro trends that detroit has it has not had the same result regarding your comments about public sector workers you are completely spot on you know the single biggest budget item in the detroit city budget for several years now has been that service it's been wall street financiers who've come to detroit and who made incredibly sleazy deals very similar to those we saw in the bankruptcy of jefferson county alabama that have put detroit in a strike in a financial straitjacket reduced revenues increased costs for four debt service and again here we are how do you think this is going to play out. wel

in detroit, collaboration is our strength.he our mayor and the leadership and negotiation gave our officers a raise and the strategies that they post-pandemic bringing partners to the table to reopen our courts. many of us are ports closed down after covid -- closed down after covid backlogs. our partnerships we were able to get our courts back open and work collaboratively to get cases prosecuted. u.s. attorney has been tremendous partner totives haven reducing crime in the most violent neighborhoods in detroit were providing resources to better the quality of lif for our most vulnerable residents. our deputy mayor who leads our city's innovative community violence initiative, it is called shot stoppers which is supported by the american scue plan dollars. it has shown promise and we look forward to seeing the impact that it will have with our strategies on crime to further reduce crime. our partnerships with our partners and prosecutors and executives and sheriffs and police and certainly, atf and fbi, the american rescue pl

the greektown is still in detroit and the various races separated. and so, chinatown, for instant, those are kind of the hard and fast line with the black community lived, were hard and fast lines. in high school, for instance, that is when i had my first neo-rio hit in the gut. i've always had good hand eye dexterity, the better. so when i went to high school, shop was where i really wanted to be and i enjoyed it. in not recognizing that in detroit, the workforce came right out of high school. so the detroit shots are fantastic. and i've gotten in with a good teacher and i grew in not. for two years, and each rate used to have an apprenticeship program. he would come out of shop recommended by the principle and shop teacher. it was like a folk all game for who can operate a shop machine. how well can you do it? and let's judge or stop. well, i was submitting mine with five or six guys from a school where apprentices and then they printed it in the paper. when you've got an apprenticeship with dodge main, ford, plymouth, they were out there, packard,

another detroit entrepreneur grew up in the suburbs.he rarely came downtown as a child but today he works here. he lives here. and here's what he said. we see this city for what it can be, not for what it was. that's how we should see everything, not just detroit but in all of america. i know some anything conservatives don't care about the cities, but they are wrong. we believe that every american in every community has the right to pursue happiness. they have the right to rise. so i say let's go where ideas will matter the most, where the failures of liberal government policies are most obvious. let's deliver real conservative success. and you know what will happen? we will create a whole lot of new conservatives. i know because i've lived it. i come from ina, another city that faced the same struggles as detroit has faced. in my city the schools were failing to opportunity with scarce were too many. simply being born in the wrong neighborhood meant the american dream was cruelly out of reach. i join with my friend, the longest-servin

we are talking about detroit. everything i'm saying that apply to other parts of the country who are suffering. there's a history when big cities were the great engine. now with the government drag, we got to get active where the big cities are an engine for improvement. >> the next question, how do you plan on getting african-americans to embrace your detroit plant and the gop in general, and could you sign my pocket constitution? >> we republicans got about 5% of the african-american vote. that is not very good. it used to be better. at one point in time it was completely the opposite. in 1920 we got nearly 99% of the african-american vote. 1928, we were up over 2/3 of the way. a dramatic switch from 1928 to 1932. it is not that the issues, we have to change our opinions and attitudes on issues, but it is true that if you do not have money or you do not have a business, you are not concerned about regulation and taxes. if i talk to people trying to get ahead in life and are not yet successful, that could be youn

detroit has that same field.he value proposition is high and the trend lines that we were looking for are better than we expected. i think it is a great opportunity. that is my own view. that is what i see. brian: life started for you in fort lauderdale? what were your dad and mom doing? kevyn: they were both teachers. the irony of this discussion is my dad was in the army. my older brother -- they came back to fort lauderdale in 1958 and they were turned away because it was still segregated. so i was born into segregation with a midwife. my brother was born in an integrated hospital in germany and i was born in a segregated clinic in fort lauderdale. he was a school administrator and she was interim school superintendent. my granddaddy was a minister. -- my daddy, my grandady, and my great grandaddy, all ame ministers. lawyer.len, just a [chuckles] brian: why did you not go that route? kevyn: i thought that i would at one point. i used to go to sunday school and i thought i would become a seminarian. i started g

ofcontinuing our tour detroit, next we had to greektown for a stop at detroit public library's skillman branch which was the site of the old city jail, the location of the city's first ride. --in this location is where was in jail and the uprising occurs. the blackburn's were people who had been enslaved in kentucky, they had escaped because blackburn had been sold down the to new orleans and thornton did not want to lose the woman he loved so they escaped together in 1831. when they came to detroit to get far away from kentucky, because of the 1793 slave law, going to ohio was still risky because down to hunters can come and take you even from free states and take you back down to wherever you escaped from and ohio where they had been for a little while was too close to kentucky. doubting -- bounty hunters were always in ohio. when they arrived here, thornton was a brick mason for a couple years, making a living for seamstress -- is a so both of them are making a living doing work in the fields that they already have even when they were enslaved. she is a seamstress and he was a brick

let's see the first car that traveled on the streets of detroit. what we are looking at here looks very much like an old-fashioned wagon. we just do not have a horse in front of it. in fact the horses are sitting inside the vehicle. it says a motorized carriage, a horseless carriage. this was the very first car to operate on the streets of detroit. charles brady king, not henry ford, charles brady king was the guy who designed this car, designed the engine inside of it. it is an unusual engine, a four-cylinder engine, when most people were using single or double cylinder engines. so a real powerful little vehicle. charles brady king anda buddy, oliver bartel, who helped him with the engine, drove this down the streets of detroit in 1896. henry ford was there. he was on a bicycle about 25 feet behind chasing them. starting in the 1870's and 1880's, people started to understand that you could take a steam engine or a nasa engine and apply it to an automobile. eventually, electricity was used to do that. electric cars existed before gasoline engines.

in detroit was certainly a big part of that. vickie: one thing that facebook did was create programs to assist with black small businesses. steve mentioned the black business minute. we highlight lack businesses three times a week. reason why i started that is because i heard statistics said 40% to 50% of black owned businesses will not survive the pandemic. so talk about the programs you created for those to help throw them a lifeline and why you wanted to do that. sheryl: you are exactly right. black-owned small businesses have been cloning at 2 -- closing at two times the rate. they served committees of color. in addition to the hundred million dollar grant program when coronavirus started, we did an additional hundred mile -- hundred million dollars for small business owners and nonprofits in the u.s. alone area of that $20 million, some went to southeast michigan. this is a community we call home. we try to do more. our employees wanted to do more to help lack communities and black-owned businesses. two employees in our mar

well if you look at what happened with education in detroit so the city of detroit was taken over by an emergency manager in two thousand and thirteen so the elected government of detroit the mayor the city council all of them were completely stripped of their powers and the republican governor was simply able to appoint a bankruptcy attorney to run every aspect of the city and so this is why you know again even though the city is votes regularly over ninety percent against republican presidential candidate you essentially had right wing policies governing the entire city and they've been put in place even though nominally the city's got its government back the financial policies have been put in place have to by law basically stay in place for at least thirteen years so that's happening at the city where the bill but before that even happened the entire detroit public school district was put under an emergency manager starting in one nine hundred ninety nine by governor engler who was the republican governor a while before. their current one snyder and at that time the. city school

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city of detroit. much of the stuff that's happening is local happenings and things that are down below on the reader rails are more national. it set the stage for what may have happened and what may have led to the events of 1967. the artifacts that we have selected in the space are really things that help visually tell a story. these are not artifacts -- is only lincoln's chair, where it's one thing, and that one chair tells a story. these are items that together help to tell a story coming of the words and images and then they help added another layer. this moves us into an area where we really focus on detroit as a model city. we have video of mayor cavanaugh getting a pitch about the olympics. we have information about other happenings in things that are going on. mayor cobo was the local mayor. he was not loved by everyone. we also talk about the other events that were happening around the country. we have different riots and uprisings and rebellions that were happening around the country. jerome

it has been a long issue in the city of detroit. many of the people here were displaced by black bottom the , historic african-american neighborhood here, and they were forced to move here after that neighbor and, urban renewal happened that day freeway was built to destroy that neighborhood so you had that issue. you had discrimination at job sites. discrimination and some of the shops and restaurants even. and in the courts, the ongoing issue of educational inequality. the major issue that sparked it was the issue of police brutality and how police harass african-americans in the city of detroit. so the crowd began to recite , some of the incidents that have been going on to the police. hey you did not arrest the , person who killed danny thomas, an african-american who was killed by a cop in this neighborhood, said there were beginning to recite some of their grievances and eventually , someone in the crowd, williams iii, the son of the owner of the club, began to throw bricks and bottles at the police officers. the people began

left in detroit. the answer to poverty and unemployment is not another government stimulus. it's simply leaving more money in the hands of those who earned it. today i'm here to introduce something i call economic freedom zones. this is a bill that will be introduced next week in washington. these freedom zones will dramatically reduce taxes and red tape so detroit businesses can grow and thrive. freedom zones are similar to an idea jack kemp introduced a couple decades ago. kemp loved figuring out ways to empower people, real people, regardless of race or family background. he called his plan a conservative war on poverty. it's time we revisit some of these ideas of jack kemp and expand upon them. i told somebody recently, this is jack kemp's enterprise zones on steroids. the bill that i will introduce will introduce these and empower and begin these economic freedom zones. this bill will lower perm and corporate income taxes in detroit to 5%. my bill will also lower the payroll tax 2% for the employ

and the headline from the detroit free press, who can fix a broke detroit? your thanks for adding perspective. >> thanks so much, steve. >> on the next "washington journal," william hogelan from the bipartisan policy center and former republican staff director will examine the status of budget talks and whether a government fight can be avoided. a part of our series, kaiser health news correspondent julie apple bee looks at individuals who are seing notices that their health care plans are being canceled. and why the federal housing administration has received close to $2 billion to stabilize its fiscal position. >> next, quar with author steven kinser. then david cameron taking questions from the house of common. then remarks by iraqi prime inister al maliki. >> on america's call for scientists and engineers. >> as nasa's future goes, so too does that of america. and if nasa is healthy, then you don't need a program to convince people that science and engineering is good to do because they will see it on the paper, there will be calls for go ice s to help u

and the fire sale in detroit. one man is on the mission to make sure that foreclosed properties stay in the hands of locals. have no fear the underdog is here. all of us fit the bill and we have more power than you might think. i'm david schuster in for ali velshi. and this is "real money." >> this is "real money" and you are the most important part of the show. join our live conversation for the next half hour by using hashtag aj real money on twitt twitter. today we received a worrying sign of how much you the consumeconsume--how much confide that you the consumer have in the economy. it's weighing down confidence, and when that happens it usually brings a drop in spending and causes a drag in the economy: yet, that has not stopped you from shopping. amazon, ford, reported an average profit gain of 9.2%. that's backed by a 6% up tick in revenues which means business has been good. regardless of dipping sentiments since the summer. consumers may be right most of the time, but in this case they appear to be doing

you need to know this mitt romney should be proud of what's happening in detroit that's because during his time at bain capital he perfected the type of glorified extortion and theft tactics rick snyder and kevin or are using right now to rob city workers of their hard earned pension plans when it was running bain during the eighty's and ninety's the company made its money by forcing companies into. that and then basically robbing them blind for every last bit of cash they had being would take out a loan for say a billion dollars and it would use that billion dollar loan as leverage to buy the company but instead of paying back that billion dollar loan itself bain would dump it on the company has bought now the words bain would make the company has bought paid for its pay for its own acquisition and where would the company get that billion dollars needed to do that when it all met would say it got the money by eliminating fraud waste but in reality that money came from stripping the company of its assets and converting them into cash a campaign came from taking employee assets like pen

anniversary of the 1967 detroit riots. we'll talk with former detroit police chief isaiah "ike" mackinnon and pulitzer prize-winning historian to find out what happened and why. and the pulitzer prize winner stephen henderson and former detroit free press journalist discussed the media coverage of the riot and it's aftermath. the 1967 detroit riots, 50 years later. live sunday starting at noon eastern on american history tv. >> we are talking with representative mike johnson who serves the state of louisiana, the 4th district and thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> tell us how you got to this position? >> my background is in constitutional law. so for about 20 years i did litigation in the courts and public interest law firms is i did do litigation and served in the louisiana legislature for a short term for a little under two years and was elected to a full term, and we got a chance to serve it out because the seat became open when the predecessor ran for the u.s. senate and we jumped in and it turned out w

why are you writing about detroit? >> i was born in detroit in 1949, my first seven years of life were in detroit, my primordial memories were there, ginger ale, hudson's department store, and it was actually the first chrysler commercial front detroit with eminem driving through the streets of detroit that sparked something in me. i choked up watching that billion commercial land it got me thinking about the place from which i came and i wanted to water in some way so i wrote this book. >> host: once in a great story, the detroit story is the book, booktv covers you in d flat at the beach with historical society. you can watch the full program at booktv.org. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, a television for serious readers. here's a look at what is on prime time tonight. at 7:00 p.m. eastern, a look at the history of occultism and the desire of many to communicate with the dead following world war i. fox news's greg gut field talks about techniques to make conservatives more progressive. the escape from north ko

ext on american history tv we learn about muslim and arab culture in detroit. sally howell, at the center for arab american tudies at dearborn and the islam," f "old rediscovering the american muslim in the past. it's just over 15 minutes. sally teaches history at the university of michigan in dearborn but is also the for the center of arab american studies. how long has detroit, and in particular, michigan and in a more general sense, being a for arab population? >> for the arab community, s.ting back toll 1890 >> what started it? >> people were coming to the united states at that time. hardship in nomic the mountains of lebanon which is where most of the early mmigrants came from and the silk economy collapsed, basically, and so people had to go off in search of other and they were moving sort of west. they started on the east coast like most immigrants did and hey started moving west a lot of them were pedaling, that was the way the very early mmigrants got their economic footing, and detroit was a center of pedaling for ohio, for so there was a pedaling enc

around detroit. those 10 counties during the same time when detroit went from 2,700,000 has gone from 3 million to 5 million population. leftof the industry that downtown detroit resettled in the counties around detroit. if you look at the five top economic new economy sectors in 10 counties around detroit are among the top five. greater troit is flourishing. the detroit from the 19th century, bound by these ancient, antiquarian and observe boundaries -- we have to readjust. we have to talk about cities in terms of metropolitan regions. we have to redefine our cities in terms of the demographics and economics of the 21st century. that is also a political battle. tavis: michael bloomberg is going out as a three term mayor of new york city. expectation in new york city that de blasio would do something about not just quality-of-life issues that bloomberg did a pretty good job on by and large, but on the issues of poverty and disenfranchisement and class. give me some sense of what you think he might be

john: is there hope for places like detroit? >> it will turn around the city of detroit. >>he

the detroit institute of art is a facility owned by the city of detroit. the corporation manages that facility for the benefit of detroit. those are detroit assets. they are different than pensioners, which are obligees that with have. we have to be fair and equitable in our treatment with all creditor classes, financial creditors, or retirees, pensioners, and the like, and that's what we're going to try to do. >> reporter: are you on track for [ inaudible ] >> well, we hope to stay on track. we had our map out. we had the tank full of gas, and the car was in the driveway. we're now heading down the road. but we have a long road ahead. but we're on track to keep our schedule to meet the requirements under the statute that ends basically at the end of september 2014. >> reporter: detroit is finally hit the bottom if you will. how soon before detroit is a better city? a city that people want to move to? a city that just doesn't feel safe, but is actually safe? how soon before detroit is relatively back on its feet in your honest opinion? >> okay. honest opin

in detroit historical society. the venue that we're about to step into now is called america's motor city, which was the, which would, was detroit was and, and really still is. dave had a successful engineering, korea, spending decades in the automotive industry. now he's looking at what is and what will be in the us auto market through the lenses of a story or the threat cheap chinese tvs post us automakers reminds them of a time with japanese comic as calls have for the us automotive industry. the so in the sixties and seventies, you know, we had toyotas and, but they weren't really what we, what detroit automakers consider. competitor you ask for your money for them on a toyota celica. if you can find the front of the toyota, and we bet you can, as those cars got better in the eighty's and ninety's, it became much more of a threat. good look at the 1st nissan maxima, s find a lot of car, the new nissan maxima, se a car built to perform. and a truck is a lot of car for the road. and i, i don't think it was in thi

but detroit knows right now it can compete with china. it's overwhelming strength and the low cost electrically a couple seconds for now us car make us have nothing to offer that could compete against each like this $1.00 here. be why the see go with the starting price of under $11000.00. time for an expert to chime in on why and how china became so powerful in the fields of the fees and how we manage to become such a threat to us comic the lobby. i myself cool is a senior fellow with a trustee, chair and chinese business and economics at the center for strategic and international studies, or c s i. yes. in washington dc. well, we've seen this remarkable growth of the industry in china. chinese these, you know, they, they have been developing for quite a while. the industry has been growing and trying for quite a while, but i think outside of china it's been quite a surprise over in the past couple of years we've just seen, you know, the rapid growth of exports from china. the quality is quite good. the prices are very low. mm hm. and so

in screwed news the city of detroit is asking president obama for some help this week detroit city councilwoman joanne watson called for a financial lifeline from the white house to assist her cash strapped city odds are good the seventy five percent of wayne county voters supported the president in his re-election bid and that in return the president should help detroit take a look. if you know what a lovely place of quality it relates to this president you have the us to be clear who you want to exercise leadership on that it was not just that but one. testament of the detroit may run out of money by the end of the year so far the white house has put forward no plans to bail it out many cities across america have been devastated by three decades of reaganomics and so-called free trade deals that have wiped out local manufacturing cities receive the final death blow in two thousand and seven when wall street crashed our economy and there's a long history of the federal government bailing out broke cities republican president gerry ford for example loaned to new york city two billion dollars on

right. fi, a factor shines back in detroit. the so called china offensive has yet to arrive in america. but the mere threat is whipping us automakers into a frenzy despite washington punitive terrace. fort in g m. r. almost having a nervous breakdown and anticipate ation of what is about to hit them, not only already on the international market, but perhaps sewage domestically to here in the us. ongoing of the good old days of american commented, factoring nowadays appears as a simpler yet golden era of american industrial might and invincible of the all that is, well, just the u. s. legacy automakers of being forced to yet again to re evaluate and meet and long term strategies when it comes to electric vehicles. that's on top of trying to stay nimble in their approach to internal combustion engine vehicles, which are still the all important money makers for the, the if history teaches it in the, you know, to be too far ahead or too far behind. you want to be moving right at the front of the middle of the pack if you really wan

city of detroit. and actually, the articles i don't think imply -- i don't have them in front of me -- but certainly the implication of the articles were that there were societal decisions made that people would move. suddenly, the entire community, particularly the orthodox jewish community, which was very much in the city where we lived moved to oak park and moved quickly and together. and, and, the absence of integration, the absence of diversity, the absence of a shared community set this community back tremendously. there was a real, real sense of isolation. at one point as the black power nationalist movement captured the imagination of young people particularly like myself, there was a real anticipation that singularity, that an all-black city would be really just so beneficial to the forward progress of this very complex, very divided, very stratified african-american community and that turned out not to be true. that turned out not to be true at all. so, you know, when we think about 1967, we

the mayor of detroit has been a democrat. so when you blame the economy, don't you have to look in the mirror? and my second point is because no one helped destroy michigan and detroit more so than the democratic party and unions that demanded too much. my second point is everybody keeps saying what obama inherited. people forget obama was in the u.s. senate for four years. he has supported policies like trying to -- now you're saying that the cars have to have 55 miles per gallon. what is that going to do to detroit? that's going to help destroy itr a profit. >> all right. let's get the congressman to respond. two issues there. he said democrats are responsible. >> over the last 10 years. that's the result of many factors. number one the housing crisis. because we didn't properly regulate the housing industry, we allowed homs to go under foreclosures. we allowed people to become victims of predatory loans. also, too, it was the state's misguided takeover of the detroit public school system that resulted in many good schools