he joins us live from ann arbor.e spark a trend of more american retailers ditching countries with such low safety standards? >> well, it certainly is possible. i'm sure it's tempting for the companies because to get out of there might seem like the easiest way to take public scrutiny off of them and then it might -- they might think it will rest solely on the bangladeshi government and employers. i think there will be a lot of pressure on the companies not to do that because, really, a lot of the problems of sweat shop reduction come from the policies of the companies and if they pull out of bangladesh and keep the same policies, they're just going to create sweat shops everywhere they go. so the antisweat shop, nongovernmental organizations and activists who have been following this for many years know that and they're not going to let the companies get away with this if they can help it. >> i guess the big question here is we in this country like to sit in judgment about what's going on, but aren't we the problem

last august the secretary wants to the connected vehicle safety program in ann arbor, michigan. this safety by the -- operating in day-to-day driving, enabling us to collect real-world data that cannot be duplicated in the lab. it represents the largest test ever of connected vehicles in a real-world environment. this project will collect data that we need to make the decision on how to proceed. as the transportation research board noted electronic systems have become critical to the functioning of the modern automobile. nhtsa recognizes the cybersecurity challenge and has established the electronic system safety research division to focus on these efforts. this division will oversee research focus on evaluating the safety of electronic control systems in five key areas. one, functional safety design, strategies is a second, software reliability, diagnostic notification strategies, and finally human factors consideration. we will examine and apply lessons learned from other industries such as the aviation and medical industries where the loss of life is a primary concern and ele

in michigan out of ann arbor. they were able to save a baby's life with a 3-d laser printer.th this. they didn't think he could leave the hospital alive. they used plastic particles and 3-d filter to help the baby. >> to know that something worked and it means everything to me. >> when he gets older, you can tell the story about his life. how he made it. how he is doing and how far he is going to go. >> kimberly: very heartwarming. very happy for the family and for the innovative doctors that saved this little boy. keep up the good work. >> good look for a 3-d layers paris printer. >> dana: okay, i have something that everyone is going to want to know about. a california teenager, her name is esha. she won a science project intel science and engineering fair last week. she created a super fast charging gadget. she could create the technology that will charge your cellphone in 20 seconds. not 20 minutes, not 20 hours but 20 seconds. if she sosms this, we are going to have nothing to complain about. >> it. i hope she becomes a super billionaire of the world. >> and pull the ful

. ♪ being a drama queen ♪ >> stephanie: rocky mountain mike and mary in ann arbor bringing it.-- the author of -- ♪ pierce ♪ >> stephanie: charlie pierce ♪ why is everybody always laughing with me ♪ >> stephanie: good morning, charlie pierce. >> good morning. good morning. good morning. >> stephanie: good morning. good morning. great stuff about benghazi you wrote the ship be sinking. here is daryle issa. >> i think it is damaging because it happened on her watch. i think the important thing is hillary clinton is no longer secretary of state, but there are many people still at the state department who were involved in this who continue to keep their jobs. >> involved in what! >> stephanie: exactly. >> tell me what they were involved in. >> stuff. >> stephanie: stuff that happened. you fail it as usual, charlie, you say it's a opportunistic attempt to hamstring the current democratic president and the woman who is the odd's on choice to succeed him. >> i'm perfectly willing to be convinced -- obviously something went bad here. i'm willing to be convinced that our government scre

the exercise in ann arbor is a joint effort of suppliers, oems yo's, and nhtsa. same thing with dads and drunk driving. when engaged with nhtsa. it has a regulatory authority and has a hammer during that time that is appropriate. we have the right relationship. it is, we help, data driven. i think we are on course to a great outcome. this is a good news hearing. the future promises really massive gains in safety if we make the right public policy choices, especially on the spectrum issue. >> yeah, which actually brings us in. in other words, we have congressional oversight. i am also on the intelligence committee, and we are meant to have congressional oversight of intelligence, and let me tell you that is the most possible job because government does not want to turn anything over. they all want to protect themselves. companiest think car aren't necessarily that way. in fact, when we had the so- stopd sudden unintended crisis, you remember with weird and other companies, the work other with toyota and companies, the work was good. people change habits durin. the

thank you rocky mountain mike and mary in ann arbor.ourcing. going for the lowest bidder and getting the companies that can -- because we have no trade system in place. all of it applies. even -- high level defense creations. >> stephanie: they don't know until the fbi knocks on their door that they've been hacked. what happened now? designs from many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been sensitized. according to a new report by the pentagon. the science board did not accuse the chinese of stealing the designs but senior military and industry officials make knowledge to say the vast majority of the widening campaign of espionage against u.s. defense contractors and government agencies. we're not saying stealing. don't call in your markers. >> shouldn't be concerned. but when i did walk out of seeing the avengers in china they were handing out dvds. you could buy them on the street of all of the schematics for our planes. >> stephanie: we're not saying stealing. that's kind of harsh. please don't call in the i

office, and i think that is true, but i remember a few years ago when barack obama made a speech at ann arbor, proposing the possibility that if universities continued to raise tuition in the way they would, he would cut the amount of federal financial aid available, which was a great threat to the fiscal situation in universities across the country, which build in the notion there will be a certain level of increase in tuition every year. boards of trustees throughout the country and administrators in every university went nuts thinking, this is a real assault. talk about cutting the budget for the nsf is one thing but this is a major assault, and clearly one of the issues in the united states today is this motion that universities have become prohibitively expensive. and that we can no longer justify asking students to take on the debt loads that they take on. so, the privilege of the university researcher in the research one university is set in contrast to the vulnerability of the undergraduate who leaves with 50 or 60 or 100,000s in debt. you have a very volatile. situation so at some po

he's from ann arbor, michigan.'t steam it in beer for the kids but the beer adds something to it. and cheddar cheese. did i mention that? >> you mentioned college. you went to the university of michigan. >> i did. >> you majored in ideas? >> history of ideas. i wrote my thee cease on the lighthouse, virginia woolf. mainly i grew up in college. i'm sure my mom didn't want to hear that. my mom pushed me into cooking. >> she didn't. >> she did. >> she wrote to craig and julia child. she wrote everybody back so she must not have gotten the letter but craig did and he said your daughter should go to cooking school. i applied and got into the institute and i said i didn't, i didn't want to leave my boyfriend. he wanted to see other women. he was right. he's now my husband of 31 years. we needed time away. because i was peeling hard boiled eggs i talked about julia's method and she said i work for julia. i asked if i could, could i be a volunteer and julia hired me to work on her show. this is 1979. i was just 12 of cours

>> stephanie: aaron in ann arbor, your even "the stephanie miller show". >> caller: hi, steph, how are- i really wonder is there anything that obama could do that would cause you to turn on him? >> stephanie: well sure. would you like to argue hypotheticals? someone said i would defend him if he blew up an orn -- orphanage. my usual claim about people that have your view on things would be as obama is using his dicttorial powers under the bush executive orders that were never rescinded, if he was dragging you guys away, if you -- >> what? >> stephanie: okay, that would cause me to turn away from president obama. >> i criticize him for the drone strikes. yes, we got some bad guys but every time we kill be in the civilians, we create more bad guys. >> stephanie: i have defended drone strikes because i think they're preferable to illegal and unnecessary wars. but all right. go ahead aaron. >> caller: okay. you know i hope you're willing to delve into that. let's talk about the legitimacy of drone strikes to get bad guys. other than anwar al-awlaki -- >> stephanie: that's the only good dro