jay timmons, president of the national association of manufacturers. he joins us now. ow do you know china left the table? >> from the reports we have been seeing, various news outlets, china is simply not at table right now. secretary mnuchin, commerce secretary ross went to china few weeks back. it looked pretty promising there would be discussions. we are very hopeful there will be further discussions to end, i will call this a trade war i am concerned how this will escalate. china needs to frankly come to the table to deal with a lot of issues that have been problematic. melissa: the president says that things are going much better than we think behind the scenes. that they are already coming back and want to deal. you don't think that is true? >> i don't know. obviously i'm not privy to those conversations. i'm hopeful that is the case. what i do know, what i think the american people know is that we have imposed tariffs on chinese imports and china has imposed retaliatory tariffs on american goods. that does not help manufacture evers. that does not help consumers

jay timmons, lisa matthews, assignment manager at the associated press and co-chair of the npc headliners team. john gallagher. bill cassidy. joseph morton. please give them a round of applause. [ applause ] i'd like to acknowledge the staff and additional members of the headliners team who made this possible today. betsy fisher martin, lisa matthews who is here with us. t tamera hinton and executive director bill mckaren. thank you very much. i'd also like to thank you our kitchen staff who blessed us with very good food and themed cookies that are topical. for our broadcast audiences watches on c-span and elsewhere by live stream. be aware in the audience are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you hear not necessarily from the working press today. this week nearly 155 years ago union pacific laid its first rails. union pacific has evolved into a polling giant. at the head is our guest today, lance fritz. while trade wars and automation were not a thing, it affected how union pacific and competitors operated today. it could hurt 14 million of the workers who jobs dep

mike rock, vice president external race and damage relations, jay timmons, the national association of manufacturers, lisa matthews, assignment manager at the associated press and the headliners team. john gallagher, bill cassidy, the journal of commerce. alan cut top, science and enterprise, joseph morton, omaha world herald and former board member at the club. and the st. louis post dispatch and bloomberg. give them a round of applause. there is no one name i did not mention that i will get to in a second. i would like to acknowledge staff and additional members of the headliners team who made this possible today, betsy fisher martin, lisa matthews is here with us, lloyd russo, tamara hidden, press club staff, lindsay underwood, executive director bill mccarron, thank you very much. i would like to thank the kitchen staff who blessed us with very good food and cookies. they are delicious and tropical. that is a fun thing. for our broadcast audiences watching on c-span and elsewhere please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public so any applause or reaction is

for tat in this situation we will talk to the ceo of the national association of manufacturers, jay timmons:15 eastern time here's what else is happening at this hour. tesla's factory in california is the subject of another probe by california regulators following a safety-related complaint california's occupational safety and health administration acknowledging that it opened a case in late june, but it has not given specific details on that investigation also, northrop grumman lost a bid for a jet nearly three decades ago. check out shares of biogen this morning. saying a new alzheimer's drug actually succeeded for patients receiving the highest dose biogen is developing this drug in partnership with the japanese company whose shares also surged in trading in tokyo. >>> let's get to our all star jobs panel as we count down to the big number cnbc contributor jared bernstein joins us good morning to you, sir also phil swagel is here good morning to you. and jim paulsen. great to see you, sir. let's get a breakdown. how are you -- i don't want you guys to tell us the numbers because we're go