he is headed to detroit, michigan. we are expecting the president to celebrate the american workforce while actually talking about the u.s. economy. all of this just days before that major speech on jobs and the economy. nbc's kristen welker joinings us live from the white house this afternoon. kristen? >> reporter: hi there, craig. that's right we expect the president to speak momentarily. white house officials tell me he'll be talking about the importance to have middle class in terms of strengthening the middle class as part of this recovery. we expect him to put pressure on democrats and republicans to get behind that big jobs plan that he's going to unveil on thursday. we don't know exactly what's going to be in that plan. i can tell you that some of the things have have been considered are investing in infrastructure, extending the payroll tax cuts as well as giving tax breaks to companies who hire new workers. as you mentioned he's going to be spooking before a crowd of thousands today. union workers this is of

michigan joke. we begin tonight obviously with the world affairs. big buzz at the u.n. today as diplomats look forward to getting home early from work. picking their children up from school, thanks to the annual ahmadinejad speech ritual known as the running of the bull [bleep] no, honey, i don't know what time i'm going to be coming home, oh, he's denying the holocaust, i'll be coming home right now. i will see you in a little bit. (laughter) >> jon: and then the wife has the little-- (laughter) >> jon: the performance of sponge nut crazy pant as side-- (laughter) >> the u.n. had more pressing issues to discuss. as you may or may not know there has been a slight ongoing property line dispute in the area what everybody calls palestine calls israel and what everybody but israel calls palestine. so for i guess around the past 6,000 years, these two parties have attempted to settle the zoning disagreement the old-fashioned way, persistent bloodshed. (laughter) >> jon: since this method has proven somewhat inconclusive the parties from time to time seek an alternative, pard

michigan and notre dame, but it was quite something. enough about football. [laughter] huh? >> [inaudible] >> it's, well, i'm just amazed at the turnout here. i thank you for coming out on this night to be here. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] they even gave me a sippy cup. [laughter] i know you're all still recovering from the cnn tea party/republican debate last night. [laughter] how is it that cnn can actually join hands with the tea party, and together -- wolf blitzer said our partners, the tea party express. and i'm like, what kind of alternate universe is this? [laughter] i don't think it is. actually, it's the way it is now, suspect -- isn't it? can you imagine a debate that's called the cnn/teachers' union debate? [laughter] because i will contend there are more members of the teachers' union than there are of the tea party. [cheers and applause] i just don't think we're going to see that debate very soon. but anyways, i have a number of things going through my head that i'd like to say, and we're going to have a time

even if it meant driving 800 miles from michigan. but on the way she decided to take us to washington d.c. and this is what transpired. when i finished fifth grade in the summer of 1965, my mother loaded my sisters and me into our buick and drove us to our nation's capital or her summer vacation. while the other kids in the neighborhood got to go up north or to scout camp for two tot lot, we were forced to see the original documents of founding fathers, the first flag sewn by betsy ross, the plane that charles lindbergh flew across the atlantic. we took the fbi to her and the department of justice. when we had our picture taken in front of the huge statue we knelt and prayed in arlington at the grave of our fallen catholic president. we traipse from one in the pennsylvania avenue to the other, climbed all 896.that so the washington monument and data visit our congressmen to shake his hand and let him know that we would be voters some day. it was while i was there inside the capitol building that i found myself separated from my mothe

you know, in michigan, it's about jobs.und zero for the impacts of the obama stimulus and the economy and all the implications of his governing. so i think that if rick perry campaigns in michigan and i hope herman cain will as well. he showed his strength in florida. we encourage him in michigan as well and open up the field and help to find the next president. >> richard, does the president get any credit for saving the automobile industry there? >> well, sure. i think you can't say that the dollars didn't help. of course, they helped. but the format of it, government-backed taxpayer money, there was a bankruptcy. there's a capital markets that deal with bankruptcies. there's financing for bankruptcies. it's called dip financing. it's one of the things governor romney talked about early on is let the companies go through the normal course of bankruptcy, come to a good conclusion, deal with debtholders and shareholders and vendors and management and put the company back on track. so was it the best use of taxpayers' money?

and right here in michigan.liticians say they can't afford unions right now, that labor unions are the problem in this country. [crowd booing] >> i think they just got it plain wrong. >> here, here. >> unions help build america's middle class. they are now and always will be a part of the solution and not the problem. my parents taught me that as a youngster and i'm a proud daughter of the teamsters and a mother who was a steelworker. i know what it means to be union proud. it's the voice at the table to negotiate good wages, health benefits, and safe working conditions. and a chance to step into the middle class. it's about working hard. it's about taking care of each other. and it's fighting for what we know is right. it's like aretha franklin said, it's about getting some r-e-s-p-e-c-t, respect. that's why president obama and i continue to speak out against governors who want to take our country backwards, by attacking workers' rights. this is no time to be attacking collective bargaining for public sector, w

we're looking at the lake effect on the indiana michigan shoreline ... you will see some lake effect showers and wind it will be partly sunny elsewhere in the chicago land area ... we should have a gorgeous day later this weekend sunday will be wonderful in south bend and benton harbor you've@@ got waves and some like affect showers ... >>here is that warm-up that we were talking about ... this will be a welcome change after a cool september we are into wednesday and thursday we have warm weather and the big marathon is next weekend will watch the weather carefully for that ... the wind will come down by sunday for the bears game ... that southerly wind flow will warm this area ... we will go from 65 sunday to 74 on monday 76 tuesday 77 thursday and friday of next week terrific whether we deserve it it's about time ... this could qualify as indian summer for some people ... at any rate have a great weekend ... >>thank you for joining us today. we hope you have a great weekend. we will leave you with more from bob molduld he's performing tonight and tomor

lawmakers in michigan to the g.o.p. to control the state government in michigan last november they won the state house and the governor's race and they held on to the state senate so during their time in charge in lansing michigan republican lawmakers have had to make a drastic budget cuts to deal with the state's finances and one area that targeted is spending on education lawmakers and cut a billion dollars from school budgets which has caused a massive outcry from teachers unions state politicians voted to cut funding to local schools where schools would just close it even for a break from which. politicians love to treat school employees like punching bags these days but they were ignoring teachers and school support staff are sharing in our state sacrificing so. now republican lawmakers weren't happy about the pushback in the efforts by teachers unions to recruit new members and this debate comes after another attempt by a conservative michigan activist he tried to use the freedom of information act to obtain the e

my guest tonight, she was a two term governor of the great state of michigan. her new book which she cowrote with her husband is called a governor's story, the fight for jobs in america's economic future. please welcome to the program jennifer granholm. (applause) how are you. >> i'm great. >> jon: governor's story, fight for jobs and america's economic future. yesterday we had on another midwestern governor faced with a lot of similar things that you faced in michigan on the republican side. how much do governors come together on policy? how much of it-- when you are a governor how much is ideaological, how much is pragmatic. >> a ton of it is prak matic but we do compete against one another, for jobs. we're always boasting oh, i got this job from, you know, illinois or indiana or texas, every governor is in the game of competing for jobs. and that's not a very good national strategy. >> jon: so you are not just competing globally. >> no. >> jon: you're actually competing with right-to-work states. >> well, and every governor has an interventionist economic de

they first came here in the 1830s in michigan. that my dad's family, you know they all went -- worked for factories and all that. they have all been great influences on me and feel very fortunate to have been. >> how often do you get back to flint? >> i am there every month. i live north of flint in northern michigan so my dad still lives down there. i am down there once or twice a month, spend a number of days there. he still drives and goes to mass mass every day, ghosted gym. clearly i did not obey him. but, no, i visit flint quite a bit and of course all of my friends are still there. >> a politically active family? >> i wouldn't say politically active? one of the first things i remember is my parents debating kennedy and nixon and my mom was for nixon and my dad was for kennedy. i can remember them out in the garage amid the boxes or whatever having this political debate in my dad being appalled because we are catholic and he would be our first catholic president. my mom's family, her dad was the head of the republican party

if you live in michigan and you've fallen on hard times you're screwed michigan republican governor rick snyder is donning his reverse robin hood ad again stealing from the poor to give to the rich the governor is expected to sign legislation that cuts the temporary assistance for needy families t.n.f. program in michigan from sixty weeks to forty eight weeks as a result of october first more than eleven thousand gas really poor people in michigan will lose a critical lifeline however the same time rick snyder wants to toss in the c.e.o. corporate donors a nice fat tax break signed into law and eighty six percent tax cut in corporations it will cost michigan one point seven billion dollars far more than the sixty million the state is saving by cutting welfare of the poor in other words for every dollar governor snyder is taking from the poor he's giving thirty dollars to transnational corporations so how is he taking money out of the hands of people who would spend it and giving it to his billionaire buddies how is that a good way to create jobs for more of this i'm joined by david self

. >> dan: michigan the notre dame opponent next week. getting the victory over western michigan. they are down to south florida, at the 30 on second and 12. murray gets across the 35 yard line. >> mike: harrison smith with the stop but a flag comes in. >> mike: i think we've got an unsportsmanlike. >> referee: after the play was over, personal foul, unnecessary roughness, number 90 on the defense. 15-yard penalty. first down. >> dan: ethan johnson. that's killer. >> mike: you want to talk about just continuing to hurt yourself, here's ethan right there. why jump on him there? he's down. i mean that's losing your composure. instead of a third down situation where you've got a chance to get the football back, they're now on your 48 yard line with a first down. >> dan: that's a senior, a guy that's played in now his 39th game here at notre dame with a penalty. how many penalties have there been on notre dame today? with that it moves the ball into notre dame territory at the 48. south florida with a first and ten. they'll keep it on the ground to murray who makes his way inside the

am lucky enough to become the nominee i think we could take michigan. during his speech perry says he knows what americans need and will guide the country in the right direction. >> americans are ready for change and they are not talking about their rhetoric of change they're talking about change every day. >> to the south, the sunshine state of florida is told with a handful of presidential candidates. it remains to be seen whole and in the white house bill one thing is for sure, it will be in action packed race to the finish line. >> all southwest airlines the jets looked the same. the same color scheme and paint jobs. time to take another look. we will take a look at some graffiti pop up on some of the carriers' airplanes. >> ran to the north of the bay area. this is coming our way for tomorrow. more about that coming up. >> in national news, a mysterious a graffiti has been appearing on the outside of some south west airlines planes. the findings suggest that whoever is responsible had access to those jets. now, the airline has launched an investiga

and i'll ask the former governor of michigan how to get people back to work. and a prime minister speaks out about the terror attacks that shocked the world. this is "piers morgan tonight." today president obama billed a 3 trillionplan to cut the deficit. reduce spending in iraq and afghanistan and higher taxes on the wealthiest american. republican leaders promptly dismissed it calling the plan class warfare. does the president's plan have a chance? joining me is gene sperling director of the national economic council. thank you for joining me. the president announced today he'll go after the rich. the republicans say that is a form of class warfare. the president says it's math. but the reality is it is class warfare. the rich are a class and he's going after them. >> it's the opposite. the president is asking for balance, for shared sacrifice. he's asking for everybody to contribute and getting our long-term deficit down. he wants a plan that will be strong and powerful. the american jobs act. but we come to fiscal discipline, we all have to be in this toge

the chair: the gentleman from michigan. mr. rogers: thank you, madam chair. that's interesting in the business for intelligence because so much is classified. it's easy to throw around and the condemnation is easy to heap on the very brave men and women that -- they said all of the kinds of things because the political rhetoric isn't true. they were following the law. they were comporting with the missions and guidelines and objectives in accordance with the law of the united states. so they are in fact following the law. there is -- was absolutely no role for the c.i.a. to overthrow the gaddafi regime. that is just false. so i think we need to be careful about making these assertions. they are pretty damning if you will. we may believe that happened. i can tell you -- on the intelligence committee and my friend, dutch ruppersberger, we watched this closely and one of the reasons i hope you'll change your mind on the bill is that we need the ability to have oversight of these 17 agencies. this bill allows us to do it. for six y

twice. >> we are suspended here. >> reporter: cutting short the michigan-western michigan game with about a minute and a half left in the third quarter. both teams agreed it was too dangerous to go on, handing michigan the win. >> we're worried about the kids, you know? you go out there and you play your heart out and then you're back in for another half hour and you get five-minute warmup and then the lightning strike comes again and then yououome back in -- it didn't look like this was going to get any better. >> reporter: it didn't. not in michigan or iowa city, where, for the first time ever, lightning and rain delayed iowa's home opener against tennessee tech. another historic first? at notre dame, three hours of storm delays, two evacuations of the 80,000-seat stadium. >> and they announced an evacuation of the ststium just as the teams headed to the locker room at halftime. >> reporter: ironically, moments earlieie the parents of declan sullivan were honored at saturday's game. the notre dame junior died last year when a wind storm toppled a lift he stood on videotaping football pr

and southeast michigan of michigan as a whole which was once viewed probably in the top five. of making a person financially independent now it's almost gone full circle and now it is you know ranking in the top five of the us in the union. we're fortunate because they built two new plants in lansing michigan. you know like when i hired in the one nine hundred seventy eight we had fourteen thousand members at local six fifty two right now we've got under a thousand in g.m. right now that are permanent people. thirteen thousand people that's how many may have actually jobs been lost. we're nor there were table he took a week of the schedule too many cars. and they don't really need cars so it's sort of having a layoff week so your schedule at the plant known we're. not going to hell out body g.m. i don't think the government should put any more money there until general motors shows that they can be a viable company for the long term and that there is a reasonable chance that any loans that the government would make would be paid back to the taxpayers and they used you know we

even perry was already in michigan ahead of the final tally speaking to the gop faithful on mackin yao island. >> i will guide this country with a deep, deep rutter. >> reporter: romney who traveled to the resort by ferry steered clear of the statement. the massachusetts governor and son of a former michigan governor, told reporters why he can be the first republicannominee to carry the state in nearly a quarter century. >> one of the key reasons i'd be competitive in michigan and hopefully win michigan if i were the nominee in part because of the name and reputation that came from my mom and dad. >> reporter: so many political experts say the straw poll won't do much to change the candidates position nationally. they may need to rethink their positions now that herman cain has won in florida. cbs news, new york. >> if you're look to go buy a house, now is the time. what the fed has done to mortgage rates to try and stimulate the economy. >>> well, big changes in store for our warm indian summer pattern of last week as we see cloudy and cool conditions extend into the bay and a chance

it is a poll of michigan activists, party activists, and michigan is where mitt romney is from. roll -- mitt romney won 50.9% of the vote. remember, this is about 680 people. and after that comes perry with 16.8% of the vote, followed by cain, 8.5%, and ron paul, 7.7%. headlines have to be shared. herman cain in florida on saturday, then way up north in michigan mitt romney brings it home in what is essentially his home state but still a good win for him and he gets to grab some of the headlines. >> what do these polls really tell us? do they not tell us much? they just get some of these candidates some attention? >> yes, think it's the latter. i mean what does it tell you? it tells you one main thing and that is that -- the republican party has not come around one particular candidate at this point. it tends to be -- these straw polls tend to be won by those who have very passionate followers. ron paul wins so many of these straw polls. his following shows up. it matters. when there are 681 people that vote, it matters. ron paul tends to do very well. herman cain also has a ver

flooding in india that and michigan rockford a near 60 mi.s of the weather bug network costs of 50 plus a burlington hinsdale at harvard near 50 at all park went out of all run at the chicago academy flags extended in chicago 50 mi. per hour gusts iowa 46-52 mi. per hour we discussed fog this morning before the clouds broke. mold elegy alerts. very unusual. wind advisory tonight tell you about the warm up on the update very windy rolling out by the tristate. monson crop like showers and sprinkles we develop low temperature tonight 48 mi. per hour gusty 45 degrees at times. clouds looking back in several showers would be cool high temperature just 60 degrees tomorrow. tomorrow night lake affect showers near lake michigan scattered clouds and chile and lead mid 30's in the suburbs west and southwest of the city but 48 degrees up against the lake what a difference in the clouds. partly sunny and breezy cool 57 degrees with lake affect rainshowers lakeside counties on saturday and beauteous on saturday >> chicago bears game going to be very nice

atf, michigan state police and monroe city police here in michigan, monroe, michigan.mine exactly what kind of explosive device it was, kind of put the pieces together. we're still going over the vehicle and trying to gather all the evidence we can from the vehicle. we are interviewing and reinterviewing and, we hope it will take us in the direction that we need to get in. jenna: some reports saying this is an attorney and his sons. can you confirm that for us? >> i can not confirm that. there are questions, so many things we're trying to keep close to the vest because that may factor into which way we go in this investigation. jenna: certainly understandable right now. our viewers want to be reassured whether or not this is terrorism? is there any indication that terrorism is at work here? >> there's no indication at all that terrorism was involved. we heard that also concerning several different --, there is no indication, i can assure your public and your listeners and your viewers that there's no indication of terrorism at all at this time. jenna: we appreciate the

the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: madam speaker, we should not even be considering this resolution. i repeat, we should not even be considering this resolution. we should be moving forward, not backwards. this resolution is a dangerous distraction from the unprecedented challenge before us. 14 million americans are looking for work, 14 million. the census bureau reported just yesterday that the poverty rate is higher than it's been in 17 years. 17 years. and median income in this country is at 1996 levels. 1996 levels. the president has proposed a job bill that one knowledgeable observer, mark zandi, estimates would create 1.9 million new jobs and add two percentage points to g.d.p. growth next year. we need action to spur economic growth and job creation. that's what we should be considering today. instead through this resolution republicans want to prolong the agony of the debt limit debate and take us

so we wrote this book to document michigan's experience. it's all about the data.ut taxes 99 times in my first term, we shrunk government more than any state in the country, cut the number of state employees by any state in the country by far. if you think those were the solutions, michigan would have the most robust economy in the nation. no, we still had the highest unemployment rate. what happened? in the end, we were able to partner with the federal government and public/private partnerships to be able to cluster development around our strengths and michigan's unemployment rate dropped six times faster than the national average. we wanted to document the evidence of that. >> and the book is that body of evidence, which is the point that you're making. and i think it's a wonderful exercise, because you're a lab experiment, in a sense, with real government in real life having real policy and real data, which is your point. and i think it's magnificent. dan, if you were to look at the writing of this book and the prosecution of this argument, how do you prosecute

and southeast michigan of michigan as a whole which was once probably in the top five. of making a person financially independent now it's almost gone full circle and now it is you know ranking in the top five the porous and the union. it's. we're fortunate because they were built to finance only as english the laws. you know like when i hired in the one nine hundred seventy eight we had fourteen thousand members at local six fifty two right now we've got one hundred thousand in g.m. right now that are permanent people. thirty thousand people that's how many may have actually jobs the last. were there were they able to take a week of the schedule too many cars. they don't need really need a car so it's a have a layoff weeks or years you know you don't shut the plant down. on down the homeowner and that's why you know bailout money g.m. i don't think the government should put any more money there until general motors shows that they can be a viable company for the long term and that there is a reasonable chance that any loans that the government would make would be paid

michael, there's a story today out of michigan politics, out of benton harbor, michigan, that i saved until this point in the show because i really want to get your take on it as well as what's going on with the republican presidential candidates. can you hold on one second? >> absolutely, yes. >> we'll be back with michael moore. >>> two quick vignettes from republican america in today's news. first from benton harbor, michigan, a town taken over after the new republican controlled legislature and michigan's new republican governor expanded and beefed up a law covering emergency financial managers. under the new law the state government can declare a local emergency, overrule local elections and replace any locally elected officials. republican governor rick snyder's administration will weigh in and do what they want in a town or a school district. they will override local democracy and local control. in april the emergency manager put in charge of benton harbor, michigan, declared unilaterally the elected officials of the city would hence worth be allowed to do three things. call a

the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: mr.r, i rise to claim as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: i begin by congratulating howard coble, north carolina senior member of the judiciary committee, who is the sponsor of this bill and agree with him entirely. it was reported by our committee by voice vote and no amendment, his explanation is thorough and i appreciate his inclination for detail which had us make this important modification of appeal time clarification and i would at this point, mr. speaker, submit my statement for the record and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered and the gentleman from michigan yields the balance of his time. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. coble: i thank my friend from michigan for his kind words. thank you, john. and, mr. speaker, i also yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: all time having been yielded, the question is will the house suspend the rules a

the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: mr. speaker, i'm prepared to close at this point. if the gentleman has no further speakers. mr. mcdermott: mr. speaker, i have no other speakers so i will close on our side. i expect this bill will pass in five minutes. without a vote against it. this bill could be law by tomorrow at noon if the senate would act and i hope that my colleagues on the other side will do as we will do on this side, contact our colleagues in the senate and ask them this time, put it up and move it. now, if they don't all you can say is this was a trial balloon we put up in the air and we found out the senate was asleep or dysfunctional or i don't know what would you put on it, they have to act on this if they're serious about a trade agenda for this country. and i hope that we can make it happen for the american worker. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: thank you. i yield myself such time as i

we want jobs. >> in michigan on monday, mr.aid he's prepared to fight for his new job growth proposals, defend organized labor and take steps to restore america's middle class. he also expressed hope for the future of detroit. >> it's like the commercial says. this is a city that's been to heck and back. and while there are a lot of challenges here, i see a city that's coming back. you ask somebody here if times are tough, they'll say, yeah, it's tough but we're tougher. look at what we're doing to overcome. look at what we're doing to rebuild and re-invent and redefine what it means to live in this great city. >> well, in a sign that president obama's optimism may not be for nothing, a general motors plan to once produce gas-guzzlie ining sedans has be reborn as the only automobile factor of its kind in the united states. casey wian has more from o'ryan, michigan. >> reporter: brad was working at a gm plan in the wisconsin that was about to close in 2008. sew moved his family to michigan and transferred to gm's orion plan the.

levin: from michigan. mr. woodall: we'll have this discussion not on a $1,043,000,000,000,000 continuing resolution and not even on a half trillion dollar continuing resolution but on the energy and water appropriations bill. mr. levin: ok. will the gentleman yield? mr. woodall: i have this great wish for this house, mr. speaker, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i want to yield myself 10 seconds to say that i said in my opening statement that this program has already yielded 39,000 jobs, on its way to 60,000 which will not be able to be met because we are using this as the offset. i am happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey who suffered great damage in the hurricane, mr. pascrell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. mr. pascrell: look, we're all americans. we're not democrats, republicans. we had 5,000 peop

mitt romney stopped in michigan. i am planning on doing well here. actually, if i become a nominee and i think we can take michigan and this will be the state that send barack obama to the most appropriate retirement. during his speech, rick perry said he knows how to guide the country in the right direction. >> americans are ready for change. they're not talking about the rhetoric of change, they're talking about a record of change, every day, as a president a will get up and i will to that oval office and i will try to make washington d.c. as inconsequential in your life as i can. every day! [applause] met and it remains to be seen will and in the white house but it will be in action packed free to the finish line. president obama will be here in the area tomorrow and monday. he is expected to attend a few fund-raisers in the town hall meeting. nicotiana felt is previewing the president's plans. president obama it is expected to arrive late sunday afternoon for two different campaigning events. the first is a fund-raising reception at the home of j

i guess he did in the michigan straw poll, but he's from michigan.be ultra strong, the talk turns once again to chris christie and i hear this time the shadowy republican people with lots of money are kind of like, intriguing him this time around. what have you heard, ron? >> hard to imagine he's really going to do it. you know, i think -- here's the paradox. rick perry's weakness is what is -- rick perry's rough week, put it that way, renewing calls for christie to enter the race. the difficulty perry is having, a reminder how difficult it is to jump into this thing at this point without really having been on the national stage. on paper, perry is a really strong fit for a big part of the republican party. as we said, you've got to deliver it every day. while there is an audience for christie, particularly amon the northeast, it's not clear if there's space for him in the race. romney, terrain he would take. and perry shows how difficult it is to do this at a very late date, no national network and haven't been a national candidate before. >> i'd li

[cheers and applause] that's what we're fighting for, michigan.re fighting for good jobs with good wages. we're fighting for health care when you get sick. we're fighting for a secure retirement even if you're not rich. we're fighting for the chance to give our kids a better life than we had. that's what we're doing to restore middle class security and rebuild this economy the american way. based on balance and fairness and the same set of rule for everybody from wall street to main street. [cheers and applause] an economy where hard work pays off and gaming the system doesn't pay off. [cheers and applause] and everybody's got a shot at the american dream. that's what we're fighting for. [cheers and applause] on thursday we're going to lay out a new way forward on jobs to you the economy -- to grow the economy and put more americans back to work right now. i don't want to give everything away right here. because i i can't -- i want y'all to tune in on thursday. but i'll give you just a little bit. [cheers and applause] we've got roads and bridges

i'm joined mou live by the mayor of lancing, michigan. mr., thank you for joining me. >> my pleasure. >> what are your expectations for the president's visit to your state? >> well, look, we're happy -- always happy to have him in michigan to see what's actually happening on the ground. you know, we're grateful for his action in saving the auto industry, which is going strong. that's an investment in gm and chrysler that is paying back. that's what is saving us in lancing. our manufacturings sector is -- it's coming -- barrelling back, and it's a reminder that we need to put the p in gdp. the reality is you have to make things in america. that's the problem. it's the outsourcing and the off shoring that is practically killing the economy. we need a main street agenda. what i am hoping to hear from the president is his willingness to go even further. the transportation thing, yeah, that's important. we need to put the p back in gdp. we need to support manufacturing because great nation advisory to produce greatly. that's what's working for mic