ahead, we talk with the head of the tel aviv stock exchange about how the political uprisings in the mideast are affecting business in israel. >> susie: ford motor was the hot topic here at the new york stock exchange today. from the start of trading and the ringing of the bell, ford's c.e.o. was touting the auto maker's new growth plan: ford will boost global sales by 50% in the next four years; one-third of the company's sales will come from asia; small vehicles will account for 55% of total sales by 2020; and the vehicle maker told analysts it'll cut its debt by $2.5 billion by the end of this month. earlier today, i talked about those expansion plans with c.e.o. alan mulally. my first question-- who's going to buy all those cars? >> when you look at the automobile industry and the consumer demand for cars, last year it was about 74 million vehicles worldwide. in 2020 it's going to be 112 million because you have so many countries now that are at place now where they're expanding

how does that factor into the whole situation in the mideast? >> well, jordan is a -- just like all the countries right now surrounding israel is a tinter box and we've seen in the capital, normally you have the king of jordan, you have a monarchy. greg is found of pointing out that of the countries in the middle east right now that are facing protests, the monarchy seemed to be doing better than the other families that have just held on to power in a tyrannical way. so the king of jordan has been able to kind of hold things together and there have been protests but they have been relatively mild. the problem with jordan there is a town in jordan it was very radical. in iraq you'll remember the character zarqawi who was part of the al-qaeda in iraq, one of the leaders we eventually -- the u.s. military eventually killed him but zarka is a town outside of amman that is a major recruiting capital for al-qaeda. amman may look very sleepy and jordan may look very sleepy under the king but there's a lot going on and so the fact you have a suicide bom

there's the japanese earthquake and the mideast unrest not helping either. hackers are going after nintendo now. more on that in the next hour or. -- hour. >>> 66 degrees outside. >> still to come, living longer. two major breakthroughs in the fight against cancer. >> first the humidity is m captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> 4:40 on this monday. adam caskey in the belfort furniture weather center on this monday. let's look at temperatures. not so bad. we are in the 60's with a little humidity locally and south of town. winchester, 61 along with frederick and gaithersburg. manasseh's at 63. 69 in quantico. -- manassas at 63. the average high is 82. today, 84. hot and humid air will move into the region. near 90 degrees tomorrow. we will be in the upper 90's on wednesday and thursday with a lot of sunshine and maybe thunderstorms by friday and into the weekend. now let's look provokes. >>> nice and smooth. there was debris on 95 at 216. some folks suffered damage from that. you might find a little activity on both shoulders.

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strategic petroleum reserves are buried in heavily fortified salt caverns in the mideast. the u.s. holds some 727 million barrels of oil. taking 30 million barrels out will still leave 697 million barrels. on capitol hill, democrats applauded. >> dipping into our strategic reserve will protect american consumers and businesses. >> reporter: but in a statement, republican house speaker john boehner said this threatens our ability to respond to a genuine national security crisis. the national average of unleaded has already dropped from $3.98 on may 4, to $3.62 a gallon today. now experts say the price could drop another 10 to 15 cents a gallon, giving more money back to consumers and businesses. by releasing 2 million barrels a day for 30 days and suggesting it could do so again and again, one effect has been to drive speculators out of the market. speculate fors of course who helped drive up the price of oil. >> this was a head turner today, for more on what went into it, we go to david gregory moderator of "meet the press" from our washington bureau. the war, katrina, they were em

what are the only people that are coming before you people of mideast turn dissent or asian? this troubles me as a resident of san francisco. it is fair and equitable enforcement of a loss because those are not the only retailers in san francisco, but why are these the only people that are being stung in these operations and only coming here before you? and listening to the tapes because i did request the tapes of hearings at department of public health on one day. all the names were of similar dissent -- descent and that troubles me and i do not know how that could be fair and equitable given the demographics of the city. in order to have to practicdue , they do not deliver their letter brief says required of the appellants, they send them out by mail, and when they send them out and they are late and they do not comply, the response is the appellant could have asked for a continuance. that is not adherence to the requirements. the average citizen believes they have to comply with the rules of the board. the average citizen believes the rules of the board comport with the ch

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an opportunity to overthrow what has been considered to be an independent government in syria but mideast watches have been telling us that see that the u.s. public protection but actually it's got its eyes on the different. all the talk of exporting democracy and all that sort of preaching rest of the world i find is highly inconsistent and is hypocritical and in the case of syria in particular i think the u.s. is caught between wanting to be active but at same time mortified by what the alternative would be in syria which in my view is completely unjustified it's not necessarily going to turn into a fundamentalist islamist state or anything like what we are seeing there are really a spirit for freedom and democracy and. could have been if you like played a more consistent role in foreign policy has and. also any sort of intervention there with. which is based purely on this desire for stability is bound to be counterproductive. barack obama gets sued for going into libya without asking congress we asked people in new york whether the war was worth. the wait a minute the lives of young p

up there is davidson is a professor of mideast history at west chester university told me nato is determined to see its libyan campaign through to the bitter end the queen the queen is that think that nato and its commanders and the president and the politicians involved in this are beyond a point of no return so they simply cannot stop in terms of their own mind what they've invested in this and therefore they will end up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in libya and they will project media stories to cover. and coming up in a few minutes when fighting terror breeds more terror u.s. troops tanks in pakistan and yemen keep claiming civilian lives causing an uproar among locals and said to get into the arms of the taliban we've got more on that coming up. next though the greek government which is trying to push through harsh austerity measures is facing a no confidence vote in parliament tonight that survival is a critical first step in securing a new loan from the e.u. designed to prevent a defaulting on its debts and triggering a eurozone crisis you finance ministers giving gre

to act to public opinion change your mind before you were thinking that israel was grabbed by the mideast. opinion ever really capacity to challenge and show institution europe institution and un and also. the last time such a campaign was mobilized internationally was against the south african apartheid regime israel may have powerful allies but a position in europe to its policies is growing to the new bushel r.t. proselytize. and israel's continued blockade of gaza is not only damaging to palestinians but also disastrous for israel itself and that's according to the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs not his exclusive interview with baroness catherine ashton coming your way in the next here's a brief preview for you. we're very consistent in saying what needs to happen is that israel is need to open the borders with guards there and allow people and goods to move freely now i recognize the importance of the security situation very well we've always done that but it seems to me a position that's not tenable you have the inability to get the economy moving and one of the things

our lives to exposing the mideast to speak of bigotry. and making sure that america's finest receives the problems. he deserves. now they've actually submitted the paper work here and you know trying to see if they're eligible for an award and times do commentary or public service but i think they're really doing is trying to highlight the fact that sometimes the pulitzers awarded some people that if we don't really deserve it all that much you know to these news publications that are considered to be the top of the top well there's some great reporting great stuff out there that completely overlooked what do you say i mean i hate to be the buzz killer here and i love the onion and i love that they're doing this because i think it highlights exactly but i don't think they should win and here's why because even when they do when they can run a big headline that says the onion wins the pulitzer prize and everyone will laugh and have a joke about it i think the pulitzer should be reserved people who actually win the pulitzer prize i just lik

setting itself up for more than i bargained for says joshua landis he's director of the center of a mideast studies. assad made it very clear there is no regime change is not on the books he is going to leave the future he said he said he is in control of events and events are not controlling him he tried to strike a tone of confidence at the same time as saying that he understood that there was need for many reforms in syria showdown this is a very stark line in the sand and the regime is asking people to trust him and to side with him and the opposition are going to ask people to side with them if you're who wanted to starve syria and they could do it in the same way that europe starve iraq of course once you go down that road if the government doesn't crumble as it can do when you walk then you have to take military intervention because you can't just start people forever it's hard to read the future of syria the situation could go along the way it's going now for some time and you think that things are going to reach a climax they're going to be regime change and there aren't we saw thi

future might hold for the embattled regime as talk now to joshua landis director of the center for mideast and he's joining us from the usa tonight facebook on r.t. so i mean after two months of silence as i've just said assad finally has given his speech today promising these sweeping reforms do you think this is a sincere gesture or is he just playing for time. well i think that you know i think he's playing for time he has said that he started a bunch of committees he asked the nation to trust him that he's going to do reform the opposition doesn't trust president assad anymore they want a new regime the west i think had been beating the drums for trying to raise pressure to get him to make some big concessions getting rid of article eight of the constitution which makes the bath party the leading party this would be tantamount to regime change and assad made it very clear there isn't regime change is not on the books he is going to lead the future he said he said he is in control of events and events are not controlling him he tried to strike a tone of confidence at the same time as sa

[crowd chanting] >>> one of the mideast influential bankers is in court. >> the plea from dominique strauss-kahn that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid. i'm mary bubala. >> i'm kai jackson. >>> greeted with anger, dominique strauss-kahn is back in a new york city courtroom. throngs of hotel angry workers are waiting for him. >> reporter: he's lead to shouts of shame on you. the chanting came from dozens of maids who were there to show their disaprove for the man and their support for the maid he's accused of assaulting. >> reporter: the 62-year-old pleaded not guilty criminal counts including attempted rape. his dna was found on the hotel maid's uniform. his strategy may be that any sex was consensual. >> reporter: the attorney for the 32-year-old victim says that the single mother is ready to tell her story. she'll come into the courthouse and get on the stand and tell the world what dominique strauss-kahn did to her. >> reporter: since the news about dominique strauss-kahn broke last month. more hotel workers came forward to report problems with guests. i'm astounded about how many incidents

and maybe some of it has to do with japan or the surging oil prices due to what's going on in the mideast but he also seemed to acknowledge that in a way that he hadn't before and there are bigger problems with the economy just be huge housing problem the ongoing the leveraging most americans are still have too much credit card debt by historical standards and have to come down so we did seem to subtly tip is heading that direction and effect of the two thousand and twelve economic growth was downgraded as well is another confirmation that even the fed doesn't think this is just a temporary soft all right why i guess i mean the president wasn't completely useless but i did hear that some people didn't come back for the second time around or at least the media organizations out there you know want to thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you. are coming out another installment of youth that i read it on your comment that you left on line about the stories we cover on the health and the f.b.i. earth is happening agents raided the data facility in northern virginia and confiscated s

got a big boost from overseas with sales up 60% in latin america and 65% in europe, africa and the mideasta big win for walmart at the u.s. supreme court today when justices ruled a massive class action lawsuit could not move forward. this is a landmark job discrimination case that would have included 1 million current and former female walmart employees. the supreme court essentially said monday 1 million plaintiffs is too many. the focus shifts to the housing market tuesday as the national association of realtors releases its report on may existing home sales. analysts expect another step backwards for the largest segment of the housing market. i'm alison kosik in new york. >>> cuba's economy is turning to the right as the caribbean nation continues to shake off its soviet style economic policies. small entrepreneurs are helping to drive that change. shasta darlington looks at startups in havana taking advantage of the new rules. >> reporter: working from her back porch turned beauty is ajuan, juana ramirez applies a coat of fire engine polish. she charges the equivalent of 50 cents for

one mideast am list predicted a rockie reconstruction effort if washington continues to hold out on the front. >> the united states is so am biv leapt about this. we met with them, but we don't recognize them many in europe do. hard to rebuild a country if they don't have a recognize order to. >> no one here at the white house is likely to lose any sleep over it. but lawyers for colonel gaddafi's daughter iesha, herself a lawyer, filed suit in paris and brussel alleging nato to be guilty of assassination. when it conducted airstrikes over tripoli that resulted in the death of four of gaddafi's family members. bret? >> bret: james rosen live at the white house briefing room. thank you. u.s. officials say yesmen's president was more severely injured in last week's rocket attack on the compound than first thought. yemeni official tells fox news ali abdullah saleh was banged up but injuries were not lethal. he said to undergone some surgery and treat in the saudi arabia. yesmen's dense ministry says the government forces killed 30 islamic militants in the south today. shell from an army tan

how does that factor into the whole situation in the mideast? guest: and jordan is like all of now of the country's right n surrounding israel. normally, you have the king of jordan and a monarchy there. in the countries that are facing protests, the monarchies and seemed to be doing a and better than other families that have held onto power in a tyrannical way. they have managed to hold things together. there have been protests, but things have been mild compared to some of the other capitals. the problem with jordan is that there is a town in jordan that is very radical. your murder -- you remember how zarqawi, who was one of the leaders the we-he was a leader for al qaeda. there are tensions between protestors, a radical islamists , and those trying to power, such as the king. host: let's go back to phone calls. caller: as long as the leaders are planning a hard ball, there is no peace. people go on and on forever. my other point, i am very concerned -- and the world, not just the u.s. should be concerned. they have brought 150,000 army merce

>>> more turmoil in the mideast. reports that 20 policemen have been killed in an ambush in syria.v said 22 people were killed by israeli defense forces yesterday. msnbc's richard louie joins us with the hot spots. >> chris, if we look back, you have to go back that far to see the violence. it has not been that long. israel is saying it's a distraction. >> this could not be happening without the acquiescence of the syrian regime. it has taken a decision to increase tension on the frontier to divert attention from the very real problems they face at home. >> chris, that is that statement regarding your question. when protesters reached a french area, they were fired upon. that's a video we have been watching. forces shouting warnings to stay away from barbed wire fences, deep inside syria we are hearing the reports of 20 policemen being killed. forces continue to clash with protesters and over 1332 people dead since violence began. the un discusses syria's lealged nuclear program. another hot spot is yemen. the president left the country and we are hearing a report who said he will

a quick prime run on this latest mideast country plunged into the crisis. it is twice the size of wye onlying with a population of 24.1 million, most of them poor. the gdp per capita is $2,600, a fraction of what it is here. unemployment at last estimate was 35% which, of course, was a trigger for the unrest that began there back in march. joining me now from the capital city of sanaa by phone is abdul alvaradi, he is a member of the democratic awakening movement in yemen. thanks for joining us. >> caller: thank you. >> the president spoke today. is there any progress in reaching a resolution ever what is increasingly being viewed as a violent civil war? >> caller: the speech that the president delivered just a few moments ago did not indicate that he intends to resolve to peaceful negotiations and the supplement of the situation, although it's very clear to me that if he chooses to go, the country will go into civil war. >> and if the alternatives are civil war and chaos on the one hand and a peaceful resolution on the other, several times there appear to

a quick prime run on this latest mideast country plunged into the crisis. twice the size of wye onlying with a population of 24.1 million, most of them poor. the gdp per capita is $2,600, a fraction of what it is here. unemployment at last estimate was 35% which, of course, was a trigger for the unrest that began there back in march. joining me now from the capital city of sanaa by phone is abdul alvaradi, he is a member of the democratic awakening movement in yemen. thanks for joining us. >> caller: thank you. >> the president spoke today. is there any progress in reaching a resolution ever what is increasingly being viewed as a violent civil war? >> caller: the speech that the president delivered just a few moments ago did not indicate that he intends to resolve to peaceful negotiations and the supplement of the situation, although it's very clear to me that if he chooses to go, the country will go into civil war. >> and if the alternatives are civil war and chaos on the one hand and a peaceful resolution on the other, several times there appear to have b

just on domestic affairs, he has osama bin laden, presided over a miraculous transformation in the mideast remarkable record of promises he kept and delivered on. republicans by contrast have kind of a you know it's almost like a star trek convention when you look at who their candidates are. there's nobody who is compelling, nobody who looks like they can win a general election. huntsman is a good guy but is a sellable candidate but beyond that there's nobody serious and they're running away from their own ideas, running away from the promises they made on deficit reduction. >> gentlemen, thank you both for coming on, julian and alex, good to have you on and want to have you back for more conversation. >> thanks for having us. >>> the czech republic is testing beef and pork imports from germany in the wake of europe's deadly e. coli outbreak. 22 people have died from the bacteria, highly toxic strain. world health officials say it is unlike they've ever seen before and although organic produce is suspected its actual source remains unknown. nbc's michelle kosinski has the latest. >> repor

the roundtable is here to weigh in on the 2012 news, plus the latest developments in the mideast. we've got richard engel here, here from the middle east. chuck todd, doris kearns goodwin, mayor antonio villaraigosa and paul gigot. they're coming up next. >>> we're back now joined by our "political roundtable." chief white house correspondent, political director for nbc news, chuck todd, nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. great to have you in person in studio. >> thanks. >> can't wait to get your analysis. thanks, richard. editor for the "wall street journal," paul gigot is here. presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, and last but not least, my hometown mayor, and i just pronounced your name wrong, which is really embarrassing. the mayor of los angeles, antonio villaraigosa, for his first appearance here on "meet the press." villaraigosa was elected in may of 2005 after serving in the california state assembly and l.a. city council. now in his second term. he'll be sworn in tomorrow as president of the u.s. conference of mayors in baltimore. and that role, you

the protesters are marking the anniversary of the 1967 mideast war. >>> and former secretary of state lawrence eagleburger has died. eagleburger is the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state. a position he held late in george h.w. bush's presidency. the veteran diplomat served the country for more than 40 years. eagleburger died after a short illness. he was 80 years old. >>> and a scary scene during a soccer tournament in suburban new york. a heavy gust of wind blew a bouncy house across the field about ten feet off the ground on saturday with children inside. some parents say they tried to grab the inflatable ride before it took off but were knocked over. once it landed dozens of people raced to tie it down and pull children out. 13 people were injured, none of them seriously. >>> and more than two years after safely landing in the hudson river, the miracle plane is finally heading back to north carolina. the body of the usairways jet rolled out of a new jersey warehouse saturday where it's been stored since january '09. the flight was orig

if we ever replace fossil fuels with more sensible alternatives, we can leave the mideast to continuethen we are stuck. chandler rights from rockaway new jersey, what else is new. we had a base in cuba since the spanish-american war and troops in germany and japan since the end of world war ii. our ally is at war and yes, we still have troops there as well. we will have troops in afghanistan and iraq forever. they don't have a chance against 1,000 years of war lords women ought to cut our losses. the mentality will never grasp the concept and the koran will never permit it. if there was a situation of throwing money down a rat hole, this is it. they better get out immediately. the only difference between staying in 20 years or 20 minutes is the number of dead military and civilians. it's an exercise in futility. bring them all home. the failed state of mexico. i am tired of the military being used as a police force. our reach exceeded our grasp. afghanistan is one of several countries in a perpetual state of war. what makes us think we can solve their problems. rick said that would be

risk premium built in because of political unrest in the mideast. >>> not too much unrest in the markets in the green today after six straight weeks of down days here in the market. several deals with boosting the markets today. the owner of northface is buying timberland, a $3 billion deal between two insurers is in the works and arby's is being sold to a private equity group, giving markets a boost. kyra? >> thanks, allison. >>> after beating the miami heat last night, dallas marv vics are champs. many are celebrating as lebron james, who left cleveland, went down with his teammates. >> i'm a mavalier fan. we hate lebron. go, mavs! >> lebron said he would never stop until he had a parade down euclid avenue. people in cleveland don't forget that. >> lebron can kiss my back side. >> oh, my. we'll have highlights from the maverick win 25 minutes from now. >>> new government report says you may be exposed to a cancer-causing age enter, formaldehyde. >>> who is jon huntsman? he's a mormon, speaks mandarin, and is about to join presidential hopefuls. we're going to head on into the interview

israel won that land from syria back in the 1967 mideast war. reena ninan is live in northern israel with her reporting on this. reena. >> reporter: hi martha. it's not just the border we're watching. we're also watching inside of syria, what could be the start of a possible civil war. k tv reporting as many as 80 policemen were killed by gunmen today and that the people in the area are requesting that the army step in and the opposition forces there are saying that is not true, they do not want the army to come in and use that as an excuse to brutally attack the people. the other story we're watching as you mentioned, the border here, as propalestinian supporters march with the 1967 war, when they seized gaza, sana'a and east jerusalem, the clashes between israeli forces and propalestinian supporters, there were funerals held for those killed, israel saying 22 people are dead is inaccurate, that that's overexaggerated. most of the deaths were caused by land mines that had exploded. the violence has been a good diversion for president assad of s

. >> les bring in the professor of mideast studies with the school of advanced studies.nks very much for coming in. you wrote a very stinging column in the "wall street journal" this week entitled syria where massacre is a family tradition. any signs he is going to ease up on what's going on or is it only going to get worse? >> i wish our columns and our editorials and our programs would alter things on the ground. the words are weak when you see the children and the poor people fleeing their own government and their own soldiers and crossing the border into turkey. carrying with them their hopes and did sashed hopes for their country. a terrible story where there is no progress in sight and no evidence that the regime is about to change. >> are there cracks in the regime? >> they are not quite what we would want. the killer units of the regime, the brigades, the units of the regime that they depend on them are still with the regime. they are beginning some attempts in syria to try to draw the community for which they hail to draw them away. for example, this today, prot

they haven't closed the mideast regional office not that i'm aware of, they are in fact just done another report. it is a report that you cited that they did last fall. >> we are talking about people there. you have the closing word now. any comment you would like to make. there's no doubt the activity of this department is engaged in in iraq and would be engaged in in afghanistan when the time line is fixed for the withdrawal of the united states troops it is unusual, it is beyond the scope of anything we have ever done in the past, and that is acknowledged. on the other hand, the state department has historically stepped up to challenges, the fall of the berlin wall resulted in the opening of 24 new diplomatic and opposed in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the wall, something that a number in a short skirt of time and the tragic attacks on the embassies in nairobi which caused additional funds to be appropriated at the state department and now we have i think it is 77 new embassies built in the past decade 11 years. we know how to mobilize for this activity. we have the confidenc

>> it is my opinion like we monitor money going through the mideast and how much sudafed people buy in a pharmacy because it is used to make methamphetamine, not everyone that buys a gun is a criminal, but it is an indicator why are they buying seven aks. we don't know about the sales unless we have acooperative dealer calling us saying something is not right, or b, one of the weapons is found at a crime scene and traced to the individual and we pull the paperwork manually from the gun dealer. >> any law enforcement reason or rationale why we would not want that information reported? >> multiple sale of long arms like remaining aks. >> i can only give personal opinion. it would be good indicator, much like it is handguns. >> you can't think of any reason not to have it reported, wouldn't interfere with law enforcement efforts if it was reported? >> in my opinion it would help our efforts, sir. >> the gentleman's time expired. gentleman from texts, regnized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i, too, would like to express condolences to the terry family, the district

i began in college and riding my thesis on the mideast crisis, and that was the conclusion that i came to. host: next is a springfield, missouri. jeff is a democrat. go ahead. caller: yeah, i am calling about medicaid and all of those issues. and my son is autistic. he was born 19 years ago. at that time, the rate of autism was one in 1500. now the rate is one in 100. obviously, the pharmaceutical companies are doing something wrong. our government is allowing them to do this. at the same time, his ssi check has been cut. they have cut my son's pay in half for no apparent reason other than new laws. i do not understand any of these new laws per that they cannot be explained to me by the people. while the government grows, the small working-class man looking for work is just out in the wind. host: jeff, thank you for the call. you have a couple of minutes left. that the hear your thoughts about all the meetings on the debt limit debate. guest: i think one or two things americans are looking at right now is regardless of whether you think we should do more spending or less taxes, the ame

david hale, who had served as ambassador mitchell's deputy, is now acting mideast enjoy. -- envoy. u.s. is building a secret c.i.a. air base to target al qaeda targets there in case anti-american factions win power in yemen. the associated press says that the white house is stepping up the schedule to construct the secret base. and the czech republic will no longer take part in u.s. missile defense plans. restructured in 2009, at that time, the obama administration changed a previous bush administration plan and offered a new reconfigured program, giving the czech republic a smaller role. the country's defense minister says today that the country wanted to participate, but " must not in this minor way." and those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> next month, author, activist, and wrirlte linda hogan. her book is focusing on native american and women's issues and the environment, include the woman who watches over the world, dwellings, a spiritual history of the living world, and her latest, "rounding the human corners." join our three-hour conversation, taking yo

we're basically investing in the farmers of the midwest instead of the oil cartels of the mideast. i'm not just a one-size fuel person but i think to disrupt an industry like this with no notice is just the wrong way to go, and i hope that our colleagues will look at our bill seriously, talking to us about this, think about how the gas prices, which have now topped $3.75 per gallon, while they're high now, you look at fact -- "the chicago tribune" looked at the fact that if we cease to produce the gallons of ethanol we produce every year it would drive up prizes at the pump as much as $1.40 a gallon. i don't think that's something we can afford right now. so we have put together a good-faith proposal that basically for even those that have a lot of questions about biofuels right now, about ethanol, will have to admit is a dramatic change. it ends v tevment c as we know it, it puts in a big chunk of change, $1 billion that otherwise would be going to the subsidies this year toward deficit reduction, while still allowing for the infrastructure investment and then looking into next ye

panoply of the mideast organization and these are my views and expressing today. just so you know i'm not in a tech come i did start my own company in a good-sized business organization about five years ago. is remarks. , manufacturing and vital role in our economy, in the business cycle and the economy more broadly and that is clearly in the current economic recovery. manufacturing has been key to the growth we've experienced over the past two years. the economic recovery is now two years old. just give you a few statistics, in terms of out that gdp by manufacturing has accounted for over half of gross and gdp in the past two years. in terms of wages and salaries, it's about one fifth of the gross. in terms of jobs, one tent. although, many of the temporary help chart created in recovery are also very on their factory floors. the contribution is even greater than that. one other issue standpoint. manufacturing's contribution to this recovery, at least so far has been greater in any other economic recovery since world war ii. so this is very important to our curre