mr. gerard, what do you make of this story? of all, taking down the american flag, forcing workers to train their chinese replacements who make only 99 cents an hour. is this just the perfect story of the race to the bottom line and what it looks like in america? >> i think two things, ed. i think, first, it's exactly the way you characterize it. this is the real mitt romney who doesn't give a good darn about workers and this is really a disgrace to the country to let this happen. he has $8 million invested in this, but ed, he's also got ten other chinese investments. and you remember we did a story not very long ago about another company that had bain investments from '98 to 2000 which was mitt romney's personal money. in this case, these workers, i want to correct two things that you said. first of all, they're scheduling the closure of the plant, to add insult to injury, they're closing the plant on november the 5th. one day before the election. they thought they could get away with this and it wouldn't spill over on mitt ro

mr. gerard, united steelworkers international president, good to have you with us tonight on this story. thanks so much. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening and thank you very much. thanks for staying with us for this hour. >>> last night on this show, i was talking about the state of ohio during a segment in which i was also talking about the state of iowa and my brain somehow combined them and i ended up christening a new place in america called ohioa. and all day long, i have been doing that now. and i'm worried i may have accidentally rewired my brain, so that ohioa is the only thing i can say whenever i try to say either ohio or iowa. i now have a whole set of new words i have to say very slowly. in this case, to avoid saying, accidentally, ohioa. vice president joe biden has the same kind of problem today on the campaign trail. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is a guy who's running all the ads here in iowa, saying that he's going to get tough on china. >> yes, except joe biden was not "here in iowa," h

mr. gerard, i'm playing. man: that's fine. that's why we come outside--to play.t? hendrick: biologically and physiologically, there are differences, and we need to appreciate and value them. for example, research has shown that the physical activity needs of most boys appear to be different from those of most girls. pile. uh-huh! he's going to-- oh, yeah! ooh! hendrick: like it or not, boys are more likely than girls to engage in more rough-and-tumble play. [children shouting indistinctly] boy: stop it! hendrick: and, more times than not, boys tend to be more overtly aggressive than girls are. [children shouting indistinctly] hendrick: although all children need opportunities for vigorous physical activity, boys do seem to need it specially. their play requires large, sturdy equipment, plenty of space... child: i want you to push me. and a teacher who genuinely welcomes such activity rather than regarding it as a threat to her ability to control the children. as i said, sometimes it can be a real tightrope walk trying to raise or teach a whole child, and it requi

mr. kelleher has held several senior staff positions in the u.s. senate, most recently as chief counsel and senior leadership advisor to the chairman of the senate democratic policy committee. and finally our moderator, gerardio, as a partner and chair of the global banking practice at paul hastings. he was formally the acting general counsel of treasury's office of thrift supervision. he was also previously a senior attorney in the division corporate finance in the u.s. securities and exchange commission. please give a warm welcome to our panelists. [applause] >> good morning. i'm honored to be the moderator of this distinguished panel. i know we'll have an interesting discussion, and hopefully debate. good news is we're not going to have to compete with monday night football and the baseball playoffs. gentlemen, let me take a couple of minutes to kind of set the stage for our discussion. what's fascinating is the dodd-frank act, landmark financial reform legislation has provoked more controversy and discussion since it has been passed and even before it was passed. 2010 it was a pretty easy call for politicians in some respects going into the 2010 election cycle, because public opinion polls overwhelmingl