mr. hoffa the show >> nice to be here. >> what do you want to hear from president obama on his upcoming jobs tour of the midwest. what would tickle your fancy? >> well, number one, i'd like to have him have a real policy. and basically come up with something that articulates getting this trillions of dollars that corporations have right now, and making them start to hire americans, build plants in this country, stop sending jobs overseas, propose changing the tax law that's going to penalize people that send jobs out of this country. when he's on that bus tour, i wish he could go to wisconsin and get involved in the wisconsin rates. and he ought to go to ohio and start mobilizing those people. those are the people that are ready to fight that we're going on -- fight that's going on to get jobs back in america, to keep unions alive. he's got to get involved in that, he's got to go to his base right now, he has to mobilize his base, mobilize working families to be involved in creating jobs in ame

. >> mr. hoffa you want the president to fight. he's the president, he's not a monarch. got to work with congress. half of which is controlled by republicans who have made it clear they don't want him to have a success, even if it means helping the american people. are you saying you want the president to fight and if he fails in that fight to go down fighting? >> i think he has to draw a line in the sand. he's got to sit down and say look it. go to the american people. there's going to be election in '12. the answer is maybe we wipe these people out. the answer is going to be sim im. if you want to have your social security, medicare, medicaid, if you want to balance on the backs of the poor people, or you waxed rich people to pay, the corporations to pay, that's not complicated. he's got to draw that line in the sand. but to constantly keep backing up and backing up, we don't want him to do that. we want him to fight and i think we will rally behind him. i think the president has also to rally his base. come back to labor, come back to, you know, when he was out there