we are joined by scott stossel, the editor of the atlantic.alk us through the overarching theme and why you decided to package these two stories together. guest: we view them as complementary stories. they are both addressing the same issues, which is that it is no secret over the last 10 to 15 years, u.s. manufacturing has had a very hard time. its share of the u.s. work force has declined precipitously. its share of the economy has declined. and a lot of manufacturing jobs have gone overseas to china, mexico, other places, because of outsourcing prepared -- outsourcing. the two articles here. one of them is by a business journalist, and what is by and national correspondent in washington editor. they're focusing on two sides of the same phenomenon. for all the bad news about u.s. manufacturing in recent years, we may be added to pinpoint -- at a tipping point. jobs are inexorably leading the u.s. and going to china and other places for profit maximizing reasons, the lowest labor, and -- labor prices they can possibly find. but it suddenly tu

we will talk with scott stossel . eastern he will take your phone calls at on c-span. as he sought a few minutes ago, ohio's select your college met today in columbus, and let met in all 50 states today all around the country. this morning we talked about how the electoral college works. host: james thurber is our guest with the american university presidential studies of which he is the director and professor. thank you for coming in today. guest: pleased to be here. host: you are here to talk about the electoral college. the election wrapped up over a month ago. why are we talking about the electoral college and what happens today? guest: this is the next step in the election. the electoral college is not a place but a process. today is the process where the electors get together in each state, and they go through a complex process. but it is generally managed by the secretary of state or some other officials, and they give their votes for the electors in that state for a particular president. president obama has 33

developing and implementing emergency plans and we will hear from scott stossel to talk about his two recent pieces about the rise of manufacturing in the u.s. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> prefers experience was to come in at a different way than every other family appear. it will probably never happen again in history. it is interesting because after dad was sworn in, we went and took a picture, a photo of the family. and that night we didn't get to move them into the white house. because nixon had left so quickly and so unexpectedly. they love their daughter and son in law to tackle their clothes and belongings. it literally took seven or eight days. we had to go back to our little house in alexandria, virginia, it was surrounded by secret service in the neighborhood. we lived there when dad was vice president. and i remember mom was cooking dinner. we are sitting on the dinner table and mom was cooking dinner and she said, jerry, something is wrong here. [laughter] you just became president of the united states, and i am still cookin