that's why he's at a union rally. >> i will point out that these union employees, i assume at a united autokers plants, companies that do work in the-- people who do work in the private sector. yes, they were bailed out longer story, but they're not working for government. they're not a government agency. >> adam, i think-- i'll give you a technical okay on that, but then, why was the president or the vice-president there, always visiting union shops, you don't hear them proudly say, here i am at a right to workshop, here i am at a right to work, state. i mean, if you like, if you like, if you like americans having jobs, you really shouldn't care whether they're union jobs or not. but you only go to the union job plants. >> except, except when he went to solyndra and got the jumped all over for the-- >> i wonder why. free enterprise. that's a private sector jobs and i'll tell you the reason why, adam. here is a short even why, i've done reporting on this. when they go. i have no problems with unions, my dad was a union guy, i like private sector unions-- >> you said this is the short. >> wh

he's from arrest hard. >> bob: a lot of presidents adapt from the geography they're in. >> dana: united auto workers in washington, d.c.? >> bob: well, get in the auto workers and who they are. it's fair to say if you took a whole speech he gave, he was saying basically that he was complimenting america about people trying to see that everybody has a fair shake going up. he did say if you believe for a second that there aren't people, some people, small percentage to get to top who want people not to get to the top because they sell stuff to people on the bottom. >> greg: you can't paint an entire group of people because there are greedy jerks. speaking of, eric -- i'm kidding. >> eric: funny. >> greg: you analyze the speech and you saw something few people noticed. >> eric: yesterday i was listening to the speech, fox didn't take the speech. i was watching it on msnbc and my jaw is dropping. picked up the phone and called the producers and say we have to take the speech. there is some important things in this. they sent me a transcript, prerelease transcript copy of the speech. let me read

. >> i'm speaking as an individual today, but i am the civil rights co-chair of the united auto workers local 1981 retired amalgamated transit union, local 1555. you don't have to go to other countries to see the effects of what could happen with the type of detention laws that are possible under this so-called anti-terrorism defence act. you just have to go to brooklyn or to the bronx to see several examples, daily examples of indefinite detention, exercised particularly in the black, latino, asian american communities of new york city. japanese detention under franklin roosevelt's executive order was extended to italian americans and more than 10,000 a italian-americans were incarcerated in definitely under the executive order that allowed that tension. the starting point in its san francisco for those tensions were in the excelsior district, on silver avenue, or the bible college is at the top of the hill at silver ave. one of the first victims of the executive order was the mayor, the person who nominated fdr for president at the democratic party convention of 1932. other examples o

united auto workers union calls the compensation morally wrong. ford says his pay is fair. >> in tonight's consumer alert, more than a half million honda suv's are being recalled. it affects the 2002 to 2004crv's and the 2003 pilots. honda says over time, the wiring can work its way loose causing the headlights to fail. it will be sending out recall notices in the mail in late april. >>> i don't know about you, but i did not like today. >> it was okay outside. a little chilly. >> the only thing that kept me going, knowing that i'm about to win megamillions. that brightened my day. >> i they that's brightening a lot of people's days. what can we expect as we roll into the evening and people continue to line up buying those megamillions jackpot tickets. >> sometimes the forecaster, all we have is the power of positive thinking. and all day, i have been thinking where's the sunshine? where's the sunshine? can we put the tower camera back up? they hate it when i do this. there it is right there. >> where did it come from? >> it comes up every morning

. >> yep, he's talking to the united auto workers. to a crowd in front of the united auto workers union, right? >> yeah. >> it seems the president's campaign is in full swing now. >> it sure does. besides picking on him earlier for his tan. but here's the politics, carol. listen, i spoke to democratic strategists today and they say this is no surprise, he's reprising he played in 2008 and in 2010. he's the re-election ambassador to blue-collar workers, to white working class voters. and we're going to see more of this. ohio yesterday, you know your home state, battleground state, our jessica yellin got good reporting say where is biden going to be next week? florida talking about medicare and the republicans' budget plans to oppose that. he's also going to be talking you can see on the map, virginia, pennsylvania, iowa, new hampshire, what do all of these things have in common? battleground states. now, what about the president himself? carol, five fundraisers today. three in atlanta down your way later today and two in the chicago ar

hold his first press conference in months on the same day as super tuesday or when he spoke to the united auto worker's union during the michigan primaries and similarly when he gave a speech to the joint session of congress at the same time that the republican candidates were debating at a reagan library. govern rendell, the white house said they are not paying attention to the republican race, but this is evidence they are. is it not? >> they are clearly paying attention to the race. anything that the white house does will be suspect. >> i think republicans would agree with you. >> you are running for re-election, i remember when i was running for re-election as a mayor and governor, everything that i did, people were saying you are just doing that for politics. and i said no, i get paid to be governor for four years, i do not take the fourth year off because i'm a candidate. i stay away from approximate obvious scheduling conflicts but it's their ball right now. >> they seem to be drawing stark contrast as the republicans fuss over whether satan is attacking america or the contraception que

. >> finally, the united auto workers continued their convention with former president bill clinton taking stage. he had nothing but praise for the auto industry bailout, but what he said about mitt romney's lack of support for the bailout that hits the issue hardest. let's listen to the former president. >> i happen to think this auto industry package is the most important thing that was initiated by president obama and the administration. the president could have walked away from this. the government would have walked away from it. we wouldn't be here today. every time i hear mitt romney talk about this, i think his daddy must be turning over in his grave. >> there's the most popular man in the country. the candidate's father, george romney, he was the long time president, the man who saved american motors. but just in this case, i'd be careful about using family issues with a political rival. you should never talk about the father to the son. >>> up next, is there any room for moderates in the republican party anymore? that's a good question. you could say the same thing about the democ

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going to be key, and it's no accident that the president was in toledo yesterday talking to the united autorecisely that reason. >> no question, joe biden was a hit with the uaw yesterday. what romney is saying, this undercuts his entire campaign, he is supposed to be the economy guy, he's supposed to be the fix-it guy and running around saying things are getting better. he's not giving anybody any reason why he should be the choice of americans. it just seems so fun da mentally tough, what do you think? >> first of all, sorry for mixes up joe biden and barack obama, but i'm sure both them will be glad for the confusion. yes, it was joe biden in toledo and the president was in maryland making the same case in some respects. i think mitt romney's problem is one of his problems he has run such a negative campaign, it's been based so much on tearing down all his opponents, including the president, that he hasn't thought through a more vivid and convincing argument for himself on the economy. he hasn't figured out how to focus on the parts of the economy that have not improved. he hasn't figure

president obama was in washington, addressing the united auto workers, who like most voters in michigan, remain grateful to the president for saving the american auto industry. >> i placed my bet on the american worker and i'll make that bet any day of the week! and now, three years later, three years later, that bet is paying off. not just paying off for you, it's paying off for america. three years later, the american auto industry is back. >> that's what i call a victory speech. president obama continues to hold a substantial lead in polls over the two republican front-runners, but in the state of michigan, his lead over the republicans is towering. an nbc/marist poll shows president obama beating mitt romney 51 to 33 in romney's home state of michigan, while the president beats rick santorum there 55 to 29. the president got more good news today about what the shape of the senate could be during the president's second term. former nebraska governor, bob kerry, who also served two terms in the senate for nebraska, returned to nebraska today from what has been his home in new york, to

one of the interesting things, the president this pass week was at the united auto workers union, and suspended. let's listen. >> the and the gm plant out in ohio, and where workers got their jobs back to build the chevy cobalt. and gm's hamtramck plant, detroit. >> where i got to get inside a brand new chevy volt fresh off the line. even though secret service wouldn't let me drive it. but i like sitting in it. it was nice. i'll bet it drives real good. and five years from now, when i'm not president anymore, i'll buy one and drive it myself. >> yeah, the numbers dave was talking about, they fell well short of 2011 supposed to hit 10,000 sold and didn't, hit about 7700 and now, don johnson the vice-president of u.s. sales and operations saying in january, we were clearly impacted by the investigation over the fire related information and he exaggerated negative coverage he says, it was the media's fault the exaggerated coverage. >> dave: the coverage of the fire was a bit exaggerated. the fire risk is no greater than most cars. the price tag doesn't help. 41,000. >> alisyn: you can ge

unite the auto works in we ohio.ittle more than a month after his boss stopped by a union plant in wisconsin and before that was at a union plant in washington and not the nonunion one in south carolina. >> hello! >>neil: and unions also getting a big pass on the health care law. the one that he claims everyone needs and everyone will pay into. close to 660,000 workers have waivers. just so far. and that could be conservative estimate. if the president and vice president are for the private sector what is with all of the new government regulations, 106 major regulations since president obama took office. costing more than $46 billion a year. and all of this is doing this? >> we are about promoting the private sector. they are about protecting the privileged sector. >> charles payne heard that and threw up. he has cleaned himself up and is here. >>guest: i got an extra suit. >>neil: mr. payne nation. >>guest: so frustrating and to your point, all the rhetoric is flying there are legitimate things happening, and it is

we may hit 14 million auto units sold this year. is that a good thing for snap-on?f you're buying a new car, you're not maintaining your old car as much. >> i don't think it makes too much difference for snap-on. i guess in the long run if there are many new cars over many years, that could be a problem. but generally our sales do not change with the new car. we don't react to that. it generally -- the cars in the united states have aged every year since 1980. they're now over ten years old. and we see substantial growth in that. and the other opportunity is, like i said, our vans, almost 4,000 of them, don't call on release technicians. a lot of having our vans call on more they do now. and that's part of the 8% growth in the year. >> thanks for sharing your experience with us. >> up next, forget the cupcakes, bring on the booze. we're talking beer and the bourbon boom in america. do not worry, there's a stock angle here. >> because that's what we do. and later on housing guru in the house. robert shiler is with us. why he is not betting on a recovery any time soon

> no doubt. >> i was wondering, you mentioned the fact that we're seeing rising sales of autos here in the unitedtates. are the auto part suppliers able to keep up? is there any risk of a supply shortage out there? >> that's a really key question. we saw the impact of what part supply shortages can do last year with the quake and tsunami. but this year it could be widespread because the first three months of the year we're looking at march sales now being in the 14 million range on an annualized basis. this is way above what people were expecting. that's going to put a huge strain on the supply chain. we could see later on this year that sales are restrained by the lack of parts. >> something to keep an eye on. we certainly learned a lesson from japan. thank you very much for that, jeremy. >> sure. >> up next, a sunshine stock that may provide another dose of hopium for the jobs market. here's a hint, get your dry erase marker out to write it down. plus, march madness is taking hold in miami. but this frenzy has nothing to do with college hoops and everything to do with housing. yes, a happy stor

the automotive industry of our community and country -- shelley winston, as many of you know, a united autoker with has worked at ge for decades. she will tell our story and we will send a big thank you out of toledo to vice-president joseph biden and president barack obama. [cheers and applause] >> good morning. it is an honor to meet with you here. my name is shirley winston and i am a proud native ohio and, born and raised right here in toledo. i have done only two things in my career. i serve my country and i built jeeps. [applause] for four years, i was a communications specialist in the air force. for the next 29 years, i work right here in toledo, first in a plant we called the cove and then in the toledo complex. i still remember my first day at jeep. i walked in there knowing that would be there for the rest of my working life. i would be with jeep until i walked out with a pension. that is how my father did it. that is how my grandfather did it could and that is how workers all over america have always done it. i can even tell you how many jobs i have done at the jeep. i work in t

. >> vice president joe biden has jumped into the 2012 presidential campaign, speaking at the united auto workers hall in toledo, ohio this morning. he told the crowd that president obama had been right to support the government's rescue of the auto industry, saying it saved more than 1 million jobs and staved off a new depression. you can watch his comments at c- span.org. rick santorum is in puerto rico, newt gingrich is in illinois, which has the tuesday primary. he had a rally this afternoon. ron paul house are rally at the university of missouri in columbia. misurata's caucuses are on saturday. mitt romney -- misurata's caucuses are on saturday. mitt romney does not have campaign events but has media interviews. you can watch the events at c- span.org/campaign2012. president obama responded today to presidential candidates who blame him for high gas prices and the lack of drilling in the united states. he says there is no such thing as a quick fix when it comes to high oil prices. this is about 35 minutes. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you, e

who spent 29 years in the automotive industry of our community and country, shelley woodson, a united auto worker. sheep will tell our story and we will sell -- send a big -- she will tell our story. >> good morning. it is an honor to be with you here. i am proud native ohioan, born and raised in toledo. i have do -- i have done two things in my career. i served my country and i build jeeps. [applause] for four years, i was a communications specialist in the air force and for the next 29 years, i worked right here in toledo, first in a historic plant and now it is a toledo complex. i remember my first day at jeep. i walked in there knowing i would be there for the rest of my working life. i was going to be with them until i worked out -- walked out with a pension. that is how my father did it and how my grandfather did it, and it is how workers all over america have always done it. i cannot tell you how many jobs i have done add g. i worked in the paint shop, i worked in the body shop, i put mud flaps on the cars, and topped off antifreeze i radiators. i have sealed the doors and driven ca

that's far above the unit sales for the world's second largest auto worker, volkswagon. third biggest, toyota, sold nearly 8 million last year. >>>s the head of the u.s. central bank has expressed caution about the recent rise in gasoline prices. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke spoke about the economic outlook on wednesday. this was at his semiannual testimony to the house of representatives financial services committee. >> gasoline prices have moved up, primarily reflecting higher global oil prices. a development that is likely to push up inflation temporarily. we will continue to monitor energy markets carefully. >> the fed chairman added that the decline in the jobless rate over the past year has been somewhat more rapid than might have been expected. the unemployment rate dropped to a three-year low of 8.3% in january. but he denied that the rate would improve dramatically this year. bernanke stressed the current monetary measures need to be continued to support the country's economic recovery. >>> the european central bank is providing another record amount of

states to the extent that the united states became an owner, frequently, in the auto bailouts. you served as co-chair of the auto task force and board member of the guarantee corporation. you were simultaneously leading all the agencies on every side of the deal in one whole role or another. throughout these processes, you've refused and treasury has refused to answer questions. you provided unredacted documents, disclosed relative information that people have asked to hold accountable the treasury to find out what has occurred, where the tax dollars has gone. delphi retirees, 20,000 people across this country lost a portion of their profits as the three roles of the treasury, pension benefit guarantee corporation and auto task force picked winners and losers and they were ones that were picked as losers. tens of thousands of retirees left in the wake of gm bailout and then you have concern as to how do we look to the european crisis and whether or not similar conflicts of interests, taxpayers' dollars and a lack of openness or transparency. as you know, as the delphi

detective jesse minton of the arlington police department auto and theft unit is alerted that a bait en broken into. bait cars rigged with cameras and gps tracking equipment are used by police departments nationwide to catch thieves in an area where auto theft is a recurring problem. >> we pick a car that looks like cars that are most stolen. we lock the doors remotely. record everything inside with video cameras and microphones. then we deploy them to a place where we have a crime problem or persons stealing cars in the area. we're basically fishing with the bait. >> the bait car, a red chrysler sebring is stolen just down the street from the station. an automatic alert is triggered when the doors open. >> once that is received, all i know is it's moving 20 miles an hour west on division street. >> the bait car is headed towards james greenwell. then a patrol officer with the department. and when the suspect drives by greenwell's cruiser, the officer is surprised to see who's behind the wheel. >> as it goes by i see who was in it. i was shocked. the suspect was an elderly female. tot

auto sales. but, again, the 16.5 million units, attrition. i got to tell you, when i'm on the lot or in the showroom, when i look across the desk at people, it's the uncertainty of where they are going to be three, four, five years down the road. that drives their decision to make a purchase or not make a purchase. the stability of our economy recovery is so critical. i look at energy prices and watching the value of used cars drop almost daily. especially cars that are deemed to be gas guzzlers. you can lose 35%, 40% quickly as the price point goes up. as i've watched it happen before, and we're very quickly reaching that tipping point again. about $4 where all of a sudden the whole world stops and we start to go on a rapid decline. i appreciate you being here today, what you try to do. mr. chairman i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. now we go to the young lady from new york for five minutes. >> i thank the gentleman. i would like to ask unanimous consent to place in the record quotes and articles from -- secretary geithner, the preside

units. for much of 2011, the auto industry was a bright spot for the overall economy.ll continue to be the case. we have seen a lot of investment, as well, by the big three in detroit in small cars and in fuel economic cars. so naturally, that's an area that a lot of people are migrating to. >> thank you. have a good weekend. >>> from rising car sales to skyrocketing gas prices, chuck schumer is leading a charge to tackle energy problems with pumped up production overseas. schumer wrote a letter to secretary of state hillary clinton asking her to convince saudi arabia to increase production. republicans continue to call for a domestic drilling surge to counter rising fuel prices. the u.s. imports half its petrole petroleum. i want to take him on his first flight. i want to run a marathon. i'm going to own my own restaurant. when i grow up, i'm going to start a band. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. thanks, mom. i just want to get my car back. [ female announcer ] discover what's next in your life. get this free travel bag when you join

seeing a partnership now that we've never seen in my lifetime, i believe, between the auto industry and the united states government. not for the government to have ownership, not for the government to tell the auto industry what to do, but the government to make the business climate for these auto companies more and more favorable. and that's what's good. that's what's come out of the auto rescue for toledo, the assembly of the jeep wrinkler, that's what's come out of the youngstown, lordstown area for the chevy cruze. we've seen the manufacturing job growth for more than 20 months takes us in the right direction. it's important that the naysayers just kind of dropped -- they can say whatever they want about the auto rescue. they're going to say what they want for political reasons. but it's clear that -- that we as policy-makers -- you know, presidential candidates are going to do what the presidential candidates are going to do in both parties. i don't really much care. but i do care that this body, the united states senate, focus its efforts on how do we cooperatively grow this industry. it me

. >> israel second only to the united states in the number of start up company autos there is a saying what is good for general motors is good for the nation. we sat down with the chief executive to talk about bailouts and where his company is headed, next. >> also a local man whose college fund went missing. michael finney gets his bank to show us the money. >> a 7-year-old boy whose remarkable determination is helping him wage the fight of his life. stay with us. another half hour of news is in just a moment. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected to your doctor through e-mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitally connected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power, shared knowledge is even more powerful. kaiser permanente. thrive. >>> the new ceo of general motors came to san francisco today. and he sat down with our transportation reporter and heather joins us now with

at george town, we will be holding another public kfrgd -- auto contraception and services and the religious freedom discussion in the united states. we will have melissa rodgers and ellen alvira, and marty lederman, and michael mcconnell here. we invite you to come and you can sign up for the event on our web page. today, we are going to address a timely and important topic, religious freedom and religious extremism, lessons from the arab spring, we will hear from some of the nation's top pexperts on the topic. as always, we want you to be encouraged to be involved in the conversation. both today and in the future. let us hear from you. the over arching question is what role if any ought religious freedom to play in the struggle for self governance. can it play a role in rooting demauk r demauk rassy in these -- democracy. -- open to the use of violence. can religious freedom in fact limit religious extremists, how should american policy seek to best counter religious extremism in practice. our first panel will discuss a growing body of work, some of it produced, of much of it producen their own about how the forms of reli

units next year at its plant in woodstock, ontario. this is up from the current 150,000. toyota says the expansion will create 400 new jobs. >>> turning now to domestic auto production, we saw quite a jump in february. the eight major carmakers say their total domestic output last month rose more than 19% from a year ago. the figure comes to over 900,000 units. this is the fifth straight month of increase compared to levels shown in the previous year. automakers are counting on the subsidies to boost sales of ecofriendly cars. applications will be accepted from next monday. output at honda shot up by almost 65%. daihatsu by just under 31% and toyota by a little more than 22%. >>> japanese cosmetics makers is to begin consultations in april. the president announced a launch of the new service on thursday. it had been available only in person, usually at outlets. the beauticians will advise customers about how to choose and use cosmetics suited to their skin. streaming videos will allow demonstrations by specialists and the chat features will allow customers to ask questions as well. they hope to track new clients by offering easy access to counseling from

auto industry. even though china has slowed down a little bit, the united states has moved far ahead. and we've got the greatest marginal growth of any large industry. and that is going to absorb a significant amount of platinum and palladium. also we have supply both from south africa and from russia for both platinum and palladium bhupal add yaum-- palladium we think is more is difficult from a stock perception so it might go higher. >> tom: so 700 or so for palladium, how high this year. >> look energy for the market to get up to 775. >> tom: okay, about a 150% rally. >> again for more in the second half of the year. >> tom: has the diversification into precious metals is that play over. have people diversified their assets partially into precious metals enough that you are not seeing those buyers in the market? >> we don't think it is a crowded trade. gold and preshuts metals are one of those things that is talked about more than there is a lot of activity. a lot of people give the impression of having a significant amount of bullion but when you drill down, i don't think many inv

auto show. from the humble, back to the positively boisterous. >> welcome back. it super tuesday in the united states, one of the most important in the republican primary. boating taking place in 10 states including ohio, is so- called swing state. >> ohio usually serves as a political barometer for the rest of the country. we take a look at the mood as voting gets under way. >> the state of ohio fits the heartland pretty well. three-quarters of the residents call themselves christian, a state of agriculture and industry. when it comes to elections, as ohio goes, so goes the nation. the candidates know that. head of the republican primary complement were flowing freely. >> you guys know this is the biggest prize on super tuesday -- ohio. it's always the biggest prize. as the epicenter of everything. >> republicans in nine other states are voting this tuesday. 40 percent of the delegates needed to win a republican nomination are up for grabs. ohio does not offer the most delegates, but it's the biggest state that is still competitive. winning those delegates it takes deep pockets. that is where