global level playing field and are you having troubles with the wages and labor lost here for us american workers compared to china and would that create problems? the secretary said that we want to create it here and export it around the world between the labor lost between here and over there. >> so if i understand the question, can we a u.s. base compete with a competitor based in a different part of the world with different standards, et cetera? is that the standard of the question? and i would say it is an issue. no doubt about it. there are parts of the world with lower costs of capital and lower unit labor rates than we have. so that's a statement of the problem. it's not a reason to give up. through our technology we can't bring enough to that sector to make a sustainable business out of it and we will exit those businesses. but what we have found is that there's enough places, thanks to our intellectual property, where we can create a product that has value for the consumer in those developing regions and where they are willing to pay a price of a u.s. manufactured good. dominic is right

twlr foreign companies, nonamerican companies who provide 80 or 90% of their work using american workersw do you reconcile the job counting not just as it pertains to u.s. multinationals and their employment distribution and their investment distribution, but also the benefits america is receiving from people overseas investing in our country? >> and i think that should be recogni recognized. the most important thing is jobs in america. if we are attracting foreign investment and they are it hiring americans to work here in the united states, that's something we should encourage. that's something that should be celebrated. consumers should be aware of those companies making products here. if they are building in america and are particularly focused on middle-class jobs of manufacturing, we certainly want to encourage that. in no way does this bill interfere with the ability for foreign companies to do business in the united states. but to do it with american workers. >> while i've got you, congressman, what is your degree of confidence that the need for the sorts of reforms we talk about

us to refocus the three things that americans expect us to get done. i really urge that movement. >> mr. brady. >> we'll go to the third round. >> thank you. let me talk about some of those extraneous workers. evaville texas, 1,483 population, i checked this morning in the forest of southeast texas. major employer is a paper mill hires 700 workers, union workers with the steel workers. they produce paper products. this morning in you stop by starbucks or put a juice box in your kids' lunch, you're probably familiar with what they produce. they compete internationally, very tight margins. for many years they would barely breakin. they have a plant manager jim, they've worked with the union, they've streamlined themselves, they're as productive as anywhere in the country and now they are profitable. in fact, not only are they profitable but almost half of everything they produce they are competing and selling and winning in china. one out of every two union workers at that mill is competing and winning in china. one of the ways it became competitive is became self-efficient. they used renewable energy, biomass, wood chips, debris from the forest floor, which keeps it healthy and byproducts o

used renewable energy, biomass, wood chips, debris from the forest floor, which keeps it healthy and byproducts of what they produce. they're completely self-sufficient. american factories using union workers, competing and winning in china. but this rule so poorly written and rushed through jeopardizes that plant and these jobs for two reasons. one, it puts it in a timetable an expense they can't afford, about $20 million to update and upgrade these two boilers with their lines. secondly, the regulation is so poorly written that those wood chips and forest residue is considered to be incinerator waste, not biofuel, not fuels and renewable fuels. so that waste will either go to a land fill or it will stay on the forest floor where it either becomes pro sides either risk of fire or more disease. it makes no sense to move forward with this rule. the house provision is pretty common sense. it says, look, let's take a little more time to get the rule right and then let's give just a little more time for plants like this to upgrade. and in this case talking with the plan manager, it allows them to update the first one, evaluate the results and do a partial upgrade. they'll hit the standard but

american airlines was the last airline that used american workers predominantly to do the maintenance on its aircraft in tulsa, oklahoma, primarily. over the years they've resisted a trend towards offshore maintenance, sending airplanes to places like china, singapore, costa rica and doing the work there for pennies on the dollar. in some cases as i discovered in my front line documentary last year, flying cheaper, bringing those workers to places like alabama, putting them in company housing, paying them a fraction of what a union worker in america would make to work on air pliens. kyra, boeing airplane manuals are written in english. you have workers in these places who are trying to fix airplanes who can't read a manual. it's a real problem and a real concern. american was the last to do it in tulsa with union workers who have the -- all the licensing required to work on an airplane. i guess it's no coincidence, they're also the last airline to use bankruptcy protection to keep going. here we are headed toward offshore maintenance at american. >> interesting. so when you hear ameri

because it might get refined in american refineries by american companies using american workers and we might sell that to another nation at a profit for who? for americans. don't do it. don't do it, mr. speaker. in this tough economy, don't you bring those products back to america. don't you bring them to american factories. don't you put american workers back to work. why? because we might export it to a foreign land to make a profit. mr. speaker, it's what we need to be doing and "the washington post" knows it to be true. here's how "the washington post" concludes, mr. speaker. there are far fairer, far more rational ways to discourage oil use in america. the first of which is establishing higher gasoline taxes. environmentalists should fight for policies that might actually do substantial good instead of tilting against keystone x.l. and president obama should have the courage to say so. that's not my words, mr. speaker. that comes from "the washington post" editorial board. president obama should have the courage to say so. he should have the courage to stand up to the radical le

to 3 million american workers would see a cut in their pay and in their benefits to help cover the 2% payroll tax cut they would be receiving. i don't believe this is the way americans want us to do our business. i think it would be a cruel hoax to extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million american workers by asking close to 3 million americans workers to take the hit for them. and this is where i think senator casey has hit on something. regardless of what's before us or what might come ahead of us, we have until the end of this month, until the 20 of us come up with a solution. and to my thinking, what senator casey has proposed has a great deal of resonance and it does with the american public, every chance they're asked this question they say, if millionaires could contribute a little more we think that would be a good way to do it. as senator casey said, by asking them to take a surcharge of less than 1% on income if they make more than a million dollars, we cannot only take care of this, but probably help take care of some of the other things we want to do in this package in the three big priorities we have payroll tax cut extension dealing with reimbursing our docto

us. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts right now. >>> good evening, americans, welcome to "the ed show" live from minneapolis. clint eastwood stars in the best role yet, voice for the american worker. conservatives tried to kill the automobile industry, dying ain't much of a living, boy. this is "the ed show" let's get to work. >>> showing us it can be done. what is true about them is true about us. >> it's halftime america. >> american icon telling an american success story, conservatives aren't having it. >> i was offended. >> reaction to the halftime in america ad. with the united auto workers president, bob king and michigan congressman gary peters. >> i deserve a second term but we're not done. >> new poll numbers show the american people agree with that statement. e.j. dionne and joan walsh. >>> racism rears its head in a republican super bowl ad. the candidate behind the ad isn't backing down. >> the economy get very weak. ours get very good. we take your jobs, thank you debbie spend it now. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching, we come to you from minnesota where the caucus is tomorrow, this is the big story tonight. it basically is the ad the entire country i

morning, whether it's technology, whether it's regulation, whether it's skilled workers, everything used to recharge americananufacturing is a federalist act. the federal government, obviously critical, states -- remember, we're a union of states -- broad towers of over mark market-shaping areas. networks a manufacturing firm and the ecosystem that supports them. we have a great panel here to have one of the few federalist companions. but critical to this panel, and coming from a space, that's a major global manufacturing presence. governor john hickenlooper, governor of colorado, former mayor of denver, also former founder of a small manufacturing firm. okay, now, it was a microbrew, but over the weekend i actually looked at the american. so glegfisher, mayor of also. they've lived there and can talk about that experience as well as the government experience. last but not least, jay tim mons the master. they're in on a wide range of issues. i'm going to start and go with the hierarchy of systems, but i'm going to start with jeff portman. >> that would be the bottom. >> and ohio. 11% gdp, 9%% more. 12:% of y

44 cents went to workers' wages and salaries, making it the smallest share since the government began tracking this in 1947. what does that mean? >> what it tells us is that the americanhare ever of the economic pie, and that is shrinking. so as the economy even is starting to grow -- look, the economy has recovered to its pre-bubble -- you know, it's prerecession levels but the american worker hasn't. what is that disconnect. what are we doing to make sure the american worker shares. companies aren't american companies anymore, they're multi national companies, they're global companies. they're focusing on profit growth else wrchlt so what are we doing to make sure that the american worker is still enjoying the benefits of a growing american economy. >> great conversation. christine, as always, thanks very much. you can watch christine on "your bottom line" saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. eastern. and remember to follow her on twitter. don, thanks very much. great article really worth the read. don is a features editor at the "atlantic" and also the author of "pinched, how the great recession has narrowed our futures and what we can do about it" but he's written about

workers. the american agriculture told the subcommittee that the h2a program was characterized as extensive and complex regulations that hamstring employer who try to use it and costly litigation when issues of alien workers are sought. they allege the department of labor was opposed to the program. front and center in the growers' mind was assuring the availability of labor and harvesting whose timing varies with the weather. unfortunately, timeless has never been the h2-a program's strong suit. neither is the availability of the domestic labor. it seems little has changed in the intervening 16 years. the bush administration's labor department initiated a bold plan to revamp the program. the plan was rescinded by the obama administration and remade the program into a system designed to streamline the regulatory process and speed up the guest workers that faced labor shortage. it was designed to make the cost of the program more manageable for the growers. even though the changes did improve the program, let me make it clear on one point. the h2-a program is not structured to meet the needs of the vast majority of agricultural employees in the united s

and it's one of the best guns i ever had, and i really appreciate these people using american products and american workerso build this gun. we see a lot of people down here in tennessee losing their jobs because they're going out of the country, and if the country and our government and these other businesses'd take note of their business practices at henry, we might not be in the shape we're in today. >> sir, thank you very much. you're giving me goosebumps. i certainly appreciate that, and feel free to e-mail me the same: anthony@henryrepeating.com. we'd love to post your comments on our website. we take great pride in the fact that our guns are made in america, and you know, today there's a lot of talk about going green? >> yep. >> well, we look at it this way. going green is great but protecting red, white and blue is better. >> amen. tell me about the boy scout commemorative gun as well. >> well, this is really a great honor. we went through a two, three year selection process with the boy scouts and we were honored to be selected as the official licensee for the 100th anniversary of the boy scouts o

us. >> one advertisement crudely mocks the loss of jobs to china. >> york economy get a very weak, i hours it very good. -- your economy to get a very weak. >> newly hired american workers making goods to sell to china. the machines that use have been imported from china and, in trade at least. this is far from a balanced relationship. >> for more on the public relations between these two powers come i spoke a short time ago with the former ambassador to china. many people will be looking at this visit. many people will be wondering who is xi jinping and does it really matter who is the leader of china or is the party so monolithic? >> it has really been driven by consensus leadership for the most part. when you start to ponder that at the 18th party congress, we have politics playing out in america and in beijing. come october, you will see seven of the nine members of the rulers of the country turnover. you couple that with someone like xi jinping list is well schooled, has done a good job of wrapping up the party. the people's liberation army. i would argue that after a year of consolidating his power, he will have an opportunity by virtue of new leadership, the fift

we'll le just use this as a template if we believe in american workers, if we believe in hollywood, like clint eastwood believes in the american worker, eastwood's comment tonight, he's not in the obama crowd. you don't have to be in the obama crowd to be for the american worker. you don't have to be in the republican crowd or the democratic crowd to be for the american worker. it plays to our best instincts as americans to give somebody a lifeline to do better, as a worker and compete and that is what this story is about. it was great stuff. >>> get your cell phones out i want to know what you think. tonight's question, will voters hold republicans accountable for trying to kill the american auto industry? text a for yes, b for no to 622639. go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring you results later. i'm joined by bob king, the president of the united auto workers and also congressman gary peters of michigan where chrysler is in his district. gentlemen, great to have you both with us tonight. because i know you have been on the ground floor with this story all along. bob, i got to as

american public is very stupid. >> this man is a syrian dissident who says he was once imprisoned and tortured by the regime. >> it is what they told us at the school the americans, the workers no rights in the u.s. and they really think so. they think the american is easy to fool. >> reporter: david kenner of foreign policy magazine says it reflects an amateurish effort to present syria's case to the world. >> what is their current media strategy? >> honestly i think at this point they think they have lost the western media, they've lost the united states. >> reporter: kenner says at this point bashar assad's government is more concerned with winning public government opinion and public support in russia and iran. contacted by cnn, a syrian official at the u.n. said the information reported with the alleged hacked e-mails is baseless, poisonous and illegal. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> former gop presidential candidates michele bachmann, rick perry and herman cain can kicked off c pack here in washington. they jumped at the opportunity to reassert their political swagger, bachmann was humorous admitting her fight for the white house was filled with history lessons and

using political favors in the white house to get special deals. we have seen how that turns out. it's not good for the american taxpayer. look at both. the white house told boeing unless they use union workers, they can't build a plant in south carolina. that's how the president uses waivers. if you make products in america and happen to do good in and find markets elsewhere you can't do that unless you cut a special deal with the president. this is the height of crony capitalism and the height of what's wrong with our economy. under this amendment, you would not be able to export any of the products that are made on that list if you make them in america. if you make them in another country, the jobs would stay in the other countries, but no longer can you have made in america stamped on the products. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentlemen's time is expired. anyone wish to speak on their own and do we have to listen to marky one more time? gentlemen from texas is recognized for five minutes. >> i am glad i heard my colleague from massachusetts give those to oppose it. we produce steel in our country and we can get it from canada. are we going to see an amendment that we can't

most of us know that sam is one of the 16 american nongovernmental american workers currently banned from leaving egypt. sam is with the international republican institute. one of my constituents, stacy hog from fargo is also among those barred from leaving. stacy is with the national democratic institute. both the ira, iri and mdi were created by congress to foster and strengthen democratic institutions around the world. the fact that egypt has taken this action is beyond the pale. it is completely unacceptable. these young people are doing important work, work that is supported directly by the congress of the united states to support constitutional governments, to support democracy. there could be no higher calling. and for the egyptian government, egyptian authorities to trump up these really farcicable charges, i was on the phone with stacy the day before yesterday just after they received the formal charges. they are farcical. i urge the egyptian leaders to drop them against stacy and sam and all of their colleagues. we'll be taking additional steps in the day as head to registe

workers on earth. ve us a level playing field. we will not lose. now part of creating that level playing field is also making sure that american workers have the skills that today's jobs require. and deandre talked about how, even though he's working, he's still going back to school. i know that master lock's decision toreateven more jobs here in milwaukee in part is going to depend and this is something that john raised when we were at our meeting. it's going to depend on with th chance to meet one of your co-workers, eric. is eric here? there he is right there. so eric and i were talking. been a diemaker for a long time. he's older than he looks. although we were comparing the gray in his beard to the gray on my head. but he was pointing out able t make the machinery that he works on more efficient, which is making the company able to do more, because it's not lying idle when certain orders aren't coming in. but that's an accumulation of experience that he's had over a couple of now not everybody is going to have all that experience but the question is, can we make sure if they haven't already been working in this job, can they get that kind of tra

us. >> this advertisement crudely mocks the loss of jobs. >> the economy is very weak, all is is very good. we took your jobs. >> this is the image that barack obama wants to project, american workers making goods to sell to china. believe it or not, chopsticks at a factory in georgia. the machines they use have been imported from china. >> for more on this relationship between these two powers, i am joined by the former u.s. ambassador to china, jon huntsman. that you very much. >> excited to be here. >> many people will be thinking who is xi jinping and doesn't really matter who is the leader or is the communist party so monolithic that an individual does that make a difference? >> it has been driven by consensus leadership for the most part. when you stopped to ponder that at the 18th party congress that will play out this october. politics are played out in america and also in beijing. you will see seven of the nine ruling standing committee which is essentially the board of directors of the party turned over. you have new rules of the party. someone like xi jinping who is well schooled, well-respected. army, ile's liberation would argue that after a year of consolidating his p

if you do, i am confident that the american worker and american companies can compete with anybody around the world. the other thing that -- that is key in making us competitive is energy. energy is key to manufacturing. obviously, you're great users of it. but it's also a key to the entire prosperity of our country. if you look at any map, any -- any graph that shows the cost of energy and the availability of energy, and you look at it relative to the standard of living of that country, the lower the energy costs, the more available the energy, the higher the standard of living. if you look at the recession that we went into, we went into it in 2008. why? because of a huge spike in emergency pri energy prices. now you read on the front of the paper energy prices going up again now this head wind to a growing economy we've seen repeatedly as this economy as tried to recover. yet we have vast resources of energy in this country. and we have a president who's doing everything he can to see the oil and gas, coal in this country as a liability, not an asset. something that should be kept in the ground to protect you. instead of taken out of the ground

egyptian authorities have now charged 43 international workers. 19 of them americans, with using foreign to encourage the uprisings. the u.s. is warning egypt if they don't drop the charges, they could lose more than a billion dollars in aid. >>> a diamond jubilee. tributes are pouring in for queen elizabeth. tina kraus reports for wjz from london. >> reporter: crowds cheered for queen elizabeth on the 60th anniversary of her reign. >> well wishers gave flowers and gifts and shared a brief personal moment with her majesty. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: the anniversary of the queen's succession is usually remembered privately, since it's the day her father, king george vi died. but this year, the queen seemed delighted to mark the milestone publicly. she visited school children. and in one class, they even set up a royal laundry operation for the queen. [ singing ] >> reporter: students performed a show about the monarch's six decades on the throne. the royal calvary put on a much bigger show, with a 41- then a 62-gun salute. >> reporter: we're still 4 months away from the more lavish celebrat

above strategy is includes a lot more domestic production that will make us safer and more secure and create jobs for american workers. >> and i'll take the last word on this. the frightening thing is the gas goes up and is creates a drag on the economy. this could be a grimmer problem tan what we pay at the gas pump. thank you, sir. >> thank you, greta. >> and one democrat said he knows how to lower gas prices and he's telling his party leader, president obama, what he should do. what is this solution in congressman peter welch will tell you. he's here next. and new information about the horrible school shooting. a very disturbing facebook post by the alleged shooter. what does it say? you will see for yourself. that's coming up. and senator rick santorum had a surprise announcement. you have to hear what he said, and you will. stay tuned. laura ] maine is known for its lighthouses, rocky shore, and most importantly, its lobster. it's the tastiest, the sweetest, the freshest. nobody can ever get enough [ male announcer ] it's lobsterfest at red lobster, the one time of year you can savor 12 exciting lobster entrees

american workers. we've got to make sure that when we think about energy, that we're fuelling america by home-grown and talternative energy sources that make uss dependent on foreign oil. skills for american workers, everybody has an opportunity for not only four year colleges, but two year colleges, community colleges dr. jill biden is doing a great job promoting all across the country. we put forward plans on each of these areas that can make a huge difference. most of all we have to have a return to some homespun american values. hard work, fair play, shared responsibility. that is who we are as a people. the reason i'm so confident in our future because the folks who are standing with me here today, some of the folks who are in the audience, because all the families and workers and small business owners and students and seniors, that i've met over the last few weeks and that i met during the course of my political career, when times are tough, americans don't give up. they push ahead. they do whatever it takes. to make their lives better, their communities better, and their countries better. with or without congress every day i'll be cont

american taxpayer. look at boeing. you know, white house basically told boeing unless they use union workers they can't build a plant in south carolina. that's how the president uses waivers. so under this amendment if you make products in america, and you happen to do good and find markets elsewhere where you can sell them and create more jobs in america you can't do it under this amendment unless you cut the secret deal with the president. this is the height of crony capitalism and the height of what's wrong with our economy right now. yet, under this amendment you would not be able to export any of the pruroducts on the list i you make them in america. no longer would you be able to have made in america stamped anymore. >> the gentleman's time expired. does anybody on the minority side wish to speak on their own? do we have to listen to markey one more time? gentleman from texas is recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, i'm glad -- i heard our colleague from massachusetts give those of us from texas, to louisiana, to oppose it. let me start out by saying we've produced steel in our mporthe i minnesota. are we

american workers making goods to sell to china. year ended chopsticks factory and georgia. except the machines they use are imported from china.rade is far from a balanced relationship. >> joining me now for talking about the visit of xi jinping is an associate professor and faculty of law at the international university of singapore. he was so much for joining us up for the visit of the chinese vice president. will it have an impact on cyanamid-u.s. relations? >> this is the most important is that in recent years, especially when the u.s.-china relationships are at a critical juncture. china is becoming the second largest economy, overtaking the u.s. and very soon. this is when the u.s. has never, this is probably the first time in the world, especially in asia, that the u.s. had to deal with a country which is almost equally powerful. so xi jinping will become the next top leader in the next year. so it is very important for the leaders to build relations. >> what about the chinese vice president? what does he hope to achieve? is this only and getting to know you visit? >> for him, this is very much of visit initiated by the

us about the alliance. who do you represent? >> the alliance is pretty neat in washington. it's the american steel union, which is the largest steel union in america. it represents not only steel workers but workers in the rubber, auto glass, parts, paper, and also some manufacturers that have a collective bargaining arrangement with the steel workers in the steel and in the rubber industries in particular. >> phone number is on the bottom of the screen for our guests. we're going to hear from the president in a minute on manufacturing, but we look forward to your calls for scott paul. you had mentioned the inserts in today's paper sort of goes along with the big rather dramatic ad during the super bowl last night featuring clint eastwood. here assess, usa today's version of the supplement, "it's halftime in america." what does he say and what do you say? >> they interpret it as a campaign ad in some ways, but certainly there are nuances to it. chrysler last year did this m&m ad, and this is an extension of that. we're back on our feet, we've taken the punch and we can move forward. you've seen a lot of this on madison avenue. you've seen this focus on blue collar work in manufacturin