this very plant, the youngstown sheet and tube plant in youngstown. workers used to have to go back and forth over this bridge to get into the plant back in the 1930's. when they finally organized the cio, one of the things they had them do was pay a penny, a toll to get in and out of work on this bridge. they said the hell with that toll. they formed a union, they lost a strike in 19 -- strike in 1937, but they got the union by 1941. they built it into a really good job to have. but when they arrived on september 19, 1977, that morning, 5000 people to go to work, they were told without warning, we are closing down the plant. some of them had only recently graduated from high school. they look forward to working there as their parents had done, as their grandparents had done. it was a solid job and it was suddenly gone. it had been known in youngstown as "black monday." it was not the end. within five years 50,000 jobs were lost around youngstown. in what had been a deep industrial part of the country, the heart of the steelmaking center of the countr

but it bought youngstown sheet and tube in 1969. after it did that, it basically used youngtown sheet and tube to suck capital out to do other things. never reinvested in the steel furnaces of the company. then ultimately decided it made more sense to shut it down than to keep it running. youngstown was profitable at the time it was shut down in 1979. likes thought it could do better by moving the capital elsewhere. with that came new tools and a new approach on wall street to how to run companies. the emergence of a new phenomenon called private equity firms. they were giant pools of capital in which partners would encourage people like pennsylvania fupension funds to give them a hunk of capital and promised big returns. amassing the big capital, the private equity leaders would buy up companies and break them apart and resell them. often making a lot of money. in the process, usually laying off a lot of people. a lot of this was accomplished by big borrowing. lea leveraged buyouts, when companies had to bore rrow to b new companie

he went on first to be a journalist, to work for youngstown and -- to work for the youngstown newspaper. he covered jackie robinson when jackie robinson played in aaa and game a friend of his. he went on to become a respected lawyer, a federal judge, an international civil and human rights advocate. he was a local who made good but more importantly, he was a man who did good. he committed his life to the pursuit of justice and equality. we're all the better for it. he led efforts to end employment discrimination as the executive director for the fair employment practices commission. the first african american u.s. attorney for the northern district of ohio, he served as assistant general counsel for president johnson's kerner commission. that commission issued a landmark report warning that racism and poverty were the root causes of violence in our nation's cities during the 1960's. as general counsel for the aacp, judge jones directed efforts to fight discrimination faced by african american soldiers and worked to desegregate public schools in the north, stepping in personally to argue

host: congressman tim ryan, democrat from youngstown, ohio, and is the dog in or out of the house? guest: he is -- one is in the house and the other is out of the house. they are brother and sister and have separation anxiety so something will bunch here soon viewed host: thank you for spending some time with us. tomorrow, the mayor of seattle will join us and also the governor of maryland, larry hogan, in another primetime edition of washington journal. we are back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. thank you for joining us for this monday primetime edition of the journal and enjoy the rest of your evening. ♪ >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. the executiveg, director of the national conference of state legislatures discusses what the $2 trillion corona virus aid package means did then, -- means. lateste talk about the of elements in u.s. efforts to come back -- combat the pandemic. unionresident of a labor for the hospitality industry on how the coronavirus is impacting his members. journal" liveton tuesday morni

so far he's hosted 13 of them in locations that include debuick, iowa, youngstown, ohio, erie, pennsylvaniacause it is in a county that had a disproportionate high number of swing voters between 2012 and 2016 elections. this week took him to edia, minnesota. the group of swing voters told him they were more concerned about the economic impact of coronavirus than the virus itself. >> can you tell me why you are more concerned about your finances? >> why? because of the stock market. >> look at what happened last year how it went up, what, 19% or something. . >> okay. . >> and then january and february, gosh, it took another, what, 10% hike or something like that? and then all of a sudden now the bottom is just dropping out. they have stopped trading today. >> right. >> it was that bad. >> so to me that's alarming. >> back with me now is rich thau, president oven gauge his where he is co-founder. you partly in expired today's survey question. i will be interested to see whether an international audience agrees with the folks at edina. as the diagnoses and fatalities stack up and increase pote

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one of the other big cases we dealt with in our landmark cases series during the vinson years was youngstownheet & tube company versus sawyer. why is this a landmark case? what was significant about it? how did chief justice vinson approach this case? elizabeth: this was the steel seizure case. the chief justice -- i think again it was a function of maybe not fully understanding the views of the other justices in his conference. in fact, in that case it was one where obviously the executive branch wanted to seize steel production factories in the country, wartime justification. the question was, does the executive branch have the power to do that? it infringes on commerce and states' rights and the like. and vinson thought and assured the president the court would approve it and he did not know his own conference well enough to know they in fact would not. they reversed there and it was significant because one of the court's major roles, and it is a delicate one as you can imagine, starting back with marbury, is acting as the final word on when the constitution draws a line on another branch

and they are outside of youngstown, ohio, right by our mall at eastwood field for 20 years. and young people and families can go watch professional baseball. they can afford it. they can hang out, the five or 10-minute dive. it's an important component of our community. all the ups and downs in our communities in northeast ohio, we have had baseball. and now major league baseball is saying we want to cut over 40 teams. and what we're saying here in the united states congress as congressman bill johnson, republican who also represents part of the area, myself and others are coming together to try to stop this from happening, because young people in our area have been able to go to this francisco atch lindor, names everybody knows in major league baseball and when ey started, they played in niles, ohio. we want to prevent this from happening all over the united states. . . the speaker pro tempore: you now realize the gentleman from connecticut. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from account account vebling for how much time? mrs. maloney: two minutes. the speaker pro temp

i was not happy with them leaving youngstown, ohio in the middle of an auto boom. i love ohio.hat happens? that became the story. you had one plant that was leaving. frankly, i think that would be a good place to build ventilators. we will see. i was not too thrilled. peter navarro will handle this and he will do a very good job. we will see if they change their tune. reporter: state quarantines and the search for treatment. over the last 24 hours, governors in multiple states including florida and rhode island have talked about quarantine orders. they are intercepting people on highways and at airports. pres. trump: i think i will let tony speak to that later but we are being very strong on quarantine and on people not leaving especially certain states and going to others where they have less of a problem. you hear constantly about people leaving new york and going to florida. new york is a hotspot and that is why we are building the hospitals and medical centers in new york. we will let tony answer that but specifically have to understand, we are not playing games. reporter:

valley,rom the mahoney she is from youngstown. >> that you, governor.s director of ohio state unit of aging, i have the opportunity to represent 2.8 million older ohioans and for those who may not be aware, we have the sixth largest older adult population within the nation. within our department, we have responsibility for many programs, policies, services that impact older ohioans. olderen't focused on adults since this covid-19 occurrence has hit our state. we have been paying attention and really locked in that there has been a lot of attention on older adult because we know they are one of the high-risk populations during this time. much of our discussion has been around our nursing facility. i would like to give you a quick snapshot of what this means, the impact of covid-19 for older withinacross the state our facilities as well as within our communities. nursing homes receive a lot of attention because we know that older adults are at risk and because we know this is a target site.- a congregate they train for this situation every day. they know

over 25 years of local and state experience of the aging as well as in other areas and shias from youngstownursel mcelroy. >> thank you, governor, and thank you to my -- as director of ohio state unit of aging, i have the opportunity to represent 2.8 million older ohioans in the state, or for those of you who may not be aware, we have the six largest older adult population within the nation. and within our department we have responsibility for many programs, policies, services that impact older ohioans. and we have been focused on older adults since this covid-19 occurrence has hit our state. in fact, we have been watching it. we've been paying attention we've been really locked in. there's been a lot of attention on older adults because we know they are one of the very high risk populations during this time. much of our discussion has been around our nursing facility. for what i would like to do is give you a really quick snapshot of what this means, the impact of covid-19 for older adults across the state both within our facilities as well as within our communities. nursing homes receive a

rebecca is next from youngstown, ohio. republican, good morning. caller: good morning.mark is i don't understand why everybody is criticizing our president. i said our president. he is the president of everybody in the united states. it is not his fault that it got started like this. and he is trying to do everything he can to get a handle on it. i don't understand why people hate him so much. what has he done to this country that has hurt any of us? thank you. is next out of south carolina. also or publican -- a republican. good morning. caller: i just want to say i am behind president trump. thingsve he has done quicker than anybody else. i am a health care worker and the mother of a son who just passed away on february 1, who had six sick -- cystic fibrosis and a double lung transplant. it is scary out there that people go to work and are sick and expose people that don't know, like my son, who are immune suppressed. usingk we need to be common sense, wash your hands. if you are sick, stay home. i don't like the criticism and people making this a political issue. pre

susan in youngstown thinks that state governments have had the biggest impact so far.on't only understand, hello, i didn't really understand the gravity of this until i heard governor cuomo. i live in ohio but it wasn't until i heard the numbers with governor cuomo explaining what the emergency was. so, i didn't take it seriously until i heard him. i would say state government. but i think a crucial point is not being understood. the lack of testing kits in the -- no accident, it was more insidious than that. the trump administration received the briefings, they understood how serious this was. the lack of testing kits was a deliberate trump strategy to conceal the numbers. trump used covid-19 as a political prop for himself and not a health crisis for the american people. he had months to prepare and he didn't. he wanted, it's like you assume that he would be like you and wants to save lives, but he doesn't care about that. the first part of your comment, why didn't you take it seriously until governor cuomo talked about it? the numbersave us and showed us that the ho

this ispublican line, from youngstown, ohio. caller: yes sir, how are you doing?ing good, go ahead. caller: i moved from california here to ohio. i hope that everyone uses california as a model for what the democrats are going to do. there is well over one million in total homeless people in a less thanrent for 800 square-foot apartment is 850.ing about 28 $500 -- $2 the last election donald trump pulled in more registered first-time voters in pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan. what changedty is the spectrum of those states. the green party pulled in well over 50,000 votes, this anomaly happened in the other two states of wisconsin and pennsylvania. i think that is going to lay a factor into this election cycle that nobody is really talking about. let's go to sherry from vienna, virginia. caller: i am supporting michael because i was a new yorker. everyone i have heard on your program, the thing that appalls me is how little our history teachers have done to teach how government works. right next to washington, d.c. and have been an active democrat for 40 plus

investments of technology cross america not all software engineers washington can be timber 2.0 youngstownl jobs like universities america not trying to leave technologies of the future, have jobs cross midwest cross-country. >> we are seeing job creation pretty jong i never hear bernie sanders sake about it we are 50-year low unemployment congressman. >> the jobs a, not all good-paying jobs aren't distributed have not come back the rural america, they have not come back to places in western pennsylvania, ohio, let's have a public/private partnership to create jobs of the future in this community, again i don't think that is a partisan idea we won cold war massive signs technology investment have to do to that make sure we are leader in 21st century not china. >> leave it there good to see you. thanks. >> always great to be on no ro khanna in washington to studio be stuart varney getting ready for his show good morning. >> i am glad i am following your interview with ro khanna i want to add to democrats i am going to you will indicate desperation if i may seemed a mad panic to get behind a

host: ok, we will go to anna in youngstown, ohio. . to urge all democratic voters to look into the policies of bernie sanders, because i think there is a lot stress voting happening here and i don't think it is going the right way for the democrats. i think they will make the same mistake they made in 2016 with hillary clinton. if people really read bernie sanders' policies, they can see why he invigorates a young voter base. it is important that you base,rate a young voter because i don't feel that young people will show out for joe biden as much will for bernie sanders. i think young voters are going to be really important in this election, especially because we have four years to build that young voter base since 2016. host: anna, thank you. where do you go to school? caller: john carroll university in cleveland. host: thank you for the phone call. from president trump -- the biggest loser tonight, he writes, by far, is mini michael bloomberg. his political consultants took him for a ride. $700 million washed down the drain, and he

so far i've done roundtables in toledo and youngstown, northwest ohio and eastern ohio. i heard from ohioans about the challenges that too many people face. we heard about how interconnected housing is with other issues in people's lives. wages that don't keep up with the cost of living, how housing instability can affect your stress levels and your health and how hard it can be to get financing to buy a house or start a business in neighborhoods that have been left behind. we heard about the power in youngstown and toledo, heard about the power that shady landlords have over tenants and about predatory lease to own land contracts. people also talked about how upfront costs aren't just an issue. the down payment you make on buying a home to get a mortgage. to rent you often have to have the first month's rent, last month's rent and security deposit. that can be a huge obstacle to so many moderate and low-income families. 40bg% -- this number is stunning, 40% of americans say they can't come up with $400 in an emergency. 40% of americans can't come up with $400 in an emer