shocking images coming out of the midwest right now where detroit and chicago have some of the worst air quality in the world as smoke from canadian wildfires smothers cities. cars vanishing into white clouds in michigan as they move across this bridge. you can barely see them there. in chicago, the skyline today is almost completely blurred out. more big cities now in the path of the smoke. and in fact, right now president biden has just walked up to the podium in chicago to sell his economic agenda, a vision aides have branded as bidenomics, we re going to bring those comments to you live. also this hour, new developments in multiple cases tied to former president donald trump as he denies showing off classified material in that potentially damning audio saying, quote, yeah, it was bravado. it comes just as georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger just finished meeting with the special counsel team. but we re going to begin the hour with extreme weather affecting t
judiciary, can i call him for advice. and representative danny davis, danny, you ve been a good friend for a long time. [applause] he s always there, and elected officials and members of congress, thank you, thank you for the welcome and welcoming me to chicago. first quarter of the 20th century poet carl sandberg describes chicago as a city of big shoulders. a city of big shoulders. he was describing the big shoulders of the working class american town who were building this city. same time, building the middle class. i m here in chicago today for the first quarter of the 21st century to talk about the economic vision of the country. economy that grows the economy from the middle out and bottom up instead of the top down. everybody does well. when that happens, everybody does well. [applause] ladder up, and the wealthy do well, we all do well. this vision is a fundamental break of the economic theory that has failed america s middle class for decades now. it s called trickle
it hardly happened. exception down to 30%. i change all that. we are making targeted investments to promote production of semiconductors, batteries, lelectric cars, trickle down theory, private investment give me a break. we went to see corporations that said are you more or less likely to invest if the government invests. overwhelmingly, had it backwards, no, more likely to invest if the public invests. industries we invented started to move overseas, like s semiconductors. america invented them, whether the cell phone function, refrigerators work, on and on,
[applause] but in reality, construction of manufacturing facilities on u.s. soil grow 2% on my predecessor s watch, 2%. my watch, nearly 100% in two years, 100%. all the members of congress here, i m in west virginia, a steel mill closed 2001 or 2002, that range. had thousands of good paying jobs, they were lost. but today with the help of the inflation reduction act, a plant is being built, building iron air batteries, help restore energy and being built on the same exact site. bringing back 750 good paying jobs. bringing back a sense of pride and hope for the future for all the people of warington and
talked a lot about increasing manufacturing. remember infrastructure week? infrastructure week became infrastructure week and week and week and week and week. it never happened. we got infrastructure decade done right off the bat. but in reality, construction of manufacturing facilities here on u.s. soil grow only 2% on my predecessor s watch in four years. 2%. on my watch it s grown nearly 100% in two years. 100%. [ applause ] with the help of all the members of congress, and i m not being solicitous. look, west virginia, where a steel mill closed in the beginning of this century in 2001 or 2 in that range. it employed thousands, it had thousands of good-paying jobs that were lost. but today with the help of the inflation reduction act, the new plant s being built, building iron air batteries, which are