value and not to create more jobs. that s not the nature that s not the purpose of the private sector. so it ll be interesting to know what exactly is the art of this deal here. the other side of the coin is, is it a problem if businesses are making decisions not because of their climate or some kind of innovation but simply because they are afraid of the president? you do have to be careful. there s plenty of president for this. democrats of course are big fan of president kennedy who called in the head of steel industry and said, look, you ve just raised prices and he pressured them and he is celebrated today for doing that. teddy roosevelt called in the heads of labor unions and business leaders to broker a solution to a coal strike i think it was in 1901 or 02. there s presidential precedent for this kind of thing. you do have to be careful about it. what s different. why do you say that? because you don t want the power of the federal government to just be willy-nilly l
his desk by early next week. savann savannah? nbc s brian mooar in west virginia with the latest for us. thank you. i can clearly recall as if it was yesterday, it was quite a while, going down there to cover a coal strike. maybe about 15 years ago. the idea that conditions were as desperate then, both economic as well as physical conditions working in the mine, are the same today. i can t think of another american industry where these violations would be allowed to occur repeatedly over and over and over. you wonder, 124 something like that violations in one year, how serious are they and why isn t i mean, why aren t these mines shut down if it s that grave and that serious or are these just miner infractions? you know what, brian mooar cited some violations said the wokkers were in imminent danger.