government to be fair and that s what we re look for. joy, i promise you. we re going to fight this with everything that we have. congressman elijah cummings, we ll definitely be following this. let me bring in my panel, adnan and karine jean-pierre and jennifer rubin. looking into the idea of the emollments clause and donald trump s conflicts and senate majority leader smiled and kept walking as he headed off the floor late wednesday night. do you foresee meaningful oversight coming out of the republican house or senate of donald trump? no. this has been a year of milktoast courage stick on the
productivity, not on subs dishes not on these kinds of hit or miss paychecks you re going to write to a favored factory, not on government contracts. they need to compete on productivity. some of that is training and some capital investment and some of that is actually doing sbg our trade deficit which is artificially inflated by other countries manage their currency and we should do something about that, but that s the competitive playing field that we ve got to seek. that s systemic and that s structurally doable this. isn t. and the government can help because i seem to recall a certain barack obama made a big loan to detroit that got paid back in interest and saved 1.5 million more jobs so the government can help and the republicans didn t like that deal at all. thanks very much ali velshi and lisa cook and jared bernstein. while the fbi was make unprecedented statements about hillary clinton days before the election day, were they also quietly investigating donald trump? det
manufacturing workers which as your guest point out have been declining for 40 years, we re making better stuff with fewer workers, if we train them into jobs that can have success, call them nurses, that s two to four years of training without income and subsidizing that training and getting them into something that s useful. that s good long-term secular policy. this is just optics, and frankly it s not very important optics. the other thing, joy, is a lot of new jobs are creed by small and medium-sized businesses which don t get these kickbacks and carrots and $700 million deals from government. we need to be thinking about how them to get to create the jobs. this is just a bad place to concentrate and ime while i m really happen enfor those americans who get to keep their job, it is still 1,000 jobs out of 180,000 per month. it s just a bad use of the president s time. not even 1,000 because that s 500. not even 100. 800 jobs and 300 that weren t
his daughter to make her line in the united states rather than china and mexico and ethiopia. exactly. the other thing, talking about carrots and sticks, he ll appoint head of the pentagon and united technologies which owns carrier, who is their biggest customer, the pentagon. 10% of the company eats revenue comes from the federal government, so we re back to the issue of conflicts of issue. yes. so, united technologies brought in about $56 billion last year. 10% came from the u.s. government, the pentagon being the single biggest buyer and, again, it just goes to jared s point. this is not sustainable policy. there are 180,000 jobs on average per month that were created in 2016. 1,000 or a little less than 1,000. this concept of retraining is a really important one. germany does this, by the way, with relative success. they are able to sort of upgrade their manufacturing workers. now. what we ve got in the united states is if you take
watching vice news and we ll hopefully have you back on, jason, to give us the updates on what you re able to find out. thank you all very much. najib will be back in hour next hour. thank you. coming up, donald trump is about to take over a government where there s few checks and balances on his power. more a.m. joy after the break.