to sort of par tall toward some martial toward conclusion. there s no question this was a win for the president from a political theater standpoint, whether it fridays a policy standpoint we have to see. shepard: dianne feinstein and kevin mccarthy have not come together. now he s going to davos. america first. yeah. if you want to walk into the world of globalization, if you want to be an abider of it, and participate of it, no better place than the beganfest, the talking shop the gabfest, the talking shop of davos. this is a meeting of about 2,500 people, leaders of countries, leaders of business and talk about the issues around the world. going for decades. a fascinating sourcing opportunity for reporters. i ve been there. but it is the heart of sort of the globalization thing. and that s another way of changing the story topic. changing the story narrative. shngs no president has been in 20 years.
making the case. the trouble with what s going on in our economy, you have a recession, a lot of people seize that, like your pal, rahm emanuel seize it as an opportunity to lay people off, wow, we have our chance now, let s get rid of all the intermediate management and sales force we don t need. good excuse to fire a guy, sorry we have to do this, this is tough times. it works or bring in a consultant from a b school and say you have to fire these people. the old guy rung the company, i hate to do it to you, joe, these kids are pretty smart. the democrats could make a case this globalization thing has been good generally for american competitiveness but not so great for the working guy and somebody has to look out for them. the democratic party used to do that. what you said, which is instead of fighting the chamber of commerce, they should have fought corporations sending jobs overseas. the white house missed it by a