the industrial midwest, for decades he stood by and watched all these factories go away, go offshore. he said, we are not going to do that anymore. we will create a strategy. the united states is going to lead. i go to these international conferences. they are so envious of what we have done in the united states because it means that we are growing a full on industry here. we are stamping it, made in america. and we are using it. i am telling you, this is a whole game changer. so i saw this, this caught my eye. ahead of the clean energy jobs, the nonprofit, talking about the california grid. the battery storage discharge. batteries are the largest source of supply, and it shoots up around 7:00 a.m. and stays above the other sources. we are seeing places where texas, and to their great credit, they have had state- based policies with a good
and every billion dollars that we lose in trade deficits. that 6,000 jobs that go offshore. and that s what donald trump is trying to turn around. and this deal is really a marker and will help us going forward with things like nafta and other negotiations. brian: it s a deal with an ally with a very liberal leader and he was willing to deal and the president got in there the next big challenge is china. can you characterize the chinese talks as progressing positively? well, let me say this about the korean relationship. what s beautiful about this deal is it strengthens our relationship with south korea both on the economic front as well as the national security front. so we re going to be presenting a united front. president trump is the commander-in-chief guiding the korean negotiations. with respect to china, it s just a fact that they stihl steal our intellectual property. when companies go to china they have to surrender that intellectual property.
they re working and they need help when they re not. some of my republican colleagues should go home and talk to people who have lost their cars and lost their health care and sometimes lost their homes because this matters to a whole lot of individual people in this country. so yesterday, senator brown, i asked for ideas from our viewers about what the president could do to greet an environment where employers want to hire more people and i was just flooded with responses. i was hoping you would stick around and go through some of these with me and ask for the ideas that congress is considering. put a very high tax on companies sending their work offshore to reduce this practice. a lot of e-mails and notes on the same vain, what do you think of that idea? i think we need to do something very much like that. first we need to stop the incentives for these companies that go offshore. we have tried to do that, the republicans filibustered that attempt. we need to change our trade poli