existential threat right now. brian: if we are to believe what the stats say, do you believe that we re in the middle of climate change and do you believe it is because of the use of fossil fuels? the climate is changing. what we should realize, brian, the country that cut carbon footprint in half in 45 years is america. best thing for climate is to keep our jobs home, not to send to china, india and africa that have not impacted their carbon f footprint. americans have done the right thing and continue to do the right thing. the president has done the wrong thing, wrong focus and refuses to go to the border. it is pitiful. brian: you have to beat a bunch of people who is america want the nomination you want.
industry after industry left, steel, aluminum, paper, need to bridge it back, reduce the trade deficit, and we will invest in you if you invest here or there should be tariffs on the dumping of goods and should not be allowing companies to go send our jobs to china just for lower wage jobs and having human rights abuses and less environmental standards. john: we ll be watching your progress on this. clearly given what s going on in china the united states will be wise to start to diversify our supply chain and bring the jobs home. i remember arguing with a friends of mine in the early 2000s, he says it doesn t matter where we get our stuff made as long as we own the company. and i said if you make everything in china, who is around to buy it? sandra: fair enough. and look where we are today. and you can t, with all due
of our economy, and that s the case, where we ve outsourced so much to save .0001%, or one cent on this product or that product. i think the inflation reduction act is an attempt to respond to that, and bring those jobs home, and we need to become self-sufficient. steve rattner thank you very much for coming on this morning. and coming up on morning joe, how restaurant workers helped pay for lobbying to keep their wages low. david pharonhold joins us with new reporting for the new york times. that s next on morning joe. hey, man. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual.
battery manufacturers and supply chain folks yesterday in michigan who are so positive about what we ve done with the new senators and so on. they re very hopeful. so i think it s good news. i think there s of course more that we can do. january we ll see a $35 cap in costs for seniors, people on medicare, which is a great step. we d like to see that be for anyone on insulin, including children that got stopped by republicans last time around. but we d sure love to see that happen. energy costs coming down. gas prices coming down. so i think things are moving in the right direction. and the more we see what we ve done in the last two years actually get implemented, you know, the chips act, bringing jobs home, the infrastructure investments that are going on, all the other things, i think we are on a great trajectory in term offense the economy.
what that would mean to our troops, to our military readiness, to our ability to implement the chips act to bring these jobs home, everything from what we need to do around domestic violence funding that would be stopped to health care, children, seniors, it would be completely irresponsible. senator, good morning. jonathan lemire. i wanted to ask you about the national defense authorization act. it oin colludes a win for republicans, strips out the covid-19 vaccine requirement for members of the military at a time, we should note, when covid cases are starting to surge again across the nation. wondered if you would talk about the process and thinking there. this was in their minds a political win, but the reality is 99% of our men and women in the armed services are