michigan isn t going to solve that problem. america faces a long-term crisis, whether for the jobs of the future and not the jobs of the past. kristen welker, many have said donald trump got off on the wrong foot this weekend. but starting his monday morning like this, he s lacing that shoe up, and walking out on the right foot. reporter: he s clearly trying to turn the page, steph. he has called this a day of action, and he s trying to put that into practice. and we have seen when he was a president-elect going through his transition, really taking a hard line with a number of companies for outsourcing jobs, including on twitter, calling them out. gm, to name one recent example. and so he s making it very clear, this is going to be his strategy, moving forward. as you point out, he s going to interface with the heads of these companies in person. he is going to be engaged in this process, and it does come on the heels of what we anticipate will be two executive orders focused on t
outsourcing jobs to other developing countries for more than 35 years. we ve been on this because we knew what the agenda was, and we knew where it would take us. we ve lost more than six million jobs. here is the thing. we could not work low enough in wages and benefits to maintain jobs against mexican worker, chinese worker, bangladeshi workers, and the fact o the matter is if we were doing this, we would be betraying our membership. we need to sit down and have a fair trade policy. and like we said, we re prepared to work with this president to repeal nafta, to repeal pnpr, repeal the deal with south korea and negotiate a fair trade deal. we re ready to work with him. leo gerard, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate you joining us on this breaking news. thank you very much. thank you. david corn, ana marie cox back with us. david, i m really struck by this turn by donald trump. this is back to the classic
negotiate with the workers and try to get the workers to cut their pay down to whatever it has to be cut to in order to compete with the mexican worker? let me tell you. the majority of places that our jobs are being exported to, and we ve been fighting the steelworkers union has been fighting this business of outsourcing jobs to other developing countries for more than 35 years. we ve been on this because we knew what the agenda was, and we knew where it would take us. we ve lost more than six million jobs. here is the thing. we could not work low enough in wages and benefits to maintain jobs against mexican worker, chinese worker, bangladeshi workers, and the fact of the matter is if we were doing this, we would be betraying our membership. we need to sit down and have a fair trade policy. and like we said, we re prepared to work with this president to repeal nafta, to repeal pnpr, repeal the deal with south korea and negotiate a fair trade deal.
mnuchin. there again, have taken decisions with investments and layoffs that won t look good when laid out to the public. outsourcing. outsourcing jobs. buying companies and industries and outsourcing jobs. the mitt romney watch, up or down arrow as we sit here? i think trump himself is genuinely undecided on his secretary of state pick. that being said, it s trump who has been who has liked mitt romney and pushed that against the advice of his closest advisers. i think right now, romney s the leading contender for that job. arrow pointing up decidedly. great to see you all. thanks so much. bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, they are now taking aim at donald trump s cabinet, calling the treasury nominee a wall street insider who could hurt working families. but honestly, can the democrats actually do anything to stop this? details ahead. also, right now, jurors are deciding the fate and future of a former south carolina police
democrats and republican opponents were able to really go after mitt romney on a similar outsourcing jobs and the loss of ons in some of those companies. this i think is different. i think this is where she s correct. this is not somebody who s buying companies and then restructuring them and laying people off. are going to certainly try to make the same argument. but i think there s a little ptsd on the part political ptsd on the part of some republicans who say we had this candidate that had a business background and it was used against him. we can never have this again. every single one of these candidates has problems that are going to be used against them in campaign. they have weaknesses, they have voting records. this just happens to be her obvious weakness. but that s not any different than all the weaknesses all the other candidates have. charles. the ptsd is not that she has a problem like anybody else would. it s that republicans in the last cycle and now here agai