curbing their nuclear ambitions, right? even as he s giving this speech and been president for the last ten months. experts feel like they re moving closer and closer to developing a nuclear weapon that can reach american shores. so it s not clear what the trump doctrine really is in terms of policy. we know what it is in terms of rhetoric. we know what it is in terms of slogans, america first, sort of the nick-naming. but in terms of deliverables, not really clear. it s a 13-day trip. we ll see sort of the president in a very kind of symbolic way, presentational. he certainly likes that. in some ways, he seems more like an american president when he s abroad. certainly more presidential. i think that s what we ll see over the next 13 days. what he comes back with in terms of real trade deals and progress is unclear. we ve heard him talk a lot but haven t seen so far deliverables. so the interesting thing here is the careful balance he has to walk, right? if you talk to leaders or pe
threaten to ship jobs to mexico and demand a payment to stay. great economic policy. according to one official, the indiana economic development corporation carrier s parent company may have been concern about a stick, however, about losing billions of dollars in federal contracts under a trump administration. the former lieutenant governor told politico this deal is no different than other deals we put together at the iedc to retain jobs but the fact is that the difference is that the united states technologies depends on federal government for lots of business and we had a change in the election. the incoming trump pence administration has emphasized to us its commitment to support the business community and created an improved more competitive u.s. business climate. we don t know what those incentives are. we did get a look at that business community with an interview with trump s pick for treasury this morning.
sorry of one west bank, he oversaw a whole bunch of foreclosures, there s wilbur ross who just got appointed as commerce secretary who is like even richer than both of them combined who is a corporate raider. they make money by firing people, not by hiring people. this is the classic example of capital making money at the expense of labor. that s exactly right. in some ways when you look at the 2012 campaign versus 2016, trump was able to get hillary clinton on the wrong side of the mitt romney, barack obama divide, right, where she weirdly played the role of mitt romney, she was the correct person who had all the dodgy deals and was connected to plutocrats and i m the populist standing up for you. when you look at mnuchin and wilbur ross, these are the 1% plutocrats that we associate with the sort of backbone of the republican party at this level. right. this is the boss man. he is filling his cabinet with
republican party, at least rhetorically. treating him as a singular figure and an exceptional threat to american traditions. but three weeks into the transition, his cabinet picks have made it clear this administration is going be extremely republican. about as republican as it gets. trump may have run as a populist but he s largely an empty vessel. now his party controls two whole branchs of government they re filling up his agenda with items from the conservative wish list. the big question for democrats how to counter that republican juggernaut. i m joined by keith ellison, candidate for chairman of the democratic national committee. congressman, what s the plan here? well, the plan is very simple. we have to really deliver for america s working classes. that means that we need to fight for higher wages. we ve got to fight for real trade deals. and we got to make sure that we are invested in training and everything else that americans need.