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factory in ontario, california. william? reporter: melissa, the problem is, california law essentially says 100% of a product has to be made in america. this flashlight was until they needed to import this microchip. to call it made in america you have to have everything in america. without it, they are trying to still compete with cheaper foreign knock offs. born here. die here. just like me. i m not going to china. reporter: tony started mag lite out of his garage in 1960. today it s a multimillion dollar business that s struggling because of cheap imports and a california law that limits his ability to label his flashlights in america. people who know this say why don t you mark made in usa? i said i can t.
in hamburg. melissa: absolutely. let s bring in colonel oliver north. he is the host of war stories which is right here on fox news channel. thank you so much for joining us. what do you make of these latest developments? by the way, i ll take the promotion as long as a pay raise comes with it. thank you. we re paying the price for eight years of obama s placid response to real threats from both pyongyang and tehran. the obama administration s nonproliferation policy, it was simply a matter of unilateral disarmament. if we disarm, everyone else will. it was pass fist hog wash. nuclear weapons and icbm s north korea have been testing don t have to be all that tested. if it s an electromagnetic pulse burst, it will shut off electricity for years anywhere in the line of sight of that