this year that just passed, 2016, we made 85 million tons of steel but still consumed almost 140. that steel came from china, it came from india, it came subsidized, it came dumped, so when president trump says he wants to rebuild the steel industry, what we need to do first and foremost is enforce our trade laws. if we do that, the steel industry will go back. we ve got tens of thousands of workers in the steel industry but thousands are still on layoff. leo, you re talking about making 80 tons and consuming 140. one of the american companies that s been doing that for decades is donald trump s own construction firms. he never built his buildings with american steel, he used chinese concrete, chinese steel or concrete. so do you think i mean really back to the question of people in your industry, your guys, the union guys, some of them voted for donald trump. yeah. thinking he was going to bring back american steel.
senate bill 5 is much broader than the wisconsin one because it includes so many more state workers. we re talking university professors, university staff, toll-takers, police, firemen, park workers. it covers the gamut, megyn. megyn: and you have an $8 billion budget shortfall in ohio. $3 billion in wisconsin. so you might expect additional cuts, more sweeping cuts. john kasich said, that s what they elected me to do, but the unions are not happy and they re not happy because they say they will be facing all sorts of extra costs now as a result of these measures and that the taxpayers will face extra costs, too. that s right. but you hear the same story from the union guys, too. i just spoke with a firefighter a little while ago. the thing that most concerns them is that it would do away with binding arbitration. when you have an negotiation, it goes to a binding
there will be blood. neil: everyone should cool that. but is the governor worried about what he unlived? the michigan governor snyder with me now. are you surprised by this, governor? guest: it is good to be with you. i knew this is a divisive issue with a lot of protests before we started considering the bills. this is the right thing to do. it is actually is being pro worker, they have a right to choice and shouldn t they have the choice depending on whether their pay dues? this brings jobs to michigan and we need the jobs. we have a great come back. more and better jobs is good for workers and, actually, good for unions. neil: the union guys come back and say, so, the non-union members who you would force
that democrats are kind of teasing republicans on this? go bash the union guys and bash what unions represent and are trying to do and we will win that battle. mike: they won t win that battle because unions decided to put virtually 100% of their support in democrats. if unions had been smart they would have salted both sides of the political aisle. they might have given 75% to democrats but just enough to republicans to keep them from going completely against them. now, they have the republicans owe unions nothing but a beating about the head and that is what they are going to get. there is no political consequence to the republicans beating up on the unions. diseer roar. here is the other side of that. there is no political advantage for a democrat sucking up to the union because the unions have no place to go. it is a dumb political move on the part of the unions and will be for generations.
girls will join hands with white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. i have a dream today! neil: union seizing on the dream trying to co-opt a king for a cause. and now, a reverend is saying, he knew the things that mattered to dr. king and marched in civil rights rallies like dr. king, reverend would liked dr. king, admired dr. king, the union guys, well, the reverend says, no month martin luther king, not close. guest: if it is possible to turn over in your grave i believe that dr. king is turning over in his grave today. i was born on a plantation in alabama and i participated in the civil rights movement and i does sit-ins and dr. king was