and, donald trump can t, can t badger and cajole ceos into changing that. we have got to have a national conversation about it. i m sorry, when its the test. when are we going to know trump s promise of infrastructure spend will get past the obstacle of paul ryan. if he walks up against a brick wall. the folks who shut the government down. where are the new airports we were supposed to get? infrastructure is expensive. complicated. there are creative way to fund it. we should have the discussion. starting with not calling it infrastructure, calling it jobs. right. that that might have some hope. but on the manufacturing side. he, he is meeting tomorrow morning with the manufacturing ceos. one of the assignments he gave them 30 days ago is to come back and come up with a plan to, to create manufacturing jobs. there is no manufacturing crisis in america. we have been manufacturing more every year for the last 20 years. we re just doing it with fewer, fewer, fewer people. th
other of our constituents and make my voice heard. the opportunity here. the fact that so many members of congress are not holding townhalls, is amazing. they should be embarrassed about it. i would guess every member of congress this week is holding a fund raiser. they have time for fundraisers. they don t have time for town halls. one of the things interesting, watch local press. local newspapers, local tv stations around the country. totally nonpartisan. don t have a dog in the fight. respond to demand for a townhall by saying, hey, yeah, wait a minute. whether or not we editorialized in favor of you. you should respond when your constituents want to meet with you. civics 101. this shouldn t matter whether you are on the left or right. we should be really happy that there are thousand of people standing up and saying, i m concerned about the direction of my country and would look to talk to my elected representatives about it. go to indivisible website. type in your zip code.
in the business world which is to me means something much different than it used to. it used to mean, oh that sood. now it means that s good for jobs. veryifrent. plants and factories are already starting to move back into the united states. and big league ford, general motors, so many of them. supposed to be one of the big league selling points for this man in the white house, as president. and that was that it would be good for american business. good for the american economy. that s what we are going to talk about in this segment. first to the board. steve kornacki with numbers we have been witnessing. steve. let s think back. around 2:00 in the morning it became clear, donald trump became elected so much uncertainty at the moment. the shocking outcome, no one had seen coming. those immediate hours overnight, the overseas markets were down.
good book for activism in this era called indivisible. this is definitely a do it yourself, grassroots movement. but it has been shaped, technically, tactically, in part by the next guest. ezra levin, one of co-authors of the indivisible guide organizing how to for rejecting the trump agenda starting with your personal member of congress. mr. levin, ezra, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. you guys knew when you wrote the book, that this recess this week was going to be a key moment in terms of people making themselves known in the size of the anti-trump sort of resistance rearing up. when we wrote this google doc, a google doc we don t have any idea what it was going to become. we put it online with embarrassing number of typos, hoped it would be useful to the big movement growing at the time. what was the basic point of the document? inspiration from the tea party. clear, simple. it was looking at the local defensive congressional advocacy strategy that th
around 2:00 in the morning it became clear, donald trump became elected so much uncertainty at the moment. the shocking outcome, no one had seen coming. those immediate hours overnight, the overseas markets were down. futures were down. there was talk that maybe there was going to be trouble in the markets. but look. a very different story has played out since then. this is the dow. since election day. draw a line there. look, every one of the little peaks a brand new record high. all sorts of records have been established. the dow at a record high right now. overall up 14%. since election day. this is the story across the board. the nasdaq same thing. draw a line on election day. look how high it is right now. look where it was in the past. undeniable growth since the election. also, the s & p 500. exact same story. it is hard to look at these charts. hard to look at that line. what s come after it. and say, there has bnt been at least some kind of trump effect here. thank you. step