through the rear view mirror when they used to be the party of the industrial collar midwest. now they're the party of white collar metro america. jeff flake says he is planning legislation to overturn this. hard to see how that gets the 60 votes however. >> you're shaking your head, chris. >> very quickly, one of the reasons this was a safe thing for republicans in congress to oppose is because they don't effectively have to do anything. they can say we think this is bad. we want to be -- >> if it goes badly, they can say, well we did say it was bad. >> they have a hedge. no question about it. what i don't get is, if the president wants to help this group of workers, why doesn't he deal with the truth of the realities. the automation is the big factor on why our manufacturing business has changed. if he wants to use ufrmt s. steel, he could do something.