month in february we added 233,000 private sector jobs. more companies are bringing jobs back and investing in america. and manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. we just had another good month last month in terms of adding manufacturing jobs. and this facility is part of the evidence of what's going on all across the country. this company is about to hire more than 200 new workers, 140 of them right here in petersburg, virginia. so the economy is getting stronger. and when i come to places like this and i see the work that's being done, it gives me confidence there are better days ahead. i know it because i would bet on american workers and american know-how any day of the week. the key now, our job now, is to keep this economic engine churning. we can't go back to the same policies that got us into this mess. we can't go back to an economy that was weakened by outsourcing and bad debt and phony financial profits. we've got to have an economy that's built to last. and that starts with american manufacturing. it starts with you. for generations of americans, manufacturing has been the ticket into the middle class. every day, millions clocked in at foundries and on assembly lines, making things. and the stuff we made, steel and cars and jet engines, that was the stuff that made america what it is. it was understood around the world. the work was hard but the jobs were good. they paid enough to own a home and raise kids and send them to college. gave you enough to retire on with dignity and respect. they were jobs that told us something more important than how much we were worth, they told us what we were worth. they told us what we were building more than just products. they told us we were building communities and neighborhoods. we were building a country. it gave people pride. about what america was about. and that's why one of the first decisions i made as president was to stand by manufacturing, to stand by the american auto industry when it was on the brink of collapse. the heartbeat of american manufacturing was at stake and so were more than 1 million jobs. and today, the american auto industry is coming back and gm is number one in the world again and ford is investing billions in american plants and factories. and together, over the past 2 1/2 years, the entire auto industry has added more than 200,000 jobs. and here's the thing, they're not just building cars again, they're building better cars. for the first time in three decades, we raised fuel standards in this country, so that by the middle of the next decade, the cars that are built in america will average nearly 55 miles to the gallon. that will save the typical family about $8,000 at the pump over time. that's a real savings. that's real money. and it shows that depending on foreign oil doesn't have to be our future. it shows that when we harness our own ingenuity, our technology, that we can control our future. see, america thrives when we build things better than the rest of the world. i want us to make stuff here and sell it over there. i don't want stuff made over there and selling it over here. and that's exactly what you're doing here. we have the largest rolls-royce facility in the world, that's what you're doing by building the key components of newer, faster, more fuel efficient jet engines. i just took a tour and learned a bit about how a jet engine comes together. don quiz me on it. i'm a little fuzzy on some of the details. i did press some buttons back there. but a few weeks ago i actually got to see the finished product. i went to boeing in washington state and i checked out a new dreamliner. i even got to sit in the cockpit which was pretty sweet. i didn't press any buttons there, though. because if it started going, it would have been a problem. so this plane, the dreamliner is going to keep america at the cutting edge of aerospace technology. american workers are manufacturing various components for it in ohio and oklahoma and south carolina and kansas and right here in petersburg. in fact, the demand for their planes was so high last year, that boeing had to hire 13,000 workers all across america just to keep up. and boeing is gaining more and more share all the time. so think about that. rolls-royce is choicing to invest in america. you're creating jobs here, manufacturing components for jet engines, planes that we're going to send all around the world. that's the kind of business cycle we want to see. not buying stuff that's made some place else and racking up debt but by inventing things and building things and selling them, all around the world, stamped with three proud words, made in america. made in america. think about how important this is. i mean, imagine if the plane of the future was being built some place else. imagine if we had given up on the auto industry. imagine if we had settled for a lesser future. well, we didn't. we're americans. we are inventors. we are builders, we're thomas edison and the wright brothers and we are steven jobs. that's who we are. that's what we do. we invent stuff, we build it and pretty soon, the entire world adapts it. that's who we are. and as long as i'm president, we're going to keep on doing it. we're going to make sure the next generation of life-changing products are invented and manufactured here in the united states of america. so that's why we launched an all hands on deck effort. we brought together the brightest academic minds, the boldest business leaders, the most dedicated public servants from our science and our technology agencies, all with one big goal, a renaissance in american manufacturing. we called it the advanced manufacturing partnership. the advanced manufacturing partnership. and today we're building on it. i'm laying out my plans for a new national network of manufacturing innovation. >> want to bring in ali velshi who is at the cnn grill in austin, texas and mark preston in d.c. let's first go to you. the president's remarks, he clearly is proud of the 227,000 jobs created. he wants to see more progress being made. should he crow? is it time to crow yet or is there a lot more that needs to be done? >> you live by the sort, you die by the sort. that's the problem. it's dangerous for presidents unless they can point to something specific to take credit for job growth unless they want to take blame for the job loss. until now, this has been a refrain that republicans have been using that these many jobs were lost under president obama. if he doesn't want to take credit for that he has to be careful about this. he is taking some credit, however. here's the nuance here. he's talking about manufacturing jobs. there's no shortage of work in accounting, software development, in oil work. there's a shortage of jobs in manufacturing and in construction. we may see the construction jobs start to come back. what are we doing about manufacturing? that's a message you'll hear more and more between now and the campaign. >> and mark, we know that jobs, it all comes down to jobs in the campaign here. we just heard the president talking about it. republican candidates, how are they spinning the new numbers today, 227,000 created? >> well, you know, newt gingrich has come out and has put out a statement that's critical of president obama. the other candidates we haven't heard so much from. it's an interesting quandary they're in. it is good news we've seen 227,000 jobs added and we're seeing an upward trend which is really good for the president as he heads into november. but the fact of the matter is, they have to be careful, the republicans now, not to give him too much credit. they've been very critical of how his administration has handled the economy up to this point. they specifically point to regulations, they say that businesses are overregulated and they are also very critical of the president's tax policy, saying that the tax policy in place is detrimental to job 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[ female announcer ] only flood insurance covers floods. visit floodsmart.gov/risk to learn your risk. video clip on the internet is spreading like global wildfire. if just a few days it's made a little known name famous. i want you to watch the clip and i'll tell you why. >> for 26 years, kony has been kidnapping children into his rebel group, the l.r.a. turning the girls into sex slaves. and the boys into child soldiers. he makes them mutilate people's faces. kony is still out there. he's recently changed his tactics, making it even more difficult to capture him. an international support could be removed at any time. >> this is the man they are talking about. in the clip, joseph kony, he's notorious african warlord with a reputation of unbelievable cruelty. we're talking about murder, mutilation, child slavery and rape. he is tried to overthrow the ugandan government since the 1980s. he's on the run somewhere. why is the hunt for this guy capturing the world's attention now? you saw the clip. it's part of an online doc that has been viewed by more than 70 million people worldwide. international pressure to find joseph kony is suddenly massive. >> let's be honest, if this happened in any other country, it would make world news. it's taken 26 years and 9 years of our work to say, this is important, these children's lives matter. and we need to get that. we need to understand that and we are. we're waking up to that. it's changing the world. >> supporters of the effort to find, capture or kill kony say one group is mannly responsible for this unprecedented awareness. those who use social media, we're talking about twitter, facebook, youtube and that means young people. it's gotten the attention of a-listers as well. >> i don't think i know anybody that doesn't hate joseph kony and anybody who works in the international field has been aware. he's an extraordinarily horrible human being who, his time has come. and it's lovely to see the young people raising up as well. >> one of those young people that angelina jolie is talking about is julia kessler. you first found out about the group invisible children. thank you very much for joining us here. >> thanks for having me. >> you were just 14 years old when you found out about that group. >> i was in ninth grade. i saw the video at my high school in riverwood international charter school in the sandy springs area. people came and showed the rough cut documentary, invisible children's first movie about kony and about the crisis. and i just haven't turned back since. and social media and everything has just spread this like wildfire. >> tell us about your group. because you actually have a group in your school and you've been paying attention to this for years now. >> yes. >> where so many other people really didn't have any idea about it. >> they only saw it on monday. >> yes. >> but yes, we've done a lot of stuff, actually at our school with -- for the organization. we actually just finished a book drive that we raised 90 boxes of books. with the organization better world books, we'll sell those and the money will go to invisible children and all of their different scholarship programs. and we've also done things like have rallies and just fund-raising, like bake sales and we sold roses for valentine's day which was just fun. and it's just about getting people involved. >> and there's a photo we want to show our viewers as well. you're holding up a sign. what is this about here? you're thanking the president. >> oh, that sign is when obama decided to send the troops in, the advisers into uganda to help the military there, invisible children asked all the members, all of their followers, to make a sign that says thank you president obama for supporting invisible children and we support you. and there's thousands of pictures like that all over facebook and twitter. it was one -- >> why are you and so many young people driving this movement to hunt down this guy? >> i, for me, when i first saw the movie coming from south africa, i just resonated with the faces and the people and just this injustice towards human kind. and i thought a lot about the holocaust and being jewish and somebody like this going and brutally murdering and killing people. people are ignoring it. and if people denied it, to me it's like denying the holocaust. it resonated with me on a personal level. and so, after i saw that, i think a lot of people feel through the videos that they've seen and invisible children makes it very personal, and it's hard not to feel sensitive towards it. >> and it really quickly here, there has been some criticism about the money, that you have to contribute a certain amount of money, raise money. some people are giving their money back because they're finding out, well, just 30% of it is going to help those on the ground. does that concern you at all? does it bother you at all? >> they've released an official statement that it's online, 80% of their funds last year went towards costs towards their different programs. they have tons of different programs. and 16% was only administrative costs. but all of that can be found on their website and through the official -- >> you're not worried about that? >> no, because i think one thing they want to do, i'm not an official spokesperson or anything. >> sure, sure. >> but what i've seen over the internet and with my experience is they really try and keep their goals focused and their goal is to get kony out of power and remove him as this horrible guerrilla leader in central africa. i think staying focused on what the true cause is and what their true goals are is important an not get caught up in the politics of the money and stuff. >> all right. julia, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> you and so many other people are making a huge difference. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. 70 million and counting. that's what we're talking about, following the manhunt for this notorious killer and warlord joseph kony. celebrities are weighing in as well. up next, actress and activist mm mimiia farrah will join us next. t and tailors it across all the right points, automating all the right actions... [ beeping ] ...to bring all the right results. it's the at&t network -- doing more with data to help business do more for customers. ♪ we're talking today about the hunt for a cruel african warlord. we're not alone in the span of just the last couple of days we're talking about 48 hours, more than 70 million people have watched an online documentary that sheds light on the atrocities allegedly committed by joseph kony. we're talking about rape, murder, child abuse, enslavement. on the phone with me now is unicef goodwill ambassador mia farrow. thank you for joining us. you have been in this fight for years in the act of joseph kony, bringing it to the world's attention. earlier you tweeted, said i want kony captured or killed. i've met many of his victims but we need the facts. you go on to say this is informative. tell us if you believe that this documentary does in fact have an accurate portrayal of what has taken place there. >> well, i think we nead to focus on, as julie said, there are a couple points i would like to make. >> sure. >> commend the group for bringing an unprecedented focus to this horrific situation, the lra and joseph kony. you're correct, i mean, i visited south sudan in an area where joseph kony was raiding while i was there. i met children, one little boy who had killed -- been forced to kill his father with a log. another child would was absolutely silent. it had been, you know, come back from captivity rescued. and the fun who was taking care of them. another child by the way was absolutely free and saying he had killed 85 people. but the fun who was taking care of him said, do you think these children will ever be the same? she said i'm appealing to you, put an end to this lra group which destroys mind, heart, body, everything. i spoke to young mothers who said we don know if in the morning we will wake up. and another group of people said it was common practice in that area of south sudan, lra would raid, take small babies and to terrorize the rest of the community would pound -- they described a mortar and pestle, smashing of the baby in a kind of bowl with a mortar. now, these atrocities are known by some that i've spoken to, actual victims, is, of course, unforgettable. i just recently returned from democratic republic of congo where the most recent attacks are occurring, including one as recently as february 22nd. so there in congo, you know, while it's true that kony, an original agenda was to take over the ugandan government and he had a religious agenda, based on the ten commandments, now it appears survivalists and killing. to replenish his army he takes the children as you pointed out, as soldiers, as sex slaves. with i don't know how many hundreds of thousands of people displaced but in congo alone since 2008 there's something like 290,000 people displaced. >> do you think the -- >> the only difference i would say now since they've done this remarkable thing, we say what do we do about it? >> right. what do you think we should do about it? >> the group there is isaying, our advisers are there now, 100 of them, but the armys, the local armys, the regional armys are not yielding, stepping forward in the way they need to do. so pressure on the president of congo, the president of central african republic where this group moves back and forth between south sudan, congo and central african republic. >> mia, you also tweeted today -- >> in these remote villages so people can sound the alarm. >> mia, if i can interrupt for a moment, please. we had actually read an earlier tweet as well. we're talking about this particular group and how they've captured the attention of the world, invisible