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We have to work through that contract. >> are you worried about the consequences from washington if you don't make any changes? >> i think we're focused right now on the workers. we have a very strong automotive presence in ohio. we have several plants. i think 4,000 workers in addition to what we're talking about now. there's some facilities in ohio that will have jobs available as well as we move forward. we're trying to do the right thing. we think of ohio as a very important auto state. we have a very good work force there and a tremendous amount of workers in the state that will continue....

>>paul: you heard wilbur ross say this week that he's still going to go ahead with these investigations. which basically are designed to show, to answer the question, do cars that are imported pose a national security threat? do you think bmws or nissans imported are at all plausibly a national security threat? >> of course they are not. it's wrong for the president to use that pretext. the bread-and-butter part of this is of this.tennessee has become in many ways the number one auto state. we've got 929 auto parts suppliers. 50 percent of the cars we make here are steel. 10 percent are alumin...

>>paul: you heard wilbur ross say this week that he's still going to go ahead with these investigations. which basically are designed to show, to answer the question, do cars that are imported pose a national security threat? do you think bmws or nissans imported are at all plausibly a national security threat? >> of course they are not. it's wrong for the president to use that pretext. the bread-and-butter part of this is of this.tennessee has become in many ways the number one auto state. we've got 929 auto parts suppliers. 50 percent of the cars we make here are steel. 10 percent are alumin...

Point of vulnerability. the donald trump administration is planning a big reorganization of american foreign policy. they want to move tillerson out of state, move mike pompeo to state. put tom cotton in cia. that's two confirmation votes. they don't have bob corker's vote probably. the chair of the foreign republican relations committee. that's one down. with doug jones that's another vote down. even if donald trump can get confirmations, he cannot avoid the kind of searching questioning that has been avoided in the past. foreign policy is about to move to a great extent beyond his total cont...

Part of the lobbying that he sees that people in the white house know he should be doing to try to win an alabama democrat's vote. >> as vulnerable as the republican majority in the senate is on taxes, i don't think this is the great of the point of vulnerability. the donald trump administration is planning a big reorganization of american foreign policy. they want to move tillerson out of state, move mike pompeo to state. put tom cotton in cia. that's two confirmation votes. they don't have bob corker's vote probably. the chair of the foreign republican relations committee. that's one down. w...