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Maryland's department of labor where he helped implement the country's first statewide living wage law. because he understood that a minimum wage should be a wage that you can live on. in his current role as the head of the u.s. justice department's civil rights division, he fought to open pathways to the work fos for everybody willing to contribute, and he's helped settle some of the largest cases ever on behalf of families targeted by unfair mortgage lending. now while he's tackled plenty of tough issues, tom has also spent a career as a consensus builder. he's worked with ceos, he's worked ...

Pullinging people together in this country be i think he's realized there are hundreds of examples now, in half a dozen really prominent examples where they simply won't work together and won't compromise and i think the president who 2r50ied so hard and through his whole life was a good convener and good consensus-builder in his previous jobs leading up to this rooelszs this is a different league and a whole different crowd of people he's dealing with. >> so i want to talk about that if that's the dauntding realization that's more broadly shared. i think it took a while where people, particul...

factory floor -- asia -- has fewer things to manufacture. china, an economy second in size only to that of the united states, or of europe, has slowed. india has slowed, too. that means more than 2 billion people in the fastest growing nations in the world are buying less. this is one big storm. what is america doing about this storm? well, we've got umbrellas. what we need are hurricane shelters. but you can't go out and build an economic hurricane shelter yourself. that's something you need help with. government help. congress, for instance, could help stave off the effects of the ...

spain, italy, portugal, ireland could all be next needing emergency shelter and support n an economic storm, what that means is more bailouts and cut backs with europe means spending less money. that mean's the world factory floor, asia, has fewer things to manufacture. china, an economy second in size only to that of the united states or of europe has slowed. india slowed, too. that means more than two billion people in the fastest growing nations in the world are buying less. this is one big storm. what is america doing about this storm? well, we've got umbrellas. what we need are ...

Year, if i didn't know it. i mean, i didn't see -- there was not a lot of lines out there. there was a lot of talk about we as a country, as a team, as a people, we can do a lot. and i thought that was an important message throughout, a good theme, especially the way he ended it. what do you think. >> i think he has to be who he is, that's who he is. he's a consensus builder, he wants to bring us together. what he said about manufacturing, really really thrilled me. i was excited to hear about it, i'm from detroit, michigan, i represent minnesota now. both manufacturing states, and, you know, ...