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Arrested and still archbishop wherl stands there. he is the highest catholic priest in the united states. he was the guy who ran pittsburgh. think about that. mitchell, thanks so much for joining me today. let's go back to my partner ali velshi. you know where he is, covering this monster storm heading straight to the east coast. >> reporter: let me tell you about this place. this is the cape fear river over here. it goes down into the atlantic over there. that's the east coast. that's where the storms are going to come from. this place has a lot of craft breweries and the cape fear craft beer...

Industry in the united states. there are hundreds of thousands of people who work in craft breweries all around the country. it has become a source of sort of local connection, a reviving neighborhood. so i think that if the whole beer movement gets slowed down this way, not to mention the other american manufacturing where steel and aluminum are involved, you know, most people in most towns and most companies want to be able to trade regularly with their customers around the world and hire the workers they want. so i think that these policies, if they sort of get sand in the gears of how most...

Grandfather founded coors beer about the tariff imposed on aluminum imports that is having an effect on a can of beer. it doesn't become more american and more, you know, everyday guy than, you know, a can of beer. is that likely to come back to haunt the president? >> craft beer, it sounds like a joke, but it has become a major industry in the united states. there are hundreds of thousands of people who work in craft breweries all around the country. it has become a source of sort of local connection, a reviving neighborhood. so i think that if the whole beer movement gets slowed down this wa...

Beer production, beer prices went up by $2 million a year. so we really are better off in this country and it's always stood for free market competition. i love competing. i love creating new beers. i love innovating. that's the kind of thing that happens when you have 5,000 craft breweries all trying to top each other and do something cool. so i think that's why you should care, because it's that spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship that came from the independent brewers that has created all this excitement and all this great beer that's available today. >> jim cook, they say it's 5:00 s...

Who cares? as long as it's a good beer, who cares, and do we really want government getting involved yet again? i know that mind-set exists. >> well, it is the government's responsibility to enforce the anti-trust laws, so for example, when those two big foreign brewers bought up 90% of u.s. beer production, beer prices went up by $2 million a year. so we really are better off in this country and it's always stood for free market competition. i love competing. i love creating new beers. i love innovating. that's the kind of thing that happens when you have 5,000 craft breweries all trying to t...