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Pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of america where the good paying jobs are, china is not letting them in unless china gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that the 51% owned by the chinese. so what i told the administration, if they would even -- i wouldn't even entertain supporting this agreement unless the we had a currency bill that went after china. and that is consistent with their view that you need tpp to bring these nations away from china. so far they have said no. and i feel very strongly that we need to change the way we ...

Jenna, and, you know, this matters because manufacturing jobs pay more than, you know, hamburger flippers. not to say that's a bad job -- jenna: we love our hamburgers. >> reporter: we love our hamburgers. [laughter] absolutely right. certainly, i do, clearly. the thing is, you know, when you look at the manufacturing sector in this country, a lot of doom and gloom talk about the u.s. economy, but look at the numbers, u.s. manufacturing if it were to rank stand alone as a separate economy, it would rank ahead of italy, south korea and mexico and just behind france. and, in fact, if u.s. manufa...

Jenna: is there any concerns we should have of being beaten in the future by an economy like china that seems to be growing so much faster? >> reporter: yeah. word was out that china may displace the u.s. as the number one economy by 2015, but some say, wait a second, china's a paper tiger. a lot of borrowing, much more money printing than the united states. and the interesting thing about, you know, the u.s. economy and jobs, you know, we saw mcdonald's, for example. a quarter of the job gains in april came because mcdonald's hired 62,000 people. we're turning into a nation of hamburger flipp...