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This country. for the last 40 years has been decimated. the rich are getting richer. people are tired of it. they want real change. i'm going to do everything that i can as part of the new leadership in the democratic party to bring about that change. >> one of the things that you hear about is job retraining for folks that are displaced by trade agreements. i want to play you a quote from the coo of a company, an auto parts manufacturer. he was talking about the problems with some of the retraining programs. take a listen. >> if you've been out on this floor doing skilled or semi skilled work...

Short years when she is 18 years old will be knocking on your door possibly looking for a job. why not make the investment now in that education to get technology in the classrooms to help the public schools in particular that are struggling in your neighborhoods and community. that is an investment worth making longer term is a opposed to waiting and looking at a job market in 15 years and saying i can't hiring anybody because they are not skilled or capable of handling what we need done. >> in addition to that what do you think the level of concern is in corporate america or people who hire ...

Four of those five proposals do not add any jobs at all. now it doesn't matter whether you think corporations should pay more or less taxes. all i'm saying here is that changing the tax rate does not trigger any automatic hiring. you could of course provide a conditional tax cut for companies that hire workers. there are bills like that in congress but you can't just call an open ended tax cut a jobs program. cutting federal funding for job retraining programs and asking cash strapped states to pick up the tab obviously doesn't add jobs either. ditto on romney's proposal to cut the federal bud...

>> good to see you. have a great day. from studio 7, i'm fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. let's get you up to date for this wednesday, september 7th. in texas, more wildfires break out as the state battles its worst fire season on record. at last count, 22 new fires are burning. those and dozens more have scorched 120,000 acres in the last week. and across the state, four people have died and more than 700 homes have burned. for many people who have evacuated, there is heartbreak when allowed to go back home. >> my heart is pounding. it's pounding so hard right now becaus...

Trip that saw him show up in a familiar place. >> president obama warned college students the republican budget cuts would hit them hard. >> if the cuts are spread out evenly, and 10 million college students including some of you, would see financial aid cut by $1,000 each. >> they will been losing people since losing auto plants in the 1970s and '80s. mr. obama held a round table with unemployed workers who are in job retraining programs. republicans say the criticism is unfair because they haven't decided what the budget cuts will be. mr. obama says that is no accident. >> because they know ...