c-span, online at c-span.org, or download as a podcast on c-span now, our free mobile app, or wherever you get your podcasts. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. >>december the colorado supreme court ruled donaldrump ineligible to appear on the state's presidential ballot for violation of the constn's insurrection clause. the u.s. supreme court hears oral argument of donald trump's appeal of the decisiowe will ha, c-span now, and online at c-span.org. now president bided speaking with union members after a recent endorsement for his reelection for the united auto workers. this comes at the after donald trump met with the teamsters union who has yet to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential minute --

presidential race. this is about 15 minutes. pres. biden: thank you. supporting you is the easiest thing i have done. i was raised on gm. my dad managed a dealership. in delaware we used to have the highest percentage of autoworkers in any state because we are a small state. we had the largest gm facility and the largest chrysler facility outsidethat is how we h school, that is how we all made it. i am going to be brief because i know you have been doing a lot of work. thank you.

the expression growing up in delaware was you are the ones who brought me to the dance and i never left you. to me it is a basic thing and i mean this sincerely. wall street did not build the middle class. labor built the middle class. the middle class built the country. and when labored as well, everybody does w where labor does well, everybody does well. i'm not just saying it. i know i am the most prounion -- i want go into that. i asked the treasury department to do a study on the impact of unions on both and society. the reason we have unions

growing and reason the economy is growing is you are the best workers in the world. that is not hyperbole. you really are. and when labor does well, everybody does better. you even got nonunio shops to raise. they owe you. they owe you. folks, look. i am going to go on a little bit more. there used to be a theory called trickle-down economics. no, i mean democrat and republican presidents adhered to it for a long time. well, if they do very well, the whole economy will end it will trickle down. not a whole lot trickle down to my dad's kitchen table. not a joke. i always believed, you give everybody an even shot at this

job, they will do it, and they will do it well, and you are the best trained, the best workers and the world. one example, i decided that i had to do something the first year because remember all those computer chips were not available for the cars? well, i got on a plane, and against the advice of many, including some of my own folks, i went to south korea. i met with the president of south korea and said, we invented the damn chip, we refined it, we used to have 40% of the chips we made. i said, why don't you invest in america? they said, we will invest $100 billion -- excuse me, $50 billion invested by these guys. i said, why are you coming to america? two reasons, one, i gave you my word, and, two, you have the best workers in the world.

that is not a joke. the best in the world. secondly, it is the safest place in the world to make my investment. look, we now have in large part because of you and organized labor, the■çtrongest economy in the whole damn world. redo. we do. in the whole world. places coming down, jobs growing. we created a hundred thousand manufacturing jobs. remember they told us manufacturing is dead in america and china can eat our lunch? guess what? we don't taste that good. look, folks, i really mean it. thank you, thank you, thank you. the whole country owes you. i/o this guy -- i owe this guy, he stood up, he gets it. he gets it.

come here. i really mean it because when we gather all these numbersí, he talked about a simple thing, he said, this is about giving people a shot. that is all it is. it is fair, give people a shot. that is what you do. besides, you both my 1967 corvette, my pride. any of you ever watched jay leno's garage? did you see me race my 1967 corvette? i tell you what, i got up to 130 miles-per-hour. secret service does not like riding with me very much. anyway, thank you, thank you, thank you, and you are not only autoworkers, but every worker in the world.

you really are. you are the best workers in the world. that is not hyperbole. the last comment i will make, i have been doing this a long time. i know i only look like i am 40. right? [laughter] anyway. 40 times two. the thing is that, you know in w passed during roosevelt's time about if unions could organize. it not only said unions could organize, but it said we should encourage the union movement. it says one other thing, when the president of the united states is given money by the united states congress to spend, whether an aircraft carrier or

any public event, they should do two things. one, this is what the law says, one, they should hire american workers. [applause] two, they should use. and you can make an exception, if you do not have you could hire somebody else, but guess what? for the longest time, we did not pay attention to it. i pay attention to it. that is why we are growing. made in america, by americans, and that is why we are the best in the world. thank you, god bless you all. thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] should i turn the microphone off?

i have the best governor in the country standing next to me. a great senator, as well. and a woman you have never known before. she is very quiet. [laughter] she never tells me her opinion bluntly. get over here quickly. you know debbie. she is a fighter. your lieutenant governor. [applause] why get first pick? >> speaker of the house. >> i would be scared to death not to introduce the speaker.

my kind of guy. i told him when i first met him, you look like you can still play. you find this guy, he could have been all-american. anyways, thank you very much. thank you. [applause] [indiscernible] ♪ [applause]

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like we do ♪ >> midco supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> former president donald trump also met with union members. he spoke with reporters after meeting witthe head of teamsters. he said he thought head a good shot of getting the union's endorsement. the union endorsed president biden in 2020 and hillary clinton in 2016. following th'brietold reportersn has a long way to go before making a decision. ■