This is John Bachelor.

Nippon Steel bidding for U.S. Steel, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, conversation with

Salina Zito of the Washington Examiner and the Wall Street Journal.

Lining up against the deal, the President of the United States,

Senators from Pennsylvania, governors from Pennsylvania,

across the whole of the state against the sale of US Steel, headquartered in Pittsburgh, to Nippon Steel.

You would think at that point the decision was made.

The union's against it. the workers are against it, but what's for it?

So Lena introduces the four vote and this means that the issue is not resolved ahead of us.

Selina Zito, before the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel.

However, you see, as you point out Wall Street, the shareholders, the ownership of, which is the ownership of U.S. Steel. By the way, none of which is the ownership of US Steel.

By the way, none of which live in Pittsburgh

or live near anywhere a plant, you know, are all for this. Now the argument from U.S. Steel, and I think

they're right, is that this infusion of cash will secure their jobs for a while.

That may be true, I think they're right there, but long term, you know, when you have a company that is basically run by ghosts, meaning people who aren't invested in the community people who don't live near

the community you see what's happening currently with US Deal that it's just sort of broken

off and moved around and there's no reinvestment in

in the infrastructure of their plants and eventually you just see the demise of this field.

More of this later tonight.