Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s claim that he shares credit for the auto industry’s recovery is “almost laughable,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing tonight at 9 p.m. EDT and showing again throughout the weekend (check it out here).

Didn’t he oppose that? Didn’t he say that they should have let them go bankrupt?

This shows his lack of understanding of the economy. If we would have let the auto industry go bankrupt, one out of four manufacturing jobs in this country would have been gone, and we don’t have enough manufacturing jobs as it is.

Instead, at least 4 million new manufacturing jobs are needed over the next couple of years, Trumka said.

Check out the full interview this weekend.