the union agenda and to make it easier to organize. martha: you talk about the union leadership we have a piece of sound here from richard tr u.n. cka that you mentioned in your piece that we want to play for everybody and get your comment on that, nina. >> we are not going to spend precious resources helping candidates that don't stand up and help for us. we'll focus on those people that help us, and we'll have more resources to spend on protecting our friends. martha: remember that richard trumka said he had very good access to the white house. he talked about his frequent conversations with rahm emanuel who is no longer there. what do you make of that that you brought up in your piece. >> keep in mind the unions spent more than $200 million on behalf of barack obama in 2008. they are not really happy with him again because of this card check issue. the president wants to make sure that they are on his side going into 2012. they have a lot of money, they have tense of millions and hundreds of millions of dollars