A surprise move, the white house criticizing israel over building settlements. A ship from their proisrael statements as they announce sanctions on iran as early as today. As of today, we are officially putting iran on notice. Breaking overseas, attack at the louvre. A man with a machete, what was his motive . We are going to begin with the president s meeting. One hour from now with ceos and some of the biggest names on wall street. At the same time, we got the first jobs report since the president took office. The economy added a huge number, 227,000 jobs in january. The unemployment number ticked up to 4. 8 . Remember, the jobs numbers are more about the job market under obama than trump, it is a back looking number. Its trumps starting off pot. We have the best in the busins to big into this. We go to Kristin Welker outside the white house. We have to talk about this ceo meeting. Until today, its been kcordial. The ceo from uber is not attending, he wants off the commission. Report
weekends and health insurance. unions not only gave us the middle class. unions then gave that middle class a way to take part in the political process. in the significant part of the process that involves putting money into political campaigns. and when union members get involved in campaigns, they tend to throw their considerable support behind democrats. not republicans. in our politics now, rightly or wrongly, we have big money corporate interests on the republican side. and their only competition comes from unions. so republicans try to take away the unions. they try to make it so they can run the table. that part of the plan is also working. today the milwaukee journal sentin sentinel reported public unions in wisconsin are losing their influence in the state capital. in just two years spending by the state s public employee unions on lobbyists has slipped from the summit of wisconsin politics, leaving business interests uncontested at the pinnacle of capitol lobbying.
influence in the state capital. in just two years spending by the state s public employee unions on lobbyists has slipped from the summit of wisconsin politics, leaving business interests uncontested at the pinnacle of capitol lobbying. the state s largest teachers union used to be the leading presence in the statehouse for educators in wisconsin. now they ve gone from seven-figure spending on lobbying to relative peanuts. their spokesperson says they re trying to make due without paid lobbying. top five lobbying groups in wisconsin now are mostly business types like hospitals and manufacturers. the folks lobbying for teachers and janitors and snow plow drivers, all but gone. this is a huge shift in our politics. and it may be a lasting one. we cannot know if republicans in wisconsin were motivated to strip union rights in order to achieve this end, but it s hard to imagine they regret how it has turned out. in djibouti, a. vietnam in 1972.
not republicans. in our politics now, rightly or wrongly, we have big money corporate interests on the republican side. and their only competition comes from unions. so republicans try to take away the unions. they try to make it so they can run the table. that part of the plan is also working. today the milwaukee journal sentinel reported public unions in wisconsin are losing their influence in the state capital. in just two years spending by the state s public employee unions on lobbyists has slipped from the summit of wisconsin politics, leaving business interests uncontested at the pinnacle of capitol lobbying. the state s largest teachers union used to be the leading presence in the statehouse for educators in wisconsin. now they ve gone from seven-figure spending on lobbying to relative peanuts. their spokesperson says they re trying to make due without paid lobbying. top five lobbying groups in wisconsin now are mostly business types like hospitals and manufacturers. the fol