And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. He is the son of were to reagan parents. Rican written puerto parents. He has written a memoir called still dreaming. Good to have you on this program. What do you make of what is happening a few miles down the road in d. C. . I went to congress to expand. Pportunities our goal is to make sure everyone has access to wha everything. Im not going to let them use the budget to stop people in my community from having what they have in congress. Tavis it appears john weiner has done his heels in even more adamantly. How much worse is it going to get . I think its going to get worse before it gets better. Of the most bitter. Gliness in the United States if you see us in the gym getting ready to go to work in the morning, if you see us at lunch together, it is night and day. So many people want to put this behind us. Lets hope the leadership can take us there. The battle,in for and i think km in for a battle a right. E
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Offer and new accusations. Abc7 News Reporter matt keller has coverage. Matt . Both sides left at and 2 30. The union is upset that bart management put down the final offer yesterday. They are threatening taoistic tomorrow if no deal is done by today. Here are the latest numbers. Barts last, best, and final offer is 7 million more than the offer on friday, a 3 percent wage increase a year over four years but workers have to pay more no the pension and 9. 5 percent more for medical. Leaders have said the give backs in benefits swallow most if not all of the wage increases. Union leaders say at 2 30, what it will take to avoid a strike on tuesday. Terrible mistake on the part of district. We are coming back tomorrow. We hope any will rescind their last, best and final offer so they we can achieve an agreement. Trying to bring this to a close. The bay area is tired of going to bed at night and not knowing if bart is going to be open. Bart general management will give the unions two weeks
Right now were watching the night of the long knives on the right. These stories breaking tonight. Right wing senator jim demint, the man behind too many failed right wing senate challengers, christine im not a witch odonnell, Richard Mourdock announced today hes quitting the senate to run the hard right Heritage Foundation. Meanwhile, in the Republican House a purge is under way with Speaker Boehner dumping uncontrollable right wingers from Prize Committee assignments. Theyre out because theyre too right. So what is too right for the republicans following the defeat this week or their defeat last month . Is voting nay in the senate against a handicap rights treaty because it carries the nightmare dread of blue helmets riding black helicopters sweeping into your home school room. Is that okay . Whats out . Whats in in the Republican Party that just took a licking . Bob shrum is a democratic strategist and columnist at the daily beast, and John Brabender ran Rick Santorums president ial
House a purge is under way with Speaker Boehner dumping uncontrollable right wingers from Prize Committee assignments. Theyre out because theyre too right. So what is too right for the republicans following the defeat this week or their defeat last month . Is voting nay in the senate against a handicap rights treaty because it carries the nightmare dread of blue helmets riding black helicopters sweeping into your home school room. Is that okay . Whats out . Whats in in the Republican Party that just took a licking . Bob shrum is a democratic strategist and columnist at the daily beast, and John Brabender ran Rick Santorums president ial campaign. I expect you gentleman to play fair and aim directly below the belt. Just kidding, bob. I want to ask you as a liberal, a progressive, looking across at the right you see jim demint, a guy the late tim russert once said i cant believe jim demint is a senator. He is the leader, the ramrod of all those right wing challenges. He put up ron johnso