Welcome to newsmakers. Returning this week is stephen law, president and ceo of the Senate Leadership fund. Their goal is to support Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and retain republican majority in the United States senate. Thank you for coming back. It is a timely week. This week on tuesday is the special election to fill Jeff Sessions seat in alabama and we will talk about that and also about the seeming feud between the president of the United States and the Senate Majority leader. Lots on our agenda. Let me introduce the two reporters who will be asking questions. Erica warner is the chief congressional reporter for the associated press. Thank you for coming back this week. Erica my pleasure. Al weaver joins us for the first time. He is a political reporter for the washington examiner. Erica, why dont you start . Erica steve, i think we have to kickoff with asking about the trumpmcconnell feud. What did you think about seeing the president lay into your former boss when you
Welcome to newsmakers. Returning this week is stephen law, president and ceo of the Senate Leadership fund. Their goal is to support Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and retain republican majority in the United States senate. Thank you for coming back. It is a timely week. This week on tuesday is the special election to fill Jeff Sessions seat in alabama and we will talk about that and also about the seeming feud between the president of the United States and the Senate Majority leader. Lots on our agenda. Let me introduce the two reporters who will be asking questions. Erica warner is the chief congressional reporter for the associated press. Thank you for coming back this week. Erica my pleasure. Al weaver joins us for the first time. He is a political reporter for the washington examiner. Erica, why dont you start . Erica steve, i think we have to kickoff with asking about the trumpmcconnell feud. What did you think about seeing the president lay into your former boss when you
The 2018 midterms . Steven i feel like the kid who is listening to his kids arguing upstairs and just wishing everyone could get along. The wall street journal editorial nailed it by focusing on what is really at stake. The journal sympathizes with the president s anger and frustration over the failure or of publicans to pass obamacare. If you watch the final vote happen in the senate where the repeal effort failed, no one was more angry and frustrated then senator mcconnell, who spent a huge amount of time pushing his caucus hard, twisting arms, and holding votes. Mcconnell is very subtle in his anger and he does not show it, but he was obviously upset and irritated about it. Pulling the lens back, what really matters is what is at stake. What is at stake is that in order for us to have success in the 2018 midterms, we have to move serious legislative agenda. That will take cooperation between the white house and congressional allies in a somewhat uneasy relationship. The democrats ha
Unified the way that we typically go into a president ial Election Year where everyone is galvanized and pushing in the same direction. In many of these races they are tough states. They are states that president obama won and states that Hillary Clinton is likely to win. I mention six and i want to tell audience that these are the ones closest. Are you focusing on any in addition to these states . We continue to be focused and florida. But was the focus will be very heavily there. I would say a couple of hours ago we heard the Senate Majority pack was taking a look at wisconsin. Least take a look at that race is a what as well as Everything Else we havent play. To what do you attribute lastminute shifting in the polls . Suddenly were seeing them shifting like an or where kelly i got has fallen behind and missouri where roy blunt is tied up with his democratic challenger. How do you explain these lastminute shift in the polls . What makes this cycle interesting is that there is no ones
Here. Today, we will be talking about athletes, racial, and social justice. This intersection of workers and social justice is something that aflcio has been doing for decades. Since recent happenings in our world we have really started Digging Deeper into social justice. For us, talking about workers who deal with Racial Justice issues and how unions should protect people of color and the work that we do in the workplace. You know, i think about what is going on in our nation and the conversation around Colin Kaepernick. We all know that conversation around athletes taking a stand spans way far back. I do not know how many of you have been to the africanamerican smithsonian. They started with the most famous of athletes taking direct action with the olympics. Think about mohammed ali. Think about the desegregation in baseball, football, and basketball. The wnba. Today is not the first time, right now is not the first time that athletes have taken a stand. Taking a stance. If you think