Martha welcome i am Sandra Smith in for Neil Cavuto and this is your world. Its the day after neils exclusive interview with the Teamsters President Sean Obrien and the reverberations from sandra the Unions Lack of endorsement in the president ial race being felt across the country today. We did a lot of pulling as you know and it leaned heavily towards former President Trumpets. Very heavily. Neil and im just wondering do you look disconnected from remembers . No, deftly not disconnected from our members because look, we did extensive pulling that was important. Our goal as leaders as Union Leaders is to provide the ability for people to have a voice and provide credible information. We cannot dictate to our members, our members are sophisticated they will make their own decisions. But this is a bigger problem. You know, the democrats always taken for granted that theyll get our our vote no matter what and the republicans fancy themselves as the working party working peopleS Party. I
i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. this week, as voters in five states cast their primary ballots for upcoming midterms, the message from republican voters was really loud and clear. election denialism is alive and well. in north carolina, republicans chose ted budd as their candidate for the senate. last year, budd voted against certifying the 2020 election results. as recently as this week, he refused to say that president biden is the legitimate president of the united states. for the record, in case there is anyone out there who doubts it, joe biden is the legitimate president of united states. in pennsylvania, far-right state senator, doug mastriano, won the republican nomination for governor in a landslide. of course, mastriano attended the rally before the capitol riot on january the sixth. he was actually subpoenaed by the january 6th committee to provide testimony. you guessed it, he has ignored those requests. here is why this is a story of national importance
friends. an updated indictment, filed in federal court this week, revealed that trump pal, tom barrett, who chaired trump s 2017 inaugural committee, sought millions of dollars in investments from the united arab emirates. prosecutors allege that barrrick was at the same time illegally lobbying the trump white house on behalf of the uae. last, year tom barrick and two alleged coconspirators were accused of conspiring to act as agents of the uae, without registering as foreign agents. he pled not guilty to the original criminal count, and is currently awaiting trial. and if that s not bad enough, we also learned this week that the justice department is suing gop mega-donor and former rnc finance chair steve wynn, claiming he made repeated requests on behalf of the chinese government to trump while he was in office. doj is seeking to force wynn to register as a foreign agents,
the coal mining industry, so energy rielle a big topic of conversation. and we ve got live pictures here of president obama at a wind farm, as you can see clearly behind him and obviously, you know, kristen, clearly one of the reasons, as you mentioned, you have governor romney in ohio talking about coal. but also, governor romney has said he opposed those wind energy tax credits that are so popular in places like iowa and other parts throughout the west, which is part of the obama team strategy. reporter: absolutely, it is a part of their strategy. so, ron, paul ryan is actually set to attend a closed press finance event tonight with gop mega donor, shelley adelson. been a while, and he s been the subject of big exposes by the