There was no Social Security, no unemployment compensation, zero, to sort of families to form the united auto workers. Why did they do that a . Why did people marched as farmers, some 200,000 farmers in six months in a few counties in texas in late 1880s to start a populist progressive movement, the most fundamental Political Reform Movement in our country. Well, one reason was received injustice themselves. The farmers were being fleeced by high interest rates, by the banks, loans for crops and by high Railroad Freight rates to get their crops to market. The women felt deeply disrespected and they felt the men were not addressing a lot of the issues that women were concerned about. The workers could not live on what they made working 50, 60 hours a week in an auto plant. Its not easy. And the hazards and the occupational deaths and the diseases. So we take the first motivation was perceived selfinterest. They were not abstract to injustices that accumulated all these specific injustic
city s police chief. in a 60 minutes interview, commissioner ray kelly tells scott pelley that the nypd has the firepower to shoot don a plane if it s necessary to protect the city. we ll hear more from that interview as kelly discusses new york s anti-terror operations in just a couple of minutes. those revelationing getting a lot of attention this morning. that ahead as jim mentioned. but we begin this morning with president obama, who is ramping up the rhetoric. last night, he started a west coast trip with a blast to republicans telling big money supporters at a fundraiser that the gop s idea of government would, quote, fundamentally cripple america. senior white house correspondent bill plante has more on the efforts to rally the democratic base. bill, good morning. reporter: good morning to you, erica. no more mr. nice guy. but the president is responding to liberals in his party, and not just liberals who think he s been too willing to compromise. before he wen
a friend says the american convicted. killing a fellow student can barely sleep or eat this early monday morning, september 26th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good monday morning. nice to have you with us. i m erica hill. i m jim axelrod. chris wragge has the morning off. great to have with us here. thank you. a startling claim from new york city s police chief. in a interview, ray kelly tells scott pelley the nypd has the fire power to shoot down a plane. those revelations getting a lot of attention this morning. we begin this morning with president obama who is ramping up the rhetoric. last night he started a west coast trip with a blast of republicans telling big money supporters at a fund-raiser that the gop s idea of government would, quote, fundamentally cripple america. cbs senior white house correspondent bill plante has more on the president s efforts to rally the democratic base. bill, good morning. good morning to you, erica. reporter: it s