Her guest is richard trumka. The nations of Largest Labor union. This has a labor day for us. Welcome. Abor unions. This is his 11th appearance at the breakfast so you have become a liberty tradition for us. Welcome. First a bit of background, president trumka was born in pennsylvania where he followed his father and grandfather into the coal mines and worked his way through college and law school. He graduated from penn state then received his jd from villanova. Upon graduation he joined the legal staff of the United Mine Workers of america and eventually became president at the age of 33. Since 1989, he has been working on the aflcio executive council and was elected president of the federation and 2009. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging or tweeting. No filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway. Once the session ends, the embargo is lifted and you can file away. We will end at 10 00. We will email pictures of the breakfast to all o
Sen. I am Amy Klobuchar where we can say we can see iowa from our porch. There have been some comparisons made. Im not going to say which one is better but i will say im very look very much looking forward to your butter cows. We will see how it compares to the milky way in the revolving dairy bus of the incenses. I asked her what she does when she is out of the fair. She says they bring it home and use it in the corn as acorn fast. I have been all around iowa on a 20county tour. It is a little bit warmer than it was when i announced my candidacy in that blizzard. I thought it would be good to show that i have grit and i had four inches of snow on my head hairdresser became an icon. But i wanted to make a coin to on the Mississippi River that it is time to cross the river of our divide. To get to a higher plane. Two days ago i thought that is the same flag flying over el paso. Flag flyingsame over dayton. What unites us is so much stronger than what divides us. No stir president , afte
Calls for calm along the India Pakistan border after new delhi revokes the special status for the disputed kashmir region. Welcome to the program theres been a new escalation in the us china trade war washington is accusing beijing of manipulating its currency after it lowered the value of the one stocks have dropped nearly 3 percent on wall street beijing says it will stop Chinese Companies from buying u. S. Farm products allan fisher house wolf in washington d. C. Well donald trump said he was going to call china come see manipulator on his 1st stay in office its taken until now you certainly were expecting from the treasury sexist evolution some sort of ruling on whether or not he thought china was a currency manipulator in october its been brought forward just in the last few hours donald trump said on twitter that he believed china was manipulating its currency to try and gain an unfair advantage against the United States now when they made their surely they could have years one o
This is about two hours. Hola. You certainly know who i am. There are some very special guests backstage and we are livestreaming this all across the country. I will take a moment to introduce myself. I am a six great teacher from utah. E teacher from utah. [applause] coincidentally, president of this nations Largest Labor union, the National Educational [applause] represent over 3 million compassionate, caring professional educators. We have about 3 million in this room right now. What we have to say about the needs of Public School students and their families and their communities should be important to elected officials who will make the decisions that we all have to live with, that our students have to live with. That is why we have come here together on this very special red for ed day. Red for ed. It is all about the voice of educators and our responsibility to protect our students and the integrity of our profession. Red for ed is a movement that has spread across our great nati
Possible whether iran, having once agreed to a deal and see the United States pull out of it what it will take to get a deal in place. Host alayna treene, do you want to add to that and get your response to the caller, but the president s meeting with the premier of kotter what would they be talking about . Guest the mer of qatar will be here over the next few days. Thank you very much. Great to have you and i hope you all had a truly wonderful Independence Day weekend. In spite of the heavy rain come up we had a remarkable salute to america on the national mall. It was incredible. Standing on the steps of the Great Lincoln memorial and looking out at the crowd, easy braving the weather all the way back to the washington monument, we celebrated freedom and all of its magnificence while saluting our great military. I will say it was a wonderful day for all americans and based on its tremendous success, we are making the decision and i think we can say we have made the decision to do it