And we thank her for her decades of service to this country. All of our thoughts with her family. We will continue this breaking News Coverage the death of senator Dianne Feinstein continues now with cnn news central. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. And we do continue with the breaking news, Scrat Cdemocrati senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away at the age of 90 years old. We have of course seen the senators struggles with her health in recent years, she has been previously hospitalized in august after a fall. We now want to get to Cnns Wolf Blitzer who is taking a look back at her life and incredible legacy. Announcer Dianne Feinstein emerged on the National Stage after a 1978 tragedy in San Francisco. Mayor moss coney and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. Reporter after the Assassinations Feinstein was sworn in as the first female mayor of the city by the bay. Mayor feinstein quickly got the attention of the National Democratic party on a short list of vp cand
7.5%. a grimmer of home the president hit his first 100 days of office this week is economic improvement all he has to show for this term so far? joining me now, rachel smol kin, deputy managing editor at politico, kay coppins at buzz feed and zachary, cnbc contributor, written a couple of books as well. zack, i will start with you, in defense of corporate profits, you say capital and companies are thriving along with tense of millions of people connected to those worlds while labor and wages are not. why the chasm? why the gap? that s been a chasm yawning wide well before the crisis of 2008. i think the only thing we have become more aware of now is how wide that is before before the housing bubble and other stuff, pretend a little bit it doesn t exist. even the jobs created now, i
problem if off college degrees, no matter how many stories you hear about your 25-year-old coming took live with your parents. if you are young and don t have a high school degrees, good luck to you. rachel, i want to switch gears here quickly, folks who haven t been following the story, president obama, he tapped people to serve on top levels of his economic team. pritzker, his economic committee. and how much can they move the needle? very hard for these positions to move the needle. this is another example of the president relying on long-term friends, pennity werity wery pr allowed him to fill out the cabinet by bringing in another woman. there s been, of course, criticism for his second term that he s put a lot of white men in high-profile cabinet
them. i get what you mean. a perfect world, a lawmaker would vote his or her conscience. he have not voted a perfect union yet. rachel, your organization, plight coker i understand is not going to be sold, there s a i had to work that in. thank you for that how the ofa, organizing for america, not off to such a great startle. this is a snippet from the article, almost no successes to point to the group didn t sway a single vote for the background check proposal and so far, it hasn t been able to make any of those who voted against it feel any heat. how big of a blow to the president is this? an early blow for this group, our reporter, reed epstein, has been following the issue closely, doing good work on it
you have to accept had the structural reality of washington, the president does not pass legislation, the political system we have now is not even clearly the head of his or potentially her party. this is more indicative of our political culture than i think about obama s strengths or limitation. zachary karabell, mckay coppins and i cut you off because we are out of times, and rachel i m used to it. and rachel smolkin, good to have all of you. thank you. have to bring you back when we have got more time to chat. thank you. as the immigration debate heats up at home, president obama talks about the issue on his latin american trip. arizona congressman raul grijalva joins me next. head to southern california for a live report on effort there is to contain a large wildfire that tripled in size the last few days. changing the world is exhausting business. with the innovating and the transforming and the revolutionizing. it s enough to make you forget