they re talking about. and the people they have in, the glenn becks, the o reilly s and those people. they re so anti-obama, anti-the democratic party, anti-workers. anti-people. and basically, what do they talk about? we have to take away those entitlements. that s the first thing they get to. they re talking about taking away social security, medicare, medicaid. when you tell people that s what the war is about? they say, we re not going to vote for them. but that s the message we have to deliver to make sure we take away all this rhetoric and say, those people want to take away what we believe is important to every american. social security, medicare, medicaid. when you get old and you work hard, you work for 40 or 50 years, you re entitled to those thens. you re a great negotiator, you ve done a lot of great things for workers. i have a favor to ask of you tonight. i guess sean hannity is asking the question, why don t you go
country right now. i believe the mood of the country is exactly what james hoffa is saying. and that s why the right wing is so uptight about what he said. he s telling the truth. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. are republicans at war with the middle class? text a for yes, b for no. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. results coming up later in the show. joining us now exclusively tonight, james hoffa. general president of the international brother hood of teamsters. thanks for being with me tonight. i appreciate what you do for workers in this country and how you never back down. they want you to back down now. they say that you are purporting violent rhetoric. what s your response to that? well, we re not backing down, but what we said yet is right on. we have the votes, we have to mobilize our people. there is a war on work hes, and the way we change that is, we are a mighty army, let s march together and make sure we win at the ballot box and t
hoffa the drugster and palin have been two of the most vicious attackers of the president and the unions over the years. neither one of them have a clue what middle class americans have been going through, since radical republican tea partiers have taken office. wage earners, i believe, know exactly what james hoffa was talking about. and they re in their living rooms tonight jumping up and down saying, finally, somebody s telling like it is. somebody with a position of authority is standing up for workers in this country saying, hey, we need to take them out at the ballot box. but wait a minute, they didn t like the phrase that was used. when republican policies take money out of your pocket? do you want to play nice? the answer to that is no. middle class americans are sick and tired of the talkdown culture and they are tired of taking the blame for what bush did. now, this is an ideological war
gotten from the workers of this country. are they not standing up saying, way to go? or maybe i m wrong on that. the phones rang off the hook at all of our locals today. finally, somebody s standing up for us. somebody s saying what has to be said. we re tired of this mamby-pamby talk that s out there. let s call people what they are. let s go after the issue, talk about the war on workers. and let s make sure we mobilize and vote in november. it was a tremendous response today. the phones rang off the hook in tremendous support from working families. do you think the republicans are sons of bitches? i think they are, if they re trying to take food out of the mouth of working people. what kind of a person does that? what kind of a person tries to take away collective bargaining from public employees, firemen, policemen, teachers is it what kind of person wants to go in and take away their pensions? you know what, that s a bad person, and that s the kind of
the phones rang off the hook at all of our locals today. finally, somebody s standing up for us. somebody s saying what has to be said. we re tired of this namby-pamby talk that s out there. let s call people what they are. let s go after the issue, talk about the war on workers. and let s make sure we mobilize and vote in november. it was a tremendous response today. the phones rang off the hook in tremendous support from working families. do you think the republicans are sons of bitches? i think they are, if they re trying to take food out of the mouth of working people. what kind of a person does that? what kind of a person tries to take away collective bargaining from public employees, firemen, policemen, teachers is it what kind of person wants to go in and take away their pensions? you know what, that s a bad person, and that s the kind of people we re talking about. that is the war on work hes. the war on workers started january of this year.