i think we made some progress this week on that. the other is maybe where we re going to find the workers to keep this economy going. that s what i hear employers complaining about now. they want to expand, but they don t have the workers to do it. and of course immigration point. you mentioned a trade war. i think that s really important because obviously taxes and what s happening with that is important. but the trade war first and foremost right now. so the administration is this $12 billion aid package that they re going give to farmer, primarily in the midwest to, you know, try to make up for retaliatory tariffs china is putting on soy beans in response for trump s tariffs. treasure secretary steve mnuchin says this is not a bailout, not a bailout. that s insane talk. however, the republican congressman jeff hensarling, very conservative, fiscal hawk, chairman of the house financial services committee says he is worried about a global trade war, and mnuchin is dead wrong on the
medicine are starting to run low. this picture saying it all. a 77-year-old retiree turned away from four separate banks trying to withdraw that picture right there, a pension on behalf of his wife breaking down in tears. tomorrow voters will hit the polls to decide how greece should proceed. massive rallies continue for each side as polls show voters are evenly divided on the bailout issue. our richard quest is with us now from athens, dprooesgreece. what is the latest richard? it is a quiet day this saturday. campaigning drifts off. a day of reflection before the voting actually begins on sunday. you are absolutely right. the nation is split. it is well-within the last polls that we saw. the last polls are well within the margin of error. there are said to be at least 10% or 12% of the population undecided. both sides are fighting for what
an important story just into cnn. the still unidentified u.s. soldier blamed for this week s deadly massacre in afghanistan now has a high powered lawyer. the prominent seattle attorney john henry brown who once representeded serial killer ted bundy. he spoke to tracy wyann. it s a tragedy all the way around. no question about that. i think it s of interest that we have a soldier who has an exemplariry record, decorated soldier, who was injured in iraq to his brain and to his body, and then despite that was sent back. i think that s an issue. i think it s a concern. i think the message for the public in general is that he s one of our boys. we need to treat him fairly. casey wian from pierce county, washington. casey, listening to the attorney there he didn t say my client didn t do it. he seemed to say his defense would be this soldier never, because of his injuries in iraq in 2010, should have been sent back to the battlefield. reporter: well, he did not say that defi
michigan so much, why doesn t he live there? that s a good question. it s not like he has a job somewhere else. the whole question of the bailout, how does it work politically out there? there are some people who vote in the process who agree with him about markets and the way it should have been handled. clearly though, if he wins on the backs of independents and democrats flocking to santorum, i think the bailout issue it s such a hot button. the fact that he s opposes the bail out the way he did. he ll have the brand of the guy who loses michigan, if he does, he ll have the brand of a guy who betrayed the auto industry. even if he becomes the republican nominee, he will have that in the jeep election, too. david plouffe salivates over that every day. thank you, mark halperin, who even does know these guys.
clearly though, if he wins on the backs of independents and democrats flocking to santorum, the bailout issue it s such a hot button. the fact that he s opposes the bail out the way he did. he ll have the brand of the guy who loses michigan, if he does, he ll have the brand of a guy who betrayed the auto industry. he ll have that in the general election too. david plouffe salivates over that every day. thank you, mark halperin, who even does know these guys. mayor from flint, please come back again. up next, stephen colbert on mitt romney s obsession on the height of trees. he said it twice. i like the height of the trees in michigan. you re watching hardball s