Within 10 points of clinton. And i appreciate that. And i love you too. Good to have you with us tonight folks. Thanks for watching. At this hour the House Rules Committee is meeting to pave the way for fast track. Paul ryan is planning to attach fast track to a bill with firefighters pengssion on the line. This means the president would get trade Promotional Authority without assistance for displaced workers and puts president obama in a new position. A tough spot. The president has promised the veto any trade bill without taa. If he really wants trade promotional short he is going to have to lead workers out in the cold. At least that is how it stansds now. The fact that the president wants taa is as admission. His trade deal will outsource american jobs. So how is that good . The new plan requires a revote in the house on fast track, possibly tomorrow. The first time it passed by a couple of votes. Then heads to the senate where the future is not clear. Now if even a few members of
It is 75 for Hillary Clinton. Good to have you with us tonight focus. Well, it has really been a remarkable day and a remarkable reaction. The Confederate Flag revolution if you may, has avalanched all around this country. After nine black americans parishioners were gunned down in a South Carolina Church People across the state called for its removal from the capitol. Here was the scene in charleston South Carolina today. Demonstrators flooded the Capitol Grounds shouting bring it down. We dont need anymore talking. All the points have been made. The governor has spoken. The flag ought to come down. One last time take it down. Take it down. Take it down. Take it down. South carolina lawmakers got into action. They voted to consider removing the flag today. The son of a staunch segregationist former senator strom thermen said it is time to pull the symbol from the state house. Im proud to be on the right side of history voting to remove this symbol of racism from the state house. It is
Good to have you with us tonight. Thanks for watching, senator ted kennedy asked that question on the senate floor back in 2007 and were still asking the same question today as americans. And today Marks National minimum wage day in this country. After spending time in iowa and south dakota the last couple days i can tell you this is an issue that americans in the middle of the country care about. I dont know if its going to move anybody in washington. People in the middle of the country talk about isis and ebola but its not at the top of their list. They care about the economy and they care about jobs and income and equality. And voters will no doubt have this issue on their minds when they head to the polls on november 4th. Some states arent waiting for the federal government to do anything and act on minimum wage. They doing it themselves. Alaska, arkansas, nebraska, south dakota. Think about that, arkansas, nebraska and south dakota, these states are going to have ballot measures t
and say, hey, we re trying to help you out here but your homeys over here in congress are not working with us. it will be interesting to see. the congressional budget office is going to score this bill. if it comes out positive we re going to have to see what the republican response to that is going to be. i think we ve already seen it. again, this is more the tea party than the republican party. the tea party folk are committed to getting obama out of there. they have a very, very specific philosophy and ideology. they re sticking to it. they re very well organized and a very, very loud minority. they know what they want to do and how they re going to do it. the question remains is whether or not president obama can rise to the challenge. he has to stay on the offensive. thanks for being with us tonight. coming up in my playbook mitt romney is taking on unions. communications workers of america president larry cowen will join me on that subject next. [ male
pursue an agenda which happens to be associated with the interest of people that donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his campaign, it is something we cannot abide. so romney doesn t agree with the agenda of organized labor, but he s fine with the agendas of his biggest donors. romney has said he would repeal the dodd/frank financial reform act because of its regulations on wall street final firms. washington post reported the largest corporate sources of money for romney are mostly finance industry leaders including morgan stanley and the bank of america. goldman sachs employees have given nearly a quarter of a million dollars in contributions. let s bring in larry cowen, president of the communication workers of america. mr. cowen, good to have you with us tonight. i want you to address right now, do members of a union, are they forced to give their dues to political campaigns? because it seems like this is what mr. romney is out there saying. yeah, absolutely not.