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Culture of grievance that trump fuelled off is by portraying himself as being outside of the bubble. were all journalists here. i lived in north carolina and california. youre from new york and louisiana. trump likes to portray everybody in the media as being from the washington, new york corridor. its not true. were from the same america. meanwhile he frames himself as im just the average billionaire with my gold plated faucet and my gold plated helicopter, just like you out of work 50-year-old...

Party understands them like democrats do. i spoke with the chair of the democratic party in oakland county and focused on telling union workers how they feel about wages, they understand their concerns about automation and they say they want them to know and they will know that democrats in their view are in it with union workers for the long haul. i spoke with one auto worker who worked in the auto industry for 20 years, and he voted for him in 2016 and will again. when i asked him about the tr...

Who earn half of what the regular auto worker is making at these companies, and they get horrific benefit packages, they have no way of becoming permanent, the story youre telling us is a story of the workers that now are actually shrinking because theyre depending more and more on temporary workers. the uaw gets it. the they want to see the temporary workers earning more and getting benefit packages and becoming permanent. leland: where does the politics of this come in for president trump? how...

We are going to continue to have those discussions. as far as specific details on lordstown or any of the others, im not at liberty to talk about them. we will continue to talk about job security as we get back to the bar beginning table. >> so the president, president trump, put out a statement overnight, he said here we go again with general motors and the united auto workers. get together and make a deal. how does that help in your negotiations? >> so i am not sure how it helps, but heres wha...

You build out sectors of the economy using the nature of the government with the magic of the private sector and organizing that around specific industries. like solar, wind, artificial intelligence, machine learning, additive manufacturing. there is no policy in the united states to move us down that road. >> lets talk actual numbers. some of the things theyre fighting for makesceps, fair wages, profit shares, and health care, gm spends $63 per hour per employee. compare that to $28% for the av...

>> i want to see what that means and what he is doing with china and where the trade policy is and i am worried about the economy and workers, we have a good sustained period but if you are an autoworker which i care about, you are having tough negotiations coming up in the industry and to know your job is safe and you saw how many plants are closed in the past 6 months. they are worried. i want policies that will help my workers feel safe. neil: it also sounds like democrats were interested in ...

Of you, i dont want to make america anything again. i dont want us to go backward. were not going back to the past. were not going back where we came from. were going to move forward. were going to make america better than its ever been in the years to come. lets do that together. [ applause ] >> andrew yang. >> if you heard anything about me and my campaign, youve heard that someone is running for president who wants to give every american $1,000 a month. i know this may sound like a gimmick bu...

Member, 2550 union afl-cio. >> [ applause ] >> and our organizations mission is very simple. we raise the voices of working people. the 99% of americans who make a living by getting up and putting in a hard days work. we are everywhere. we make this country run. we are this country. yet more and more the economic and political rules have been rigged against us. today right here in michigan an auto worker woke up with a pain in her stomach, terrified that she will be the next to lose her job to n...

He has our foreign policy in shambles right now. >> i want to ask you. you have said you support proceedings. the whole world will be watching. you have the letter from the department of justice saying you better stay within the confines of the report which mueller made clear he was going to do. do you think this will move any of your colleagues on to the side of now impeachment proceedings? or is this the one big final hooraw? >> hard to tell. its all going to depend on what he says. if he does...

Did po-- different policy a say this, anderson, everyone on the economy, which is their great claim to fame, the lower part of america doesnt think they are benefitting. tell an auto worker there are millions, that their future is great. go tell a steel worker their future is great. so this administration one of the things thats going to become more and more apparent is aside from the mendacity and, they dont deliver. >> very briefly because i got to go, do you believe mitch mcconnell will deliv...