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Them. >> working with the secret service who are clear live experts at identifying threat situations and how to prevent them. i can absolutely see because of the politics involved, and because of the way weve accustomed ourselves to think about security post 9/11 which is okay, heres what we need to do. we need to created a whole new profiling regime to keep track on people with diagnosed mental illness and essentially follow them around like suspect eed terrorists to make sure they dont do anyt...

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Movement say -- forget taft hartley. forget the narrow box of labor law. well go out and re-introduce ourselves to the 90% of american workers that dont have a union and well do it on issues like childcare on issues like immigration and issues like affordable housing and the mortgage crisis in this country and well start to bargain as the labor movement on behalf of wla boring people. im not talking about sitting down at a table. i was a official negotiator for unions for lots of years and we fo...

Begins to fall. so what happens in 1973? 1973, something called the business roundtable forms. a bunch of corporations that decide they want to roll the clock back to make this country work only for 1% of america and roll back the time of that middle class workers made and they begin a three-part deliberate plan. one, offshore the jobs in this country. thats a deliberate trade policy made in advance by the business roundtable. so suddenly you have an auto worker in michigan who had a decents mid...

Trying to save those kids. >> some of the story that is have come out, again, facts are so difficult to come by that i dont want to get too far ahead. the reporting we do have indicates there were incidents of tremendous, tremendous courage. >> these teachers were union members. or not. it doesnt matter. we just love our kids. they acted -- they acted out of complete bravery because it was just something they had to do. whether they were union members or not. but, i have had friends who i havent...

But its also tremendously complex on the ground which is what youre getting to. when youre dealing with adjudicating it. one of the political issues thats now risen is that the house version of the bill in their own kind of way of slipping a poison pill into the bill, theyre calling for mandatory minimums for some forms of domestic violence and this is a way of for them, kind of this threading the needle and theyre responding to the idea that theyre blocking the violence against women act but th...

Republicans, the fact that there was bipartisan majority in the senate meant that this, the violence against women act, was not going to die some sort of death of negligent over these issues? is that generally your feeling? that this is going to get done? >> im not going to say it wont last but i think, yes, over the next couple of months i think youll see a resolution. that said, congress does surprise to the downside, it hasnt all the time. but i dont believe youll have on this issue, a very e...

Bear or carry arms outside of the military context. so even if the state wants to do something and the federal government doesnt intervene. >> it has its own constitution. and i think one of the things thats very unclear is something like the assault weapons ban which us was a signature piece of gun safety legislation passed in the clinton years and allowed to expire after george w. bush said he wont allow it to expire but he did. thats important to remember that its unclear, i think, would you ...

Playing out and ive started to see it and if you look at the way the virginia legislature responded to virginia tech where you cant do anything about guns. the policy there, there was a focus on mental health. focusing on the mental health policy is great because its an absolutely underinvestigated area. and i should state for the record we know nothing about the mental health profile about the pepper in question in this case and what interventions conceivably could have worked, et cetera. but t...

Thought about which is -- if conservatives have used the states as laboratories to sort of go after unions, iet, progressives, could eyes the states as laboratories to strengthen online ons. theres stuff you can do at the state levels with domestic workers in california -- >> its been a hugely wasted opportunity or opportunity not taken advantage of. if the right in union eyes theyre republicans to wage a war labor needs to do a better job. >> look at the symmetry. what happens when republicans ...