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Joined mcel fee, and shes worked with the afl cio among others. and vice president of the nations largest union, the national education association. the question i want to begin with is -- why now? why is this happening now? >> oh, i know. >> please. >> this is a lot of political payback. theres a three-prong approach that the coke brothers and their illi it were are taking. its all about winning something for them so up to say, corporations are people, meaning money is people. you have to vote ...

An arrest to be made, for him to have to show up in court. and then he pled down to a misdemeanor. and then an attempt clear attempt on my life. >> right. >> that man contacted me a few years ago on facebook. and i was still in his words, his princess. princess was battered, bruised, scared, 90 pounds. and there was no place in the justice system that i could go and get meaningful help that a restraining order is worthless. it is -- >> around what year is this this. >> this is in 1987. >> before...

We really have an opportunity now to be that value proposition and say -- >> you sound like rick snider. >> all right. didnt mean to do that. but there is something that says -- heres why you should belong to a union. and you have to be able to make a case to people. if its on autopilot, maybe youve even forgotten how to articulate why it is, not just important to my school employees but why is it important to the families and the kids that are -- >> you are making a radical pro labor argument f...

Taft hartley begins the attack. workers can no longer do solidarity strikes. >> explain that. >> it means that if the nurses and the hospitals say to the defend our patients were going to wind up being taking a strike or do something, it means that the u.p.s. driver who is delivering cant go on strike in solidarity with him. workers literally in this country are barred from having solidarity. thats one. two, the second thing taft hartley did that was devastating and this is where american labor ...

People understand where that phrase comes from and why im uncomfortable calling it by what it is. what does it mean and why has it hurt so much? >> i taught for 20 years in the great state of utah a right to work for less state. and we have a very strong union there. its not a waterloo. the only thing that this provision and i agree, i have to think of something better to call it, too. it means if youre the recognized representative of these teachers at my school, the labor union has the obligat...

I cant get certain sinus medicine over-the-counter. if we can regulate those kinds of products why cant we regulate the most dangerous product out there? >> thats a strong point. >> and that used to be the ncras position way back. they used to lobby the tougher gun laws and now, essentially the nra works to undo it own legislation. >> theres political pressure now to do something and the question that something brings us to, i think, what i see the very beginnings of are political talks to addre...

Three years, despite many skeptics in israel as well as in the pentagon, jon. jon: if we helped fund the system, and our technology, presumably is part of it, why not just buy an iron dome from israel complete? >> reporter: its a good question. weve learned that raytheon, an antimissile defense manufacturer has proposed something called battle dome back in november, early november, around november 11th. according to some sources rafel would like to sell the iron dome to the u.s. military. it wou...

Take a listen. >> these situations, they may be rare, but when they do happen, they can have big impacts and, therefore, its not something we can just ignore. if something was a low probability and low or zero impact, we can ignore it. but if its low probability but high impact, we need to be careful about it. >> reporter: professor phillips also wallets to draw attention to the fact that he believes many historic cities across the country are facing the same problem. state officials here, howev...

Background of how this whole thing came about. >> reporter: its moving, isnt it? the officer really becoming the face of the holiday spirit around here. afceeing the barefoot, homeless man walking around during patrols, the officer opening his own wallet and bringing the man warm socks and durable boots. the photograph, taken by a tourist, going viral after being posted to the nypd facebook page. more than 520,000 users have liked it. the 25-year-old officer is seen kneeling down, helping the un...

It that way, but thats the deal. long way to go yet, jenna. jenna: thats the context, but it is 3 of 76. all right, harris, thank you. jon: pittsburgh did a great job of diversifying when steel sort of went away, and it shows. jenna: here i thought it had something to do about the football team. jon: im a bronco fan, its hard for me to love the steelers. but they do play good football. folks on the west coast getting hit with wild weather. flooding, power outages and another storm on the way. ...