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Crew in position for their flight the next day to kentucky. it would be interesting to see if he would have won. they obviously would have blown any case they would have had. jesse: arthur, respond to that point kathleen just made. if there is language that says if you have got to get your guys to louisville for work, you can eject a passenger. how do you respond to that? >> there is no such slang tbhaijt contract. the section the lady is referring to talks about strikes. thats the only labor is...

President obama. this is to protect the labor rights of workers. somebody who ran a big company and knew how to hire properly, but didnt hire properly in his personal matter. is that a big conflict? >> the labor designee has a labor issue. critics pouncing on president trump over criticizing nordstrom. she is a great person and pushing me to do right thing. he retweeted that with the official government account. the white house, the official government account, for official business used to at...

>> i think unless he does liquidate, hes going to consistently be faced with questions of potential conflicts because whether or not its a labor issue that hes deciding on as president and then theres a labor dispute perhaps at one of his hotels. i mean, theres so many -- or hes involved some branded property overseas at the same time he is trying to do foreign policy with a particular country. theres going to be questions and its going to dog him. i think thats why its in his interest to addres...

Unions, it is on the decline. but the summit going on in washington, the fact that they didnt invite a diversity of opinions, our biggest labor issue is we have the lowest labor force participation rate since 1977. how are we going to solve that problem? it takes inviting everyone to the table and recognizing some union policies have cost workers, whether its equal pay laws or some of these raises or increases in minimum wage. ultimately its not employers who pay the proice, its the employees. >...

Its very likely they are going to to foot a substantial bill here. hes going to do time. >> the truckers are grog to say this is a labor issue. is and we need all our rights. >> i think a lot of ways the business and the truckers, the drivers actual workers, their actual interests are aligned. if you look at the fatality rate, 2% of fatality rates are related to trucks so i think there is a movement afoot by some to change things and there are these hours and rest rules that they have. one of th...

Lawsuit thats particularly interesting and provocative is that it seeks an injunction against the ncaa for interfering between the relationship between colleges and conferences and teams that choose to organize themselves and ask for some form of either compensation or guaranteed scholarships or guaranteed health care if they get hurt on the field. now, this is so interesting because it connects to northwestern university football players who organize themselves into a union filed with the natio...

Labor issue that we have in this country though? >> i think were a lot closer to it. weve seen the failed policies of the left of the last six, seven years. i think we can go back to the clinton years or to the kennedy years or to the reagan years, we know how to create prosperity. what we should do, low rate, flat tax, spending restraint, sound money, minimal regulations and get the government the heck out of the way and let private market solve the problem and they would all be in north dakota...

You need to focus on infrastructure, construction, roads, bridges, we actually did the opposite and because of republican intransigence weve had to lay off mass numbers of public sector employees and its impacting the economy and its affecting people in cities across america. >> and this inherently affects more minorities in this country, does it not? >> theres no question. i mean obviously any time you have a spike in unemployment, black people and people of color historically are disproportion...

It includes raising minimum wage, more affordable child care, of course, and passing the paycheck fairness act. leader pelosi said, quote, i think its an accumulation of issues that come back to respect for women, whether its respect for a womans judgment when she decides or has to choose, but to enter the workforce, or how she is compensated. there is an equal way. pelosi said all these have mothers, all members of congress do, they have mothers, daughters, sisters, wives. they must think that ...

Theyre the ones that certainly are concerned about equal pay. >> right. >> right. >> instead of just saying another labor issue we have fought over for years, instead saying these are gender issues. is that smart politics? >> it is very smart politics. i begrudgingly give my hats off to nancy pelosi for framing the argument this way. it goes back to the point i was just making. so you have house republicans tonight voting on an abortion bill, and you have the former speaker of the house talking ...