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Roirge where trump captured a lot of the democratic voters in 2016. she talked about the grit and of course her background being the daughter of a newspaper man and a school teacher, the granddaughter of a mine worker. and really, her ability to get things done. kind of a no nonsense type of person. i had a chance to ask her, the first question out of the gate after her announcement what sets her apart from all the other democratic candidates she will be facing. >> what makes me unique is i did ...

Twice a month a mine worker and his wife, usually a male mine worker where they get to go a couple times a month. i grew up in one of them in mansfield, ohio. its been hurt badly by globalization. they dont think wall street invest in their town. they dont think the government cares in their community. theyre not wrong about that. we need the fight for them. >> im glad you do it and im glad you have. those of us who know you, love you. those of us who know you are not a lot of people. your name ...

To be the democratic and he wanted to be a candidate for the guy who drives a pickup truck with a con fed rat flag. that he wants the democratic party to be open for that guy too. do you want the democratic party to be open for that guy as well? >> well, listen, we want the democratic party to talk to everybody in every zip code. and i think when we talk about getting access to good jobs that pay a migds class wage that make sure if youre a mine worker in west virginia, and youre looking to main...

Year. in the bill theres a four month extension and theyre not satisfied which is why theyre threatening a government shutdown. i had a chance to talk to one of the leaders of the effort and i asked him are you concerned about a political backlash if you dig in. heres what he had to say. >> but you guys criticize republicans relentlessly in 2013 when they shut the government down over obamacare. are you risking the same backlash? >> we want to see this done. all were saying, we have all kinds of...

Registered voters conducted three weeks ago americans are mostly fired up about what uncle sam does with the money. 43% as you can see on your screen. another 38% cited people not paying their share. that appeared to be the prime beef of labor leader richard trumka from the afl-cio he spoke via conference call with a fox news producer. my mother who has now passed, lived on half of a mine workers pension, social security and some meager savings. she paid a higher rate than people taking home a c...

Were americas natural gas. the smarter power, today. learn more at anga.us. breaking news right now on msnbc. police are searching door to door with guns drawn in northern california. theyre looking for a mine worker who they say opened fire on fellow employees today at the lehigh cement plant. the shooter has been identified as shareef allman. two people are dead, six are injured. the suspect is still on the run. according to local media reports, he tried to carjack a woman and shot her in th...

Just prima facie they dont have a good record. >> well, its not a company that we represent, so we dont deal with them directly a lot, however, in the mining industry, when you have one company that tries to increase productivity by pushing a little harder and trying to intimidate people to cut corners, it affects all of us. we all have to compete in that industry. the thing that needs to be pointed out is that in the coal fields, these coal-mining jobs are the good jobs in the area. if they don...

>> okay. i think you are speaking the truth. i think what weve seen in the coal fields over the last several years is, quite frankly, the creation of a climate of fear and intimidation when it comes to organizing coal mines. miners are confronted with not shall we have a union or not but shall we have a job or not? when youre confronted with situations like that, these are the best jobs around and its difficult to ask people to take this step to join the union and support the union and end up vo...

Course, thats 2005. theyre contesting about a third of them. thats about 2/3 of them theyre not contesting which tells me just prime ma fashe they dont have a good record. >> well, its not a company that we represent, so we dont deal with them directly a lot, however, in the mining industry, when you have one company that tries to increase productivity by pushing a little harder and trying to intimidate people to cut corners, it affects all of us. we all have to compete in that industry. the thi...

If they dont exist, its a severe economic hardship to the people in that area and that absolutely have to be able to perform their job in a safe way. free of intimidation. they have to be empowered so they can do what they know best. >> whats a high-skilled mine worker make? whats he get in gross income? im curious. >> its very easy to make $70,000 a year at some of these operations. >> thats a 40-hour week? >> nobody works a 40-hour week anymore. >> theres a lot of overtime involved. >> i see. ...