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Things, hes attacking you, conor lamb, by saying you dont support pension rights, you are not doing enough for pensions. this is a big issue for workers in the district. >> if thats the union leadership misinformation, especially among the coal miners union. i do support trying to save that pension. theres a bill clogged up in congress and ive always supported trying to move that through. union leadership has put out that misinformation over and over. remember this is the same union leadership t...

Federal prosecutor, against rick succone, veteran state legislator, both pitching for white working-class and blue collar workers known as reagan democrats and support donald trump. lamb is a moderate who supports the second amendment hammering away at local issues, unionized area, pensions, security and medicare. he wants to dump nancy pelosi so he is not a progressive, trying to separate himself from the democrats. he was donald trump before trump was trump, last night he went after liberal sa...

Against the president. >> this is a time in our country many of our most important problems are up for grabs. not just the miners. all organized labor, pensions of many of our labor unions and things like social security and medicare that apply to every american. >> the same union leadership that supported pres. obama, trying to kill the coal miners, the coal industry and support hillary clinton. >> they have been there for their respective candidates, donald from junior along with succone towar...

Representative rick saccone. they both have been going after the blue collar workers. the reagan democrats who now support president trump here in trump country. lamb is no progressive leftist. is he a moderate. supports the second amendment. is against the assault weapons ban and he wants to dump nancy pelosi. saccone is former intelligence officer who worked on north korean issues says he was trump before trump was trump. and last night really went after the liberals saying they have a hatred ...

The republican congressman for the last 16 years and they say they are tired of the old politics. a lot of them say, yes, they are still supporting trump and have hope but they are not seeing enough action when it comes to cool miners or getting much sexy attention when it comes to extending the pensions that they have been guaranteed and there is the possibility that those will expire and not be fulfilled but it is an issue important and conor lamb came on the stump and said he wants to see tho...

Happened here. >> katy, thats what weve been hearing across the board. its very detailed issues here, were talking about family leave and union workers, coal mine workers who are questioning whether their pensions are going to continue as congress debates legislation whether to ultimately fund those pensions they thought they had guaranteed for the rest of their lives, katy. >> why is connor lamb surging right now? >> lamb is surging because hes a 33-year-old a marine vet, a former federal prose...

Points. so thats why you see the president coming in not once, but twice. the vice president coming in as well, all in an attempt to remind voters here why they supported trump, and the hopes that some of that energy will transfer over to rick saccone and defeat the man who just wrapped up here a short time ago, connor lamm. connor lamm getting the endorsement of the miners. really a feather in his cap in terms of this part of the county. youll recall this part of the county is very rural, there...

Agenda. last night, the president lent his star power to this race to make sure his supporters turn out to vote on tuesday. >> we need our congressman, ciccone, we have to have him. [ cheering and applause ] >> we have to have him. >> the people of pittsburgh cannot be conned by this guy lamb. you just cant do it. because hes, again, hes never going to vote for us. >> connell: throughout his campaign, lamb, who is a former federal prosecutor and marine, has distanced himself from the national pa...

In. what has been threatened from european countries sends the signal if we strike, they are going to strike back. leland: so many of the presidents defenders are saying look see how this plays out. this could be a play for leverage. the president announced the tariffs. they havent gone into effect yet much less some of the retaliatory tariffs. big picture, though, everyone has a 401(k), pensions are all invested in the stock market, is it time for people to worry yet about this? >> no, i think ...

What was your response to the presidents surprise announcement on tariffs, on steel and aluminum? >> i have to say that ive said from the very beginning one of the reasons that president trump won is because he understood what trade was doing in this country and i worked with him on leveling the playing field in this country. i have not seen the actual wording is or whats going to happen next week or the details, and thats very important to me. i have shut erred steel plants. ive got a lot of th...