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Democrats are sitting on the fence -- >> john lets talk turkey here. the labor unions in this country are not powerful in general elections, but they can mess with you. if you mess with them theyll mess with you. acfsme is state levels. manufacturing certainly is. i think its a solidarity issue with labor. which is fair enough. theyve said this is our fight, stick with us just be us. this is like card check. weve got to win this one. i think its politics. >> it is politics to a certain degree. b...

High schools. and there are a lot of jobs out there today and how do we connect people in all of baltimore to the fact that a there are great jobs in health care fwlatgreat access to apprenticeship. what we have to do is take the things that work and scale them. and then listen better to our young people and add new plays to the playbook. >> mr. secretary, great jobs this health care great jobs in pharmaceuticals, you can go down a laundry list. but in state after state, i think maryland include...

To say just so they can prepare themselves, if you like, for consequences of what might happen in their country and threat state levels and so on. >> you just said torture is wrong and that we shouldnt do it. but is it effective, in your experience, is it ever effective? >> i used to conduct a lot of operations in baghdad. we used to put a bag over their head and take them for whats called tactical questioning. i think what we have to look inwardly and try to ascertain is that there is a balance...

Into this because it has stirred so much emotion around the country. you do have the justice department that is going to take this up. and that, also, though, might keep him from weighing in too much further because he will say that there is an active investigation and he doesnt want to comment while thats still ongoing. >> and joining me now from "washington post," julie stand by for just a second. chris, eric holder is in cleveland and is going to be talking about their investigation of the cl...

Ideal is this sense that were in it together and big challenges like these should galvanize our country. big challenges like this should unite us around an opportunity agenda that brings us together. rather than pulling us apart. we are at our best when we rise to what the moment demands. the president within the hour speaking, of course, about the chokehold decision by the grand jury in staten island. ferguson, cleveland, staten island, only three of the fatal incidents involving white police...

Voters saying im american and youre saying you want to pass immigration reform under the goois of racial profiling. >> an effort to bring legislation that would call on congress to pass presencive immigration reform and to stop deportati deportations. what does it say about the fact were seeing this happen at the state level. does it speak to which the extent the effort was stalled nationally. >> it speaks to the larger narrative. when youre talking about congress, this congress is broken and st...

Sincere is also political and also about saying this is the thing that really gets people to understand why they have to show up and vote. >> and this is the thing that will hopefully get people to show up and vote in 2014, right? >> oh, tis the problem of midterms. >> and i think we also just have to ask ourselves, where are the democrats on this larger conversation, right? we have the president versus the republican party. but not to throw water on the parade -- theyre in there, but there are ...

Especially at the local, municipal, and state levels for republican politics. but then they have to also face the federal and national levels. and thats where they run into problems. so while they can speak to specific loud vocal consistents through some of this racialized and deplorable rhetoric, they ultimately have to reconcile that what the challenges are at broader levels. thats why the republican party is shrinking and why it will be difficult for them to win at the state and national leve...

Eastern time today. the county executive with howard county, ken ullmyou ulman is wi now. he was at the police chief brief an hour and a half ago commemorating this has ban cooperative effort by so many agencies on the local and state levels, and, ken if youre with me and able to hear me, do you know whether or not this mall has since been secured, about an hour and a half ago, police said they still had some patrons and employees inside the mall and were unable to lift that lockdown. whats the ...

They work hard can they get ahead. if i look at this past year, there are situations where i wish congress had moved more aggressively. not passing background checks in the wake of newtown is something that i continue to believe was a mistake. i look at the debate that occurred the work that has been done at state levels to increase things has been done. there is a lot of focus at legislative activity at the congressional level. but when congress doesnt move on things they should move on. there ...