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For the future of the republican party. >> can you see this guy in the white house? >> everybody loves me. everybody loves me. hes been among the perceived front runners for months now. and he is making it official. in just a couple of hours governor scott walker will hold the latest in a spectacular run of republican announcement events launching his bid in wisconsin. as gop candidate number 15, walker is expected to emphasize his shirt sleeves, union busting outside the beltway appeal as he ...

Massive complicated new trade deal to benefit pharmaceutical companies and hollywood movie studios. so globalization sent our good jobs overseas and union busting and government rigging rendered us powerless in our workplaces and our government to do anything about it. like i said, its the perfect storm. this is the backdrop as we head into 2016. we may not be faced with the sort of immediate calamity that we were dealing with in 2008 but it is a crisis no less. we need leaders prepared to apply...

>> there is no way that the u.s. government is going to be able to monitor the labor conditions in these countries. nike has been on the forefront of this issue. theyve been under scrutiny for almost 20 years now. and every year that i go back to indonesia and i interview workers, the same issues come up. youve got inadequate wages. you have wage cheating. you have union busting. you have verbal abuse. physical abuse. heres a corporation that the president held up as a model for free trade. they...

I lost my job coaching at saint johns university in 97 because i refused to wear nikes products. it eventually lead me in the summer of 2000 to move to indonesia where i lived with nike factory workers. tried to survive on the sweat shop wage at the time it was $1.25. i lost 25 pounds in a month. i met the women and money who made the nike products i as college and professional athlete had worn for years. i promised them i would come home and advocate for them. ive done it full-time for 15 years...

They were illegally fired. they were threatened by the local police and military. they had banners at the demonstration saying president obama please help us. nike is union busting. the president issed a nikes campus today in oregon saying theyre the model behalf trade should look like. if i were in the presidents shoes, i would be saying that nike is the absolute opposite of what good and fair trade should look like. >> what about the presidents speech today? what was wrong with it, if anything...

Landslide or by a grand canyon, whatever. >> this is, to a fault, to an awkward fault, the central and at times only focus of scott walkers run for the presidency, but hes doing pretty well with it so far. the latest sort of aggravation of polls on the republican side where there is a real contest for the nomination is that scott walkers tied for first place with jeb bush. jeb bush with a lot more money and a lot more name recognition. so theres a question now as to whether or not scott walkers ...

>> no. not that protesters are equivalent to terrorists? >> not boy a landslide out there. a. >> not by a land mine or a landslide or by a grand canyon whatever. >> this is, to a fault, to an awkward fault, the central and at times only focus of scott walkers run for the presidency but hes doing pretty well with it so far. the latest polls on the republican side where theres a real contest for the nomination is that scott walkers tied for first place with jeb bush. jeb bush with a lot more money...

This is, to a fault, to an awkward fault, the central and at times only focus of scott walkers run for the presidency, but hes doing pretty well with it so far. the latest polls on the republican side, where theres a real contest for the nomination is that scott walkers tied for first place with jeb bush. jeb bush with a lot more money and name recognition. so theres a question now as to whether or not scott walkers platform, his all union-busting all the time platform as a top tier republican p...

If i take on 100,000 protesters i can do the same around the world. walker >> walker came up with a different isis analogy for hannity. >> working ingtheyre like a virus. >> you will all misconstrue things the way you see it, but i think it is pretty clear. back in his home state, walkers push for a union busting measure is gaining traction with his party. a public hearing on right to work was cut short by republicans. he wants to cut $300 million out of the states public university system. this...

History. and rich said it right. its lost jobs and lower wages. theres not one trade deal passed that resulted in net gains. not one that resulted in higher wages for american workers, and as i keep saying about how the the trade system is broken and doesnt work in our favor. and if were going to talk about income inequality and union busting governors, these are all things meant to take away the ability of workers to stand up and get a raise. we need raising wanes in the country. well, the toug...