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Jon: the supreme court taking up an important union case. the justices taking up arguments in a case that could force people to join unions. reporter: this pits free speech against compelled union support. a group of teachers in california are suing because even though they arent members of the union were forced to pay dues. they say that forces them to tritry beaut to a juneon whose ideas they dont agree with. >> i pay for collective

>> exactly. >> she knows how to deal with them. i dont think shell fire unless fired upon. but shes fire back if she is. i can tell from you experience, worked for a candidate who debated her a couple of dozen times, shes pretty good at it. >> you do have to make the case, when they come after her consistency, the challenge is, is it an he have laugs or a flipflop? not because of changing polls, its because of changing times. >> doesnt want to distance herself from barack obama on the sensitive ...

The culinary union loved it. maybe bernie sanders supporters caught wind of clintons tv moment because it wasnt long before an energy-efficient tesla, covered in the sanders name, pulled up alongside the rally and people waved from the car. as for mr. trump, he said his las vegas hotel workers categorically reject unionization, even though the union for years has tried to unionize his hotel. the fact that clinton showed up at this rally, this union rally, is a sign of how important union support...

They know hes running for president, so they get a lot more attention, right? >> thats right. >> theyve had this campaign at this facility for a while now. >> so katrina, theres nothing cynical there. >> so the bottom line is yes, it was obviously publicity stunt. hillary clinton needs to make people think she cares about them, thats why she showed up with this faux protest. heres the thing, he wants more people, the union wants more people to pay 2.5%, of their salary. if someone is making $12 ...

Center in a principled stand on things. so here it sort of doesnt hurt her because people think that anyway. so she has union support i think. >> in gay marriage, or the keystone pop line or what have you, shes going to the left of obama. not on gay marriage obviously. court the grassroots base. say she is going further even on gun control or what have you. that is good for politics at the present time >> you have to get through the primary before you worry about anything else. great to have you...

Bernie sanders has been invisible in this state with any kind of organization until yesterday when he had his first organizational meeting. theyre now trying to get going. but hell have the same populous appeal as he does elsewhere. but its an intense organizing effort. hes getting a late start. most people are saying whats this guy talking about, its only october 11th. youve got to get started ea ee. >> hes got union support. is that enough to help him. in culinary endorsement which represents ...

Polling numbers and realizes shes been very muslumping now e months. if shes not getting union support, because theyre waiting for joe biden, and this is the surest way for her to get endorsements and shes trying to do this right now because shes not convinced that biden will stay out. so i understand the decision shes made. but heres the problem. for swing voters, for voters in the middle, if youre trying to win the general election, its not a smart move. it makes sense for democratic voters in...

Looking to an alternative as hillary clinton as the front-runner. >> sure. gray hippies and young hipsteres some are describing them as, chanting "feel the burn." 185,000. talk about the significance of that and how that gives him more credibility or does it take away from his outsider image? >> well, he certainly is looking for union support. he got that yesterday with national nurses united. teachers association last month, hillary clinton received labor support. obviously when youre looking f...

You do the math. >> so trade deficit with south korea has also skyrocketed. >> doubled. >> 60,000 jobs lost to south korea just since we signed that agreement. >> let me ask you this. if barack obama had been talking about this on the campaign trail, what would that have done to middle class families? what would that have done to union support? i think we can make the case that had he not had union support, he might not have been re-elected or elected to beat john mccain to start with. would tha...

John mccain without union support. he would have never beaten romney and be re-elected without union support. when the workers were in the streets in wisconsin, president obama was a no-show. this president was never on the road advocating against it when workers needed it. lets talk about the employee free choice act. it never saw the light of day under the obama administration and that was the top priority of unions in 2008. now the president wants to do a trade deal that every union in this c...