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To get the unions on board for the "gang of eight" to comprehensive reform bill. because remember back in 2007 when immigration reform died on capitol hi, the unions pretty much killed it. this time in 2013 they did get them on board in part by promising all sorts of wages and concessions especially for agricultural workers. but that has not become law as we know. the house republicans declined to pass that. so the president was looking for a way to strengthen union support. you have to remember...

50 bids from 22 different states and all promising lower costs partially due to fewer union workers. it could be the beginning of a now trend for business versus big labor and just as democrats are relying on union support. andom nick is live for us in los angeles for this. dom? >> reporter: hey, there, harris,ine though the economy is in rebound. state officials are trying to make sure jobs are safe guarded. the officials who lobbied to keep production of triple x in washington state saved loca...

Salaries, massive pensions. redistribution with the business model for detroit, and redistribution along with a whole lot of union support destroyed a once global manufacturing powerhouse. theres a major cultural problem there, too. listen to this smart young african-american rapper get to the root of the problem, and hes got a pretty darn good solution to fix it, too. >> basically all it is is drugs and poverty. i mean, every kid has his own decisions. like kids may say i ended up here just bec...

Here in this instance you had chris christie overwhelmingly re-elected. yet you had a majority of the people in the state say we dont agree with you on the minimum wage. again, i think that goes to his talent. because the politics and policy didnt align there. i think a good majority of the people in the state feel very differently about something thats very important. >> i dont want to rain on the chris christie parade here, but the fact of the matter is he had five, maybe six to one financial ...

Look at how many elections republicans began to lose before they -- and they moved further right, not to the center. and now they have lost total control of the state. there is no reason to think that republican base voters look at this. they still think they need to nominate one of their own to be their nominee. they dont think romney was that, they dont think mccain was that, they dont think its happened that they have really nominated one of their own. and i think that will play out for one m...

While the presidents position on health care, the shutdown and the debt ceiling gets largely sympathetic coverage from mass media, daily show host john stewart turned the tables a bit. he played a clip of the president in his news conference, once again painting the house republican position as unreasonable. but it didnt quite come out that well. >> when youre at the plant and youre in the middle of your job, do you ever say to your boss, unless i get a raise right now and more vacation pay, im ...

Just had to bring that up. jon corzine is the guy they were looking at for half a billion dollars. anyway, obama care. unraveling in. >> you know, if you have the unions who dont like this bill, and you know big business and small business doesnt like the bill, young people dont like it, senior citizens arent too enamored by it. who is left that really is very supportive of the bill? the reason a lot of unions are taking a second look at this -- probably wouldnt have passed in the first mails if...

Conservative policies are so limited why are the republicans convinced that the americans agree with hthem. >> the working paper pound that politicians tend to vastly overestimate just how conservative their constituents are. researchers found that liberal politicians tend to underestimate support for health care, by five or ten points. conservative politicians do even worse. they underestimate support in their districts for universal health care by a stunning 20 points. the same trend holds thr...

Conclusion at duke and nick kansas, we launched the national candidate study. we interviewed about 2,000 candidates for legislative office across the country. part of the study, we asked them to estimate which share of their constituents supports policies. we then used a national example for that support, compared their accuracy and found pretty while inaccuracies. the data is all over the place. but there is this conservative bias that shows up there. >> and the conservative bias is interesting...

Criminal charges against the bank. it was widely expected precursor to a deferred prosecution agreement under which the bank would pay $1.9 billion to resolve money laundering charges. some background on a few of these countries designated state sponsors terrorism. >> this morning the number one story days this live action that is playing out in lansing, michigan. you see union supporters chanting an in the say the capitol, so reminiscent of what we saw in wisconsin as they battled the unions in...