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Journal" saying the usmca is worse. >> everyone will say its much better. the problem with nafta had to do with the fact you could build a factory in mexico, have mexico workers in that factory and sell those products back to the united states. and you didnt do anything for jobs. now there is an enforcement mechanism in this new usmca which requires that a big portion of production of all these vehicles has to be done in north america meaning the u.s. and canada and you wont be able to charge $3...

Dollars it. comes as chloes grandfather sal tore is charged with negligent homicide in her death. he says the 18 month old slipped from his arms as he held her up to a cruise ship window in puerto rico. he heads to court next week. senator bernie sanders taking up crowd patrol on the campaign trail. >> i get attacked by trump and the republicans i get attacked by the healthcare industry. >> democrats, too. [shouting] >> shhh. >> silencing his supporter. a woman in las vegas apparently upset that...

All. right now, you have 87 million people who are uninsured, underinsures. 500,000 people go bankrupt every year because they cant pay their outrageous medical bills. 30,000 people who are dying, people spending 10%, 15%, 20% of their limited incomes on health care. >> but they wouldnt get the benefits union workers would get. >> excuse me, what medicare for all will do is lower the cost of health care for the overwhelming majority of americans. thats how they benefit. no premiums. no copayment...

A union worker under your plan, if theres a savings, their employ sees a savings, they would not be guaranteed to have higher wages or benefits to realize the savings. why not? >> the differences -- ill tell you why not, because union workers gave up wage benefits over the years in order to pay for health care. and nonunion workers did not. thats the difference. but at the end of the day the vast majority of the american people, workers and union workers and nonunion workers will benefit under m...

Month at the end of their money than money at the end of their month because we have stripped the dignity from work in this country. we have got to get back to the nation we were. my grand father was a union worker on an assembly line during the depression in world war ii. he stood side by side with white workers joined together in the cause of a union and the idea that in this nation if you work hard, if you play by the rules, you can have your american dream. it is time -- [cheers] >> it is ti...

Hesitant about medicare for all because a lot of union members have health care plans that they already like, so they want to know how medicare for all is going to affect health care benefits that theyve already negotiated from. i will say that the unions in nevada are different than the sort of vision of a union worker that we maybe sometimes have in our mind of a white or black middle aged guy in ohio or wisconsin. a lot of union workers in nevada are in the service sector. more women, more pe...

Town hall meeting in pennsylvania. there was a very compelling plea from a union worker. a man speaking to chris and the democratic national chair about the way that part of pennsylvania, which was critical, as was your state of wisconsin in the democratic loss in 2016. if social issues become drivers for democrats rather than the economic kitchen table issues, watch this. >> our agenda has -- we cant have candidates that are only concerned with social issues. a social issue for me is the abilit...

>> yeah, he sure could. lets talk about the broader issue of labor unions and the democratic base and getting working voters out to the polls again. first, i want to show you what the president tweeted this morning. shockingly, the president was tweeting this morning. so weird. the head of the aflcio represented his union porly on television this morning. some of the things he said were so against the working men and women of our country and the success of the u.s. itself that it is easy to see ...

Unions are saying this amounts to an assault on civil servants. >> sarah westwood, thanks so much. lets learn more about what this means. >> we want to bring in u.s. senate candidate jeff diehl. hes former state co-chairman for the trump campaign in massachusetts as well. thank you so much. we appreciate you being here. first and foremost, if this is the presidents attempt to drain the swamp, we have jay david cox, another statement from him, the president of the afge who said this is more tha...

>> shannon: a planned parenthood branch in pennsylvania suggesting disney should use their ability to stop the sigma of abortion, we need a disney princess who has had an abortion, a disney princess who is an undocumented immigrant, we need a disney princess who actually union worker, and we need a disney princess whos trans. keystone planned parenthood saying upon reflengs the seriousness of the point we were trying to make was not appropriate and removed the tweet. lets bring back tonights pan...