Gulf coast ports shut down. That was going to be disastrous. President biden helped get that thing fixed fast. They have agreed, tentatively, to a 62% increase in wages over the next six years. The first offer that the union turned down, to show you how far apart this was, was 40%. That is where this began, so the pressure that the union put on related work and of course the port companies, they were hoping that president biden would feel the pressure of this and just order a tafthartley return to work by that union to get through the election and you can imagine how the company's thought the president will have to do this because this will be so difficult for the harris campaign, but the president kept the administration pushing both sides to an agreement. At 5:30 you can imagine how this was at the white house. The white house chief of staff is on zoom. Pete buttigieg and others in the administration, with both sides forcing them to get together and so both sides understood that it looks like the president was not ready to intervene on this, so they better figure something out and they did. I mean, no one should underestimate, as you have said many times, president biden's love for union workers and standing up for workers. It is a victory for them, but also the administration. This was resolving it quite quickly. You know well how government works. This was a quick resolution. An impact on the supply chain would have been a big, challenging october surprise. And i am sure the shippers were thinking, oh, the president is going to have to do a tafthartley and order these guys back to work. Order everyone back to work so we will not have to give them this raise. We can continue negotiating and drag this out, but here we are. A real success for the union. A big one and i think they underestimated you know, i have read oped that joe biden wrote in the 70s and 80s, right, where he talks about raising the minimum wage. He talks about the rights of workers. This is kind of who he is in his very soul, so this is a moment, perhaps to your point, he was underestimated on that front, which he is used to. Well it looks like they got the job done and so much so, one october surprise is over. One done. A few more to go. Have a great show, lawrence. Thank you. Well, elizabeth lynn cheney, as it happens, was born in wisconsin, in 1966 when her parents were graduate students at the university of wisconsin. 112 years before that, the republican party was born in wisconsin. Liz cheney was born a republican. When she was in elementary school, her father was deputy chief of staff in the republican white house of gerald ford. Dick cheney moved to white house chief of staff in the ford white house and then congress in wyoming and then secretary of defense for the first president bush and vice president for the second president bush. Liz cheney is more republican than anyone named trump ever could be, because no one in donald trump's family actually believes in anything. In 1976, when i was 10 years old and i was stealing envelopes for president ford's reelection campaign, i cast my first vote ever. In 1984, for ronald reagan. I served in the state department, in both bush administrations and i served in the united states house of representatives for three terms, including as the third highestranking republican in house leadership. So, in other words, i was a republican even before donald trump started spray tanning. Liz cheney went to the small town in wisconsin today where the republican party was born, in the hope that what she had to say would be heard by republicans, like her, who have never voted for a democrat in their lives. I know that our security and our freedom depend upon a world in which america, with our allies, leads, and above all else i know that the most conservative of conservative values is fidelity to our constitution. I tell you, i have never voted for a democrat. But this year i am proudly casting my vote for vice president kamala harris. Thank you, liz! thank you, liz! vice president harris is standing in the breach at a critical moment in our nations history. She is working to unite reasonable people all across the political spectrum. Vice president harris has dedicated her life to public service. I know, i know that she loves her country and i know that she will be a president for all americans. As a conservative, as a patriot, as a mother, as someone who reveres our constitution, i am honored to join her. Liz cheney echoed her role as chief republican investigator of donald trump on the january 6 committee. When donald trump woke up on the morning of january 6, 2021, his intention, despite having lost the election was that he would remain president. Rather than accept his loss and concede defeat, he had spent months overseeing a multi part plan to attempt to seize power and remain in office. He ignored the rulings of the courts. He corruptly pressured state legislatures, including here in wisconsin, to overturn the results of their elections. Donald trump watched the attack on television for hours. Four hours. Sitting in the dining room next to the oval office, he refused repeated pleas from his family, from his closest advisors, from the most senior officials in his campaign and our government to tell the mob to leave and when donald trump finally did speak publicly, after hours of violence, after the capitol had been invaded, he praised the rioters. He did not condemn them. That is who donald trump is. Those facts do not come from donald trump's political opponents. Those facts come from the people closest to him. They are the ones who testified that donald trump did not want to stop the violent attack on our capital. When he learned that vice president pence was not going to abandon his oath and help trump seize power, trump sent out a tweet attacking pins and further inflaming the mob. One of his aides testified that shortly after that, this aid received a phone call alerting him that the vice president had been evacuated for his own safety from his office off the floor of the senate. This aid recalled rushing to the dining room to tell trump, hoping that this information would convince him to take immediate action to ensure the vice presidents safety. Instead, after this aid deliver that news, donald trump looked up at him and said, so what? he said, so what? donald trump was willing to sacrifice our capital to allow law enforcement officers to be eaten and brutalized in his name and to violate the law and the constitution in order to seize power for himself. I don't care if you are a democrat or a republican or an independent. That is depravity and we must never become numb to it. Any person any person who would do these things can never be trusted with power again. We must defeat donald trump on november 5. We have never seen anything like january 6, until donald trump and we have never seen anything like liz cheney campaigning against the republican candidate for president, trying to elect a democrat, until donald trump. Nowhere in our political history did a large collection of prominent party members turn against their party's nominee for president the way liz cheney and so many other prominent republicans, including her father, have turned against donald trump. In the first year of donald trump's political candidacy, 2015, i said at the time, if you don't have children or grandchildren, you will be asked for the rest of your life, what did you do to stop donald trump? liz cheney has now been trying to stop donald trump for three years. Liz cheney now has an answer to what has she done to try to stop donald trump? liz cheney has brought the country to the point that she now calls our time of testing. So help us right the ship of our democracy, so that history will say of us, when our time of testing came, we did our duty and we prevailed because we loved our country more. When our time of testing came, liz cheney passed that test with honor. Leaving behind every republican member of the house and senate to continued to fail that test. They failed that test because they loved their jobs in politics more than they loved their country and they feared they could lose their jobs in politics, the way liz cheney lost hers, if they follow liz cheney in doing and saying the right thing. Liz cheney knew what she could lose in congress by opposing donald trump's attack on the capital and joining an investigation to expose the truth of what donald trump did leading up to and on january 6. First she lost her leadership position in the house of representatives. Then she lost her reelection campaign in wyoming to a wildly underqualified candidate who was then welcomed into the trump worshipers in the republican house of representatives. Liz cheney has never said that it was a hard choice. She has never said that choosing between her country and donald trump was a difficult choice or required heroism of any kind. When our time of testing came, in fact, it was an easy test for liz cheney and the shock is not that lifelong republican liz cheney passed that test. The shock is that almost everyone else, every other republican holding office in washington, everyone else in her party failed that test. Vice president harris is grateful to liz cheney. Liz cheney really is a leader who puts country above party and above self. A true patriot and it is my profound honor, my profound honor to have your support. And your words today and the reason we are all here today, i think really do underscore perhaps one of the most fundamental questions facing the american people in this election. Who will obey that oath? who will abide by the oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america? i have had the privilege. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And i have sworn an oath to uphold the constitution six times in my career, including as vice president, as a united states senator and as the top law enforcement officer of the largest state in our country. Responsible for upholding and enforcing the laws of the state and the laws of the united states was the work i did and i have never wavered in upholding that oath and i have always executed it faithfully and without reservation. And therein lies the profound difference between donald trump and me. He, who violated the oath to uphold the constitution of the united states of america and make no mistake, he, who if given the chance would violated again. I know that the vast majority of us agree that upholding the constitution must be a basic requirement we expect of anyone seeking the highest office in the land. I know the vast majority of us, regardless of political party agree, we must hold sacred americas fundamental principles. From the rule of law to free and fair elections to the peaceful transfer of power. And if you share, if you share that view, no matter your political party, there is a place for you with us and in this campaign. Because those principles i know unite us across party lines and in this election i take seriously my pledge to be a president for all americans. The president of the united states must not look at our country through the narrow lens of ideology or petty partisanship or selfinterest. The president of the united states must not look at our country as an instrument for their own ambitions. Our nation is not some spoil to be one. The united states of america is the greatest idea humanity ever devised. The nation that inspired the world to believe in the possibilities of a representative get government. So in the face of those who would endanger our magnificent experiment, people of every party must stand together. And let me be clear. Democracy and freedom are not only at stake at home, they are also at stake around the world. As president of the united states i will strengthen, not abdicate america's global leadership. So we are gathered here today, not far, as the congresswoman mentioned, from a small building where the republican party was born in 1854. Liz cheney stands in the finest tradition of its leaders. And if people across wisconsin and our nation are willing to do what liz is doing, to stand up for the rule of law. For our democratic ideals and the constitution of the united states, then together i know we can chart a new way forward. Not as members of anyone party, but as americans. Americans who are united, united in our devotion to the country we love. I thank you all. May god bless you and may god bless the united states of america. Thank you. We have a statement from the vice president on the settlement of the dock strike. She says i want to applaud all involved for their efforts. This indicates progress to a strong contract and the power of collective bargaining. As i said this is about fairness and our economy works best when workers share and record profits. Dockworkers deserve their fair share for their hard work getting essential goods out to communities across america. We also have indications from the white house that president biden specifically refused to invoke tafthartley. That would have benefited the shifters shippers. That is a power that the president has in a situation like this. By not invoking tafthartley, that put the pressure on the shippers to reach an agreement with the union, which they quickly did. Coming up, liz cheney and kamala harris talked about national security today in wisconsin and how unfit donald trump is to serve as commander inchief. Former ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, will join us next to consider what is at stake for the united states and the world in the election. That is next. 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