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and at 3:00, we'll talk to general russell honore. plus fredricka's interview with tiger woods. i'm alina cho. see you in one hour. "your money" starts right now. i'm ali velshi. no economic issue is more important to americans than jobs. here is the latest. we had a jobs report come out for the month of august, no new jobs were created in america in august. the unemployment rate, which was 9.1% before we got into this remains at 9.1%. stubbornly high. the number of unemployed people in america officially is 14 million people. the situation is getting dire. but i want to give you a...

"situation room" starts now. thanks very much, brooke. happening now, republicans pouncing on president obama and a horrible new unemployment report. this hour, the numbers and the politics and what it all means for millions of americans who need a job now. plus, i'll talk to a republican congressman who plans to boycott the president's big jobs speech before a joint session of congress next week. also, a new worldwide travel alert as we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11. national security insiders tell us what they know about the risk of a terror attack. revenge, as far as al...

And voter turnout. they're clearly on the right side of the issue in voters' minds. in ohio at the state level, the aflcio president delivered a barnburner of a speech today in d.c. raising that question. he said essentially the democrats have been able to count on labor support come election time for years. in labor's hour of need this year in the states, labor will sit this one out unless democrats stop sitting this fight out. >> our role is not to build the power of a political party or a candidate. it's to improve the lives of working families and strengthen our economy. our country. it do...

>> martha i think that would be a huge report on the aflcio's part. you would be hardpressed to ask them to do anything more to support working families than the current elected leadership in the democratic part here has done. i think what we need to see more of from the unions is to work in partnership with state local government to help control unfunded pension mandates and skyrocketing healthcare costs. it's quite clear the president put his full force up organizing for america behind efforts in wisconsin when governor walker was trying to assault the unions there and i think the unions hav...

Let me finish with the role of labor unions in this country. in this century. right now, a percentage of the american work force that is unionized is minuscule. you get into the private sector and it is down to single digits. that's not the way it was. in the 1950s we had major heroes of the labor movement. walter ruther of the united auto workers. even in the 1970s when i worked at the u.s. senate, the head of aflcio would come to testify, republican senators would race over to light his cigar. he was a bigger deal than the fed chairman. labor was a bigger deal than the country's central bank...