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Has nothing on the big trade deal. big companies favor the pac to spur economic growth while many progressives and labor groups have concern for american workers. the deal has been so fraught that the senate initially societied against debating the president's authority to speed trade pacs through congress to give the lawmakers power to vote for or against the deal, mott alter it. in a reversal the senate voted two days later to consider the legislation tald let president obama complete trade negotiations and fast track the trade deal through congress. the president applauded this decision thu...

Managers and finding other ways around this. >> so i don't see how a worker can really lose under these new rules, because the reality is if you're working more than 40 hours a week and you're not an executive and you're not really calling the shots, what this says is you now actually have to be paid for those extra hours. so if a company decides that instead of having one person do the job of two people they need to have two people do the job, then a jobless worker has a new opportunity. >> all right, well, we see the president now going up to the podium. he is about to make this announcement...

>> in other news, an executive construction company in pennsylvania and her family are being stalked and harassed by union members in philadelphia and it's completely legal. serena rose refuses to let union workers renovate an apartment building and is constantly bullied on her way to and from work. but because of a little known law that protects labor groups, they cannot be stopped legally. serena rose is trying to bring it to an end. she joins us live from philadelphia. good morning to you. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> your company was renovating this place, and you had some ...

Affordable housing and they have to start paying for it, that's where this is going to come. can you fight that? that's all tied in to stop and frisk because poverty is tied into people with lack of housing, where homelessness is tied in into. it's all together. i think that stop and frisk -- i think the difference is also talking earlier about populism, a social jus cities populism, very different from -- >> yes. >> that's bill de blasio also -- and not just bill de blasio, lahtisha james, the first african-american city wide public advocate. but it's going to take -- we know this. elections ...

A phony trump university that promised to make students rich but instead misled customers into paying for expensive courses it did not deliver. the agency said many of the 5,000 students who paid up to $35,000 thought they would at least get to meet trump, but instead what they got was a picture in front of a life sized model of the tv host. trump responded saying that the lawsuit is false and politically motivated. he'll appear on fox and friends to respond at 7:00 eastern time. and walmart is trying to polish up its image by pushing for more made in america products. the retailing giant ho...