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Candidates attended a labor union process outlining their priorities for workers in 2020 and beyond. later today eight candidates will take part by progressive action and they will each get five minutes to pitch one big idea that they hope will be big and buzzworthy enough to set them apart. right now beto o'rourke rocks into the crowd. >> the heat so mucthank you so . >> how russia trained to divide this country. i do not want to put it into russia's hand divide this country more with the partisan impeachment. >> that is democratic congresswoman of michigan on the push by some house democrats...

Reverse'm t embargo. the president will try to normalize some relations, there will be an exchange of embassy. we'll have an embassy in the united states and cuba will have an embassy in washington, d.c. which is remarkable in and of itself. do you see the politics inside zmong there's bipartisan opposition in some quarters. >> the strongest opposition in congress is a few members who are cuban americans who have made it their political mission to block any progressive action. they're going to have to stand between the american people and the president on this one because i think american peop...

Proactive, and sort of innovative change and change making. but as it becomes bitterness, and as it osifies, the capacity for activists, artists, scholars, and all folks to engage in progressive action gets diminished. so she saw that in herself, in her work, and in the lives of so many incredible people around her. >> that's a great point. zerlina, in light of that, the woman did so much. she's acting, she's writing, she's speaking, she's writing poetry, different generas. the intersectionalty that you referred to earlier. but i don't want to -- this is not about smashing millennials. there's...

Talking about the highway system, talking about we don't want people standing in line for hours to vote. talking about we're not going to make a false choice between investing in our children and investing in our seniors. i know they're talking. i'm very excited that they're talk about how to expand prekindergarten programs to more kids. in our country, we have this horrible situation where the rich get richer in every way. so affluent kids, upper middle class kids absolutely go to preschool and pre-k programs. poor kids often don't there is head start, but there is not enough. david is right....

Instead of trying to seek fairness with corporations and fairness with corporate executives. this set off a wave of progressive action that continues to this day. in wisconsin protesters fought to get a vote recall on walker, on the ballot. a recall that is now under way. in ohio, voters mobilize to reject the state's anti-union law. and across the country the occupy wall street movement rallied public opinion to the 99%. now president obama is making fairness the central theme of his re-election, hitting that message again today. >> we going back to an economy that's weakened by outsourcing a...