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Announcer coming up on washington journal, the state of the progressive legal movement. The cofounder and executive director demand for justice will join us. Also the president of the national right to work Legal Defense foundation, mark mix, on workforce issues and recent labor unrest. Washington journal starts now. This is a very sad day for america and was also very sad driving through washington, d. C. And seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls with the graffiti. This is not the place i left, it is a sad thing to see it. When you look at what is happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by very very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading bided biden by a lot. If you cannot beat him, you persecute him or prosecute him. We cannot let this happen in america. Host good ....
Public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Welcome back to washington journal. Im joined by the president of the national right to work Legal Defense foundation, mark mix. Welcome to the program. Mark thank you for the opportunity. Remind us of the organization and what you do and how you are funded. Mark yeah, the mission has been around since 1968. Our mission is to provide Legal Services to employees whose rights have been violated by compulsory arrangements. And, that manifests itself in lots of different ways, but since 1968, we literally help hundreds of thousands employees to exercise their rights in the american workplace. We have 20 lawyers that provide free Legal Services to workers across the country. At any given time, and a 12month rolling period, we ....
Fairgrounds. Well have speeches and behind us the former vicepresident of the United States. Mike pence is the only one riding in the event with senator joni ernst. Pence is going to announce hes running for president in iowa next week according to sources familiar with the matter. A number of different bikes and got a couple of supporters here talking to us. Theyre going to be several, several candidates speaking later today at the Iowa Fairgrounds. Youll have Florida Governor ron desantis, former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley, others like and weve got all the bikes lined up with Senators Ernst who will be riding and pence walked up and switched out for a leather vest. Theyll move on from here, a day of barbecue and speeches up there. This has been a pretty busy ....
Weeks ive been talking about president ial power. Weve been talking about the way Foreign Policy is formed, where were talking about domestic policy and some of the tools president s have. This week, were going to talk about some of the pitfalls of being president and weve hinted this along the way because weve been talking about the ways that president s are kind of really hemmed in, in terms of their abilities to do their job. And so one way that obviously creates Serious Problems for them to be able to act is when they are confronted with scandals that sometimes of their undo oh doing and sometimes that are that are kind of relation to whats going on in politics. So this week were spent a lot of time talking again about limitations on the presidency and this gets to our big theme about the way that the is really limited by these institutional designs right on purpose. Th ....