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They keep coming up with witnesses out of the woodwork >> never have we thought that jimmy was guilty of murdering my sister, ever >> reporter: the texas attorney general's office says after reviews by more than 20 judges, it's time to see justice is done at last >> i'm cautiously optimistic tha something good has got to happen. >> reporter: with 14 days left reed has appeals pending all the way up to the u.s. supreme court. ron allen, nbc news, livingston, texas. with another debate coming up next month we're asking what's important to democratic voters. harry smith is taking their question...

To see union strength in this country spread. to make sure we have sectorial bargaining so that unions from the auto workers all the way to fast food workers can ensure that we improve workers' conditions and make sure that every american has a living wage in this country. >> thank you, senator. congressman o'rourke, same question for you. how would you convince gm to bring production back to the united states from mexico? >> i've met with these members of the uaw who are striking outside of facilities in cincinnati, in lordstown, ohio, which has been devastated, decimated by gm and their malf...

Leadership in the city. what are they not doing right? i am sure there are a lot of criticisms. >> i have some union strength in me but the biggest problem in chicago is a state attorney's office celebrating catch and release system, touting how many people are in the system every day, these are career criminals. the next biggest issue we are fighting with is issues putting time and energy into looking for more oversight on the chicago police officers. we have approximately tween 9 different oversight committees that overlook everything police officers doing looking to add more. the thing we a...

Signing them up for dues collection. i think it's actually been healthy for those unions and these workers to say, hey, look, this is what the union provides you, the collective benefit. they didn't have health care themselves before the union. they got health care -- >> look what you got. >> i think it's actually healthy and will force the labor movement to create a new model of unionism and go the full length to explain to workers, this is what a nonunion workplace looks like. >> the other piece of this, it's not just about workers who are skeptical about having to pay some dues, it's also a...

Modest their lives are. if he is a top executive, he lives on an economic scale not too different from that of the man on the next income rung. he may cough up as much as 75%. he owns two cars and gets along with one or two servants. in 1930, the average businessman had been buffeted by the economic storms, but he had not been battered by the income tax. so, i want to go back to that world. josh barrel, why shouldn't we? >> well, i think the economic growth that we saw in the 1950s and 1960s that people like to say, hey, look, we can do this with this income tax, you had a very specific econom...