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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...

>> "let me finish" tonight with the role of labor unions in this country in in century. right now the percentage of the american work force that's unionized is minuscule. you get into the private sector and it's down to single digits. that's not the way it was. in the 1950s, we had major heros in the labor movement, people like walter ruther of the united auto workers. they were leaders in this country. not just the labor union, they were american leaders. even in the 1970s when i worked in the u.s. senate, the ahead of the afl-cio would come to testify. and even republican senators would race...

We were descending the ridge to head down a little ways to, then climb the next one. the ground was getting a bit icy though. snow was getting pretty hard so we decided we would put our crmpons on. as i was walking toward a rock to do this, that's when i flipped over and started to fall. chris, crimpon for spike things that clamp onto the climbing boots for those that don't climb. you wouldn't over, this wasn't a thousand feet straight down but this was pretty steep, right? >> some of it was straight down. there was slow ramps and the ramps led to cliffs and, at least three of these cliffs. ea...