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Its size and influence to press washington with its views. joining us now, the president of that union, richard trumka. and mr. trumka, it's a pleasure. nice to see you. >> thank you for having me on. >> how do you interpret the size of the program you suggest? do you believe that's how big the problem in this country is? >> that's correct. we've talked to economists all over the world, we've talked to u.s. economists, white house economists, and they believe that the magnitude of the problem is very severe. we have 11 million job hole in this country. we have to create 11 million jobs. >> par...

But what you're seeing is a huge wealth transfer from young people and working people to retired people. we've got a demographic problem. we're living longer so we're spending much more time in retirement. the life expectancy of somebody who reaches the age of 65 is now 79 for a woman. 77 for a man. >> people will have to work longer because as you're claiming they won't be able to start collecting until later and, of course, people are going to be taxed. who is the heck is going to pay for all the stuff in america? every day we're talking about a new tax. this is social security. we're talkin...

The developed world. you'll see more companies and jobs leaving, and the frustration young people feel is you come out of school and you don't have opportunity. bernie talked a minute ing a about the gap between rich and poor. he's right. it's growing. but it's grown dramatically under barack obama. do you know that right now the top 1% have a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928? if you look at an article called the greatest wealth transfer in history by justin gardener, the period between twiegt and 2015 the great fleecing. those are the obama years. what happened is ...

Keep obama care. president trump is ramping up the pressure as well. this afternoon he tweeted, i cannot imagine that these very fine republican senators would allow the american people to suffer a broken obama care any longer. yesterday after senator heller announced that he could not support the current bill, the pro trump pact america first's policies announced it was launching an ad campaign against the nevada senator essentially sending the message to all republicans if you are not with us, you're with nancy pelosi. now, at the same time, kelly, on the other side, you also have vice presi...

True, there's huge tax cuts for the medical industry too. that's why those drug company and insurance company and medical device lobbyists were in there writing the bill too. you start with that. i don't know how they justify doing this, a huge tax cut, a huge wealth transfer from middle class, working class, working poor to the wealthiest people in the country as if the chasm is not big enough in the united states of america anyway. >> well, i think it's been difficult, you know, to get republicans to come on and justify. we had one come on yesterday that pretty much admitted he wants to make...