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Hawaiis attorney general joins me on his lawsuit against trumps new travel ban and a mac attack on the fast food president when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris heys. At his inauguration, President Trump promised his voters, who he called the forgotten men and women that he would fight for them and never let them down. 55 days later that looks like a very hollow promise. The Trump Administration has unveiled policies that seem to brutalize his core constituencies the older bluecollar rural americans who make up a key part of his base the president is copping to tha...

Responsibility here at the department of labor, per the president, to make sure we have a good work force program, training programs. people who want to access better jobs open today, that we have them prepared for those jobs. >> i think i said great recession, and you're right to correct me. great resignation. you call it the great reassessment. why do you think people decided that in the middle of a pandemic, that that was the time to take a step back and say, you know what, i'm out of here, i'm done with this? >> i'm not going to give you a real fancy answer. a lot of it is, and i was think...

Federal money in apprenticeship has a $27 return. that's real money. i was in coal country, kentucky, not far from where you were and we were looking at an investment we made. it's a company called bit source, it was a startup, they do computer coding and there were about a dozen displaced coal miners and my feeling about that is anybody who is working hard we're going to fight to make sure they have the skills to compete. they lost their jobs, they weren't coming back and rather than making a promise we couldn't keep, we invested in them. we subsidize their wage for a period of time and it's ...

Weren't coming back and rather than making a promise we couldn't keep, we invested in them. we subsidize their wage for a period of time and it's up to the company to decide whether to keep him. this investment has a 90% return. over 90% of employers at the end of that probationary period keep those workers on. >> that's money, i want to be clear, that comes from the department of labor work force program under the knife right now in this budget? >> correct. >> what can democrats do in response to this? it does seem like there is tremendous unity on the aca. do you have a sense that the democr...

We treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and talk to a real person. we continue talking politics in a crucial but often ignored issue in america. today vermont senator bernie sanders announcing an aggressive plan to combat climate change to cut carbon emissions by more than 80% by the year 2050. his plan was to put a tax on carbon and prohibit extraction on federal lands. he would create a clean energy federal work force program of 10 million jobs with a goal of converting the economy to a 100% clean energy system. senator sanders described what he sees as one of the most serious i...