to enter a period in which miami could win their second trophy of the season where he will potentially be playing every three days . so this break afforded him the opportunity to basically not kick a ball for a couple of weeks. that's probably pretty good for him. remember, he is 36 years of age. all this talk about the astroturf, he said he would play on turf, this is a turf stadium, he's not here, but people said it's literally about giving him a break. >> we will see what else people are thinking and feeling there when they join you in the stadium. thank you so much. all right, this just in, newly reinstated texas attorney general ken paxton has released a statement after he was acquitted on 16 charges in his state senate impeachment trial. paxton thanked his supporters today and slammed the proceedings calling it a sham impeachment. today, i'm quoting him now, today the truth prevailed, he said. he said in a statement posted on his twitter formerly known as x account, and i'm quoting now, now that this shameful process is over, my work to defend our constitutional rights will

resume. and of course we will have much more straightahead in the newsroom. labor pains, i'm michael smerconish, 12 days removed from labor day there's work place to mold in a variety of industries across the country. first negotiations are expected to resume today in the strike by the 145,000 member united auto workers against general motors, ford and stellantis. only 13,000 have stopped work so far, they have staged select walkouts, with more to follow. it'll be the first time in uaw history that it has struck all three of the unionized

automakers at once. the company offered to raise hourly wages as much as 20% over the four-year contract which would have taken the seniormost workers to a base pay of more than $80,000 a year, not including overtime or profit-sharing bonuses. but the union is demanding 40% during the life of the contract and seeks to reverse concessions that it made back when gm and chrysler faced bankruptcy and needed federal rollouts in order to survive. the highest-paid of the big three ceos made $29 million last year, that 362 times the median workers paycheck. the other two had similarly proposed and compensation, and by comparison in 1965, ceos typically earned 20 times the typical workers pay in their industries according to the economic policy institute. president biden has voiced his support for the union. >> record profits have not been shared fairly with the workers. they deserve a fair share of the benefits they help create for an enterprise. the bottom line is autoworkers

help create the middle class, they deserve a contract that sustains them in the middle class. >> meanwhile the writers guild of america has been on strike since may, joined in july by the actors guild. it's the first time they join forces on the picket line since 1960. both unions contend there pay has gone down dramatically what corporate profits and ceo compensation have boomed. the strikes have brought production of film and tv in america to a standstill but a poll showed 67% of americans supported the strikes. this week tv host announced they are going to start making shows without writers. in other fields, more than 60,000 healthcare workers in california, oregon and washington just voted to authorize strikes agains t

kaiser permanente, one of the largest nonprofit health plans in america if no agreement is reached by the end of the month. the worker say the pay is not kept pace with inflation and understaffing has led to long wait times and neglected patients. last month the 24,000 american airlines flight attendants voted almost unanimously to authorize a strike if their contract demands are not met, and in august, 340,000 ups drivers who have threatened to walk out scored a big contract game. labor unions are enjoying a resurgence in popularity with the public, gallup recently found 68% of americans approve of labor unions, that's the highest number since 1965, but with income inequality growing, there's a question as to their effectiveness. and while all this activity has increased awareness of union activity, the number of unionized workers in america has been on the decline for decades. joining me to talk about this is scott galloway, professor g, the host of a great podcast and someone who has strong opinions about this, you heard me sketch out the fine points of this. union membership is in decline at a time when their popularity

is growing. how do you see it, are they the most effective means of dealing with these crises? >> good to be with you, michael, something i think every young professional needs to understand that is the distinction between being right and being effective, and i think it would be hard to argue that the union's intentions to restore dignity to the american worker have a fair living ways, you'd be hard to argue they aren't right but the bottom line is they haven't been effective, union membership has been cut in half, used to be one of three workers in the us and unions, now it's one in 10, in the auto industry, it's gone from 60% to 16%. the unions have been an ineffective construct and despite the headlines of 330 starbucks stores unionizing, not one of those 330 unionized

stores has resulted in a collective bargaining agreement, other words it makes for a great headline but the people of the front lines haven't seen their compensation, so i would argue that unions quite frankly are a failed construct, their intentions are noble and people support that but as a vehicle for registering or recognizing those intentions, they just haven't worked. >> so what is the alternative. i have a poll question today that asks, what is the best mechanism for protecting the working class and the choices that i offer are the federal government, the free market and labor unions. >> the free market, i mean market dynamics will always trump individual performance but when you let the market take over which the corporations will urge, you end up with household where one in five, households with children are in poverty. you end up with people living in their cars. end up with child labor, so the marketplace is a key force here but it's not enough. there are two former uaw

presidents in prison because of corporate corruption. there should be one union in the united states in a should be the federal government, and we should take minimum wage and i'll propose this from $7.25 to where it would be if it had just been scaling or tracking productivity, somewhere around $23 or $25. can you think of anyone move the federal government could make that would reduce childhood poverty, obesity, blood pressure, suicide, male abandonment, diabetes, poverty, homelessness then raising the minimum wage and the incumbent will argue this would damage the economy and what we've seen in studies out of berkeley and uc riverside is when you raise the minimum wage as they did in california and north of washington, you not only don't lose jobs, you gain employment and the economy grows because the wonderful thing about lower and middle income households is that when you give them additional money, they spend it, so since 2009 nasdaq is up

sixfold and minimum wage is stuck at $7.25 and hour. there should be one union, the head of the union, biden. >> you know their businesses that are on the margin and they say if there were a federally mandated minimum wage, we wouldn't survive. would it be worth it if some washed out in the long term? >> that's exactly the right question. so there's no free lunch, mcdonald's stock would go down, walmart the stock would be pressured. a lot of restaurants would go out of business and it would be worth it, and i think the additional income, the thing that's creating a soft landing in our economy is the additional stimulant payments being spent by lower and middle income households, these are the engines of the economy and it comes down to this, what kind of nation do we want to live in? a nation where the child income tax credit gets stripped out of the infrastructure bill where

the average 70-year-old is wealthier than he or she was 40 years ago and the person under, younger people who have been on the wrong side of the economy, of every hundred dollar increase in wealth over the last 10 years, $.50 of that $100 has gone to the bottom half of americans, there's always a tension between capital and labor but over the last 40 years, capital is beating the crap out of labor and it has resulted in this rot skyrocketing, this is the wealthiest nation in the world, people should be paid a living wage. the construct is ineffective unions, one union, the federal government. >> i tried to give the lay of the land during the introduction of the segment. would you compare and contrast what's going on with the writers and the actors with the

situation involving the uaw? >> the strikes come down to effectiveness and it will come down to one of three things, number 1, the health of the industry, too, the leverage and the demands, so let's go by each. ups, 20% increase in package delivery, the auto industry is very healthy, record profits, gm and stellantis, and the media industry, the writers strike, disney is at a 10 year low, viacom is off 75%, the number of households with cable have gone from 87% to 47%. so they struck at absolutely the wrong time and now let's talk about the demands. the uaw just wants to restore their starting wage to where it would be with inflation. the teamsters demanded arrays of $2.75 and air conditioning for their drivers, and the writers guild is asking for a pause in technology and him him writers, that would be

tantamount to the teamsters asking ups to not do any research on automated driving or demand drivers advance, we saw the teamsters strike get settled. i believe the uaw will be settled. i think the demands are reasonable and the auto industry has huge incentive. the reason why the writers strike will probably be broken and we are seeing the beginning of the end already, we are seeing strikes ? in the strike, you go to an auto law in a month, you're not going to have cars. if you did another was a writer strike, would you know there is a writers strike? they have no leverage. >> that's a great point. scott, 30 seconds left, you kind of bumped me out when you say and you have written this, america is no longer the best place to get rich but rather to stay rich. final thought? >> if your child coming from the top 1% turning income

household your 70 times more likely to get into an elite university. you can look at college attendance, still the biggest on-ramp into the middle class and it scales perfectly to income level, a kid from a 1% household has a one and 100 chance of going to college, kids from 90% income earning households have a 90% chance of going to college, do we want a caste system? we like to think america is falling in love with the young remarkable's and giving them a shot but increasingly we are one of two things, being born to rich people or being freakishly remarkable. 99% of our children are not in the top 1%. that is not what america is about. we have lost the script. >> by the way scott galloway still a capitalist to his core. a serial entrepreneur, less anybody misunderstand what you

are saying and think you're making a case for socialism. >> i think capitalism of the least bad system of its kind, we need billionaires. the basis of capitalism is unfettered full-body competition, aspired to be wealthy, nothing wrong with that, it's wonderful but at the same time you need a certain number of empathy to rest on top of that with a progressive tax structure. when reagan came into office it was 77% and by the time he left it was 27%. we decided to transfer wealth into the top 1%, that's not what america is about and yes, capitalism works i'm not suggesting anything different but capitalism doesn't work at the bottom 90% don't feel like they have a fair shake, you end up with people on the steps of the capital, you end up with death and despair. that's not what america is about. >> thank you as always, scott galloway. social media reaction, what

do we have? it's not a free market, when the ceos are government subsidized, scott was just making the point. by the way, here's today's poll question, can we put this up? go to smerconish.com, which is most effective in protecting and promoting the rights of the working class, is it labor unions , scott i s taking choice number 2, the federal government, or the free market, go vote, i'll give you the result at the end of the program. what if i told you there's an end in sight for the country's political polarization? the answer is generational, and i'll explain. everybody rejoiced at the capture of the convicted murderer after a massive 14 day manhunt in southeastern

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will a coming generational shift finally get us out of polarized pitch? the person who gave me hope is doug, he's a former clinton administration advisor whose titles have included senior advisor for policy and strategy. he's advised over 50 u.s. senators and governors and in his most recen t missive, he addressed what he called the approach of the political tipping point. he wrote these words, the countries in the final chapter of the political dominance of the greatest generation and the baby boomers. by the end of the decade, their influence will give way to millennial's, gen z voters and subsequent generations will make up the majority of voters. what is clear is the

generational changing of the guard and continued political reform will act as circuit breakers on the tribal politics that have dominated the last several election cycles. when i asked him on my radio program, when the climate of polarization will improve, he had a provocative reply. >> >> it's when the baby boomers die off, and the largest population group in america now are millennial's and gen z, and the emerging generations. you can see this current generation of politicians, clinging to power for every last opportunity to govern as they are well into their 80s, and the country will be in a completely different place than that they need boomers. >> you know who agrees is utah senator and former gop presidential hopeful mitt romney when he announced he

would not be running for reelection in 2024, he explained it was time for his generation to hand over the power to the next. >>'s is having a bunch of guys who were around the baby boomers, who were around in the postwar era, we are not the right ones to be making the decision for tomorrow. >> he referenced the work of the director of polling at the harvard kennedy institute. he is the author of the book, fight, how gen z is challenging their fear and passion to save america and this past june hero a subset post about the findings of a recent poll under the headline, ring the alarm. he analyzed 18 to 29-year-old, a cohort that would be mostly gen z, this group is principally driven by their values rather than transactional politics. and there out voting the generations that preceded them and a similar age and it's not even close. he found the group as a group is becoming increasingly progressive, and they've got an

antipathy for the modern maga republican party. in 2020 president biden flipped five battleground states in large part due to the combination of record level turnout and youth support. voters aged 45 and older, they chose trump in arizona, georgia, michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin. president biden won the under 30 cohort by roughly a 20 point margin. and millennial voters in their 30s by high single digit. he was also clear this is no guarantee for democrats the same pattern would repeat in 2024 writing nearly every sign that made me confident in historic levels of youth participation in 2018, and 2022, now flashing red. 20+ years of directing the

harvard youth poll taught me that the ground is more fertile for voting when you believe voting makes a tangible difference and he cites data that shows the following, young african americans are turning away from the democrats, the gop is succeeding in wooing young hispanics and young white americans are least likely to be democrats and most likely to vote. both parties will have to reconfigure as the torch gets passed to the next generation. joining me now is jean, professor of psychology, she's the author of letter i jan and the new generations, the real differences between gen x and boomers and what it means. talk there -- what determines her views, age, or the generation to which we belong? >> well it's both, people tend to become more conservative as they get older but there is also a generational influence. there's interesting research to suggest that a generation tends to lean in the direction of whatever popular president there was when they were

adolescents, or young adults, so for millennial's, that's going to be obama, some millennial's tend to lean democratic but there's another generation that was almost completely left out in that discussion that you mentioned. and that is gen x. gen x tends to lean republican because they came of age in the reagan era. >> i was asking doug not so much who wins in the long term as between r, t or i, but when the climate of incivility is over and to that, he said, when the boomers die off. respond to that? >> well, he has pretty much forgotten about gen x, and gen x is unfortunately just as polarized as all of the other

generations so when you consider some of the politicians in the category say, just one example, ron desantis, another, ted cruz, lenny of polarization to go around. >> this is a morbid conversation, so now, and i'm not rooting for an ideology here, i just want people to compromise, right? is it when x and boomers are no longer gone, and now it's z and millennial's, i hope i'm keeping all of this straight. they are finally in control, now we have a return to civility and compromise? >> oh, i wish. but let's take the youngest group we have good data on, so one of the big national surveys of high school seniors, that is going to be 18-year-old, 17-

year-old, right as they start voting, so high school seniors have increasingly said that they are very conservative or very liberal, so there's more at the extremes of political belief as time has gone on, the latest data that we've got from 2021, those numbers were at all- time highs, so gen z is also polarized, just like the rest of the electorate. >> the concern that i have, as a father of four, is that our four have grown up and they are older now, 20s and 30s, this climate is all they know. i mean we can tell them and they can read and they can learn about a period in the 80s when ronald reagan and tip o'neill could have a cocktail with one another but all they've experienced is the climate in which we are living, so that's what holds me back from the optimism of thinking, they are better than we are and things will get better for society. >> i think that's exactly it. this is the only world that they've ever known, as i've

learned, researching generational differences. generations don't wake up and say i'm going to be this way or that way, the changes reflect the changes in the rest of the culture. generations happen because cultures change. and one of the ways that our culture and our country has changed, is in that direction of greater polarization. so not only that there's more people at the extremes, that disagree but in service, democrats are more likely to say that they feel cold or even hate toward republicans and republicans are more likely to say the same about democrats. so there's big levels of not just polarization but kind of the underlying emotion around politics in the last especially, 5 to 10 years.

>> i think you made reference to this earlier on when you said some tend to get more conservative as they age, it's great to be young and idealistic but when you start earning money you want to hold onto as much of it as you can. i think that's one of the driving factors in at least making more folks fiscally conservative. the final thought is yours. >> well my final thought is this, that one thing that might help on some issues is that young adult republicans are fairly progressive, much more progressive than older adult republicans on a lot of issues and a lot of social issues. same-sex marriage comes to mind. they are also more progressive on abortion, on legalizing marijuana, on maternity leave, on transgender people being able to serve in the military. so there may be less polarization around some of those issues as time goes on

because among younger people, democrats and republicans are not as far apart. >> i would add, guns to that list. thank you as always. i appreciate you. >> thank you. social media what we have, from the world of youtube, on this question, i am more liberal as i get older says mary coyle. i think we do change over time, right? and i think most of the nation and i say this repeatedly, you would never know from just listening to the politicians, i think most of the nation tends to be more fiscally conservative and socially progressive rather than the strict ideological boundaries that we see replicated on tv. please make sure you are going to and voting on this week's

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is law enforcement posing for a victory photo with the captured fugitive in poor taste? in the case of the pennsylvania state police that put their lives at risk to capture a convicted killer, i don't think so. danelo cavalcante escaped from prison and was on the lamp for 14 day was finally apprehended, immediately after being taken into custody, footage shot by cbs news philadelphia showed state police and border patrol agents posing with their captured target. controversial, yes. but they endured quite an ordeal in getting there. cavalcante have famously

escaped prison by crab walking up a wall. he eluded 500 officers using the most sophisticated and rudimentary means of tracking him down. he was tracked by a dea plane using thermal imaging. officers secure the area and released a border patrol dog who subdued him. marshall clark told usa today that cavalcante revealed he had moved only under the cover of night and hunkered around thick vegetation, traveled along tree lines and went so far as to bury his own fecal matter. he survived by eating watermelon that he found growing in the brush. so, what about the victory lap photograph that the cops took? the u.s. marshall's and atf who participated said none of their agents are in the picture. the philadelphia inquirer reported that a journalist called the picture reminiscent of the notorious photos to come out, where soldiers posed with

detainees being tortured. and a professor at loyola compared it to a trophy photo that hunters take after they capture their prey. former police commissioner ramsey called it a trophy photo and told this to cnn. >> i'm not a fan of that sort of thing, you know, be professional. you've got him in custody, do your job. and the rest of the stuff, save for some other place. >> but at the post capture pressure, police lieutenant bivens was dismissive of the criticism. >> i'm aware there was a photo op that was taken out there. those men and women worked amazingly hard, to some trying circumstances, they are proud of their work. i'm not bothered at all by the fact that they took a photograph with him, again they

are proud of their work and they kept the community safe. i say thanks to them and good job. >> i'm with colonel bivens on this, willing to give the officers a pass, i don't want to set a precedent with it. it would be wrong if the norm were to become celebrating police work with photos but in this case where law enforcement endured 90 degree temperatures while working round-the-clock capturing a man who had already been convicted of stabbing his girlfriend in front of her kids, i think the officers choice to make a photographic remnants can be overlooked. up next this secret service agent was with president kennedy 60 years ago at age 88 has now published a book that makes the new claim pertaining to the so- called single or magic bullet theory. so what really happened, i will ask gerald posner, he wrote the book on the kennedy assassination. make sure you are going to smerconish.com and voting on this week's poll question, which is most effective in

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have been holding john connolly at the hospital, it was assumed it exited connolly's body during efforts to save his life, landis now disputes that. he says after the motorcade arrived at the hospital, he found that bullet lodged in the back of the seat behind where jacqueline kennedy was sitting in the presidential limousine. he said an impetuous moment, he grabbed it to for the stress press and souvenir hunters. he said he ended up putting it on the presidents stretcher next to his feet and told this to jake tapper. >> i thought well this isn't the perfect place to leave the board, it should be with the president's body. it's an important piece of evidence. and this was the opportunity to leave it. >> he believes in the confusion, somehow the bullet wound up on connolly stretcher. joining me to discuss is gerald posner who wrote the book on the subject, the best seller

case closed. a parkland hospital building engineer, named darren tomlin found the bullet on the stretcher amid all the chaos and trivia buff that i tend to be, he is interviewed by commission staff attorney arlen specter who goes on to a senate career. he was asked was it stretcher letter a or stretcher b and he said he couldn't be positive. so how much does this new account really change our understanding? >> you know, it doesn't. i've been looking at this. i gave paul landis the benefit of the doubt. he was there but the more you look at it and the statements in his interviews like the one with jake tapper, you realize he put that bullet on a stretcher and then 90 minutes after the associate

assassination you have this chief engineer walking down the hallway bumping into one of two structures, one belonged to the governor and one to a young boy who had been rushed into the hospital around the same time. that bullet is the single bullet and it is the one if landis did pick up one that day he did pick up. so i think the key is that landis picked up a bullet, put it on a stretcher, now he's trying to make it sound a little more important by saying that he put it on kennedy's stretcher but we are working with 60-year-old memories in this case. >> doesn't matter which stretcher he founded on, does it really alter what happened with the trajectory, the path, the damage done by that one bullet? >> not at all. the single bullet story remains intact completely. ballistics have proven that in 1993 and 1994. it's been studied repeatedly. they came up with the idea, it was a. but later science involved so we know the bullet

happened. what the account does of landis, is it opens the possibility that there was another bullet. somebody fired a bullet and instead of going into anybody it just sort of plopped there on the back for him to find. and the amazing thing is i think what exposes his stories another secret service agent, clint hill we remember throwing himself in the back of the car, he is now on the record saying in 2014, nine years ago, paul landis came and said i picks up the bullet, i put it in my pocket and i later put it on a gurney as we were leaving parkland hospital. that story from landis grew in scope size and drama as he was trying to sell a book deal which he now has coming out in october. i believe the original story that he told clint hill and that's the one we should focus on. >> he also provided an account, right, closer in time to the incident that is contradicted by the version that he is

sharing today. i'm not casting i hope i'm not casting aspersions on his account. i believe having watched him, that he believes what he is now saying. take me off the here and react to what i'm offering. >> no question, he is sincere and he believes it but michael we have many instances not just with the kennedy assassination but others in which individuals who were witnesses to traumatic events later read accounts or talk to other people, see documentaries, and new memories become a part of their old memories. they could pass a lie detector test about the sincerity, they just happen to be wrong and here we are dealing with somebody who never kept a diary, journal, didn't have details where he can refer back to instead what he's done is he has made these two statements a week after the case happened,

and 60 years later he's now telling us how his memory got better and we all know unfortunately, that's just not how it happens. >> gerald, social media on this, stick around. i might ask for your assistance in responding to it. what do we have? doesn't make sense says michael, why would you lay a bullet down on the table next to the president as a secret service officer, you should at least have the decency to report it to the proper authorities, gerald posner, you say what to that? >> i think that is the one part of the story we are not talking about. imagine there was an assassination of a president today, obama, trump, biden and we found out a secret service agency found a bullet where the president's body was it took the bullet and put it in their pocket and later put it down on a gurney and didn't tell any superiors or anyone else investigating the case? the shame of the story is that paul landis didn't come out with the story decades ago when he could have been investigated when everybody was alive. now, we will be left with a bit of mystery forever because he's telling it so late. >> that's the one thing i know for sure is that this will now keep alive forever, the cottage industry of conspiracy about the kennedy assassination.

>> that's true. you know, we've been waiting for documents to come back, they are still sealed we thought that would be the big story, it turns out to be an eyewitness account from an 88- year-old ex-secret service agents, that will keep the case humming for decades to come. >> thank you gerald posner, as always. >> thank you. more of your best and worst social media comments and the result of today's poll question. every day there's a different poll question, which is most effective in protecting and promoting the rights of the working class? labor market, free-market, labor unions, when you vote you can subscribe to the daily newsletter. check that out.

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the abuse of workers, and unions where membership has dropped over the years protect those in specific industries. jack hoffman, maybe i should have had an additional choice which was all of the above, then i would have had to have had another choice which would have been none of the above. here's more social media reaction from today's program. thank you. what happen did we have? thank you, gene, for mentioning ge gen-x, we're often left out of the conversations and are used to it. gen-z and millennials captured the attention of the academics that i was making reference to who were saying, hey, when these folks get in charge, then things are going to change. and it will be interesting to see whether that's the case. you're right in saying that you've got gen-x between the boomers and the youngers, the millennials and the cs, a lot to keep track. one more social media reaction. what do we have? love looking at all these. "smerconish, the trophy pick in pa was absurd.

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