mainstream that could open the door for democrat michele nun. so keep it up, georgia gop, because we've seen this play before, and it may have had todd aiken or christine o'donnell or sharon eng until the lead role, but the end is always the same. the person with the incendiary, misguided, questionable statement, that person loses. that's all for you. see you back here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. "the ed show" is up next. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. ♪ >> tired of asking the question where are the jobs? >> passing the growth package is our most pressing economic priority. >> how about this stimulus bill? >> the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history. >> our administration has been watching our economy carefully. >> the american recovery and reinvestment act that i will

sign today. >> we want him to succeed because america needs to succeed. >> doesn't really care about finding a way to strangle obama's presidency in the cradle. >> no, no, no. >> republicans under the leadership of john boehner said we were not going to be the party of no. >> no, no, no. >> you have become the party of no. >> hell no you can't! i always thought that the majority was actually in the interest of the majority to be more bipartisan. that's why we need to be working together. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. i always like to view things from a business perspective whenever there's the opportunity. let me ask you a question tonight. if you were in private business, would you want to work with any one of these guys based on what has happened to this country in the last five years? you know, every business owner or anybody who's trying to turn a profit always thinks about, well, where are we going to be

in the next quarter? what's our one-year plan? where do we want to be one year from today? where do we want to be five years from now? that's kind of a tough question in today's business climate to ask employee, gosh, what are your plans in the next five years? that sounds like an eternity in today's business climate. but if i were looking at a business, i can honestly say based on what these guys have done, i wouldn't want to go to work with any one of them. they haven't done anything. nothing. and i can back it up with the numbers. this isn't about me being a lefty or them being righties or them thinking -- i'm talking about production. i'm talking about when you go to work every day, do you just show up or do you bring something to the table? if the boss were to call me in and ask me, ed, what have you got for "the ed show" for the next year, i wouldn't say, well, i don't trust the team. no. i'd say i got about half a dozen things off the top of my head i

want to do in "the ed show" in the next year and we're going to go get it. other business interests, i think how much concrete are we going to play, what's our next building project, how much fishing trips are we going to sell and what's our radio revenue going to be? there's a lot of things you can do in this country that are great. but if you come to work and all you say after you meet with your colleagues is, well, we don't trust the guy we're doing business with, that's what they have done. in fact, that's what they've done for the last five years. and so from a business perspective i like to look back, where were we a year ago. well, where were we five years ago? five years ago today our nation and economy, i'll tell you what, we were in a hurt bag. we were in a horrible state. february 2009 was just one month into president obama's first term. and at that point the great recession was on a roll. you kind of thought at the time it was going tock all hands on deck to pull this country out of

that but that's not the case was. on february 13th, 2009, the dow jones closed at 7,850. wow, that was low. but it was headed south. and it went way down. the markets went to its lowest point since march of 2003. the economy was no doubt in a tailspin. those job creators out there, they were really concerned. started firing people. in february 2009 employers slashed 651,000 jobs. that's where we were five years ago. now, i know there's a lot of criticism out there that we're just not adding the jobs. well, you know what, we're not doing this. the unemployment rate hit a 25-year high, 12.5 million americans were out of work. the unemployment rate was sitting at 8.1%. vempblly the unemployment rate

topped out at over 10%. 10.2%. and there were people saying that we're not going to get below double figures for a lot of years. in february of 2009 there just wasn't a whole heck of a lot of good news going on in america. >> the deficit number's going to be very high, 1.3 trillion. >> these banks are in trouble and the reason is the real estate market continues to deteriorate. >> when will it end with all the bad economic news? and there's more today. >> the unemployment rate is at 8.1%. president obama is telling americans not to panic. >> the government is out this morning with some stunning numbers on unemployment. in february, unemployment jumped to 8.1%. that's an increase of half a percent and the highest jobless rate since 1983. for the month, the economy lost 651,000 jobs. >> wow. since 1983? meanwhile, february 2009 is when the government took major action to do something, to fix this issue. on february 13th, 2009, the

american recovery and reinvestment act passed the house and the senate. well, it was a big one. some think it should have been bigger. it was a $787 billion economic stimulus package that did create jobs. it's a fact. infrastructure, investment, and assistance to the unemployed in this country, it was definitely needed. and there is no debate. there's no debate here. the 2009 stimulus package pulled this country out of the great recession. now back then, both houses of congress were controlled by the democrats. i guess you could say a pretty good thing that was happening because if boehner were in control, america would have been in serious trouble. who knows where we'd be today? this guy has a hard time raising the debt limit, let alone a spending package to get us out of where we were. here's what republicans were saying. let's remember. here's what they were saying about the stimulus package in 2009. >> i think this can only be described as generational theft.

we're going to amass the largest debt in the history of this country by any measurement and we're going to ask our kids and grandkids to pay -- >> this is not the time for excessive borrowing. it's also not the time for spending money on a wish list of congressional favors that people have been asking for. >> here we are with 1,100 pages, 1,100 pages, yet not one member of this body has read it. not one. what happened to the promise that we're going to let the american people see what's in this bill for 48 hours? but, no. we don't have time to do that. that's what we have here in my view. that policy that will drive up the debt and put all of this cost in the back of our kids and our grandkids and their kids. i hope it works. but i surely have my doubts. >> john boehner said that five years ago today. not one single republican voted

for the 2009 stimulus package. the facts on the economic stimulus are pretty clear. by september of 2010, 18 months fast forward to that date, economists estimated stimulus had created up to 3.6 million jobs, boosted america's annual output by $400 billion. currently what have we seen? 47 months straight of private sector job growth. the green line right here is when the stimulus package kicked in. the rest is all there. this chart tells the story. what the democrats did has not been a failure. even with all the obstruction this is the number. that's the chart. since the 2009 stimulus was passed our economy has been creating jobs. dow is currently at record highs. today it closed out, whooo, that's a hot one right there -- i remember when it was just over 12,000, everybody saying it can't go any higher. look at that.

16,027.59 today. all this progress has taken place despite john boehner and his republican obstruction and their attitude of we don't trust anybody. republicans have blocked countless job bills for 2011 to try to create jobs. they didn't want to do that. the american jobs act. if the american jobs act had passed it would have created an additional 1.9 million jobs. so i ask you tonight, folk, if you're an independent voter, to be fair minded about this. if you're a business person, to be fair minded about this. who's coming to work with the ideas? the speaker of the house who passed over 240 bills or this guy who says he doesn't trust anybody? who do you trust? who do you think wants the country to move forward? now it's interesting the last couple of weeks, the republicans went off and did their little shindig and the democrats went off and huddled up and they both

came back with plans and the first thing they said was we don't trust obama. here's what the democrats have come back with. the plan for the democrats, number one, let's pass a jobs package. let's do something because there has been a proven track record if we stimulate the economy, millions of jobs will be created. they also want equal pay for women. i know this is really a tough one for the republicans, but this is something the democrats are hellbent for election to get done. fairness in the workplace. immigration. well, boehner told us that, well, you can't do that because we don't trust obama because he won't enforce it. crazy talk. long-term unemployment. the democrats clearly want to do something about that. workers' rights, the republicans have never met a worker that they like. it's all about deregulation on wall street and more tax cuts and all they can talk about is more corporate tax cults. in fact, there's a theory out there there should be no corporate tax cult what is sofer. so who has the track record in

business? the democrats do. so i'll go back to the question they offered up, where do you want to be a year from now? do you want the republicans to continue to have the house and they have nothing to show for it? will we be going into year receive within nothing happening on their help? or is this all going to be up to the democrats? is this all going to be up to one party who cares about workers, who wants to move things forward for women, who are willing to do something on immigrati immigration, but wait a minute, immigration, the calculation is very clear. this man doesn't want to pay for the same real estate twice. that's what it's about. they have gerrymandered the house to the point where they have socially engineered our elections, and if they do an immigration bill they're going to have to go back and do that thing all over again in the next five years. they don't want to do that. he don't want to pay for the same real estate twice. this remit tich over here wants to be speaker of the house again and move this country forward.

so clearly one party has a plan, one party doesn't. and if you're an independent voter, how in the hell can you argue with what's gone on on wall street? i bet you're wishing you would have jumped in back when it was 8,000. right? that obama, that socialist, he's really offering up a lot of bad stuff, isn't he. remind you, no one from wall street is behind bars. they paid a fine and they're still rolling. and the irony in all of this is all they can talk about is getting rid of obamacare. in fact, they have voted over 40 times in the house to get rid of obamacare. i ask you to go check some mutual funds out when it comes to medical manufacturing and pharmaceuticals and see how those mutual funds are doing. a lot of them are turning better than 30% year to date because of obamacare. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question -- do you think independent voters will be swayed by republican obstruction?

text a for yes, b for no to 67622. can always go to our wlog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring you results later in the show. what's the plan? for more, let's bring in congressman steny hoyer of maryland who serves as the house democratic whip. steny, good to have you with us. appreciate your time. >> always good to be with you, ed. >> congressman, where are we going to be five years from now? we just talked about where we've been the last five years. what are the next five years going to look like? >> well, you know, the president came to congress and gave a state of the union and said, look, i'm optimistic, we've come a far pace as you've just outlined very well. but we need to go further. we need to do some things to grow this economy, to make sure it works for everybody, to make sure that americans can make it in america. and we want to see us work together to accomplish that objective. but the president said look, if you're not going to act, i'll

act. just the other day he did act. so people contracting with the federal government pay a decent wage to the workers that are working for those contractors. we need -- and we just announced that we're going to be going back to congress a week from now and we're going to put a discharge petition in and get the minimum wage on the calendar. we hope our republican colleagues will join us so that we give the incentive for people to work, and when they work, they won't be living in poverty. we want to see comprehensive immigration reform passed as you pointed out. that's good for the economy. it's the moral thing to do. one more thing. we also continue to urge our republican colleagues to re-establish the safety net for those who have unemployed through no fault of their own, can't find a job because three people are looking for every job that's available. we need to do that as soon as we get back. >> congressman, you're make mig point. you're off, going and making

plans for what the democrats want to do. they have come back and said, well, we just don't trust the president. i mean, okay, let's talk about this minimum wage discharge petition. federal workers, it was signed yesterday, they're going to get $10.10 an hour minimum wage. what is the discharge petition going to do to minimum wage in the house? >> the discharge petition wants to take the minimum wage bill that has been introduced off -- on the floor, put it up for a vote so that we can raise the minimum wage over a couple of years to $10.10 an hour. >> will that happen? >> as i'm sure you know, it will happen if we get some 20 to 25 republicans to sign that bill, yes, it will happen. now, whether we can get those signatures or not, because as you pointed out so well there's very little action on the other side of the aisle. and they rationalize their failure to act by they don't like the president, they don't trust the president, this, that,

and the other. but the fact of the matter is their party is a deeply divided party that cannot come up with a consensus for action. they're the party of no. they're the party of repeal. they're the party that doesn't have the ear of the american public, frankly, because 70% of the american public believes the agenda we put forth is something that's good nor america, good for growing the economy, and good for them and their families. >> well, republican congressman tim huelskamp recently said after the debt ceiling, he says that's what our leadership said. if we get past this one, we're done until the election. meaning nothing is going to happen -- nothing is going to happen this year. your response to that. >> ed, i can't believe that there's any american who believes in the middle of february we ought to fold our hands and say, well, we're done for the year. that's absurd. we still have a lot of people who are not participating in our

economy. we still need to invest in growing the jobs in america. we still need to make sure that we address a system that is broken by the admission of every republican leader i know and do comprehensive immigration reform. there's still a lot of work to be done, and i can't believe that huelskamp is right, that the republicans are going to project to the american people, well, we have've done our job and will rest for the rest of the year. >> congressman, i want your response to priorities action usa saying they're going to sit out the midterms. they're focusing on 2016. in other words, all hands won't be on deck for the midterms. your response to that. >> let me tell you, sitting out this coming election is not an option. if people want to see this country move forward, grow our economy, have a working relationship between the president and the congress of the united states, the american people's board of directors, they cannot afford to sit out of this 2014 election.

we cannot afford to continue to have the crises that we've had fiscally, which have held the economy down. sitting on the sidelines should not be an option for any american. >> so you want priorities action usa to get involved and raids money for this midterm? >> absolutely. we want them engaged. we want all the voters engaged, whether they agree with us or disagree with us. democracy works best when all of us participate. >> all right. congressman steny hoyer, great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. thanks so much. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of your screen, share your thoughts with us on twitter @edshow. tweet us there. like us on facebook. we want to know what you think. still ahead, rick scott still around, still doing the same old stuff, blocks the vote in florida yet again. charlie crist joins us live to discuss why republicans are making it harder to vote in that state and in other states. but first, more on the big

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america to $10.10 an hour? >> i think we can do it, ed. we on the democratic side are going to do everything in our power and try to urge that 20-something republicans to join us. this is what the american people want. keep in mind, ed, about two-thirds of the american public saying that we want the minimum wage raised because they realize that their neighbor, their friends, the people that served them in restaurants and helped them throughout their day in various jobs need it. so the president started the jobs. many of us had usualed him to to that over a year ago. he's done it. with regard to people working for federal contractors, now we have to simply finish the job. i think it can be done. >> i hope so. discharge petition means that if you get enough signatures it will come to the floor for a vote and no one can obstruct it. >> that's right. >> the question is do you think that there are enough republicans that would pass this, that would feel the heat from home and there's been so

much talk about income inequality and separation of the wealth gap in the country. do you think republicans, enough would come on board to move it? >> the problem is this, ed. i think we have enough folks that if it were placed on the floor would vote for it. the problem is whether they will stand up, sign the discharge petition to allow it to be brought to the floor. i have absolutely no doubt that we have the votes, once it gets to the floor to pass it. and i'm hoping that some of these folks will stand up and do what is right for their constituents, by the way. their constituents. >> yeah. >> you know, we have this statement, the military says we leave no one behind. and this is the time that we must act. keep in mind, ed, about two-thirds of the folks earning minimum wage are women. >> yeah. >> and when women do well, america does well. so we've got -- we've still got some work to do. we cannot give up. and we on the democratic side have made it clear that we

understand that we don't have the right to remain silent. >> congressman, i want to switch topics on you to health care because the president mentioned health care as a part of his opportunity agenda in a speech on is wnz. the health and human services department says through february 1st over 3 million americans have signed up for health care through the federal and state exchanges. i predicted on this program back in december that it would be 5 million would be signing up by march 31st. it seems like we could hit that number. what's your reaction to the latest numbers and what does this signal? >> well, it signals -- first of all, unfortunately we had the kind of start with regard to the website that we did. but, ed, when you had 1.1 million people in january signing up, about 27% of them being young people, which is a very, very good sign, i think we're going to do extremely well. we have 47 days.

i think with the insurance companies during their advertising, with the president pushing to make sure that people get signed up, i think we'll make -- i actually think we'll make more than the 5 million getting signed up. keep in mind, ed, people are -- have now been given an opportunity to get insurance. some 3.3 million now have it. so, you know, i'm hoping that our republican friends will stop their obsession with trying to destroy, to fund, and do everything in their power to take away these opportunities that people have now. they have affordable and quality health insurance. and will join us in trying again to help their constituents and ours. >> congressman -- >> we a better nation than that. >> the numbers show it. the people do want it. >> oh, people want it. desperately. >> had there not been the negative reporting that was out there and beating up on the website and trying to be more positive about helping americans, who know what is the

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welcome back to "the ed show." we're still keeping an eye on the massive snowstorm blasting the east coast from new york to atlantic city, preparations for the first wave of severe weather. airline and rail cancellations left thousands of travelers in the lurch. 1,000 passengers spent the night in the charlotte douglas airport alone. government offices closed for day as snow blanket ttd capitol.

commuters were urged not to risk travel on icy roads. falling tree limbs and powerful winds left many without power. 400,000 homes are still in the dark around the eastern and southern portion of the united states. weather-related fatalities are now up to 18. emergency crews are working around the clock to improve safety conditions, but more snow is on the way. for more on this, let e's turn to weather channel meteorologist chris warren. chris, good to have you with us tonight. i getsz let's get out of the way, here comes round two. how bad is it going to be? >> not as bad as round one. but anything on top of what already has happened is going to be a bit of a pain or at least annoying to say the very least. here's a look at first round of the winter storm. and what was left on the ground. and these are some pretty big numbers. in the south, 8 to 12 inches in parts. this is pars in georgia, south carolina, north carolina, then you get to a foot, foot and a half parts of virginia into maryland. some big totals around d.c.

also philadelphia having a brutal winter. and then we're seeing more snow coming down right now. this is still the same system but there's a break so it's going to feel like round two. that's what we're looking at right now in virginia, d.c., into pennsylvania, and upstate new york, dealing with some of that snow at this time. and new england. still seeing that snow. this system will be moving out tonight. still a bit of a wintry mix closer to the warm ocean, relatively warm ocean, and then we're going to see the snow by tomorrow working its way out. the system will be out of here, but before it does believe we're looking at additional snow. this is in addition to what is already on the ground, 1 to 3 inches, some case parts of new england 5 to 8 inches. there's another potential storm we're watching friday into saturday. it's a matter of where it lines up and how much it intensifies. could be bad or could be a few inches. >> that would be for the same area that's just been affected? >> mainly the mid-atlantic to the northeast. we're going watch that develop

tomorrow night into saturday. >> okay. chris warren for the weather channel, thanks so much. more coming up "the ed show." josh lipton with your cnbc market wrap. the dow jumped 63, the s&p added 10 and the nasdaq up 39. the nation's two largest cable companies have confirmed a merger deal. comcast will buy time warner for $45.2 billion. comcast is the parent company of nbcunivers nbcuniversal. in economic news today, americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits up by 8,000 last week and the average on a 30-year mortgage ticked up slightly this week to 4.28%.

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welcome back to "the ed show." florida governor rick scott is back doing what he does best, leading the charge against voting rights. here we go again. the governor won the 2010 general election by less than 62,000 votes. this was before voters learned who rick scott really was. rick scott is now running for re-election. it should come as no surprise republicans in the state of florida are already working to reduce access to the polls in 2014. on tuesday, manatee county's republican-controlled board of county commissioners voted to eliminate almost one-third of the county's voting sites. now, i refuse to believe that it's just a coincidence. the largest percentage of precinct closures will happen in the district of the board's only democrat? republicans say the move will save money. last week florida secretary of

state kdenied a request to use college campus at the center for voting. he said the building does not fit the list of eligible early voting scythes. i refuse to believe it's just coincidence. in 2012 president barack obama captured 66% of florida's youth vote. folk, things were already bad in florida. republicans have pushed for cuts to early voting days, restrictions were put on voter registration drives, voter polls were purged with the methods known to produce errors. during the 2012 election, the "orlando sentinel" estimated at least 201,000 voters did not cast ballots due to long lines. it's no coincidence the majority of those voters would have favored president barack obama over mitt romney. we cannot ignore republican attempts to dismantle the

democratic process. it is happening. this is happening in republican-controlled legislate chor -- legislatures across the country. republican governor rick scott in florida is not protecting the integrity of the vote and i think rick scott knows the only way he can assure his re-election is by suppressing the vote. at least that's the way it appears to this broadcaster. join meganow is former florida governor charlie crist, who is currently running again for governor in the state of florida. governor, good to have you with us tonight. you met with students yesterday at the university of florida. what was your response on the ground there when they were told this wasn't going to be happening in 2014 on their turf? >> they couldn't believe it. they couldn't believe that the governor, that rick scott and his administration would have the audacity to say that we're not going to allow you to vote on campus at the university of

florida. obviously a lot of young people, probably people who are more inclined to vote democratic instead of republican, but that's exactly what has happened. they're trying to suppress the vote. they're using every means possible to do that. and when you think about it, ed, if you're on the team where if you have less people vote, that gives you a better chance to win, you're on the wrong team. i mean, it's unconscionable that anybody would try to thwart the ability of americans to have the right to vote. people have died for that right, after all. yet they would stand in the way of people exercising that precious right. it's unconscionable, hard to believe it's happening, and it's wrong. >> governor, what is your response to the number of voting sites that were shut down in one section of the state? and the reason given was that it was an economy move, it was going to save money. your response to that. >> well, the right to vote is priceless, and the notion that you would have less places for people to vote, especially in

the example you cited in manatee county, where the democratic county commissioner, that district, if that doesn't expose the fraud that's going on here, i don't know what does. >> you think scott's behind all this? you think he is engineering this? >> i don't think there's any question about it. i mean, you know, he appointed the guy who's the secretary of state, who is carrying out these orders, and telling people they can't vote on the campus of the university of florida. and these kinds of things aren't new. the way i know that it's coming from rick scott, look back to the 2012 election. long lines. four years earlier, i signed an executive order to stop it. he wouldn't do it. >> how can we come to the conclusion it's going to be easier to vote in florida in 2014 than it was in 2012? >> i don't know that it is going to be easy pip think it's going to be challenging. i think they're going to try to make it more difficult every single day. i know this about my fellow floridians -- they will not be that warted to exercise their right to vote. they didn't do it in 2012. i think initially, ed, they were

frustrated. finally i think they became infuriated and nothing was going to stop them to get to vote. you remember the nice elderly lady the president had at the state of the union right after the election, i think she was 94 years old, waited in line for hour after hour after hour but she was determined to vote. >> so how do you plan to fight these attacks on voting rights? how do you combat this? >> well, exactly what i'm doing right now, talk to you. and thank you for bringing light to it, because if people don't know this is happening, you know, they're going to go and try to vote and end up having to wait in lines and not have the opportunity to actually vote. it's working people they're putting the hammer on because it's hard for them. they can't get off work. they have to go to work. and so if you have more early voting days, more early voting location, it's more convenient for them to exercise this right. >> so how -- if you put a calculation to how much this is going to help scott's re-election chances. >> well, i don't think enough.

i mean, the evidence is what happened to president obama here in florida in both 2008 and 2012. as i said in '08, signed an executive order to expand it so they had more opportunity to vote. in 2012, governor rick scott would not do so. we were the last state to be able to have our votes counted in the presidential election. thank goodness it was already over by then. we didn't know that at the time. shame on them for doing this and not helping their fellow floridians have a right to vote and vote in a way that is convenient for them. the people are the boss. they ought to respond to them, not try to boss them around. >> it's pretty clear what they're up to in florida. it is going to be harder to vote in 2014 than in 2012. charlie crist, great to have you with us. my wife and i went to a steak house in new york the other day at gallagher's. your picture was on the wall and rick scott's wasn't. there you go. >> there you go. >> thanks for joining us. coming up, tennessee senator bob corker drops a bombshell on

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welcome back to "the ed show." this is the story for the folks who take a shower after work.

chattanooga, tennessee, has become a breeding ground for republican intimidation and bribery over union rights. workers at a volkswagen plant, an assembly plant in chattanooga, tennessee have until tomorrow on whether they're going to join the united auto workers union. republican senator bob corker has been a long time opponent of the union made a lofty promise to -- volkswagen workers on wednesday. he has been against it, and he said this, quote, that he has been assured if workers reject united auto workers representation, the country will reward the plant with the opportunity to build the new mid-sized suv. volkswagen officials have made several statements, saying that the vote will have no bearing on whether the suv will be made at the chattanooga plant or at the plant in mexico. tennessee republicans have also threatened to take away volkswagen's tax incentives if the workers join to vote the uaw. in step america's mayor, virg

menaro says rather than dealing with the intimidation and fighting, volkswagen can just pack up and come on the his city. >> the legislature, the governor, they have the nerve, the item merit to threaten the expansion based on unionization? it's incredible. i was amazed by it, but then i smelled opportunity. >> volkswagen plans to invest $7 billion in north america in order to bill its midsized suvs. virg bernero with us. good to have you with us. >> good to be back. >> always looking for an opportunity to help the american worker. i love it. you wrote a letter to the ceo of volkswagen. why do you think volkswagen would be better off in michigan than tennessee? >> well, look, we're a car town. we make things. it's what we do. it's in our dna. it's in our blood. we make the cadillac cts, ats, the buick enclave and the chevy traverse.

this is what we do. we have a manufacturing tradition. we have a tremendous manufacturing prowess. and we embrace all manufacturing, union, nonunion, you name it, we wake it. we have a great relationship with uaw. that's one of the reasons general motors continues to expand here. if they're going to try to punish people for exercising basic american rights in tennessee, that's another thing we respect is basic american rights and american law, labor law, that allows workers to make the decision without coercion. i mean, corker should put a cork in it, don't you think, ed? give me a break. >> i just find this amazing that he is out saying that he has been assured. he should tell us by who. and what was the correspondence. was it a comment in passing? is there a letter? is there an e-mail? what ever? he should tell people who assured him if they vote out and don't go unionized that they would have an expansion at this plant. your thoughts. >> it's typical bluster. it's ridiculous. and i really believe a grievous violation of american principles

of fairness, and perhaps labor law that says you don't coerce a union election. you allow workers to decide their fate. they have a right to union representation if they want it, and it should not be coerced. i'm sure that they're going to do the right thing, and i'm sure the company would do the right thing. the question is will tennessee politicians do the right thing, or will they try to weigh in to tip the scales. and i can't believe that they would actually try to punish the company if the workers choose union representation, which is their right. >> you've got uaw workers in your town. have they hurt the economy? >> absolutely not. >> that's the pitch that they're making. these tennessee state representatives, a state senator down there is making the pitch that it's going to hurt the economy, and they may have to roll back tax incentives. >> it's absolute nonsense. but in full disclosure, ed, let me say i'm biased, because i have straight teeth thanks to the uaw. my dad is a uaw retiree. we were able to go to the

dentist, go to the doctor when we had to because of the hard fought victories of the uaw. i know i'm preaching to the converted with you. you know the unions helped create the middle class in this country. and of course that's one of the things that they're really worried about. what the republicans are worried about is that a victory here signals that the unions and the public is woken up to the fact that it's a global economy. and in a global economy, where you have multinational companies you need multinational unions. you need unions to reach out just as they have in germany. it's funny, they haven't destroyed the german economy, have they? manufacturing is going strong in germany, and they have a very strong union there. union and management can work together. that's the model that we have in lansing, michigan. the uaw and gm works together, and we're make some of the best cars in the world, award winning cars. the cadillac cts just won "motor trend" car of the year. don't tell me you can't have great economics and a great economy working in collaboration with the unions. we know better. >> so if it doesn't work out down in tennessee, i can

guarantee it will work in lansing, michigan. >> come on down. we'll roll out the red carpet instead of the red tape. >> thanks, virg. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, verdict watch. right now 12 jurors are behind closed doors, deliberating the fate of 47-year-old michael dunn. charged with first-degree murder for killing 17-year-old jordan davis. this case began at this jacksonville, florida gas station on a night in november 2012. michael dunn got into an argument over loud music with four teenagers sitting inside a parked suv. dunn fired ten shots at the vehicle. jordan davis was killed at the scene. dunn says the killing was in self-defense, and that davis threatened him with a gun.