>> i was working with richard trumka when he was in town, he was telling me that we were -- really?he late 1990s, the afl-cio suspended the statute that communists weren't allowed in the union? why would you want to do that? unless you want communists in the union. so you have the communists in bed with the afl-cio, the afl-cio in bed with the white house, are you surprised van jones was there? communists are coming out of the woodwork, revolutionaries and nobody in the media seems alarmed. earlier this month, the "new york times" wrote a glowing article about the fun-loving communists who meet in new york. the name of the story, we're marxists, make merry. oh, oh, oh! they treat these people as if this is a third grade class on field trip to crayon factory. have they forgotten who communists really are and how many millions of people communists killed? the rest of the media is off trying to do the millionth picture of prince jake and his fiancee princess leah or whatever they ignore the smoke in our backyard. the national socialist convention. national socialist, national socialist

because that is who your labor union and richard trumka is in bed with. when will you hear that?on this program predicted death panels would result from government healthcare. we have didn't talk about them as death panels. it was the complete lives system. we talked about it in a completely reasonable and rational way, complete lives system was proposed by white house advisor ezekiel emanuel. we showed you the charts. it shows in a shortage of cash or an emergency who would get treatment and who wouldn't? not the old people, not the very young. we talked about it extensionively on the program. sarah palin coined the phrase "death panel" and did it on facebook. the left said fear mongering, told you not to listen. here is paul krugman this weekend on abc news. listen. >> if the commission isn't brave enough to take on the debt panel people, they are doing no good at all. not educating the public and not telling them about the choices that need to be made. some years down the pike, we will get a real solution, combination of death panel and sals taxes. we'll take medicare under co

the afl-cio, and mike duncan is the chairman of american crossroads so, please, welcome both richard trumka and mike duncan. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> you didn't give them breakfast. >> there we go. so, gentlemen, thank you for joining us this morning. there we go. i'd like to start with mr. duncan, former chairman of the republican national committee, now chairman of american crossroads which spent millions of dollars on this election cycle. what happened last night? >> reid, thank you, first of all, for doing this. i think it's great that "national journal" is putting this on. what a difference a day makes. what happened last night? well, we had a mega tsunami. what's beyond tsunami? a mega tsunami. you've got to go back to 1948 to find a house that made more changes. it's more than the house and the senate, the six at least that we picked up in the senate. you've got to look at the state legislatures and governors all over the country. we have probably 19 bodies of the legislature, maybe ten governors. the redistricting process coming up for the next ten years from our stan

afl-cio company richard trumka has been in talks with congressional democrats and the white house andp t reports trumka tonight saying, quote, to date no one i'm aware of said voting to extend only the middle class tax cuts is not a good policy, that's not good policy and that's not good for the country. might democrats actually do it, excerpt their electorally earned authority before december 31st and try to do something about the deficit? that is the $700 billion question on capitol hill right now. we will be right back. don't forget mrs. collier. i won't. ♪ [ female announcer ] clear some snow. ♪ or spread a little warmth. maxwell house gives you a rich full flavored cup of coffee so you can be good to the last drop. >>> in their epic quest to seem fiscally responsible without actually being fiscally responsible, this year's republicans have come up with a genius move. they voted today to voluntarily restrict themselves from identifying specific targets for funding in their districts sm spending bills. this practice is usually nicknamed earmarking. contrary to the common wisdom, it

afl-cio president richard trumka says that the commission's bottom line for working americans is, quote, drop dead. but in all of the bad news there is a bright spot, guess what else the panel recommended to save a whole bunch of money? the public option gosh who's been saying that since the day that he came on board on msnbc? republicans keep saying that they're willing to be bipartisan. well a chance to prove it. i challenge the incoming speaker mr. boehner to work with democrats on creating a public option to bring down the deficit if that's what they're really concerned about. for more bring in adam green, co-founder of the progressive change campaign committee. adam, good to have you with us tonight. i want to play -- give you a sense of how i think the democrats have really shifted on some principles when it comes to what's fair game on cuts, what the priority list is, and how you stand up for it. this is senator kent conrad, back with tim russert on "meet the press" in 2002, june 9th was the date. 2002. he was the budget director it's budget director was mitch daniels of the whit

you had richard trumka of the labor same that the bowles-simpson plan a sickly says dropdead. well, we've all heard that language use in budgeting before. and if he doesn't like it, fine. where's his plan? what kind of spinning to see want for the future? what kind of revenues? we had grover norquist coming out saying, oh, no, this is a lousy plan because it violates the no to tax pledge. another thing i absolutely love about bowles and simpson, and others is they both didn't fall into the trap of what we do about the tax cut. that isn't the issue. particularly, it's not the issue in the near term. i mean in the long term. the issue in the long-term is what can we do to change this '80s tax code that we have to make it better in terms of raising the revenues we need to the size of government into efficient and economic growth. and they both, they both tackle that. and i admire them both for doing that. mr. norquist only says it violates the tax pledge. this is what i would call ugly. unless these people are going to come out with an alternative themselves that addresses these

then the afl-cio's richard trumka will join us for election results. that is at2 8:00 a.m. on at. later in the day, president obama will hold a press conference in the east room of conference in the east room of

participants include richard trumka and dick armey. this is one hour and 40 minutes. >> what happened last night? >> thank you for putting this on. this will be a substantive thing. what a difference a day makes. we had a mess tsunami. -- on that got some numbing. -- mega tsunami. it is more than the house or the salmon -- the senate. you have to look at the governorships and the legislatures of the country. we had 19 bodies, and governors, and the redistricting process coming up which will be smaller there because we have part of the decision making progress on that. those of the facts. what happened? last but the people spoke. it was of rejection, i believe, of the obama administration. i stood before you with the national press club and talked about what had happened then. as a the responsibility for the defeat and congratulated president-elect obama and said that we are a center-right country. if he lurched to a less rigid lurched to the left, the republicans would be back. i think he did and i think his agenda was overreaching and

communist party leader for the communist party usa talked about how they are coordinating with richard trumkae afl-cio. if you're in the unions do you realize your money, your union dues are going to stand with the communists and the revolutionaries in this country? the democrats have become wildly radical. >> examiwe pointed out a little earlier, the unions, the list of exemptions to health care law. it's riddled with unions. >> of course it would be. we're not a country of laws anymore. we're a country of men. we're a country of special favors. if you look at that -- that health care law, this -- this admits two things. one, that it's a jobs killer. we all knew that. we all said that. we were called fear mongers for saying it. if it's a job killer, if it's not, why do these guys need out so desperately? >> 111. >> and it's all the people who helped create. >> they said it was going to bend the cost curve down. but it's bending it up. >> of course it is. it was intended to. >> we talked about this before. it was intended to. this is their design. they're moving towards one payer system. >> b

morning with former republican national committee chairman michael duncan, and afl-cio president richard trumkaon the use of the meaning of these election results. this is about a half-hour. using >> so, gentlemen, thank you for joining us this morning. i'd like to start withepublicann mr. duncan, former chairman ofh the public and nationalch committees now s chairman ofon american crossroads who spent billions of dollars on this election cycle. what happened lastt night? of >> think you first of all for doing this at that "national journal" is putting this on. what a difference a day makes. what happened last night? well, we had a mega tsunami. what's beyond tsunami? a mega tsunami. you've got to go back to 1948 to find a house that made more changes. it's more than the house and the senate, the six at least that we picked up in the senate. you've got to look at the state legislatures and governors all over the country. we have probably 19 bodies of the legislature, maybe ten governors. the redistricting process coming up for the next ten years from our standpoint is going to be much fairer no

you have richard trumka of the labor, the bowles-simpson plan basically says dropped dead. we've always heard the language used in budgeting before. if he doesn't like it, fine, where's his plan? what kind of spending does he want for the future? what kind of revenues? we had grover-norquist saying this is a lousy plan. it violates the new tax pledge. another thing that i love about bowles-simpson, and rivlin, they both didn't fall into the trap. this isn't the issue. particularly, it's not the issue in the near term -- i mean in the long term. the issue in the long term is what can we do to change the hideous tax code that we have to make it better in terms of raising the revenue that is we need for the size of government and efficient in promoting economic growth. they both tackled that. i admire them both. mr. norquist only says it violates a tax pledge. this is what i would call ugly. unless the people are going to come out with an alternative themselves that addresses these positions, then taking these sound byte pop shots at this, i don't think is good. so if you don'