this is with james hoffa who i asked about the wisconsin recall.say. >> i think, number one, i think that scott walker can get beat. i think we've got to do everything we can. the teamsters can do everything to beat him because he's an extremist. he's danger. he wants to take away everything from everybody so that corporations can make more money. that's dangerous. we've got to beat him there. this battle goes on. the extremism that we see in ohio, wisconsin and michigan and in pennsylvania it's forcing independents over and they are moving to obama. i think it looks good. these are fight where she is to fight. you don't win every battle. if we don't beat scott walker that's not the end of the movement. >> your response to that. >> well, president hoffa is right. people aren't going to fold the tents across the country if scott walker succeeds. this wisconsin fight has become symbolic and practically important for the labor movement and for the democratic party. governor walker is really the face of austerity in america. he's the guy who has tried

member but he went out and he played a big concert for jimmy hoffa when hoffa was running against a reform candidate for president the teamsters i mean this is jimmy hoffa who's been under god knows how many federal investigations and tom morello the ultimate radical of propping up this ultimate insider so i think we do want to really change the left we really got to get folks into organized labor and i think we could be really powerful as a lot of folks from occupy organizing their workplaces getting involved in unions and shaking them up because we have the most corrupt inadequate overpaid labor system in the western world and i think today's protests where you know the president. doesn't even mention made a protest in front of a crowd of two thousand construction workers i think that shows it right there jesse what were you you were going to jump in there on tom morello. to me i just wanted to comment on something i hear frequently which is basically saying you have these material pleasures all look at the technology doesn't that prove that capitalism works and i wonder if the roman sai

administration the kennedys had made the teamsters too much of a public enemy, continuing on beyond hoffa, and i had a lot of respect for the general counsel, general counsel of teamsters, who subsequently went on to be a professor i think at michigan. and his name -- his last name begain with st. somebody, i can't recall it offhand. and i dealt with him. and he was a man of scrupulous decency and honor, so i was a little concerned that the teamsters had become needless scapegoats. i think subsequently we found out that fitzsimmons was not as decent as i hoped he was. but i certainly understood the natural inclination of both the teamsters and the republican administration to get together because the teamsters had been so much on the outs both from the afl-cio and the democratic party before then, so it was an obvious marriage of convenience. it was interesting because when the teamsters supported nixon, one of the -- when they agreed to support him, one of the quid pro quos that nixon would abandon this legislation that i had originally developed, the final offer of selection for nationa

and energy shares are gaining from hoffa percent to one percent so burbank is up home. percent b t v point eight says so is lukoil point eight percent positive now over in asia bit of a different picture there with the nikkei dropping almost zero percent feeling a bit better at the close point three percent near the close we are seeing exports are suffering from heavy losses there will also financials are softer against the backdrop of global do this is after ratings agency moody's has decided to lower twenty six sally and banks on monday including the country's majors like uni credit they also suffered a downgrade ten of them were downgraded to so-called junk status while some saw the raising scared by as much as not just the agency said the banks were increasingly vulnerable to these recession and the effects of government austerity measures all of them also put on negative credit watch meaning that further downgrades are possible. in the u.s. we've also seen a negative session with the indices coming down to a three month low is j.p. morgan led the declines on the do

those gains and the nikkei just having such a fraction of the posted territory the hindsight over hoffaercent just now they've been encouraged by a great opinion poll to say the vote is a warning to paul to support saying that the european union's politics not helping relieve the price of. greek exit is only a cause of it was some up rather disappointing figures coming out from china today it was a report to say the profits of china's industrial production actually slowed down as we can see behind sign that demonstration their resilience of that news and moving on we'll have a look at how wall street closed up the session on friday evening and they were already feeling the pressure coming out the spain with his five banks were downgraded by standard poor so that was really worrying investors across the spectrum of stock markets including the u.s. also cited a double dip recession. is that was because on if we get on to the oil prices we see that they're still gaining this that's helping to boost the markets here in moscow as well we've also got us stockpiles at twenty two month highs so

meanwhile see where it is counting the votes of the country how it's election for hoffa century but it was boycotted by the position. that amid continuing violence in the country many syrians believe the election gave them a real chance to help their country. it didn't get the stamp of approval from the opposition huge coup for. boycott the people did turn out to vote in syria's parliament she elections the elections taking place against the backdrop of instability in the country and the credibility of the very it's being called into question with the opposition boycotting the vote so that their participation the real question is just how serious a change will this election bring to the political landscape in syria and that's what we've been finding out i feel because we have some disturbance and some of this is ok we have to approve that we can move forward and we can overcome this obstacle here. for people who are like people who support you people who say. yes you know for to know for holding. your school developing because there were no international observers here something some f

from default and therefore help the economy alan hoffa commented on facebook said it when his slashing taxes on the rich and slashing spending on social programs led to a strong economy that's part of what caused the great recession obama is no f.d.r. but the notion that any of romney's policies would help the economy is without any foundation. he said on facebook no economy cannot improve without jobs we have to start making things again and selling them to others not just be consumers and me smoke them peace pipe commented on you tube the only way the economy will win is if the government stop stealing from the middle class and the poor and we all know that's not going to happen and by the way love christine redheads for the win so what's mixed responses nothing to hopeful that a president romney was going to stop the u.s. economy from going off a cliff and of course how could i not share a red head shout out. next i want to respond to some of the viewer comments on my interview last week with chris hedges about his victory in court over the n.b.a.'s indefinite detention last breath

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james hoffa told me in las vegas earlier this week when i spoke to the teamsters, he said, he's not theidate, but i said, it's the best thing you've got going. i said, do you want walker, he said, no, i can't want walker. >> let me give you a chance to do a battle cry. what happens if walker wins? what's it say about america? >> i'll use walker's comments. he says that this is going to empower a lot of radical governors and all the other republicans around the country that you can overreach in government. that this is really what the people want and this is really where we have to take the country. look, they are using this and viewing this as a template to the next level of how they want to run the -- >> is the u.s. chamber behind it? >> no question. the chamber's behind it, they'll be throwing millions in there, they already have. and the more money walker spends, the more he goes downs in the polls. >> i love all-time politics. and all politics is local, except for this guy. anyway, thank you, ed schultz. watch him tonight. we'll be watching "the ed show" at 8:00 eastern. >>> when i

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if you heard jim hoffa yesterday, he was very strong in his endorsement of the president.ich trumpka of the afl-cio, mary kay, all of the union together. we understand this is really about a fight for democracy in our opinion. we have people that want to destroy our economy. now they want to steal our democracy and we working people have to come together. people, whether they are union or non-union people who care about america being a democracy, we are going to come together to reelect president obama. >> i will let that be the last word. >> that's bob king president of the united auto workers union. coming up, the prodigal son returns. yeah, he wishes. mitt romney hands to lancesing. and first, the war room. put on your seatbelts. plus north carolina and indiana all held potentially game-changing elections today. complete results and smart analysis is on the way. we want you to follow along and join in our twitter page. you can do that at granholm pw ppwr. you can do that and we will be right back. valley, hollywood, and beyond. >>at the end of the day this show's simple

after all, take a listen to what teamsters president james hoffa had to say on may 7th. saying mitt romney represents everything that is wrong with our financial system. he made his money by destroying u.s. businesses, sending good-paying american jobs overseas, and filling his pockets with millions while putting workers out on the street. but, larry, it turns out that the teamsters don't actually hate private equity. they only hate a certain kind of private equity. and, in fact, teamsters pension funds around the country have a lot of money invested nems in private equity funds. in fact, more than $1 billion invested in private equity according to teamsters officials i talked to. i spoke with the western conference teamsters pension trust head who oversees investments there. he says i cringe sometimes when i hear them beating up on private equity for the sake of beating up on private equity. you can do so-called social investing and make just as much money as these others. so what are the teamsters talking about here? on the one hand criticizing bain capital, on the oth

hoffa saying mitt romney represents everything that's wrong with our financial system.e made his money as ceo of bain capital while destroying u.s. businesses, sending good paying american jobs overseas and filling his pockets with millions while putting workers out on the street. so what does the teamsters organization do with its money? in part it invests a lot of its money in private equity. in fact, up to or more than $1 billion worth of teamsters private equity investments made by individual teamsters regional funds around the country, they're operated separately from the teamsters national, but nonetheless i spoke to one of the people in charge of making those investments. take a look at what rome said the head of the western conference teamsters pension trust. and he said, i'll be honest with you, i cringe sometimes when i hear them beating up on private equity for the sake of beating up on private equity. you can do so-called social investing and make just as much money as these others. now, he told me in fact the teamsters don't have a single penny invested wit

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remember the speech where jim hoffa was introducing the president of the united states and talked aboutd i'll say witches out, and the president walked on stage and pretend he hadn't heard a thing. there wasn't a problem with that "take them out" language coming from a labor leader. megyn: when you have a supporter at a rally who makes extremist comments versus david axlerod loosely using the phrase "they are contract killers." >> i think there is no comparison between a random supporter saying something which the candidate does not agree and a top advisor. i would reference back to when a senior white house official on a press call called into question and implied the koch industries had somehow committed some impropriety. that was completely false. there is a treasury investigation and there is an alarming tendency to not just call names but apparently use the force of government to go after their political opponents. these are private citizens who had the temerity to disagree with the president. megyn: what about george soros. he's going to open his checkbook to the tune of $2 millio

international brotherhood of teamsters, good men and women of the teamsters union under president jim hoffal look better because of their good work. you can find out more about it at teamster.org. well, the political season must be winding down because nia malica henderson is back in town and in studio with us. political reporter for "the washington post." good morning nia. >> the campaign season is winding down indeed. >> bill: one of the last wind-downs, one of the last holdouts yesterday. you were there right? michele bachmann what, 121 days after she dropped out. >> she was like i think the first to drop out after coming in sixth in iowa and finally gave the big hug to mitt romney after of course slamming him as not being a real conservative, saying he wouldn't really repeal obama care. but yeah yesterday, it was real. there was never a real lovefest when it comes to mitt romney. a lot of them are very tepid. this one wasn't exactly -- she was on stage with bob mcdonnell. >> bill: of course what she said yesterday is not what she told jonathan carl from abc news less than a year ago. >>

international brotherhood of teamsters, good men and women of the teamsters union under president jim hoffa live better thanks to their good work. you can check out their work at teamster.org. it is 33 minutes after the hour. margaret talev in studio as a friend of bill this hour from bloomberg news covering the white house for bloomberg and look who's here. joining us back again media chief from politico, dylan byers. hey, dylan. good to see you. >> bill: nice to see both of you on a rainy day in washington, d.c. >> no better place to be. >> bill: to brave the traffic and the rain. >> it was very hard for me. >> bill: you don't have far to go. >> two blocks away. >> a bit of a marathon this morning but blame it on metro. it is all fine. we got here. >> bill: let's talk about -- newsmagazines are pass say. we talked about that before. nobody buys them anymore or reads them but both time and "newsweek" have made news with their covers. >> they have made news. >> bill: this is the new way of being relevant if you put out a controversial cover people will notice you. >> it is something that ti

live better thanks to the good work of the men and women of the teamsters union underú president jim hoffa find out more about their good work at their web site teamster.org. we'll get back to your calls about voter suppression attempts to suppress the vote on the part of republican governors in at least 25 to 30 states around the country. we'll take your calls at 1-866-55-press. eric holder saying this is a threat to our democracy. indeed it is. why aren't more people concerned about it? but we wanted to take a couple of minutes here to talk about something else we might be concerned about. that is the beginning of hurricane season tomorrow june 1st. joining us, good friend of the program, senior fellow at the center for american progress, joe rome. hey, joe, good morning. >> thanks for having me bill. >> i want to begin if i can with craig fugafe the director of fema appeared in the white house briefing room with jay carney. i would like you to listen to a question. >> it seems like there is a lot more tornado activity in a lot more places. do you see see more activity and do you attribu

we live better thanks to the good work of the teamsters union under president james hoffa.teamster.org. we will get back to your calls on why democrats, what's up with democrats, cory booker harold ford, jr., now ed randel of all people, the former democratic chair saying president obama is wrong, wrong to criticize mitt romney about bain capital. oh, yeah it was okay for newt gingrich, okay for rick perry, okay for rick santorum. but a democrat, we can't talk about bain capital 866-55-press. what's up. we will take a little time out to talk about facebook lead article in "the new york times" this morning, facebook debut raises questions on ipo processes. joining us on our news line bianca oscar is technologiested -- i'm sorry executive technology editor from huffington post. bianca thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. good morning. >> i am one of the suckers maybe. i bought 200 shares at 38 on monday. was face book -- did i pay too much for it? >> well, you know i think it's too soon to tell really. if you look at am zon, for example, now, you are $200 a share more than

here's a look at what hoffa had to say.rong with our financial system. he made his money on bain capital by destroying american business and filling his pockets with millions while putting workers out on the street. does that mean that the teamsters themselves don't invest in private equity? no, it does not. the regional pension funds have more than $1 billion invested in private equity. in fact, one of the private equity investors inside the teamsters organization had this to say. take a look at what the western conference teamsters pension trust investments chair, he said "i'll be honest with you, i cringe sometimes when i hear them beating you on private equity for the sake of beating up on private equity. can you do so-called social investing and make just as much money as these others," telling me that in fact the teamsters don't have any money at all invested in bain but they do invest in what he calls worker friendly private equity funds. he said they go out and find those private equity vehicles that are not slashin

international brotherhood of teamsters, good men and women of the teamsters' union under president jim hoffasident obama for reelection. their website at www.tot teamster.org. on this wednesday, we often tell you that we are so fortunate. >> our side, you know progressive watchdog for media matters for america and we welcome back katie paris the senior vice president of media matters. we let her go last week because she had a little vacation due. >> it is nice to be back. >> good to have you back. >> good to see you. >> if you are a republican candidate these days, you can't start your campaign without 6th avenue and 58th street. >> why do they need to know that? >> the little bill there. newscorp. >> roger ailes? right. >> yeah. my colleague wrote a book about him that came out this year the fox effect. yeah, it was interesting. an article documenting how republican leadership and republicans running for office in this country, you know, roger ailes who is head of the fox news network is up there in new york. the republican party, you better make a stop by. it's more important actually than