our guest this week on newsmakers with richard trumka, president of the afl-cio. here to question mr. trumka are our two analysts. >> good to see you. thanks for doing this. you're in the middle of the immigration talks going on right now. it's one of the biggest issues happening in washington and you're playing a central role. as we see the negotiations going on, it's becoming clear there will be a big influx probably if they go ahead with this foreign workers, both low scaled and high scaled and that's a pretty controversial issue for the labor movement and has been for many years. how do you get those members in those unions that aren't so supportive of that to move along and support you if you decide to agree to the deal the democrats and republicans are working on? >> first of all, comprehensive immigration reform is necessary to help you create an economy that really does work for everybody. right now you have a permanent underclass where people are denied their rights and deny healthy, safe place to work and can't complain about it because they have no right

is richard trumka. >> it is good to see you. thank you for doing this. you are in the middle of the immigration talks. you are playing a pretty central role. as we see negotiations, it is clear there is going to be a big influence -- influx -- influx. that is a pretty controversial issue. members toget your move along and support you if to the dealo agree that they're working on? >> comprehensive immigration reform is necessary to create an economy that works everybody. right now you have a permanent underclass for people are denied a place to work. they cannot complain about it. they have no right. our priority is to make sure we get citizenship to every worker. that will help every worker. they will not be able to use them to dry out wages down. negotiations continue. there'll be people go in and it is data driven. there will be a data driven system. if there are shortages, we ought to be able to bring people in at a fair wage that does not relegate them to poverty or drag down american wages. it triggers training. we can train american workers to take

our guest on "newsmakers" is richard trumka. he talks about minimum wage proposals and the union federation's talks about guest workers and how they should be paid. watch sunday on c-span. anna harrison,, whose husband dies afte ra month in office. letisha tyler and she passes away a year and a half later. julia tyler, his second wife. >> she is the madonna of first ladies. she had posed as a model when that was frowned upon and was known as the rose of long island. by all accounts was bewitching, and she bewitched john tyler, who married her and -- she loved first lady. she ordered the marine band to chief and to the c-- hail to te her guests on a throne, going to the queenly role. >> we will include your comments about that by phone, facebook, and twitter. monday on c-span and c-span 3, and c-span radio and c-span .org. >> this year we had a record 180993 entries in the student video, with the messages to the president. see all the winning documentarlies online. mia love,arks by saratogan mayor of psrings. she report at the le

coming up next is our newsmakers presidentth afl-cio richard trumka. the interview took place with earlier this week before a reported deal was made between business and labor leaders on this guest worker program. mr. trumka also talks about other issues including minimum wage. [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] today's does it for "washington journal." we will be back tomorrow. >> today, newsmakers with trumka and then mayor mia love. statue of rosa parkss

. ♪ >> this week on "newsmakers" our he will richard trumka talk about minimum wage proposals from presidentbama and democrats in congress, and the union federation talks with the u.s. chamber of commerce over workers and what they should be paid. watch 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. some news out of afghanistan today from the associated press. e u.s. handed control of a providence to kabul ending a dispute with president karzai. the handover is part of the accelerated timetable. most forces will be with drawn by december of next year. u.s. operation forces will continue to visit the afghan eam. general john allen led the nato mission in afghanistan last year. he talked about meeting with afghan president karzai. here's a look. >> i've known president karzai for a long time. let me talk about my relationship with them because it is in that context i hear his comments. i've known him since early 2009. i got to know him well from the time i took command in mid 2011. ryan a phrase from crockers' book president karzai has the hardest job on the planet. the things he has had to deal

richard trumka is our guest. mr.nkite talks about the union's position in the national debate over immigration and beasts as for foreign workers -- also,for foreign workers declining union membership. >> i applaud the president for opening up a conversation and getting a debate going on. that was very important. it was necessary for the president to use his bully pulpit to do that. >> it was not part of the campaign. this was a change to hear. the minimum wage has really lagged behind. to 1968 and you brought the minimum wage forward with inflation, it would be $10.68 right now. if you kept it in place for what the average wage was, it would be around $12 right now. it is important for us to increase the minimum wage. house and senate democrats have come together with a bill that is $10.60. that will be indexed according to the average wage. the president's proposal was $9. that was disappointing. we think it should be hired to keep up with inflation to get .eople where -- to where it was our economy is 72% driven by

we can also see in the audience reverend al sharpton, labor leader richard trumka and earlier we sawovernor martin o'malley. the senate will be in 2:00 eastern time here on c-span2. the house will be in in just a few minutes over on our companion network, c-span. and we're live here in the east room of the white house. president obama will be speaking shortly where he's expected to nominate thomas perez to be his labor secretary. and, again, mr. perez is currently the assistant attorney general for civil rights. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] knox. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states accompanied by thomas perez. [applause] >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you. everybody have a seat, have a seat. [applause] >> well, as i've said before, my top priority as president is doing everything we need to do to make sure that we're growing our economy and that we're strengthening our middle class. and as i said at my state of

[applause] ["stars and stripes forever" plays] ♪ >> this week, our guest is richard trumka.will talk about visa programs for workers from other countries about minimum wage proposals from democrats in congress and the union federations talks with the chamber of commerce over guest and what they should be paid. that is sunday at 10:00 and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. the bipartisan policy center and new commission on political reform has today kickoff event of their national campaign to end what they called hyper partisanship in halted and government. susan page from "usa today" moderates the panel, featuring a bipartisan group of politicians and commentators. viewers watched a video webcast and responded via tweets and phone calls. this is about 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a deep right to be here today. not only because it is not snowing outside, as it is back in d.c.. usa today is so proud to be able to work with the bipartisan policy center on these big issues facing our country. but i interview someone who served in the military, especially in iraq and afgh