so here at the afl-cio, we don't just see it from a monolithic perspective. we are trying to help people live a better life. what does that look like? that looks like being able to show up at work as your full self and also being able to receive the benefits and wages that you deserve no matter your gender, sexual identity, or your -- your gender, your sexual identity, or your race. dave zirin: i also heard -- people should google this if they are not aware of it, but the seattle teachers this past week, they all wore black lives matter t-shirts to school. there were celebrations and rallies of that at schools across the city of seattle, a city by the way that is only 8% african-american. so it was taken on by a majority non-african-american actors, asserting the idea that black lives matter. it started as an act of solidarity when one school, in elementary school of all things wanted to do a racial pride , celebration, and they got bomb threats. they got white supremacist threats and they got vandalism. what is so important is that teachers wanted to do some

i'm carmen berkeley here at the national afl-cio in washington, d.c. welcome to the house of labor for those of you have never been here on behalf of our president, president richard trumka. today, we will be talking about athletes, racial, and social justice. this intersection of workers and racial justice is work that the afl-cio has been doing over five decades. since recent happenings in our world, we started digging deeper into racial justice after the incident in missouri. for us, talking about workers with racial justice issues and how unions should protect people of color and the work that we do in the workplace. he workplace. you know, when i think about what is going on in our nation , there is so much conversation about colin kaepernick. we all know that that conversation about athletes taking a stand goes way far back. i don't know how many of you have actually been to the new african-american smithsonian. there is an actual section yeah, given applauded for that. they have a section with the most famous of athletes taking direct action wit

the afl-cio, we think $5 trillion is a wealthy guess. and it's important that we understand there's more than transportation. transportation is absolutely critical. but it's important that we think about our nation's infrastructure challenges, transportation, communications, and energy. as the full range of public goods that are critical to the united states being a competitive place to do business in the 21st century. so if that's the scale, how might we -- the second thing to understand is timeline. this is not a short-term matter. the assets that we need to construct, whether it's the repair and maintenance of our existing mass transit, interstate highway systems, the construction of the power transmission lines needed to get energy from places where there's wind to places where there's demand, whether it's our ports. these are assets that in many cases take a long time to build, and that last a long time. so we have to think about the financingw÷jmn that frame. and as has been alluded to by several of the prior speakers, in many resp

so the chamber and the afl have been a very important part of this. ed, if you talk for a second about what the priorities for the chamber our and what you think we need to do. >> thanks to marcia. a great opportunity to be a. bloomberg always seems to tie these things right. great time. i want to wield back a little bit because game at our several parts of the stage. anyone who sees our bosses together at infrastructure week knows this is a long-term commitment of the business community working with organized labor. we started a coalition called americans for transportation mobility back in 2000. i think all panelists, many in the audience and all the country, this has been 15 years of effort to get to the point where we had two presidential candidates talk about important infrastructure. it just didn't come out of the woodwork. we are just idea because somebody wanted us talking about a. this is that a sustained campaign for some years. we have once in a generation opportunity to take advantage of that, and just as throw that out there. this is a ne

so the chamber and the afl have been a very important part of this. and if you could just talk for a second about what the priorities for the chamber on and what you think we need to do. >> thanks. a great opportunity to be here, and bloomberg always seems to time these things right. so great time. i think i want to wheel back a little bit, because even though damon and i are in separate parts of the stage, anyone who has seen our bosses together knows this is a long time commitment of the business community working with organized labor. we started americans for transportation mobility back in 2000. and i think all the panelists here, many of you in this audience and all over the country, this has been 15 years of effort to get to the point where we had two presidential candidates talking about the importance of infrastructure. it just didn't come out of the woodwork. we're just not here because somebody wanted to talk about it. this has been a sustained campaign for several years. we have once in a generational opportunities to take advantage of that

. >> two hikers are safe afl being rescued at jaspee lake. found after other campers reported them missing. they were from florida and louisiana. they got here on monday and the tomorrow rolled in and when they tried to leavv, that's when they got lost. >>> good morning, it's wednesday. we're at the wadsworth light rail station. it's free coffee and donuts. >>dale said she wanted chocolate covered with sprinkles. this will be perfect for her. >> sorry, dayle. >> i guess i'll get you a glazed, dayle. >> it is cold. perfect. nd coffee. and it's trying to clear out. i'm trying to do weather with the donut in my mouth. this is not good. windchill from sa to 30 degrees in some spots. it's a cold start. starting in the single digits inh. in higher elevations. and -- low to mid 50s expected statewide, again, you're going to find a good warm up there as well. were yesterday. tomorrow is going to be dry. sunshine statewide. it's really tonight and early tomorrow morning, that the northwestern mountains, steamboat and rabbit ears pass, it's going to st

he's gone from the afl, canadian football league and now the nfl. >> now we know what albert is doing with all that money we paid him. >> nothing. >>> that's the news at 6:00. the cbs evening news is next. >> of course we >> pelley: america's new reality. >> donald j. trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the united states on january 20. >> i think we're kind of in unchartered territory. >> i promise you that i w let you down. >> we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. >> we are now all rooting for his success. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: the outsider is in. donald john trump rode a wave of anti-washington anger on an

he is the director of policy and special counsel at the afl-cio. he joined as general counsel in 1997. the treasury department's financial research advisory committee and the oversight board standing advisory group and he served as the oversight group for the troubled asset relief program. everybody knows it as part. >> important different. >> he was involved with that from 2008 until 2011. he also had an important role in analyzing and looking at the causes of the financial crisis. he worked for two different unions. our third speaker is kenneth noted. he is a professor of economics at the university north carolina greensboro. it's published extensively on the mortgage market. i would say he is the preeminent [inaudible] of the mortgage market from original in the. [inaudible] his co- editor and contributor to housing and mortgage market in historical perspective. both published by the university of chicago. he received his phd in economic history from the university of wisconsin at madison. again, the order of our speakers will be peter, damon an

in a speech to the afl-cio, warren said she would be open to hearing trump's ideas on the economy. >> count me in. i will push aside our differences and i will work with him to achieve that goal. jc: warren continued that she wo anything that she felt did not reflect that best interests of the american people. trump may be backing away from his proposal to ban muslims from entering the u.s.. if you go to his campaign website, this statement that was issued months ago has disappeared. that ban called for a complete shutdown of muslims from entering the u.s. until lawmakers quote figure out what is going on. trump recently altered his words, saying the ban should be on immigration from countries tied to terrorism, not muslims specifically. website asking for your ideas. great again dot gov was launched by trump's transition team and it's now up and running. you'll also find trump's ideas for national security and the economy. there's a link right now on the wcvb mobile app. ed: right now, a man and woman from connecticut are in state custody after a stabbing, two carjackings and a chase

the group is afl yachted with the alt-right movement. president-elect trump told the "new york times" today that he disavows andcoen demes the group. the comments comes after he faces criticism over his choice of steve bannon. bannon has also been linked to the alt-right movement. he is also dealing with another controversy tonight. this one involving the trump foundation. in a few filing the foundation reports it violated irs rules. those rules prohibit using the charity's money or assets to benefit mr. trump, his family, his companies, or substantial contributors. the filing doesn't detail the violations. it comes as new york's attorney general has been investigating the foundation. >>> vice president joe biden will not run for chairman of the democratic national committee. his name has been mentioned by democratic insiders as the possible candidate. the party is said to choose a new leader next year after losing the white house, senate, and house in the 2016 election. biden's spokesperson says he is not interested in the position, but

he joined afl-cio as associate counsel in 1997. he served in a pro bono basis as special assistant attorney general for new york. as a member of the advisory committee of the fcc, patricia departments research advisory committee, the public company accounting oversight board stand and advisory group and his investor buys recruit. a also served as deputy chair of the congressional oversight panel for the troubled asset, is it -- relief program. troubled asset relief program to everyone knows it is hard. publisher is going to be repurchased. troubled asset relief program from 2008-2011, and so we also had an important role in analyzing and commenting on the cause of the financial crisis. before joining the afl-cio he worked for two different unions, and also clerked for to judge of the delaware court for chancellor our third speaker is professor kenneth snowden, a professor of economics at the university of north carolina greensboro and also research associate at the national bureau of economic research. he's published extensively on

and has been very critic afl any move by the c.i.a.n the use of waterboarding and other-- what the bush bugz delicately called enhanced interrogation techniques and president obama called torture techniques. and that could well set up a really fascinating confrontation between a new head of the c.i.a., and a staff that has moved through considerable reforms over the past eight years. >> rose: senator jeff sessions is not necessarily within the area that you cover. he's been your senator, known to be the first senator to endorse donald trump and been close as an adviser during the campaign, had strong feelings about immigration. what about his selection as the next attorney general? david? >> well, he's got, i think in the course of the confirmation hearings, you're going to hear a lot about the civil rights investigations that took place. and when he was up for a federal judgeship, i guess more than 20 years ago, and that was a pret pretty-- pretty brutal period, and i think those same questions are going to be raised because he's goin

he loves to be the best, show that he's the best afl that. and i will say because i write about ceo and billionaire for "the wall street journal" and i think all of the ceo and billionaires that i cover have some of donald trump and donald trump has some of them. they all occupy a rare, rarefied error full of themselves to be to that point and knocked away competitor and had to think differently and so -- one reason when i first met him in august, when everyone else thought he was like crazy, and had no chance. and i went in his office and introduced myself and he knew who i was because he had read some of my profile of others, so we got along and i said look, i'm gong to treat you legitimately because you're a ceo and billionaire, and so from that point on, i knew that i could work on a level playing field with him in a way differently because i kind of knew the ground he backed. and he's different. he's much more maybe much more ego, much more, you know, a little craziness. but they're all. i think all ceo and billionaires to some extent ha

. >> ted has acquired a second afl team based in baltimore still to be named and where they will play in the spring of 2017. >>> tonight, backlash as president elect trump picks his powerful inner circle, lifting a man with ties to white nationalists into the heart of the white house. protests erupt as president obama weighs in on the new >>> a father found guilty of leaving his young son to die in a hot car. a dramatic conclusion to a case that shocked the nation. exploding wildfires spreading across the south. thick smoke blanketing cities. is someone setting them intentionally? >>> "making a murderer" twist. after a trial millions saw as a miscarriage of justice, tonight a man locked away as a teenager is ordered

the officers now have to keep their head on a swivel and vehicles pulling up alongside you have to be afl of. it's unprecedented. i don't know where it's going to end. i just don't know. the police officers right now. i don't know where it's going to stop. >> more than a a thousand people have had their sentences commuted under president obama. the white house made the announcement today. it says president obama has now commuted more sentences than the past 11 presidents combined. most of them were non-violent drug offenders. he's been calling for an overhaul for years. it burdens taer of offenders in prison for so long. >>> from the classroom to the streets, some local students get a real life lesson on disasters. >> now they are looking at things in a different way. . what they found when they u asked whether the flooding could have been prevented. >>> and a recipe for the perfect >>> you know how busy it can get in the kitchen. it's also a really busy day for fire departments. all of the stress of trying to get that turkey just right can fraz l even the most collective cook and start a

speaking at the afl-cio labor federation, the democratic senator also said she will fight all attempts to loosen financial regulation every step of the way. edward lawrence joins us from washington. is it going to be that easy of a ride for donald trump given there's a lot of opposition from the democrats? >> carolin, this is not going to be easy on donald trump. that was a day you saw a smooth transition, they wanted to show the world we could make a smooth transition. donald trump started to work forward towards his policy agendas, saying his day in washington, d.c. was just fantastic. you saw that remarkable image of the president and president-elect shaking hands. there were bitter comments between each other. white house spokesperson josh earnest echoed that respect saying the meeting was less awkward than they thought it might be, still josh earnest holding to the fact that the president stands by his words that he said throughout the campaign that donald trump is unfit to be president here. there's a lot of contention with all of this the president-elect went on to meet with sen

. >> reporter: reagan gave a speech before the afl-cio at the sprawling washington hilton hotel. >> when the president was in public, i made it my job to always be there, where the body was. >> reporter: abc news white house correspondent sam donaldson. >> the term is often, in my day, called the body watch. >> reporter: at 2:27, a small group of press and onlookers were gathered outside the hotel. >> right here was a rope line. >> reporter: okay. >> and it kept everyone back. >> reporter: del wilbur is author of "rawhide down", a book "rawhide" was the code name given to reagan by the secret service. >> the limousine was 15 feet away this direction. >> and he came out. he was waving. he was smiling. i began to ask him a question. the president began to turn when -- [ imitating gunfire ] the president was being pushed into his car and, obviously, i wanted to see if i saw any evidence that he'd been hit. and i did not see any. >> reporter: six shots fired. three men down. the secret service swarmed the unbeknownst to anyone, the sixth bullet had ricocheted off the limo door and struck the

. >> reporter: sending supporters like the head of the afl-cio into union halls and factory towns, spreadinghe word trump's no union man. >> this guy's the most anti-union, anti-worker candidate that the republican party has put up since before world war ii. >> reporter: but unions here aren't as powerful as they once were. all of which makes the turnout of another democratic dynamo even more crucial. african-american voters. especially in cleveland and cuyahoga county. clinton has to win the county big. some say by a margin of 200,000 votes to offset down state republicans. but early voting numbers have some democrats worried. >> we're not that far off of 2012 and i just believe that by election day we will be where we need to be. >> reporter: african-american voters i talk to all support clinton. >> in this election i'm going with someone i feel is competent and someone who has a background in government. >> reporter: all say they have or will vote for her. >> i have heard that numbers are down as well but i think we have got a strong team here in cleveland in particular that will work the

the afl-cio, we think $5 trillion is a rough guess. it's important we understand it as pore than just transportation. transportation is absolutely critical, but it's important that we think about our nation's infrastructure challenges, transportation, communications, and energy. as the full range of public goods that are critical to the united states being a competitive place to do business in the 21st crentry. -- century. if that's the scale, how might we -- second thing to understand is timeline. this is not a short-term matter. the assets that we need to construct, whether it's the repair and maintenance of our existing mass transit, interstate highway system, the construction of the power, power transmission lines needed to get energy from places where there's wind, to places where there's demand. whether it's our ports. these are assets that many cases take a long time to build and it lasts a long time. so we need to think about the financing in that frame. and as has been alluded to by several of the prior speakers, in many respe

you tweet us @afl-cio to continue to follow the conversation. thank you all so much for being here. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.o >> we're asking students to participate. what do you think incoming president donald trump should ?ddress students can work alone or in groups of up to three to produce a 5-7 minute documentary on the issue presented. a grand prize will go to the team with the best overall entry. overall, prizes will be awarded and 53 teachers. for more information, go to our website studentcam.org. a discussion on how states are discussing unfunded pension liabilities. future ofu.s. medicaid. and, corporations and foreign governments. a new report from the american legislative exchange council shows that state public pension nearlyre now unfunded by $5.6 trillion. policy analysts discuss how state and local governments are discussing the rise. from the heritage foundation, this is one hour. [applause] host: welcome a hand thank you for coming here today desp

you have elizabeth warren coming out today and saying to the afl/cio, let's heed the possibility of changent right now. let's see how the governments proceed, i think that would be really telling. >> thank you both for the time. we're going to trump tower in new york city for a look at what may be expected tonight from those trump protests that have been taking place. ♪ ♪ but till you came alo♪g ♪ we counted on our fingers and toes ♪ ♪ now you're here to st♪y ♪ and nobody really knows..♪ zero really can be a hero. get zero down, zero deposit, zero due at signing, and zero first month's payment... ...on select volkswagen models. right now at the volkswagen sign then drive event. all finished.umm... you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way. i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. painter: you want this color over the whole house? >>> donald trump's plane has now landed back in new york city, this after his day-long trip to washington, d.c. he met with president obama there and then was on capitol hi

she's accused of afl loui-- of allowing a confidante to control fromm ethe shadows. 50,000 turned out the demonstration. >>> back to politics and the election of druonald trump. a new challenge, how to handle a president with such extensive business dealings and. what's a conflict of interest and what is not. we have more from trump tower. tammy, good morning. what do we know about the future. trump's businesses once he takes office? >> reporter: good morning. that's unclear. you know, i'm here at the crown jewel of the trump empire. and he's not here this morning. he is in new jersey at a country club that he owns. the trump brand is everywhere. it's unclear at this point what will happen to that brand once he takes office. a trump aboutface. on friday, the president-elect agreed to settle the $25 million lawsuit against trump university alleging fraud. after insisting all along he was not going to give in. >> i don't settle lawsuits, very rare. once you settle lawsuits, everybody shoes you. >> reporter: the trump organization admitted no wrongdoing and said "we have no doubt that tr

. >> reporter: sending supporters like the head of the afl-cio into union halls and factory towns, spreading word, trump is no union man. >> this guy is the most anti-union, anti-worker candidate that the republican party has put up since before world war ii. >> reporter: but unions here aren't as powerful as they once were. all of which makes the turnout of another democratic dynamo even more crucial. african-american voters. especially in cleveland and cuyahoga county. >> i'm concerned. >> reporter: clinton has to win the county big. some say by a margin of 200,000 votes to offset downstate republicans. but early voting numbers have some democrats worried. >> we're not that far off of 2012. and i just believe that by election day we'll be right where we need to be. >> reporter: african-american voters i talked to all support clinton. >> and this election i'm going to go with someone that i feel is competent, and someone who has a background. >> reporter: and all say they have, or will vote for her. >> i've heard that numbers are down, as well. but i think we've got a strong team here in cl

speaking to the afl krircio elih warren said they'd fight bigotry no matter who is in the white house. >> we will fight back against attacks on la stetinos, african-americans, women, muslim, immigrants, disabled americans, on everyone. whether donald trump sits in a glass tower or sits in the white house, we will not give an inch on this. not now, not ever. >> joining any n ining me now fe house, kristen welker. what was that scene like? >> reporter: it was striking, chris, for all of the reasons that you just laid out because president obama had just campaigned so vigorously against president-elect trump. he had said he will never be elected president and here the two were sitting in the oval office, but, look, i have been talking to sources here, officials here, who say the president takes this very seriously. this transition of power. this is something that they have been working on here for about a year. they are going to hold a series of meetings with his staffers. there are going to be intelligence briefings as you know and there are also going to be some exercises in case of em

baltimore ravens tight end -- benjamin watson and representatives from the players association and afl-cio. they discuss the protest being led by: and -- colin kaepernick and labor unions. this is two hours. >> good evening, everyone. >> good evening. >> you will have to be

stood here originally, we stood for the right things, we did not dilly dally and we have driven forth afl very come mendable agenda for our country to be proud of. and i thank you. >> thank you very much. >> okay. and seeing no other distinguished guests, i will acknowledge supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. >> and good afternoon, again, ladies and gentlemen, mr. mayor, president breed, and senator, it is wonderful to sit here in this beautiful chamber and just have a moment to reflect. if you think about it, we have come quite a long ways, and in a short period of time, 100 years, mr. mayor you can the first, chinese american mayor, elect and president breed being an african american woman, a few that have held the titles of the chair woman of this body and senator, the first mayor of san francisco. no mistake excuse me? >> excuse me. first female mayor, first lady, absolutely. i also want to recognize the current clerk of the board, we have come a really long way, we are celebrating the 100 anniversary of this chamber, when you consider that it was just 51 years, post the proclam

chuck schumer, set to be the most powerful democrat in town as the senate minority leader at an afl-cio earlier today admitted to them ttp is dead, the transpacific partnership has been scrapped, put away any thought of it being revived certainly before the president leaves and probably into next year because it will be up to president trump to sort out what to do about global trade. you know, other groups across the city are starting to come to grips with that and realizing they have regrouping to do. and i think to margaret's point, the fact there's now this huge collection of unemployed democrats who will have to figure out what to do and how to rebuild the party. at a time when republicans -- we've all talked to republicans in the last week who i think are resigned to the fact that trump is going to lose and now have to totally redraw -- >> they were not prepared for this. >> they were not. i think that will have a lot to do with how they set the tone because they weren't thinking it was going to happen and now they realize they are and they got -- >> let me ask a question quick bec

this afternoon, an american enterprise institute scholar who work in the reagan administration, the afl-cio policy director and an economics professor from the university of north carolina. this discussion will be moderated by a securities la

the mayor ordered all flags to fly at afl staff until he is laid to rest. that killed six. dan hausle has more. >> reporter: investigators took measurements for maps to better understand the deadly crash, but the grandson of school bus driver glenn shapel says his grandfather's medical records may hold the answers to why the bus went out of control and striking a commuter bus head-on. he said his grandfather had a history of seizures and took medicine to a medical emergency that unfortunately, he last control. and he wasn't able to function properly. >> reporter: a police report shows that he was involved in a crash less than two years ago where he lost consciousness and control of his car. the report says he was on seizure medicine then. >> since this medical condition has him being this way i can't say that i agree with him driving the bus. >> no mechanical defects or deficiencys were noted. >> reporter: cameron was in a car behind the bus and he and a s pregnant fiancee helped to rescue victims. >> i don't think he ever put his brakes on. >> motor vehicle administration

. >> he's sacrificed afl that to run for office.motive i wouldn't doubt that for a moment but fact is she's going to serve the american people and he's said things that would never be said. he's brought up issues throughout this campaign that no one else would be talking about if it weren't for him. because they don't have the guts. >> important you can't intimidate him his own resources do what he thinks is right and i think to a certain extent that to a certain extent that's well worth the risk because what's going on there does not work, and if you elect mrs. clinton, you get more of obama, more of bill clinton. and the last act of the clinton moved out of the white house and loaded up a bunch of furniture that belonged to the government and moved it. to the government and moved to chappaquiddick. they had to pay $200,000 in penalties and fines -- lou: that's a lot of money when they were dead broke like that. [laughter] ed rollins, thanks so much. we appreciate it, as always. ed, i like -- i'm going to use this all the time now.

major police unions in the country, fraternal order of police, biggest police union in the country and afl-cio international union of police associations. read more about that at thehill.com today. we have more live coverage coming up on c-span networks today. c-span3, 6:00 p.m. amy klobuchar and langford discuss how they and congress plan to work with the trump administration. here on c-span3. technology industry experts on vulnerability of electronic and internet connected devices people use daily and growing number of malicious actors trying to exploit them. recommendations to congress for protecting consumers. >> i'll call to order the sub committee on communications and technology in our joint committee hearing on congress manufacturing and trade. good morning, everyone. i'll start with opening statements for our side and for our subcommittee and i think we go back and forth. so work this out. i want to thank two subcommittees for coming together on this very important topic i think we all share a deep concern about. we live in a world increasingly connected. our smart phones are capable