they said we object to the afl-cio being sold to a hedge fund manager with a boat load of cash.s in the same party behind the same candidate. lou: you know this, somehow the environmentalists have thrived within the democratic party at the expense of the unions and all sorts of industries in this country, and at the same time the afl-cio is aiding and abetting open borders and amnesty while undercutting low-wage employees in the country. stuart: a priceless opportunity for donald trump to create a few old-fashioned reagan democrats. pull in those union guys who have been put out of their place by the environmentalists. pull them over to donald trump and split the democratic party even further. i think that's what's happening. lou: we are seeing from exit polling, we see that that's exactly what's happening in these open primaries where independent and democrats are coming toward the republican party. that's why we are watching this donald trump fellow bring in more voters and any republican nominee in history this primary season. >> you can't ignore him. paul ryan can't keep him

report by the afl-cio shows the average pay of a ceo is at $12.4 million, or 335 times that of the averaget is an improvement from 2014, though, and top execs were 373 times the average worker. it has been trending higher. meanwhile, new study fines genetically modified crops are not only safe, but may be good for people and the environment. the national academy of sciences says gmo crops said it has led to more in sen to. >>> also, listen to this, pot smokers in colorado helping some kids to college. they're warding scholarships on legal marijuana and colorado growers and buyers pay more than $135 million in taxes last year. frances, back over to you. >> that's a whole lot of green, both kinds. >>> just ahead, running the 100 hard dash in how long. >>> a punch for punch, sports is next. just gotta get the check. almost there. i can't reach it. if you have alligator arms, you avoid picking up the check. what? it's what you do. i got this. thanks, dennis! if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. growwwlph. it's what you do. oh that is good crispy du

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a report by the afl/cio shows that the average pay of a ceo at the s&p 500 company is nearly $12.5 million or 335 times that of the average employee. that is an improvement from 2014 when top executives earned 373 times the pay of the average worker. can you believe that? it's been trending higher as compensation is tied more to -- >> we need to become ceos. >> we need to get on that as soon as possible. but also, got a new study that finds genetically modified crops are not only safe, but may be good for people and the environment. the national academy of sciences and engineering and medicine does say it's led to more resistant weeds and insects. more than 90% of the u.s. grown corn is modified. >>> this is a good one, pot smokers in colorado are sending kids to college. >> how so? >> the high cost of college, pun intended. scholarships are being awarded on the legal marijuana and the growers pay more than $135 million in taxes last year. betty, back to you. >> all right, all up in smoke. thank you. >>> well, the major first for the u.s. military to tell you about. >>> plus, are more torn

part of the coalition we have on this includes not only labor, afl-cio, but also the u.s. chamber of commerce, the national association manufacturers and other major business groups in the united states. there is a very broad coalition that is supporting this issue. and if you look at all the polling across the political parties, there tends to be strong support for infrastructure. >> democrats' line, akron, ohio. james, hello. go ahead. >> yes. i'm looking at a lot of things. talking about infrastructure. first of all, ohio. that's what i'm more familiar with. we have trouble around the country and traffic jams are terrible in virginia. just peshterrible. all day long. but in ohio the gentleman just said about prevailing wage. we had in the beginning of president obama's term, we were supposed to do a rail system here. and everything was approved and would have created 30,000 jobs in ohio. and governor kasich came in and said we couldn't afford it and canceled that, and we've done well with jobs in ohio. but with the infrastructure, the roads, and the rail systems, all th

. >> the afl-cio put out this report condemning ceo pay, but i was looking at what some of it executiveouncil members were making. six-figure salaries. the painters union spending $50 on wine bottles and the plumbers at a napa valley wine. charles: anaheim's population went up over 600% because in 1954 disney started construction on disneyland. if you have low skills there are very few places you can find today. >> i have to agree with gillian. there is a lot of hypocrisy. you can't have union presidents making hundreds of thousands of dollars saying they are representing the little guy who's working hard and making the same salary if not more than these high execs. >> a lot of these states where this is happening, it's not right to work states. it's taking union dues from the little guy. charles: who may not want to pay. this is a popular mess and. bernie sanders is killing it. he's gotten tens of thousands of people show up for his event. he's dominating the millennial voting. what's the deal in this country that we are turning on capitalism. >> mark called them useful idiots. this no

leaders of the nation's largest construction and building trade union sounding off to afl-cio presidentmpka over a recently announced partnership he made with billionaire environmentalist tom stir. president of the labors international union of north america wright we object to the political agenda of the afl-cio being sold to, quote, a job-killing hedge fund manager with a bag of cash. joining us now is not a man with a bag of cash. >> well put. >> but jared bernstein, a cnbc contributor and senior fellow at the center of budget and policy. >> a few bucks in my wallet and that's it. >> get him some coffee. >> former chief economic policy adviser to vice president biden. jared, i wonder why it took so long. one arm. democratic party that's really trying to kill coal, right, trying to kill different parts of the energy sector. they don't like fracking, et cetera. i mean, some days hillary likes fracking but others she doesn't apparently but that's where a lot of union jobs are so there's obviously going to be some kind of bat. seeing this play out here. how does this end? >> first of all

the pension rights center and the consumer federation of america, they afl-cio joined together in a coalition called save our retirement to stand up against the multimillion dollar body of the financial industry, and he won a great victory for american consumers. for the last five years, brokers and financial institutions thought vigorously to stop the department of labor from releasing a common ground rule that ensures the brokers and the financial advisers who give advice on your retirement account have to do so in your interest not only to line their pockets. pretty reasonable, right? [applause] this would cost to the american consumer $17 billion in here. but of course the industry fought this because they are making big bucks off of getting conflicting advice. but here's the thing, we fought the industrthoughtthe industry . and how? by bringing together a question, coordinating technical comments for the agencies come the meeting with educational boards, doing twitter campaigns and being persistent. but that wasn't over because of course, the financial industry is lobbying congress to tr

wants $50 million to get out the vote for democrats and wants afl-cio to put in money.ping fracking, right? he has been the win saying, going all environmental and wanting this administration to invest in solar companies and all this stuff. >> he is anti-blue-collar union jobs, pipe fitters, the pipeline makers, producers all that kind of thing. he is dead set against fossil fuels. now he wants big labor's money in this get out the vote effort. and there is a couple unions, including laborers union, which said, no, you're not getting our money. you oppose our interests. listen to what the head of labor union said. we object to the political agenda of the afl-cio being sold to a job-killing hedge fund manager with a bag of cash. i think that sums it up nicely. maria: that says it all. >> another rift. not just bernie versus hillary dividing the party. it is now unions versus greenies dividing the party. as you said, maria, isn't this golden opportunity for donald trump to scoop up blue-collar union guys. he is everring jobs, good-paying jobs. make america great again. th

police organizations, the international union of police associations, which is a division of the afl-cio. it's a simple common sense amendment and stands for the simple principle that the safety of the american people matters. the life of kate steinle matters. now, let me just right up front i want to defunct some of the misinformation that is occasionally promulgated about this amendment. one is the idea it would discourage people from coming forward and reporting crimes or reporting that they witnessed a crime or that they were a victim of crime and, therefore, it's a bad idea. well, the fact is our legislation has been drafted in such a way that if a local community has a law that says local law enforcement shall not inquire about the immigration status of a crime victim or witness, according to our legislation that doesn't make you a sanctuary city. so any city would still be free to offer that protection to people so that they would not have to fear deportation for disclosing a crime. the fact is this amendment is jermaine. jermaine. it was timely filed. this is the right venue. thi

but when you have an idea, like infrastructure bank that the chamber of commerce and the afl-cio areoth behind, i think it is stands to reason that is probably quite a good idea and is disappointing you haven't seen congress take it up. >> do you expect anything before january 20th? >> we'll look whatever openings we can on the issue but i haven't seen congress move further on this one. >> before i weigh in on another is there anybody who hasn't had one want one? let me ask you briefly about wall street pay regulations much in the news yesterday? i wanted to see, a, if you support them, and how you respond to critics, some who say that it will drive people out of the industry, or, sort of another perverse effect might be, that the banks and other affected institutions will have to pay people more because of their fear that money will be clawed back. what is your take on the wall street regs, wall street pay regs? >> the goal of dodd-frank was to strengthen the financial system. and deal with a range of the different problems that led to the last crisis. one of those problems was the

the steelworkers union here in the united states, one of the largest unions in the afl-cio, here, stunned the world of american labor two years ago when they issued a press release announcing the formal alliance-- i'll use their words--the formal alliance between the steelworkers union of the united states, which--i don't know how many members it has, but in the hundreds of thousands, big union--with mondragon, the corporate--that huge, successful worker's self-directed enterprise in spain. and i remember many of us were taken aback. "what an interesting idea. an alliance." what did it mean? well, the details were hard to come by. it seems as though there was discussion, obviously, between them. they issued a joint press release and had a press conference. but it's hard to tell, so i'm now going to imagine where this might go. i'm not saying that's where they're taking it. i don't know exactly where they're going to take it, or even whether they're going to take it somewhere, but here's what i would do. imagine a trade union movement with a completely different strategic idea from what it

the pension rights center and the consumer federation of america, they afl-cio joined together in a coalition called save our retirement to stand up against the multimillion dollar lobby of the financial industry, and he won a great victory for american consumers. for the last five years, brokers and financial institutions fought vigorously to stop the department of labor from releasing a common ground rule that ensures the brokers and the financial advisers who give advice on your retirement account have to do so in your interest not only to line their pockets. pretty reasonable, right? [applause] karen: this would cost to the american consumer $17 billion in here. but of course the industry fought this because they are making big bucks off of getting conflicting advice. but here's the thing, we fought the industrythoughtthe industry -- we fought the industry and qe won. and how? by bringing together a question, coordinating technical comments for the agencies come the meeting with educational boards, doing twitter campaigns and being persistent. but that wasn't over because of course, the f

another praises the agenda of the afl-cio. the veteran who contacted me was appalled he was barraged by these pro-union advertisements during his visits to the v.a. i couldn't agree more. they shouldn't be blatantly getting advertisements while receiving care at v.a. facilities. my staff investigated this issue and while solicitations law, union d by lobbyists were able to carve out a special exemption that allows solicitation of labor organization membership or dues in v.a. facilities. this is a blatant abuse of law, taxpayer-funded facilities for the purpose of pushing a pro-union agenda. given the obvious political nature of these groups, they should not be allowed to advertise in the v.a. facilities. furthermore, the fact that v.a. employees are engaging in union activities while on the clock is unacceptable given the current state of the v.a. anytime these employees spend time doing union activities is time they cannot spend treating our veterans. with the massive backlog of cases and the fact that veterans have literally