the american conservative union was most visible opponent the a.c.u. produced the biggest i novation of the treaty fight. the infomercial. a precursor of those wonderful programs that spend a half hour at 2:30 a.m. saying their product will eliminate hair loss or slice an tkaoeups and give you flat abs. a.c.u. began broadcasting in october of 1977 with representative phil cain of ill on edge of a desk saying this could be the most important tv program you have ever watched. he warned carter and senate are preparing to ignore your express wishes by giving away what he called the american canal at the isthmus of panama. it showed film of the canal in operation as he described it as an engineering marvel and recounted the until of lives lost in the process of building it. he tkaouplsintroduced the other speakers and after each spoke he urged the audience to write their senators an pledge at least $10 to the a.c.u. for its fight to save the canal. the program was shown more than 200 times with a total audience estimated at nine million. aside from however

the american conservative union though, was the most visible opponent. the acu produced the biggest single innovation of the treaty fight. the infomercial. a precursor of those wonderful programs that spend a half hour at 2:30 a.m. in the morning telling you that their product will eliminate hair loss or slice and dice, or give you flat abs in five minutes a day. the ec began broadcasting is program in october 1977 and began with representatives phil crane of illinois the was the chairman of the aclu, sitting on the edge of a desk and saying this might be the most important tv program you've ever watched. he warned that carter and the senate are preparing to ignore your expressed wishes by giving away what he called, the american canal at the isthmus of panama. the program showed film and animation of the canal and operation, as he described it as an engineering marvel and recounted the number of lives lost in the process of building. crane introduced other speakers, four senators and two leaders of veterans' organizations and after each of them spoke to

but he new that jackson at a molt of ultimate crisis found a way to express the poetry of the american union and wanted to have that document, that was looking for a point of reference in the past as he embarked 0en a formidable crisis but not unprecedented one. theodore roosevelt admired andrew jackson's instinct for the jugular. he said that no man other than lincoln or washington had left a deeper mark upon in the american culture. fdr was boredline obsessed with jackson, wasn't quiet brokeback mountain but a very odd sort of thing. he -- i can say because of warm springs and all that. in fact in 1937, fdr's inaugural stan was build in the form of the hermitage on pennsylvania after knew. in 194 , 1 in the midst of horrible frustrations about isolationism, fdr gave a radio address in which he talk about how we had to recover the rugged and courageous spirit of andrew jackson. while the threats in jackson's day came from within, ours, fdr say, come from without, and as the enemy powers come ever closer, we have to recover the spirit of jackson to win through in our own time. harry truman w

in the history of man, nato has stood the test of time, i am an internationalist, i hope the american unionves, i hope we can get more contributions... i think what trump is trying to do is say, you know, to our european allies, you're not carrying your fair share when it comes to defence spending, and they're not. that's different than saying the alliance has not been official. a final thought for you, it goes back to a couple of things we have talked about. this unfolding investigation into the russian meddling in the election and potential alleged collusion involving the trump campaign. that could be enormously damaging and serious for the president himself. the other reality is that his relationship with some of the key players in your own party on capitol hill is pretty poisonous. those two things combined have led people to debate whether this president is going to see through his four—year term. do you think he will? yeah. i don't know what the investigation holds. i have seen nothing to the higher crime or misdemeanour yet. we'll see what happens. here's what i would tell my europea

revolution.his moth he lost his mother and brothers that his family is bled concentrated the american union we being a gash in his head that was as long and deep there was the joke of the officer that hit jackson in the cost benefit way was that a good idea after new orleans? [laughter] but spending a lot of time to figure out how did he do that? may be a year. many people were on the frontier. in that here at home? i don't know how many presbyterians are here and i an episcopalian. there are six of us left. [laughter] we just used to fight now we have complicated it but we do things relatively quickly.n so particularly of the 18th century so you don't skip breakfast in wait for lunch so to hear a the catechism perot and police to use those rhetoricalnd questions back and forth weber and catechism form. but the bible was hugely important. tool is fallback when klay threw in his lot with john quincy adams that jackson won the plurality of votes to say he is the edges of the west is and will be the same. not exactly the audacity of pope type of mauna. thatghter] that largely drought of the of

you see the new birth of freedom associated with this eternal vision of an american union which is now cleansed of its greatest stain. this new birth of freedom then tucks the document in his top pocket, folds it in thirds, you can see the full marks on the document itself. puts it in his coat pocket. goes out to the central square here at gettysburg. we have all walked around it today and yesterday and in days ahead. you have to imagine horses, groups, civic organizations, odd fellows wearing their outlandish attire. it was bedlam out there on the square. it was about a mile south of town, down this road. trip,ncoln, on this smiles. somebodyeting people, less a child up to him and he gives a kiss and hence her down to the father. on the trip, lincoln starts out in a joyful mood. people were laughing, it felt like a celebration. but as he gets down towards the cemetery, where their graves can be seen on the hillside a new , tone begins to be felt. here we're south looking up north towards the center of town. you can see these are are the bayonets of the guarding troops which have come

middle class, which was legally made up of unionized service labor in the 1980's has been displaced by those here illegally. you see a lot of migration of americans into the interior and south, and so the present of the unionized labor force is far lower than it was when i was young in the 1970's and 1980's. when there is a separation between the people forgetting again from labor exploitation and the communities paying the costs, you powerful interests that don't want to look at the realities of this, medical care, direct service from the government, and law enforcement because criminal alien removal is expensive, and you have to deal with things like the adjudication of deportation. we have included in our study people that president obama would consider administrative status, but are here illegally as so-called daca beneficiaries, which other agencies have not included. our costs are higher because under president obama, all his talk about amnesty and the daca program generated a large influx of alien minors, and that has been enormously costly. host: what do you think should happen to the daca recipients, some people call them dreamers? congr

union. this is a sharp decline from just the one nine hundred eighty s. when around a third of american workers were part of a union so who or what killed the american labor movement and how can we bring it back to life joining me now is richard wolffe visiting professor at the new school co-founder of democracy at work and the author of numerous books including capitalism is crisis deepens essays on the global economic meltdown professor richard wolfe welcome back thank you glad to be here after the labor day all of the indeed it's great having you with us so as an economist richard can you explain for us what's happened to the labor movement i mean is the decline of unions just a natural process in the evolution of capitalism or was organized labor intentionally destroyed. oh i'm quite clear in my mind that it was intentionally destroyed you know you have to go back to our history just a little bit in the one nine hundred thirty s. when we had a terrible depression even worse than the one that we've lived in a living with these last ten years the american working class of people react

perspective on because as the american civil liberties union states while most americans think it was created to catch terrorists the patriotic actually turns regular citizens into suspects so under the patriot act they had these things called national security letters we talked about a lot on the show they were issued without judge's approval and by the f.b.i. in order to obtain a citizen's personal information and patriot acts out there. computer records credit history of banking history and between two thousand and three and two thousand and six the f.b.i. issued about one hundred ninety two thousand and gander just think of a guess guess how many of those one hundred ninety two four hundred ninety nine thousand national security letters lead to a terror related conviction i don't know. a couple hundred couple thousand maybe one hundred thousand one one one terror related convictions from all those national but i think the most egregious one is the sort of sneak and peak road with searches so the federal the patriot act allows the federal government to law enforcement agencies to d

al cardenas, the former head of the american conservative union. nbc news correspondent katy tur, author of the new book "unbelievable." and doris kearns goodwin and david brody. chief political correspondent for the christian broadcasting network. welcome all. doris, i'm going to start with you. donald trump -- what do you see from your historian's eyes that he's up to? >> it seems to me it all began when things started falling apart over the last eight months. he lost his mojo. he always talks about losers are the worst people in the world, and he was losing. so he had to do something to get it back. he goes to harvey. it seems good for him to be looking empathetic, and people feel good about it. then he comes back, and he announces the daca thing. then people get outraged at the idea again, so he loses that sense of positive momentum. then he calls in chuck and nancy, and he makes the deal for the debt funding to get the flood relief to texas. then he feels good again. whoa, this is feeling good. so impulse takes over, and he does the next thing

unions isrity of whining -- rising. a survey shows over 60% of americans support unions. that number is higher among millennials. the majority of working people said they would vote for joining a union tomorrow, if given the opportunity. free from the employer interference and intimidation that has become all too common. wages, it is raising paid leave, gender and racial equality, or simply the freedom to negotiate for a better life, unions are needed now more than ever. we can help deliver the economic rules of working people that they are hungry for. that is our focus and mission this labor day and beyond. i wanted to say thank you for listening, and i look forward to your questions. >> i will do one and then we will go to know -- noel. positive things coming union popularity rising. we talked about the onslaught you face. speechesspoken in about rising popularity. you also said in june that either we grow or we die. we will not settle for merely surviving in the labor movement. that is not enough. the labor department figures show union membership fell in 2016. you see

chairman of the american conservative union matt schlapp. response of thisdm aistration to two massive storms. never before has any president in american history had to deal with two storm of this dimension in this short a time span. >> the federal government can't do everything. i know that disappoints some people. but one thing a president can do is show leadership and compassion. and may i also add, the rest his administration and his life is showing on the international scene why the american people like her so much. lou: this president dealing with the threats from iran and more energetically the nonsense that's emanating from china and north korea as it threatens more with its nuclear weaponry and its ballistic missiles. matt: i think what steve bannon said chain florida has been in open economic -- said china has been in open economic warfare with the u.s. can't we find a way to work together? it's our national security at stake. lou: and this president is dealing with two lap dogs in mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. he needs to get tha

. >>> american civil liberties union is suing st. louis for unlawful and unconstitutional action by police during recent demonstrations. the demonstrations protested the acquittal of a white police officer against a black man. the suit accuses police of using chemical weapons. the protests began september 15 after the officer was acquitted. >>> an early snowstorm in the see -- sierra, nevada mountains is blamed for a crash that killed a person, not far from the pileup, a car rolled over into a ditch. the driver managed to get out of the area. had a couple of months to thaw out from the snow filled winter. the snow eased the drought in california. meteorologist chris sowers is here with the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. i'm excited about fall. >> reporter: one thing we don't have to worry about snow that's for sure. high temperatures in the upper 80s. tomorrow, gray, get this, we could be as warm as 91 or 92. i know a lot of folks will be heading out to the linc for the eagles home opener. it will feel like the middle of j

these types of foods in the crisis. >> the american conservative union spends a lot of time looking at this addiction on families. they pleaded to the election of 2016 coming from the lays out there across america where people feel that you're hopeless. is there more component to the drug addiction as well? >> they are giving up hope. if you like they don't feel positive about their life and have good economic prospects. >> is difficult to know the data we have. i'm sure for many people it's an issue. once we recognize addiction as a disease, there is less blame or perhaps considerations of people in through that way, we can start having proper medical treatment not just for the success we've had with the development of the narcan nasal spray, which is saving lives, but also the condition more broadly. >> how does it fit into this? tell us what your role is in this crisis we are talking about. >> we are dedicated pharmaceutical companies. we start by developing this narcan nasal spray, which saves patients lives. should they overdose from an opioid. when that happens, you stop breathin

union wants to talk about. we're representing six teachers in california and the association of american educators who have a variety of views about unions. some of our clients in this case think that unionism is generally a good thing. they just don't happen to like the california teachers association and the nea. they think those unions do a bad job. others of these clients don't like to be part of a union at all. they disagree with the idea of unions, they disagree with the fact these unions have become highly political organizations and they want nothing to do with it. what joins all these plaintiffs together is they think each of them as individuals should have the right to decide whether to participate in the union in the first place. they're saying that individuals have a constitutionally protected right to not speak and that they shouldn't have to run around and comply with various opt out rules in order to exercise that right. instead, the burden ought to be on the union to run around and encourage individuals to join the union on their own terms when and if they want. so if the court decides in a genus tha

matt schlapp, the former white house political director, now chairman of the american conservative unionh the manafort wiretapping. the president has been vinds kateed on every -- vindicated on his level and his charge they were wiretapping him. you have james clapper lying by the. the fbi lying about it. the top officials of the fbi and the department of justice in filings. this is outrageous the conduct of the fbi. there needs to be a third council to investigate entire hierarchy of the fbi. matt: sometimes you wonder why the republican party doesn't have the guts to go after the democrats. lou: because they are bought and paid for by the chair chamber of commerce rounds table. matt: i fear the damage that gets done in the meantime. you have a guy like clapper who went on national tv and said not only was the president not in any way surveilled, he said specifically there were no fisa * approved wiretaps of team trump. he said that very clearly. he said he would know if there were. lou: we have sounds bite of james -- do we have a sound bite of james clapper saying that? i'm asking the

former head of the american conservative union. my panel is here. welcome all. i'll start with you. trump, what do you see from your historian's eyes that he's up to. >> seems it all began when things started falling apart the last eight months. e lost his mojo. he was losing. so he had to do something to get it back. he goes to harvey. seems to be to be looking empathetic and people feel good about it and then he comes back and announces the docket again and people get outraged at the can idea again so he loses that sense of the positive momentum and then he calls in jockey and nancy and gets the relief to texas and feels good again. so impulse takes over and he does the next thing to talk about daca. the question is can an impulse become a strategy over time? without that confidence, he once said his best temperament >>> everybody's getting ready. we're getting ready. >> make sure that your families are safe. we can start the rebuilding process once again after there storm passes. >> hunkering down. the caribbean prepares for yet another hurricane as irma strengthens with her sigh

the map -- them on the map, was probably the first time since world war ii, the soviet union exhibited at americanorld fair -- not only did they come to spokane, became in force they built a huge pavilion with three theaters -- three theaters inside. spokane was and is somewhat more conservative than other parts of the country. affection for communism and the soviet union was not necessarily second nature or spokane. they might be anti-soviet on the other, they were very pro-soviet, very grateful that so much have been done for our world fair. ♪ of the fair came in early may of 1974. it's about 80,000 people who came to that. is a openingd speech. >> it's a great privilege to be toe on this beautiful day speak about what this particular occasion means, not only are now, and the days ahead in this summer. maybe millions will come to see it. looking down to the faces of history perhaps for the year 2000 -- 25 years from now. we celebrated new year that comes once a month thousand years. and when we look back to see a new yearnow -- that was not only the greatest new year for america but for every na

"america first action" spokesman, former milwaukee county sheriff david clarke and american conservative unionmatt schlapp.ry good evening,, gentlemen. matt, i will go to you first. why get involved in a primary election? >> judge, i was the political director for president bush and you should be very careful about going into the primaries. what's interesting in alabama is most of the people you would considered the trump voters are aligned with judge moore, but you have donald trump coming in endorsing luther strange who has been a very reliable vote for the trump agenda. it is a very tricky situation. i tell you, tuesday, i cannot predict with is going to happen. >> jeanine: david clarke, did the president make a good argument for voting for luther over at judge roy moore? >> i think he will win either way. >> jeanine: wait a minute, you think luther strange is going to win? he's the underdog right now. >> no, i'm not calling -- i'm not calling out who's going to win, the president will win either way. whoever wins on tuesday. i think there will be a reliable trump agenda supporter.ue the po

ask unanimous consent that under general leave, statements in opposition to 3697 by the american civil liberties union, the asian americans advancing justice, the service employees international union, the national hispanic leadership agenda, i ask that those be admitted under general leave. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, order. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, my friend on the other side of the aisle is a multitalented person. curricula to his vitae he carries with him the mantle of being a man of the cloth. know he knows matthews the 25th chapter, 35th verse and it is of the-quoted. and we'd do well to remember it. among the things that are said i was verse are, while hungry -- for i was hungry and you gave me food. i was thirsty and you gave me drink. i was a stranger and you welcomed me. this sentiment must be our guiding principle, our north star, as we work to repair our broken immigration system. today's bill is in total opposition to this sentiment as it works to demonize with one road and careless and probably unconstitutional stroke an entire group of people, the vast majority of whom

well the electronic frontier foundation and the american civil liberties union filed a lawsuit earlier this month against a department of homeland security for warrantless border searches the lawsuit alleges that homeland security officers violated the plaintiff's fourth amendment rights when the age of thirty and some cases compensated their devices without a warrant at all like their phones and their lab tops the two organizations will represent ten u.s. residents who they say are law abiding u.s. citizens who are muslim or people of color they were really entering the united states from either business or personal travel when they all had their computers and smartphones searched when none of them were accused of doing anything wrong these plaintiffs are students are journalist one was even a military vet and another one works for nasa when this all happened but some of these individuals have their phones held by border officers for months even though they weren't accused of a specific crime now under the u.s. constitution the fourth amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seiz

that like according to numbers facts that twenty percent of who used to elect an american party the christian democratic union are electing today and we even asked her in the interview about that like what are you doing how will you try to win these people again and we heard it already what she said she's trying to keep on the way what she's doing her own. politics that she was doing till now and she wants to solve the problems that people have war going to the f.t. and take their problems serious that's actually what she said ok so she's not going to work with the f.t. but she is going to try and keep as many of the the former c.d.u. supporters who have gone their way as she can but she also addressed in this this interview major political achilles' heel and this is the migrant influx into germany since two thousand and fifteen in order to tell us more about what she had to say that she will stick with the big picture she says those people who need us they are allowed to come and we will help them but this is fairly new and this has something to do with the as the right wing party. she know shapes it a littl

and matt schlapp, he's the chairman of the american conservative union and the former white house politicalector under president george w. bush. and for the record, we note that matt's wife, mercedes schlapp, is a senior communications adviser to president trump. we welcome both of you back to the "newshour". tom davis, i'm going to start with you. what happened in alabama? the candidate, the president, the republican establishment was backing loss to roy moore who may be the most conservative candidate to run for a senate seat in this modern era. >> he's certainly an exotic candidate, but there were some alabama characteristics to this race i think that were peculiar to alabama. the way senator strange was appointed by a governor who they felt he'd underinvestigated, i think that blew up on him. i think luther strange run not as an opponent you would have had a different result, i think. i wouldn't read too much into this election. >> woodruff: what do you mean. this was a very alabama dynamic. >> woodruff: matt schlapp, do you agree, that it may not have a wider meaning and what do you th

he's the chairman of the american conservative union and the former white house political director undersident george w. bush. we should note for the record that matt's wife, mercedes schlapp, is now a senior communications advisor to president trump. this is something the white house announced today and we want too put it out on the table. >> and i have to get home and make dinner so i have to get dinner here. >> woodruff: one of you is gainfully employed. i was talking to yamiche alcindor about daca, but i want to turn to you now, karine, and ask you about health care. senator bernie sanders has been talking for some months about this. today he formally reeled out his proposal to-- for medicare for all. he has what, 16 or so democratic cosponsors. what does this look like? how do you read this move by these democrats? >> i think it's a great way forward. we have a third of the democratic caucus essentially in the senate who have signed on. a lot of them are rumored to be running for 2020. i think this is a great sign for the party forward and, also, for american people. health care is

american civil liberties union and new york based says violates, sued and won in lower court. state appealed. >>> good afternoon. we check ought live doppler 7, the skies are pretty clear. no rain but tracking fire danger. red flag warning for north and east bay hills until 5:00 wednesday evening due to gusty winds and low humidity. be extra careful out there. beautiful picture from sutro tower, 79 in oakland, 80s. half moon bay, 72 degrees. plenty of sun from the kgo roof camera. sunshine over the golden gate bridge. seeing more of that. mild conditions for evening. clear skies late. starry night expected. temperatures by 10:00 in the 50s to 70s. warm-up has begun, only going to get warmer. back with look at forecast with the temperatures coming up. >>> sky 7 over a fire, reported on kings row road shortly after one. took 1 1/2 hours to knock down the flames, kept contained to one building. six cars destroyed, no injuries, cause is under investigation. >>> passengers onboard allegiance airlines flight asked to make emergency exit in fresno after smoke filled cabin. taken by p