but as far as the chattanooga vw plant goes because of an agreement with the company, the uaw has to stay out of there for at least a year. >> very interesting. john roberts, thank you. >>> democrats fighting to keep control of the senate may turn to a familiar theme in november's mid-term elections. two top democratic strategists urging candidates now to take a page from president obama's 2012 playbook that some call class warfare. they say forget talking about any economic recovery, just go after the 1% again. joining me now, guy benson, political editor for townhall.com and a fox news contributor. a broken record, guy, we've heard it before -- but it's worked. >> it has, gretchen. i think what's interesting when you look at the strategy memo that democrats are circulating here in washington, d.c., it really underscores the dilemma in which the party finds itself heading into november. because they don't really have a positive story they can tell the american people. right? they can't run on their signature accomplishment, obamacare, because it is too unpopular. certainly not in a

. >> united states senator, much of the discussions around volkswagen coming to chattanooga, took place around my dining room table. >> it's no secret at all that, you know, we had an opinion about what should happen there. >> in fact, it was a secret to the public. >> we urge the company to go to secret ballot. >> king accuses senator bob corker of intimidating workers at the plant. >> we're also outraged that the outside interference. >> we had an interest in the outcome of that vote. >> to prove ta republicans were part of a conspiracy. >> the uaw obviously a hit dog. >> if you care about worker, this is the story that has to be covered. thanks for joinings. remember all the work we did on this program about the uaw and tennessee vote. we're back in the volunteer state tonight. we begin tonight with the bombshell revelation and the uaw's fight to unionize the chattanooga volkswagen plant. remember back in february the workers of the plant narrowly voted against joining the united auto workers. at the time, democrat, along with your favorite host, big eddie, said that the republican i

this is the chattanooga, tennessee case, where the unions lost a hotly contested, heavily debated effort to unionize that went on for a couple of years. they realized they're not going to get anywhere so they gave up the ghost. this is one they predicted they would win, boasted they would win, and after a fair and square election, they lost. >> any question the nlrb is squarely -- has the unions' on their mind? >> when fdr proposed this he said it will moderate between unions and managements. guess what. republican presidents make it management, the democrats make it unions. this is the most prounion nlrb in years. >> some companies give your phone number and your address to the unions? >>> no vacation, no sick days no insurance, sound like hell? for many americans who can't find fullike work, taking temporary jobs without the benefits is the only thing they can find. to craig smith on why this trend is so alarming.

chattanooga organizing for action that worked with michael in chattanooga and the more i traveled, the more i met with hundreds of activists and families. i realize african-americans's unique relationship to homes, the story of struggle and dreams wasn't just the story of being victimized. made these communities significantly better equipped to handle the crisis and significantly more visionary coming in stories and proposals and the real implementable strategies they were proposing to come out of this crisis. one of the co-founders of take back the land said to me we are in a trance formative moment because of this crisis is rooted firmly in the housing crisis. we are going to have significant changes in the way people think not just about housing but land itself. it wasn't until my second trip to chicago that i realized this organizing no matter how inspiring wasn't just taken up by people with political beliefs. i've learned activists often didn't choose to be activists. many had done so out of basic survival. i started by telling the story of martha and her children. i picked this

because we want the chattanooga plant to be successful. be a successful long-term viable facility. >> are you worried that this type of anti-union political interference is going to be the new template for fighting unions in this country? i mean, corker and haslem, very clear how they wanted this outcome. and now there's no ramification for what they did, injecting themselves into the process. >> well, what i hope the ramification is that the public in tennessee, citizens, and really the public around the world sees how outrageous the behavior of senator corker, governor haslem were. let's see what they do no uh. the ball is in their court. i hope that they immediately provide the incentives to volkswagen so the vehicle can be built here in tennessee. let's focus on that. let's see how they operate now and whether they're going to give volkswagen the insentivcen they promised a year ago. >> do you think there will ever be another vote again at the tennessee plant? >> we had a certified majority. yes, i think the workers will get a chance t

that's why i was swollen with pride when i saw this from the chattanooga free press. tennessee is seeking execution dates for 10 death row inmates. it's an unprecedented move for a state that's executed only six inmates since 1960. one official says they've never seen 10 execution dates all at once. >> stephen: you have to to 10alt once. that's how you get the free stuff. >> they had to halt all executions in 2011, because the italian chemical company that made their lethal drug of choice. sodium pentobarbital stopped producing it after tennessee couldn't guarantee it wouldn't be used for capital punishment even though they said it would only be used as an incredibly effective cough suppressant. and the scarcity of lethal injection drugs has forced us to scramble for substitutes. it's like when you run out of half and half and have to put skim in your coffee. just kill me now. [ applause ] >> stephen: a lot of death penalty fans in the audience tonight. these substitute drugs have made capital punishment seem unusually cruel. after a know an oklahoma inmate were injec

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installed six months ago right after rob bought the home so he got the cameras for good reason, chattanooga police looking for this guy and that's why they put this video out there so somebody recognizes this loser. >>> from somebody stealing booze to a group of people who were basically stealing it in brazil because a case of beer was going for 69 cents on this day. the yellow cases of beer. look at them going crazy. i got to say they are not fighting with each other but they are cleaning this out. this is in salvador brazil in the carnival there. it's the world's biggest party. >> you can't get a bottle of beer for 69 cents? >> no. >> there will be drunk people. >> they cleaned out. >> going to be a really bad hangover. >>> the man who posted this video said absolutely do not do what he did. two seconds of this skydiving video you see something's wrong. you see that? those are his toggle ties, they're tied up together. at this point he said he should have cut away, meaning release the parachute and let the emergency deploy. he doesn't do that. he untangles them while he's plunging toward

"obviously both are made in chattanooga and so it's incumbant that managers there make sure they're producuing a safe product." also, analysts say automakers may order recalls now hoping that g-m's high-profile recall overshadows problems elswhere. "i do think they're hoping it all gets 'lost in the wash' of all the recall fatigue among the public, that's it's just another gm recall story and people won't notice." toyota's recall follows that automaker's 1.2 billion dollar settlement, last month for concealing information from safety regulators about sudden acceleration problems that led to five deaths and recalls in 2009 and 20-10. the cost of the search for missing malaysia air flight m-h 3-7-0 is expected to be the highest in aviation history. reuters analysis shows $44 million has already been spent. but, that number does not include a long list of expenses such as a full tally of all the military power. at the moment australia is bearing the brunt of the costs because it is leading search efforts. detroit has reached a deal on its debt. the city will pay 74 cents on the dollar of money ow

auto workers union has given up the fight to force a second vote to unionize volkswagen's plant in chattanooga tennessee. the announcement came 1 hour before the uaw was to have gone before the national labor relations board to plead for a new election. assembly workers rejected the union in a vote in february.instead, the union says it will work to create more jobs at the plant which currently employs more than 2- thousand.in china, the world's largest & fastest growing car market vw is in expansion competition with gm which just announced a 12- billion dollar investment. in today's cover story, the growing class of employees who are neither temporary nor permanent.they are the perma- temp---on the job for months at a time.but few of them---ever put on staff.it saves employers the expense of benfits.but at what cost to the workforce? temping used to be a foot in the door. work for awhile without health benefits or paid sick leave and soon, it would be followed by an offer to work full-time. but that's not happening. "employers don't have the budgets anymore, so they're going for a perma-temp

caller: my paper of record is the chattanooga times free press.the most expensive paper when you look at how you subscribe. it comes $25 a month. only for print and digital. it's very expensive by comparison. readership has declined dramatically. there are next one newspaper and have been. was the owner of the new york times early on. he was at this paper first. host: looking at the online , how tennessee claimed $124 million in health care subsidies. doesn't do a good job? caller: it does. it covers the union vote. chattanooga is a very high crime area. we are working hard to remediate that. it covers that extensively. he does a good job with local education issues. gotten expensive by comparison to other newspapers. host: i'm assuming you still subscribe to the paper? caller: that would not be a good assumption. i look at it to see if they're running specials or things i can -- i subscribe to the wall or the chronicle of higher education and other things that are pricey but worth it. --d newhall so has chattanooga also has 2-3 online papers. the

he says, "the real story "is down in chattanooga, where the head of purchasing is paul fahey." there. and paul fahey had a stack of -- it was on ruled paper -- but he had case after case after case after case of identical bidding on contracts. now these are sealed bids, you understand. these are sealed bids, they come in a sealed envelope. but the biggest and the most interesting things were the electrical contracts from big firms like general electric, westinghouse, allis-chalmers. i don't think anybody really knew what the hell we had. schoumacher: the tva wasn't usually front-page news, but tennessee happened to be the home state of senator estes kefauver. kefauver had made his name nationally with televised hearings investigating organized crime. adopting a coonskin cap as his trademark, he had waged two popular but unsuccessful campaigns for president. then in 1959, kefauver took on a new crusade against a different kind of organized crime, antitrust violators. kefauver announced that he was going to hold hearings in knoxville. uh, the word i heard was that the justice dep

. >> "the chattanooga times free press." the uaw drops appeal in tennessee.workers voted against unionizing the plant back in february, but the uaw says third party groups tainted the decision. they now say it's time to focus on plant expansion. something that could add hundreds of jobs to chattanooga. >> and the federal agency is putting a stop to powdered alcohol. >> can you believe this? >> the product gained label approval earlier this month. >> who comes up with this idea and says what a great idea? >> willie and i often talk about how great would it be if you had a powdered version of alcohol. >> right. so alcoholics can walk around with it in their pocket? >> yes. so we could walk with it. dwre. it comes in six varieties of alcohol that can be mixed with water. the approvals were issued in error and is going to be revoked now which is a sad day for america. >> "the sun." veep, it is hilarious, will be on for a fourth season. starring julia louis-dreyfus. earlier in the week hbo annou e announced to renew "game of thrones" for two more seasons. >> willi

. >> welcome to tonight's "red eye" debate center live from the" red eye" debate center in chattanoogatennessee. i am greg gutfeld, host of the "red eye" debate. on today.com, author and mother stephanie wilder taylor, not to be confused with stephanie calmer taylor, wrote a blog she called "moms who drink, how much is how much? " some moms crack open a bottle of wine and others like herself stay sober. what a judgmental -- what was the conclusion? i don't know. i am a wine drinking mom. let's make our own conclusions. bonnie, you are probably a drunk. >> i am a drunk. >> exprut only mom here -- and you are the only mom here. andy a mom to his cats. >> put the camera back on bonnie. >> stephanie wilder taylor is a good friend of mine. well she was when she was still drinking. now, you know what i mean? >> you had to let her go. >> woo! and she is like, you shouldn't do that, you know. i like to drink. i shouldn't tell this story. >> keep going. >> i bring my daughter to gigs sometimes. she is in a bar a lot so i explained to her not to be around drunk people because they can fall on he

senator bob corker of tennessee, the ranking senator on the foreign relations committee joins me from chattanoogasaid one thing and done another. they said they were not trying to annex crimea and then they annexed crimea. they said they weren't sending operatives into ukraine and of course we know how that has played out. do you think the u.s. is getting played here? >> i've never seen a more confusing statement be issued where in essence everybody agrees to something and then people in ukraine are understanding it in a different way and obviously the actions on the ground, as you're mentioning, have nothing to do with what was agreed to yesterday. so look, i think the administration has created this air of permissiveness. what we did in syria by jumping into russia's lap and letting them drive policy there after the chemical weapons issue came to the forefront is really been informative, i think, to the people of russia and i think they are in fact playing us instead of us moving ahead with sectoral sanctions which we've been urging them to do. instead, we continue to watch what they are doing

in a blow to organized labor, the autoworker and chattanooga reject unionization declined to make theirplant the first unionized foreign-owned car factor in the united states. the union faced intense opposition from republican lawmakers who suggested the plant might miss out on future subsidies or on a new suv line if the union was approved. boardtional labor was to hear it on monday. the uaw says it made the decision to drop it after top republicans and antiunion activist's vow to testify. the director of national intelligence james clapper has issued a sweeping order barring agencies under his watch from almost all unauthorized contact with the media. the ban applies to discussion of all intelligence related matters, whether they are classified or not. violators face a minimum security violation and potential prosecution. clapper's directive comes just months after he told the senate he would seek to "lean in the direction of transparency, wherever and whenever we can." the oklahoma supreme court has stayed the executions of two death row prisoners who are challenging the secrecy arou

less than two weeks later on christmas morning, it was a mass shooting in downtown chattanooga, tennessee young people leaving a christmas eve party after midnight when the gunfire fired into the crowd. nine people were shot. january 10th, philadelphia, pennsylvania, four teenagers riding in the same car were ambushed by an armed 30-year-old man. all four of the teenagers were shot. three were killed. february 21st, norcross, georgia, near atlanta, a man storms into a spa own and run by his family. he shoots and kills four of his own relatives then kills himself. february 26th, jackson, tennessee. a gunman fires into the crowd and shoots 21 people. miraculously, 20 of those people are wounded and only one person dies. the next day, february 27th, it's chardon, ohio. a 17-year-old high school student takes a gun from a relative, brings it to school, opens fire in the cafeteria. he kills three of his fellow high school students and sends two more to the hospital. march 8th, pittsburgh, a man walks into a psychiatric hospital killing two semiautomatic handguns. he kills one person and wounds

in a blow to organized labor, volkswagen workers in chattanooga rejected unionization, declining to make their plant the first unionized foreign-owned car factory in the united states. the union faced intense opposition from republican lawmakers including corker, who suggested the plant might miss out on future subsidies or on a new suv line if the union were approved. according to national tv station news channel five and the tosite in these times, aides senator corker and governor haslam had extensive communications with a prominent antiunion group and several other antiunion consultants. abortion providers in texas have filed a federal lawsuit to block an anti-choice role they say could shut down all but six ruining abortion clinics in the state. provision, which takes effect in september, records abortion providers to meet hospital-style building requirements. it was passed as part of it sweeping anti-choice bill challenged by texas state senator wendy both -- wendy davis. the new lawsuit also seeks to immediately block the law's requirement that abortion providers obtain it meeting

example, there have been a lot of questions about who was behind the effort to oppose the uaw in chattanoogare rumors about the koch brothers, for example. so we have the possibility here that not only could we have political officials, the governor, the u.s. senator, but also people like grover norquist sitting down, under oath, having to answer questions who is providing money and why. so that in and of itself could be interesting to watch. >> could this evolve to an investigation that would do maybe even some forensic, to see what's on everybody's computer? i mean how do we know everybody's going to be forthcoming with these documents because they are trying to connect the dots on exactly what kind of activity and what kind of deals were cut before the vote? what about that? >> certainly no hint of any forensic examination that could come in to play. certainly you have the power of a subpoena. you have people being called to testify. you have the power of a subpoena saying we want you to produce these documents. for example, that 300 million offer that tennessee governor bill haslem's adm

the 2-year-old pit bull mix is caught on camera chomping away on the bumper of a chattanooga, tennessee. >> this almost has his whole bumper ripped off. >>> on march 14th, 2010, the naughty winston unlocks the gate from his home and ends up here where he discovers a new doggie treat. the police tried prying loose the 80-pound dog by moving the patrol car back and forth but winston just won't let go. >> do you want me to take action or just sit here and wait. >> hang on for a minute. you got your video on? recording this? >> that's correct. >> so what is it about this bumper that winston so thoroughly enjoys. is it the smell, the taste? it's neither according to the dog whisperer cesar millan. >> if he was smelling an animal he would be peeing on it or rubbing himself against it, not chewing. this is the smell of plastic that triggers a fun to him. this dog was encouraged to bite plastic or tires. they're not born wanting to bite a tire. they just get encouraged. the dog learned to release his frustration on that object. >> from the sidelines other dogs seem to be cheering on winston. >>

. >> united states senator, much of the discussions around volkswagen coming to chattanooga, took placeround my dining room table. >> it's no secret at all that, you know, we had an opinion about what should happen there. >> in fact, it was a secret to the public. >> we urge the company to go to secret ballot. >> king accuses senator bob corker of intimidating workers at the plant. >> we're also outraged that the outside interference. >> we had an interest in the outcome of that vote. >> to prove ta republicans were part of a conspiracy. >> the uaw obviously a hit dog.

. >> how did you say chattanooga the other day? haspira i've seen advertised on "nightly news." it causes like 80 different things. did you ever watch these things at night? it's unbelievable what you have to disclose. >>> triple digit gain for the markets yesterday, fed chair janet yellen had something to do with that. steve liesman is here with more. we're back to, you know, did your eye twitch or something? >> no, no, no. it was more explicit than an eye twitch. >> remember two weeks ago, the six-month thing. she took it back, now we're -- >> it was a bit of a walk-back. i think we told people if you thought yellen was trying to make you think the fed was going to be tighter than you thought previously, you were wrong. she sounded dovish about monetary policy saying the fed's extraordinary commitment to low rates will still be needed for some time, those views are widely shared on the fed. it seemed at least in part an effort to soften the effects of the press conference, saying the fed could raise rates six months after qe ends

the package of incentives was in exchange for keeping the union out of their chattanooga factory.he united auto workers lost the vote and filed an appeal. tennessee's governor said the money was not tide to the vote and his opposition of the union has never been a secret. >> 3,000 flights have been grounded by loouthan sea over a dispute over retirement benefits. it's one of the biggest, costing tens of millions to the airline. >> chrysler is recalling nearly 870,000 s.u.v.s, the recall effecting jeep grand cherokees from damage from 2011 to 2014. they say that corrosion may make the brakes harder to use. the company knows of one accident, but no injuries. we'll get fresh clues on the health of the labour market. private sector employment report is released. it's expected to show a gain. the quality of jobs is a big concern. >> what we are seeing is a 30 year low in terms of the percentage of americans that are working. that should be a concern for everyone. the other thing that we have to take account to is full-time workers. the number spiked up. >> the report is a prelude to cl

there is heavier rain north of this across parts of the carolinas around chattanooga, tennessee, southernlet's look at our weather maps in the studio. we'll show you temperaturewise what's going on. today's temperatures across the country spectacular. kansas city 78. minneapolis, you have showers just to the north of you. 66 and after all the snow across minnesota this week, that is going to be great. tomorrow, your easter sunday forecast also looking pretty great for almost everybody. a few lingering showers across the coastal carolinas. we'll see showers across some of the intermountain west and possibly a late day thunderstorm in parts of west texas. 75 in chicago on easter sunday. doesn't get better than that. at the bottom of the hour, we are giving away a car to a wounded warrior. we'll do it live. we are very excited for that. >> thank you, rick. >> the south football is a religion but you better not bring your faith to the field. atheists have mounted an assault against clemson university's football program for the crime of prayer. up next, legendary football coach lou holtz joins