and f.d.r. andujarry truman and dwight eyes -- and harry truman and dwight eisenhower said, let's build an american middle class with unions, which ordinary americans can go get a higher education. they can go and get a wage where they can afford a house. d they can afford food and they can afford to have a decent quality of life. unions are what provided that. collective bargaining is what allowed for that. it balances the corporate interests. and it said, people who do work should be rewarded. that's what unions have done. and so i know there are all these complex phrases, fee sharing and right to work and all of that. but cut through all the noise and here's the basic question. do you think collective bargaining has a role in american society? if you think it does, if you think people should have the right to organize and bargain and there should be some counterweight to corporate power, then you should be for the union in the supreme court case. if you think workers are doing fine, working f

it was it was jim rickards who has done extensive writing and research about the dollar and gold in f.d.r.'s and he said that was. we could rule that day that we did that because yeah we we were like yeah we won that battle but we could leave here the records is not the matter well as they point out european politicians are now considering what measures they can take to protect themselves from american efforts to force them to comply with american sanctions policy according to demand the e.u. is considering various avenues one of these he says involves looking at europe's financial independence what can we do to give europe more financial tools allowing it to be independent from the united states connected with this is a proposal to set up a purely european finance house to oversee euro denominated transactions with around and again that guy is the french finance minister you know in your denominator transactions the rent call up tony to libya bit pay and you can do bitcoin transactions with iran between germany and europe all day long for zero percent transaction fees and no restrictions

too many of them viewed him as f.d.r.'s man and not the senate man. and that division continued for a number of years. so he did get off to a rocky start. in just a few weeks into the job, he was trying to get the senate ready to conclude its legislative session. he lined up several bills he wanted to see passed and he wanted a senator to push in consideration to pass each measure. to ensure his plan was followed, he gave vice president john nance garner -- by the way, this was an example of a man totally bored. he was the speaker of the house. and roosevelt made him vice president. so for almost 8 years, he had nothing to do almost. you may recall the comment garner made about the vice president. he said it wasn't worth the picture of warm spit. but he and barkley were close. and so to ensure barkley's plan was carried out, he and garner talked about which senators to recognize and the order in which they should be recognized on the floor to speak. the arrangement reflected the close close relationship between garner and barkley. one of the senators

it was it was jim rickards who has done extensive writing and research about the dollar and gold in f.d.r.'s and he said that was. we could rule that day that we did that because yeah we we were like yeah we won that battle but we could live under the same records is that so should not go. well as they point out european politicians are now considering what measures they can take to protect themselves from american efforts to force them to comply with american sanctions policy according to the e.u. is considering various avenues one of these he says involves looking at europe's financial independence what can we do to give europe more financial tools allowing it to be independent from the united states connected with this is a proposal to set up a purely european finance house to oversee euro denominated transactions with around and again that guy. the french finance minister you know in your denominator transactions the rent call up tony to libya bit pay and you can do bitcoin transactions with iran between germany and europe all day long for zero percent transaction fees and no restrict

only find two presidents who midterm picked up both in the house and the senate, and that was 1934, f.d.r. bush. very unique circumstances, a ar after 9/11. so the history is just overwhelming, but i will say this, that if it's true, and there is a blue tide and this happens the way history normally happens, then there's a new axiom that goes into the lexicon of politics, and that would be it ain't the economy, stupid. because this is the greatest economy -- arguably this is the greatest economy ever including reagan and f.d.r. and eisenhower and if you change oranges for oranges, this is incredible, there are state and city governments two years ago that were almost bankrupt that are flush with cash. neil: i love you as a historian, but i wouldn't go -- i'm not expressing a political viewpoint, but we're not quite in the best of all-time. we might be on the way there and certainly come off the map. but i am curious what you make of republicans still having a devil of a time in the house making the argument for the tax cuts, economic improvements, for some of the things you alluded to. sh

the president has essentially invented a kind of new form here, the way f.d.r. did with his fireside chats on the radio and it works for him. this is how i first saw him on stage, basically riffing on the day's news. he's got a little more telepromptered since then but he's gone back to what he did in his campaign days. just he's comfortable in the job. he's comfortable with himself. he's doing all republicans and all conservatives a service and this is something that marco and jeb and john kasich and all the rest can learn from him. he's not being boxed in by democrat media corsets of discourse. he's basically found a way to get out what he wants to get out and it works for him really well. by the way, the stuff about the london embassy was a classic -- i don't believe that was on the prompter and it was a classic riff. i whatn't to make sure i get the words right. he described the u.s. embassy as the best location in the whole portfolio. i love the way he talks about united states embassies as a portfolio like trump tower and trump resort and all the rest of i

we have to bring the coalition, the f.d.r. coalition back together. >> dana: is there a coalition without bernie sanders and is he running in 2020? >> he has not decided if he is running in 2020. the democratic bench actually is amazingly strong for the presidential race. whether bernie sanders is in or not. we'll see if he is in. they can put it together. >> dana: jeff weaver, thank you for being here. i appreciate it. i have 20 more questions. concerns of the health on hawaii are growing as the volcano big island continues to erupt. ♪ i like it, i love it, ♪ i want some more of it. ♪ i try so hard, ♪ i can't rise above it ♪ don't know what it is 'bout that little gal's lovin'. ♪ applebee's new bigger bolder grill combos. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. i had a very minor fender bender tonight! in an unreasonably narrow fast food drive thru lane. but what a powerful life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. which is

hope we don't totally implode the valuable safety net that brought us through the depression, that f.d.r. developed in the 1940's with the w.p.a. and on into the 1960's when president johnson had the great society. where is the america that cares. where is the america that understands? i yield back. mr. evans: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my good colleague from the great state of texas, the 18th district, for her comments adding to this discussion. what i would like to do, mr. speaker, is, i just stated for the purpose of the record, i will submit these letters if possible first, the governor of pennsylvania indicated $1.8 million people are on snap, the city of philadelphia where it all started here, in terms of america, 400,000 individuals on snap. a letter from the governor, a letter from the mayor, a letter om the chair, chairwoman val okus, the chair of montgomery county, the third largest county in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. 50,000 people are on snap. what i'd like to do is just read a little bit from her letter. in montgomery county, more than 50,000 residents resee snap