and give working americans a shot in achieving the american dream again here to answer that is james hoffa general president international brotherhood of teamsters mr hof welcome back tom good to be here to have you with us first of all what's your take on the president's speech today was great i mean he's really basically starting take the gloves off fight back and he's got to do this and he really has been a little bit late to the game i think and now he's finally coming out we first saw it at labor day when he came out straight talking against right to work start talking for collective bargaining first time he's ever mentioned that and since then he's getting better but you know he's really got to get off and start put the mitts on and get into the ring because he's in a campaign right now and whatever is going to happen i think he's going to be in good shape but he's got to really be strong and be emotional and get out there and that's what he's doing yeah and he's a guy he's about to be hit by an avalanche of money of oil what he knows what's coming he knows they've got more money tha

half he has hoffa if called >>darya: which are back with more in a couple of minutes.id it is a live look outside as the sun is started, that the golden gate. visibility you free of traffic is light. it how have house of hon apiece fell have and how and how of hence >>james: here is a live you out of one agreed. i do not gillian temperatures in the san ramon valley, livermore valley in napa valley. evil in santa rosa are seeing temperatures in the mid-30s. it is a cold start. frost advisory in effect until 8:00 a.m.. think cold start of the our headlines. down by noon kvass, a mostly sunny afternoon with highs in the '50s and '60s. let's take a quick look at where we expected to go. by noon mostly fifties. as we advance into later this afternoon we will see a number of cities and joining the list of 60 degrees. copper, livermore, san jose, santa rosa and napa. all of those locations as '65, '66. most locations in the was 66. temperatures right now are pretty cool. hot we are flight near freezing for nothing and fairfield. for right now in san jose. as we take a look at

and in the article, they also quoted something jimmy hoffa jr. said, head of the teamsters. and he said something like we're going to kill them in the next election. and these were seen as violent rhetoric. and i wrote to the reporter, basically expressing my frustration that he wasn't getting it right. that reality was not being represented. and if i may, i'll quota few sentences wrote back to me because i think it's a really outstanding -- it's really an outstanding example of just how this normative shift looks like. in like 2011 or 2012 now. he said 50 years ago, the media was empowered to create a reality which tracked the liberal consensus of the time, very much one that luce i think supported even though he didn't like fdr, supporting the welfare state, government intervention, intellectualism and so on. some agreed, some different. now conservatives dictate the reality. in their formulation, government is a monster. poor people are sinners and the whole world is out to get minute brave enough to say so. some agree, some don't. my question is what is the difference? i

because of public sector unions and i don't think you can blame jimmy hoffa, what's going on in california and new york state and why we have physical problems in the states and the public sector unions put the government and put the legislature into office. and so-- >> point, too, first of all, we are the country addressing this pension issue, neil, it's partly a union issue, partly management issue and these deals were given, they he weren't just taken, and they-- >> and because you're partly addressing this issue and that would be like me saying, three napoleons tonight and-- we need to do far more dramatic, or talking around the edges is not doing anything. >> so i won't disagree with that you on that, but the way to solve that problem is to eliminate union rights would not be my approach to solving that problem. >> and it's not saying that we're addressing the issue of the union power. and the wages in this country are stagnant and not risen in real term since 1973. corporates profits are staggeringly high, why are so we so concerned about the wages of union workers when the corporate

a quiet recognition behind closed doors that if assad is removed however much people do not like hoffa's or assad that the government that succeeds in will be a radical islamist sunni muslim government hostile to israel hostile to the west hostile to shia islam in other words. not a good development from the standpoint of the united states or europe. so i think that's understood secondly there's an understanding that syria actually has despite the fact it's much smaller than iran what twenty to twenty three million people i think very good armed forces it does have an integrated air defense structure that would take some time to dismantle but its ground force is actually very good and it's of the arab forces i would describe the syrians is probably being among the best if not the best best disciplined best officer what would be the main argument that you would suggest for the u.s. not to attack iran right now we see iran through one lens in one way we see this as a unchanging theocracy that is very of the american anti western incurable if you will know the words it's fatally stricken wi

because oil prices were hosting investor appetite that as you can see reality has brought on the hoffa's and the mises even the father in negative territory let's have a look at how the ruble god it was a mixed mixed report as you can see that it was. the european currency the euro dollar has recently just we had portuguese and spanish olds fooling it's an all time lows as well very much concerning investors are. the ruble will. not show up in less than an hour's time as well so happy i think it's this have a look at oil now oil prices continuing to. is a mixed picture if you just know they were an all time high a few weeks ago let me tell you there's a lot of sentiments going on that of pulling prices in all kinds of directions overall and having meetings on the weekend trying to come to some sort of resolution i have been to say place in both of those really just now this is an interesting one to watch. because second largest oil producer now this said to carve a day be crude exports to the lowest level in ten months to see how that might affect prices later on so that is indeed the ma

usa has reached a record high since a single currency was launched thirteen years ago and then the hoffa spanish and greek. but these trends are also affecting countries that have joined the euro recently as artie's they can graze now reports thousands of stones great buy for having to support troubled euro states. two thousand and eleven as though new welcomes in a new and a new era as part of the euro club is a moment of triumph after years of tough financial discipline for the nation which has hit the pockets of everyone the euro zone demanded that as a condition of membership but just over a year on and the idea has lost its face joining the euro has made an already painful situation even worse teachers really suffer here our monthly pay is insufficient even to survive. as the new kid in the block a study of played no part in amassing the devastation debt dragging it down but it still being asked to contribute to the multi billion euro fire will designed to cushion the currency against a crisis like the one which gripped greece teachers are just some of those in uproar after having w

parity he said but he admitted to countries still lags world wobbles in key areas like to tease only hoffa's high that means it takes twice as long for russian worker to achieve the same amount he also said that there will be laws to ease doing business so bringing guarantees three investors he's discussing with president medvedev creating a public prosecutor who will control a level playing field for business overall as you said the tone of the speech was optimistic and well received by m.p.'s with a standing ovation at the end for i don't know and thank you very much i was a correspondent on your bushel reporting from the state duma. and now cyclical what's going on on the a russian markets on the back of that speech and of course on the back of the declining yields for italian and spanish bonds well the russian markets taking. quite positive positively with the r.c.s. of point two percent of my sex half a said among the movers on the six gazprom is a bit weaker than the markets at this hour it's actually down point two percent but in a person who mentions that russian gas companies should

appreciation for those oil prices yes they're on hoffa percentage point out of my sex around the recourses of the percentage point this hour moving on to the stocks to see how that got gas from the still managing to gain as a one percent. while more on them in a moment polymaths although there will be bucking that the trend is not surprising considering they had some positive results come out after posting worse than expected two thousand and eleven results so positive let's talk about well that's the second biggest in a row now despite finding to me out of school calls with twenty eleven financial reports the companies see it. through as a result of this and. they are record results so to be is very happy to report today and that income of ninety point five billion rubles just over three billion dollars. to be has never earned that much money. in the year we grew a net profit by sixty five percent so again a pretty significant improvement there so speaking about efficiency if you look at the average western european banks it's somewhere around for the last year somewhere around six percen

i'm with president jim hoffa.an visit teamster.org under president jim hoffa and ken hall joins us in studio. >> it is good to see you. >> bill: thank you again for all of your support over the years for the program. let's start with the latest job numbers. secretary of labor. hilda solis is coming in the studio next hour to talk about jobs. we have the latest report on friday. 120,000 jobs in the month of march. not as much as people were expecting. what's it all mean? >> well, obviously it is disappointing to us. we wanted to see more jobs. part of the problem is what's going on in this country today is if you look at the major companies, right now, they're hoarding up a lot of money and they're not adding any jobs in the united states. many of those jobs are going overseas. i was just looking at some numbers yesterday. it looks like with wages being down and over the past -- since 2007, during that period, we've -- went through the recession, of the s&p 500 companies, profits are up 23% but they're keeping the

people like big labor thug hoffa who used the most vile language labor day before endure duesing president obama in telling the rank and file of his union, they needed to take their political opponents, republican tea party party, take these sons of [blank] out, and that's not the kind of language that nice people use. and president obama saiding for about the comments that preceded his very well covered --. >>neil: i understand. this always happen in a debate, you turn around and say something nice about your opponent such as being a good father, a nice head of hair but he has to say something nice so you were to look at rebound, right now, say something nice. >>guest: i don't have that compulsion because i know too much about this man. of course i wrote "culture of corruption," early. >>neil: but you are saying don't go down that media prop road, that is a mistake and you gets off message, right? >>guest: well, yes, but, again, just they the words of this president back at him. this is someone would, during the midterms in 2010 used the term "enemies," who need to be punished to describe

jimmy hoffa saying, president obam athis is your army. september 17, occupy wall street starts.show the infrastructure underneath the movement. the srvetion eiu. >> sean: who's funding it? >> this is a combination of big liberal groups and a combination of seiu and the government source back groups. >> you are going to see it in this film. systematically, the kids you see on the surface are useful idiots being used by a very dark -- >> like the liberal media that pouches them up like bill maher. >> sean: let's look at the people. this shows andrew breitbart. and just asking what they know about -- about life, capitalism. watch this. >> you are not a capitalist? what are you? what are you? >> i'm a socialist. >> reporter: you are? >> yes! >> the fuel of the movement is the anxiety that has been built up in youth in colleges and k-12s, feeding these kids that our system is inherently bad and that it needs to be overthrown. where did you learn that philosophy? >> uh, where did i learn it? i mean, i can name you three people. >> reporter: okay, okay. >> professor in college -- okay?

we live better thanks to the good men and women of the teamsters union under president jim hoffa.rg and our website bill press show.com for a signed copy of my latest book "the obama hate machine," the lives, distortions and personal attacks on the president and who is behind them. let us know how you want it signed and it's on its way to you. also, while you are there if you don't get to watch or listen to the entire three hours every day and who does right? you can sign up for a podcast and then the entire show commercial free is downloaded to your iphone or computer or i pad or whatever you choose automatically follow the links at bill press show.com. well the president really they did a great job as i said killed with his delivery at the whitehouse correspondent's dinner saturday night but at one moment, you could hear gasps from the audience. they thought the president go there, but he did. he had said something about missing sarah palin and then he picked up on the sarah palin line. here is how it went. >> what's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? a pit bull

[applause] the lack of our prevalence hoffa and all of the imagery that sends strong messages, very strong visual messages for people to say that this is equal this individual deserves the same respect to treatment are just fading in a way that for those of us that came of age in the 60's and 70's is shocking. so i think but while this is a political discourse today, the larger societal value system is something that we need to challenge him and popular culture and the media and the public conversation really all need to be challenged. with respect to black women. [applause] >> i'm glad you say that. you are and on every black woman. [laughter] >> i'm a black woman trapped in a white woman's body. laughter could face one of the media, but we offer a quick confession here and i will put out there and we will talk about it. i've done these symposiums all around the country now and this is the first time in my 20 year career i've had the opportunity to be blessed to moderate a panel of all women, and i will tell you without going into detail this is the most difficult symposium that my people