care for their lives. >> for more on the new mitt romney that we saw last night, let's turn to james hoffa, president of international brotherhood teamsters who comes to us tonight from local 630 in los angeles. mr. hoffa, great to you with us tonight. what did the middle class miss about mitt romney last night? >> well, you know, it's hard to debate somebody that lies constantly, and for him to all of a sudden say he cares about the middle class, i believe that video about the 47%, that's what he really thinks about us. and he still is back to, he's going to have tax cuts for the rich and there's only one way to balance a budget. going after social security, medicare, medicaid. he wants to privatize social security. he wants to send you a voucher with regard to medicare. he is against what we stand for, and the things that basically are the safety net in america right now. and no matter what you saw last night, it was a big lie because he basically tried to remake himself last night. you know, we know the real mitt romney. >> he says the middle class has been crushed under president obama

that's -- governor, you're the last person who's going to get tough on china. >> let's bring in james hoffaident of the international brotherhood of teamsters. mr. hoffa, great to have you with us tonight. >> good to be here. >> you bet. at any time during this campaign, especially last night, we'll focus on that, has mitt romney convinced anybody that he's an advocate for the middle class? this economy that he's talking about, he says that we have shipped the jobs is over there, as if our market and our workers aren't good enough. your response? >> well, that's more of this romney double talk about, he wants to lower the standards. i saw last night is the code word for, we can be more competitive if we didn't have unions, if we didn't have, you know, standards here in this country, if we didn't have a minimum wage. we could do a lot of manufacturing. i thought that was a code word to basically, let's reduce the standard of living for the american worker and then we'll have all of this manufacturing here. that's not america. that's not what we believe in. and that is what's wrong and flawed

james hoffa, teamster president. great to have you tonight on "the ed show."ppreciate your time. >>> onlying up, mitt romney feels the backlash for threatening to defund a cultural icon in america. i'll tell you why big bird made a big splash last night at the debate. >>> up next, mitt romney ruffled some feathers with his comments about cutting pbs. now the president is weighing in on mitt's big bird flap. >>> and in the big finish tonight, ohio is key to victory for both candidates. i'll ask ohio state senator nina turner if last night's debate was a game changer for voters in her state. don't forget, listen to my radio show on sirius xm radio channel 127 monday through friday, noon to 3:00 p.m. and follow me on twitter @edshow and like "the ed show" on facebook. we are coming right back. [ female announcer ] caroline penry began using olay total effects in 2001. and one wedding, 2 kids, 43 bottles of olay total effects many birthdays later, still looks amazing. thanks to the trusted performance of olay. >>> i'm sorry, jim, i'm going to stop the subsidy to p

james hoffa, teamster president. great to have you tonight on "the ed show." time. >>> onlying up, mitt romney feels the backlash for threatening to defund a cultural icon in america. i'll tell you why big bird made a big splash last night at the debate. email marketing from constant contact reaches people in a place they're checking every day -- their inbox. and it gives you the tools to create custom emails that drive business. it's just one of the ways constant contact can help you grow your small business. sign up for your free trial today at constantcontact.com/try. >>> up next, mitt romney ruffled some feathers with his comments about cutting pbs. now the president is weighing in on mitt's big bird flap. >>> and in the big finish tonight, ohio is key to victory for both candidates. i'll ask ohio state senator nina turner if last night's debate was a game changer for voters in her state. don't forget, listen to my radio show on sirius xm radio channel 127 monday through friday, noon to 3:00 p.m. and follow me on twitter @edshow and like "the ed show" on f

joining us tonight here on "the ed show," i'm joined by james hoffa, president of the international brotherhoodsters, also with me continue, mr. cohen. mr. hoffa, if romney in his personal life the kind of president he would be? is he a threat to jobs? >> he is a threat to jobs, because he actually believes this stuff. he actually believes tax cuts for the rich would help to rebuild the economy. he actually believes we should get rid of the minimum wage and get rid of unions. he actually thinks that workers are the problem. he went to china and said, that's what we need, baseball cooley labor. he would implement this national right to work to all these kind of things. he's a threat. he goes on there and he's trying to backpedal about this thing about the cars. he came to detroit and said, i love cars. i've got two cadillacs. that didn't play very well. and in detroit, with the auto capital where i'm from, he comes in and says, you know he basically tries to back away from this idea that he said, let detroit go bankrupt. that didn't sell too well in detroit. >> i brought that subject up today on

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