i'll direct it to you, jim hoffa. larger argument that in these tight economic times, the public has the right to expect employees of organized labor to take the same cuts that the private sector has taken. that was one of the arguments made in wisconsin, made in ohio and make in other states. >> it wasn't really true in wisconsin. in wisconsin there was a small deficit, and the unions were will to go sit down and make that up. he said i'm not interested in that. stt wkerega by talking about the fact, he said, well, there's a deficit. we have to get rid of collective bargaining. when they called his bluff and said we'll sit down and negotiate with you right now, then he says no i'm not interested in negotiating with you. i want to take out collective bargaining. the real reason is they realized the backbone of the democratic party, the people that oppose them, is organized labor. we're the ones that have the boots on the ground. we have money and organization. they really have to take us out. it's not about the budget

father of the current teamster president jim hoffa.ent attempts to find his body. there was first a rumor he had been kidnapped taken up in an airplane and pushed out over the great lakes. of course, some people still believe he's buried in the end zone of the giants stadium in new jersey. back in 2004, they tore up a detroit home because somebody had tipped them off that the floorboards -- he might have been buried under the floorboards of the home. in 2006, remember they tore down a horse barn in michigan on a tip that he was buried there. now, the latest tip is that he's buried in the driveway of a home in roseville michigan. and allegedly the owner of the -- the previous owner of the home had some ties to the mafia so today in roseville michigan, they're actually going to dig up this driveway thinking that maybe the body of james hoffa is located underneath the driveway. why don't they just give it up? right? and who's paying for all of this? tore down a horse barn and another house and now they're tearing up a driveway? besides, i

jim hoffa criticized mitt romney saying he represents everything that is wrong with our financial systems money as ceo of bain capital by destroying u.s. businesses, sending good-paying american jobs overseas and filling his pockets with millions while putting workers out on the street. very similar to what you are saying today. do you think that's unfair, especially given the fact that the teamsters are making money off of private equity? the western conference of teamsters pension trust has $1.5 billion invested in private equity. how come you are investing in private equity? >> mitt romney got rich making america poor. he did everything that jimmy hoffa said. he loaded companies up, good solid companies with debt and then went to bankruptcy court and took away workers penceions there's two ways to succeed. there's the way that he did it, which is the wrong way and there's the right way where we work together -- >> you are saying things, but it's -- let me get your take on what's going to happen at the end of the year. we're going to go off the fiscal cliff because these guys can't mak

i'm here with jim hoffa president of the teamster's union.ne night it's michelle obama, last night bill clinton, can it get better. >> stephanie: i think it can, i have told there's a speaker tonight that we will enjoy. >> everybody says how will he top that? you watch. people will be talking about that. friday morning people will say can you believe that. he will put them in their place and it will be fabulous. >> stephanie: that's how you achieve excellence is people that raise your game. and the fact that barack obama is not afraid to put bill clinton on before him says everything we need to know. >> and he knew this bill clinton is a consummate speaker, story teller, and last night he took them to the wood shed. he said these are the facts. this is what they are lying about. >> stephanie: and take a listen to this line. bill clinton last night. >> when president barack obama took office the economy was in freefall. it had just shrunk 9.4% of gdp. we were losing 750,000 a jobs a month. are we doing better than that today? the answer yes. >

getting the shovels out today in hopes of solving the decades old mystery over what happened to jim any hoffa. >>> 15 after the hour. nfl referees are back on the job. the regular refs received a standing ovation before they took to the field in last night's ravens-bengals game in baltimore. this is the first game played since the nfl and referees union reached agreement on a contract. players and fans were furious with the performance during the first three weeks of the season. commissioner goodell apologized to the fans for the lockout. >> we're sorry to bring our fans through that. we're sorry to bring the general public through that. that's, unfortunately, part of labor management disputes. >> the referees union plans to vote today and tomorrow on a labor deal. this will give you a sense of just how controversial those replacement refs were. one las vegas sports book is offering refunds to those who bet on the packers-seahawks game. seahawks won by a bad touchdown call in the final play of the game. >>> a texas man faces extortion charges, admitting to trying to get money from redskins qu

international brotherhood of teamsters, the good men and women of the teamsters union under president jim hoffa you can find out more about their good work at www.teamster.org. well, this is it. this is the last time we're going to see members of congress here in the nation's capital until after the election. these couple of days. and we don't know what the republicans have in mind. probably not very much. but here -- leading the charge for the democrats our good friend congressman chris van hollen representing maryland's eighth congressional district. and also the ranking democrat on the house budget committee. good friend of the program. very generous with his team and in studio again this morning. good to see you congressman. >> good to see you bill. >> bill: now with your political hat on, when you see a candidate who's running for president and starts out by saying well, 50% of the american people i don't care about because i know they're going to vote for the other guy anyway. i'm not even going to try to get their vote. is that a good start? >> even for someone who is as out of touch and

please join me in welcoming to the national press club teamsters' president jim hoffa.pplause] >> thank you, madam president. it's a great pleasure to be here at the press club at this us a spishes time. there's so much going on in our country right now, and it's a great pleasure to be here with so many friends and so many people from the media and to talk about what the issues are today. first of all, i want to talk about the teamsters' union a little bit and talk about the fact that, you know, as madam president said, i was elected in the march of 1999 -- in mar of 1999, and we're very proud of what we've done with the union. we've taken this union from a union that was bankrupt, divided and falling apart literally and made it what it is today. when we took over, this union was a union where sister against sister, brother against brother, local against local, joint counsel against joint counsel. it was chaos, and we came in and reached out and reached out to those people that opposed us to say, enough. we cannot have a civil war in this union. we must unite this union

please join me in welcoming to the national press club teamsters president jim hoffa.here at the press clubs at this auspicious time. there's so much going on in our country right now and it's a pleasure to be here with so many friends and people from the media and talk about what the issues are today. first of all, i want to talk about the teamsters union a little bit and talk about the fact that, you know, as madam president said, i was elected in march of 1999, and we're very proud of what we've done on the teamsters union. we've taken this union from a union that was bankrupt, divided, and falling apart literally and made it what it is today. when we took over, this union was a union where sister against sister, brother against brother, local against local, joint counsel against joint counsel. there was chaos and we came in and reached out and reached out to those people who opposed us to say enough, we cannot have a civil war in this union, we must unite this union. and fortunately we have. we have built a strong union and we are united today. recently we had an e

the bad guys worth more than the good and jim axelrod cbs news >>> on that subject of infamous a new tip on the final resting taped resting place of jimmy hoffa investigators will dig in the detroit area home a man has come for and he thinks he saw off of buried there 35 years ago if there have been countless theories about what happened to the teamsters boss, his body has never been found. >>> researchers in switzerland clamed they found a second inning for the mona lisa it reveals what they say an earlier painting of the younger mona lisa. they spanned three decades doing x-rays and examinations to back up the klanclaim they say that painting hung i noticed for a century but not everybody is convinced. some experts say it was probably an unknown pay painter who tried to copy density here's a peek out side, we have low clouds and fog not much changing weather wise where is dan hurd: when i was a child, california was a leader in education funding. erika derry: and the fact that california isn't making it a priority frustrates me. dan hurd: i'm ashamed of that, and i don't want this to continue for my daughter. brenda kealing: prop 38 is goin

jim long, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> years after his presumed death, jimmy hoffa's legacy lives on.st in his mysterious disappearance. n ] nice! [ male annncer ] isn't always the one you plan to take. whoa, check it out. hey baby goat... no that's not yours... [ hikers whispering ] ...that's not yours. [ goat bleats ] na, na, na -- no! [ male announcer ] now you can take a photo right from video, so you'll never miss the perfect shot. [ hikers laughing, commenting ] at&t introduces the htc one x. now $99.99. rethink possible. [ male announcer ] introducing a reason to look twice. the entirely new lexus es and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> jimmy hoffa hasn't been seen since july of 1975. a.j. hammer joins me now. so a new lead in the disappearance of jimmy hoffa. i just want to know why is hollywood so obsessed with him? there have been five movies or so about jimmy hoffa. >> so much material has come out. it's just such a made for hollywood mystery. so fascinating. of course he disappeared almost 40 years ago, but we do know his name now because it