joining me tonight, congressman keith ellison of minnesota. good to have you with us. i know that you are a no vote on fast track. and we've talked about this. we had a sit-down group of democrats who were clearly against this for all of the reasons of when it comes to jobs. why is fast track taking medicare dollars? this is a new twist in all of this that could raise the ire of a lot of people. what's happening here? >> quite frankly, it's outrageous. trade adjustment assistance is the assistance that displaced workers can get when they are thrown off their jobs by trade deals that undermine their current johns in the u.s. and those jobs are offshore. >> so where does that money come from, congressman? >> it should come from the people who are beginning to make all that money on the transpacific partnership. the transpacific partnership is an investment deal which will make fabulous amounts of wealth. it will make the multi-nationals even richer than they are now. and yet they don't want to pay for the displaced workers that they're going to create. they're actually t

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keith ellison tweeted now president obama wants to talk. let's take a listen. >> president tried to both ill people and then impugn their integrity. i don't think it was very effective tactic. there are a number of us insulted by the approach. >> that's his own party. >> the president has never been very good at maintaining or even starting relationships on capitol hill. this has been the story of his presidency. when the history books close on the obama administration, one of the first lines and the first paragraph will be this guy just could not work with congress. >> the relationships on capitol hill. we always knew they were bad with republicans but this from the democrats seems it's beyond someone who feels scorned. this is a signature piece of history. >> it's also a reflection of where democrats are and the beating heart of what democrats are disaffected on. i think today's very momentous action is economic populous. it's trade deals and minimum wage deals. that's where the juice is now. that's such a remarkable transformation of thi

. >> congressman keith ellison is co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus. >> the public sectorate sector must be working together in order for the market to work properly. >> wouldn't it be nice if the wise men and women in washington could make the market work properly and create jobs? >> john, nobody can doubt that we have schools that are crumbling, that our parks need more attention. my own city of minneapolis, we saw a bridge fall into the mississippi river, man. >> but government doesn't have money of its own. it has to take money from the private sector to give too those pro >> you >> you have to take the money from somewhere. >> congressman illinoiselleisonellison's caucus claims it can create 2.2 million >> if >> if they can create 2 million jobs why 5 million, 10 million? why are you soo cheap? spendz more. >> in needs to be balance. >> how do you know 2.2 million is the right balance of taking money from the private sector. >> no one ever does know the exactly right answer. >> i think this guy has the right answer. that's mark cuban, owner of the nba champion dallas

. >> as keith ellison tweeted -- now president obama wants to talk?the weak relations, considering his trip to the baseball game at thursday night. he was there for just 20 minutes. >> what do you say to people in this town who believe that's just too little too late? >> the fact is the president personally had dozens of conversations with democrats in the house and in the senate to make the case for this proposal. >> reporter: the president was pushing for two measures on trades one for workers who lose to outsourcing, and the other authority to negotiate deals on his own. but liberals complained those deals dating all the way back to nafta just ship american jobs overseas. as ross perot put it back in the '90s -- >> there had be a job sucking sound going south. >> reporter: facing similar complaints this time around the president miscalculated, slamming his democratic critics instead of wooing them. >> don't just throw out a bunch of stuff making accusations. >> reporter: add to that hillary clinton's near silence on the issue despite supporting the

. >> reporter: as democratic congressman keith ellison tweeted, "now president obama wants to talk?" [ cheers and applause ] it was an indictment at the president's weak relations with congress. consider his trip to the congressional baseball game thursday night aimed at pitching his trade deal. he was there for just 20 minutes. >> what do you say to people in this town who believe that's just too little, too late? >> the fact is, the president held -- the president personally had dozens of conversations with democrats in the house and in the senate to make the case for this proposal. >> reporter: the president was pushing for two measures on trade, one to help workers who'd lose their jobs to outsourcing, the other to give them authority to negotiate trade deals on his own, power to cut a massive pacific trade agreement. but liberals complain the deals, dating back to nafta, just shift american jobs overseas, as ross perot put it back in the '90s. >> there will be a job-sucking sound going south. >> reporter: facing similar complaints this time around, the president miscalculated, s

you know, you look at keith ellis ellison, the freedom of choice act, the interracial profiling act of so you have democrats and republicans just gumming up the system. aren't they pointless because they're never going to be passed. people say that. so all this time and effort and money goes into these potential bills that never go anywhere as an outsider i find this ludicrous. >> use of the legislative process. i don't even know. look, i think they are message driven in trying to tap into the broader public narrative. but with something like the abortion bill, there are increasingly measures that throughout the state that are taking on 20-week bans and people who are putting up things like six-week bans. 99% of abortions actually do not happen after 20 weeks but well before and the idea that they're using these extreme examples to make a point about their political process i think is -- >> so talking about making a point. richard, as of february, congress voted 56 times to repeal obamacare. talk about clogging the system. >> well, i actually debated this issue with marshall blackburn

keith, thank you so much for being with us. >> congressman keith ellison. >> let's go to upstate newe man hunt for the two escaped murderers on the run this morning. police have intensified their search in a densely wooded area just a few miles from the brings after police dog picked up a scent of one or both of the escapees. as we reported sources familiar with the investigation told nbc news that joyce mitchell the prison employee being questioned by police was supposed to be the get away driver for the two men but got cold feet. joining us now live from dannemora, new york, stephanie gosk. we learned yesterday that joyce mitchell "thought she was in love with escapee richard matt." now we're hearing reports there may have been a relationship with the other prison david sweat as well. what can you tell us? >> yeah that's right. our sources told us that richard matt "charmed prison worker joyce mitchell" and now "the wall street journal" is reporting she was investigated by the prison for an alleged relationship with david sweat as well. >> reporter: she thought it was love say sour

when keith ellison was speaking, you were shaking your head. >> here is the thing, i don't know thatpset about the secrecy as they don't want trades they thought unions lost a lot of jobs. and they're against free trade. elizabeth warren they stepped up to her, she was kind of-- she wasn't vigorously pushed against it and another defacto showdown between elizabeth warren and president obama on full stage. >> and bernie sanders against hillary clinton. running against the president. he says hillary clinton must make her views known now. we want to know. >> any moves that he makes, think of the morass right now. and they can take an hour two hours to delay everything. he's twisting arms and you're saying. does it rurt -- and the president is there lobbying democrats as we speak. >> very rare. >> will the time frame be pushed back to give the president more time to speak to the members of his own party? >> the joy of congress and your taxpayer dollars at work when this kind of crap hits the fan, i'm sorry. and this could go well into the night. i mean and this is where-- this is the kin

representative keith ellison, i never supported the death penalty. bad business for the government to be in. any type of lethal injection is cruel and unusual. a liberal columnist, we cannot rely on scotus. we have to rely on the people and public opinion is gradually moving against it. the l.a. times this morning, curtis -- despite the vote yesterday shift is felt on the death penalty. conservative justices give the go-ahead but opponents take justice right or effort dissent has a call to arms. -- justice breyer dissent as a call to arms. a new constitutional assault on the very foundation of capital punishment. the death penalty is an unfair and unusual. opponents took his word as a call to arms. richard in pennsylvania, a republican. you are on the air. >> i think that the death penalty is a deterrent and it should be used. should be given within a few months. but if a person commits murder, he or she should suffer the consequences. that is all that i have to say. host: you do think that it is a deterrent? caller: yes, it is. host: why do you say