of murray energy about that on the air and moore said that that nobody was forced to go but yet it was mandatory. well the day after the election murray read a prayer to his staff right before he laid off more than one hundred fifty employees murray energy is the largest privately owned coal mining company in the country he said that obama's administration quote war on coal necessitated the layoffs so what was the prayer quote lord please forgive me and anyone with me in murray energy corporation for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build we ask for your guidance in this drastic time with the drastic decisions that will be made to have any hope of our survival as an american business enterprise. well of course whether obama's policies are actually harming his business or whether he's just trying to follow through on election season threats remains to be seen. well everyone we made it november sixth has come and gone our television screens are now inundated with holiday commercials instead of po

murray energy ceo, today, he's acting on it. i mean, yeah, you could say it's an unusual hobby.eah, i've had people laugh at me, but i don't care. i just love collecting air. people always say the world is, like, 80% water, right? that means the world has to be like 90% air. that's just science. think it's weird to collect air? you wouldn't think so if you saw what your lungs collec every time you breathe. people can make fun of me all they want, but i choose to see the glass half-full. of air. protect your health with life-saving air quality updates from the american lung association. get our free "state of the air" app at lung.org. neil: all right, well, they threatenedded, and they said if barack obama was reelected, not just bad for business, but for jobs and they would lay off people. murray energy, ceo, robert murray, laying offer 156 people after the president won re-election, and he sent out a prayer to the staff. i'll quote here. "lord, forgive me and anyone with me in the corporation for the decision that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any

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murray energy, ceo, robert murray, laying offer 156 people after the president won re-election, and hehere. "lord, forgive me and anyone with me in the corporation for the decision that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build." mr. murray is on the phone now. how many people did you have to layoff? >> caller: so far, neil, and good afternoon, it's been about 300, and that's about 8% of the organization so far, but it's just the beginning. neil: now, you warned this might come to pass that the president and his energy policy being anti-coal, anti-fossil fuel, you'd have a very tough time continuing operations as they are in light of that kind of a policy, but very few thought youth act on it. why did you? >> caller: well, they left me no choice. we'll see reduced economic activity in america. we're going to see reduced electric power consumption, and see drastically reduced coal markets. there's 12 regulations now that the obama administration has in the u.s. epa, ready to enact it. he was holding in until after th

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murray energy an ohio coal company said it has been forced to lay off 160 workers.nomic prospects facing the coal industry as the president heads into a second term. they include pending epa regulations and the possibility of new taxes. murray energy is headed by a prominent mitt romney donor. >>> in los angeles lakers fans won't tolerate losing. you think of jack nicholsonering right? the team lost every preseason game and it's 1-4 in the regular season, so the front office fired second year coach mike brown. the lakers are loaded with high priced talent who have not produced wins, so they say. >> and we now know who is going to write the new star wars sequel. the job goes to michael arndt who wrote the hugely successful screenplay for toy story three. the film is scheduled for release in 2015. >>> there's been an outpouring of financial support to help people recover from superstorm sandy, but unfortunately, there are people out there who may take advantage of your generosity and take your money in the wake of that disaster. cnn's drew griffin investigates emergin

of murray energy sent a letter to his employees hectoring them to donate to the company's political action committee telling them if they did not "the coal industry will be eliminated and so will your jobs." >> jon: well, guess what? those people were right. despite no objective change in who's running the country or the situation the country is in, c.e.o.s are taking action. like coal magnate robert murray who said he would have to fire people if obama won and then fired people while they were still counting florida. who would have thought? (laughter) a prophecy fulfilled by the professor seer. like a weather man forecasting scattered showers and then running up on the roof and peeing on people. (laughter) "you're lucky i didn't call for hail!" (laughter) >> well, they left me no choice. we're going to see reduced economic activity in america. we're going to see reduced electric power consumption. we're going to see drastically reduced coal markets. >> jon: a greedy black-hearted man who owns a coal mine. well, now i've seen everything. (laughter) but it's not just those who provide compr

he claims the do to in obama's second term his country must go into survival mode it is company murray energy wasn't in trouble just weeks before the election when robert murray shelled out one hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions to karl rove's super pac or when he spent another three million dollars on lobbying and other political contributions just over the past year after all those failed tries to buy seats for republican politicians robert murray claims his company just can't afford to keep workers on the payroll any more but what if he had all this political contributions back he could easily keep those people and there's applebee's franchisees saying angle who gave thousands to republican politicians this election cycle and is now promising to lay off workers as he doesn't want to comply with the obamacare mandate of providing health insurance to his employees this election alone with the wall of the tillman act and rubble outside groups financed mostly by corporate money spent over a billion dollars trying to defeat president obama and progresses on top of that the u.s.

having to give them health insurance xen ten call tinkle tangle at applebee's and robert murray of murray energy have also announced layoffs so so two of the owners of olive garden and papa johns but while the big businesses struggle to give health care to their employees by the way some kick in for the two years i don't know why these guys are doing all this right now for nearly a year and have pizza in wisconsin. a chain of pizza stores in wisconsin says obamacare levels the playing field for us like sixty percent of small businesses they provide health care to all of their employees and they are looking forward to the day that papa johns has the exact same expense that they do so as a small business they can compete with the big business what's wrong with having small businesses and big businesses on the same playing field course but only the government's business is into so making sure everybody is playing on the exact and playing field because people bring different skills different values different resources different innovations to the table so what i would look at what i will add however

koch industries, murray energy. devon energy.e any chance that reason can speak louder than money? here to help us answer that question is jefferey sachs. he's comeing to us via skype from new york. thank you for joining us in "the war room"." >> thanks for having me again. it's great to be with you. 12,347 >> jennifer: i appreciate your perspective. even on climb changes blockburg when they put it on the cover of the magazine, how can we get our leaders to take action. >> the president has to put forward a plan. it has to not only acknowledge theeverything that your wonderful show has been discussing, the water level the falling of the water level in the mississippi river. the acidification in the ocean the killing of the shell fish, it's real, okay? it's obvious to the scientists. and the dark joke of it is that it's been known scientifically for more than a century. that's not a problem. the deniers are not even the problem. the problem is we don't have a plan. we don't have a strategy. if we had one, and if the president didn

lord, forbiv me and anyone -- forgive me and anyone with me in the murray energy corporation for theisions we're now forced to make to preseven existence of any of the enterprises you have helped us build. wednesday, they laid off 150 people at the company and subsidiaries blaming the obama administration war on coal. we reached out to white house for a response. we told you that "newsweek" is going out of print at the end of the year. look at the cover at one of the last issues showing president obama dressed as napolean with the headline at the top "g.o.p., you're old, you're white, you're history." and another image of president obama, this hugging the first lady in a rally in august went viral after sentbe from the twitter account tuesday night. "washington post" says it was the most retweeted and twitter's history. it calls it a snapshot of modern equal marriage. "the president more than anything seems to need the hug and depends vulnerable. the obligatory masculine markers of leadership resolve resolved. self-sufficientensy of two people lost in hair love world." later the phot

here you have it on the day after the election, coal producer murray energy laid off nearly 160 workerssighting the president's energy policies as the cause. what can we expect in the days and weeks ahead. joining me now kirsten dorsey director of external and government affairs at the economic policy institute. okay, christian. i have like two pages of companies that v.a. announced layoffs. >> it's a growing list. >> laura: in the last three days. everyone from boeing, to cat pillar, lock keyed harr continue, boston scientific, these are thousands of jobs if you add them all up. >> yeah. >> laura: what's going on here. a lot of them citing obama care because of the implementing cost of that. >> nothing related to the election of the president should be a reason why anybody is going through layoffs. it's not like it was a surprise that the president could have won re-election on tuesday. that should have been something that people maybe put a part of their first alert forecast for a long time. and anybody who needs to lay off workers right now, they had systemic problems long before tue

murray energy, whose ceo was a prominent donor to mitt romney, says it has been forced to make the layoffss re-election and what is a poor outlook for the coal industry during his second term. more than 160 people are now without work. >>> one person who will be keeping his job, tim geithner. the white house says he will be staying on at least through early next year. he is expected to be a key role player in the negotiations over the fiscal cliff. >>> and the countdown to the fiscal cliff is certainly on. that is the $7 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases that could be triggered in january. >> christine romans will explain exactly what it means for you and the politicians we just elected. she joins us now with a preview. christine? >> reporter: hi, randi and victor. the fiscal cliff, jobs and obama care will help define the president's legacy. we know what the president wants but his political opponents still pushing back. let's start with the most immediate challenge, the fiscal cliff. unless the president and congress can come together, your taxes will rise and your gov

spoke out against re-electing president obama, perhaps none more vocal than robert murray, ceo of murray energy, a major coal company. murray plans to lay off 160 workers, presumably because mr. obama was elected to a second term. i interviewed murray back in 2007 after a deadly collapse at one of his coal mines. let's just say he is no fan of democrats, who disagree with his beliefs about the coal industry. >> i would describe al gore as the shahman of global goofiness and gloom and doom. >> of course, he was talking about climate change there. as you know, alison, most scientists believe there is such a thing as climate change and we have to deal with it. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. tell us about murray. did he really lay off these workers because obamas was re-ele re-elected to a second term? >> is he blaming president obama for that. the coal industry has been struggling for a while. it's an industry under a lot of pressure. now this ceo is blaming president obama because of increased regulation, which he says is the cause for sort of the troubles that the coal industry

robert murray, the ceo for murray energy who ordered employees to miss a day of work without pay to attendff 160 workers. he said he was going into survival mode as a result of obama's reelection. papa johns will cut employee's hours as a result of president obama's elect. david segal is going to give hi them raises instead of firing them. what should you mow? on monday morning, michael more he will will start his first day as director of the central intelligence agency after the general david petraeus resigned. he cited an extra marital affair as a reason for resignation and subsequent reporting indicates that it's paula broadwell who wrote an extremely complimentary biography of then. since andrea mitchell broke the story on msnbc, additional details have come to light about at the race' affair with broadwell. we had a long spirited editorial meeting yesterday about whether to discuss the story on our air today. because important details are still to be resolved about this story, we decided not to. but we agreed that as basic facts become clear rg we'll dive into a lot of the important i

murray energy corporation announcing that the layoffs at its utah and illinois plants. ceo, bob murray says the president's alleged war on coal, including pending e.p.a. regulation also destroy the coal industry by the year 2030. he forced a cross-country flight to land after having a mid-air melt down about terrorists. today that jetblue pilot is a free man. that he clayton ranting and raving during it a flight from new york to las vegas back in march. he was arrested for interfering with crew members found not guilty by reason of insanity. now a texas judge has let him go free rather than commit him to a mental facility. he will not be allowed back on an airplane without permission. he must also forego his pilot's license. lady liberty lighting up new york harbor for the first time since super storm sandy hits. it serves as a victim of hope for other storm victims. brings and stone walkways were torn up. can you he see some that there the docks were ripped apart. power is also out. so crews are using a temporary lighting system powered by generators to light up the sta

support the department of defense in their efforts to pursue alternative fuels and energy investments. senators murrayshaheen, bingaman, hagan, kerry, begich and tom udall have joined me in cosponsoring this legislation. we as senators and americans frequently acknowledge the service and sacrifice of our troops, but i would also point out that they are incredibly smart, insightful and forward thinking. in order to keep ahead of current enemies and future threats, our military leaders must be students of history. they have to understand the past in order to predict the future. they have to be ready to face challenges from the air, sea and land and now increasingly from the cyber domain. they must prepare to defend our nation from hostile nation states like iran and from terrorist organizations like al qaeda. in order to do all of these things, madam president, they must have the best technology in the world. we must also provide them with the flexibility to adapt to an ever-changing landscape and the resources they need to research, develop, and employ new technologies. that is our solemn commitment an

huge rallies of four years ago or the unbridaled energy or enthusiasm but it could be a more consequenceal election with so much at stake. here's mark murray at least the first concern, the immediate concern, bush tax cuts. >> right. this is something that mitt romney is in favor of extending. president obama wants to he'll lame nature the tax cuts for those that make more than $250,000 a year. it's where they disagree and whoever wins will have the upper hand in the policy fight. >> the team writes the future of sbilgtszment programs, we saw the heat in florida putting romney and ryan on their heels. here we are. >> i think most people are under the expectation if mitt romney ends up winning that some kind of deal like the paul ryan budget plan with the transformations of medicare and medicaid get past. a lot depends on whether democrats keep the control of the senate. president obama wants to make tweaks to those entitlement programs but not the broad overhauls that paul ryan and mitt romney have. >> on the short list the supreme court. you have this alleged war on women that democrats say exists, and the supreme court picks that could c