>> ohio! >> oh! >> ohio! don't win this vote. >> no, it's about our safety and our people and our unity. >> what's it say about future generations? what's the message? >> that we don't matter. this is an unsafe bill, it attacks safety of our citizens, our communities. it's unfair to the middle class. it affects everybody. you don't have to be a public employee. you don't even have to be in a union. it affects you. >> it affects everybody in this economy working class. you are a teacher, i understand? >> yes, i am. >> what's it going to mean if you don't repeal senate bill 5? >> what it means is they ask us to be competitive in a global society. we can't even get our students out of our classroom. we have textbooks that are outdated, we have technology that is five, ten years behind. how can we do this if we're being suppressed? if they're telling us that we're no good. how do we tell our kids that they have to be better. we have to be competitive if they're not helping us. instead of helping us -- they should

i hope he comes back to ohio. he was in ohio yesterday, and he said this about the jobs bill. >> ohio, if you pass this bill, then right here in this state tens of thousands of construction workers will have a job again. pass this jobs bill, and there will be funding to save the jobs of up to 14,000 ohio teachers and cops and firefighters. there are schools all throughout ohio that need this kind of renovation. there's a bridge in cincinnati that connects ohio to kentucky that needs this kind of renovation. there are construction projects like these all across the country just waiting to get started and there are millions of unemployed construction workers looking for a job. so my question to congress is, what on earth are we waiting for? >> and of course a gallup poll out today showing 45% of americans want their congressional member to vote for the american jobs act. only 32% want them to vote against it. so, once again, the people aren't being listened to by the republicans. now, in the state of ohio, boots on

i'm governor of ohio. to speculate what i would do if i were there is something i'm not interested in, because it is not fair for me to put myself in the middle of this movie when i didn't help to make it. what i would say to you, kate, is everybody likes to use the word "cut." there are going to be some cuts. i mean government is so bloated and inefficient and out of control, particularly in washington, and every american washington, and every american knows it, including, by the way, inside the pentagon. i was a pentagon reformer. you might not know that, but i was. it is back to designing something that works to work for the customer that saves you money. you have to cast aside who these special interest people are who are always complaining and whining and screaming. not all of them, and not all the time, but too much of the time, you have to face your problem. you have to think it through clearly. we talk about stephen jobs. how did jobs become so successful? well, he knew there was a problem and he t

going to ohio, ohio in 2012, it is going to be a huge state. that's why we're going to be broadcasting in toledo tomorrow night then in columbus, ohio, on thursday night. joining me now is the mayor of columbus, ohio, michael coleman who was with the president today. mr. coleman, nice to have you with us tonight. i'm looking forward to being in your city on thursday night with "the ed show," a live broadcast. we really want to know what the folks of columbus in the heartland are saying about this. if you could just tell us, mr. coleman, are people in your city and ohio, how frustrated are they with this exercise in trying to create jobs? how frustrated and how angry, if they are, with washington? >> well, i think the anger is directed at congress because in columbus and around the state of ohio, people need jobs. the poverty rate has gone up. unemployment rate has gone up. and we need congress to put the country before their own politics in order so people in columbus and around the state can have a good job and put food on the table and shelte

ohio is on the move. and it's interesting, around the country people are talking about ohio and the fact that we solve our problems, we met them and did the right thing. and a lot of people say they ought to learn about this in d.c. >> with the presidential election well under way, do you think that president obama think that president obama could win ohio ? and assuming your answer will be no, which republican candidate do you think could win ohio and who will be be endorsing? >> well, right now i'm not endorsing anybody because i have too many things i have to do. and i have a big issue on the ballot this fall. and i have a lot of things i'm trying to do in ohio, workforce, development, changing our school funding program, figuring out a way to not waste resources by having too many siloed programs out here. running ohio more as a family would or a business would manage their budget. so i have a lot to do there. and right now, my focus is not on the presidential race. in terms of can the president win o

earl bruce played football for ohio state. he loved ohio state. up until that moment mr. bruce had been extremely successful in nine years coaching at ohio state. ohio state was sort of having a bad year in 1987. five wins, four losses and one tie. that record was not good enough and the administration abruptly fired the coach. five days ahead of the game with michigan, one of the greatest rivalries in the country, they fire their coach. they're infuriated by this decision. the expression of public anger took the form of one of those college sports moments that makes our executive, bill wolf cry at meetings when he tries to explain them. hours after coach earl bruce was fired, 150 members of the ohio state marching band marched to earl bruce's house and serenaded their old devastated coach with ohio state fight songs. ♪ the whole state of michigan ♪ we're from ohio >> coach earl bruce was not a man who wants to reveal his emotions.open with the band on his lawn. five days later ohio state traveled to michigan and somehow beat their arch rivals and the buckeye players carr

as ohio attorney general he was a strong voice for ohio into struggle to stay in their homes and consumers have faced unfair practices deceptive lenders who targeted financial institutions including fannie mae, they used accounting fraud to undermine investments like pension funds and provided retirement security for teachers and janitors and secretaries. he took on unscrupulous actors and work closely with ohio's banks to create an craft effective targeted legislation to prevent banks from engaging in predatory lending. is the treasure of the county level of franklin county, state's second-largest county, home of the state capitol and at the state level as state treasury for financial literacy efforts in schools and with seniors. throughout his career as lister of ohio as law professor and attorney in private practice riches been a strong voice for his clients and for consumers. top executive of ohio fortune 500 companies proctor & gamble, limited brands, for a city american electric power strongly endorsed his nomination. to find represented is from ohio financial institutions both of wh

you see it here in ohio. budget cuts are forcing superintendents here in columbus and all over the state to make layoffs they don't want to make. it is unfair to the kids and under mines our future and it has to stop. tell congress to pass the american jobs act so we can put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong! >> tell them to pass this bill. they can help people to create most of the new jobs in the country. that's america's small business owners. it's all well and good that big corporations have seen their profits roaring back. we want them to hire people as well. this bill cuts taxes for small businesses that hire new employees. it cuts taxes for small businesses that raise salaries for current employees. it cuts small business payroll taxes in half. let's tell congress instead of talking about helping america's job creators, let's do something to help america's job creators and pass this bill right away! >> pass this bill! pass this bill! pass this bill! >> if congress passes this jobs bi

i don't know how he wins re-election without ohio.he comes to pennsylvania, the election's over. he has to start by winning ohio to have a chance at re-election. i'm a nut, i've been watching ohio politics since i was a kid. to me, there's three interesting states, california, new york, and ohio. something about ohio is fascinating. can you figure out this state? do you understand how they're going to decide this election come next november for president? could they vote for a southern guy, a yahoo like perry? could they go that far? >> i think where president obama's going to win ohio, it's going to be hard, it's going to be heavily contested. karl rove's already been in the state, spent $700 or $800,000 just against me, let alone what he's going to do against the president. i'm okay with that. ohio's a state where it's the third largest manufacturing state in the country and everything flows from that. we know the middle class is strengthened when we make things. we don't make enough stuff in this country. a group of us did an annou

ohio will benefit greatly. we will receive billions of dollars if the congress were to pass what the president has laid out. it will put ohioans to work. and that's exactly what we need in our state. >> congressman, with the governor saying there americans are looking for this type of leadership out of washington, take a listen to this. this is speaker boehner this morning about the president's plan. >> we've got a little different approach to creating jobs than our friends across the aisle. we see permanent tax increases put into effect in order to pay for temporary spending. >> sir, as you can hear, the house gop leaders are striking a different tone. but with republicans already balking at the idea of raising taxes on wealthy families and corporations explain how do you think this bill will ever get passed? >> first of all, i would hope that we'd be able to agree that causing oil companies to pay more taxes would be a prudent thing to do given what they've charged for gasoline. that it would be prudent also

florida and ohio. first in florida, nine republicans gather in orlando tonight for the sixth presidential debate. the third in 15 days. and the third match-up between rick perry and mitt romney. the pressure for tonight's debate is clearly on perry whose debate performance last week in tampa was enough to worry some republicans. especially donors. already eyeing the general election. in case there was any doubt that we're going to see a slug fest tonight, yesterday the top two republicans did nothing but pummel each other. it started simply with a flurry of press releases. romney's campaign called perry governor sub zero, saying governor perry criticizes president obama for an economy that added zero jobs in august, yet texas added even fewer. perry's campaign shot back, rick perry's texas created more private sector jobs in the past two months than mitt romney's massachusetts did during the entire four years as governor. then romney shot at perry's position on social security at a miami town hall. >>

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when vice president biden spoke on labor day yesterday, he spoke in ohio, and in ohio the democratic base has had a real, real fight on its hands this year and the vice president crossed the rubicon in ohio, he named the fight of the democratic base in ohio, he voiced support for their position in the fight and tried to help them win their fight. >> this, ladies and gentlemen, is the fight of your life. across the country from here in ohio to wisconsin to florida, they are reopening fights we thought we settled 50 years ago. ladies and gentlemen, governors are rolling back collective bargaining rights. they are trying to pass paycheck deception laws, they are pushing the right to work for less again. it's time to turn the tide in wisconsin, pennsylvania, florida, everywhere where basic rights to bargain fairly are under attack, and it seems to me that's exactly what you're doing here in ohio, demanding a referendum on sb-5. stand up now, be counted, repeal these laws the governors have passed, and ladies and gentlemen, vote, vote, vote your values. >> vice president biden in ohio, su

you see it here in ohio.e to make layoffs they don't want to make. it is unfair to our kids. undermines our future. and it has to stop. tell congress too to pass the american jobs act so we can put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong. tell them to pass this bill so we can help the people to create most of the new -- we can help the people who create most of the new jobs in this country. that's america's small business owners. it's all well and gha big corporations have seen their profits roaring back. that's good. we want them to be able to hire people as well. but smaller companies haven't come back. so this bill cuts taxes for small businesses that hire new employees. it cuts taxes for small businesses that raise salaries for current employees. it cuts small business payroll taxes in half. so let's tell congress, instead of just talking about helping america's job creators, let's actually do something to help america's job creators. let's pass this bill right away! >> pass this bill! pass t

let's get back to this, ohio. tim russert was brilliant at this figuring out the state that would matter the most. what do you think it is now? >> it's -- i would say florida, pennsylvania or ohio. >> yeah. >> it's going to be -- >> whoever wins two out of three of those is probably the president of the united states. >> the problem is if the president loses a state like pennsylvania, that's going to be a barometer that things have gone really bad in a whole lot of areas. >> oh, yeah, i think you're right. here's an interesting point and didn't want to trick you into this because, todd, you're smart about politics and you're almost as smart as i am, this thing about -- here we are talking about an election like this, like this. 50/50, 51/49, is it going to be like that? could it be a wipeout against the president if the economy stays stinking like this? i don't know. >> you can have elections very, very close in terms of a vote but still look like a wipe youth in terms of the electoral outlook. >> popular vote. >>

the senator from ohio. mr. brown: thank you. i sat down at this table and i said what is this new union contract mean to you, to the workers there? and a 50-year-old woman turned to me and she said this is the first time in my life i've ever had a paid week vacation. think about that. this is the first time in my life i've heifer a paid week vacation. that was because those workers, each of them working separately before, for a building owner at a downtown cincinnati office building had gotten together, had voted to join a union, had the right to organize and bargain collectively. they still weren't getting rich, still weren't making more than, i believe if i recall $10 or $11 an hour, but now a bit of a exception, health care and a chance to actually earn a one-week vacation, something many, many, many workers in america don't have the opportunity for. and that tells me when i hear people say unions, they meant something in the past, but they've outlived their usefulness. that tells you what that's all about. we celebrate that

>> also ohio also the home state of speaker boehner's -- >> hello, columbus. >> pay attention. >> ohio obviously a huge swing state. >> he'll be in north carolina tonight. >> you want to create jobs right now, pass this bill. if you want to put teachers back in the classroom, pass this bill. if you want tax cuts for middle class families and small business owners, what do you do? pass this bill. >> republicans are excited about the president's bill, too. >> i'm glad the president is coming to ohio. >> i understand the political realities of what he's dealing with. >> he'll get a very warm midwestern welcome in my home state. >> anything that the president would propose would be rejected by mitch mcconnell. >> it's not a serious attempt. >> the president can call this bill whatever he wants. >> the only job he cares about is president obama's. >> the obstruction of the republican tea party -- >> the time for gridlock and the time for games is over. >> and the republican presidential candidates are excited about rick perry. >> full court pile on. >> perry seems so unprepared. >> he's not

tomorrow he'll be in columbus, ohio, ohio the home of republican house speaker john boehner. the day after that he'll be speaking about this in raleigh-durham, north carolina. president obama is saying not just let's pass this bill but let's pass this bill right now. let's pass this bill soon. let's pass this bill right away. there is a very palpable sense of urgency from president obama and the white house on this. republicans on the other hand, so far the reaction from congressional republicans has been sort of smirking but noncommittal saying they will get around to looking at the legislation in due course. they want everything to go through the regular committee process. they can't really do anything until it's been scored by the congressional budget office so they're asking for that to happen. they'd like to take their time with this thing. meanwhile, people who live in southern indiana and work in louisville, kentucky, will leave for work tomorrow morning two hours earlier than they usually do. taking a long detour while watching one of this nation's aging and crumbling

ohio has an unemployment rate today of 9%.arolina has absolute unemployment rate today of 10. 1%. both ohio and north carolina are key democratic primary states. on the flag scene the president's approval rating now stands at 40% positive, 52% negative. practically the same as ohio and north carolina. democratic party strategist robert zimmerman sees danger ahead. quote the alarms have already gone off in the democratic grass roots. if the obama administration hasn't heard them, they should check the wiring of their alarm systems. unquote. in the west, the influential 13-term democratic congressman peter defazio's, echoes the northeast the southeast and the central united states quote in my district the end news whereas imfor him has mostly evaporated. there is tremendous discontent with his direction unquote. >> another prominent democrat agrees. should president obama have a challenge? i say he should. it would make him a better president if he received a challenge in the democratic primary. >> question. the call for a presi

tomorrow night, "the ed show" goes to toledo, ohio, and you're invited. we'll see you from the corner of south huron and washington tomorrow night with a live performance of "the ed show." hope you can join us if you're in the neighborhood. >>> playoffs. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, fear factor. how scared of rick perry is the republican establishment? well, in one short month, perry shot to the top of the gop chart with tough texas talk about state's rights and saying the federal reserve chairman may be guilty of treason. it's raw meat for the base, but the party's grown-ups, if you will, desperate to beat president obama, are growing worried. perry's loose lips could sink their ship. and it's not just the republican establishment hitting perry. look at what happened last night. the texas governor got beat up from the right at that tea party debate with michele bachmann and rick santorum leading the attack. can perry take the punches and keep on swinging? plus, why has rick perry caught f

jobs are the number-one issue in ohio.hio is number one in the country in ways sauce over the last decade. the governor say tdecided to pursue this. it is a politically motivated agenda. it will hurt families across the state. ohio has seen through this as a politically motivated attack. we believe it is not fair. it allows politicians and upper management to have a special exemption. it does not allow for nurses, police officers, and firefighters to negotiate staffing levels, receive critical trading, or equipment to keep us safe. ohioans know that going forward it will hurt all workers. when you take away basic rights in the workplace, you will drive down benefits and wages and will see layoffs. you cannot improve the economy by lowering the bar for all workers. host: gov. kasich was our guest yesterday. here is what he had to say. >> i reject the notion that we are disrupting people's bargaining rights. you will be able to continue to negotiate for your wages and working conditions. nobody in the private sector that i a

. >> the goons tried and failed to ambush me and the firefighters of ohio. of course, now they're lying about what we said. we'll play the tape and correct the record. >> well, i probably chose a poor word to explain that. >> rick perry is retreating from his tough language. jim moore will fill us in, and bill o'reilly's crusade to keep the rich from paying their fair share continues on the feud. you won't believe what he's saying now. >> nice to have you with us, folks. i can't let this one go. chapter number 2, and there will be more. the second biggest employer in the united states of america is under attack. no bigger story in the country if we're talking about jobs. because 120,000 postal workers, their jobs are on the chopping blocks, and republicans want to end, basically, 235 years of reliable mail service in america. now, delivering the mail, you know, this really isn't that he easy of a job. postal workers have to go door to door in small towns and big cities, in blazing heat, brutal cold, snowstorms, you name it. republicans once shared sacrifice

i think it's the next hour we will see how president obama in ohio will be bridging in ohio and kentucky the home turf of the speaker and the senate republican leader. >> a 2 for 1 between president obama and a bridge between the home states of the most powerful republican and the senate and republican in the house. >> the bridge to the future or is this a bridge to nowhere? >> i think all bridges are in politics. that's up for debate. mitch mcconnell went out on the floor and was pointed that this was a political photo op and not doing anything. the jobs plan was not ultimately going to work. the fight for what this jobs plan means is on. is it making the wealthy pay more or is it getting people who are small businesses are hurting their growth? that's the fight. it's a fight in another swing state we will see. florida is a fight that will play out another republican debate. this is 3 and 15 days in case you lost count. it will be a topic of debate. is it what the president is proposing trying to get the wealth to pay more? that's the message fight that's going on in washington. the mes

ohio at that point had an $8 billion hole that needed to be plugged.n't plugged, we'd have laid off thousands of workers there. so i agree that the stimulus wasn't big enough to begin, but here now we have an opportunity to rectify the problem and pump money in, and once again we're getting resistance from the republicans. >> oh, chris, i just need to -- listen, you're not going to get jobs by passing stimulus bills. there are no bills -- >> yes, you are. >> -- that are going to do this. you know, budgets are about priorities, and what you need to do is say, it is going to be a priority to repair infrastructure. that wasn't done, and people don't think it will be there again. they don't want to see tax increases, we can't afford tax increases, they don't want to see tax reductions. >> no one's talking about tax increases. >> individuals want to keep more of their money in their pockets. americans know that two wrongs never make a right and passing another stimulus bill isn't going to make the first one right. it is the wrong recipe for getting american

she in cincinnati, ohio promoting the massive jobs plan from a bridge that links ohio to kentucky. it political theater. shane bauer and josh fattal enjoying their first full day of freedom since being released from the prison in iran. we will have a live report. a first look at the massive satellite that is approaching earth. look very closely. we have new details on when and where it might strike. >>> shane bauer and josh fattal are enjoying their first day of freedom spending time with loved ones following an emotional reunion. the sultan paid $1 million bail to guarantee their release. >> we are so happy we are free and relieved we are free. >> two years in prison is too long. we sincerely hope for the freedom of other political prisoners and unjustly imprisoned people in iran. >> they were jailed on charges of spying and illegally crossing into the country. michelle kosinski has the latest. >> we are waiting to know what their next plans are and how they are adjusting and what were their conditions like and we saw them get off the plane, we could tell from a distance they look

a third grade teacher from the state of ohio.you see her job is on the chopping block, after her state's governor, john kasich, slashed education budgets. stay with us. i >>> welcome back to "the ed show." a big discussion all this year about wage earners and rights in the news this season. tonight, president obama stood up for collective bargaining and was unequivocal. >> i reject the idea we have to strip away collective bargaining rights to compete in a global economy. [ applause ] >> the president also pushed for new construction across the country, which is vitally needed and would provide a major boost to unemployment. >> the idea for a big boost in construction is supported by america's largest business organization, and america's largest labor organization. it's the kind of proposal that's been supported in the past by democrats and republicans alike. you should pass it right away. >> and the president called for the passage of trade agreements, saying they would help american companies sell their products and would help

coming up ohio governor john case a just signed a deal to hand over one of his state's prisons to a for profit private corporation so what will happen now that the profit motive has been injected into our nation's criminal justice system. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it through to be made who can you trust no one who is in view with a global reach see where we had a state controlled capitalism in school. when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question morning. while governor john k. sick made history yesterday as ohio became the first state in the history of this country to sell a state owned prison to a for profit private corporation the lake erie correctional institute opened up in two thousand and at the end of this year will be officially own and operate by the corrections corporation of america also known as c.c.a. which shelled out seventy two million bucks to buy the facility from the state and will now get paid for every single new prisoner they lock up c.c.a. is the largest private prison corporation in america and

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going to ohio on thursday to begin to put people to work on that bridge. we have that all over our state. rural areas, urban areas, people wanting to go to work. that's what the president is fighting for. >> senator sherrod brown of ohio and congresswoman maxine waters of california, great to have you both with us tonight. >>> coming up, house speaker john boehner compares federal spending to snorting cocaine? the tan man's in the zone tonight. >>> and watching "dancing with the stars" will confuse your kids. at least that's what fox news' medical expert dr. keith ablo says. >>> later, the right wing hysterics over a game show. you're watching "the ed show" on msnbc. why do we have aflac... aflac... and major medical? major medical, boyyyy! [ beatboxing ] ♪ i help pay the doctor ♪ ain't that enough for you? ♪ there are things major medical doesn't do. aflac! pays cash so we don't have to fret. [ together ] ♪ something families should get ♪ ♪ like a safety net ♪ even helps pay deductibles, so cover your back, get... ♪ a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aflac! [ male announcer ]

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