peter brennan, nixon saw the perfect symbol of exactly the kind of voter he was trying to attract. election bid campaign which nixon won 60% of union households against democrat george mcgovern. then nixon made peter brennan his labor secretary. a call was captured on the nixon tapes. >> they finally think that a pointment of a working man. we appoint blacks and they don't think we're for blacks. >> a template for other republicans and new york republican congressman peter king said, "more than any other individual he was responsible for bringing the blue collar labor democrats into the coalition that elected presidents nixon and reagan. the concept of reagan democrats would not have existed if not for peter breg brennan." they were the backbone of the coalition for decades but ended up to fuel the rise of modern conservative and the modern republican party. but today the face of america is changing and so is the face of labor. nothing illustrates that better than the contrast between peter brennan and the man confirmed this week as the newest secretary of labor. tom perez. his care

brennan and the joint chiefs. the head of the joint chiefs martin dempsey. and the president released a statement. and for more on what's going on at the white house, we go to peter alexander also to joe ruben. i've got to get to peter on this. thank you for joining us. what is the nut? what is the heart of the president's statement? >> well, let's read some of it to you right now. we're going to put it up on the screen right now and your viewers can read along with me. this is the statement from the president that reads the united states is monitoring the very fluid situation in egypt and we believe that ultimately the future of egypt can only be determined by the egyptian people. nevertheless, and listen to this, he says we are deeply concerned by the decision of the egyptian armed forces to remove president morsi and suspend the egyptian constitution. i now call on the egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of president morsi and his supporters. there were some other parts o