when she worked it was in garment industry sweatshops, including doing what was known as ps work. an industrial sewing machine wrangled into our small barrier home rented out for meager pay. she often labored into the wee hours traveling noplace each time her foot pushed the pedal. how did you get into labor activism? >> you know, i guess because of my parents to realize that something was unjust and the way the world. there were people at the bottom. there are people in the middle. and because very few people, and being and rinse nuclearized to this country, mexican got dark skinned, people of color, we were at the bottom, and you knew this. even when i worked in steel mills and the other places there was always somebody at the bottom. there was a battle to get to other places like a skilled trades which were just opening up and i got into it. i was fortunate that i did get some, but it was just barely opening up. so i think it was always, to me, the country when it comes to work in jobs and to gets paid and doesn't. uns of making it doesn't. there are a lot of poor white people.

all four of those ps have to work. yes we have good and strong gun laws but we're as good as comprehensive working our policing and parenting and prevention programs as the actual background checks are that apply to indiana where a lot of purchases are made before the gun ends up in the city of chicago. so you have to be smart about it. you have to, yes, have stiff gun control laws. i believe firmly in preventing criminals getting access to them but you have to focus on every one of those aspects to in my view have a policy that makes sure you have police on the street getting kids, guns, and drugs off the street. all of those have to work. not one of them and not one of them being allowed to take off the table as if it's not part of the over all solution to safety and security of our streets. >> the president is hitting the road tomorrow to start campaigning further for greater gun restrictions. do you regret when you were white house chief of staff that the white house in the first term under president obama did not

fact that the washington post is reporting that senators toomey and mancion are working together on a background check psis that the only realistic way we'll see reforms in the country is very small baby step reforms? >> absolutely. even if you look at the recent polling, the ban for assault weapons was at 57% right after newtown has now dropped to 47% of we'll wanting it. they have lost their political window in this. i think they want to get background checks done. i think the democrats in the senate want to get it done because there's a couple of senators in red states that are up in 2014. so that's going to be their challenge. >> all right. but, doug, when we look at the fact that the president ran on wasn't anything to do with gun control, this has been an issue that has come to the service, it's something that in all administrations things pop up that need to be discussed, you know, from a federal level. but the budget issue for the country, the economy has been the bigger issue that the president got re-elected on. and as we look at the afl-cio petition saying obama is a bad why talking about wher

ps only $100 in state property tax. because he raises honeybees' he qualifies for a honeybee subsidy. bruce springsteen and owns hundreds of acres of land up days little tax and because an organic farmer works land. his poor neighbors pay more. >> it is unfair that i have to pay for an acre and have an airplane for hundreds of acres for $200. john: it is unfair that i was collected from another government program subsidized flood insurance. years ago about the speech else. that is the younger me there. the house is on the edge of the atlantic ocean, risky place to build, but i've built anyway because a federal program guaranteed my investment. eventually a storm swept away my first floor. the whole us went. john: i was young. won't do it again. when many example. there reporter for the washington examiner. so what else? well. >> obamacare, the affordable care act was a huge crony capitalism corporate welfare for all the companies that got at the table. i think the biggest liar was probably the drug companies that actually had a hand in writing the bill and ended up helping of the democrats to support it. how did they get held? >> they get along expressivity on their drugs to meeting you cou

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he assembles the four ps and bringing alonghael bouble and amy poehler. ♪ i just say it works s is in i like it. ten minutes after the hour right now. you are up to date. >> mr. roker. partake a look at your weather. we have the risk of strong storms from st. joseph to madison and we could see super cells with large hail and heavy rain and damaging winds as well. rainfall amounts about a half inch. here in the east, a wet weather making its way through the mid-atlantic states. heavy rain to the south from wilmingtonnt i'm meteorologist christina loren. you can see not a cloud in the sky. we've got a hot day, temperatures approaching 90s, livermore and fairfield. 88 degrees in napa and 75 on the way to san francisco staying hot every day this week. temperatures are going to come up even more so thursday into friday where we could actually see our first triple digits in the bay area of the season so far. make sure you're ready. stay hydrated. hope you have a great day. . >> that's your latest weather. >> jason kennedy, thanks as well. more of super storm sandy six months later. one comm