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president randy weingarten good morning. >> good morning. how are you?ou for joining us so early this morning. >> this is time that most teachers are up either finishing their less options or rushing over to school. it's interesting. it's like when i taught when i was a living room teacher, he would be up somewhere between 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning because, you know, you are always -- people don't ever really understand just how much work teachers do each and every day to prepare. it's like when they are in school, that's when they are actually, you know, almost like when football players on the field, people are standing. never understand how much work teachers do outside of the classroom. >> that's an excellent point. another reason we know that is because we get called from so many teachers around the country here on the show. right? who are either already in the -- early, early, who are already in the classroom or on their way. right? and i am always impressed by the fact that they are such early starters. what is the message that you want the ame

i think she has a long-standing relationship with randi weingarten, president of the united federationf teachers at the time either was chairing and it sounds like dft was upset by hearing she was holding with regard to school performance and all of the contracts related to teachers and custodians and principles. and so my understanding was the union actually ran somebody against evo when she ran for borough president and ended up losing. c-span: randy white guardian is now head of it. now is the clip of someone you're watching. let's watch. ♪ >> well, i think the union is a force in new york city as well should be. it's here to say. i don't think it's going anywhere. you think you can get rid of it is a mistake. frankly i'm a unionist. i have been ran a large union in new york city and i believe that if imports and because collective-bargaining through the union gets the best deal for everybody. c-span: the teachers union contract of 600 pages in length. it's the government structure for schools that lays out all the things that teachers can't do. and it prescribes almost every aspect

. >> randi weingarten and also governor dan malloy, it's a success story that we like to hear. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening, ed. thank you. >>> we've got jane lynch joining us this hour, very excited about that. the jane lynch joining us. she'll be here at the end of the show for what i think will be our first-ever special edition best new thing in the world today. very exciting. >>> also, nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel will be joining us here this hour. and george w. bush followed up his endorsement of mitt romney yesterday with a very surprising announcement today. that is all coming up this hour. >>> but we begin tonight with this. the woman of your dreams just may have a russian accent. don't take it from me, take it from this male order bride website. i thought people would think i was looking at porn. technically, this is not porn. this is the website for a marriage service. see, it says so right there above the lady with the bra straps falling down and the lady in the red, white, and blu

that said, he and randy weingarten have a relationship. not to step out too far ahead of the other. it saves a lot of teacher's jobs on the ground. that agree on the common core. the share of english and math standards. the teacher's union haves moved a lot. and i often think the facts have changed. it's a really different-looking relationship than it used to be. >> and a lot of that should be credited to randy wi. a lot of these other protections of bad teachers should be off the table. we should have these discussions in a society where we claim to care about kids, right? if that's really your goal, tough be able to talk about these things and i applaud her for moving that needle because it was an important thing to do. and you're absolutely right. the unions have been an impediment until quite recently to change. >> well, i would say we have to be very specific in what areas our union is an impediment. the fact is, what the evidence shows, the states that are the most unionized out perform the states that are not. if it was simply the u

good men and women under president randy weingarten making a difference every day.his is the old boardinghouse reach here if you excuse me just a second. grabbing something from the printer because we go into -- we're going to continue to take your calls. don't worry. about mitt romney and some of the pranks he pulled in high school including maybe one that amounted to bullying, whether he should be held responsible for those. take your calls at 1-866-55-press. first we jump into the spin room. the spin room today brought to you today by wrigley orbit gum. yes, clean up that dirty mouth with orbit. eat, drink and chew orbit gum with orbit gum. and we have been talking about mitt romney. president obama coming out in support of same-sex marriage. how will this go over in black churches across the country. we wanted to ask someone from that community. she joins us this morning. candy holmes with community church is in prince george's county, maryland. reverend holmes, thanks for joining us. >> good morning, bill. it is a pleasure to be with you. >> bill: what is the r