i know seiu is coming out strong. this mean that this is going to be unlike the midterm, that it's going to be all hands on deck, and we're going to be fighting and fighting hard so that congressman larsen and his caucus will not be heldç in som kind of lonely island fighting by themselves? >> absolutely. it means not just our hands, or 2.1 million members, but we'll join hands with the unemployed, with non-union workers, with all of our community allies, reverend, because we think we need to get into the streets in numbers plik never before to make our case, that we want our government to respond to this state of emergency. our members want to back this president, who is making the case that we cannot wait as a country. we have to act now. that's why we thought it was important to endorse today, and to get into the streets tomorrow and stay in the streets, turn out the vote in november 2012, and keep in the streets in november 2013, to keep the change that we want for this country. >> well, congressman, this is not a

. >> ve have been put in the seiu. >> for home healthcare professionals. >> we're not providers.ion time or improved working conditions. >> we were told this is what is going to happen, period. >> they are now taking union dues out of the kids' checks. >> andrea: okay. this is outrageous. i have a younger brother who is autistic and mentally handicapped an it's the hardest job in the world. why do the unions need a piece of this, too. >> eric: it's disgusting. the sec claims because you are -- seiu claims because you take care of someone in service job, this is coming from medicaid. unbelievable that the seiu has the power to go in and grab money like from what you point out, disabled child payment. ridiculous. not just small money. this is tying up money they want to tie up in medicaid and waste fraud abuse. start there. >> andrea: you are shaking your head. >> dana: this is not just michigan. illinois, governor blagojevich for home healthcare workers, that went in to place. we know that the unions favor liberal candidates. the taxpayers dollars going in the campaign coffers. th

. >>> the nation's most powerful union is backing president obama, the leader of the seiu will tell us they plan to defeat romney, cain and gingrich and the rest. mary kay henry will be here in the next few minutes. >> a group of 12 lawmakers who gained their powers after having been bitten by a radioactive accountant, go forward, super committee, the fate of the nation is in your hands. >> all right. it's a job that may be even -- might be too big for superman. the debt deal dead lynn is just six days way and the super committee's task is growing by the minute. the treasury department saying the national debt has crossed further into record territory. see that number? $15 trillion. it's past that now. i'm joined by msnbc contributor, ezra klein. you watch that clock as well. >> up in my bedroom. only clock i have in my house. >> our nation's debt now soaring 267%. if you divide that $15 trillion, it's like $48,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. has this number become white noise to the super committee? >> it's white noise. it's also not helpful to do it like that. the

so we did some background check and it turns out seiu, 95% of their contributions and donations go toratic candidates and democratic causes, so if you have a disabled child in michigan, you're a republican, you still have to pay seiu that donates to the democrats. now in mitch tkpwapbt house has passed a bill to stop this. that same bill is bogged down in the senate, megyn. megyn: wow, trace, thank you. taking your thoughts on that one at kelly & fox news.com. pollster scott rasmussen now says of today president obama looks like the underdog in the 2012 presidential race. he's here in five minutes with the poll behind that headline. plus a top republican senator saying supreme court justice elena kagan held something back in her confirmation hearing and believes it could have a big impact on the debate over the president's healthcare law in a case the supreme court just agreed to take. a custody battle in the saga surrounding missing baby lisa irwin. why her father's ex-girlfriend says the irwin home is not safe in "kelly's court." >> really in the best interests of the children to tr

the seiu like dr. king back in 1958 turn this into a social justice movement. how can we in the united states as a nation pay these people $100 a week? how are they supposed to survive? how are they supposed to provide health care bridge for their kids when they get sick? the seiu by using using light innovative smart organizing tactics was able to unionize these janitors and basically doubled their pay and got health coverage. when unions are smart and strategic and really play the trump of the social justice tuned they can still make serious drives. clarence, sorry. >> many of us set up here earlier, it takes going into communities, working on the grassroots level -- grassroots level to do the this. i teach at baruch college, a school that emphasizes business, trying to model itself and it is probably one of the best public business institutions in the united states, but i have my students because they are majoring in marketing and accounting and so on and so forth, how many of you know anything about collective bargaining? none of the students know anything

the only people who will repond for it is other union members and other unions disagreed with the seiuthem to respond. and i talked to a number of people and do these people know when you spoke to them. did they understand they have a legal right to opt out of the union. >> they have tried. >> and the reason why they are getting a paycheck and the reason it is not cut along with the other cut in michigan is because that union is fighting to save the program. >> and rick, you don't ask a question and answer it yourself. yes, they have tried time and again and not getting any responses from the su. rich, go ahead. >> look at the michigan economy. people are fleeing michigan and businesses are fleeing michigan and it is the worst economy in the united states and has been for two decade and this is exactly why. >> kim, last word? >> i mean, i think it is in this case they need to realize that unions do have benefits and they have a bad rap. but 57 million americans according to a poll do want to join unions but only one in five are successful and that is because of the bad rap. >> there is

. >> the oakland teachers union, we have seiu, the longshore workers, all of these groups have committed to being on strike. we have a lot of city workers staying home. what this movement is about is we all individuals can just take action on our own. >> reporter: the calendar at the "occupy oakland" information center says it will be a logistics meeting at 12:30 today so about a half hour they will start planning more details for the strike tomorrow. some of the faces at the strike will be young. several protestors say teaches have been contacting them and will be bringing their students to the plaza for a real-life civics lesson. the oakland police officers union sent out an open letter today and they said that city workers received a letter from the mayor saying go ahead, support the strike. unite together. and they are saying this is pretty hypocritical because officers are expected to show up tomorrow morning. there's going to be a bolstered police presence in the face of this strike. the police union says they are confused by the mixed messages from the mayor, one day saying raid t

supporting the evident are members of few key union including the international long shore worker union and seiu local 10 21 which represents public employees. >> our executive board met and decided what we are going to do was encourage our members to take the day off in any way they can and join and participate in the actions. >>reporter: now given all that is planned on wednesday, ac transit is advising the passengers to monitor schedules on wednesday for any possible delays or detours. occupy oakland says that they are also encouraging other occupy groups around the country and around the world to participate in wednesday general striking. reporting live at frank ogawa plaza in oakland, abc 7 news. >>> thank you sergio. >> first time oakland mayor kwan responded tonight to the recall effort against her. in a statement she says quote the last thing we need is a did he vase i have and expensive election. she also outlined her achievement saying her administration balance the city budget and hired additional police officers. last monday group of oakland resident began recall effort saying kwan h

supporting the evident are members of few key union including the international long shore worker union and seiu local 10 21 which represents public employees. >> our executive board met and decided what we are going to do was encourage our members to take the day off in any way they can and join and participate in the actions. >>reporter: now given all that is planned on wednesday, ac transit is advising the passengers to monitor schedules on wednesday for any possible delays or detours. occupy oakland says that they are also encouraging other occupy groups around the country and around the world to participate in wednesday general striking. reporting live at frank ogawa plaza in oakland, abc 7 news. >>> thank you sergio. >> first time oakland mayor kwan responded tonight to the recall effort against her. in a statement she says quote the last thing we need is a did he vase i have and expensive election. she also outlined her achievement saying her administration balance the city budget and hired additional police officers. last monday group of oakland resident began recall effort saying kwan h

the seiu that is down at the demonstrations are friends of the president. >> bob: did you wake up inood this morning? >> andrea: i didn't. >> bob: you keep cutting me off. tom coburn right wing republican. what do you expect? ask liberal what is they think. >> greg: but they are proposing the end of capitalism. they aren't hiding that. they aren't hiding it. ad busters started this whole thing. virulently anti-capitalism. >> bob: i'm anti-capitalism the way they see capitalism, 1% of the people get all the money. >> dana: good for some, not for others. >> bob: good for 1%, not good for 9%. >> dana: niz last words, eric? >> eric: they're against crony capitalism, but what is going on in d.c. is crony sociallism and a lot worse. they don't have a problem with it. >> dana: we'll talk about that in the hour. but up next on "the five," did you know that democrat jon corzine whose company went down the drain helped create president obama trillion-dollar stimulus. we have interesting tape on that. don't forget to elmail us at thefive@foxnews.com. ♪ ♪ >> eric: welcome back. every wonder why

the president of the seiu, mary kay henry, was there with the protesters today and was arrested at the this exclusive video, an "ed show" producer was there to record mary kay's arrest. before her arrest she explained her act of civil disobedience. >> mary kay, you just crossed the line to be arrested. >> yes. we're going to do whatever it takes to get people back to work in this country because enough is enough. >> there is a long history of people saying, you know, i've got to get arrested because people need to pay attention to how serious this is. is that really what this is about, is the act of being arrested is really a way of saying look, people have got to start paying attention to this? >> yeah. that enough is enough for working people in this country. there's plenty of money. there's plenty of work that needs doing. there's plenty of people that want to do it. we want to put those three things together and get our country going again. and we're going to take arrests. we're going to be on bridges. we're going to stay in the streets until we get this country going again. >> let

the seiu that is down at the demonstrations are friends of the president. >> bob: did you wake up inad mood this morning? >> andrea: i didn't. >> bob: you keep cutting me off. tom coburn right wing republican. what do you expect? ask liberal what is they think. >> greg: but they are proposing the end of capitalism. they aren't hiding that. they aren't hiding it. ad busters started this whole thing. virulently anti-capitalism. >> bob: i'm anti-capitalism the way they see capitalism, 1% of the people get all the money. >> dana: good for some, not for others. >> bob: good for 1%, not good for 9%. >> dana: niz last words, eric? >> eric: they're against crony capitalism, but what is going on in d.c. is crony sociallism and a lot worse. they don't have a problem with it. >> dana: we'll talk about that in the hour. but up next on "the five," did you know that democrat jon corzine whose company went down the drain helped create president obama trillion-dollar stimulus. we have interesting tape on that. don't forget to elmail us at thefive@foxnews.com. ♪ ♪ almost tastes like one of jack's als

our next fox debate is in seiu city, iowa on december 15th. this is the time in which the winnowing process begins. megyn: who has the most to lose. we've been watching among others rick perry in each of these debates and they have not been good for his campaign. his campaign has ticked up a two notches as he has gone with ads on the airways. >> reporter: he needs to have another performance in which he steps up. the last one arguably his supporters will say he performed well and he got on the board, and he was aggressive, but he'll have to have a performance that people come away saying, this guy has changed my opinion of him, at least in iowa, because he's looking to pick up possibly voters who may be leaving herman cain. again, we haven't seen that yet in the polls, but as these stories continue, and as his campaign has had to deal with all these allegations, the tkpwoeg bet and analysis is that eventually that will show up in the polls. so far it hasn't. perry is one of the candidates that could pick up steam. megyn: this debate was suppos

moveon.org, seiu, afl-cio, tons of money coming in the back door to my opponent, a republican takingkind of money. outrageous us. bill: do you win today? do you survive or not? >> it will be very close because he has all the democrats voting for him. actually, not all, reagan democrats are voting for me. democrats voting for him. doesn't take a lot of republicans because we're fairly close district. but if people go to my web, russell pierce.com they get a little of that information. this is battle. not just about arizona, the nation. 34 states are modeling after sb 1070. let me tell you result you need to hear about enforcing our laws. phoenix just put out a press release, phoenix law enforcement association, crime rate is a 30-year low in phoenix. a 30-year low and attribute to sb 1070. bill: really, just past 12 months or so that number came down like that? >> well, that number has dropped like, a lead balloon. the impact it is having, started, give credit to sb 1070. actually started with employer sanctions which we won a supreme court decision on. more about states rights than a

so the seiu in michigan apparently winds up taking $6 million out of the family budgets that would haveer attack these days. but then again, when you sit at the table, when these laws are passed, you get a piece of the pie and that, ladies and gentlemen, is exhibit a. >> gretchen: let us know what you think about that. e-mail us or twitter us. the approval rating for congress at an all new low. just 13% now. we will ask congressman paul ryan to respond to that next, as well as his thoughts on the super committee. >> steve: then the dog named hercules rescued by a family hours before he was put down. less than a day later, he saved the family. details straight ahead. my sinus symptoms come with a cough that stays even after i treat... [ male announcer ] truth is, most sinus formulas don't treat a cough. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus sinus liquid gels fights sinus symptoms plus cough. you're good. [ male announcer ] thanks. that's the cold truth! ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. c

those people who mop the halls of but the garbage out, they belong to the national union, which is seiu. [applause] when you take the national body, that is 2.3 million members. they reached out to me and said they had a program called bread and roses. you go and fight for the bread but our souls are a draft in what we need for ourselves, we need roses. they have this cultural program called bette -- bread and roses. they're putting together a truly imaginative and large website. they're putting together a film, and a record company, but they know one thing, we have a choice as to what we can go see. and they have the resources to do that. now they're finding this foam on the life of paul robeson and they will make that film since no one else wants to make that. [applause] they're putting together the 1199 choir which is made up of people of color from africa and the caribbean latin-american in a large number of candidates coming from america. they have as a group come to the resolve that although we will deal with what exists, they will also shape our own destiny by bringing what our g