i know the afl-cio is tired of playing defense. we are ready to play some offense. play some offense for organized labor. it's time we had a president who didn't choke saying the word union. >> he is still playing offense and we are going to be seeing a whole lot more of this fighter. i talked to you about it with richard trouble co-president of the afl-cio, that's next. [ woman speaking indistinctly over radio ] home protector plus from liberty mutual insurance... [ alarm blaring ] where the cost to repair your home, replace what's inside, and stay somewhere else if you need to are covered. because you never know what lies around the corner. to learn more, visit libertymutual.com today. avoid bad.fats. don't go over 2000... 1500... 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story keeps changing. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. (laughs) i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. you can't argue with nutrition you

2006 his election year which is the worst from a free market perspective, he has 20% rating from the afl/ciohe is voting against big labor 80% of the time. this is not the union as man in washington. what he has said he is not hostile to private sector unions. he has made the case that the help workers. >> paul: kim, get in here? >> i disagree. union issue is a big issue with boeing and he has been on the wrong side of this. regardless of whether election politics, as the cynical view. the problem he faces that one a lot of voters, is he organizations like that simply to get re-elected and that the kind of guy we want. >> paul: i'm going to a santorum ad that is running against romney. >> mitt romney's negative attack machine is back on full throttle. he is firing at rick santorum, romney and super pac spent $20 million attacking several republicans. why? because he is trying to hide from big government romney care and his support for cap and trade. in the end, mitt romney's attacks are going to backfire. >> paul: is that going to inoculate the senator? >> pretty fun ad. i think it is fairly

our guest has worked as principal lobbyist for the afl-cio, he also served on several hill staffs through the years. scott paul will continue to take calls after this clip featuring mitt romney and he'll talk about china, which we touched on briefly. >> i must admit that i took some pleasure in the fact that he's talking about cracking down on china even as he has not done so. he's had the occasion to label china as a currency manipulator, which would allow him to apply tariffs to chinese products where they have manipulated currency that killed american jobs or where they've hacked into our computers to steal our technology or where they've stolen our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our know-how. so even as he's talking about cracking down on china, he's left the door wide open for them to come in and run across our countryside, stealing our jobs and ruinin

i don't think you can run trying to get support of the afl-cio and the police like pennsylvania. have votes that most conservatives would look at dubiously. >> bret: the former speaker saying the big labor republican numerous time in that interview. the response from the santorum campaign, the national communication director about the tea party part. "rick santorum has been praised being a tea party candidate when there was no tea party and has been a staunch supporter of the tea party movement. what he was addressing in the speech is growing concern of libertarian takeoff of the republican party. conservative stands for smaller limited government like founders believed. not zero government like libertarians believe. the reason the tea party exists is the government healthcare mandate. job crushing cap and tax legislation. the big bank bail-out and form of amnesty. then they point back to gingrich and romney in that. what about that back and forth? >> i must say if you are a libertarian you're drummed out here by rick santorum. i don't think that is a good strategy. the back and

october 5 rally the group had conceded in securing the endorsement of the executive council of the afl-cio the largest federation of unions in the united states. i was surprised with the eagerness of the unions responded. a founder of the labor working group. this alliance is unprecedented in the u.s. and distinguishes occupy wall street from the movements of the 60s when unions were more conservative and the youth cultures tend to be antiunion. the union have been under attack by the 1% and they were looking were of new strategies and new allies. one such union was the transit workers union 100 which in the fall of 2011 was involved in difficult contract negotiations. working through the ows labor working group the rank and file set up a table in the 30 plus-up with hard hats left by laborers from the nearby freedom tower's construction site. the table served as a place where workmen kutcher their stories with visitors to liberty plus as well as going about the movement. the occupation also facilitated connections among unions, members of local latest who were introduced to local 814 and

in an unprecedented move, the new york city area afl-cio sent out an emergency e-mail i run it be a minute before but the subject line reading, go to wall street now. labor was also landing support behind the scenes according to major rosenstein. a lot of people are calling the mayor and colin elected officials and telling them to call the mayor. people leveraging the clout that they had with elected officials. weight is that can. the next morning at a certain point, since a labor people started pouring into the area and want occupier recorded and said an electric city in the air as a crowded mass. the excitement with a contingent of hundreds descended on the part of ones. the unit i hear to back aside. the figure to back us up someone shouted to the people's microfilm andrÉs cheers. [cheers and applause] >> so, the next i'm going to read is ben shepherd and he is going to read from a chapter in the book about what is going on on the edge of the square and that is the name is going to from. [applause] >> at such a pleasure to be part of this project. we did a book reading here 10 years ago

>>neil: so, when you hear the afl-cio supporting the president's plan, and it is a goal of reducing taxncentives for shipping u.s. jobs overseas and the focus of encouraging investment and production in the u.s. manufacturing sector, the president obviously has the unions behind him. what do you make of that? >>guest: well, again, i don't think the president goes to the bathroom without checking with the unions and the trial lawyers. but the fact of the matter is our country should not be run by the unions and the trial lawyers. it should be run at benefit of the 300 million on citizens and it is not run that way today which is why we need president romney in office. >>neil: so when you hear romney ahead of the big debate ahead of the big contest in michigan and arizona two states in which he is having some tough sledding, does he need to do something big? is this marginal tax rate and the cut of 20 percent, the opening salvo to try to reverse which has been a stubbing trend for him? >>guest: the fact is the governor has always said this will be a long slog, slots of strong candidates b

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bill, madam president, you remember we made history because we had richard trumpka, the head of the afl-cio, sitting next to donnelly, tom donnelly -- donahue, sorry -- correct me -- donahue, the head of the chamber of commerce. donahue and trumpka, the odd couple. they're fighting and arguing on everything. they come together in front of our committee because they know we will all benefit, all of america benefits when we do a bill like this. so i think i've shared with you a lot but there is one more thing. if we allow this bill to go away and we are stuck with an extension, because the transportation fund is not collecting enough gas tax revenuerevenues because -- thera good news reason -- we're getting better fuel economy and we're taking more public transit so the gas tax is not coming in at the rate it normally does. we will be down 35% in the fund. so right away, right away, 631,000 jobs are down. so what's so great about our bill is it's four committees, including the finance committee, who filled the hole, filled the gap in a way that was bipartisan. so our story is a great story to

the waivers? seiu, aarp, afl/cio, they went secretly to the white house and they got a waiver. they were able to get their waiver from the president.plead. they probably had to commit to support obamacare to get a waiver from obamacare. what an irony that is. all the regular folks have to live by obamacare. but select crony people got a waiver. look at solyndra. we have seen how that turns out. doesn't end well for the american taxpayer. look at boeing. you know, white house basically told boeing unless they use union workers they can't build a plant in south carolina. that's how the president uses waivers. so under this amendment if you make products in america, and you happen to do good and find markets elsewhere where you can sell them and create more jobs in america you can't do it under this amendment unless you cut the secret deal with the president. this is the height of crony capitalism and the height of what's wrong with our economy right now. yet, under this amendment you would not be able to export any of the pruroducts on the list i you make them in america. no long

have 1,000 organizations representing gratp millions of people from the chambers of commerce to the afl-cio, to the granite people t and the cement people come to- ze general contractors. i mean, seriously the aaa. not it goes on and on from eight ton see. a thousand organizations that are behind our bill, and they are not going to look kindly ons a situation that we could come i to which is that we don't have a bill coming and you can't just n extend this bill because the fund. money is not in the trust fund o any more. it's not like the past years he could expand it. of the money is and in the trust. fund, so if we have to cut a third, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of workere would be laid off. so mr. president, i went again think the majority leaderng f because he's getting us our cone center here, he's getting us off that line. we are moving forward, and i ask unanimous consent the following steps of the finance committee be allowed on the senate floorn, for the duration of the debate on if 1813 [inaudible]man, elizabeth snyder, christopher come andrea chatman come and aman

our guest has been a lobbyist for the industrial union council, a lobbyist for the afl- cio, and served on several staffs over the years. scott paul continues to take calls after this clip featuring mitt romney. he will talk about china. let's hear what the candidate says. >> i must admit i took some pleasure in the fact he's talking about cracking down on time that even as he has not done so. he has had occasion to label time as a currency manipulator, which will allow him to apply tariffs to chinese products where they have manipulated currencies. still american jobs or back into our computers or stolen our intellectual property, patents, designs. even as he talked about cracking down on china, he has left the door wide open for them to what across our country and steal our jobs and kill our businesses. host: what does cracking down on china mean to you and what is realistic in washington? guest: it's a good question. many people complain about china's unfair trade practices. when it comes to getting them to stop, that is where the rubber meets the road. mitt romney on this is right.

why we have 1,000 organizations representing millions of people, from the chambers of commerce to the afl-cioanite people to the cement people to the general contractors. i mean, seriously, the aaa -- it goes on and on from a to z -- 1,000 organizations that are behind our bill, and they're not going to look kindly on a situation that we could come to, which is that we don't have a bill. and you can't just extend this bill, because the money is not in the trust fund anymore. it's not like past years where you could extend it. the money is not in the trust fund. so if we have to cut a third, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of workers that will be laid off. so, mr. president, i want to again thank the majority leader reid because he's getting us off center here. he's getting us off that line. we're moving forward. and i ask unanimous consent that the following staff of the finance committee be allowed on the senate floor for the duration of the debate on s. 1813: horun, dogo, av. ital christopher, andrea chapman, amanda bartman and clean air greefnlt i ask unanimous consent that there

if you go to the afl-cio website they break it down like this. n average, for 2010, for the s&p 500 companies, about $1 million. maybe $250,000 and bonuses, stock awards, almost $4 million. option awards, almost $3 million. pension and deferred compensation earnings, about $1.1 million. we are taking the example of tim cook, but $378 million is not all in cash, is it? guest: it is not all in cash. it is the present value. he got various awards and incentives, but if he went to some bankers and said this is what i am offering this year, what is the cash value of it is now? it would be $378 million. if you get a new car and it is a mercedes or something, the fact it is not an cast of not mean it when i get you where you want to go in good style. but let's get back to your basic question. as i added mentally numbers, it sounds like they got to $10 million or $11 million. the number i got for the ceo's and s&p 500, is for the median pay -- the average is a little higher because the tim cooks in the world still would -- the median pay is a little over

when i say we lack the courage the afl-cio endorsed moving this project along. it's not a democrat issue an american jobs versus radical leftist agenda issue. "washington post," one of the most liberal in the country said on its face there is no question approving the keystone x.l. project should have been an easy call for the administration. the courage we are asking for from the president, mr. speaker is to stand up to the most radical most leftist, most ain't jobs segment of his party. when the "washington post" says that president obama should have had the courage to say so they weren't saying shake up the apple cart, mr. speaker. they weren't saying take some dangerous uncharted earthed path through the woods, they were saying approve the project that on their face, approve the project that our friends have endorsed approve the project that brings north american oil and approve the project that saves $70 million instead of shipping it to the middle east. approve the project that will approve jobs. approve the project as the president said through our natural

and from workers, organizations, to businesses, to the chamber of commerce, to the afl-cio. it's rare that we can walk down the aisle together. but now the true test comes. we have a lot of work to do to complete this legislation, to make it real, to give that certainty out there, get those jobs going. we have a lot of work to do. we have the banking committee, which under the able leadership of senators johnson and shelby, have a title we have to add. we have to add a title from the finance committee, we would like to add the title from the commerce committee. then we would have all of the four committees represented in this legislation. and then we can move and get a strong vote, get into the conference and -- and i have to say, tell the house side that we have a truly bipartisan bill that deserves their consideration. but if we start seeing amendments that go to issues that are unrelated to this, the hot button issues of the day, the issues where we have the ideological divide, we're going to slow this down. he so i guess i'd like to say to my colleagues on the democratic

he's already gone the afl/cio spent about $1 million in florida attacking me. ight thing to do is respond to them aggressively, clear up those things that have been said that are incorrect and point out the weaknesses or the differences between yourself and those that you run against. >> welcome back to "morning joe," 22 past the hour. joining us from washington, we have the moderator of "meet the press" david gregory, and here on the set, we have nbc news chief white house correspondent and host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd, and also president of the family research council tony perkins. >> what's your take on last night? our home state? >> when you look at it, on one hand it was an impressive tactical victory. they ran up the score. you know if you take just the five counties, half of mitt romney's margin came out of miami, broward, palm beach, pinellas, and hillsboro, half of his margin, and you saw that in the way the county map looks. newt did carry the southern part of the state, the culturally southern part of the state. and the question you have now

remember the plumbers and pipe fitters afl-cio supports this. >> reclaiming my time, i support this. >> i got you. >> i just don't like being bs. >> thank you for pointing out the bs in plain english. this is bad marketing, poor marketing. how do the american people win under this? here is another chink in the armor of the leap frog bill. >> i yield back. >> all right. >> yield the time. are there other members wishing for time? i would note that a series of votes has now started on the house floor. so i'd like -- we've got six votes in essence here so we'll have to come back after the votes. let's finish the debate. immediately following the sequence of the votes, i will leave the house floor when the clock hits zero and walk slowly back and we will start the votes at that point, once we have a quorum here. five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. doyle, i want to work with you to make sure as we go forward we are encouraging trans canada or their contractees who actually developed the pipe to be purchasing as much american steel as possible. i share in your goal there. the prob

>> it's the big governments, afscme, afl-cio, nea. he trades, a lot of the people like the operating engineers and others out there understand that in the private sector, we're making it easier for their workers to go back to work. i want to make it clear, it's the public sector, big government union bosses fighting us, not the private sector unions. they understand, we're putting their people back to work. that's the contrast. that's why my hope is people can come and join us at scottwalker.org and help us get our message out there. because to counter that big money coming from washington, we need help from people here not only in wisconsin but across the country and i think grass roots can make the difference. >> are you disbanding the government unions? i see that charge all the time in the papers. >> not at all. i mean, the bottom line is, if public employees want to be a part of a union, they have every right to do that. they can vote each year to ultimately put that into place. and they can choose to be a part of it. they just do

our guest has been a lobbyist for the industrial union council, a lobbyist for the afl- cio, and served on several staffs over the years. scott paul continues to take calls after this clip featuring mitt romney. he will talk about china. let's hear what the candidate says. >> i must admit i took some pleasure in the fact he's talking about cracking down on time that even as he has not done so. he has had occasion to label time as a currency manipulator, which will allow him to apply tariffs to chinese products where they have manipulated currencies. still american jobs or back into our computers or stolen our intellectual property, patents, designs. even as he talked about cracking down on china, he has left the door wide open for them to what across our count and steal our jobs and kill our businesses. host: what does cracking down on china mean to you and what is realistic in washington? guest: it's a good question. many people complain about china's unfair trade practices. when it comes to gting them to stop, that is where the rubber meets the road. mitt romney on this is right. we h

logistically it will be tough the head of detained's head of afl/cio says they will not protest on sundaybill that lawmakers suggested. >> there is questions about peyton manning's future but doctors have cleared the quarterback and former tennessee great to start playing again. this is after his third neck surgery and rumors saying he was considering retirement. he had no plans to leave the game for good. what remains unclear whether the four league mvp will stay with the indianapolis colts are become a free agent. stand by. before we go, number five, this was likely meteor streaking across the sky over texas. tsa airport accused of selling $5,000. donald trump endorses mitt romney today. number two, pentagon is concerned that israel may attack iran in april, may or june and number one the attorney general eric holder denies the justice department tried to cover up the botched gun operation fast and fewer grows. that is the fox fast and five. >> on this day in 1943, german forces returned in russia ending one of the most savage battles in the history of modern warfare. the battle had beg

i've been attacked as the big union republican in this case. i went back and looked at my afl/cio scorecard. i was a 13% rating. if that's big union in the republican party, i guess we've narrowed the field quite a bit, haven't we? no. i -- you know, i -- i believe in creating opportunities for working folks. i don't have -- my grandfather was a coal miner. he was the treasurer of his union. i'm sure the fact that his son -- his grandson is running as a conservative republican is quite -- caused quite a few flips in the grave there for him. but he -- you know, i -- i have no problem with private sector unions. i think they -- they -- they play a role in society. i'm someone who -- who does believe that people should have the right to work. i've signed on and said that we the law that basically requires states to -- to have -- you know, unions -- union dues being paid. as a -- as a condition of employment. that -- that law should be repealed and the states should have the opportunity to be able to make that decision for themselves. as opposed to the federal level. but i have no --

money which few people understand that when citizens united did their case in front of the supreme court, afl-ciooined them in that. okay, so now romney's have all the money to pay back to bankers and pay back the super packs. newt gingrich, well, okay, he said he had conversions to catholic with his wife and everything, wasn't his wife catholic when he was going with her? as far as rick santorum, everybody is afraid he's going to bring all this religious stuff to the white house. always remember everybody knows you cannot legislate morality, but you can legislate socialism. do we really want to put these kind of people in head of government or rick santorum who cannot legislate morality? it's up to the people. paul, i can be quick, he's got it so wrong. he wants to legalize -- let's say somebody's smoking pot, and they are driving down the freeway saying, oh, it's neat because it's slowing the teenage boys down from driving. he's driving down the interstate, smoking on the weed, and the reason he can smoke the weed is because takes up a little bit of space, and the reason -- >> we'll jump in at

the president. he did get waivers? sei year, aarp, afl-ciothe groups that need obamacare what he clearly to the white house and their leader. the rails to get a waiver from the president. they probably had to commit to support obamacare to get waivers from obamacare. what an irony that is. regular folks have to live by obamacare, that certain select friends, crony capitalism that they waiver. look at cylinder. a great example of people using political favors to get special deals. we've seen how that turns out. it doesn't end well for the american taxpayer. look at bowling. unless they use union workers, they can build a plant in south carolina. that is how the president uses waivers. if you make paddocks in america and you happen to do good by markets elsewhere or you can sell and get my jobs, you can do this under this amendment unless he cuts a special secret till with the president. this is the height of crony capitalism and what is wrong with our economy right now. yet under this amendment he would not be able to export any products made

the president. who got them? aarp, afl-cio, all of the groups that can appear and said they need obama-care. they went secretly to the white house and got a waiver. they were able to get a waiver from the president. they had to commit to support obama-care to get a waiver from it. what an irony that is. all the regular folks have to live by obama-care, but certain select friends, chronic capitalism, they got their waiver. another great example of people using political favors to get special deals. we have seen how that turns out. look at boeing. the white house basically told boeing unless they use union workers, they cannot build a plant in south carolina. that is how the president uses waivers. under this amendment, if you make products in america and you happen to find markets elsewhere weaken seldom and create more jobs in america, it cannot do that under this amendment unless you cut that special secret deal with the president. this is the height of crony capitalism, the height of what is wrong with our economy right now. under this amendment, you would not be up to export any of the pr