i'm chief economist at the afl-cio, once again, we are happy to have you in the house of labor, the afl-cio -- as we are the movement of all workers. the bosses cannot tell us who to organize so we are the voice of all workers. i am happy to introduce one of the constitutional officers, there are three constitutional officers, we have an executive, the person who makes the place run. as economists we know the secretary-treasurer, you control the purse strings as we view it. and she welcomed us last year, just to remind you what the labor market looks like, some of you think the movement looks one way but it is a diverse movement and union members in the strict sense of the union card. the majority are women and that is reflected in our leadership, just to be clear to you, secretary-treasurer sure comes from a real union. she is originally a member of i aew, the international electrical workers, which means she is a skilled tradesperson so whatever made you have of tradespeople it has to include her. she is a dynamic leader in the philippines constantly going to all of our new groups for you

over 10 years ago, the teamsters left the afl-cio. discuss the significance of that and whether it was a good move. would you consider rejoining the afl-cio, and if so, under what circumstances? do you feel teamsters should work with other unions more than they do? mr. zuckerman: one of our failures is because we divided the house of labor by pulling out the afl-cio and getting a change to win. change to win has been a failure. it started with nine international unions in 2005, and now it is down to three. they do nothing. it was supposed to be a vehicle to continue organizing, and we are not organizing. right now, all we do is steel -- steal members or merge with other international unions. the international union claims they have 1.4 million members. that is incorrect. the last numbers were 1.25. if you take the mergers from ble p, the maintenance away folks, the gic you, that was 130,000 we brought in. take that off the one point 25 and now you are at 1.1. take the recent organizing victories that they claim, can claimed it in his o

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. >> reporter: the colorado chapter of the afl-cio denied ben it its endorsement, blaming his support of the president on international trade deals. bret? s is >> now to a story we first broke here on fox. for weeks, the state department refused to stay whether it considers the videos of its daily press briefings that the department uploads to its website each day has federal records. it's an important point, because the department has been investigating the deletion of eight minutes from one such video from 2013. that deletion wiped out an exchange which then the spokesperson appeared to confirm to james rose than the department had previously lied to the news media about the iran nuclear talks. the state department says it cannot determine if it was the result of a technical glitch or deliberate. today, the national archives and records administration confirmed to fox news that the state department's briefing videos are, indeed, federal records. the federal records act makes tampering with such documents a crime. republicans in congress are vowing to continue their own investigation

i have a video at home from the afl-cio and the title of it is, "words of a true friend," of workers eir unions. it is about hubert humphrey speaking at an afl-cio gathering. and it was towards the end of his life. he was still smiling. he knew it was almost at the end. and he had a great quote at the end of his speech. he says, i'd rather live 50 years like a tiger than 100 years like a chicken. i wanted to move up to 1968 and i met a guy 20 years ago who said he worked on the humphrey campaign in 1968. he said that he came home after working on the campaign, and he was at this hotel. he was looking out at this park, and the news came on and said that there's a humphrey protestors having violence in the park. he called humphrey the next day when they had a meeting, and humphrey said, i know. nixon's been doing it for a while and there's nothing we can do about it. i think from this guy's story nixon was doing it to link humphrey to anti-war protestors, and i was wondering if your guests have ever heard a story like this. thank you very much. >> thanks very much. >> i have heard stori

. >> reporter: the colorado chapter of the afl-cio denied ben it its endorsement, blaming his support of the president on international trade deals. bret? s is >> now to a story we first broke here on fox. for weeks, the state department refused to stay whether it considers the videos of its daily press briefings that the department uploads to its website each day has federal records. it's an important point, because the department has been investigating the deletion of eight minutes from one such video from 2013. that deletion wiped out an exchange which then the spokesperson appeared to confirm to james rose than the department had previously lied to the news media about the iran nuclear talks. the state department says it cannot determine if it was the result of a technical glitch or deliberate. today, the national archives and records administration confirmed to fox news that the state department's briefing videos are, indeed, federal records. the federal records act makes tampering with such documents a crime. republicans in congress are vowing to continue their own investigation

with a the realization that the afl-cio has never bend more pro my glassworkers stoically and never less able to deliver. so thanks for the position that working people or have been the conversation that people were really mad. there were reasons why. i don't mean any way to deny that they were subject to these rules that they lost their place in the labor market. >> so inclusive organizing, do you bring together the next generation that will have the traditional demands of the labor movement? but to include some of those demands? justice reform is that still labor movement platform? >> i will go back to david's book because the core argument is about the importance of minimum-wage and it is captured in the title but just remember the basics of the universal policy. whoever is on the of bottom of the economy, it is universal and belongs to everyone. there is another argument in david's book because inequality hurts us, the reverse logic is also true from the employment contract coming in is good for the economy as a whole. the dozen just benefit the lowest workers. so they are all talkin

i think the afl-cio for hosting us as we present our work. this work looking at militarization, something we have got into the last few years, the specific project is a large project, what do we mean by militarization, what is it? and in the agenda what i am looking to do is figure out where the placement is and make some of these efforts at police outcomes that we have seen so a lot of times in economics we talk about you have a topic, what police militarization is pretty clear answer to that question, this is a picture from ferguson two years ago. .. and so specifically department of justice has a lot of grant programs that the agencies can have for funding to help militarize their police in the face of terrorism concerns they also had programs for that. they actually had two programs that help fund and provide items to these agencies and in the study and get a focus on the second one to 1033 program. i will talk i'll talk more about that in detail. it is a program from the department of justice where they offloaded military surplus too mili

this has support from both the afl-cio, the labor federation and the chamber of commerce. it is not leaving because of congress right now. who do i admire? i admire reverend william barber, who is not an elected official but he is the head of the naacp in north carolina. host: and a guest on our show. guest: regular listeners will be able to relate to that. i think he has been able to. a multiracial coalition in north carolina that has been fighting policiesmerican set of set of policies that try to degrade the environment of my carolina and try to make it harder for people to vote because they were african-american. that has been proven by the courts. movement isnday's impressive and shows the way forward. host: you can was set on c-span.org if you missed it. arnold, a democrat? caller: hello. host: you are on. go-ahead. caller: thanks. i would like to point out that when the northern democrats passed the civil rights act the southern democrats overcame republicans. a really good reason. thank you. host: let me hear from gary in north carolina, independent. caller: hi. go

. >> we need to break for dinner but i would like to first thank the afl-cio for cosponsoring our summer conference for a second year in a row and i thank all of our panelists. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] today on c-span2 u.s. marine corps commandant robert neller news briefing with the chief of staff of the air force. live coverage of the news briefing with house democratic leaders in an update on the zika virus with dr. anthony powell chi of the nih. >> it seems in so many ways that not just people in the flyover nation although i think are targeted to have this back-and-forth in the right and left that are pulling them in one direction or another and it goes back do we need you to show up or support this particular issue. but that divide is kind of scary because now suspecting with enough we will be liturgically defend ourselves against a major threat. >> and we will defend american jobs and american workers by saying no to bad trade deals like the transpacific partnership and unfair trade practices. >> the state of pennsylv

thehe steelworkers unin here in the e united states, one of f the largest unions in the afl-cio, here, stunned the world of american labor two years ago when they issued a press release announcing the formal alliance-- i'i'll usese their words--the fl alliancnce between thehe steelwororkers union of the unid states, which--i don't know how many members it has, but in the hundreds of thousands, big unionon--with mondragon, the corporate--that huge, successful worker's self-directed entterprise in spain. and i remember many of us were taken aback. "what an interesting idea. an alliance." what did it mean? well, the details were hard to come by. it seems as thougugh there was discussion, obviously, between them. they issued a joint press release and had a press conference. but it's hard to tell, so i'm now going to imagine where this might go. i'm not saying that's where they're taking it. i don't know exactly where they're goingng to take i, or even whether they're going to take it somewhere, but here's what i would do. imagine a trade union movement with a completely different strategi

this has support from both the afl-cio, the labor federation and the chamber of commerce. it is not leaving because of congress right now. who do i admire? i admire reverend william barber, who is not an elected official but he is the head of the naacp in north carolina. host: and a guest on our show. guest: regular listeners will be able to relate to that. i think he has been able to. a multiracial coalition in north carolina that has been fighting policiesmerican set of set of policies that try to degrade the environment of my carolina and try to make it harder for people to vote because they were african-american. that has been proven by the courts. movement isnday's impressive and shows the way forward. host: you can was set on c-span.org if you missed it. arnold, a democrat? caller: hello. host: you are on. go-ahead. caller: thanks. i would like to point out that when the northern democrats passed the civil rights act the southern democrats overcame republicans. a really good reason. thank you. host: let me hear from gary in north carolina, independent. caller: hi. go

the economy. >> want to bring in a democratic strategist, former reagan economist, and former. afl/cio organizer. your reaction to the plan, jessica? >> i think it's a great plan, first and for most because it's clear on her web site. and she has been talking about these things for a month now. there has been -- it's not as easy to find the tax brackets but she was talking about how her top rate is 35 mrs. and trump is at 33%. so they're actually kind of -- he is slashing tacks -- taxes for the rich, doing away with estate take which i would be $45 billion bonus for for family. and this would help the rich. she said i'm going to lose friends but apparently not. >> i want to point out he asked the clinton campaign provides -- we were told that had no one available. art laffer, i'm having a hard time looking the plans apples to apples. we're not clear on what the tax brackets are that hillary clinton is coming up with. the highest at 35% but what about that section of people between 100,000, for example, and the 450,000? where you get that big 5% century tax. what's your recollection? >>

inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the national economics association and afl-cioference taking about a 15 minute or so break. scheduled to resume with speeches about wealth and inequality including the performances of minority owned banks, latino businesses and student loans. at 12:30 p.m. the federal reserve board research and statistics to visual speak and more from the conference live at 2:30 p.m. with a focus on societal inequality and that includes the impact of the incarceration rate on the economy and public education. the conference is expected to wrap up at about 4 p.m. eastern. you can watch any of the conference later today on our website c-span.org. until the forum resumes a look at a portion of today's washington to on donald trump's tax reform plan. >> senior economic adviser for the trump presidential campaign. also is the president of economic research and consulting firm. good morning. >> guest: good morning. >> host: could you talk about your role in advising mr. trump on economic issues? what specialty do you bring a what you talk about? ethnic

the fed for graciously hosting our morning session as well as lunch. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this national economics association and afl-ciorence taking a 15 minute break scheduled to resume at about 12:30 p.m. or so. more from the conference live at 2:30 p.m. eastern with a focus on societal inequality and then it was impact of the incarceration rate on the economy and public education. the conference is expected to wrap up at about four bp 10. if you missed any of the conference you can watch it on our website c-span.org. here's some of today's "washington journal" with a look at the campaign season. >> joining us, the website rare earth, a senior political reporter. good morning. to start how would you describe rare to other people? how do you present information? >> caller: rare is a caucus media group on website. we are interested in the way all of arbitration lives online. where some of the positions of broadcasts from austin and they adapt it for our lunch. everything is great with an online audience in mind and with quite a robust audience. millennials and people got interested in the news but in a different take.