tom perez, assistant secretary for civil rights, ruslyn lee. she was also nominated by president obama to serve in her role as assistant secretary of education for civil rights and she was confirmed by the senate in may of 2009. as assistant secretary, ruslyn is assistant secretary arnie's duncan's primary advisor. before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. she served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher, a lawyer, and a very influential voice on all policy matters. she was also passionate about ending this issue of bullying and bringing everyone together to stop this disturbing trend so please welcome assistant secretary for civil rights, rusly

tom perez is my second favorite department of justice official. we are very honored today that tom perez has come from washington, dc, to give welcoming remarks here at this summit. tom perez is the assistant attorney general of the civil rights division in washington, dc, he was nominated for that position by president obama and sworn in in october of 2009 and we are all the lucky -- we are all very lucky that that happened in october of 2009. tom has spent his entire career in public service and on protecting the civil rights of our most vulnerable people. tom actually joined the civil rights division as a young lawyer and while he was there he prosecuted some of the most significant cases in the country. lawyers in the civil rights division get fanned out to places in the country to handle cases in mississippi and alabama and california and all over and tom was one of those people. he was sent to texas to handle a very significant hate crime case when he was a young lawyer that involved a gang of white supremacists that went on a killing spree

labor secretary tom perez joins me in his first national television interview since being sworn in. mr. secretary is, good to have you on the program. thank you for spending time with us on your first national interview. so you were nominated by the president in march. just confirmed in late july. tell me about the priorities right off the bat. what is on your to-do list? >> jobs, jobs and jobs. my first 30 days or 45 days on the job here, i've been meeting people across the country, ceos, labor leaders, people who are looking for work, community college presidents to figure out how we continue to pick up the business of job creation. >> when i speak to business leaders, that uncertainty of the roll-out of obama-care, and the tax structure, everybody feels we need new tax policy, that is what is hampering their decisions to hire. so you are a few weeks into the job, have you rooeached out to business? >> i have, absolutely. and i have had productive meetings with -- recently i was in nevada and i met with the ceo of the largest public employer of the largest private employer in neva

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el nuevo secretario del trabajo tom pérez pide paciencia. >> la economía está mejorando, pero debe hacerlos de los meses de descanso se crearon 162 mil empleos, muy por debajo de lo que se pensaba, siendo el sector del turismo el que más creaba puestos. el secretario pérez fue a un cuartel de bomberos a escuchar las demandas en el día del trabajo. >> necesitamos una persona más en el truck para poder encontrar mejor los incendios. >> cada persona que vive y trabaja tiene dewrecho a vivir una vida en decencia. >> el secretario pérez ya juró en la oficina, pero le falta hacerlo en compañía de sus colegas. >> los ford gran marquese, queen victoria y otro están con problemas de oxidación que podrían afectar la conduicción en el volante, los carros son los manufacturados entre 2005 ty 2011, acérquese de ser suc aso. >> a partir de este otoño podremos elegir entre diferentes vacunas que permiten defenderse de la influenza, por primera vez habrán vacunas contra 4 cepas de gripe en vez de 3 como era antes, la cantidad es reducida por lo que si quiere conseguir una mejor lo haga temprano. >> ols jó

jsuticia, la justicia de dios, castro se ahorcó con una sabana >> el nuevo secretario del trabajo es tom perez como prueba el desmepleo de latinos >> ya se encuentra en vigencia el oobama care, y expertos llegaron a san francisco para despejar dudas >>si no tienen seguro para el cuidado médico van a tener esto para ael primero de enro >> el programa de salud es implementado en enero y el programa será el primero de octubre >> los meses, y los congresistas se van de vacaciones y los inmigrantes están en limbo migmratorio, para vresi avanza, estamomos con daisy para que nos hable de la reforma migratoria >> el senado aprobo la reforma migratoria pero al cámara de representante tiene otra idea y se va en otra dirección diferente, quieren pasar alguna propuesta de ley antimigrante al estilo de arizona, que se llama safe actividades, > >> >> safeact. >> la ley de ser aprobada, que podría transformar el hecho de estar en el país sin papeles seria un crimen, pese a que ahora es una infracción civil, y oficiales del orden público tenían que detener y reportar inmigrantes basandose en su status migrato

right now, let's see, tom perez is the labor secretary. here's what he said today.teady jobs report, quote, unquote. do you agree with him? >> i hate to disappoint him, but this is really not a very good report. every month it seems that all of america holds their breath hoping for better labor and employer reports. by their own report, they claim this is not a good report in that they say the unemployment rate is still essentially unchanged. even though last month it went from 7.4% to 7.3%, this drop is due entirely to the loss of workers who have become discouraged and have left the workforce. this is very, very bad because for people who are starting their new jobs -- if they start out at a reduced level of employment with reduced wages, they will never catch up during the duration of their working life. this is very significant for young people and also for other people as well, for all workers. >> let's cover some more ground. the participation rate continues to fall. that's very important, you're absolutely right. i've got a chart, i hope we can get it up on t

tom perez is the president of bodum usa, and he joins me and mike santoli.ned and what was agreed to. >> the contract was signed back in november 2012. and it was agreed that we were going to roll out 630 bodum shopping shops by the beginning of -- of march 2013. >> and did that start to happen under johnson, or did everything change once johnson left and ullman came in. >> the majority changed after johnson left, definitely. the reality is the shop didn't open really before early june 2013. >> and so, jcpenney hasn't said anything to us. what have they said in response to your lawsuit, if anything? >> i mean, we're aware of a lot of changes that happened. we're also aware it was a big commitment and a lot of, you know, things can go different ways. but the point is that we have an agreement and we have a contract, and we feel that they need to live up to that contract. and if they don't, well, i think we need to be compensated. >> right. i was going to say, are you still interested in having the store within a store? or if they're not going that direction s

we are going to have the president, elizabeth warren, and tom perez. those are going to be the speakers. and we're going to have 40-some action sessions, where convention breaks. we going to these action sessions and we talk in detail about specific problems, specific ideas, specific new ways to do things so that we can educate people on the strategy, mobilize them, and they will go back to their areas, and continued that education. also, unlike past conventions, the end of the convention is the beginning. not the end of anything. we are going to keep those committees in place. those committees are going to continue to monitor what we're doing in those areas. areas that we talked about. changes we agreed to make. look at the effect of them. if they are being effective, we can push them farther. if they are not, we can move into something else. keep those committees and those progressive groups and place so that we are continually talking. somebody asked me before -- >> i was asking about what you thought in the organizing or action groups. what you thi

here first on cnbc is tom perez. mr. secretary, good to have you with us this morning. >> pleasure to be here with you. >> what do you make of the number of the, more importantly, the rate falling for what some argue is the wrong reason? >> i think this is another solid and steady job report. very consistent with the trends that we've been seeing for some time. 42 consecutive months of, 7.5 million jobs have been created. 2.3 million in the last year. broad base broth growth across a number of sectors. you see people are spending money, whether it's on cars, whether it's back to school. leisure and hospitality moving up. this summer consumer confidence has been going up. so i think this is again very consistent with the long-term trends that we've been seeing of steady recovery. now, the president will be the first to say that we need to move faster. we need to pick up base. investing in infrastructure. investing in human capital. making sure that we pass the american jobs act to put more people at work. >> these revisions, in june and july, moving down 58k in july, 16k

evan perez, thank you so much. i want to bring in tom fuentes. you are a former fbi. of all, walk us through. why would would the agency release video of the incident? we rarely see anything like this? >>. >> i think they just want to inform the public that they do have that kind of security coverage within the facility like the navy yard to show that they can try to identify somebody and what their mannerisms are and behavior. i think you clearly see, as evan just said, that, you know, he's acting like a s.w.a.t. team member carefully going down the hall and peeking around corners and looking for somebody that he can shoot at. frankly. they don't show us the actual shootings but you can see clearly he is looking for a victim right then. >> the fbi says that it retrieved a document in which alexis claimed he was the subject of an ultra low frequency attack. i'm not sure what that is. can you explain it? do you think that's the closest we are ever going to come to getting a motive? >> fortunately, i'm not as delusion alas he is. i can't tell what you that means exactly

tom. >> morning, carol. >> so let's go back to the story that evan perez just told all of our viewers, about what happenedthis horrific gun battle going on. >> right. >> your thoughts on that. >> well, first of all, from a tact kell perspective -- i was a s.w.a.t. team member and s.w.a.t. team leader -- the lasting thing you want to be in is a situation where the bad guy has the high ground. in this case, when he's on the fourth floor, as police officers are arriving, he's looking down on them. that makes it a much more difficult situation tactically to get to him. fortunately, they were able to get to him and eventually kill him to stop him from killing any more people. the notion that all 3,000 employees at this navy yard should be armed, would that have helped? possibly. and actually if all 3,000 were navy s.e.a.l.s it would have turned out better. but those suggestions are ridiculous. >> why are they ridiculous? >> most of the employees in a place like that are civilians, not military trained. you have analysts. you have a number of people that have not had the degree of firearms training. so the grea