but you're right, loretta lynch is different than tom perez and therefore an improvement. megyn, is congress must take serious its oversight obligation. you just talked about ferguson. there's a lawyer at the justice department still working making $160,000 a year named carla debinski. she is on the unit investigating ferguson. she was involved in gross misconduct in new orleans against police officers, rigging the outcome of that criminal prosecution. she still works at doj. will loretta lynch do anything about her? or is it win at all costs when it comes to the police? >> in particular at least take her off of the ferguson investigation where there's not even an appearance of propriety. there's no appearance of propriety in having her on that case. chris adams, good to see you. >> good to see you, megyn. >> impartiality is the word i was looking for. coming up, how the government is using special airplanes to spy on your cell phone call. really? not going to be very interesting. it's going to be like did you pick up the baby? how about the groceries? with some people it

to democrats by putting a guy like tom perez forward, that wasn't going to happen. now, there is no risk. we haven't got 5 out of 5 states yet, but 4 out of the 5 states with minimum wage. >> yes. >> increases on the ballot went so people who voted for democratic ideas, ideas that were pushed forward. i think it will be interesting to keep a close eye on the labor secretary, tom perez who now, i think, jumps a few steps here he was yesterday. >> looking ahead to 2016, david shuster, the latino vote is critical. so how do republicans and democrats play this? in particular how to republicans approach this issue of immigration? >> i think then to be careful. if the president goes hard left on immigration and supposed he goes to executive order, just with the senate passing in bip bip fashion and which the house would not take up even in piecemeal fashion, the president does this by executive, you might say republicans start to take it apart once they have the senate majority in january. >> they do that at their own perrel because once the democrats have taken some sort

labsecretary of the united states, tom perez. welcome, secretary perez. we said we're going to sdou put on your santa claus beard and look forward. we talked about what we've seen for october all day long. what do you expect as far aa job growth is concerneddfor the next couple of months? >> i don't have a crystal ball for the next couple months. what we know from looking back is that we haven't had nine months in a row of 2000000+ jobs since the 90s. we had 56 consecutive months of private sector job growth to the tune of 2.6 million jobs and a year ago unemployment rate was 7.2% and i suspect if i asked you and a group of your colleagues what dooning the unemployment rate will be a year from now? you wouldn't have said 5.8%. we know we're moving in the right direction. there are two important pieces of unfinished business. continuing to work to help the continue to work to ensure that the prosperity that we see increasingly is shared prosperity, so that in the 90s what we saw is that rising tide lifted more votes than it's currently lifting. thaa's the

we're asking labor secretary tom perez.ez is going to be here not only to talk about the jobs number. i think the interesting point is that number that came out today while amiss had better elemenns in it, we're going to move forward ask, him to put his santa claus beard on and ask him what hh expects to see for jobs and hiring coming up, and we have diane swonk of mesereau financial, stewart friedman, the best investments and tackle what happened two hours ago. there has been an inadvertenn release, they fought iit apple and the company behind sapphire screens, the super hard glass. gtat in big, big arguments with it had to go bankrupt because apple got in its face and said do this, do that, and ulled the contract. wait until you see what's happening here. bait and switch, pointing thee more. tracy: the dow turns slightly negative as we were talking. it will be back. liz will bring it back. >>> the white house ressonding as we learned, the sspreme court will take up the second challenge to obamacare. this is a major victor

. >> i would say tom perez, he's hard line. >> far left. >> far left.t would also say about immigration, about voter id, about what the president is considering doing in terms of a nuclear option on amnesty. all of that stuff tom perez lines up. he's already been confirmed once. they could rush him through. >> last question, do you think the republicans are going to stick with these new rules that harry reid put in place that make it so much easier to confirm a nominee? grant it it's still going to be the president's nominee whoever comes through, or do you think they're going to switch the rules back? >> that is the $64,000 question. if they do it would be hard for them to be blamed. if they don't, it might be a demonstration of patriotic grace to say harry reid really was a crummy senate majority leader. but one thing we know mcconnell will do, he's going to change rules back so people can vote and there will be amendments and they will actually do stuff as opposed to keeping everything in the coffee can buried in the backyard. >> mike huckabee earlie

was a lot of concern about some of the other people that the president was looking at, including tom perez, the labor secretary. and so this name was one that a lot of people said, look, this is not one that republicans would try to oppose and that's one of the other things that everybody knew that -- i think everyone was predicting that the republicans were going to have a big day on election day and so the president was going to have to figure out someone who was not going to get hung up on any fights or any controversies. so she is a very safe bet but she' also someone who's very accomplished so he gets to have both things at the same time. >> i was going to say, i think when you look at the appointments of certain people to lead these organizations and these administrations, you get so much more respect from people if they have been on the front lines, that has woman certainly has. and she has a great deal of respect here in new york, she's got a great deal of respect and accomplishments. that kind of thing goes a long way and you talk about the fact that it won't be controversial and

next reached out to [speaker not understood] who is a regional representative for labor secretary tom perez, to kelly jenkins pultz, federal women's bureau, as well as martha [speaker not understood], first entity in the country to actually collect equal pay data from state contractors in new mexico. we also reached out to [speaker not understood] who is the co-founder of the bay area equal pay collaborative that has been working on the issue, closing the gender pay gap for so many years. we also reached out to the executive director of the human rights commission, theresa sparks. all of these local, state and federal experts thought it was a good idea for san francisco to emulate on a local level what the president is doing at the federal level. these individuals and many other local leaders on this issue helped us shape the law that you see today. and i especially was moved as i was walking into the board chambers by the about 100 or so women that were -- felt important -- it was important for them to come out today to make the point that the issue of pay equity has been an issue for way

. >> we asked the labor secretary tom perez and he said we hope there's a resolution. hope is not a strategy so we're waiting to hear more. thank you. even though west coast ports may be slowing down. heading into the close let's get to the floor hoe and see how the experts are positioning themselves. the cma group. i want to start with scott redler. we have a whole bunch of issues. we're in record territory for the transport, dow, it all looks good. what are you looking at at the moment that could affect the markets right now? >> i think every obstacle we've been seeing the market is dealing with. oil, when oil breaks, that all of a sudden the markets will notice, and it didn't. traders are trying to stay with this rally and the rally at everly level has sustained itself. right now into this week, i think a lot of people looking at the s&p, as long as we stay over 2,015, i think drairdz will try and be long. technology continued to lead. last week it had a digestive week and it didn't perform for the first time. >> any of you gentlemen worried about china and what is

there has been some talk of the labor secretary tom perez, what do you make of that idea? >> we talked about this on the air, ali. that is becoming more of a logical step for the same reasons we just outlined. uplifting those in poverty, to name him sure would pick a fight and perhaps the nomination would not make it through the senate now. remember with those numbers that the republicans are now going to have, unlikely to get those 50 votes. they asked about what the thought process was on the aging nomination, he would not bite today. >> the economy may have been the undoing of the democrats, but the economy was not on the ballot in most place, and much to my frustration was not talked about in detail. everyone was accusing the other one of being bad of the economy, but there were five states in which an economic question was on the ballot. in all five states it passed. these were moves that were championed by democrats and yet in those five states the democrats were whoa were running were wiped out as well. what do you make of this distext? a new reason senate elect.com

we ask labor secretary tom perez why. plus, you want bankers to go to jail that led to the financial crisis? a woman says she has the proof of a criminal fraud at jpmorgan. she tried to warn the bank that the mortgages they were bundling to

but toms perez is a good government guy.has survived big government but it wasn't helped by big government. i keep thinking of the tom stayer. the green guy and spent 70 million of his own money for the tuesday result. didn't fair well. because the renaissance supersedes everything impeding it or not helping it. and he also referenced he went on a european trip and talked about the u.k. and europe. and this is what he had to say on the screen. i want to expand here in america. this is what they're saying to him. i want to bring more businesses here. or business here for the fist time. this is a real bullishness across the world from companies about america. of course, mr. secretary, there are. and i'll just pick one number to prove why. if you look at the kilowatt hour cost of industry in germany based on the euro stat at the end of 2014 around it was around 14 e cents. in the u.s. in the same time period it was half. about 7 and a quarter. that's the dynamic. and labor secretary, i don't know if anybody in the current admin

we had a meeting that tom perez chaired. veteran homelessness is down 33% and secretaries shinseki deserve enormous credit for what has been done with veteran homelessness. but if there is one homeless veteran, it is one too many. we are continuing to work very hard to do that. [applause] let me close by saying i am personally convinced that this job can be done, that these executed, that we can care for the veterans the way we should be caring for them, and i have seen it will stop i have seen it in best practices around the country. i sought in palo alto in our facility populated by doctors who teach at stanford medical school. it in places like where we have an sponge and and bill ballmer who have developed something called the re-walk and the exoskeleton to help veterans who were paralyzed to walk. this is not a circus trick. walks outyzed veteran with her muscles get exercise and their bones do not have i have been toop other places where i have seen the administration recently rated number one in customer satisfaction

ladies and gentlemen, give a warm welcome to labor secretary, tom perez. [ applause ] >> good afternoon. myron, thank you for that generous welcome. i might talk a little bit about the buffalo bills, but we'll save that for another time, jerry. and thanks to everybody at the press club, including my good friend, allison fitzgerald, who lives in the neighborhood. we're overrepresented in tacoma park here today. but that's okay. thank you for having me. you know, over the summer, something remarkable happened around new england. thousands of employers of the regional supermarket chain market basket walked off the job to protest the firing of their ceo, arthur t.demullesu. they held rallies and picketed throughout the summer. eight managers who spearheaded the first rally, some who had been with the company for 40 years, were fired. loyal customers held their own rally in support of arthur t. merchandise sales started to dwindle. sales lagged. vendors began to cut their ties with the company. and the governors of two states stepped in to try and broker a deal. in the end, a deal was reache

from republicans a lot of negative stuff like republicans were sort of gearing up to fight tom perez that was the nominee. seems like the white house here it in picking loretta lynch mighting saying this is not a fight we want to be having right now knowing we have immigration coming up. is that a fair way to read this? >> you would have then been picking two fights. a secretary of labor confirmation fight. i can see not doing that. she's a very good prosecutor. she's an african-american woman. and i want to discuss one of the greatest hip ypocrisy i've ever heard, naming an attorney general in a lame duck session is inappropriate. when the republicans were in control they impeached bill clinton. so the notion that it is legitimate in a lame duck session to impeach a sitting president and, by the way, one of the two counts that have impeachment only went through because members who had been defeated, republicans in the 1998 election, were allowed to vote. if that had gone over to the next congress only one -- >> if there is a delay here, the republicans say we want to do this after t

a lot of the rumors that is might be tom perez, a, in the justice department right now. he is seen as on the right as a by a lot of people as a left-winger. so we'll see who he nominates. if he tries to go conciliatory, someone that republicans find palatable, perhaps he will try to seek an era of bipartisanship. a lot of buzz that is not the direction he is going. jon: well, it is going to be interesting -- wouldn't you love to be a nion the wall at the white house in the family dining room today for that launch -- lunch with congressional leaders from both parties? shira center, jamie weinstein. thank you both. >> thank you. heather: we are learning that president obama reportedly wrote a secret letter to the leader of iran. that letter addressed to the ayatollah khomeni last month. it was apparently sent out without congressional input. "the wall street journal" reporting that it ties cooperation on isis to a deal over iran's nuclear program. congress not too happy about it. leland vittert is following this story from washington. leland, good morning. what is the reac

we ask labor secretary tom perez why. plus, you want bankers to go to jail that led to the financial crisis? a woman says she has the proof of a criminal fraud at jpmorgan. she tried to warn the bank that the mortgages they were bundling into securities were toxic. no one listened. i'm ali velshi and this is "real money." >>> it three days ago voters sent democrats packing because of discontent with the economy, but today we learn the economy added 214,000 net new jobs last month. that was in the run-up to the elections. 31,000 more jobs were added to august and september's tallies in the revisions that typically follow a month or two after a jobs report. at 69 -- 49 months of straight job growth, this is the longest continuous stretch of job growth in almost 20 years, and this year's monthly average job growth is exceptional. america has added 229,000 net new jobs every month this year. that's about where the gains should be so that the job market has room to grow and take in new workers who joined the labor force every

. >> the scuttlebutt is that president obama would like to nominate tom perez, the labor secretary, there'soing to be a lot of opposition for republicans. there's going to be great controversy over judicial obligations. >> reporter: home state senators have some power to block judicial nominees from their state, by senator moran notes that after senator majority leader harry reid pushed through historic rule changes in the senate, it left republicans with little leverage for cabinet nominees. >> when the rules were changed, republicans don't have much to say about the confirmation of executive officers when only 51 votes from required. >> reporter: the most explosives issue is the president's promise to hispanic leaders that he would take executive act shin to legalize many illegal immigra immigrants, but then delayed it until after the election infuriating some hispanic lawmakers. >> but republican leaders issued a warning about unilateral action. >> it's like waving a red flag in front of a bull to say if you guys don't do what i want, i'm going to do it on my own. >> mcconnell says that

the justice department under tom perez when he was assistant general attorney general for labor rightset a record number of investigations of abusive police departments and negotiated a lot of settlements with those departments to improve their practices. it's really been one of the great success stories of eric holder's justice department. so whether they can come in and do anything with ferguson, in the aftermath of, let's say, things not going well there, i don't know. but it is an area in which the whole justice department and the obama administration have shown a true commitment. so i don't think that would go away at the end of this. so maybe there's a way to come in and deal with what the president called the systemic problems at hand. >> and we heard from the governor of missouri, there's been indications of tension between the white house, between the administration, eric holder at the justice department, and jay nixon over the actions he's taken in the run-up to tonight. how serious do you think that is? >> i think there's tension among all the players. because eric holder is

we just had a meeting just a few weeks ago which tom perez chaired. veterans homelessness is down 33%, and secretary shinseki deserves enormous, enormous credit for what's been done with veterans homelessness. but i've got to tell you, if there's one homeless veteran, is want to me. so we are not giving up. we are continuing to work very, very hard to do that. [applause] >> let me close by saying that i am personally convinced that this job can be done, that these reforms can be executed, that we can care for the veterans the way we should be caring for them. and i've seen it. i've seen it in best practices around the country. i sought in palo alto where are palo alto facility in which is populated by doctors who teach at stanford medical school, is one of our foremost facilities in the use of lean management techniques to great operations. i've seen it in places like the bronx where we have and sponging and bill ballmer who developed something called the re- walk and the exoskeleton to help paralyzed veterans walk. this isn't the circus trick. this i

and so -- and tom perez, the labor secretary.esident has to deal with a republican congress, this is a safe bet. this is somebody who is coming from outside and doesn't have any of the washington baggage that a lot of cabinet nominees will have. >> she really is going to have her work, assuming it is her, which we expect. she's going to have her work cut out for her. we've had the michael brown shooting in ferguson and there is really a list of other things, right? >> exactly. including helping the president explain some of his decisions, for example, the air strikes in syria. there's the justice department produces the legal rationale for those things, the nsa reforms, and obviously the michael brown situation. she handles in the 1990s, oversaw prosecution of some police officers in new york involved in brutalizing a haitian immigrant. that case was a huge deal at the time. and so that's going to be a key thing that will help her guide whatever comes out of the justice department in the next few months. >> evan perez, great repo

alex perez, abc news, los angeles. >>> tom menino, the longest serving mayor in the history of boston, is being laid to rest today. the former mayor was lying in state yesterday. among them, secretary of state john kerry and hillary clinton. and vice president biden will attend today's private funeral. menino was mayor for more than 20 years. he stepped don in january, shortly before being diagnosed with cancer. he died thursday at theage of 71. >>> we turn to your voice,ior vote. just 24 hours away from election day with control of congress at stake. republicans needing a net gain of six seats to take over the second. voters are choosing from a widely diverse group of candidates. abc's david wright tells us about some of the more interesting ones. >> reporter: there some are interesting newcomers. among them, elise stephanek, hoping to become the youngest woman ever elected to congress. and there's mia love in utah who would be the first black woman republican elected to the house. in north carolina, clay aiken has struggled to parlay his success on "american idol" into a seat in the

let's get more on this with evan perez, jeffrey toobin, and tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director this legal? >> it almost certainly is. remember, from the edward snowden revelations, the supreme court has said you and i don't have an expectation of privacy in the numbers we dial. snowden disclosed when they intercept what anyone is saying, they are disclosing what numbers are being dialed and phones are being used. as far as i'm aware, that is legal. >> evan, do we know how it's being used, is there any delineation of when it can be used and when it can't? >> they're looking for people like guzman, people who are serious criminals, felons on the run. as jeffrey points out, this is not something that is gathering the communications of these people. but the problem, is and why people get scared is that in trying to find this needle in the hay stack, they are scooping up a lot of data on other people and the potential for abuse is there. the question is, how do you make sure the data is removed from the government system so that it's not abused. that's the big question. >> tom, you

tom wolf for governor. a fresh start for pennsylvania. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: welcome back to our special halloween spook-tickler. andy samberg, rosie pereze potter are coming up. but first, it's time for a beloved annual halloween tradition here at the show. ever every year, we take half of one costume and half of another and weave it together. i'm going to ask you to guess what the costume is. are we good? i can be heard here? perfect. time for our ninth annual half and half halloween costume contest. [ cheers and applause ] i think i hear the doorbell ringing now. there it is. all right. let's see what -- oh. well, that is a -- now, don't everyone yell it at once. rotate, show us the whole costume. very good. [ applause ] it's a half and half costume. if it was c3po and oprah, it would be c3poprah. what is it? >> a unicorn. >> jimmy: what else? >> corn on the cob? >> jimmy: a unicorn on the cob. right. and here we go. this should be as easy as cherry pie, shouldn't it? do you know what this is? >> gorge washington. >> jimmy: what are you? >> george washington machine. >> jimmy: oh, look at this. okay. would you mind spinning around so

let's big deeper with tom fuentes, john gaskin, sunny hostin, and also joining us, evan perez.ou're getting word on this atf, we still call it the atf, even though they added the "explosives" part to it. what are you learning? >> the concern is, was this church targeted monday night when it burned, was it targeted because of the relationship with michael brown sr.? he's a member of that church. so what the atf is doing, they have jurisdiction when -- federal jurisdiction when there's a fire of a house of worship. so what they're doing is they're doing -- their arson investigators are in there. they know that the fire started in a foyer area near the front where someone broke into the church. and what is disconcerting for them is that this church is some distance away from the strip of commercial property that burned that night. so that also is suspicious, because nothing around this church was burned. so they're going to be taking some time to take a look at all that. the church is a total loss. >> totally burned down? >> the church is mostly burned, and the rest of it is in da

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