all that and afl-cio's richard trumka warning. some food stamp entitlements, food for thought on a jam-packed cavuto now. neil: verizon to the rescue. welcome i am neil cavuto, if the asiana can get verizon to hand over 20 trillion americans phone records what is stop them from having the phone giant takeover this mess, verizon is good are records no surprise that government thinks that verizon is just the company to fix this health care site once and for all. the president said that so many americans' to log on to get coverage, but putting verizon in charge of it, that is like me policing a ponderosa. i digress. craig smith does not like it. fox, chickens, confused. what do you make? >> the president's signature piece of legislation on the first dayt crashes, how appropriate, in president shows that big government cannot do anything as efficiently as private sector. neil: you disagree wither there premise that -- with their premise that it is because there is such huge demand for this. >> i got to give it to the democrats for mes

trumka said remember us. we are smaller than we used to be but we are still powerful. a fl and cio and other unions represent 37 percent of the public employees. teacher ands firefighters and you name it the legal and state and federal government. in the private sector, they amount to less than seven percent of the labor force and organized labor and so they have to pick their battles and trumka decided this is where he will drive his standard in to the ground and do it first. >> but if they only represent seven percent of the private labor and much more of the public labor force. can democratic politicians win without them and their support? >> no, at least they could not now alisyn. they are part of what is a successful political coalitions on the planet, that is organized labor and the democratic party. it is a lynch pin for every democratic initiative over the last 70 years and one is utterly dependent on the others. if we see a breach it would be a political development. >> in that case, it is a catch 22 for democrats, if they vote for entitlement reform richard t

the good richard trumka the a.f.l.-cio president is warning that his union will put any democrats who try to cut the social safety net on notice to prepared remarks in a speech in las vegas he said no politician i don't care the political party will get away with cutting social security medicare or medicaid benefits don't try it this warning goes double for democrats we will never forget we will never forgive and we will never stop working to end your career. social security medicare and medicaid have kept millions of elderly and low income americans out of poverty since they were created let's hope that richard trumka is warning is enough to protect them. for years to come. the bad senator dick durbin it looks like the illinois senator is going to be the f.l. ceo's first target check out what he said during an appearance on fox news sunday this past week. why can't you just make a deal short term spending for a long time until a month from which senator you'll support and president obama supports you have supported th

union boss richard trumka releasing this statement today.lions of americans retirement is secure and not cutting benefits for critical programs like social security and medicare and medicaid. our economist says that more handouts are not the answer. she is joined by ebony williams and liz macdonald. let's start with you. >> we keep hearing that we need more spending and what we need is job creation and income growth. this includes an unsustainable situation and the government continues to outspend received. after weeks of conversation, we still just kicked the can down the road and neither side really coming up with his unsustainable problem. >> can we keep it justified? >> no, i don't think so. there are elderly americans and impoverished americans in need egg kind of program. the way we are executing this is irresponsible. >> what you mean by the way we are executing it, what does that mean? >> it lacks eligibility requirements amir to relax. we need something that comes in and say these are the core rules he need to abide by to even quali

. ♪ lou: en -- afl-cio chief richard trumka and is talking tough.the way, he probably can back up a lot of that tough talk. the union bosch to the boss issuing a new round of threats against any politicians to try to cut social security, medicare, medicaid, and he is starting union-loving democrats of all people saying, this morning goes double for democrats. we will never forget. we will never forgive, and we will never stop working to end your career. wow. he is a friendly fellow. not saying, however, that they will start voting republican and if he does not say that the first part does not make, well, a very serious, credible threat. my next guest uses a no-nonsense approach and a little tough love . a last chance to succeed. >> for the next five days you work for me. fixing cars is easy. fixing people is tough. you guys are pouring drinks to people who are complaining, serving food that people can eat, and she is sinking because of it. you're a smirk is going to bury you. lou: joining as now, most of spike tv number one show, bar rescue nine is

ceo's richard trumka expressing concern with some parts of obamacare to try to make the republican point that there is labor opposition to the law the president hoffa has come out and asked ted cruz to stop misquoting him for the record but so how do unions really feel about obamacare for more on this as well as the latest in the labor movement i'm joined now by leo gerard international president of the united steelworkers. it's great to have you with the second great to be with you good to be true thank you. first of all. they congressional republicans kim jong il obamacare you know what were the unions at actually look at the. ted cruzes the kim jong il of the republican party number one. and the reality is that there are some concerns that we have a boat the affordable care act but they're not concerned we're saying crash the act we're saying these are things we need to work out over the coming months and years just like we did when we had medicare just like we did medicaid just like we do with social security all of those things go worked out over time and the reality is that these g

we had richard trumka here just the other day. he had to to be away but let me tell you we have enough to tell you. tiberi is on fire all about this country. come hear brother. >> hello sge. on behalf of the workers the bus drivers and the people who cook people who help this country run every day we are asking for a simple democratic way. do your job. call a vote. how difficult is that? let me tell you a little bit about me. i came from california where we do things a little bit different. i came from a place which never values democracy. i came from my native country 30 years ago. john boehner -- i didn't risk my life to get here so that i could go back to the dark days. you are not alone. you are not alone. 20 million hard-working union members 100% of the time. i'm here to assure you we are with you every step of the way. fight on and demand a vote. it is great to be on stage with with -- [inaudible] i got arrested yesterday with a bunch of people here. like him and like him and like him. giving up what we fought for, our secu

union bosses, trumka, people like that, afl-cio, he was at the white house more than most of the cabinetffordable care act is you would imagine that initially the unions would go, you know what? if there are 20 or 30 million more americans, we can get onto obamacare, maybe those would be potential members of our union. >> that's why they were for obamacare. they figured more people getting government money through obamacare, more government union employees. remember -- this is shocking -- every million new members, it's a billion dollars in dues annually for the union. a billion dollars in dues. that's a lot of money for those union heads. >> steve: and you can understand why they would want to do that. it's in their own best interest. >> sure is. >> steve: let's talk about this, unions are trying to force a bill to get retroactive pay for the shutdown just like the federal workers. >> oh, that's going to happen. that's not even an issue. they're going to get it. >> steve: you think so? >> oh, yeah. i mean, they're working full time on this one and they're going to get it. >> steve: so t