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Chris Murphy: “Support for labor unions has a lot of support on the right…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Katie's One-on-One with Senator Chris Murphy

Published | Video Starts at 26:39

Those are issues that for the time being, are kind of suspended in political gelatin. It's just a sort of dog eat dog fight between right and left. But if you talk about Support for labor unions has a lot of support on the right today. If you talk about breaking up concentrated corporate power, there's a whole bunch of Trump's base that voted for him because they thought that he was going to go after the corporations. (26:39–26:48)

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