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Labor's Message to the White House

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    FBN's Rich Edson on President Obama's meeting with labor leaders.

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President Obama meeting with labor leaders as he kicks off his -- of meetings aimed at avoiding the fiscal -- rich Edson is that the White House her back story rich housing going did did they fix everything yet.

It's all fixed and run back to you excellent base camp not.

And that combined tells that's really going out we can take it all right well this in the meeting just wrapped labor leaders are heading out on the west -- of the White House right now it lasted about an hour we shot -- a couple questions to those.

Who walked up the driveway here asked how'd it go to the president.

When the president have to tell you and they say well the president -- now the question is -- the president just to listen to them as you ought to follow what they had to say or is he just.

Listening and moving along this is what labour leaders want at least from AFL CIO president Richard -- saying.

Quote no more bush tax cuts for the richest 2% no benefit cuts for Social Security Medicare.

And Medicaid.

Now house Republicans especially house speaker John Boehner said look we'll talk more tax revenue in an -- tax system what we won't discuss.

Is that without entitlement reform so that's the key for Republicans -- do tax revenue.

But it's gotta come as part of an overhaul the tax system and it has to involve Medicare Medicaid and Social Security exactly what the folks here at the White House don't want.

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