This week, President Obama plans to meet with labor leaders, corporate executives and the GOP. United Steelworkers International President Leo W. Gerard joins Ed Schultz to discuss labor’s involvement in fiscal talks.

"If the Republicans are going to be obstructionists, Ed, we're not going to make the same mistake we made last time," said Gerard. "The last time, we should have been out on the street with the President on stimulous bill, we should have been out on the street with the President on the Affordable Care Act. We let him down, I think."

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