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Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO union president, dies at 72

Richard Trumka, who was at the helm of the nation's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, for more than two decades, died on Thursday. Paul Solman reports, and Robert Reich, former secretary of labor under the Clinton administration, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss Trumka's life and legacy.