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helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. let us take that discussion all across america, because women are far more than the democrats have played them to be. >> he says democrats treat women like theyre helpless without uncle sugar giving them birth control. republicans have been desperate to get rid o...

The democratic convention. hillary would have beaten him anyway, but she ran the wrong campaign. she ran for restoration and a year of change. she wont make that mistake again. shell run with a sense of vision, of how to move america forward, and i think shell set that out. and by the way, theres an unintended consequence of this, ed, which ive heard no one discuss, and that is if she remains this dominant, and i suspect she will, there wont be a lot of interest in democratic primaries so in ope...

Free trade here. so weve got a long way to go on that. but thats another point here, ed, we need to deal with and that is business. business, every business, whether youre a big corporation or a small corporation, needs one thing. and thats customers. if customers dont have an income and if they dont have money, theyre not buying, that corporation is not going to do well, that business isnt going to do well. raise the minimum wage, give people a fair wage, give them an opportunity to be part of ...

Nafta. its not quite hand-to-hand combat yet, in part because most of the house democrats came out early. and they said we are not doing this nixon era fast track legislative luge run for tpp. and, you know, ed, part of the reason why is because while economists are generally out thing the authority of free trade, theyre all united that one of the main contributions to growing u.s. income inequality is the past 20 years of our nafta-style trade agreements. so you have all these democrats, includ...

0 all documents, e-mails, communications, do not cite specific federal statutes because thats been one of the question marks about this. what crime or what federal statute might be implicated here. and they dont cite any, which could mean that they dont really have a theory of the case at this point. theyre looking for the evidence and then will develop their theory afterwards. >> well, kendall, you worked as a u.s. attorney. when theyre not looking for a particular theory, that could also mean ...

0 tonight the state of the union address will focus on what? income ine equality. congratulations, mr. president and your staff. its about time. the president will touch on key issues like raising the minimum wage, should be an easy lift, but youve got republicans in mix. who knows. extending unemployment benefits. and college affordability. hell also talk about move things through congress using executive orders. the fist in the step of addressing income inequality in this country. the presiden...

After workers, not going with minimum wage, voting rights. i mean, all of these things, do they not attack minorities than the majority in this country? >> generally speaking, they do, ed. but again, this sort of plays into this right wing narrative of white victimhood and the idea that it is black folks and poor folks and the 47% who are the racists out there. accusing white america unjustly of harboring racial thoughts. this is an narrative they keep trying to sell and sell successfully among ...

Economy. we know the president is thinking about this. we hope that he pursues it. it would be a great start. we need a program. we also, ed, need to think about the rest of the world too. as we pursue the transpacific partnership, all were doing is taking advantage of those bottom billion who are getting by on nothing. they have low money and living on less than a dollar a day. when we do trade with a country like vietnam, were just exacerbating that issue of world inequality. >> the tpp really...

0 the senate or the assembly are bumping into each other by having one supercommittee? >> thats secret. and initially we had the two committees i believe. thats part of our process in new jersey. and after some thorough discussions at the leadership level within the state legislature, it was determined that it should be a combined committee, and thats what came out today in a public statement. >> steve, that is part of what people were very concerned about, whether you would have a subpoena from...

0 cut? gone. good-bye. do they deserve a mention in this speech at all? strong words from a man whose political career is in the balance right now. things are getting worse by the day for this guy. theres no question about that. first its bridgegate, which no one in the media had anything to do with. then the mayor of hoboken, new jersey claims christie used hurricane sandy funds as leverage over a development. if the governor did abuse his power, thats going to be another story. the consequence...