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Life. but whats it going to take for the federal minimum wage to be increased with house republicans? i mean, thats a pipe dream. we all know that boehner would never bring something like that to a vote. the bottom line is, the democrats, the progressives are going to have to get control of both houses, and the white house if theyre ever going to move workers forward. minimum wage. so the question is, is it a 2014 issue? is this a slam dunk for liberals who are out there campaigning to take over...

And what president nelson mandela certainly was a force of nature. he was a force for social justice and good. and although were talking a lot about his dignity and how humble he was and how strong he was, the fact of the matter is that he used his might to fight for justice in the fight for good. when we look at the long lines in that first election in south africa where black africans had the opportunity to vote, it was through that election that president nelson mandela was elected at the age...

Stuart, varney and other folks in fox world were making economic inequality almost a yuk yuk joke to their viewers, obama has recognized a simple truth. and that is that the anger is potentially boiling over about this economic disparity between -- >> it is anger. >> its -- look, 130 cities of anger is what we saw, and its building every year. it goes all the way back to the beginning of the occupy movement. and we saw these same types of things happening last year. it continues to grow. obama r...

Political analyst. thats all youve got to do, professor, is just take that red tape and then cut it. >> and then all of a sudden these jobs are going to show up. rand paul in detroit, and he wants to open up the gops african-american engagement the office to reach out to voters. i mean, is he the best ambassador to the party? your thoughts on this effort. >> yeah, if he is, ed, its a pretty -- its an awful shame. because, look, his heart, im sure, is in the right place. but his mind and his mout...

Right now. what needs to be done? these red liners, these 1 and 2% folks, they just got damn lucky. hell, theyve been lucky the last 30 years. thats not the case. i mean, something has to be done. how do you engage republicans about this without talking about socialism? >> heres the problem. the person who shows up at the town hall meeting doesnt have lobbyists. the person who shows up at the town hall meeting doesnt have millions of dollars to give to the wall street republicans. so that become...

>> this is socially engineering the vote. thats how i view it. are these bills a direct attack on democratic voters? >> not just democratic voters, ed. i think in some ways all voters. but the targets are certainly young people. the targets are elderly people. the targets are poor people. because those are the groups that will have the greatest hurdles to summount. in 2004 in ohio the lines were so long, it was very reminiscent of what happened in florida in 2012. people had to wait in urban are...

Corrections, elections have been running relatively smoothly. but now since the election of president barack obama, the republicans have decided that they dont like folks coming out to vote. and so they want to take it away. i mean, the restrictions on strict voter i.d. bills we know will have terrible impact on people in the state of ohio. the technicalities that they want to place on absentee voting, it just absolutely makes no sense. and this is not happenstance, this is deliberate. >> yeah. ...

0 no cameras in this event. but we know what they were talking about. >> were getting more and more takers than makers in america. and we need to have more makers and less takers in america. if we have more takers, then were denying people of their ability to make the most of their lives. >> if you raise the minimum wage, the inevitable effect will be number one, young people will lose their jobs. or not be able to get their first jobs. unemployment among young people will go up if the minimum w...

what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice. and i would make the argument that, you know, we have a great injustice going on in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling peoples lives. and obama care is front and center in that. >> yes. he just compared fighting the health care law to fighting apartheid. rick santorum doesnt have to like the health care law, but hes ...

0 concerned about their futures. but we are now starting from square one. its a process that i think we need to take a lot of care, because theres going to be pain for a lot of different people. but in the long run, i think the future of the city will be bright. >> i offer to you tonight, this is unnecessary pain. there is a way out. kevin orr now holds the keys to the city of detroit. this guy, not an elected official, is apointed. he was hand-picked by republican governor rick schneider, to ov...