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Raising the minimum wage a little bit this and a little bit that and start having a conversation about vocational training to get jobs, real jobs for american workers with a future and with growth. talking about the wrong thing. >> john, its not a little bit here and there. its a big jump, isnt it? i mean, with the president suggesting $15 an hour, where are we going to go, 25? that is the goal here? >> it looks good on a bumper sticker. you raise the minimum wage and president obama was the one...

Million. during that time, 4 million people came off food stamps from 2000-2015, almost 30 million went on. for every job since 2000 that has been created, almost three people slid into food stamps. the middle class has been destroyed. gdp, the afternoon is 3.3% annually, it is president obamas best year has been at 2.5%. only two years since 2000 have we seen over the average. i think america is starting to realize, we dont have leadership and havent in d.c. for some time. >> go ahead. >> i agr...

Knowing that this project is bigger than yourself. johns story is the american story. thats not hyperbole. its the american story. grounded in respect and decency. basic fairness. the intolerance through the abuse of power. many of you have traveled the world. look how the rest of the world recently looks at us. they look at us a little naive. we are so fair. were so decent. were the naive americans. but thats who we are. thats who john was. and he could not stand the abuse of power. wherever he...

Prepared to. it sounds corny. we hold these truths self evident that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. to john those words had meaning. as they have for every great patriot that has ever served this country. we both loved the senate. proudest years of my life were being a united states senator. and i was honored to be vice president, but being a united states senator. and we both lamented watching the change. during long debates in the 80s and 9...

It was always about basic values with john. fairness, honesty, dignity, respect. giving hate no safe harbor. leaving no one behind. and understanding as americans, we are a part of something much bigger than ourselves. with john, it was a value set that was neither selfish nor self-serving. john understood that america was first and foremost an idea. audacious and risking. organized around not tribe, but around ideals. think of how he approached every issue. the ideals that americans have rallie...

Said, joe, dont take it personally, but i wanted to hear what the hell you had to say, and left. one of johns major campaign people is now with the senate, with the governor of ohio. was on this morning. i happened to watch it. he said that biden/mccain had this strange relationship. they always seemed to have each others back. whenever i was this trouble, john was the first guy there. and i hope i was there for him. and we never hesitate to give each other advice. he called me in the middle of ...

Because wed sit there and wed talk to each other. and i can remember the day when i came out to see john, we reminisced about it. it was in 96. we were about to adjourn for what we call the caucuses. there is a luncheon once a week that the democratic senators have lunch together and all the republican senators. and we both went into our caucus and, coincidentally, we were approached by our caucus leaders with the same thing. raised the discussion. joe, it doesnt look good you sitting next to jo...

The investigation is still going on. and by the way -- hold on. >> but don, is there anything there now, don? >> hold on, yesterdays testimony. im just informing the viewers, don. yesterdays testimony was not about collusion. it was about why the fbi director was fired, so -- and remember -- [ inaudible ] within that 34 -- he has a 34% approval rating. its a small part of the country, just so you know. >> look, everything john is saying about the base, its probably absolutely true. and you know,...