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Like the gentle but firm. but just today senator marco rubio mocked the presidents plan to raise the minimum wage. listen to this. >> really? this is their solution to what the president has called the defining issue of our time. raising the minimum wage may poll well but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the american dream. >> i mean, so on one level, you know, stand by your god be emphatic, be empathic, make sure its a personal crisis, but now you have rubio mocking the presidents plan...

Iran. i think they want to avoid that before it runs out of control. >> ali arouzi in geneva. thanks. back in the understand, the third ranking republican in the house says theres not enough time left this year to can taal immigration reform. kevin mccarthy of california says he is committed to, woulding on immigration next year. senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill back in june. >> before heading to florida last night, the president spoke in new orleans to promote increased government...

And middle class people in this country right now. the added risk thats coming from the climate model that youre talking about, its just way too much for people to be able to actually deal with. >> and the two are connected. what has to happen right now to make peoples lives better, number one, assistance in their recovery, but when you think about how to physically protect new york city from climate change, we also have to expand resiliency, we need to think about economic resiliency, low incom...

Way too much for people to be able to actually deal with. >> and the two are connected. what has to happen right now to make peoples life better, number one, assistance in their recovery, but when you think about how to physically protect new york city from climate change, we also have to expangd that resiliency, we need to think about economic resiliency, low income folks and all of these -- actually obtain -- for example when we talk about building seawalls and bulkheads and all these other in...

Question, of course, is, could it happen again? and the answer is maybe, but it is in fact probably less likely now. since then our country decided to try to fix it, at least we decided to spend a bunch of money trying to fix the problem. after the blackout, utility companies spent a lot to maintain what theyve got per mile of line, transmission line, theyve been spending nearly three times what they spent in the ten years before the blackout. the federal government also stepped up, five days be...

Infrastructure projects we need is a whole new electricity grid. if were going to be serious about renewable energy, i want to be able to get wind power from north dakota to population centers like chicago. >> on something like the electrical grid, thats an issue of american resilience, even against the threat of terrorism. a lot of times when you look at counter terrorism officials, the things they game out are an al qaeda attack on the electrical grid. at this point a snowstorm is an attack on...

It happen again? and the answer is maybe, but it is in fact probably less likely now. since then our country decided to try to fix it, at least we decided to spend a bunch of money trying to fix the problem. after the blackout, utility companies spent a lot to maintain what theyve got per mile of line, transmission line, theyve been spending nearly three times what they spent in the ten years before the blackout. the federal government also stepped up, five days before the 08 presidential electi...

Available now at meineke.com. president obama offered the gop a new deal in a speech in chattanooga just a short time ago. he said hes willing to cut the tax rate applied to corporations in exchange for new spending on job creating infrastructure projects. >> im willing to work with republicans on reforming our corporate tax code as long as we use the money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating middle class jobs. thats the deal. and, you know, im g...

What we would be doing is looking at the fact we have bridges literally collapsing. we have roads impassable. we have an infrastructure problem that in the eisenhower era would have been addressed by building a massive highway program that would give people jobs. >> i want to tie this into our next topic because here in the city of new orleans, unemployment is higher than expect. more than half of working age african-american men in this city were unemployed according to the most recent census. ...

City were unemployed according to the most recent census. now, this is a dramatic increase in unemployment over the past 30 years. but we should point out over the last 30 years it was not the starvation of government or the starvation of infrastructure projects. the mayor of new orleans recently released a five-year plan by helping to attract better paying jobs in the city which calls for workforce training and support programs for small businesses. back to the panel, the both of you on this, i...