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>> hi, this weeks "up against the clock" quote of note is and i read, a presidents hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right. good luck. >> jackie, what president said that? >> oh, gosh, i will go with roosevelt. >> incorrect. his lyndon johnson. that was a pain-free bonus question. no points deducted. you still keep the 100 points. we get the clock back in motion. were back with this 100 point toss-up. plan to raise the minimum wage to $13 by $2019 was pass by this week ...

Six years now of the obama presidency, you can split this into two periods, the first two years when you had the most productive congress since lbj, the great society. maybe the republicans hated it, maybe the democrats loved it. the point is things happen in those first two years, weve seen the reality of divided government in a hyper polarized america since then. the white house wants something, the republicans in congress say no and nothing happens. it makes me sit here and say how can either...

Well this year. to you and ron brownsteins broader point, theres no question. i think the presidency is a thankless job. what you have to do and sacrifice to get there and then the reward in my minds eye is precious little. but i think to be fair, the president -- ron brownsteins colleague, ron fornier wrote a great piece that the president seems to be concerned about me, myself and i. even went to the border and made it about him. >> but theres a -- >> to be fair, im not sure how fair -- >> the...

Bush 43 doubled the size of the border patrol, tripled the budget, and ended painfully catch and release, temporarily. for example, in 2008, there were 4,000 unaccompanied minor children apprehended at the border. but there were 8,000 returned across the border because bush was working through the back log of people already here. and fy, last fiscal year, there were 20,000, nearly 21,000 minors caught at the border and we returned 1900 because we have a huge back log developing. but it is a toug...

Could take the white house, maybe take both houses of congress and well have the kind of opportunity that has only been afforded to democrats in the past under fdr, lbj, obama, to impose an entirely conservative agenda and we can do it very quickly. and if they had won, they might have had a chance to do it. instead, they lost and now theyre stuck with the ryan budget though theres no opportunity on the horizon for them to implement it. >> brian beutler, thank you so much. >> thanks, chris. go...

League, upwards of $200. in return, lebron writes hes on a mission to bring glory back to cleveland. our city hasnt had that in a long, long, long time. >> you have done a wonderful thing for cleveland. >> but clevelands gain is miamis pain. his image dethe faced. >> it is bittersweet. >> were not going burn jerseys. i promise. >> lbj! >> we love you, lebron. lets go! >> espn is reporting that the cavaliers have capped season ticket sales 12,000 tickets. and the cavs are not raising prices for s...

Self-serving, others are purely political. others are more than, that far more. the president rallying the people to put a man on to the moon, for instance. calling the soviet union to tear down the berlin wall. the president sending a message of to the perpetrators of 9/11. you can call each and every one of them photo ops. none of these presidents had to go to those locations. kennedy could have sent lbj. reagan could have spoken from the oval office, bush from "the situation room." president ...

Has to be between sherrod and myself. >> we have a black man in the white house. but it is not for long. two more years maybe. what does this mean to black americans? is this a great thing or is this -- >> it is fine, but it cant compensate for a black man in the home. thats the bottom line. politicians can only do so much. i believe lbj was well intentioned. he did right in signing the civil rights act of 64 and the voting retes act of 1965. i applaud the people in the civil rights movement, th...

With congress in his entire president soine with the super majority of democrats he stuggled to get the health care to pass. and now in the clinton president so under bill clinton, he worked with a republican congress and did a lot of big things in fact. i think hillary clinton if she chooses to run point to that record and that is more who i am. i have the ability to work with members was congress even those who disagree with me to get things done. >> lbj, who brought people in and back slapped...

Hoppers and hail storms. by that time, kansas was a republican state. lbj is the only democrat that got the vote for president between 1940 and 2012. the state hasnt send a democrat to the united states senate in more than 80 years. 100 years an formation, kansas once again became a key player at a critical turning point in american history. it started in 1951 when the school board was sued by a parent by a student not allowed to go to school. if you head north from kansas, you end up in neighbo...