The president has done it on an executive order. We will keep pushing at it. It is obviously not in our power to force congress to act. We can make the case for it. We can have the American People make the case for it. Were going to continue pressing because it is the right thing to do. The cbo report gave the ammunition against it. A job loss and Poverty Alleviation program on the backs of Small Businesses. If you look at the report, it would take 1 Million People out of poverty. There are a lot of views on the economics of the minimum wage. I know that the studies done by a number of people, including Nobel Laureates has the opposite effect. We have time for that debate. Someone who had your job, larry summers, is writing we are becoming a Downton Abbey economy. Do we have to be . I think it is more of a prediction than assessment. If you do the right things, we can create opportunity. One thing about American People generally is if they are doing well, they dont begrudge other peopl
State. Then, its one year and one week until the election. But all eyes already on the polls. What do they really tell us and will todays frontrunners be tomorrows nominees. Also from one child to two. China changes decades of policy. Its hoping to grow its economy by growing its family. Will it work . And one of the worlds most famous scientists on dr. Ben carsons rejection of the theory of evolution. This is not something you believe in or not. This is a fact. It is a fact. Its just as much a fact as the earth goes around the sun. First, heres my take. I had an interesting visitor drop by my office last week, and he said something that stuck with me. The most important contest in the world right now, he said, is between isis and us. He is rasheed, the intellectual leader. Despite winning the countrys first free elections compromised with its political foes and helped make tunisia the arab springs only success. As he sees it, the real struggle is not between islam and the west but bet
And later tragedy on the tracks. Congressman Roger Marshall tried to revive the driver of a trash truck after the terrible accident with the train carrying house republicans. Congressman marshall is joining me as well. But tonight we want to start with a little game. Its called who said it. Were going to start with some easy ones. It will get a little harder as we go along. Here is the first one. I bet you can guess. Quote, this memo totally vind indicates trump in the probe. But the russian witch hunt goes on and on. There was no collusion. There was no obstruction. The word used now used because after one year of looking endlessly and finding nothing collusion is dead. This is an american disgrace. Did you guess . President trump . If so, you win. That was an easy one. He tweeted that saturday morning. Now it gets a little harder. Heres the next one. Quote, i have great confidence in the men and women of this department, but no department is perfect. That was from attorney general je
The left. These people are just, i think they have just gone crazy. They are making fools of themselves. I am thrilled to be here with the brave men and women of the United States coast guard. These are exciting times for america. We are being respected. Its about time. [applause] summertime feeling im feeling, im feeling it. Not officially summer but pretty darn close. Abby june 22nd is june. Pete were happy because ed henry. Abby i feel like the competition is already getting heated just signatures here next to you. Pete we havent talked about it yet. Ed i was at an airport. I like your reporting but more importantly, beat pete. People love this competition. Pete he has been rigging it, whatever its going to be. I dont know. Maybe he knows. Im sure he does. He has been practicing like the canoe. We will find out later in the show. Abby is there one today . Pete i dont know. Ainsley you have to wait for it if you were watching the news yesterday, so much has happened over the last 12
It found all 50 states were targeted, largely undetected by state and federal officials. Much more on this just ahead. Just today, the Senate Republican leader blocked Election Security legislation one day after Robert Muellers warning that russia, of course, is still meddling in our elections and will continue to in 2020. But his statements about the russian threat have faded somewhat amid the palpable disappointment among democrats at muellers presence and the lack of impact from his halting testimony. New york times put it this way. The absence of an electrifying washington moment in wednesdays twostage testimony by mr. Mueller not only deprived democrats of the crystalizing episode they needed to drive the issue of impeachment, but it also meant republicans had no reason to budge from their antiimpeachment stance. Members of congress, indeed, left washington for a sixweek recess, beginning a day earlier than usual. That would be the opposite of impeachment proceedings getting under