and it shouldn t be government s business to be mandating what people pay individuals out there. if you want to kill jobs raise the minimum wage. so richard, if raising the minimum wage is going to be part of the way that we bridge this divide, and if it s not politicians and government that do that whose responsibility is it? first of all, perry s comment, as you know is nonsensical. we know from all of the good research done on this by the leading economists at berkeley the university of massachusetts, that raising that minimum wage to 50% or 60% of the local prevailing wage in a place like austin or san francisco, that s about $15 an hour. somebody could live, not great, but they could live on that. that has no ill effect no ill effect on workers jobs or the local economy. look, as a society, we ve got to lift up the bottom. we know that s the problem. one thing this report points out is the problem isn t the top 1%. that s an issue.
got legs, as we say in journalism? will we be talking about this until scalise leaves? absolutely. i think there s palpable concern in the republican caucus that this problem isn t going to go away, especially with the amount of focus on his background. you have reporters looking into it, democratic operatives looking into it. there s always potential they could dig up more. talking to some republicans today on capitol hill, they re concerned that there could be more information that comes out about his association with the white supremacist group as well as the fact that his job is, as you said, to raise money, and they don t think how do you go to donors, mr. chairman, asking them for money if this guy has neo-nazi connections, that he s worked with holocaust deniers? how do you do it? you go very carefully. [ laughter ] and you do a lot of a lot of
clean, say what he did, apologize to members of congress, to his colleagues on both the republican and democratic side of the aisle. scalise will take part in a press conference with the rest of the republican leadership tomorrow, his first time facing reporters since the scandal surfaced. i m joined by msnbc political analyst joan walsh. and michael steele. and the huffington post sabrina siddiqui. i want to ask sabrina, has this got legs as we say in journalism? will we be talking about this until scalise leaves? absolutely. i think there s palpable concern in the republican caucus that this problem isn t going to go away especially with the amount of focus on his background. you have reporters looking into it democratic operatives looking into it. there s always potential they could dig up more. talking to some republicans today on capitol hill they re concerned that there could be more information that comes out
three sentence answer to that question. the problem isn t the speeches. the problem is that he doesn t have a clear policy. yok the problem is the speech he gave yesterday. the problem is he doesn t have the cohesive foreign policy. you read the wall street journal. the criticism from the washington post and new york times which are pretty faithful defenders of this presidency to me is steaming. when they can t get through to their allies in the media, they are really in trouble. it is a problem. but when you run for president and you were defined by what you were not, he was defined during his campaign as not being george w. bush and not being dick cheney. it helped him get elected president. but howard dean, that was one of the president s problems. also historically where the 44th president of the united states lands and the american story is
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