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Saying dont do this, you know, you have to pay attention, even if that president is donald trump and even if the decision is already made. enough of those phone calls and that just becomes a frkt. it becomes another data point. it becomes something thats in a ceos mind that, okay, were going to do this, or im going to get a phone call. or maybe theres another way to, you know, another way to handle the issue were trying to deal with here. maybe we can compensate by creating some jobs in the u.s....

For this. its been bankers who have been the target, the target of a regulatory machine, you know, believed -- believed that elizabeth warren was ascendant. bankers will do great. large multinationals, offshoring jobs are in the crosshairs of the president-elect, of the democratic congress, and corporate america has a big-time target on its back and they have low thresholds for pain. >> were going to leave it there. eugene robinson, steve schmidt, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. coming ...

Washington may have been stuck ingrid lock this past year but state lawmakers have been busy making laws that take effect today. >> if you have has much impact as the minimum wage increase in 25 states and five cities. the obama administration sometimeied by congress to put a national minimum wage hike is praising it saying its real progress. critics say it may hurt the economy. >> well see whats happened in the past. people will get raises on their own. work up. work their way up the career lad...

Alcohol. we should make a real effort to keep pretty kid. the only harm this drug does to anybody is to developing adolescent brain. right now it is easy to get. a really good regulatory machine for legal marijuana will keep kid safe. >> lets me bring in cnn political commentator david frump. do you think kids will be targeted? >> i agree completely with what hill harper just said about the importance of keeping people out of prison. but of course the emerging marijuana industry, and it will be ...

With five grahms, ten grams. >> one mother told me with all the legalization shes having a hard time how to talk to their kids. >> its to keep it away from kids. >> you think that makes it harder for kids to get it? >> yes. right now its very easy. >> i have two teenage kids. >> it puts them in touch with criminal elements in the way they dont have to be. it should be regulated just like alcohol. we should make a real effort to keep pretty kid. the only harm this drug does to anybody is to devel...

During this segment. marc, your thoughts. >> well, first of all, simon is confusing the number of regulations in economically significant regulations which obama set a record on in his first two years in office. they have a massive impact on business. but second of all, they did slow down in the last year. you know why? there was an election, and barack obama put off all of these massive regulations that are being planned, and now weve come to what senator ron portman -- rob portman is calling t...

Real progress. critics say it may hurt the economy, though. >> see what has happened in the past. people get raises on their own theyll work up theyll work their way up the career ladder. i think what we have to hope is increases taking place in the states dont eliminate too many -- some people dont have the same chance. >> the administrations regulatory machine ran full speed in 2014 with president obama signing 75,000 pages worth of new federal regulations and no industry has faced more regula...