Secretary thomas perez. Then Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson at a house hearing on Immigration Enforcement. After that, president obama talks with reporters about the Iran Nuclear Deal and other issues. This week on newsmakers, u. S. Secretary of labor, her as. Thank you for being here. We also have melanie trottman, labor reporter with the wall street journal, and Lydia Depillis of the washington post. Radio will go first. Lydia a lot of the news is on the minimum wage and there is a strong push for 15 to be the base. In places that are not coastal cities like new york or los angeles, and you think is appropriate for them are went they do themselves damaged by the going to that level . Secretary perez i applaud the effort state and local levels are trying to raise and wage. No one should have to live in poverty while they are working. That is the reality because of the daily of the Republican Leadership to work on the minimum wage. The president has been vocal in his support o
Decades or more and the policy has failed. We ought to try Something Else not just continue applying that same model to new substances. Thats just me. Mr. Wooldridge. In talking about alcohol in the period of alcohol prohibition, bootleg dhol was adulterated with methyl alcohol and other compounds and drinkers were blinded and people were paralyzed and there was a term called jake leg which was a kind of paralysis in which people were perm nentsly injured from their use of alcohol and that, of course, we know is the function of prohibition and not of the legal control. Are these drugs harmful . The evidence is of people who present themselves to the police and so on yes, these seem to be quite harmful. They are harmful as a consequence of the market distortions that Law Enforcement creates for the drugs that people want to get and there was an article in the New York Times magazine this sunday, i didnt want to use these drugs, but theyre easier to get and theyre being represented as be
If this wasnt in front of me and ready for signature, we would end up having projects all across the country that would be frozen after mid. On the other hand, we have now made it a habit where instead of fiveyear funding plans for transportation and instead of longterm approaches where we can actually strategize on what are the most important infrastructure projects, how are they getting paid for, providing certainty to government norors and mayors and localities about how they are going to approach Critical Infrastructure projects roads, bridges ports, airports instead we operate as if were we hand them out three months at a time. Which freezes a lot of construction, which makes people uncertain, which leads to businesses, not being willing to hire because they dont have any longterm certainty. Its a bad way for the u. S. Government to do business. So, i want to make sure that before i sign this, Congress Gets a clear message. That is we should not be leaving all the business of the
Evening. Tonight on the communicators. Democratic representative diana degat from colorado and jim lanjman from rhode island on internet privacy and how to combat recent data breaches. We have seen attack after attack, the most recent attack, of course, on the office of personnel management, but also in private industry. Target, home depot, so many other prives corporations have had problems. So what we realized is we can try very hard to keep ahead of the hackers, but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information onto websites. Right now, there are legal oppositions from the government sharing classified information with the private sector, and legal prohibition on the private sector sharing information back with the government. Otherwise they would be termed into the acting of agents of the government, and thats not allowed. What we need to do is allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threa
London, we will go to london shortly to report on that terrorism attack. The nikkei average overnight up a half of a percent but the others mostly lower. The push per tax reform is continuing. The commander in chief insisting his plan will not benefit the wealthiest americans once again. This is not the benefit the wealthy. This is to benefit the middle class and to benefit companies where theyre going to be producing jobs. We want to produce jobs in this country. Maria more on the administrations tax reform plans coming up this morning and could the Equifax Breach keep you from getting an iphone. The new concerns surrounding your credit score, equifax once again down 2 . All the stories coming up this morning and joining me to talk about Dagen Mcdowell, Jason Chaffetz with us and fox news contributor, former economic adviser to president Obama Robert Wolf is here. Great to see you. Good morning, thanks for having us. Maria we have breaking news right now. We are following breaking new