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I want to play you something that stew a varny said on "fox and friends" that seems to me like -- you know, the kind of rhetoric you might expect in reaction to this from conservatives. there is famous case in 1971 of walter mondale proposing something that looked like universal pre-k. it met with a real backlash, very conservative religious backlash against incursions into whats the domestic sphere. wane goat your thoughts whether this is the kind of thing you expect to hear from the republican...

>> just going back to the minimum wage versus the itc. it doesnt -- itc does some good things. lot of good things. one of the things it does is by increasing labor supply, which is a good thing, ends up pushing down wages. some of the wage increases, wage decreases, mean that the itc public spending getting captured by low wage employers. minimum wage stops that. there is a lot of -- >> in tandem. >> by david newmark, meeting critics of the minimum wage finded in the most recent work the minimum...

Economists say the efficient thing do, milton friedman model, right, negative income tax credit. thats an efficient way -- rather than the government coming in machine dating wages, right just having an efficient transfer. what i think is so interesting if you look at hose two, you get -- it zeros in on what we mean by big government and what our opposition to big government is. at a certain level mandating a wage, right, is a heavy handed use of the states power but it doesnt cost the governmen...

>> it is tough to be -- be against pre-k. >> thats the idea. minimum waging and pre-k, lets do it, america. >> you raised a good point which is -- on education, sort of generally like it is one of the rare areas where there seems to be some consensus between republicans and democrats and that kind of thing. new jersey is sort of -- very far down the road and in terms of implementing a high-quality pre-k experience for 3 and 4-year-olds a 4-year-old. extraordinarily epic k-12 public school spendi...

All 4-year-olds. >> study after study shows that the earlier a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. here tees thing. we are not doing enough to give all of our kids that chance. in states like georgia that made it a priority to educate our youngest children, states like oklahoma, students dont just show up in kindergarten, first grade more prepared to learn, they are also more likely to grow up reading and doing math at grade level, graduating from high school, holding...

Quite wise given what the political science literature says about the president polarizing himself into and it the poll we showed on immigration. shouldnt he stay away from this and let them work the deal out in the senate if he wants this passed? >> there are two tracks. congress has to be working on this which they are. senate is working on their primary work, congress is working on the different pieces of legislation that they would like to see. the president has to be at -- a part of this. i...

State of the union how the minimum wage is key to economic involve i have so true because these are the jobs that more and more americans are spending there. if we want to build the -- if we want to grow the middle class, grow the middle class, if we want to just make sure the workers survive, we need to figure out a way to raise job standards in these industry. >> to your point before we left on the break he said democrats dont want to do tin decksing because it is a great political issue for t...

Also -- >> isnt bipartisanship a dream of the minutes at this point? we have not seen very much of that in this congress at all. no matter what the president says, they are going to oppose him. >> you have a senate right now who bipartisan framework, it is -- already out there. if the president could start getting behind it and actually start doing internal things. we had weekly meet wings coalition groups, bipartisanship, to bring people together. thats not happening now. >> did you keep saying...

>> this is an issue i feel strongly about. i work order this in 2006 and 2007 when we tried to pass immigration reform. disappointed to your point, though, about two minutes and over an hour speech and touched immigration reform. even though he campaigned heavily in 2008 on this issue and, again, in 2012 on this issue. to us it was very disappointing. >> wait. even in doing the right thing -- because if thats the polling, the more he talks about it the more he imperils it. that -- i really -- ge...

Like 15-1. it is extremely expensive. it is like $13,000 a student. 20% higher than the k-12 national average. this is a big deal in terms of the expense of going universal. but the -- thing i would argue is the most for piece about it is it is one of the countrys biggest school choice programs. it is a state pay and parent chosen and mixed delivery system with sort of private community based providers. and -- districts competing against one another. and anything in sort -- expansion, like for a...