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Political pressure sufficient that the republicans say, okay, were going to have to do this to survive as a party. were not there yet, but thats certainly going to be a big focus for us. >> you mentioned the discharge petition. are you thinking about going that route? again, thats a legislative term there. essentially a maneuver to force something onto the floor. but is this something youre thinking about in terms of both the minimum wage and immigration? >> i think theres an expectation that we...

Been seriously studied and not that big of a deal. i dont have hard facts, you dont have hard facts, this is a work in progress but what we do know, you talk about schenectady. what we do know what is going on in places like schenectady we have lost 6 million manufacturing jobs since the so-called manufacturing renaissance, 580 thousand have come bam and that is hurting out in the middle of american and that is a global problem and that is a problem of our competitiveness all around the world. >...

Felt some need. is there any sense that republicans might be opened to some kind of compromise this year on raising the minimum wage? >> when you open it up, the wage issue we were talking about before, there are republicans that said they need to talk about it, chank their rhetoric. talk less about tax cuts for the rich, more about trying to increase the opportunity for the middle class. so when, put through that prism, you may have some republicans that are thinking about this. i think we have...

Against previous problems theyve had and getting their children covered. thats going to be hard, but the wage issue really -- i think it ought to be a two-pronged approach, really. health care and the money for peoples pockets. without both of those theyll be healthier and they wont have money to spend and i think thats really why you have to do boeing. >> congressman jim mcdermott of washington state, thanks so much for joining me and happy new year to you and yours. >> absence makes the heart ...

Senate? >> its interesting because do you have a great number of swing state governorships up. so in those states its important. democrats have some worrying states like arkansas they have worries. democrats want to change the mix, change the could position of the electorate. if they can get out more minority voters, more women more single voters. >> thats the big challenge for democrats next year. how do they get a turn out that reflects the america of presidential years not the america of off ...

Not just a wage issue. you kick it up in the bottom, push it all the way up. pushing economics. the question is, will that be good for the economy? i remember henry ford that wasnt great in some issues, but he said i want my workers to be able to buy one of my cars. which is smart. >> exactly. the difference is -- one thing the recession did was a great leveller. before you had a middle class, you had a striving middle class and sort of identifying themselves in a lot of ways with the rich. the ...

Stagnant wage issue are the biggest problems. >> thats an indecter of the confidence and improvement. well be watching that. thank you very much. >> thank you. and now, i thought we were going to get to hear the song. no, no song today? here we go. ♪ baby we were born to run >> i mean, come on. we had to hear bruce. bruce springsteens original handwritten lyric sheet for this song, born to run, has just sold for $197,000 at auction. the rough draft of the hit contained most of the lines of t...

Less than $12 an hour. somewhere in the $9 to $10 range. if you doll have full-time work, even full-time work at that kind of wage, youre kind of bumping around the poverty line. as you suggested in your introduction and those protesters were underscoring this point, a lot of those folks dont have the full-time work. there is definitely a wage issue in play here into walmart has launched a sort of counter offense if you will of tv ads touting happy employees with all their personal accounts of h...

>> i think you shouldnt make 20 million this year because we lost a lot of money. >> and even that provision has been stalled. >> josh, how do you understand it? >> well, i think there is a shirt trend and a long-term trend here, the reason the substantial gains have gone to the 1% at this point is there is essentially zero gains for the rest of the country, the wage issue. to fix that, you need a tighter market, the government should have been doing things like running deficits, we should have ...

Referenced, carl rove, shell don addleson, the coke brothers, the super pacts, they didnt win up winning at the end of the day. it was ordinary people who maybe kicked in a couple of bucks, who stood in the long lines, who actually won the election. and that is just a beautiful, encouraging thing for this democracy. >> so the best trend was big money losing? >> big money losing. >> i think the best political trend of this political season was the demise of gay rights as a wage issue. notice, in ...