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correspondent is standing by on the north lawn. ed? reporter: and here at the white house, earlier today briefed by the president, top aides what he s going to say tonight. they re saying to me that in private the president s aides are expressing deep concerns about the economy, the recent weak economic growth, raising unemployment has sort of concerned them about the president s standing and so their goal tonight is to give the president talking about the middle class and get beyond the washington squabble about sequester and the process battles going on in washington, talk about the middle class. these democrats say the president will do that with some new plans and some old plans. a new one, for example, he ll talk about raising the federal minimum wage, they say from $7.25 per hour to $9 per hour and they also say the president s aides are previewing he will be calling once again he something he s called for a couple of years now, 50 billion dollars in new infrastructure money an
correspondent is standing by on the north lawn. ed? reporter: and here at the white house, earlier today briefed by the president, top aides what he s going to say tonight. they re saying to me that in private the president s aides are expressing deep concerns about the economy, the recent weak economic growth, raising unemployment has sort of concerned them about the president s standing and so their goal tonight is to give the president talking about the middle class and get beyond the washington squabble about sequester and the process battles going on in washington, talk about the middle class. these democrats say the president will do that with some new plans and some old plans. a new one, for example, he ll talk about raising the federal minimum wage, they say from $7.25 per hour to $9 per hour and they also say the president s aides are previewing he will be calling once again he something he s called for a couple of years now, 50 billion dollars in new infrastructure money an