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Were back is our panel. what is the one big thing to watch for the week ahead? marshall? >> east ukraine. we have to see if theres more trouble, if anything else develops. >> terms of russia and ukraine, what happens next. >> yes. >> john? >> labor force of working age americans. if its risine ingrising, that indication. >> the working age. >> i just came back from a conference. it is critical that we have the re-authorization which is coming up at the end of september. exports are key to jobs a...

Raise in 20 years. how can you believe that youre going to support the american dreams when families are getting stifled that way? >> ive been an employee, ive been an employer. you want to bid for the best employees you can get and you want to sustain them for a long period of time because youre invested in their skill levels. if you dont have that incentive for people to move up, they look out and think, i need to make more money. im going to have to either market those skills to some other em...

>> thats not the right way to get things done, to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and have to pay them more to get good people on board. the story we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesnt get paid more at a fast food place, it is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. and to the point about work ethic, et cetera, and fast food. right now were at an all time low with teenagers. abo...

Is there a market solution, or do we have to wait for the government to come in and order people to treat their employees right? >> thats not the right way to get things done, to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and have to pay them more to get good people on board. the story we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesnt get paid more at a fast food place, it is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a ...

The government to come in and order people to treat their employees right? >> well, not the right way to get things done to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and they have to pay them more to get good people on, on board. the story that we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesnt get paid more, at a fast food place is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. to the point about work ethic...

The government to come in and order people to treat their employees right? >> well, not the right way to get things done to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and they have to pay them more to get good people on, on board. the story that we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesnt get paid more, at a fast food place is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. to the point about work ethic...

The government to come in and order people to treat their employees right? >> well, not the right way to get things done to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and they have to pay them more to get good people on, on board. the story that we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesnt get paid more, at a fast food place is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. to the point about work ethic...

What we would be doing is looking at the fact we have bridges literally collapsing. we have roads impassable. we have an infrastructure problem that in the eisenhower era would have been addressed by building a massive highway program that would give people jobs. >> i want to tie this into our next topic because here in the city of new orleans, unemployment is higher than expect. more than half of working age african-american men in this city were unemployed according to the most recent census. ...

Parole enslaved in 1850, decade before the civil war began. and in some major urban areas more than half of working age african-american men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives in employment and housing and access to education and public benefits and its been the war on drugs. and the get tough movement that has quintupled our prison population and astonishingly short period of time. its a drug war thats waged almost exclusively ...

>> walter cronkite, the anchorman, the apaern people loved him. but did other journalists? an honest look at the life and career of the most trusted man in news. >> hello, everyone. im don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. were going to start the hour with politics. an historic recall election just days away in wisconsin. scott walker in a recall with tom beahr. they drove the efforts angered by walkers push to end collective bargaining rights for workers. were at the democratic...