republicans have fought us every step of the way. marco rubio laid out an almost identical agenda today. i want to know is this an indication that we can finally start working together on these programs? >> if the measurement of then we're the most compassionate country on the face of the nation. if the measurement is are we actually having success and getting people out of poverty and to lbj's point, worrying about poverty, then what we've done for the last 50 years is a dismal failure. i hope we can agree on that. it hasn't worked. we've spent 20 trillion dollars in the last 50 years and we have more people in poverty, then it's not working. we need to have a discussion of how much money we spend isn't a measure of our compassion. >> let me ask you an economic question. why would you raise the minimum wage incentivizing people to stay longer in a low skilled,