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Managers and finding other ways around this. >> so i don't see how a worker can really lose under these new rules, because the reality is if you're working more than 40 hours a week and you're not an executive and you're not really calling the shots, what this says is you now actually have to be paid for those extra hours. so if a company decides that instead of having one person do the job of two people they need to have two people do the job, then a jobless worker has a new opportunity. >> all right, well, we see the president now going up to the podium. he is about to make this announcement...

Than ever, but for the average family, wages have barely budged and too many americans are working harder and harder just to get by. so we've got to reverse those trends. we've got to build an economy that works for everybody, not just for a few. and we've got to restore the basic notion of opportunity that is at the heart of the american experience. opportunity for everyone. the belief that here in america, it doesn't matter where you started, if you are willing to work hard and act responsibly, you've got a chance to get ahead. so, at my state of the union at the beginning of the year, i lai...

Inferiority, and stuff that is so outdated, but still, you know, fans the flames of those in america who really don't want to see opportunity for all. and so we need a debate about poverty and not blame people who don't have those opportunities for living in circumstances which if we invest our tax dollars into initiatives that create jobs and opportunity, you would see people being elevated out of poverty. i raised two young african-american boys. they're phenomenal african-american men. and i have got to tell you, it was very difficult, but it was because the support was there for me to go t...

Is democratic congresswoman barbara lee from california. she serves on the house budget committee, which is chaired by congressman ryan and she was one of the first, if not the first republican to criticize him for his remarks. i understand that congressman ryan reached out to you after your criticism. what can you tell us about that call? >> it was a very good conversation. i tell you, this conversation needs to happen. we need to really realize, a lot of people just don't get it. when you talk the way he has talked, we have to remember that race is still a factor in america. we have to reall...

>> now, our friend at think progress was the first to report on the exchange, and since then, the blowback has been intense. coming most prominently from democratic house leader nancy pelosi who called it deeply ignorant, shameful, and disturbing. and from congresswoman barbara lee, who called the comments a thinly veiled racial attack. in fact, the blowback has been so substantial, ryan issued a statement to nbc news this morning. it reads in part, after reading the transcript of yesterday morning's interview, it is clear that i was inarticulate about the point i was trying to make. i was not...