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Most of those people who were polled blame the president's policies, which they say have hurt the economy. so, susan, by trying to fix the economy, are democrats attempting to do what the president has either done or failed to do? >> well, that poll is really interesting. i think looking at a lot of people who have been out of the workforce for a long time, we have a real problem with long-term unemployment, the economy is just so sluggish there's not a real robust recovery. you're seeing that in those poll numbers. so where does that leave democrats? what can they talk about? minimum wage. ok...

We're back with our special report, the 2016 contenders. my one-on-one interview with senator marco rubio. as a florida republican of cuban heritage he has a special interest in immigration reform. i asked him about that and another pressing domestic policy issue right now. >>. >> raising the minimum wage, the president would like to see it $10.10. you with him? >> i don't think it is an adequate policy. i understand it polls well. we understand it will destroy jobs. i think a better approach is what i proposed and that is a wage enhancement that we would convert the using earned income tax cr...

Basically, what the cbo report, congressional budget office reported this week, more importantly, though, what we have is neither party pushing, let's go to the economy, let's have more jobs because in higher incomes because it's growing. it's all politics, the democrats want to get away from obamacare so they're doing minimum wage because it polls well. and the republicans, i don't know what they're doing. john, you could explain. >> they're saying no, pat. >> just saying no. >> for people that may have an issue with jobs, but for politicians, it's not. >> they have their own jobs, they don't...

Conversation, reducing our criminal justice system. our president and mepeople, norquist, et cetera, this is the biggest item on the budget. socy i'm hopeful as we move the conversation forward, this is the first step, i'm actually shocked we're still having this conversation but i hope the next step easily is legalization of marijuana across the board. >> john nichols made a good point. it really depends on whether they talk about it. are either -- is charlie crist, is he talking about it and has he come down on one side or the other in terms of legalization? >> crist hasn't come out in terms...

$10.10 an hour for all americans. and we think that's not only the right thing to do, it's about time to do it. >> house democrats today announcing from their annual retreat that they're going to do a discharge petition to try to hike the min puimum wage. now, just yesterday president obama signed an executive order to hike the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. that peexecutive order applies people o work for federal contractors. expected to affect a few hundred thousand people which is nice but it's not everyone. what the house democrats are talking about is raising the minimum wage for everyon...