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Since then, democrats have put together legislation and a legislative strategy on this issue. for that, it helps that it polls really well. democrats love the idea of raising the minimum wage. a majority of independents like the idea, a majority of republicans like the idea. everybody likes the idea of raising the minimum wage except elected republicans. they will not allow it to come up for a vote. democrats aren't no control of the house so they can't control what comes up for a vote. the speaker has absolute power. except for this one weird tactic xavier becerra talked about today. the disc...

Democrats and republicans both said this is something they support. why is this not a given? why aren't lawmakers in d.c. clammering to make the minimum wage ahead of the mid terms? >> the donor class, three words. i would totally think it's an issue, 76% of americans support raising the minimum wage. we have the donor class, never have we seen so much wealth and power concentrated in so few people's hands, the business lobby and restaurant lobby and it's all of these forces but the president is out on the road trying to change this dynamic. but i should point out, it is paul ryan country, sco...

Stand still and, quote, neither will i. couple of other items to point out, we've learned in the last several minutes that the president will announce new retirement savings accounts that americans can put their money into out of their paychecks. the president will talk about that. he'll make an expassioned plea for immigration reform. he will not hammer republicans over the inability to pass immigration reform. he wants to keep some space there for republicans to bring something to his desk. >> s.e. and dan? >> great. it sounds like he might be defying some expectations already. >> we'll see....

Two or three years might have to be thrown out of court. >> there's thousands of rules, and as far as i know there's three overturned. >> you know how much money the american taxpayer has had wasted. >> the thousands of others he's done, have they been challenged or overturned? >> i think what eric is saying is important. that means that the decisions that the nlrb, not talking about president obama's executive action, that those nlrb decisions will now be in dispute so that's the part of the uncertainty. let me also mention one thing. four democrats, it polls for them very well to call the go...

We give them the opportunity to earn a wage that they can survive on in the richest country on the face of the ea h earth. that's the issue. 10.10 is a minimum. it's not a ceiling. it's not the maximum. it's not what we want people to aspire to. it is what we ought to do as a country to make sure there is a minimum. ed, in 1968, in 2013 dollars, the minimum wage today would be $10.20. >> i find senator rubio's comment very interesting. he admits to the people what they think doesn't matter. it polls well. that means what the people want. what the people want doesn't matter to the republican pa...