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Standing in the way. the president told republicans why don't you join the rest of the country and give americans a raise. there's a bill that will lift the minimum wage to $10.10. this will help families. it'll get businesses customers with more money to spend. it does not involve any new bureaucratic program. so join the rest of the country, say yes. give america a raise. give them a raise. >> it's clear where americans stand on this issue. what's not clear is where the republicans stand. every year the republican response to the state of the union is just a total mess. this year was no diff...

It is never easy for the long-term unemployed to go find a job. these folks out there looking and looking and looking. the president knows this and just went to the business owners and asked them to help out. >> i've been asking business owners to give them a new shot. many will come to the white house to make that commitment real. tonight i ask every business leader in america to join us and do the same because we are stronger when america feels a full team. >> there's no reason congress can't extend unemployment and raise the minimum wage. the american people want it done. democrats want it ...

Senate who has the bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which the president referenced last night, he comes out with numbers. you see facts matter. and numbers don't lie. the current minimum wage is corporate welfare to the tune of $240 billion a year. it's no wonder republicans want to keep the minimum wage so low. it helps the corporations that line their pockets to win their reelection. another part of the president's speech was extending unemployment insurance. last night the president made a heated case for congress to help the long-term unemployed. >> this congress needs to ...

It would be interesting if he did to risk impeachment because they want to impeach him for everything else. he's not going to do it. our next question, do you think it was disrespectful for representative steve stockman to walk out during president obama's state of the union speech? well, when it happened, i thought he had to just go to john, but then i realized he's a republican and never has liked obama. they don't want to hear what the president has to say. they don't want to work with him. they were just there because they felt like they had to be there. there were probably a lot more repu...

>> did you understand any of that? i sure didn't. they did not respond in the chamber to climate change, immigration, unemployment, and on women's issues. they have no ideas or solutions. all republicans do is obstruct and the president did a great job of calling them out last night in the way he does it. this was a very hard speech to counter. that's why they needed four or are there that many factions and splits many the republican party? i guess so. the president did it in a nice way. he did a great job of boxing the republicans in. republicans are in the corner right now. they're against t...