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Life. but what's it going to take for the federal minimum wage to be increased with house republicans? i mean, that's a pipe dream. we all know that boehner would never bring something like that to a vote. the bottom line is, the democrats, the progressives are going to have to get control of both houses, and the white house if they're ever going to move workers forward. minimum wage. so the question is, is it a 2014 issue? is this a slam dunk for liberals who are out there campaigning to take over the house? >> the polling, ed, on this is incredible. it shows that 92% of democrats want to tak...

And what president nelson mandela certainly was a force of nature. he was a force for social justice and good. and although we're talking a lot about his dignity and how humble he was and how strong he was, the fact of the matter is that he used his might to fight for justice in the fight for good. when we look at the long lines in that first election in south africa where black africans had the opportunity to vote, it was through that election that president nelson mandela was elected at the age of 75 years old. we see parallels in this country not only in the jim crow south in this country b...

Stuart, varney and other folks in fox world were making economic inequality almost a yuk yuk joke to their viewers, obama has recognized a simple truth. and that is that the anger is potentially boiling over about this economic disparity between -- >> it is anger. >> it's -- look, 130 cities of anger is what we saw, and it's building every year. it goes all the way back to the beginning of the occupy movement. and we saw these same types of things happening last year. it continues to grow. obama recognizes it. one quick point, ed, i think is very important. the world -- the world economic foru...

Political analyst. that's all you've got to do, professor, is just take that red tape and then cut it. >> and then all of a sudden these jobs are going to show up. rand paul in detroit, and he wants to open up the gop's african-american engagement the office to reach out to voters. i mean, is he the best ambassador to the party? your thoughts on this effort. >> yeah, if he is, ed, it's a pretty -- it's an awful shame. because, look, his heart, i'm sure, is in the right place. but his mind and his mouth and economics are horrible. you know, cutting that red tape, slashing those kinds of opportu...

Right now. what needs to be done? these red liners, these 1 and 2% folks, they just got damn lucky. hell, they've been lucky the last 30 years. that's not the case. i mean, something has to be done. how do you engage republicans about this without talking about socialism? >> here's the problem. the person who shows up at the town hall meeting doesn't have lobbyists. the person who shows up at the town hall meeting doesn't have millions of dollars to give to the wall street republicans. so that becomes a problem. you can't have -- you can't have a playing field that really amounts to anything. ...