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Communities in 1976. across the country, first i want to talk about equity versus equality, i think it's a real play on words. i'm going to show you what the new york times are equity included the resolution, it's a trigger for many who made them claim moralizing it would lead to the country taking white people to give them to people of color. a lot of conservatives in this town now, many conservatives are concerned about the inflation of the word of equality versus equity. >> if you don't properly layout the definitions of equity versus equality, right from the top of this, you're doing your ...

They're trying to figure out how to sort of thread the needle inside this tea party thing they don't know what to do about. they're scared if they actually try to support people to go up against a ted cruz, it will only embolden the supporters of the people like him. it's a bit of a conundrum. i think they're going to be waiting for a while to find out where this all shakes out before they put their heads up above the clouds for a moment. >> let me pivot for a moment and talk about what the president announced today, which was a raise to 10.10 an hour to federal contractors beginning in 2015. ...

Republican governors and legislatures have taken on the issue of medicaid expansion. that is flying in the face of the fact according to polling 63% of that state favors expanding medicaid. how potent do you think this issue will be in the fall? >> it depends on what state you're in. a lot of people assume these republican governors and legislatures would fold their cards on this. a lot of hospitals want this to happen. it's a huge boon for their states. it was assumed they would put a lot of pressure on the politicians to make it happen. arkansas and new hampshire have created this hybrid sys...

Minimum wage. they think that will engender the kind of primaries that they're worried about. that is the controlling fear in the republican party right now, and that will keep them from becoming a national party, but it may keep the minimum wage from passing the congress. >> can i say something about this issue of equality versus inequality issue? >> sure. >> a number of economic historians will tell you. we lived through a special period after world war ii. where if you went to school and graduated, you got a job and a house and a nice wife and two kids and a dog and things just kind of work...

Fundamental value that most americans embrace, including republicans, which is if you work hard, you ought to not have to live in poverty. there are millions of americans on the minimum wage who have families they're trying to support. there's a myth that it's just teenagers at mcdonald's. that's not the case. increasingly, the face of these workers are women. so it's a powerful issue. as we talked about in our previous discussion, there are powerful forces within the republican party. when you consider all these things, there's a fundamental principal, alex, that you should always apply, whic...