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Minimum wage it's because democrats did it. i think it's time for us to raise that wage from $7.25 to $10.10, tie it to inflation so we don't have to engage in these debates again and let that benefit 30 million people across this country and raise the wage base. i think it's important to move from there to things like how do we create jobs and grow the economy for all of the middle class. how do we invest in infrastructure to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. those are things that are important to growing the economy. >> thanks to representative donna edwards and nick mulvaney. >> go to fa...

The rest are single women, overwhelmi ining majority of th are women. they're trying to make ends meet. look at the income gap between working families and the rich. >> almost everybody -- i hate to use percentages when we talk about people. but 97% of people, almost everybody who has a full-time job is out of poverty. >> which are a significant number of people. >> it is, there's no question. but it's clearly the minimum wage is not the answer to getting people out of poverty. it's getting people in full-time permanent jobs. that's where the president -- i want to push back a little bit when ...

Republicans have fought us every step of the way. marco rubio laid out an almost identical agenda today. i want to know is this an indication that we can finally start working together on these programs? >> if the measurement of then we're the most compassionate country on the face of the nation. if the measurement is are we actually having success and getting people out of poverty and to lbj's point, worrying about poverty, then what we've done for the last 50 years is a dismal failure. i hope we can agree on that. it hasn't worked. we've spent 20 trillion dollars in the last 50 years and we ...

To be free. you realize how dependent our l allies are. i don't think the united states gets to run from the middle east. so i think you also ought to be aware that 9/11 wasn't all that long ago. the odds that the united states are going to get hit for another massive terrorist strike because of what's happened in the middle east. >> we can talk about this more when we get back. next we'll have the final question for both our guests. also we want you at home to way in on the fireback question. is bob gates' decision to write a tell-all book an act of courage or betrayal? tweet us using #crossf...

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