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Lawsuit that's particularly interesting and provocative is that it seeks an injunction against the ncaa for interfering between the relationship between colleges and conferences and teams that choose to organize themselves and ask for some form of either compensation or guaranteed scholarships or guaranteed health care if they get hurt on the field. now, this is so interesting because it connects to northwestern university football players who organize themselves into a union filed with the national labor relations board. the reason northwestern university is saying we're reticent to actually ...

Labor issue that we have in this country though? >> i think we're a lot closer to it. we've seen the failed policies of the left of the last six, seven years. i think we can go back to the clinton years or to the kennedy years or to the reagan years, we know how to create prosperity. what we should do, low rate, flat tax, spending restraint, sound money, minimal regulations and get the government the heck out of the way and let private market solve the problem and they would all be in north dakota. i could get warm weather book in nashville. jenna: it is all north dakota. mike, art, great to s...

You need to focus on infrastructure, construction, roads, bridges, we actually did the opposite and because of republican intransigence we've had to lay off mass numbers of public sector employees and it's impacting the economy and it's affecting people in cities across america. >> and this inherently affects more minorities in this country, does it not? >> there's no question. i mean obviously any time you have a spike in unemployment, black people and people of color historically are disproportionately impacted but if you go back and certainly look at the presidency over the last 30 years wh...

It includes raising minimum wage, more affordable child care, of course, and passing the paycheck fairness act. leader pelosi said, quote, i think it's an accumulation of issues that come back to respect for women, whether it's respect for a woman's judgment when she decides or has to choose, but to enter the workforce, or how she is compensated. there is an equal way. pelosi said all these have mothers, all members of congress do, they have mothers, daughters, sisters, wives. they must think that they have value in the workplace. is this smart for the democrats to say maybe we can't win on ol...

They're the ones that certainly are concerned about equal pay. >> right. >> right. >> instead of just saying another labor issue we have fought over for years, instead saying these are gender issues. is that smart politics? >> it is very smart politics. i begrudgingly give my hats off to nancy pelosi for framing the argument this way. it goes back to the point i was just making. so you have house republicans tonight voting on an abortion bill, and you have the former speaker of the house talking to women about pay inequities and creating opportunities and finding a level playing field for them...