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Things like the head tax in seattle i think are super dangerous for cities to implement. >> they fought it. >> they fought it hard. and they won. >> it is no surprise to me that amazon -- >> council member. >> sawant is a city council member and one of the few elected socialists in the country. she was a leading voice in the movement to pass seattle's minimum wage increase in 2014. and most recently -- >> amazon and other big corporations -- >> -- a vocal proponent of the head tax. >> amazon has got to pay! amazon has got to pay! it's very clear to ordinary people in seattle that we need a tax...

Metrics used on wall street, the metrics used by the bankers, they were wrong last time, i'm right this time. i'm not smart enough to know who's right or wrong, but as she lays this out, what is her play in the primary? >> this does two things, right? first of all, it undercuts trump's economic message. the economy is doing really good right now. things are humming along and people feel good. for a warning that this is coming, she's trying to undercut that. in terms of the primary, this just again bolsters all these policy proposals that she's put out left and right. a minimum wage increase, c...

Governance. republican government and democratic congress disagree over bill, negotiate anyway, sign a compromise into law. the american public gets a raise, right. but in context, think about that. this is at the peak of watergate. nixon and congress are mortal existential enemies at this point. and yet here they are, enacting a broad minimum wage increase. and this wasn't the only big legislation passed during this period. a couple of months after the house judiciary committee launched its impeachment investigation and nixon was forced to appoint a new special prosecutor after firing the fir...

Into law at the white house. the president put out a written statement saying he had some reservations about part of the minimum wage measure, but on the whole, the legislation contains more good than bad. >> nixon with a big grin. high spirits at the white house. and you know, on the one hand, on its own, that leading "nightly news" that night, that should be sort of unremarkable. it's basic politics, basic governance. republican government and democratic congress disagree over bill, negotiate anyway, sign a compromise into law. the american public gets a raise, right. but in context, think a...

Spring of 1974. but here's the thing. all of that that you just saw, all of those different elements of the watergate scandal that all made into it that newscast, that one night in april 1974, none of those are what led that same "nightly news" boroughs that name. what led the newscast that same night, april 8th, 1974 is that president nixon and the democratically controlled congress had just passed a big new piece of legislation. they just passed a new minimum wage increase that would put extra money into the pockets of tens of millions of americans. >> good evening. president nixon today sig...