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The minimum wage to $15 an hour. tracy carrasco from foxbusiness is here with the impact. it sounds like a good idea. >> this is the first time minimum wage workers would get a pay increase in about a decade. the current rate is $7.25, that would go up to $15 an hour and tipped workers would see a dramatic increase from $2 and $13 an hour to now $15 an hour. a report from the nonpartisan congressional budget office did predict approximately 30 million people would see higher earnings as a result of the bill bringing 1 million people out of poverty. however, 1.3 million jobs could be lost becau...

Outcome, still lose the election in the electoral college. it's a heart and minds struggle in the party and that's hard in a primary where everybody's trying to win the election which is 90% progressives. >> cecile's been encouraging moderates to ask everyone the same question. i put the question to her, how do you define woke? what's your response to mike? >> i don't think woke is the issue. i think the issue is that there are basic issues of access to affordable health care, access to affordable wages. two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women in this country. they haven't had a raise for...

Have this? they say yes. it's the math people buy into. it's affordable. it's not a lot of money. >> would that mean a lot of minimum wage workers at fast food restaurants, hourly workers, even if they are not full time would get? >> all workers. >> 12 weeks paid leave for a new child? >> yes, they would. part time workers, full time, big companies, small companies. >> ivanka trump has written about this and put her own pro po sal together. she pointed out that only 6% of workers in the bottom income core, the bottom 25% have access to paid leave, only 6%. those are the ones that need it more ...

This, that what trump is saying about bill clinton is relevant. >> i don't know that she's saying it's relevant as much as she's saying it's fair game. you have to go back to exactly what donald trump said. he said if they play the woman card on me, this is what i'm going to do. and it's a tactic that he uses fairly successfully on the republican side of the ledger right now, where he kind of bullies his way into quieting the negative discourse of his opponents in the primary. but hillary clinton is not going to back down to that kind of bullying. and i think she's going to very evgtively poin...

>> it will probably work with his supporters. you presume that's why he said it. we know what the next step is going to be. hillary clinton steps up to the podium, points out that a majority of minimum wage workers in this country are women. and that donald trump does not support an increase in the minimum wage. and it's a body blow. this is where the war on women rhetoric turns into political reality. this is how the democrats won with unmarried women in 2012, the democrats had a 36-point advantage over the republicans in the presidential race. the republicans can't not afford to see that rep...