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>> the irony here is, i spent a lot of time talking on this show to low wage, minimum wage workers. they make the same case you do. people would rather earn a wage they could feed their family and pay their rent on, then get things like food stamps and the earned income tax credit. >> exactly. it's strange today that we have the democrats, we have president obama saying we should make work pay more, which would automatically reduce social welfare spending because the workers are less poor. meanwhile, it's the republicans who say that the solution to our poverty problems is more welfare, i don'...

At the peak of our post war prosperity. >> the irony here is, i spent a lot of time talking on this show to low wage, minimum wage workers. they make the same case you do. people would rather earn a wage they could feed their family and pay their rent on, then get things like food stamps and the earned income tax credit. >> exactly. it's strange today that we have the democrats, we have president obama saying we should make work pay more, which would automatically reduce social welfare spending because the workers are less poor. meanwhile, it's the republicans who say that the solution to our ...

>> i tell you, here's the thing. the folks need to talk to the people in flint. in bay city. in saginaw. we've been through this before. and we've heard the arguments. and you know, sort of in theory, the arguments make sense. but in practice, it never seems to work out. it never seems to translate to jobs for the people that i represent. because we're going in -- trying to get into markets where those markets just don't want to import -- they don't want to see american imports come in, and they do everything they can to keep it from happening. these free trade agreements don't work for us. >>...

the total to 11 with nearly two dozen people missing. a judge ordered the captain held under arrest and he could face manslaughter charges. his story is not holding up well. he claims he and his crew were the last to abandon ship and claims his navigational ship did not show the rocks that crippled the concordia and it does not hold up to facts we already know. as passengers and crews were still scrambling down the side of the ship. this infrared camera shows people scrambling down the side of the ship in the middle of the night trying to board lifeboats. captain schettino, we know a...

for the divers. five people were found today, bringing the death toll to 11, nearly two dozen still missing. the captain schettino was in court today where a judge ordered him held under arrest. the captain's story, people say, is not holding up well. he claims he and his crew were the last to abandon ship, and the navigationsistent didn't show the rocks. those don't stand up to the fact we already know. for instance, passengers and crew were scrambling down the side of the ship, and this is the infrared cameras where you see them, that trail is people scrambling down the side of the...