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During holy week? well, look, they have voted on the ryan budget. the ryan budget is nothing but an attack on the poor. and it is ruthless as it gets. they don't care what week it is. they don't care how holy things are. that's who they are. stick around. i'm josh lipton with your cnbc market wrap. the dow dropped 16, the s&p up 2, the nasdaq added noon. a sign the labor market may be recovering, the number of americans filing claims for unemployment benefits rose less than expected, remaining near a seven-year low. congressional budget office says president obama's 2015 budget plan would in...

You talk about minimum wage, you have most republicans now in congress, not only oppose to raising it, they believe we should abolish the concept of the minimum wage. that's what the koch brothers talked about 34 years ago. social security, medicare. look at the ryan budget. what you are seeing is, as a result of the koch brothers, and others, a republican party moving from what used to be a right center party, a moderate conservative party, to a right wing extremist party. that is probably the most important development in recent politics. the degree to what the republican party has moved to ...

State. in new hampshire it may go over a little better more democratic audience, more independent audience. louisiana and arkansas has more republicans, they will not buy it. one of the things to the democrats pushing back on his they will attack republicans on medicare. they are saying supporting cutting medicaid. supported the ryan budget which went to cut medicare benefits to seniors, with that threaten their retirement? we will not hear democrats saying obamacare. you will hear them talk about medicare and what republicans have tried to do in the past on that. jon: the 7 million number the...

Meaning it's a constituent. one of the people maybe that didn't vote for him, but he's now elected to serve. the bigger problem here is the fact that this individual says take a walk in my shoes, come work with me for 24 hours and his response is he mowed lawns when he was 12 and has been working all of his life so he can enjoy the fruits of his labor. the fact of the matter is, rev, this minimum wage now has not been on par with inflation, has never been ingested, and if it was, it would be $10.76 and not this $10.10 increase folks are seeking. maybe people would be able to enjoy parts of the...

Listeners tonight exactly what you said. thanks for joining us. >> well, ed, at the end of the day, these guys have absolutely nothing to say. this is what the republican platform is. despite the fact that the wealthiest people in this country are doing phenomenally well, what the republican idea of freedom is is to give more tax breaks, huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires under the ryan budget, average millionaire gets $200,000 a year in tax breaks. one out of four corporations today pay zero in taxes. they want to give even more tax breaks to large corporations. meanwhile, the p...