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Blue line, so people who are, you know, see the police as their servant, as people who are there to serve and protect, value the police to no end, but there are communities who feel as if the police are there to protect against them and are in sometimes harassing, intimidating and all the rest. there has to be a way for us an american society to deal with this problem and that's where it is. >> you believe this cost prom has is a value statement? >> it's absurd to think that money set aside for community policing would go to droennes, which is the antithesis of community policing. community po...

Day, you should make a wage that allows you -- >> is some increase better than no increase though? >> what i would say we haven't raised the minimum wage since 2006. leader pelosi said public sentiment is everything. we have to raise that in every congressional district across this country. then we'll have a congress that understands the importance of raising the minimum wage to $10.10. >> can i get reyour reaction to the white house's handling of this deal to release bowe bergdahl? they have gotten a lot of chris six for mishandling this and taking a victory lap. what do you say to that? >> i...

Respond to that, that this is the right amount the athis time? >> i started out with what we saw in the fair labor standards act which was passed 75 years ago, and congress then made a value statement that has been reaffirmed over a decade that people who work hard should be rewarded. hard work should be rewarded with a fair wage. and over the course of the decades, republicans and democrats came together to raise the minimum wage. $10.10 was not something that was plucked out of thin air. it allows a family of four, when you take into account the earned income tax credit to get above the pove...

Arbitrary, the government's setting a wage, how do you respond to that, that this is the right amount the athis time? >> i started out with what we saw in the fair labor standards act which was passed 75 years ago, and congress then made a value statement that has been reaffirmed over a decade that people who work hard should be rewarded. hard work should be rewarded with a fair wage. and over the course of the decades, republicans and democrats came together to raise the minimum wage. $10.10 was not something that was plucked out of thin air. it allows a family of four, when you take into acc...

Arbitrary, the government's setting a wage, how do you respond to that, that this is the right amount the athis time? >> i started out with what we saw in the fair labor standards act which was passed 75 years ago, and congress then made a value statement that has been reaffirmed over a decade that people who work hard should be rewarded. hard work should be rewarded with a fair wage. and over the course of the decades, republicans and democrats came together to raise the minimum wage. $10.10 was not something that was plucked out of thin air. it allows a family of four, when you take into acc...