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And i say this in that -- and i think we know -- i want to put up a quick graphic here. folks can pause it on dvr and you can see it. but it's the income, it's the wage issue that i think is fuelling trump more. here we had a great economic report. i brought it up with trump and trump immediately went to "oh, yeah, but these people haven't gotten a wage increase." they're right. this came from the long time former treasury official and only the top 10% of americans by income have seen real wages go up in the last ten years. the less you make, the more you've seen your wages decrease. >> i was ...

They trust him most on immigration, then you as a candidate have an obligation to explain how it would actually work. and what does that deportation force look like? how much is it going to cost? what bill o'reilly was talking about in terms of operation wetback, the name of the program in the '50s, one of the things they did, was they took you across the border. you got to step one foot over and come right back in. is that the kind of thing we're talking about. bringing people back in that way? the other thing is the way that program worked, it was two-pronged. not only did they push people o...

Beginning to start for the republicans going to iowa this weekend. >> a cattle call with an agricultural summit we joke these are cattle calls but they are talking ag issues so it makes it more appropriate. >> what about the jobs today and political impact of that? >> the biggest impact and we've been talking about this for months as the economy i am proves it will be less of an issue in 2016. the biggest issue is going to be foreign policy. you saw it at cpac they know, they are reading the poll numbers too. the economy is not the driving issue. the wage issue is and parts of the economy peop...

Isn't political will on a national level to legalize marijuana federally. and something you were saying earlier, a lot of republican lawmakers consider that. but at the same time they see the moral -- their moral position on more advice and drugs as irreprehensible. >> nixon signed nit the '70s when pot smoking hippies were his arch nemesis. and one would assume alcohol and tobacco had a big emphasis on making sure it did not become a recreational drug. that big lobby resistance to pot seems to have dissipated. >> and also i think you're seeing less lobbying by law enforcement, which has been ...

Campaign to attack republicans over the wage issue. make no mistake, the white house is fully involved in this campaign as well. the president has held about half a dozen events focused on women and girls this year. there are several more on economic opportunity. even mentioning equal pay in his state of the union address. all of this is a clear sign the administration is going all in on this issue of closing the wage gap in an attempt to gain some traction before the midterms. the effort hit a bit of a bump on monday when critics brought up a study by a conservative group claiming that the wh...