Worried american asking what planet are you living on . The answer is planet obama. U. S. Economic growth in the First Quarter was 0. 1 . After five years of obamas mismanagement, only bureaucrats and billionaires are doing well. All of the rest are just left out. Now dont you think thats right . No. Look, first of all, no good deed goes unpunished in this country. We have 50 months of job creation. 9 million jobs have been created. We got the best report in years. And we get this kind of stuff. Listen, in the crossfire tonight we two members of the House Appropriations committee. Democratic representative barbara lee of oakland, california. Welcome to you. Republican representative andy harris of maryland. Youre both in the crossfire. Im going to start with you. I cannot believe that the republicans even today are not willing to at least give this president some credit. Ronald reagan in 1987 had 6. 3 unemployment and you guys called him a hero. We got 6. 3 unemployment today. How many airports are you going to name after president obama given his performance so far . Well, considering the Labor Force Participation rate is lowest in decades. Honestly, isnt that what this is all about, how many people are actually participating in the labor force . Look, you know, they tell me in the eye of a hurricane weather looks pretty good. Thats what were in. We had one piece of good news amidst all the bad news of this economy. Low economic growth, 0. 1 gdp growth. The only thing that was good about that i guess is because obamacare raised Health Care Spending 9. 9 in the First Quarter. We bent the Health Care Cost spending way up. This is going to be a very hot show. Im going to let my congresswoman from oakland put you straight then im coming at you. I cant even believe this. You know, first of all, during the shutdown we lost 1. 6 million jobs. Thank you. So you got to remember that. Secondly, when president bush left office, could you remember how many jobs we were losing each and every month . Thirdly, we were on the brink of one of the greatest depressions ever. And president obama turned this around. And so, come on, you got to give him some credit. I mean, we havent gotten to where especially in communities of color where we need to get. But when you look at the fact that, yes, there are 800,000 people who have just dropped out of labor force. You know what, newt, we cant even extend Unemployment Compensation so they can get the Unemployment Compensation so they dont fall off of the brunch. Let me ask you a question. And over the edge. Youre a californian. You made the point that youve got far too low an employment rate particularly for minorities, particularly for teenage minorities. And yet the difference in unemployment between california and north dakota, california has more than three times as many people unemployed as a percent of population as does north dakota. And you just saw toyota announce that theyre taking over 7,000 highpaying jobs out of california to texas which, of course, makes rick perry very happy. I mean, isnt there a lesson here about how taxes and high regulation and expensive government that maybe we should be paying attention to . No, because let me tell you, california, first of all, is one of the most innovative states, is the innovative state in the country. Secondly, we have a lot of hightech but havent had the workforce investment from the congress which weve been trying to pass to invest in workforce training and education so that people who have been unemployed, especially under the bush economic policies and during that era, they havent been able to get the workforce training and the type of skills training requisite thats requisite for these new jobs that exist now. And to you, congressman, this is the kind of stuff that used to be bipartisan. Shes talking about investing in american workers. The other thing that used to be bipartisan was investing in infrastructure. I want to show you something happening in your state. Roll this tape. This is the kind of stuff thats happening across the country. Look at this. This is a street falling into a river and people screaming and watching that go down. Why . Because across the country, were not investing enough in american infrastructure and republicans wont work with democrats to do that. Why arent you guys reaching across to support the president with Infrastructure Investment . Lets remember thats real job creation. Lets remember who controls that jurisdiction. Run by democrats for decades with complaints about that street for five years in the administration. And the Highway Trust Fund which would stop this from happening in wrr state and across the country is about to run out of money in september. Why wont republicans help americans get good jobs stopping this kind of stuff . We need you know, the speakers right. We need good jobs. We need good jobs by doing things like building the keystone xl pipeline. Removing all the barriers to making this an energy economy. You know, the Unemployment Rate, you know, we set the bar pretty darn low if this is a great employment report. When reagans recovery, we had a million jobs created. Not 200some thousand. I have to ask, you had pointed out what we hadnt covered earlier which is shouldnt the Current Governor of maryland have been aware of that street . The mayor, the governor, the entire the complaints were for five years that things were happening on that street. You guys want to blame this one mayor, one governor. Civil engineers have looked across this country and gave americans a report card, at the beginning of this year of a dplus for infrastructure. Thats a global embarrassment. Thats real job creation. You guys arent happening. Why not in why wont you work with this do we want a stimulus . Let me tell you, we do need a politifacts said recovery act which no republican voted for. The shovelready jobs. 7 . Wed have job if we invested in infrastructure and people kept working or were rehired on an infrastructure projects. The president has put forward the american recovery act. Infrastructure. Investment. Cant even get that passed. Youre offering a very enthusiastic defense. Well, i the facts speak for themselves. I know. The facts speak for themselves. Didnt it bother you a little bit when the president said, you know, these shovelready jobs werent ready. Remember that statement . 7 . 7 of shovelready jobs. Let me ask you a different problem that is going to affect jobs in america, because i think all of us are concerned if you look even at the jobs created in the last month that report, too many of them are lowpaying jobs. What were not seeing is the return of highpaying jobs. Theres a report out this week because of the u. S. Tax code, pfizer, our biggest pharmaceutical company, may literally move its headquarters to london in order to get under the british tax code. Its hard for me to realize the british tax code could be that much better than the american tax code. Doesnt this call for maybe taking a serious look at rethinking the tax code so American Companies and other companies have a real incentive to invest here rather than literally thinking about moving o offshore . Well, let me tell you, ive always supported tax fairness. We need to stop providing tax incentives for companies to site offshore because thats how american jobs are lost. Secondly, when you look at income inequality, newt, youre looking at ceo compensation thats unheard of, off the scale, and in fact, now were looking at this huge wage gap between ceos, their salaries and lowwage workers. And its continuing. The gap is continuing. And also, finally, i just have to say on this points if you look at the subsidies, which taxpayers are paying to corporations to pay lowwage workers 7. 10, 7. 25 an hour. 243 billion the federal government, taxpayers, subsidizing corporations because people are poor. They have to apply and live off of food stamps, medicaid, section 8 while theyre working full time. And taxpayers are subsidizing corporations so these ceos can make these megabillion dollar salaries and these people need some help. In other words, raising the minimum wage. Youre going to lead us right into the next segment. Exactly. In fact, when we get back, i want to make sure that you know about the most radical republican idea yet because it is really, really stupid. You can get a hint about how dumb it is by taking a look at the crossfire quiz. Republican friends pretend like a handful of teenagers earn minimum wage. How Many Americans work at or below the minimum wage . 750,000 . 1. 7 million . Or 3. 5 million . Well have those answers when we get back. Passion. Became your business. At t can help simplify how you manage it. So you can focus on what you love most. When everyone and everything works together, business just sings. Humans. 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I want you to look at the answer to our crossfire quiz. We still have 3. 3 million americans who are working at or below the minimum wage of . 25 an hour. Now, unfortunately, the republicans wont let the the republicans wont let the president give these workers a raise. Now, check this out. You have republicans, they dont want laws that promote equal pay for women. Unemployment insurance. They dont want to extend the runway for active job seekers who need gas money to get to their job interviews. And no raise for americans. But thats not the nuttiest part. Now you have republicans like tom coburn saying crazy stuff like this. I dont believe there ought to be a National Minimum wage. Thats my position. So, in the crossfire tonight weve got republican representative andy harris, democratic representative barbara lee. Both in the crossfire tonight. Im going to go to you. Are you willing to go on the record endorsing these radical view from coburn that says america shouldnt even have a National Minimum wage . We certainly ought to raise the we shouldnt raise the National Minimum wage. I was a small businessowner in my district, rural area, and she was very worried because she has a small business. I got you. Supposed to hire people. Im not going to let you out of this. Yes or no . Is a National Minimum wage a good idea or bad idea . Should be left where it is. So youre for it . Youre for National Minimum wage. Where it is. Not a penniless, not a penny more . Happens to be perfect right now . If states want to increase it or cities, god bless them, but, you know, if the jurisdiction now since youre talking about the raise, i want to make sure you know the vast majority of the American People, 69 of the American People agree with me we should raise the minimum wage to 10. 10. 23 disafree with that. Why are you smarter than 69 , 70 of the American People. I bet you didnt ask the question what if raising the minimum wage to 10. 10 lost 500,000 jobs in the American Economy . Thats what the nonpartisan cbo says. I bet the question wasnt asked that way. I was a small businessowner before i came to congress for 11 years 3rks 300plus employees. Not only paid higher minimum wage, we paid a living wage. Productivity was off the scale. To turnover. You cant tell me that when Companies Got to congress. Companies paid decent good wages with good benefits, they make money. Then they would pay higher wages. Thats the way the market works. Its not the president who gives anybody a wage. Its the small businessowner giving someone a raise. Believe me, if they thought productivity would go up, theyd be giving that increase. Let me ask that question since youre a good advocate for this. The mayor of seattle is proposing that the minimum wage ought to go up to 15 an hour. Good for him. In california, more than likely from what i remembered, a living wage where people could live and take care of their families and move toward achieving the American Dream was about 25, 26 an hour. So would you support that as a minimum wage for california . Absolutely i would support it for california. I think the regional factors wont have an effect on unemployment . No, newt, trust me, believe you me youd have a more productive workforce, youd have people who could afford to live in areas now where they cannot afford to live. You would increase diversity in certain communities where you dont have diversity anymore. You would have economics and an income gap would begin to close. Let me shock my good friend here. Oh, no. Im going to be bolder than tom coburn. Angela merkel, chancellor of germany is visiting today. The most productive country in europe. 40 of young people in apprenticeship programs. It has no minimum wage. In fact, if you look at western europe as a group, the countries that have a minimum wage have 13. 8 unemployment. The countries with no minimum wage, and these are, by the way, higher income countries. These are norway, sweden, austria, germany. They have 6. 3 unemployment. Whats wrong with this country . Here are countries that say were going to be economically productive. They have half the Unemployment Rate of the countries that have a social welfare state. What am i missing here . One, i lived in england for two years. I know Great Britain and know europe very well. What youre missing is they have a safety net, first of all. They have universal health care. Day have young people have access to education. Cost of housing is much lower. Their governments ensure that theres a minimum standard of living and, in fact, the Unemployment Compensation is there for them. In fact im going to shock you, too. I think california ought to raise its minimum wage really high so maybe even maryland can get more jobs because they will leave california. They just did. Toyota left for texas. Believe me, its because the taxes are high. One of the reasons you need a living wage that high in california, they tax everything that moves in california. Let me move to a different topic related, though. Youre talking about the people who are unemployed. Youre concerned about that. You want people to be able to get work. Why wont you republicans in the house support the Bipartisan Senate bill to extend that runway under those active job seekers . I do not understand your position on unemployment insurance. These are active job seekers. These are people who are trying to get work and you got a bipartisan solution in the senate. Are you for it or against it . Ive signed on to the bipartisan solution in the house. It says you extend the unemployment but you build a Keystone Pipeline. Exactly. All this stuff paying for. You didnt do that under george w. Bush. You have people in watching you i think this is the worst crisis weve had. This is the most weve spent on unemployment. This is, whether im going ask my children and grandchildren to play for it. What is mean is telling my children and grandchildren to pay for that. People who lost their unemployment at the end of december are living many living in cars now. They need their unemployment. This is an emergency. And we have the bill is in the house. All it says go back to europe. You dont get disability plus unemployment insurance. There is actually a bill that has passed in the senate that doesnt do all these tricks. Look, when george w. Bush was president , you extended it. You didnt try to figure out ill pay for it and stick in your favorite projects. Dont you love americans now . Im going to shock you. The senate is a little different from the house. The Senate Senate wants to spend money without thinking of the effect on the fiscal situation. The house wants to act responsibly. George w. Bush was president , the Keystone Pipeline would be completed by now. And you would have 33 permanent jobs. Our values are we are our brothers keeper. We are our sisters keeper. We should be careful that we dont Start Playing around with that value. People deserve to they pay into unemployment. Our children and our grandchildrens keeper. Dont we owe them some obligation to not bankrupt them . Yeah, be you dont need to play them against each other. People have paid into unemployment. They deserve their Unemployment Compensation. We do things like say look, you should actually, if you claim the dependent child tax credit, you ought to have a Social Security number on your tax return. 4 billion a year paid illegally by the irs for that. It could pay for all we need. Three Million People deserve their unemployment. Lets give it to them. Two things. First of all, every single time anything happens in america, you guys scream Keystone Pipeline. It was last night we were talking about putin, and how to stop putin, a tyrant from eating europe. You know what the answer was . Build the Keystone Pipeline. I just want to make sure you know and people back home know youre talk about 3,000 temporary jobs for one year and 33 permanent jobs patching the pipe. 33 permanent jobs patching the pipe. By building it. If you build it, it wont come up again. But you hold people hostage for a signal on keystone is not an american value. The majority of people would say mo way to that. You need to give me a shot here. Stay here. We want you at home to weigh in on todays question. Do you agree with the seattle mayor that the minimum wage should be raised to 15 an hour . Tweet using crossfire. Well have the results after the break. We also have the outrage of the day. Im outraged that only billionaires are lining up to buy the los angeles clippers. 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With all the talk about the nba owners forcing Donald Sterling to sell the los angeles clippers, i think the people of los angeles deserve a chance to bid against the billionaires lining up to buy the team. Calista and i own a share of stock in the green bay packers. I think it would be very helpful for america to move professional sports back to a communitybased system instead of bail theyrebased system. After all, most sports arenas are built with taxpayer money. Why shouldnt taxpayers also have a chance to own the team . And id just be curious what you three think of that. I actually kind of a agree with you, newt. I think its a very novel idea, although you say that green bay that has that model. I think any time people are invested, invested in any economic activity, its really very intriguing. Youre right. They pay for stadiums. They ought to be able to own the team. That would be a seismic change. Absolutely. In the way these sports have been operated. I think we should spread that around. Listen. Thats a good idea. I want to talk abouting in else. I know everybody is suppose on the happy slappy. Its almost the weekend. Thats why im outraged. It is going to be anything but a fun weekend for 200 schoolgirls. These are teenagers. They were kidnapped by terrorists almost three weeks ago. Now, have you heard anything about this . If you have been watching cnn today, you probably have. Cnn has been reporting that these terrorists who grabbed these children are selling them off as brides for 12 apiece. Now, you imagine the outrage or the hysteria if that was happening in your town. But since its happening in nigeria, the world doesnt seem to care very much. And to me, thats absolutely outrageous. Its a terrible tragedy. But i hope all of you will keep them in your prayers this weekend. Absolutely. Lets check on our fire back results. Do you agree with the seattle mayor that the minimum wage should be raised to 15 an hour . Right now 54 of you say yes. 46 say no. You should be really happy. You actually kind of for it and it turns out youre not. I want to thank you, barbara lee and andy harris. The debate will continue online at cnn. Com crossfire as well as face book and twitter. From the left, im van jones. From the right, im newt gingrich. Join us next time for another edition of crossfire. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Next breaking news, Donald Sterling speaks out. What he is saying about his alleged mistress v. Stiviano tonight. Plus, who is the woman behind the visors . One of her friends speaks to outfront. And a massacre thwarted. Pipe bombs, guns, pyrotechnic chemicals. How police say an elaborate plot to kill dozens was foiled with days to spare. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. Outfront on this friday, breaking news. Donald sterling breaking his silence. The owner of