>> the middle class. >> let's put the politics aside and do something that actually works. >> give america a raise! >> every democrat should be on board -- >> we're prepared to vote now. now! >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. it is all in the numbers. always a numbers game. the number will be how many people will go to the polls in november, seven months from now who believe that if they give to the power the democrats and something really good will happen. we begin tonight with a disturbing number every american should really be caring about. $2.1 trillion. that's a hell of a lot of money. u.s. corporations, that's the number they're stashing. $2.1 trillion, offshore to avoid paying taxes to the united states treasury. question, do you think that's fair? you can do something about it. i want to tell you, this number right here, this is a protected republican conservative number. you can count on it if you're thinking about, well, i don't know about november. i know it is a long way off but i'm not sure. this is an absolute. the conservatives and the republicans will never do anything about this. that's their number. that's the number they're always going to protect. the corporations include general electric trick, microsoft, apple, merck, you name them. this number is up. 93% since 2008. it is bad news for american taxpayers. we had a short treasury. every hard working american pays income tax so there's no reason the corporations can't, massive profits can't pay their fair share. you'll never hear republicans say, that's terrible. you won't hear that. although senate finance committee is aware of this number, we got a new cheryl. on tuesday, chairman ron widen of oregon said i do think there needs to be some reforms in this area. i like ron but hello! some reforms? how about a lot of reforms. i would say massive reform to fix this broken system. it is not fair. wait a minute. they're hard. meanwhile the senate finance committee held a hearing yesterday. on the incompetent tax preparers. that's right. who is preparing your taxes across america? we need to make sure they're regulated and qualified. the committee was wasting a lot of time worrying about if waitresses and mechanics are filing their taxes properly. no kidding. they used the two formulas, waitresses and mechanics. 2.1 trillion are stashed offshore and the senate finance committee is worried about nonsense like this as to whether the poor folks are doing things right. on the flip side, working americans are struggling. the first step in helping these americans is what? what do you say we start with minimum wage, since they can't file their taxes properly. come on! it's the focus. their priority needs to be here, not on the middle class and not on how low wage workers in this country file their taxes and who is helping them. now, the committee was concerned about, you know, how much money the treasury was losing because middle class americans didn't have a qualified tax preparer. you know what? that's just playing around on the edges on the treasury problem. the white house is making a big push for minimum wage increase and this plays in all together. it is a domino effect. president obama is taking his campaign on the road and trying to gain support. >> if you have the chance to talk to a congressman who is not supporting it, you need to ask him. do you support raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. if they say yes, you should say thank you. if they say no, you should not yell at them. be polite. ask them why not? ask them to reconsider. tell them to join the rest of the country. for once, instead of saying no, say yes. it's time for $10.10. it is time to give america a raise. make a choice. talk about valuing hard work and families or walk the walk and actually value hard working families. you've got a choice. you can give america the shaft or you can give it a raise. >> wow! i find it interesting becausin increasing the minimum wage, that's a no brainer for democrats. the president i think was doing some serious coaching on how to run. unless you're one of these folks. senators mark pryor know tom carper, mark warner and mary landrieu. they have gotten real cold feet when it comes to the minimum wage. how hard is it for these senators to go home to a red state and say, i'm for helping people in the poor sector of america. arkansas senator mark pryor said he will increase a minimum wage increase to $10.10 an hour? i'm sure it is a big coincidence that walmart happens to be based down will in good old arkansas. senator tom carp he said a raise to $9 an hour would be a better chance of passing. virginia senator mark warner said he is willing to negotiate with republicans on the rate. i haven't found any republicans willing to negotiate on minimum wage because they're all against it. then we have senator mary landrieu of louisiana. she supports an increase but wants more time to debate the time line on when it is all going to be implemented. and how to address wages for tipped workers. think about that. she is concerned about how we're going to address wages for the poor. remember, senator landrieu, not to pick on her. she was the senator who said it was the cleanest oil produced in north america. you be the judge. now, pryor, warn he, landrieu, what are they? they're all up for re-election. they're red state democrats and they're worried about keeping their jobs. they are afraid of their own shadows in a re-election year and there's no reason for it. look at the numbers in pryor's state of arkansas be 79% of the folks in that state think there should be an increase to at least $8.50 an hour. in warner's state of virginia, 58%. they want to bring the hike up to $9.25 an hour. in landrieu's state of louisiana, wow, 73% support an increase to $8.50 an hour. what is it about these democrats that can't stand up and say, i'm for the minimum wage and we're going to get this done and you can count on me. that's what the president is saying. meanwhile, tom carper, he got kind of luck yimpl you see there is no recent polling on minimum wage in delaware. it is so popular, why would they poll for that? but here's a number that everyone in congress should just grab on to. on the campaign trail, this works everywhere. 71% of americans support an increase in the minimum wage. it is a winner. but the democrats seem to be spending more time about, worrying about what they'll run from instead of what they'll run with. 51% think it should be raised to $10.10 an hour. every person in congress needs to look at these numbers and give hard working americans the benefit of the doubt. and any time they give you any smoke about it, just say well, there is 2.1 trillion offshore that the corporations are being able to hide through or screwed up tax laws. don't you think it is about time to give the little guy a break? you can't sell that? even in a red state? wow! what do we have on the table? here's where. we camden lies all of this. we have $2.1 trillion offshore that we know the republican there's never do anything about. we have the senate finance committee holding a hearing and they're very worried about the middle class and the poor folk of america. whether they're filing their taxes properly and whether they're using a certified prepared tax consultant and if they're getting the proper sxrurns if there is not too much money going back in returns. that's their focus? come on. and of course we have minimum wage on the table. 71% of americans certainly want to have that happen and the democrats in red states. what do they have? they have cold feet. they're not quite sure. you know? i would think by the time we get to the middle of the summer, they'd better be sure exactly what they're running on instead of what they're running from. every day that goes by is a day missed to drive these numbers home to hard working americans who want change. the president ran on helping the middle class. he not only won once, he won twice. you mean to tell me in a red state you're afraid to run on health care. you're afraid to run on equality for women and now we're saying, well, we're really not sure about this minimum wage thing. democrats walk like this, they talk like this, they deserve to lose. ooh, that hurts. what's the alternative? it ain't good. bottom line is that 2.1 trillion will never be touched if republicans have power across the board. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. can you call yourself a democrat and not support a full minimum wage increase? text "a" for yes, "b" for no. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. for more, let me bring in brad woodhouse, and bob schumm. brad, you first. your reaction to these four democratic senators and i don't know how else to say it but they're getting cold feet. there's no fervor in their heart to say we'll get this done. what's wrong with that? >> first, let me say. this i haven't run into a democrat lou doesn't support increasing the minimum wage. at least increasing it over where it is now. either federally or in their states and i think that is big a, big contrast with republicans. we have a republican running for senate in north carolina who believes there shouldn't be any minimum wage at all. i think part of this is the president leading and the president showing that this is safe ground. all the polling you've shown from those states and nationally demonstrates that it is safe ground. i was at an event last week with harry reid and he is leading this effort in the senate along with tom harkin. i trust when a bill comes to the floor and push come to shove, democrats are going to support increasing minimum wage. almost all democrats do. there is some question and some democrats' mind about what it should be raised to. i would say this about $10.10. it wasn't picked out of the air. it is a level that will let most people living most places in this country work full time and live. >> why would we debate the timetable on it when it is over three-year period. it seems to me democrats seem to be not full throated on this. you're either with the workers or not. in 10.10, there is a lot that seems to think it should be a lot more. these democrats are afraid to go into red states and say this is where i stand with workers. bob, your take on this. >> you do have some democrats and it is a deeper problem here who think they can pretend that somehow or other, they're not democrats so they don't have to run on health care. they don't have to run on the minimum wage. they can be something else. maybe they can say they got the money to build a bridge to nowhere. i think that is a big mistake. this happened in 1994 when a lot of democrats fled after the failure of the health care bill. they went out and tried to say, i'm kind of a moderate, different, i'm not one of these guys. and almost all of them lost. so it is stupid politically and it is especially stupid because in a red state, you can run on minimum wage and do very well. in a red state i think you can run on health care. you can say these republicans favor a plan that will allow insurance company to deny coverage for people with preexisting conditions. they favor a plan that will let insurance companies cancel your policies when you get sick. the last thing we need in the mid-term is two republican parties. the real republican will always win. >> well, why would someone not run on minimum wage? what upside is there in a red state to shy away? i really believe this. this is just my feeling. that if the democrats can't energize low wage workers to come to the polls in the mid terms, they're sunk. they have no chance at the house and they're going to have a hard time holding the snaxt there will have tube real motivation. making someone believe that you're really on their side that will move them in an off-year election. if they don't motivate the workers to get organized they'll come up short changed. that's my take on it. brad, you first and then bob. >> look, ed, this issue of wages and wage stagnation and what we call inequality of wages, the most important issue we face. there is a lot of this that falls at the feet of republicans. they have refused to work with this president on anything to create jobs. the best thing we can do for wages is create jobs. if we won't do that, the most immediate thing we can do is raise the minimum wage. it is at a floor for 40 years. it is not worth what it used to be. >> if they don't sell low wage workers, what will happen? >> well, look. then those folks won't turn out. democrats have to go on the offensive. in 2012, president obama who had some pretty tough economic circumstances he has inherited define the term of the election. the question was, who is on your side? who will stand up for the middle class? romney helped them with a 47%. but republicans are prepared to help. they're against the minimum wage. they're against equal pay for women. they don't have a health care plan other than letting insurance companies run the thing and do all the abuses they used to do before. so democrats need to go out there and take this to the republican party. brad is right. we have a strong case on minimum wage but we have a strong case on all these other things and they all come down to a big fundamental question. who is fighting for you? and who is on the side of special interests? what about the 2.1 trillion stashed overseas by corporations? can big company afford minimum wage increase? absolutely they can. the question is, is this an issue? do you think this would resonate with voters that the democrats will do something about that number? you first. what do you think? >> sure, i think it is an issue. i think it could be a big issue. the truth is people aren't doing much about it because there is not a chance it would get through republican house. to take it out to the country. to explain to people what's going on. to make if i can use the term, a populist argument, corporations ought to pay their income taxes like ordinary people do, that could be another powerful argument and it all goes to the central message, the central them a. we're out there fighting for you. the other guys are on the other side. >> you're a southern guy. you have to get into those states and turn this around. >> i hope to. i'll tell you, we've been out there. americans united for change ran a bus tour for two weeks. we're getting ready to go back on the road and we're going to georgia. >> what do you hear? >> i'll tell you, we have a lot of small business owners who come out and say we've already increased the minimum wage and it hasn't hurt us. and i think we've got to get past this antiquated argument. we know businesses can afford to do this. we know they attract better workers. they are more productive. they then have the money to spend in the community. >> all right. great to have you on the ed show. thank you for joining us. remember to answer only the's question, share your thoughts on twitter at ed show and on twitter. we always want to know what you think. coming up, 9.3 million people have signed up for obamacare? 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to the public, there is no sense of fairness in this whatsoever. >> sure. and i think first of all, let's deal with the fact that she probably doesn't want to work here anymore. it has to be a horribly uncomfortable environment. you know, unfortunately, this is not a new phenomenon on the hill, an new phenomenon with elected officials, period. you see this kind of behavior and you see them get to wear the s on their chests and sail off into the sunset so hopefully the voters will speak. he won in a special. this was not even a full month after he won the special. so now there needs to be some repercussions on the general. >> just moments ago, we're hearing that the head of the republican party in louisiana has been trying on get ahold of congressman mcallister to ask him to resign. what do you make of that? >> i think it is a good thing to do. particularly when we know in louisiana politics, scandal is not farfetched. it is a major distraction. we all saw he was asking the fbi to probe who leaked the surveillance. >> let's talk about that. this guy has distorted priorities. now he is backing off on that request. he was asking john boehner to see if he could get the fbi involved to see who leaked the tape. really? that's at the top of your list, buddy? i just final that absolutely amazing. it must be a republican thing. oh, okay, i can push this to the side on bended knee and say i'm sorry and it will be okay. >> we've seen them drag out other scandals. we know what's happening with the irs scandals. maybe there's something wrong with the fbi. the issue was he was saying that he's a good guy and people were telling him not to be krumtd. but he hadn't even had a chance to be corrupted. he came in like that. >> they're all good guys. this is the congressman that brought the duck dynasty folks to the state of the union. in fact, mcallister said willie robertson told him to work things out privately. no kidding. after the scandal broke this week. i mean, this is just a circus. they don't have it in their bones and i was very critical of anthony weiner, very critical of charlie rangel. i thought charlie rangel should have stepped down. he didn't. i consider him a friend to this day but when you get caught in stuff like this, the taxpayers deserve better. this is a guy who will probably vote against long term unemployment. he will probably oppose minimum wage. who know where he stands on equal pay for women. i find it terribly ironic on the day that we're talking about equal pay and equal fairness in the workplace, this hams. she's gone, he is still on the job. >> right. and i think we have to hope that there will be some accountability within the state party there. that maybe his wife will talk to him about fairness. not only in his office but at home. what's the right thing to do? not only for the voters but for his family. he has five children. and this is horribly unfortunate for the kids. i feel bad for their family. this is not good timing for the republicans, even in terms of this. they voted to block the vote on paycheck fairness. >> the fact is that this is an issue. a hotly contest the senate race in michigan. terry lynn land, a republican running says equal pay is not as important for women because she says they have a different lifestyle. wait a minute. this isn't a mom issue. okay? this is a women's issue. equal pay. i mean, and they voted against it in the senate. where does that leave us? >> equal pay for women does not just benefit women or their children. it benefits their husbands, it benefits the economy, it benefits single women. it is really very short sighted to say that the only people that would be impacted by a raise by, being paid what you're worth are women. it is horribly short sighted. they need to work on their messaging. they had a whole campaign about how to reach more voters. >> message again, behavior. thanks. still ahead, the right wing talk here's didn't believe 7.want million americans signed up for obamacare. they got a new number to gripe about. and later, another attack on voting rights in ohio. state senator nina turner weighs in on the latest attempt to suppress the vote. next i'm taking your questions. honestly, i'm pouring everything i have into this place. that's why i got a new windows 2 in 1. it has exactly what i need for half of what i thought i'd pay. and i don't need to be online for it to work. it runs office, so i can do schedules and budgets and even menu changes. but it's fun, too -- with touch, and tons of great apps for stuff like music, 'cause a good playlist is good for business. i need the boss's signature for this. i'm the boss. ♪ honestly ♪ i wanna see you be brave mayo? 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>> the real question is when have they not lied? about obamacare? >> this is complete bogus. this is complete bogus fairy tail. this is nonsensical. >> just because team obama cooked the books on the promise you could keep your doctor, keep your plan, you wouldn't expect them to lie on this, would you? of course you would. >> i'm entertaining myself. i admit it. that's my favorite right wing radio clip. last week the white house announced 7.1 million people have signed up on the exchanges and were predicted the numbers would grow from there. that's what we've been talking about and it will. a survey shows even better news. the rand corporation study showed at least 9.3 million more americans have health insurance now than in semiof 2013. what's being revealed now is several big conversations are benefiting from the enrollment numbers. corporation who's support republican lawmakers vowing to repeal the law. the associated press reports that koch industries received $1.4 million from the $5 billion program. the program was established by the affordable care act to help employers and states maintain coverage for people ages 55 and older who are not eligible for medicare. the koch brothers and some of their conservative allies are spending millions of dollars to hammer democratic senators in north carolina, alaska, colorado and iowa for backing the health care overhaul. joining me tonight in the rapid response panel, dr. ronnie woodford, and mike, america's lawyer, host of ring of fire radio show. great to have you with us tonight. >> first of all, these numbers, have you seen patients who are on the affordable care act, obamacare? >> i'm so glad you asked me that question. i have a letter here. my second to last patient today will be paying $32.80 a month start go may 1st, effective may 1st. i am seeing it every day. the young invincibles are coming in. you talked about some of the numbers earlier. but those that are being insured or previously uninsured, that's what i'm seeing. the affordable care act is good for my patience, good for the state of louisiana and good for our country. people are saving on insurance. >> you have people coming in saying i never had insurance before but i have it now. >> the majority of gotten their insurance. we don't have the individual exchange. our patients roougs healthcare.gov. they're coming in. they have not had insurance before. the person that came in today, she had high blood pressure and diabetes. she is a cash paying patient but now she can pay a minimum a month. $32 and i can now treat her effectively. >> that is the court of obamacare, affordable care act. it is always amazing who shows up at the trough, isn't it? you've got senate majority leader harry reid has been very critical about koch industries benefiting from the health care law. yet they turn around and support gop candidates who are against it. what do you make of it? >> to understand why they do this, the koch brothers aren't in the insurance business, not in the drug business, they're not in the hospital business. this is merely the tool that they have unleashed to go after democrats. if they can get to the position where they can remove the democrats that are concerned about worker rights and are concerned about regulations that protect the environment and are concerned about financial regulations, then they win. nobody ever asked the questions, why would the koch brothers spend the billion dollars that they've spent on this unless you analyze the end game. it is to use this as the vehicle to create the crazy frenzy to where they can keep the republican tea party types to get mad at something that they don't understand. in the edge, it is part of their tool box. they use this as nothing more than a bludgeon against the democrats, hoping they can get in that position to where the koch brothers have nobody looking over their shoulder. understand this is a company that paid $400 million in fines for destroying our environment. $400 million. >> there's an admission of acceptance in the affordable care act that they're going to turn around and jump right in the program and benefit from it. >> yeah. part of that is the corporate welfare program. we've given $62 billion away to the fortune 500 companies. this is not the only corporate welfare the koch brothers get. this is what we're talking about now but they get a lot of that kormt welfare of six dis, they are in line now with their hands out for the very thing that they've been critical of. >> we are looking at 9.3 million americans by the rand corporation survey that now have health insurance in 2013. what's your reaction to that, doctor? >> things a true testament to the american people wanting adequate health care coverage. we're getting through this rhetoric, the lies that have been told for so many years since the affordable care act has been ill plemtd. this is largest expansion of health care cynic the implementation of health care over a decade ago. we have to embrace this. stop trying to repeal obamacare. it is law as the president said. it is here to stay. now it is time to get coverage to those who need it. and it is a big issue here, we had a press conference yesterday. so there is still that gap in louisiana but that gap across the country in the 20 or so states who have decided not to expand medicaid so we have to get coverage to everyone. this is such a huge and important issue. >> what will we hear from conservatives? it has gone from 7.1 to 9.3. they're claiming the numbers are phony but they're sure going the wrong way. i suppose the rand corporation will be vilified. >> the analysis will be yes, these numbers probably are true. but now let's analyze why. they honestly are already moving in that position. why did this happen? not the admission that this is all happened since the aca was introduced. their next question is, you know, this may be happening but we don't really understand why. that's their next talking point. as they use that talking point, understand these states like louisiana that are passing on the aca, what the people don't understand in louisiana is they are paying taxes in certain places that don't have aca and they're not getting the benefits. one state is accepting it but they're still paying into that big fund. >> all right. like i said, go ahead. >> i was going to say, my citizens in my state, we're sick and tired of being sick and tired. the more educated the communicate gets about this, the more people will buy into affordable care act and obamacare. >> pretty soon, a lot of people will be sick and tired of being sick and tired of hearing the numbers are phony because they simply are not. good to have you with us. thanks so much. coming up, karl rove is giving the bush brothers some art tips. >> let's put in some happy little tree shapes. i'm just looking for some basic shapes here. and a life of purpose and meaning was infused into a corporate culture. there was a commitment to creating new jobs out of recycled metals, right here in america. and a bank that helped carolyn rafaelian's business grow from a rhode island storefront into a global sensation. that's the beauty of connecting a vision to an enterprise. that's bank of america. why relocating manufacturingpany to upstate new york? 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>> that's right, ed. they will stop at nothing to suppress the vote, even threatening the citizens of counties in our state, and kuyahoga county leadership did the right thing saying we will mail out the ballots, because we believe in pro voter, unlike the gop, but what they were attempting to do by threatening the county in that way has really upset the quality of life in the citizens of that county, 1.3 million of them, but they don't care about the quality of life of citizens in cuyahoga county or any other county in this state, to be honest with you, ed, they've already slashed the local government fund budget by about $1 billion already. and then to launch that kind of threat, just because you don't want the county to be pro voter, something is wrong with that, ed. make no mistake about it, they are antivoter and will stop at nothing to suppress the vote. >> both the governor and husted did a reversal on this, almost as if they got caught because of the pushback on all this. they thought this might have been a bridge too far. what is your take on -- what's your response to that? >> well, they can't run from their record, though. this legislature, this gop-controlled legislature, is their legislature. this is the governor's legislature, and this is secretary of state john husted's legislature, so they can't run from the voter suppression bills that have already passed, that the governor has already signed. what this legislature has done in terms of hurting absentee ballot submission throughout the state, taking away early voting days in this state, putting up more hurdles to be able to discount provisional ballots, they weared this, it is their party doing this. just because they seem to have religion on this one, does not include the other voter suppression measures and the voters will have to stand up in november. >> seems to me they were going to go until you stopped them. the fact is, they got away with the golden wink, made those changes on early voting and registration. husted said i think it's time to stop playing games and resolve the issue like reasonable adults. that is damage control, as i see it. >> it is, ed, but he went a step further and said, there's no need to do this, because the auditor will take care of cuyahoga county if they decide to break the law, so to speak. so he went a step further to say that, don't worry about it, the auditor will get them. and again, that's wrong. what he should have done was stood up very clearly to say that absolutely, unequivocally what the gop and this general assembly is doing and has done is wrong, not to try to sick the current auditor on cuyahoga county because they are pro voter. >> and, of course, they are talking already about changing more laws after this session that will affect 2016. i mean, it's almost as if they are taking orders from outside the state. this is how you got to run ohio if we're going to win the white house in 2016. >> well, ed, ohio is a swing state, a swing state, so they have shown what they would do in 2012, you know, this current secretary of state appealed all the way to the united states supreme court to take away the last three days of early voting. he fired two board of elections members, they lost their job for trying to expand early voting. the voters have got to come out and show in the state of ohio that we want to be the gold standard and that we will not stand for any elected official standing in the way of making sure that one woman, one man, one vote is the order of the day. >> and tomorrow night here on "the ed show," we're going to show you exactly how far some people in hamilton county will have to go to vote. an hour and a half of travel if this measure goes through. that's tomorrow right here on "the ed show." ohio state senator nina turner, great to have you with us tonight, thank you. >> thank you, ed. >> and that's "the ed show," i'm ed schultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed, and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the gop is shooting down real progress and ginning up fake scandals. today, the senate republicans filibustered the paycheck fairness act, a bill to help women get equal pay. that's something that could actually help people. so, of course, republicans are against it. and over in the house, republicans are spinning their wheels on phoney scandals. darrell issa is planning to hold a former irs official in contempt, all because she refused to play ball with his kangaroo court. democrats are fed up and fighting back.