significant number of republicans to get well in excess of 218. you ve got to have the pressure on his caucus. and that s what a senate vote would do in what shows like this do, frankly, to put pressure on republicans to do the right thing here. last question. can you win the moderate republican there are still left, the peter kings, the pat me hans, can you get them to vote for this if you walk in the door with that petition? i know you re a senator, but when some democrat walks in the door, steny hoyer, somebody, mrs. pelosi, walks in that door, puts that thing on his desk. if you don t sign this discharge petition, you re an enemy of labor, and that hurts you. it hurts you at home. will that work? well, it certainly would vote for it if it were on the floor. i don t know about those individuals. but most of them would. they go against their a lot of the party leadership there puts a lot of pressure on these guys not to sign those, but i think you continue to push. and eventual
card check. go around, republican by republican. that s fine with me. you bet. get them at home. get them in their office. ask them when their wives are there. the problem is they have to walk down on the floor to sign it, i believe. and all these other republicans are watching. but more power to us in doing that to what you re doing, to what we re all trying to do with this. mr. vice president, it s an honor to have you on the show. and i hope you and secretary clinton win that election. thank you. i m just kidding, but i m not. i really think you re the perfect running mate. thank you, senator sherrod brown of ohio which wisconsin is always a key state to watch. let me go to ryan grim now. they re very happy fighting for this. this is an issue democrats are not embarrassed by. not like chained cpi or something like that. they want to run on this. can they get the votes? they have 55 democratic senators. why not pass it? i think they re going to pass it.
debt, saying that it s the world s greatest threat to american values anymore. all of that has changed when this president looks at all of that and said, well, if i don t have a partner in terms of this compromise, then why should i get hit from the left and the right? the president s aides will tell you time and again, unlike 2008, 2007, when they said well, if we re getting criticized from both sides, that means we re telling uncomfortable truths. now they ll say after so many years in office, if we get hit by both sides, that s the worst position for us to be in. he s not going to do that again. richard, here s my theory, a week or so ago i started talking, you know discharge. meaning, wait, don t democrats and minorities in the house sit around waiting for republicans to push minimum wage, it s not going to do it. you get 218 votes you ll get it on the floor. even if they call short, imagine going into the room. it s like card check with the labor unions. they come walk in the do
parts of pennsylvania, upstate scranton, erie, they re not moving to a condo down in naples. they re going to be up there. and they need every dollar in social security and cpi. they don t want trimming on our stuff if we re the democrats. here is the president double do you think on something i think is smart, the minimum wage. at a meeting today with democratic governors what he believes and what he thinks works. let s listen. this is not just good policy. it also happens to be good politics, because the truth of the matter is the overwhelming majority of americans think that raising the minimum wage is a good idea. richard, here is my theory. i don t know if i sparked this idea, but a while back, a week or so ago, i started talking discharge petition. don t democrats sit around waiting for republicans. you guys get a pet 2ir7b, get 218 votes, you ll get it on the floor. imagine going into the room. it s like card check with the labor unions. they come walk in the door, we would
us that cut in the entitlements, and we ll give you a little more taxes. i don t think there was any more give on either of those, not just the taxes. i don t think the republicans ever deep down wanted to cut the entitlements because there is no politics in it there just isn t. imagine going into the room. it s like card check with the labor unions. they come walk in the door, we would like you to sign this. peter king is waiting for them. peter king, he doesn t want to not sign it. pat meehan, mike fitzpatrick, they re going to say wait a minute, if i don t sign this thing, they ll be able to go out and announce the democrats that i, representing a lot of working i ve said no to minimum wage. i think it s a great way to screw the other side into doing something you want them to do. and it s a win-win, because if they don t do it, you kill them in november. right. if you re going to fight about jobs, if you re going to talk about middle class prosperity and opportunity, if that s