the president talking about how the income gap is eroding the american dream. with me, will cain, columnist for the blaze and commentator, and mark lamont hill, also a cnn commentator and host for huffpostlive. good to be here. mark, president obama wants to raise the minimum wage to $continue an hour. can the pope help him do it? i m not sure if the pope can help him do it. this isn t like 40 years ago when there was a catholic vote where you could predictiontively s predictively say courting the pope would help you. but speaking to poverty resonates with people. the pope has managed it in masterful fashion. of course, the pope doesn t have to face political opposition and partisanship. that s true. the pope s approval rating is at 88%. the president has been praising him in other interviews, as well. the question is would pope francis embrace president obama? would he want his message president clinton sized? you know, that s a good
to smear this and tell the listeners. it was radical islam. yeah, but you can t pin the blame on the wrong people. no, but this was a guy who was spoken to by the authorities. he was wanted. they found him. they spoke to him. yeah. it was a strange circ couple standings. i mean, it was a strange circumstance. you speculate. brian, i m going to bring you into it no, no, no, no, no. brian. just one second. brian, this kind of the kind of coverage that the media does is not going to change. i would predict that it s going to be like this for some time to come, and that s partly why journalists are as add 3450ird as journalists and car salesmen. i apologize to lawyers and car salesmen. what s the answer? i remember when i read about glen beck s comments, about the saudi national, i was curious. i was able to search other sources. places like media matters reminded us that glen beck seemed to be wrong about that
you again picked the affordable care act. explain. it was a dreadful rollout. it was an epic fail. it was one of those things that you cringe about. you can only blame obama, he was the guy at the top, and you have to blame everybody on down. you will say one thing which is that no one ever buys software on the first round. you don t buy 1.0 software because it usually is terrible and will set your mother board on fire. sooner or later the american way is to rollout awful software and improve it as it goes on. we ll see. it seems to be improving anyway. david, you have a similar take. let s hear yours. right. i m worried about people who don t have insurance and is worried about healthcare.gov. i was talking to a makeup artist, she lives in the state of virginia. there are 48 million americans who don t have health insurance. the plan was that they were going to get it through health care.gov but because the software and launch was so
cannabis center. her store is only one of a handful expected to be ready for business on that first day. a year ago i would have said i wish i hadn t done it. now i m very excited that i ve done it and i m looking forward to the future. reporter: a future she and the state hope will pay off that massive investment. it was medical marijuana that paved the way for this new retail surge, so a lot of this is being rolled out on the existing infrasructure surrounding or supporting medical marijuana, including how the state plans to regulate or safeguard this product, and there are even stricter rules when it comes to recreational sale of marijuana, but keep in mind the federal government still considers all of this criminal. ana cabrera, cnn, denver. ana cabrera, many thanks to you. 2013 was a year in contrast or was it? if you paid attention to the biggest news stories of the year, there were no shades of gray. the story was either good or bad, right or wrong,
housing prices are going up. your portfolio, portfolios are probably doing pretty darn well. the problem is, not a lot of americans, probably only half of americans, are invested in the stock market. there s half of the american out there aren t even invested. they re not reaping the rewards. then you look at the jobs picture, yeah, we re adding jobs. but the problem is, these are mostly low wage jobs. that doesn t make people feel confident about where the economy is being. the bottom line is people have less money in their pocket these days even though they may have a job. they just don t have the money to invest in the stock market to celebrate with the rest of america. at least the, you know, the top 10% or so. exactly. exactly. i mean, that expendable income is being spent on necessities like food and medicine hopefully. thank you very much. still to come in the newsroom, thousands still without power after this week s deadly winter storms. more bad weather could be on the