neera tan den, thank you very much for joining us tonight. great to be with you. coming up, president trump has won nothing yet, the tax bill has not passed. i suppose that s breaking news. it was treated this weekend as if it s a done deal but a lot of legislation has gotten as far as this tax bill and then never made into it law. we ll be back with more on the tax bill. it s a small finger.a worm!
now supporting this campaign. there is no distance from anyone, anyone in the republican party who doesn t speak out against roy moore. neera tan den, thank you very much for joining us tonight. great to be with you. coming up, president trump has won nothing yet, the tax bill has not passed. i suppose that s breaking news. it was treated this weekend as if it s a done deal but a lot of legislation has gotten as far as this tax bill and then never made into it law. we ll be back with more on the tax bill. (amanda vo) i adopted scrappy
first thing i have seen that i know personally for a fact to be a lie from his mouth. and he s spewing the lie from the pulpit of a church. he did not perpetrate sexual misconduct toward me or ever claimed that. but i know now for sure that he is a liar. beverly, if you are watching, leigh, if you are watching, i believe both of you. joining us now, neera tanden, president of american center for progress. i want to have you comment on the evidence that emerged today with this new card with the handwriting on it, matching the handwriting by most appearances that appeared in that high school yearbook that the one of the other girls obtained he signed her yearbook when she was in high school. yeah, i mean, what we see just from this clip is that roy moore is a liar. he said he didn t know any of these girls at the time.
lived with decades of people attributing poll testing to hillary. i ve got to say working on health care for all in 1994 certainly wasn t poll tested. she s been attacked by the right for a variety of positions she s taken. that s not poll tested. bill clinton passed nafta. if she runs for president, i hope all commentators will judge her on what she s putting forward. i worked for her for a decade. in the 2007-2008 campaign her economic program was focused on inequality before inequality was vogue. she talked about ceo pay in her campaign, talked about how ceo pay was running away from worker pay. she actually proposed regulating derivatives in the fall of 2007 before anyone was talking about these issues, so i actually hope people will judge her on the policies she s put forward and
the problems we have with economic growth is that workers, the vast majority of workers really haven t seen wage increases. the median wage the weekly median wage in 2001 was $768 per week, in 2012 it was $768 per week at a time when costs are going up. we have a real problem. go ahead. more importantly, costs are going up, but productivity has gone up. absolutely. it s not because workers aren t produce more. economic policy institute has calculated if the minimum wage just kept up with the productivity of regular workers it would be $22 an hour. neera is absolutely right. in fact, we just threw a graph up on the screen show that productivity and compensation used to go to together hand in hand. they used to rise in tandem. round about the 70s, about the same time when union participation rates started to