distinguished senior fellow and longtime former columnist at the new york times, and we re also joined by politico s senior washington correspondent, anna palmer. welcome to you both. how are you, smart. doing well. i want to start with something that has really detonated the intensity in congress which we ve been covering, the congressional budget office report on the minimum wage, the gap action being a choice by a private company. here s what we know from the cbo. their estimates say that basically 16.5 million workers would get a raise under the president s proposal. that would lift 900,000 people out of poverty projected. but it would also according to the cbo potentially lead to job losses. they get the range from very slight job losses to potentially a million over several years. right. you know this always happens when there are discussions over the minimum wage. there are scare stories about job losses. i think that congressional budget office report was misread. it di
benefit extension, something he says can send a bipartisan message and help struggling americans. in less than an hour, we ll find out if the votes are, in fact, there. let s bring in our tuesday gaggle daniela from the center of american progress, politico s senior washington correspondent. welcome to the show, ladies, thank you so much for being here. i want to get to you to put this into context. even if there are 60 votes in the united states senate for unemployment benefits, it faces a very, very difficult path in the house of representatives, because they don t like anything that s not paid for. absolutely. i think it s a big if whether or not this gets across the finish line today, but certainly as far as going to the house, there s virtually no possibility that you re going to see senate republicans want to take this up, have any appetite to take this up. daniela, how much is this a move by democrats to try and right the playing field right