is that when you ll conduct your poll? obviously i ve been asked this question already and i m thinking about it. but, yes, at the end of the day, it will affect. you want to be one of the five? or do i not want to be one of the five and could that be part of the equation as well? do you want to be or i m leaning towards that. yeah. patrick murray appreciate you joining us. my pleasure. thank you very much for that. still ahead, two members of the house in a position to decide one of the biggest priorities for president obama s second term. they are going to square off. first, is marco rubio the republican that democrats fear the most? that is next. stay with us. now, verizon is offering unlimited talk and text. plus 10 gigs of shareable data. yeah, 10 gigantic gigs. for $80 a month. and $15 per line. more data than ever. for more of what you want. on the network that s #1 in speed, call, data, and reliability.
we re having a consideration about the my brother s keeper program. we re building action plans and me tricks to be sure we know what goals we re trying to reach. the obama administration is engaged in the hopes that by taking this conversation around the country we can bring it back to washington and congress can start doing it s job. new york city mayor is going to be in there. a call for a $15 minimum wage. would president obama back a minimum wage of $15 that many fast food workers and now the mayor of new york city are calling for?
she s wrong on this. on friday at headquarters outside portland oregon president obama called out all of the democrats who were fighting him on this issue. and in an interview posted yesterday, he addressed senator warn s specific charge. senator warn said this week this pack could be used to roll back dod frank she s absolutely wrong. i passed it. they re coming at you pretty hard on this. i understand that. and think about the logic of that. the notion that i have this massive fight with wall street to make sure that they done repeat what happened in 2007 and 2008. and then i sign a provision that would unravel it? i would have to be pretty
it sounds like protectionism doesn t it? it used to be a problem of democrats but i really think the fact that this is president obama pushing it and it s being framed as a major legacy item is a huge deal. a dozen nations. the biggest trade deal in some time. if you re a republican do you really want to hand him this victory. the tea party element really doesn t like this. can the united states afford not to do this deal given the way the world is today versus the way the world was when nafta was negotiating? we don t do this we will be letting china set the rules and china s weak labor standards that will become the default. president obama going to nike and saying nike will agree to create over the next decade when it has about a million jobs.
if you deliver resulteous can get compensated and grow the programs. i wish washington would get in line. to help kids lift themselves out of poverty. save the children action network. thank you. assistant to the president and white house director of the policy council. i want to get your reaction to the fact that the war on poverty has failed. the war on poverty resulted in reducing poverty by a third. so when they talk about the safety net we have to understand that the safety net does prevent hardship in this country but it s not enough.