so activism, a lot of activism going on right now, such as the pipeline is concerned. we have a lot of activism out there when it comes to the environment. i ll tell you where the activism has to be. the activism has to be on the unemployed in this country. the activism has to be on the vulture chart and the wage disparity that s taking place in america. but every time the democrats try do something about ihtimal s more roadblock, more roadblocks, more roadblocks. it s a broken record, isn t it? it s the republican party. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question do you trust john boehner or president obama? text a for john boehner, text b for president obama. 67622. if this isn t 100%, i don t know what will be. can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com and we ll bring results later in the show. now, the republicans over the weekend, their went off to this, you know, secluded place in cambridge, maryland, to figure out how we re going to talk to
wage. where do you think the country is going? the wage disparity is huge. it is one of the largest in our nation s history. i put together a group of business and labor leaders. we hope to reach an agreement in a way we can help employees without hurting business . in the next few months, we ll have a recommendation. i hope we create a model. in that way, if you can have a working model, it sort of proves to everyone else, it is possible to do this without hurting business. the leadership on the issue has been greatly valued by people who have long thought it is high time to increase the minimum wage. mayor hancock, when we talk about denver, one of the things we ve been talking about is colorado s legalization of marijuana. how has that decision changed
analyst paul callan. it s a stunning statistic, let s talk about this case, the girl raped, the man was convicted of the rape. it isn t an alleged condition, he was convicted of it, and the judge said you have to pay child support $110 a week, if i m going to pay child support, i ll demand my parental rights. to many it feels like a second violation of this woman. i think you are absolutely right. it s a brutal psychological violation of the woman. think about this, she s got to confront her rapist every time he comes to pick up the child on a visitation situation and it s worse than that, because family court judges don t like one parent bad-mouthing the other so what is she supposed to do, say nice things about the rapist to her own child? who raped her when she was essentially a child, a 14-year-old girl. he was 20, she was 14 when this happened, so it was a statutory rape, but that age disparity is so great, that s a little girl, she couldn t have consented to that. at that
talk about this case, the girl raped, the man was convicted of the rape. this isn t an alleged situation. he was convicted of it, and the judge said you have to pay child support $110 a week, if i m going to pay child support, i ll demand my parental rights. to many it feels like a second violation of this woman. i think you are absolutely right. it s a brutal psychological violation of the woman. think about this, she s got to confront her rapist every time he comes to pick up the child on a visitation situation and it s worse than that, because family court judges don t like one parent bad-mouthing the other so what is she supposed to do, say nice things about the rapist to her own child? it s absolutely absurd. who raped her when she was essentially a child, a 14-year-old girl. he was 20, she was 14 when this happened, so it was a statutory rape, but that age disparity is so great, that s a little girl, she couldn t have consented to that. at that age that s an incredibly hu
what is she supposed to do, say nice things about the rapist to her own child? who raped her when she was essentially a child, a 14-year-old girl. he was 20, she was 14 when this happened, so it was a statutory rape, but that age disparity is so great, that s a little girl, she couldn t have consented to that. at that age that s an incredibly huge age gap. ted rowlands had first reported on the story, said there are 32,000 pregnancies from rape every year, another stunning statistic. here s one woman that was dealing with this crisis that said reported on for this program, had to say about these laws. we knew that this possibility loomed on the horizon that we could spend the rest of our lives tethered to our attackers because of our decision to have our children would we have made the same choice, and i think that s hard to answer. just a really powerful thing