that misreads how it works in the real world, that this is going to allow a greater influence for big money in politics and allow the big money voices, the people with a lot of cash to drown out ordinary people and further distorting the political process, and they say it s doubly damaging given that just four years ago, the supreme court and citizens united sort of unleashed corps rat and union money into the political world as well. so those are the guts of the ruling. it s really a disagreement here between what happens with this money. the supreme court said there s no constitutional way to say people with a lot of money should have a limited role in politics because that would violate the first amendment. the dissenters say that you re going to drown out the small voices. pete, this is the latest in a series of supreme court decisions that seem to be slackening restrictions on campaign contributions of various types and contributions to political causes in the name of those firs
out of bounds. it s still very much a difficult thing. from the conversations i ve had with young people, there s still a society of well that doesn t really affect me. there s this cloak of invincibility. however, one thing i have noticed is kids who stayed on their parents plans and started receiving that care, they enjoy that. so i think where you re going to see a bump is a lot of folks who are 26 that get off their parents plans and have to go on the market, once they ve been accustomed to receiving that care for a few years from their parents, that is something they ll absolutely want to continue onwards. of course, you see not just young people watching that. it s an overall ground swell. could this pr outreach and the comedy outreach he s done what do you think, mark? hard to get young people to vote in the midterms. they voted for president obama. can they tap into health care in a way with targeted messages? i think that s one of the big potentials for democrats. not
more than three million vehicles in recent weeks. new today, a recall from chrysler as well. that company is recalling 870,000 suvs because of a potential problem with the brakes. it is leaving a lot of americans with a lot of questions about whether there is enough oversight of these manufacturers, these manufacturers whose hands we put our lives into every single day. so that s the big story making headlines today. we ve also been asking you to vote on the underreported story that you want covered next. you ve been voting all week. the topics you brought upmost were, first of all, democrats fighting back against the cooke brothers and the influx of money from them. oil spills in texas and on lake michigan and other dirty crimes around the country. finally, the return of the deadlydead deadly ebola virus. you can go to our website and take a vote, tell us which underreported story you want to see more of and we will cover it on this show. up next today, our call to
into the economy at some point. that has to be conveyed by the president as he makes this argument. how do you respond on the political side? there are a lot of those saying this is a win/win politically for democrats and therefore everyone is pushing it, because either you succeed in upping the minimum wage, or you succeed essentially in making republicans who are opposed to this look bad because they re giving up on these people who would be benefiting from it. you know, separate from looking at d versus r, let s look at what the american people think. i think there s polling which demonstrates that 70% of the american public supports this kind of increase in the minimum wage. that s a majority of both parties. combined with 50 economists who have come out strongly in support of it in a joint letter. so both the politics and the economics, the people and i think the experts strongly support this. and i think if you look back historically, every president with the exception of reaga
raised, the net job creation goes down. you don t see a lot of layoffs. what people always caricature this as. right now that s the last thing we want to do. this issue has emerged because the recovery has been so poor. there s genuine stress on the ground. even for those who have had jobs. they re not getting raises. so there s a real problem. this just isn t the right solution. it s a tough issue, i will say i ve talked about this issue publicly and i ve had people get up and say i run a small business, this would be devastating to me, i would have to cut workers. so it s about not just introducing the solution of minimum wage hike, but also working with businesses to see if that happens, how can they work with it. i want to turn to you, mark and get your response to that in a second. washington post has written on this. kathleen parker called, for instance, the bill that your group is championing a desperate move for democrats, saying it has no chance of passing the house. do yo