so, jerry, go ahead. if i may, lawrence, if i may. what i really like about this example and this movement is that we re taking a national public policy problem, once that you and i have discussed on this show before which is not just this broad issue of income inequality, but the fact that so little of the economy s growth have reached people at the bottom. and through community activism and through a democratic process with members of the council that you have sitting with you tonight, you re actually seeing people do something about it, something real, something tangible, something that has a support across much of the nation. so i think this is endemic of a positive trend. and we hope it will be a trend, lawrence. that s the important thing. we re taking a risk here in los angeles, but we think it s a bold and bold move that we hope that the rest of the country will soon follow. and what economists love you for is you re using a really big laboratory. los angeles is the b
increases. it kicks in in 2020 the cpi will kick in to regulate it on a predictable basis and, you know the council still has the liberty of taking action to speed up reduce or continue. so jerry, go ahead. if i may, lawrence, if i may. what i really like about this example and this movement is that we re taking a national public policy problem, once that you and i have discussed on this show before which is not just this broad issue of income inequality, but the fact that so little of the economy s growth have reached people at the bottom. and through community activism and through a democratic process with members of the council that you have sitting with you tonight, you re actually seeing people do something about it something real something tangible, something that has a support across much of the nation. so i think this is endemic of a positive trend. and we hope it will be a trend, lawrence. that s the important thing. we re taking a risk here in los
different direction by creating statutes that move sexting into a different category and allow for teens to be rehabilitated or educated in a way that could prevent this from happening. this is an important point. so there are states that have created sexting laws as a way of not using child pornography laws so that a teen who s guilty of sending an image of themselves can t be prosecuted under child pornography laws but would be prosecuted under presumably much less harsh sexting laws? absolutely. i think they recognize this is a real problem. you can be labeled as a sex offender for potentially the rest of your life but also maybe up to 15 years. for kids who are 16, 17 years old, that s a long time. i think people recognize that that punishment may not fit the crime. and so they re looking at other avenues to find ways to teach kids about what they re not supposed to do. and the severity of passing along images that are sexually explicit in nature to people under the age of 18.
it is a huge amount of money. but, again, sean, when you start talking about less than $100 million of that is going to go for border security doesn t work. it doesn t work. if almost $4 billion in federal money to address the border crisis won t help, it s not clear how a trip with sean hannity will. joining me now, congresswoman loretta sanchez, democrat from california, member obvious the house homeland security committee. congresswoman, explain to me why this supplemental funding request will actually solve the problem at issue. well, the first issue is that the border security is working. in other words, aside from walls and fences that we ve got, we ve actually apprehending people. so as these people come across the border, we re grabbing them. so what happens there? we ve got these children. the problem is that our detention centers, the places where we hold them until they have judicial review, aren t made for families. they re not made for young people. because tra
send a powerful message that the border is, in fact, secure. wouldn t be surprised if we see that in that bill compromise. i think so. i think perry is a force by meeting with the president and going to him, he shows republicans that it s okay to engage on this issue. but at the same time, the political winds in texas and elsewhere on the right are not really with governor perry. they re with other texans like ted cruz. we re going to have to look to him to see where conservatives want to go. robert costa. thank you. some politicians, when it comes to the border, theater is policy. there s nothing that is taking place down there that i am not intimately aware of and briefed on. this isn t theater. this is a problem. i m not interested in photo ops. republicans chief attack line on the president has been focused on his decision not to visit the border rather than the actual policy solution he s proposed. the challenge is is congress prepared to act to put the resources in