becoming less humane. that is all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern. good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. >> hello, everybody. give america a raise. >> it was odd coming from a president. >> he would like congress to work with him to pass a national minimum wage. >> it's easy to remember, 10.10. >> now he's just starting to tick things off his [ bleep ] list. >> the debate is on our side of the aisle. >> jobs are up. >> where are the jobs? >> i don't understand what you're talking about. >> republicans believe health care choices should be yours, not the governments. >> big government programs. >> the government is too

important just to give it away. >> i know the american people are not interested in refighting old battles. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. i was in the galley last night and i thought for sure president obama was going to come out and just punch somebody. i was kind of disappointed. a republican almost did. an interesting night at the office. the guy never disappoints the people who support him. if i had to describe president obama's presidency to this point, he's done what he can do dealing with the people he's working with. just when we thought he was going to come out last night and sock it to them, he rises above it all and he is still mr. classy and he is still a guy who

can communicate and a guy who really wants to help american families. then there's the reality of the guy who is sitting behind him that doesn't want to do much of anything except play golf. president obama hit all the issues we were told he was going to hit. the kitchen table issues. things americans care about. major theme of the speech obviously income inequality. he did not use that phraseology. he used inequality, but not a lot of what the people have been talking about. of course, he talked about raising the minimum wage. the president was on the road keeping pace, out doing events today in maryland and pennsylvania to stress the importance of a livable wage. this is what the president said a cosco in maryland today. >> cosco's ceo, he knows that

cosco is going to do better. all our businesses do better when customers have more money to spend. he sees if he's doing right by cosco's workers, then they can buy that 80 inch tv too. >> the president is talking about people who do, which is positive. in the midst of all this obstruction that we've seen in washington, the president finds a silver lining. there's good folks out there who make a lot of money who are doing their employees right. we just need more of them. last night, the president of the united states did a great job fighting for the minimum wage workers of this country. it's good for the economy. it's good for workers. it's good for the country. it's the correct thing to do. it is the moral thing to do. the president made it clear this is what we've got to do.

>> after four years of economic growth, corporate prices and stock prices have rarely been higher and those at the top have never done better, but average wages have barely budged. inequality has deepened. congress does need to get on board. today the federal minimum wage is worth about 20% less than when ronald reagan stood here. >> when the president said that last night, i'm up in the galley and i'm thinking, where's ted kennedy? i can hear him. what is it that you have against these workers? that's how kennedy would have said it and how he did say it back in 2007 on the senate floor, but this is how the president is saying it. what is it that you have against these workers that you want to keep them down? here are the numbers. where does the greed stop?

just a matter of style. it was the same message. make no mistake. it was the same message. president obama did a great job also personalizing the issue, talking about americans. he told the story of a small business owner in minnesota in the middle of the country who raised wages for his workers. >> nick schute is here today. he's the owner of a peizza stor in minneapolis. tonight i ask more of america's business leaders to follow john's lead. do what you can do raise your employees wages. >> once again, instead of going after the people who don't, he

goes after and triumphs those who are unselfish and recognizes hard work in the country. states around the country are starting to do the right thing too. meanwhile republicans, they want to do the wrong thing, the absolutely wrong thing. they're on the complete opposite page from the rest of the country. how could the country be so wrong on this issue mr. republicans? just listen to failed vice presidental candidate paul ryan. >> if you raise the price of these entry level jobs, they'll be fewer of them. it is bad economics and you're hurting the people you're trying to help. minorities in the inner city, young people, elderly people. >> the guy from wisconsin views it differently from the guy in

minnesot minnesota. the guy who has never met payroll is telling the guy who does payroll you're really hurting your employees. there is a reason this guy lost the election. they are disconnected from real workers in the country. paul ryan is not an honest broker. senator tom harkin of iowa had no problem calling out the truth about paul ryan. >> that's not the truth. i mean, every time i hear that from ryan or one of those guys on the house side, i say put the proof out there. show us some documentation. that's totally false. every time we have raised the minimum wage it has not cost us jobs. it's raised more jobs in our society and it gets people out of poverty. >> show us the numbers. you go out there and you spew this stuff about it is going to

cost jobs and hurt minorities and young people. show me the numbers. they don't exist. harkin hit the nail right on the head. earlier today, harkin gave a passionate senate floor speech on passing the minimum wage. >> working people have to turn to the safety net for food stamps and all other kinds of things just to help them get by. a recent study found that our taxpayers have to pick up the tab for millions of working families to the tune of about $240 billion a year. these are people who work, but they're making minimum wage. >> isn't it interesting that one lawmaker in the house just throws this stuff out, but the other gentleman over in the

senate who has the bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which the president referenced last night, he comes out with numbers. you see facts matter. and numbers don't lie. the current minimum wage is corporate welfare to the tune of $240 billion a year. it's no wonder republicans want to keep the minimum wage so low. it helps the corporations that line their pockets to win their reelection. another part of the president's speech was extending unemployment insurance. last night the president made a heated case for congress to help the long-term unemployed. >> this congress needs to restore the unemployment insurance that you just let expire for 1.6 million people. they need our help right now, but more important this country needs them in the game. >> we need them in the game.

it is never easy for the long-term unemployed to go find a job. these folks out there looking and looking and looking. the president knows this and just went to the business owners and asked them to help out. >> i've been asking business owners to give them a new shot. many will come to the white house to make that commitment real. tonight i ask every business leader in america to join us and do the same because we are stronger when america feels a full team. >> there's no reason congress can't extend unemployment and raise the minimum wage. the american people want it done. democrats want it done. the president will sign it. once again, the republicans are

standing in the way. the president told republicans why don't you join the rest of the country and give americans a raise. there's a bill that will lift the minimum wage to $10.10. this will help families. it'll get businesses customers with more money to spend. it does not involve any new bureaucratic program. so join the rest of the country, say yes. give america a raise. give them a raise. >> it's clear where americans stand on this issue. what's not clear is where the republicans stand. every year the republican response to the state of the union is just a total mess. this year was no different. no less than four republicans competing for the air time. [ speaking simultaneously ]

>> did you understand any of that? i sure didn't. they did not respond in the chamber to climate change, immigration, unemployment, and on women's issues. they have no ideas or solutions. all republicans do is obstruct and the president did a great job of calling them out last night in the way he does it. this was a very hard speech to counter. that's why they needed four or are there that many factions and splits many the republican party? i guess so. the president did it in a nice way. he did a great job of boxing the republicans in. republicans are in the corner right now. they're against the american people. and it was laid out last night in the state of the union. i think it is kind of hard for anybody to give a speech five years in a row and impress

everybody, but last night i thought the president did as good as he could have done. the american people are staring the republicans in the eye asking the question, what would it take for you as a party to think that it's important for women to have a fair shot in the workplace? tell us, what conditions? rainy conditions on the golf course. do you want shorter fairways? what is it? come on. talk about it over a round of golf. tell us what do women have to do in this country to get equal in the workplace? get your cell phones out. tonight's question -- did president obama corner republicans with last night's address? text a for yes. text b for no. you can always go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later on in the show.

let me bring in the congressman from south carolina. i appreciate your time. >> thank you so much for having me, ed. >> did the president put republicans right where they needed to be in a very classy manner? there was no arrogance whatsoever. it was stating the facts. what were you expectations going in and the aftermath, how do you feel about it? >> going into this speech, i must admit that i was a bit anxious about it. i felt sure that the president was up to the task, but i was not too sure of how receptive the body would be there within the halls or even how the public would be outside. but i have been pleasantly surprised that the president's optimism shown through. he laid out a great opportunity

agenda for the american people, and he enunciated for all of us the actions he is willing to take in order to get us to where we need to be. opportunity, action, optimism exuded throughout that entire speech. i came away very pleased with the president's presentation. i'm ecstatic over the way the american people have responded to him. that is not to say that my republican friends are going to be happy with all of this. but i think the president is right where 78, 80 and in some instances 90% of the american people are. 90% of american people want to raise the minimum wage. i think over 80% of the american

people think we ought to do unemployment insurance. so when you look at the president's speech and you look at all the surveys done about where the american people are, the president is in sync with the vast majority of american people. >> congressman, paul ryan, we played his sound byte. if the things he's saying are true, he hasn't backed them up with any numbers. there's this theory it will hurt young people and hurt minorities and it is a job killer. is it time for the democrats to demand proof on these issues even further? >> oh, yes.

absolutely. tom harkin on the floor of the senate. we have laid out proof positive as to what happens when you raise the minimum wage. we can see what is happening when you don't. worke workers morale low. those paying taxes, we have to supplement wage earners because the minimum wage has not kept up with inflation. if it did, the current minimum wage would be somewhere around $10.60 an hour or north of it. we know that. we need to raise the minimum wage. we need to index it so we won't have the same argument every year. >> last night, the president spoke about sergeant corey rimsburg. he did ten tours of duty.

got hit by an iud and had a very tough recovery and is still recovering. look at this guy. he has sacrificed for america. do you think you're doing everything you can for the american people? that's what i took out of it. what did you take from that? >> i did. i think the president was masterful last night in identifying as you said earlier who -- the people who are doing what needs to be done, highlighting them, rather than spending a whole lot of time on people who are not doing what people should do. that's what optimism is all about. the president had a very emotional connection with the american people as well as our men and women in uniform. and i thank him so much for doing that. >> that was a very emotional moment last night. great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you so much. coming up, talk about a cold front. a young man learns not to mess

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there was a greater applause for that passage than most passages of the president's speech. i don't look to gop reaction to see what direction the country needs to be going in. i don't need their approval. >> what would it take to move the republican party because they, of course, are obstructing everything? women in the workplace aren't going to advance until washington comes together and makes it fair in the workplace. that's how i see it. that's what history tells us. what do you think it would get to take to move them? >> fear. fear of losing and losing big. i think it was interesting when you look at what the official gop response was to mike huckabee when he talked about our libido rates. they pushed back very quickly on

that. this is not a working message. this is not an effective message for women. more democrats are starting to understand as well just how important it is going to be to have women's support in the midterm elections. >> there's a new ppp poll out. it says he is leading the pack for 2016 among republicans with jeb bush and chris christie close behind. what does that say about the mind-set of that outfit? >> it says things are looking really good for democrats in 2016. cathy mcmorris-rodgers gave the official rebuttal. she did not advocate for women's rights the way the president did. >> right. >> this must be the official position of the republican party. >> it was an interesting speech that she gave.

it had a great deal of her personal narrative in it. i would really discourage members of congress from doing that. you and i ed share backgrounds as well. you know i'm from the working class. i think you have to be sparing in how often you use your own life example. >> can the president get equal pay for women with this current climate in washington? can something get done? >> i'm actually thinking it can. again, i think fear will motivate more of the republicans in congress who have resisting. the numbers are not good with them for women. they know they need women. they certainly do need women voters and women's support. i'm encouraged by the amount of applause it got. i think the only thing that's really going to drive them in this one is going to be fear. i really encourage women of america to exercise that muscle that we've got to make our

elected officials aware of just how serious we are about these upcoming elections. >> great to have you with us. coming up, a republican congressman's reaction with a reporter was pretty grim to say the least. nobody is calling him a name we have heard tossed around the lot. still ahead, he said the debate is settled, but president obama didn't address one big topic when it comes to energy independence and the environment and the keystone xl pipeline. i'm taking your questions next when we come back on "ed live."

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welcome back to "the ed show." michael grimm probably hasn't been called a thug too many times in his life. i'm not calling him a thug. i'm making an observation that he's probably never been called that. if you're going by the dictionary definition, it is a violent person, especially a criminal. it's not a word we typically use to describe our elected federal lawmakers and i'm not doing that tonight, but the new york congressman is under federal investigation for 2010 campaign finance violations. and last night when a reporter asked him about the allegations, things got interesting and ugly. >> michael grimm does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning his

finance campaign contributions. >> well, it looks like someone took a page from chris christie charm school textbook. what you just witnessed was a congressman threatening physical violence against a young journalist who was just doing his job, asking a question. i bet you won't hear anyone call this congressman a thug. instead this man gets called a thug, a stanford graduate with no criminal record whatsoever. he was called a thug because he was too amped up for some

people. sherman didn't threaten violence. he didn't threat to hurt anybody. he didn't threaten to throw him over the balcony and rip him in half. he apologized and said he overreacted. the former marine an fbi agent has been accused of overreacting in the past. there was a 1999 bar altercation where grimm threatened a patron with a gun. grimm has denied the story saying he only moved his gun. i think the tape speaks for itself. i want to know what would happen if i had been last night around the gallery and i got mad at somebody and said i was going to throw them over the balcony and break them in half. i don't think i would be doing this broadcast tonight. i think the private sector would

get rid of somebody like that. for some reason, grimm took the license to act that way and whether he says he's sorry or not, the question tonight remains is that enough? joining me now is our rapid response panel. gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. i've seen you guys work. i've never seen any one of you ever do something like that. grimm threatened to throw this guy over the balcony and break him in half. jew -- eugene, what's your response to that? >> i'm not in the habit of beating sources to a pulp or threatening to do so. i would be called a thug and

justifiably so. that, to me, was thuggish behavior by somebody who has serious clinical problem with anger management. i'm sorry i overreacted. maybe we need to go a little bit beyond that. >> could action be taken against this congressman for this, e.j.? what do you think? >> i think it is unlikely. i have a fairly high tolerance for politicians yelling at journalists. it's happened to me. politicians may have thin skins, but journalists have no skins. we ought to be able to absorb some grief. i was really shocked when i saw this thing last night where the

threat of violence -- that goes way beyond any kind of legitimate back and forth between a politician and a journalist. grimm the first time around issued a really apology. the first time around he was trying to say, well, politicians have a right to strike back. yeah, but this went way beyond anything i've ever seen, everyone from some pretty tough politicians. >> i want both of you to respond to this. different language is being used to describe rich sherman's behavior than that of an elected lawmaker. we've seen christie go overboard with some constituents, embarrassing them, intimidating them. what do you make of this, eugene? >> this is a rapid response panel. we can't do the whole three hours we could do. >> i could do three hours. let's go.

>> black males are stereotyped by people who look different. that same behavior is interpreted differently and called different names. that's pervasive and it's through society. we could come up with 150 different examples. this is certainly one. >> it certainly is. e.j.? >> i think the word thug now is racially coded. i think it's been coded against other ethnic groups before. italian americans in the past complained they all got thrown into some basket involving organized crime. right now, it is a word that is used for specifically wrongly about african-americans than it is about other people. it's a free country. people can say whatever we want, but we have to watch out for

that. you build stereotypes that are very destructive. >> i think it is time for somebody in the republican party to show some leadership. can we reel this thing in a little bit? we have an image problem. collectively, this hurts the brand of the republican party. it doesn't do them any good. they caucus together. they go over issues together. who knows if this congressman has had conversations with allegations in his campaign? for them to go out and act like this and some of the other behavior that's taken place, is this brand management at this point, eugene? >> this doesn't help the brand. i think you could argue or the numbers would suggest that the media is only slightly more popular than members of congress. so there would be some that would say, get on him. he went after a reporter.

but i think there's just a personal element here. this is a guy who seems to have trouble. he sounded like he really wanted to throw him after the balcony. this could have ended in a totally different way. this could be a whole different story given the amount of rage that seemed to be present there last night. >> what about the brand management? >> i think the republicans have a lot of brand problems right now. this obviously feeds into it. it hurts them among younger voters who are more open minded about a lot of things than older voters. they keep feeding stereotypes that's keeping younger people away from them. >> great to have you on the program. appreciate your time tonight. thank you, sir. coming up, lindsey graham needs a lesson on what the word literally means. pretenders is ahead. low prices,

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welcome back to "the ed show." this is the story for the folks who take a shower after work. president obama declared there are absolutes when it comes to climate change in the state of the union address. >> the debate is the settled. climate change is a fact. and when our children's children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a

safer, more stable world with new sources of energy, i want us to be able to say, yes, we did. the all of the above energy strategy i announced a few years ago is working and today america is closer to energy independence than we've been in decades. >> the president got a standing ovation from a majority of democrats. however, republicans in congress didn't seem to like the president's climate action plan. he gave a big shoutout it out natural gas also. >> businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas. i'll cut red tape to help states get those factories built and put folks to work. and this congress can help by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to american natural gas. >> president obama highlight the several new and existing measures to expand clean energy production by using his executive powers, not dependent

on the divided congress. one thing notably absent from the speech when it comes to energy independence was no mention of the keystone xl pipeline, the proposed 1700-mile pipeline would carry tar sands oil from canada to the great plains to the refineries in texas. supporters say it would create thousands of jobs and cut u.s. fuel costs by reducing the nation's reliance on oil imports from nations less friendly than canada. critics say it would harm the environment and impact climate change. no better authority on this than the straight talking former governor of montana brian schweitzer joins us tonight. good to have you with us. >> it's great to be back, ed. >> you bet. why didn't the president make any mention of the keystone xl pipeline or is that not an issue? were you curious about that? >> well, i didn't think he was going to talk about the keystone pipeline. that's only one feature of

climate change, it's only one feature of our energy conservation strategy we've got in this country. the oil is going to be produced in canada and either they're going to run a pipeline top fort ruppert british columbia and put it on boats and ship it to china or ship it down across month. because i negotiated an on-ramp in montana we'll no longer have to ship the royal by rail all over the country right through big cities, and it would be able to go on the keystone pipeline. a lot of don't understand the pipeline would have montana bachen oil, sweet crude oil produced in the united states. you mentioned it, ed. i have visited the montana national guard in iraq and afghanistan and kuwait. i'll promise you, i'll guarantee you that a governor of montana will never have to send the national guard to the canadian can border to protect an oil supply. we ought to wean ourselves off of that petro dictator oil in the middle east, produce our own energy cleanen and greener right

here in the united states and canada. >> is it safe, governor, to go pipeline over american land like that? >> we have 160,000 miles of pipelines that crisscross our country right now with petroleum products in it. 1760,000 miles of those pipelines. many of them were designed and built decades ago. i am absolutely sure that i an pipeline designed today and built within the next couple years is going to be safer than all those other pipelines we've got. this is another supply of oil. it's produced a little different way than the sweet crude that we produce in montana but ultimately, it is crude oil. >> and is the president going to give his stamp of approval? what do you know about it? >> i don't know. i've spoken with transcanada. i negotiated with transcanadian. i didn't become a supporter of the pipeline till they agreed to spend $160 million to build an on-ramp for the oil. then i became a very big advocate because we're shipping it by rail right now which is

not safe. they're either going to ship that oil to fort ruppert british columbia or to the gulf coast. if i was canada, i would choose to do business with the united states. we can trust them. they can trust us. but if we choose not to buy this oil, they'll ship it to china and we'll produce oil here or maybe we'll bring it from mexico. >> do you think it will create the jobs that have been advertised? >> well, it it will create thousands of jobs in building the pipeline. running the pipeline is quite another matter but building the pipeline will be thousands of jobs. for places like montana, it will produce millions of dollars in tax revenues to the rural counties. those county commissioners are looking forward to buying bulldozers and other maintenance equipment. we have a long winter and we need a lot of snow remoovl equipment. >> you would have to send a few of them down to atlanta, georgia, i would think. >> we, we wouldn't close anything down in montana because

we got two inches of snow. >> governor, good to have you with us tonight. brian schweitzer, former governor of montana. that's the ed show. i'm ed schultz. politics nation with reverend al sharpton starts right now. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. we've seen the republicans respond to the state of the union. >> what an honor it is for me to be with you after the president's state of the union. tonight, we honor america. >> good evening, i'm senator mike lee, utah. in the few minutes i have tonight. >> good evening. president reagan said -- >> [ speaking foreign language ] >> and now it's time for the unofficial politics nation response to all of those responses. we now go live to the reverend al sharpton. >> my fellow americans, good evening. tonight, i can say to you that the gop's state of deraen