good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show" likes from minnesota. i'm ready to go. let's get to work! ♪ ♪ ♪ this week marks five years since the last increase in the minimum wage. >> republican leadership has refused to let us get a vote. >> more and more state and business owners are raising their workers' wages. >> i think it will hurt the economy. >> according to the labor department the 13 states that raised their minimum wage in the beginning of this year are adding jobs. >> walmart, that guy should be careful what hes. >> $240 billion in tax breaks for corporations. >> because the consumer doesn't have any money. what do you pay your people? >> do you think there's any increase in the minimum wage? no. >> too many families are working harder and harder. >> what is the price? >> america deserves better. >> when does the greed stop? >> will you support or seek to

block increasing the minimum wage? >> it's bad economics. ♪ ♪ good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. paul ryan says it's bad economics to raise the the minimum wage. okay. we'll match that up with you can't raise taxes on the job creators. really? this is what we heard about the bush tax cuts. since the bush tax cuts have been gone we have added jobs every single month. 53 months of private sector job growth and now we're getting the age-old argument from the republicans oh, you can't raise the minimum wage. it will destroy the economy. today marks five years since america last got a raise. does that sound good? no. it's terrible. on july, 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage went from $6.55 an

hour to $7.25 an hour. they didn't vote if 2009. that was the last incremental increase on a vote that was previously taken. you know what that comes out to? an extra $12 per week. now after five years the cost of living has gone up, no question about it. republicans, they don't care. righties have made clear they will block any minimum wage increase on the table. now let's just look at the numbers. since july of 2009, since this $12 a week raise took place the price of gasoline has gone up 44%, electricity has gone up 9%. ground beef, it's that kitchen table, up 39%. milk is up 21% and bacon's up 67%. you know, bring home the bacon? it's a little more expensive today, isn't it? we all know that the minimum wage hasn't gone up one red cent since july of 2009.

things are so bad at this time even 69% of republicans say that they couldn't live off the minimum wage. is it sustainable? absolutely not. american families have fallen behind in a big way. republicans have one bogus argument against raising the minimum wage. they say raising the minimum wage, it's a job killer. it's also a flat-out lie. republicans are just protecting big corporate interests to keep their profits high. we have to go back to senator ted kennedy. he once said it's all about greed and those conditions haven't changed. >> for ten years republican leadership have refused to let us get a vote on increasing the minimum wage. what is the price that you want from these working men and women? what cost? how much more do we have to give for the private sector and the business? how many billion dollars more are you asking, are you

requiring? when does the greed stop? >> that was the senate floor, senator ted kennedy back in 2007. isn't it amazing, roll it fast forward to 2014, that conditions haven't changed a bit for the people opposing this. not raising the wage is all about corporate greed. recent job reports show minimum wage increases actually helps job growth. president obama highlighted this fact earlier today. >> today marks exactly five years since the last time the minimum wage went up in this country. that's too long between races for a lot of americans. now i've done what i can by requiring federal contractors to pay their employees a fair wage of $10.10 an hour and since the first time i asked congress to raise the minh had mum wage, 13 states in d.c. have gone ahead and raised theirs, and here's something interesting. states that have increased the

minimum wage this year have seen higher job growth than those who didn't raise the minimum wage. america deserves a raise and it will be good for those workers and good for business. >> most of the downry agre coun with the proz that. states that raised the minimum wage saw almost a 1% increase in job growth. states that did not raise the minimum wage saw half that increase. these numbers are common sense and everyone knows when there is more money to be spent, business will do a heck of a lot better. just take a look at walmart. in may walmart reported its smallest quarterly growth in five years. earlier today the company said ceo bill simon is stepping down. walmart said simon is leaving on good terms. really? meanwhile, some speculate this interview on cnbc did him in. >> hopefully after six years we're starting to gain a little traction in the u.s. and that traction is coming at the top

end. i think the middle and down is still pretty challenged. >> is that the problem that sales that your consumers don't have as much disposable income to spend. >> i think retail in general hasn't been very robust in the last six years, in the last 12 months particularly. >> simon all, but admitted walmart is struggling because the top 1% is thriving. millionaires don't stop at walmart, underpaid people do. 20% of walmart's customers are on food stamps. some countries are taking a different avenue. they're not going to allow this to happen. for instance germany raised their minimum wage to $11.60 an hour. it's almost the highest in the world. why do germans do that and we don't? politics. america is currently at a crossroads when it comes to income and equality. the differences between democrats and republicans on this issue like minimum wage and the safety net, they are simply huge. there is a big difference. this was on full display in

washington, d.c., just today. failed vice presidential candidate congressman paul ryan laid out his plan to combat pofer pep you're going to love this. ryan's new plan takes power away from the federal government and gives it to private companies. >> the public and private sector work together we can offer a more personalized, customized form of aid, one that recognizes both a person's needs and their strengths. both the problem and the potential. so i would start a pilot program called an opportunity grant. it would consolidate up to 11 federal programs into one stream of funding to participating states. the idea would be let states try different ways at provide aid and to test the result. in short, more exinib iexflexib exchange for accountability. >> that is a radical plan and ryan is far more radical today

than he was in 2012. ryan's plan is bad fuse for a lot of different reasons. first, block grans are flat-out dangerous. turning food stamps into grants takes power away from the federal government and the insurance and the safety net. certain states can't be trusted to distribute aid as needed. the federal government needs to have the oversight. we're not talking about some huge intrusion here. we're talking about helping people. some states can even opt out like they did with medicaid expansion and that's really what ryan upons. he upons the total federal government out of everything. this would result, if we went down this road in large portions of the population without a safety net. who voted for that? nobody. it's important to remember paul ryan has been attacking poor americans for a long time. in 2012, catholic bishops called ryan's budget immoral. ryan's 2015 budget is even worse. nearly two-thirds of his proposed cuts come from low income programs. americans have a big choice to make this november.

you can vote for the party of immoral budgets or vote for the party that wants to give every american an available, living wage with a safety net. they want to reject obamacare. they want to reject medicaid/medicare. they want to reject social security and prior ties it. they want to go against voices in the workplace and they want to destroy the postal service. they won't quit, will they? now ryan is out there selling the turd in the punch bowl trying to tell us oh, if we give all of this power to the states, americans are going to be just a lot better off. really? backed up? local elections with citizens united? you're going turn these kinds of decisions over to the locals? ain't going to happen and it should not happen. ryan is as radical now as he has ever been, and they are so radical they're not even going to bring minimum wage the to the floor for a vote. so when ted kennedy was talking in 2007 and we hear them speak today the democrats in 2014

nothing has changed one bit, and the president is out there citing statistics that are absolutely correct. the states that have raised the minimum wage are the states that are doing better. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, is paul ryan's new plan to combat poverty immoral? text a for yes, text b for no to 67622 and go to ed.msnbc.com and we'll bring you the results later on in this show. let me bring in congressman tim ryan from ohio who is going to be starting very soon the minimum wage challenge. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. the way i've got this figured out, i haven't been on minimum wage since i was 18 years old driving a pharmacy car in norfolk, virginia, but you're going live on $41day. what do you expect to learn from this? >> well, we have -- my wife is doing it with me. so we have $154 to live for a week including food,

transportation and entertainment, factoring in housing and other things and so, you know, and i want to make this point clear. i am not and we're not going come anywhere near close with the challenges that minimum wage challenges that families have to live with. this is an opportunity for us to highlight some of the challenges and for us to kind of embody them and share them with our constituents how tough it is to make ends meet. i think you hit the nail on the head when you were talking about coffee going up 30%, cheese and milk going up 20%, and eggs going up 20%. these are staples of the american diet and if you're living on minimum wage you've seen no increase and so you have to account for that and my big worry here is we have a huge diabetes epidemic in the country that's driving up health care costs and if working poor families don't have enough money to buy good food, we're just contributing to that long-term

cost of the country. this is a long-term issue and the challenges these folks face are tremendous. >> so gasoline has gone up 44% since 2009 and yet we're still dishing out oil subsidies to oil companies that are delivering record profits. wall street -- >> right. >> through the roof and we have nothing for the workers on the lower end of the wage scale. the climate hasn't changed since ted kennedy gave his infamous speech to the senate floor. you can't get a vote on this, can you? >> we're not going to get a vote in the house on this for the rest of this year. no doubt about that. this is not going to come up to a vote and one of the reasons i wanted to do this challenge is because the network of people and the dozens of groups that are involved in this, faith-based groups and others is to bring awareness not just to the general public and to those minimum wage workers to let them know, you've got to vote and you've got to be involved and you have to have your family registered and you have to take

a little bit of time to campaign. we didn't get the 40-hour workweek and time and a half because we were sitting on our hands and we had average people living in poverty and organized and involved in the political process and the most important thing about this is the minimum wage workers, 64,000 just in my congressional district alone, 22% of the workforce have to be involved and be engaged and be registered to vote and get out there and start campaigning and get your network of people involved in the process as well and that's how we're going to change this. it's not going to be pie in the sky and someone will wave their magic wand because we want to be nice to people. democracy is a contact sport and we have to have the the workers be recognized and they need to get into the game themselves and help us push the ball over the goal line. >> congressman tim ryan, thanks for leading the way. i appreciate your time tonight. thanks for joining us and we will circle back with you on this story. let me bring in communication

workers of america mr. cohen. how repulsive is this? we can't get a vote on the house floor when the majority of americans want this to happen? why can't the people decide? how bad is this? >> it's pretty bad and the minimum wage should only be a starting point. we haven't seen wages rise in general in the u.s. in 40 years when you take out inflation. as you said so well, why is it that germany can have an $11.60 minimum wage, australia, $15 minimum wage and these are booming economies and germany ties it to increasing collective bargaining to 80% of the country and they passed it almost unanimously. all three major parties vote for that minimum wage just three weeks ago and i happened to be there with them. we're way out of contact with where the world is going and thanks to the people you mentioned. >> the republicans say this is going to be a job killer. why don't the germans think this is going to be a job killer? >> because angela merkel who is

a centrist believes if you don't have consumer demand you're missing a key ingredient of growing the economy. we seem to forget that here. without the consumer that we talk about that's 80% of our economy having more to spend because they're producing more, productivity has shot up in this country in that same period as the wage freeze. there's no way except for mortgages and other schemes that you can stimulate the economy here. so we're hurting ourselves because of ideology of what has become the republican party. >> so what do you think it will take to get republicans to the table to realize that, yeah, we have to do better than 7:25 an hour? what's it going to take? >> tim ryan nailed it. it will take a movement that's not just minimum wage, people, which is why we need to talk about things like collective bargaining and fair trade so that we get not 20% of his district, but 80% and not all wage earners so we can win it and we need to have that kind of democracy movement saying why is

america leaving working people behind? we want to be part of the global economy? that means a decent minimum wage and it means rates at work and it means fair trade and it doesn't mean the 18th century capitalism that these republicans are embracing. >> and i want your reaction to paul ryan's budget. his plan to make the social safety net into block grants to go to states thinking they can make the better decisions. >> yeah upon. that's the same kind of problem. instead of having a floor he wants an economic lottery because he believes like ann rand, know just rand paul that somehow that your state of well-being is about your own commit am in the world and that works fine for some people, but if we don't have like the rest of the world, an economic safety net that you've described, if we don't have that we're going to turn ourselves back into the the 18th to 19th centuries here instead of joining the rest of the world in the 21st century. those block grants are another way to dismantle that safety

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it is pro-traditional marriage because tolerance is also a two-way street. >> joining me tonight is e.j. dion, columnist to "the washington post" and msnbc contributor. >> i think marco rubio is confused on this. i haven't heard anybody come out and say they're against one man and one woman and i don't -- he's talking about intolerance. conservatives are the party of family values. they love to say that, so why can't they embrace families headed up by same-sex partners? where are they going with this, e.j.? >> i agree with that, ed. marco rubio would like nothing better than for us to attack him so i'm not going to oblige here. part of what he's up to politically is trying to shore up the religious conservative part of the republican party. a lot of republicans got mad at

him for negotiating immigration reform last year and he's sort of tried to back away from that, but not entirely, so i think he knows what he's doing here, but i think in ten years' time he'll be for gay marriage, and i hope you and i can talk about it then because i think that the strongest case for gay marriage, perhaps paradoxically is the conservative argument for gay marriage. if you are for fidelity and commitment in relationships, it simply doesn't make sense to say to a chunk of our fellow human beings, gays and lesbians and we're for fidelity and commitment and you guys can't make this public commitment and i think that's why quite a few conservatives, actually are slowly coming around to this and certainly young people are in droves. >> rubio says he's tired of being treated like a hater because he talks about one man and one woman in traditional marriage. i find that hard to believe.

i don't sense that out there, and he's almost playing the role of a victim in considering how young voters are more accepting of same-sex marriage and this revolution that is of acceptance that's taking place in society, do republicans not realize that they're fighting a losing battle or just refusing to accept it? >> i think the sense that they're fighting a losing battle is reflected in this new turn on the right, and i think, by the way, it's very important that progressives not give them any fodder to make this work. what they want to say is, you know, the bigotry that used to be directed against gays and lesbians is now being directed against people who are still opposed to same-sex marriage if you say that you're going to be attacked, and i think the attitude of people who are for same-sex marriage and i'm one of them is no. let's just encourage them along. let's just say take a look at what some of your fellow

conservatives think. the public religion research institute did a poll and found that 43% of white evangelicals under the age of 35 are in favor of same-sex marriage. that will soon be a majority. we're not talking about a percentage of liberals. we're not talking about a percentage of people who live in the northeast. we're talking about white evangelical christians and so i think that they understand that this is about family and it's about all of us who have people who are gay and lesbian in our families and upon them to have an opportunity to make a lifelong commitment. >> rubio was critical of the courts for overturning same-sex marriage bans across the the country, but his party doesn't seem to have too much problem when the courts make a decision that works pretty well for them. most recently what one court said about the subsidies for obamacare. so, clearly, we're seeing a double standard here. i mean, everything is to fit their ideology and their beliefs, is it not? >> oh, absolutely.

i mean, i now basically have to chuckle when a conservative attacks judicial activism. if you looked at that court decision yesterday it was the most tortured reading of the health care law. it was as if they said you made a drafting error, therefore we're going to take health insurance away from 5 million people. fortunately, i think that decision will not stand. i have a strong feeling that the whole circuit is going to take this up and say, no, this doesn't make sense. the supreme court including scalia and thomas in an opinion essentially accepted that the subsidies apply to people whether they're on the state exchanges or the federal exchanges. so i think this bit of judicial activism will be undone. >> and not criticized at all by marco rubio, at all. >> e.j. dionne.

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income inequality, voting rights and of course, the economy. you know, if the democrats stay focused and don't listen to the gays, guns and god and forget all of that and focus in on the kitchen table issues, it it will work in the south because we are have and have not society right now. look at how we're having a hard time raising the minimum wage in this country. folks down south get that. voting rights are huge and those are perfect platforms to win people over. it's common sense and it's fairness. next question is from william, why don't the big oil companies get ahead of the curve and invest some of the billions in alternative energy. very simple. it's too easy for them to make money on oil. why should they go over wind and solar and go down that road of more technology and investment when basically we're not forcing them to do it?

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they crossed the border because they have no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. yes, they broke the law, but it's knnot a felony. it's a -- it's an act of love. it's an act of commitment to your family. i honestly think that is a different kind of crime. welcome back to "the ed show." that was jeb bush back in april. jeb bush came under heavy criticism that people who come here illegally do so as an act of love. the florida governor is now changing his tune with the crisis on the border. in a recent "wall street journal op-ed," jeb bush wrote, we should close loop hols for individuals to be released

except deserves few who may demonstrate true cause for asylum or protection from sex trafficking. these children must be returned to their homes if central america. jeb went on to say we must aggressively remove the incentives that encourage people to break immigration laws. it is vital this we clearly communicate that there will be zero rewards for those who imperil the lives of children by sending them to the united states illegally. jeb bush also said house republicans need to take action to fix the current immigration crisis. of course, he wasted no time slamming president obama for wasting executive action on this issue. jeb wrote, we have too often seen what happens when the president oversteps his constitutional authority, avoiding similar disasters. results that would require legislative action by both parties. from act of love to close the loopholes is quite a reversal. jeb bush is making a 180 to appeal to the fringe radical base that is needed for being

mom nated by the republican party. joining me tonight rapid response panel, mitch caesar, broward county democratic party and host of the ring of fire radio show and america's attorney and also joy reid with us, host of the reid report here on msnbc. is this a florida thing to do a 180 when the political heat gets turned up or what? joy, what do you make of this move right now. >> you might call it pulling a rubio because he pilted this idea. jeb bush is run for example president and he wants to, anyway, and one thing is he wants to correct the compassion stuff and get in line with the base of the republican party. he hit barack obama's overstepping the constitution card, check. he got rid of the compassion, check. so the the only kids being sex trafficked should be able to stay, checked. but everybody remembers he the was the guy that was for comprehensive reform and it's probably know going work. >> he's all of a sudden a hard liner, caesar, how will this

play out in florida some. >> so much for the conservative and he's now the -- and he's looking at rubio and the rest of the republican field. i agree with joy. he's absolutely running. where this became now a humanitarian crisis and not a humanitarian crisis which was caused by the inaction of republicans in congress and his peers, so to speak and he's talk that even victims of human sexa you will trafficking should go back. so he's dealing with the very hard right, as you said, but he's dl now for him the new political reality which the rest of the country and certainly the national republican party knew all along. to him, it's the new reality. >> mike how do you read it? it seems to me that jeb bush is basically saying what president obama's been saying to congress. we've got to do something about immigration reform. this is something we've got to do, but of course, the political winds won't let him do it. where does bush fit in this with

the president? >> he needs florida. that's the irony here. he's not exactly a welcome, household name anywhere else in the country. he has that bush curse over his head. he plays well in florida, but what he's forgotten that in florida we have a 23% hispanic population according to the last consensus and day one, we're hearing need for love and compassion and all of that talk about child immigrants and how we have to take care of them and day two, someone slaps him and reminds him that he's running with the ted cruz crazy party and he has to act ted cruz crazy. the problem right now, more than ever he is the last statesman and the last possibility of statesman that the republican party has. he needs florida and he'll alienate florida by the new talk and he has to have florida for 2016. i don't know who is advising him right now. bad advice. bad advice. >> joe, is he trying to chip away at the ted cruz base?

>> you know what? i think he's just trying to make himself palatable. the game for jeb bush is to replace chris christie as the safe bet for rand paul. the problem for jeb bush is he's the the guy that opposed the sb-1070 law in arizona and no one will forget that and he thinks he has a safety gap in florida and the population that's latino is cuban-americans, and cuban americans strongly affect the immigration reform and nor does it affect the puerto ricans. his new position looks fraudulent to the rest of the party in the country. he's still in a no-win. >> it really does. mitch, back in april, this problem with the border was transpiring. it was unfolding. it was taking place, but it wasn't until the radicals started stopping busses and making an issue of this and some in congress who were squawking

about the president and not doing anything that jeb bush did a reversal on this. can he be trusted? >> well, no because the interesting thing is it started out as a humanitarian crisis and he went further flipping back the other way. a new poll came back in florida and he was leading the field of republican contenders by more than two to one and rubio was running a distant third rusing by double digits as rand paul was losing by double digits in second and the new poll came out and now jeb bush is leading, but only by three points. again, rear-view mirror situation. marco rubio has jumped over rand paul and he's running second only behind three points. the protege is breathing down his neck and he realizes in this republican field and the republican primary system you have to go extreme right. he's reacting. this is the reluctant candidate, non-candidate candidate. >> mike, do you think that bush is probably the best chance the

republicans have of winning florida in 2016? >> there's no question in my mind. rubio is not even a factor. the difficulty that he has here and the further he gets away from the idea that he has to win florida, the further he gets away from that, the further he gets away from not only, possibly, he can win in the primaries, but beyond that he has a problem. this is an easy talking point. his brother said we need to allow immigrant children the right to seek asylum by aer poohing before a judge and describe how they're escaping mayhem back home. that was a good talking point. he can say ronald reagan gave amnesty to 3 million immigrants and you know what? i'm going rely on the wisdom of ronald reagan. someone is giving this guy bad advice. very bad advice. >> very quickly from today. >> good running mate for charlie

crist. >> excellent running mate. it puts a latino on the ticket. charlie crist needs to galvanize minority voters in florida. very good pick. >> what do you think? >> female, south florida, latin o small business owner, children, gets it, has been there, done it. adds a great balance and the particular example he gave with crist and he's in central florida and gets the independent vote. >> mike, i know how you feel about this, too. >> brilliant and aggressive. she's perfect. >> i think it's going to be very, very what unfolds in south florida in the governor's race. you can see it here on msnbc 2:00 eastern time. >> more americans fighting against climate change. if you think your voice doesn't matter. think again. stay with us. [ cat meows ] ♪

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police department. not only are they under staffed, lacking resources. they to deal with illegal immigrants who have no business being here. so the calls you have to respond to though for the most part you realize they are not even american citizens. >> that's correct. they are on u.s. soil. due process comes into play. that's the way we are taking it as. >> did he say understaffed and needing resources? >> well. come on over to the good side, dude. we think it's important to fund things that matter in this country. there is no mistranslation here. the line of thinking is lower than a snake's belly. if fox & friends think they have to speak english for help in america, they can keep on prending.

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wells. the neighbors who stand to lose the most and be most affected by this have come out in full force since june. great story. a group of grassroots activists in the state of maine led a vocal campaign to warn the community about the possibility of tarsands coming down the portland pipeline from canada. the environmental hazard thes that might follow. pennsylvania where residents filed complaints about drilling related water problems and a lack of a reliable system for tracking citizen complaints. a new report shows residents are right to demand change. oil and gas extraction, damaged water sources in the state. more than 200 times since 2010. not a good trend. they are working hard to raise awareness of environmental issues in their own backyards and hometowns. it's these small victories which will make a big impact on the

environmental movement in this country if we are going to address climate change on the political level. all politics is local. when they start doing stuff with your environment in the backyard, speak up. michael brun, executive director of the sierra club joins me tonight. good to have you with us. it seems there is a level of awareness now that's changed in america. are these small grassroots movements the best way to make an impact on climate change? >> absolutely. we are seeing victories like this across the country on fracking, on the tar sands. there is also 170 american towns and communities that decided to move beyond dirty coal and replace it with clean energy. we are seeing clean energy installed at greater rates than we have seen. putting hundreds of thousands of people to work. there is real momentum we are

seeing. it does knit together into a cohesive movement. there is reason for optimism. >> i believe climate change could be d death knell for the republican party. there are so many deniers in congress. how do they go home and explain this to people in their surroundings are seeing change. what about it? >> they don't explain. that's the point. they distract. right? they don't explain people in red states and republican districts are feeling the effects of climate change in the form of fires, floods, droughts and severe weather. they don't explain that clean energy is installed in red districts more than democratic districts in the wind belt in the middle part of the country and the sun belt in the southern part of the country. the other thing they don't explain is that when we organize, work together collectively we can achieve great things. we can build a society that's powered by clean energy and put

millions of people to work. we have to work for it. we have to vote, organize and show up. the final thing i will say is that this will reach a crescendo on september 21 in new york city. we'll have the largest gathering on climate change in u.s. history . more than 100,000 people will be there to advocate for a clean energy economy that works for all americans. i hope to see you there, ed. >> i will be in the neighborhood, no question about that. this is probably the best time to tell you at the fishing lodge in canada we have gone solar. it's going to reduce our dependency on diesel fuel by over 95%. we're going to bring the story to "the ed show" coming up here. you know, i think people in a position to do something about it have an obligation to do something about it. i'm looking forward to the story. i'll see you in september at the

rally in new york city. i think that's great work. good to have you with us. i appreciate your time. >> thanks a lot. >> want to thank the national letter carrier association. i spoke to them from philadelphia. i was speaking to the postal workers union in chicago. they are great folks, working hard. we'll tell the story. i'm ed schultz. "politics nation" starts right now. good evening. rev. >> good evening, ed. thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, a vision for economic patriotism. on an economic anniversary. it's been five years since the last time the minimum wage was raised. late today president obama demanded congress take action on that front and others. >> today marked five years since the last time minimuwa