now in the national museum of american history. the past isn't dead it wasn't even past, he wasn't talking about renee and caitliyn. that does it for "the cycle." have a great day. thanks for watching. a south carolina cop is indicted on murder charges for killing an unarmed black man. president obama announces a speech to the nation on health care. and lindsey graham is talking honestly about the republican party which can only mean trouble for the republican party. first, two convicted murderers are still on the lam after a dramatic prison break this weekend. it's monday june 8th, and this is "now." a massive manhunt is under way right now for the two fugitives who escaped from a maximum security prison over the weekend. new york state is offering a $100,000 reward today for the information on their whereabouts. the inmates both convicted killers used power tools to cut through the prison's steel walls and pipes. the two men left behind a note

that said "have a nice day" and have now been at large for three days. new york state police say they have more than 300 tips and leads. the prison they escaped from the clinton correctional facility, is about 20 miles south of the canadian border. this morning, new york governor andrew cuomo appeared certain that the men did not act alone. >> i think they had help. i don't believe they could have acquired the equipment that they needed to do this without help. they definitely had help otherwise they couldn't have done this on their own. even from the equipment point of view. and also it took a number of days to accomplish what they accomplished. i mean this really could have been a movie script and if you saw it as a movie script, it would have been unbelievable, frankly. >> joining me now from danna more new york nbc news correspondent, john yang. thanks for joining me. what can you tell me about the size, scope of the search area? the police have been transparent saying the two men could be

anywhere. >> reporter: they're searching alex, continuing a grid search of the grounds around this area the village of dannemora in the adirondack mountains, a thorough search looking for all the clues they can. across the state, there are 250 state and federal officials conducting this investigation. they've warned their counterparts, or alerted their counterparts in canada the canadian border just about 20 to 25 miles away. they've also alerted their counterparts in mexico. one of the escapees had escaped to mexico after committing one of his crimes in the 1990s, and he was extradited there for the trial that put him in here at the clinton correctional facility. so they've also alerted their -- the people in the southwestern states that he could be on way. as you say, they say they could be anywhere. they don't know whether they're still together whether they

split up whether this team broke up essentially when they came up out of that manhole. whether they're still holed up here in the dannemora area or whether they've spread out beyond. they are really just trying to do everything they can to find them and also find out exactly how they got out. they're interviewing civilian employees of the prison they're interviewing private contractors. they are fairly convinced they had help on the inside and now they're trying to figure out if they had help on the outside. alex? >> john, the governor, to that point, the governor said he was pretty convinced they didn't work alone. we heard that a female employee may have been questioned. that she may have had a relationship with one of the escaped prisoners. may have assisted them in some way. do you have anymore on that? >> reporter: that's been a published report that nbc news has not been able to confirm to our satisfaction. we have no reason -- we have no way to believe whether it's true

or not true. >> and just to close it out i mean, if you look at the statistics, there are a lot of esz escapes from prison every year. 2013, 20,000 accounts of a-wol or escape. in 2011 more than 3,000. that said this is a fairly secure prison, is it nowt, john? it does not seem to have the same history of break-outs as some other facilities. >> reporter: exactly. this is a maximum security prison. from the maximum security prison section, this is the first time anybody has escaped since this place was built in the 1800s. there have been trustees from the lesser security portions who have simply walked away from work work details. most of them have been recaptured and brought back. but this is the first time that there's been an escape from the maximum security portion, and also one of the first escapes from this elaborate, devious way

that they had this amount of planning. they put bundles in their bunks to make it look like they were sleeping in them. it is just an amazing story as the governor said. sounds like something out of a movie. >> specifically "shawshank redemption." ybs nbc's john yang. thanks for the update. both were convicted murderers. not everyone serving time has been convicted or even had a trial. 22-year-old kalif browder was held three years on ryker island without being convicted. saturday he committed suicide at his home in the bronx. he was arrested when he was 12 years old for allegedly stealing a backpack. browder spent three years at rykers awaiting trial. while there he spent two years in solitary confinement. browder tried to commit suicide numerous times. in a profile in "the new yorker"

he recounted being starved and beaten by guards in prison. surveillance video from his time there shows brutal beatings from prison guards and gang members. 2013, after 3 years ss without trial his case was dismissed. he suffered paranoia and depression. saturday he took his own life. joining me now "washington post" columnist view columnist eugene robinson, and donna lieberman. donna donna, this is a tragic story. there so many tragic stories about our prison system but this one, given the fact that this was a kid who was never even charged with anything who tragically took his own life. i guess the first thing i would start with how is it possible that you can spend 1,000 days in jail and not even go to trial? >> well this is the product of the convergence of a horrifically flawed criminal justice system in the state of new york. you're entitled to a trial within six months or should have

the charges dismissed. the scheduling shenanigans ss routinely practiced by the d.a. routinely results in people being held much longer than that. new york is one of two states that treats 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds as adults and throws them into jail through the adult criminal justice system even though they're kids when they're charged with crimes. they should be dealt with in family court when they're accused of wrongdoing and dealt with as adults in formation who are entitled to justice and to rehabilitation services and protection while they are in jail. he was innocent and he was tortured with -- he was tortured with two years of solitary confinement. i mean that is inhumanity at i

worst. >> yeah. i mean eugene you hear about this, and 200 days in solitary confinement without charges sounds like gitmo. this doesn't sound like rikers island a few hundred miles away from the studio where we're sitting. if the "new yorker" didn't write about this we wouldn't know who browder was. >> this is not a unique story. it's an unusual story because it's so long but it's not a unique story. there are lots of problems out at rikers island. as donna said kalief browder was innocent. he didn't steal the backpack. it's clear from the facts of the first long "new yorker" story, and his problem was he didn't want to plead guilty. >> guilty. >> to something that he didn't do. and so he should have of course, had his day in court. he didn't. >> and that's one of the things that is so stunning. i believe most people regardless of whether they're guilty or not end up pleading guilty just to

minimize the time that they're spending in jail. the other piece i want to talk to you about is how can -- how is it sanctioned to throw a man into solitary jail -- solitary confinement, for that amount of time? i mean, he emerged having deep psychological disturbance. took his own life this weekend. i mean how is that sanctioned in any way by penal code? >> well there have been absolutely no constraints on use of solitary confinement at rikers island up until very recently. and the guards who run rikers island have been -- have not been held accountable for the brutality that they have visited upon inmates. either by using gang members -- >> yeah and there's some of that videotape which we should continue to play. >> and has anybody been held accountable for beating him up? has anybody been held accountable for starving him and throwing him into solitary confinement? >> that's a question, will there when reparations sought?

can there be in cases like that? >> of course there will be a lawsuit and civil rights violations are charged, but that doesn't save his life. kalief browder becomes one of the 1.5 missing american -- >> million. >> 1.5 million missing african-american men. we owe an incredible debt of gratitude to jennifer gunnerman for having exposed the horrific story here but nobody can bring back his mental health that was taken from him. nobody can bring back his life or his future. >> you know, that story was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. it almost won a pulitzer. and it was a stunning story. one of the things that it really pointed out was this overlap of criminal justice and mental health issues. and it was very clear all along that he had psychiatric issues that needed to be dealt with and that were never properly

addressed. and that's true of such a high percentage of -- >> that's what our jails have done. mental health institutions. >> his psych yatiatric issues were quite likely the product of him being thrown two years into solitary confinelementconfinement. wouldn't you go crazy? >> as would anyone. >> at the very least, they were exacerbated by that and perhaps caused. >> there's a whole piece of this that needs to be addressed which is that because of the dysfunction and the politics and the horse trading in albany, we have yet to pass a law that exists in every other state where we treat kids as kids. >> yeah. >> where we don't throw them when they're accused of a crime -- >> into adult facility. >> -- into the adult system. they should be in family court. they should be dealt with in family court with supportive mechanisms designed to make sure that they don't fall deeper if in fact they exited a wrong wrongdoing. >> this fundamentally is supposed to be a rehabilitative

process, prison, it's not supposed to leave you worse off. let me ask you, eugene politically, we hear a lot about criminal justice reform and the fact that there is bipartisan support for doing something. >> yeah. >> are you confident that we're going to drill -- i mean here in new york we have laws that are meant to prevent this situation from happening and here it has happened. i'm sure it's happening in states across the country. >> you know, why would i be confident that we're actually going to do what needs to be done? on the other hand it is one of the few issues. i once had an interesting and rather deep conversation with rick perry of all people. >> yeah. >> on criminal justice reform and he actually accomplished a bit in texas, perhaps not enough, but some. and so -- so, you know, there are really strange bedfellows on this issue. the challenge is actually getting it done. >> right. >> that's what's not happening. >> well, what is clear is the violent wrongness of this transcends partisan lines. you can not hear the story of

kalief browder and go to bed the same person. donna lieberman, thanks for your time. after break, president obama said there's no complete strategy to stop isis at the moment. will there be one by the time he leaves office? we'll look at the president's legacy on iraq and a lot more. plus is bernie sanders kind of for real? according to one state poll he's only trailing hillary clinton by single digits. that is ahead on "now."

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everything from climate change to russian aggression in ukraine. of course, there's the matter of iraq. the president met today with iraqi prime minister abadi and said in a news conference that the u.s. is ready to do more to help train iraqi forces if iraq will step up on the matter of recruitment. >> we want to get more iraqi security forces trained, fresh well equipped and focused. we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well. >> the situation in iraq is just one of the challenges the president brings home with him as he heads back to the white house, the president is also confronting the prospect that much of his legacy could be compromised by the courts. asked today about his executive action on immigration, the president said he's frustrated with the current holdup in federal court, but it would be great if congress could act. >> i don't want to bring people in have them apply and jump through a lot of hoops only to have it deferred and delayed

further. of course, there's one really great way to solve this problem, and that would be congress going ahead and acting. >> as for the affordable care act, and the fate of insurance for more than 6 million americans, the president said of a looming supreme court decision that he is confident obamacare subsidies will be upheld so much so there's no plan "b." >> i'm not going to go into a long speculation anticipate tisticipateing disaster. this would be hard to fix. fortunately, there's no reason to have to do it. it doesn't need fixing. >> on the agenda for tomorrow, a national address by the president on the subject of helt care health care. joined by u.s. editor, jillian tett, and peter baker. peter, i'll go to you first on the a.mount of panic or track thereof in the white house over the looming decision of the supreme court which could greatly complicate affordable care act. >> yeah it's a good question.

you heard the president seem very confident, the supreme court will uphold the affordable care act as previously interpreted. at issue is not the entire act but the question of whether insurance exchanges set up through the federal government in different states states that refuse to set up their own, you know, insurance exchanges, would still receive subsidies for customers who can't afford insurance on their own. the word of the law certainly seems to suggest that that shouldn't happen, but all the authors of the law say, well yes, we did intend there to be subsidies for these federally set up insurance exchanges. the president, as you said at least offered no plan "b." he didn't explicitly say there's no planning but he said he didn't want to get into speculation about it. >> yeah. he didn't tell us what the plan "b" was. >> there really isn't a good one. >> there probably isn't a plan "b." >> you have to get congress involved. >> how could you begin to craft a plan "b," gene? >> there must be a plan "b." come on, there is a possibility

the supreme court could rule against the administration. it is his job to -- even if he doesn't want to talk about it and believe me, they will not talk about a plan "b." but i cannot believe that they haven't, like thought about what happens if it goes wrong? >> it's republicans in congress who will have to come up with it. >> talking about plan "b" right now. >> they can't talk about it. >> the people who invested in the system already will sit there thinking what are we doing this for? >> right. >> for uncertain for american businesses more uncertain for american consumers. he can't afford to do that. >> nobody can afford the supreme court to strike down the subsidies. the republicans can't either. they don't have a plan "a." peter, it's amazing, dramatic to see how much of this president's legacy, the big issues that he has wanted to tackle and in some cases has tackled are now resting in the hands of the court and nowhere is that more evident than on immigration where his immigration actions -- i mean i don't think the white house calculated that a lower

level -- someone other than a supreme court justice would hold up the implementation of the executive actions. today we find out the administration has stopped work basically on this deferred action program. the 11-story building the government has leased for nearly $8 million a year is now sitting mostly unused. inside the white house, is this sort of the curtains for executive action? >> well it's really interesting, both the health care case and the immigration case, you heard the president and his people before they got the courts say, well of course there's no legal challenge to this. they said it with great certainty that there wasn't even a legitimate point of debate. in both cases they proved to be wrong. now, they will tell you it's because of the politicization of the courts taking on interpretations that have never been taken on before. others would say, no it was misjudgment on the part of the white house, did not imagine these things could in fact be legitimately debated in the courts. either way, as you say, so much of his legacy now hanging in the balance. of course, he cannot control, and a congress that won't come to his rescue if they go the

other direction. >> jillian -- >> the terrible irony is this is the president who's been faced with a horrible foreign policy situation. >> right, and that's the other area. >> ironically, foreign policy could be one of the areas where he actually has actually got a legacy. >> do you think -- >> something like cuba, something tangible. >> iraq, today there was no shortage of breath wasted on analysis of body language between the iraqi prime minister and president obama. the fact that the president is saying in the year 2015 we have not fleshed out a complete strategy on what to do in iraq, dot, dot, dot, i do not think this is a white house that thought there was still going to be strategy-making on iraq in 2015. >> this makes vietnam look like a walk in the park because here we are after all these years with the middle east even more a mess than it was before and there's not a clear strategy. no one wants to admit that but there's not a clear strategy. they've been overtaken by the rise of isis, isil call it what you may. iraq is a complete mess. that's frankly ex-freedomly

concern concerning. >> when you talk about the president's legacy how much does iraq hang over there? >> that's yet to be determined to tell you the truth. certainly iraq will be a problem when president obama leaves office. the question is what kind of problem will it be? will it be a problem with substantial numbers of u.s. troops on the ground? the president seems determined to keep that from happening. will it be a problem of continuing and growing isis presence in iraq and syria that its neighbors see as threatening, that perhaps other countries further away see as threatening? the answer is maybe. we'll just -- we'll have to see because there's not a very good -- as jillian -- >> there's no good option. >> there's no good option. >> there's no plan "b." >> well lindsey graham has one. >> there's no plan "a." lindsey graham has lindsey graham's plan. >> talks about everything else. >> peter, to the question of crises that no one saw coming syria is certainly one, but also

our relationship with vladimir putin and russia. you have a really interesting -- "new york times" does an interesting piece on how putin is trying to play puppet master with various fringe movements and players across europe in an effort to splinter the european coalition that's grown up around russian sanctions. how potent an actor do you think putin is on the world stage at this moment? >> well he's clearly shaping events and forcing the rest of the world to respond. that by itself makes him an important actor. now, you know, the president has previously said that russia is just a regional power and what he means by that obviously that was an insult to vladimir putin. on the other hand what he means is russia is not playing the same role the soviet union did as a worldwide global kind of power. it doesn't mean it's not an important issue, either. it's not just ukraine. he's got the entire european union basically you know at odds with each other about whether or not they should continue to confront russia or find some way of making an

accommodation. president obama has wrapped up his g-7 trip to germany largely hoping to have solidified that coalition heading into the end of the month when the european union will decide whether or not to extend the sanctions that currently are on russia right now, but set to expire. >> jillian -- >> if you want a tangible example of how putin is changing the course of history in europe right now, just look at greece because basically three of four months ago the german leadership were fairly well resigned to the idea of greece potentially leaving the euro. they weren't saying that in public but they were willing to consider that possibility. in the last month there's been a big sea change in attitude amongst the senior german leadership because they realize they can't afford to see greece leave and fall into the clutch of putin. that's kind of the example of the way you're seeing this domino effect and sense of destabilization not just inside europe but around europe which has got a long way to go, and it's fueling this middle east tension as well. >> these are -- go ahead. >> i was going to say, he's

adroitly playing not a great hand, however, because so much of russia's economy now depends on oil and gas with oil prices where they are now. >> although he's tread water for this long. >> no, exactly. >> given the sanctions that are in place. >> it's not as great a hand as it might otherwise be. so -- >> it is a game of very, very high-stakes chess as it always is in international affairs. peter baker, nice to see you. thanks for your time. >> great seeing you. coming up president obama just did something really good for low-income workers. and middle-income workers. and workers in general. i'll tell you what it is ahead on "now."

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graham is calling it like he sees it. u.s. boots on the ground in iraq and syria? yes. 10,000 of them. >> if you think we can protect america without some troops having to go back overseas and fight for a very long time most likely then i'm not your guy. >> what about climate change? >> what is the environmental policy of the republican party? when i ask that question i get a blank stare. we don't have an environmental policy. i do believe that climate change is real. >> manmade climate change? >> yes, i do, absolutely. 90% of the doctors tell you you got a problem, do you listen to the one? >> how about the tricky 2015 social issues? >> if caitlyn jenner wants to be a republican, she is welcome in my party. i'm pro-life. i believe in traditional marriage without animosity. the courts are going to rule probably in june about traditional marriage. i will accept the court decision. >> and don't forget graham's support for a pathway to citizenship. here is the question though. can graham win over the gop? more pressing, can he even make

it to the debate stage? joining the panel now is msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt. kasie, is lindsey graham going to wake up with a horse head in his bed? i feel like he's violating all kinds of republican rules. >> i don't know alex. you know, it's worked for him before. this is what he said when he ran for re-election to the senate in 2014. he said i'm going to run to prove you can stand by these kinds of principles and not lose your job, you can be a conservative who doesn't necessarily cater or pander as he might say to the right wing of the party. it worked in south carolina. while the debate question is a legitimate whether, he can get up in the polls to make the debate stages, stkouth carolina is going it matter and he'll matter in that state if he's still in the race at that point. >> if he gets on the stage, he has very uncomfortable truths on foreign policy regarding boots on the ground. >> absolutely. >> he has uncomfortable truths on social issues on the environment. i mean, truths that i think some people secretly believe other candidates on that stage believe but are unwilling to admit.

>> exactly. and probably a lot of people who consider themselves republicans agree with him, not all, perhaps not a majority, but some agree with lindsey graham on these issues. you know, the republican party is fascinating. there are two really transgressive candidates rand paul and lindsey graham who are saying things that are just way out of republican orthodoxy. and it would actually be a tragedy if you know donald trump and ben carson were on the stage for the debate and lindsey graham were not. it would just be awful. >> actually what he's sighingeeing comes at a time, attitudes in america of social issues gay marriage, transgender,. shifted radically over the last decade or so. how is republican party going to respond? are they going to respond at all? >> his answer on caitlyn jenner reaffirmed his traditional views of marriage but managed to get in a sort of very magnanimous,

generous, i thought it was as, for someone who still believes in traditional marriage, as pitch perfect as he could have made it for the audience. >> contrast with mike huckabee for example, who essentially said oh i would have loved to have been a woman to be in the locker room. >> which was said in fairness before caitlyn jenner's cover. nonetheless, the attitude generally -- >> a very different way of approaching. >> dramatically. okay. then there is this. signs bernie sanders might be doing something in this race as is doing something. wisconsin state democratic party straw poll this weekend found sanders trailing clinton in the badger state, 49%-41%. you're smiling. >> yeah. >> perhaps westistfully, eugene. bernie sanders, that's not that far behind. >> straw polls. how many straw polls did ron paul win over the years and he never became the nominee and never became president? i don't think this means that

hillary clinton has to worry about losing wisconsin to bernie sanders. look, he strikes a chord especially among, within the party's liberal base. he's got a history, he has a record. he'll be a good candidate. so at the very least, he will keep her on her toes. but i don't think he threatens her nomination. >> kasie, there have been two dueling assessments of clinton's campaign strategy, one in the "washington post" and one in "the new york times" this weekend. "the new york times" posits she's taking a narrower strategy, she's going to base voters, she's not going to the independent voters that bill clinton went for in 1992. the "washington post" argues it's the opposite her base is actually the country that overwhelmingly these are -- she could court actually in the end more voters than bill clinton did because the landscape and demographics of the country have changed. >> well, i think one thing that was common to both of those stories is this idea what she needs to do is find the unmotivated voters people who may or may not show up for. her challenge is going to be the

coalition of descendant democrats call it, young people latinos, african-american voters. they came out for obama in overwhelming numbers. the question for hillary clinton is whether or not she can approach that kind of enthusiasm and excitement. those voters are with her. they support her. they like her. is that enough to make them show up? i think you're seeing that in the way that she's been rolling out these two policy speeches she's done so far. criminal justice, voting rights in particular. >> voting rights which was -- it's obvious what she was doing with that. >> right. and that puts republicans potentially in an uncomfortable position. the more she can force republicans to go on the record -- >> about voting rights. >> on voting rights for example, the more she can turn around and say once we hit the general election you know these people are not out. >> they're trying to disenfranchise -- >> she called them out by name too. the governors in the race by name for -- >> naming and shaming. >> exactly. >> the fundamental problem you can't get away from, people might like her policies might be popular. the question is, all the stories

about the clinton global initiative, all of the sleaze is basically raising questions about if people like her as a person. >> enthusiasm -- >> i'd like to know for bernie sanders, how many people are voting for bernie sanders and how many are essentially being anti-hillary? >> i feel like enthusiasm at once is something you expect at the outset of a campaign, but maybe she can do the long and winding slow burn to enthusiastic voting. we'll see. moving on if lindsey graham is content to be conservative outcast, scott walker is making a bid to be mr. popularity proving his awesomeness this weekend by wearing leather and riding a harley davidson. as result walker finds himself the man to beat in iowa. >> i think governor bush is still probably out there up front just because he's going to have more money than just about all of us combined but we're feeling good. i hope people i hope republicans, independents, and discerning democrats will see we're striking a stark contrast with hillary clinton. >> kasie, not a sweater vest but a leather motorcycle jacket.

the man is feeling confident. >> it was definitely scott walker's weekend. i was in iowa for the roast and ride. he was the only one who rode with joni ernst. >> he can be president of the harley davidson company. >> i asked him about it, he said i don't know if i'd ever be qualifiedy edied for that job. >> but president, yes. >> he is definitely the man to beat. i do think that you know it's still so crowded in iowa. there was one person missing from that roast and ride ted cruz who i think potentially could resonate. i also think there was a lot of interest in marco rubio. there's an opening for him. people are still -- they don't know him yet. they know walker a little bit better. he's been there their backyard as governor of wisconsin. i don't think this is walker's you know, to run away with. it certainly might be -- >> there are also candidates who have done well there in the past, right, mike huckabee won it two cycles ago. rick santorum won it last night. they're going to be there and they're going to be players. >> where does -- gillian, what

does business want? who do they like in the republican party? there's so much to choose from. >> there are people queueing up for jeb bush the stabilizing voice of continuity the predictable candidate. in fact so much money wanting to donate to jeb bush they're actually turning it away. >> they are? >> yeah. there are wealthy donors i've spoken to who have wanted to make donations and have been told to wait because they -- >> they want -- they want the enthusiasm spread out the long slow burn to solvency. >> yet, you can't run away from the fact that people like rubio are certainly a lot more charismatic at the moment and there is a sense that if you end up with a bush/clinton race same old, same old. >> that's not exactly the most enthusiasm engendering. >> i think there's a little bit of concern, frankly, over the course of the past two weeks some of the missteps if you will jeb bush has made particularly on iraq. it's made a lot of people nervous and realizing, you know what, if this doesn't work out

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that progress. executive director of oz.org. and co-founder of the global poverty project, hugh evans. guys, how often todo we get to say it's an awesome day? it has been on these issues. you've been super active. talk to me about poverty and alleviating malnutrition around the world. >> angela merkel chancellor of germany, lead g-7 leaders toward this target of providing security for 5 million people by 2030. >> that's soon. >> an estimated 800 million or so people who lack food security in the world, and this is 500 million of them. it's a very significant together. what we need right now is for the g-7 leaders in the words of jerry mcgwire, to show me the money. we know this is a $12 billion a year pledge is the rough estimate. we need to follow through on that now and say what am i going to do on behalf of germany,

behalf of france on behalf of the united states? the u.s. has been a real leader we need to enshrine that as part of the global food security act. >> we haven't been exactly a leader on environmental issues. the phrase "phasing out fossil fuels by the end of the century" my eyes had to be taken off the table and put back into my head. how feasible is that truly? are we going to see this cemented at the climate conference in paris? >> yeah, it's not often we get to celebrate him action on climate change. >> yeah. >> we really can today. this is a historic statement. they're saying to fossil fuels. >> good-bye and all the other languages. >> and that's a huge message to all those people who would invest in dirty energy or clean energy over the next 35 years to say that there's an expirey date to technology, we're going to make this clean energy transformation in these economies. that's a big deal. and i think alongside all the other stuff we saw come out of

this summit with commitments to climate financing for poor countries, even putting legally binding language back into the treaty -- >> which is amazing. >> amazing. we've seen a type of leadership that we needed to see. angela merkel deserves a lot of the credit for that. and i think it's a game changer. and what we're seeing is the momentum to be able to deliver the kind of agreement we need in paris by the end of the year. >> hugh, we talk about hurdles ahead. you lead a huge advocacy organization. what do you want to see from the people watching this program, the people reading about this in the newspaper, to keep up the pressure to make sure that everybody can echo say, show me the money, and the money is delivered? >> that's what we need right now. we need everyone to go to globalcitizen.org and take urgent action we put on the front page of the site urging g-7 leaders to follow through on their commitment. in the united states historically the u.s. government has been a great leader on the issue of food security giving $1.1 billion per anum.

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and now the good news today for american workers. having been repeatedly stymied by congressional republicans in an attempt to raise the minimum wage, it now appears that the white house has a solution. politico reports that president obama is poised to raise wages for millions using a labor department rule that would require employers to pay

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